The evening world. Newspaper, February 16, 1922, Page 22

ESTABLISHED RY JOSEPH PULITZEN Purlished Dally Except Sunday Pross Publishing Company. Now. $3 to 63 S RALPH PULITZER, Pree} J * JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Amoctated Press Ls exclusively entities to the use for republication (of aN news despatches credited to {t or not otherwise credited in this paper fend also Whe local news published herein, FROM BAD TO WORSE HE subway was so jammed yesterday that a weman passenger was injured when the car doors were opened at the 72d Sireet station. The car was full and the surge toward the door liter- ally hurled her out on the platform, where she went down in a heap. This is the first accident of this particular kind that we recall. It is a symptom ot the growing congestion. But injuries to clothing and tempers are an everyday occurrence As the subways become inore and more crowded, this sort of accident is likely to be repeated. Con- ditions are going from bad to worse. Eventually New York will be driven to accept the plan of staggered hours used when the influ. enza raged two years ago. It is just as well to be thinking and talking in favor of the plan. The Sooner it comes the better for all, even though it may be difficult to overcome the ingrained con servatism and opposition to change. However, staggered hours are only a stop-gap expedient. Subways, and more subways, are the only real remedy. Meantime, what are we to think of Board of Estimate obstruction to subway building? New York is always years behind in its subway building. Now we have the accumulated shortage of the war years. Now is the time to be going ahead with a rush, i" Scientists are considering the possibility of ®enerating power from the heat of the Ha- { waiian volcanoes. Next thing we know the lands of the South Sea will be civilized, Then musical comedy producers with a yearn for realism will use a portable phonograph to play the music for the native dances on the beach. THE MORE SERIOUS SLIGHT. peters Washington is stirred over what it regards as the slight administered to Henry Cabot Lodge by President Harding. Mr. Harding refused to intervene and send the Leviathan to Boston for reconditioning. Loss of this patronage is expected to cost Sen- ator Lodge dear in the coming election. As far as the country and the better part of the _ Republican Party are concemed, a slight to Lodgs will not discredit the President. Fair-minded Republicans can't help but be ashamed of Lodge. If he were defeated next fall, it would be a step toward rehabilitation of the party. But the award of the work on the Leviathan to a private contracting concern in the face of the protests voiced by the discharged navy mechanics is a serious matter. The Government was in position to make ad- vantageous terms with the mechanics. It could have figured on the basis of the $8,200,000 award to the Newport News company, and could have allowed the Navy Yard workers a chance to cut wages enough so that the Government could meet the bid and so keep the Navy Yard employees working. ' President Harding need not worry about the slight to Lodge unless the Senator from Massa- chusetts decides to make it a personal matter. But the slight to the Navy Yard workers is likely to cost the Administration dear. , The Hylan-for-President movement, pul- motored by the faithful Whalen and Hirshfield, has one serious handicap. The 5-cent fare issue wouldn't appeal to railroad passengers who are already protesting that rates of 3 i cents a mile or less are tog high LABOR APPEALS TO THE OWNERS. Nene transit affairs continue to give the rest of the country a highly instructive lesson in the management of labor. » The latest development, reported yesterday, is the role the transit employees are playing in the _ fight between President Thomas E. Mitten and tic financial interests who want a higher fare even at " the expense of efficient operation and a contented labor force. The organized employees of the transit lines are backing Mitten to the last ditch, They have offered “ to invest their savings in the road. They have * worked for efficiency in operation. They are now making an organized appeal to stockholders to sup- port the Mitten regime at the annual meeting. They claim to have won their case. They claun to have the proxies to beat the Stotesbury-Morgan group. Whether they have won or not, they hav | suggested a way for employees in other industric } to appeal to the individual consciences of stock ' holders. ' In ‘any industry where stock is widely scattered j the absentee stockholders are likely to get into the + rut of allowing a small group to manage { JAll too often this kind of management results in | t oppression. 1 “A ready way of relief is for the organized em ' ployees to make a plain and honest statement of } their side of the case and send it to stockholders ! Hshould not be much more difficult for employees ad {nfo go over the head of the management whei they | EOE AA We 3 are dissatisfied than it is when they are satisfied, as in Philadelphia The Philadelphia experiment has paved the way for other similar efforts. WHEN THEY SIZE UP OBREGON. RESIDENT OBREGON of Mexico had three rebel Generals shot this week. This fs a drastic way of dealing with insurrection, but it is a way Mexican insurrectionists understand, perhaps the only way. The axiom that self-protection is the first duty of government has long been in- terpreted in Mexico with elemental vigor and severity. Americans have not had much time of late to think about President Obregon. But Dr. B. J. Dillon, English correspondent, who returned re- cently from a first-hand study of Obregon and Mexico, writes in the English Review for January that in his view “the present chief of the Mexican Republic is one of the most gifted leaders of men in the world of to-day.” Says Dr. Dillon: “We travelled together from one end of the republic to the other for weeks at a time, | roughing it in many places and under trying conditions which bring out the character of aman. I am acquainted with the members of his family, with his first teachers and with many of his schoolmates In the North, and I can truly say that I have not met any states. man whom for constructive ideas, idealism rooted in realities, political vision, and ndif-t ference to cheap popularity 1 would rank above Alvaro Obregon.” The people of the United States are capable of reaching their own estimate of the man who has been President of Mexico for the past eighteen months. He has special claims on their interest and attention. When they get around to apprais- ing him they will find a lot more to consider than | the fact that he has an “iron hand” and shoots rebels. A BONUS IN CONTENTMENT, | ESTERDAY The Evening World said “The Only Bonus Is a Chance to Work.” | There is one exception—a bonus raised from | taxes on legalized light wines and beer. Even if this desirable measure were adopted, the “bonus wouldn't be one,” so far as the veterans are concerned. There would be a change of casn from one pocket to another. Nevertheless, in a sense the bonus would be real. The real bonus wouldn't be collected in cash. That cannot be. It would be collected in satisfac tion and contentment. The money for the bonus would be paid willingly. The tax would be wel- | come instead of a source of resentment. | This is the solution of the bonus question which Congress has avoided. It is afraid of the whip wielded by Anderson, Wheeler & Co. But if we are to have legislation by fear, which has Congress to fear more: Anderson, Wheeler & Co. or the veterans who are demanding a bonus? ‘From Evening When weather goes from bad to worse the commuter has his troubles in getting to the station. But he has some compensation. His alibi for being late to work is more convincing * than it would be if he lived a block from the subway. Washington and Lincoln. To the Editor of The Evening World: | May I ask that you reprint, for all who lowe Abraham Lincoln, the beau- tiful tribute which, in Springfield, UL, without preparation, young Lin- coln paid to Washington. I append Lincoln's words: , “Washington is the mightiest name on carth—tong since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in the moral reformation. On that name a eulogy is expected. It ¢annot be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt THE MAN THEY CANNOT FORGET, (From Collier's), . One of the permanent possessions of a human heart is the memory of its great enthusiasms. You may have come to disdain and even despise them, but they are never uprooted. Then you reached your highest —and you know it. When a noble ideal kindles such enthusiasms, that | ideal becomes one of those things that, without warn- it. In solemn awe pronounce the ing, at rare intervals, flare up. And you sit in the | name, and in its naked, deathless light of the flare and ponder. Why did it fail? Nct | splendor, leave it shining on," because it was not beautiful—right—desirable, Was Lincoln was the child of Washing- |ton's mental travail; of his sublime | overcomings, tears and toils, incident to the birth of the Republic. Lincola knew this, for only one of the finest it because you were not fit for beauty, righteousness, desirability? Peoples are like men. They anay lay aside their | great hopes, but to the end there are hours when they | spiritual fibre could touch the inner- sit with them and ponder. | rom acu Bh Waaliingion. abe nite . ad in the pioneer cabin in the Ken- Perhaps that is the explanation of the persistent, tucky wilderness, loving everything mysterious, unconscious way in which men to-day | t God made, ever seeking the draw together around Woodrow Wilson, * * * ® | hight, received his childhood’s spirit- ual nourishment (learned to read) rom the Bible and the Life of Wash- ington, The relationship of Washington and Lincoln is an eternal, indestructible one, born of God. “What God hath joined together let not man put a ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. | ‘a bi The 01 ) The meat packers say that the people of their | (tion gave bith and which Deca U. 8. A. do not take kindly to eating lamb A fellow | prese: is the radiance of this feeling perhap: spiritual friendship, which, in its . lurger sense, witnesses to man's | (riendship with God. It ‘shines on, Grover Whalen in zoner for President too! Fie, fie Grover! far-off Florida nominates tix |in deathiess splendor.” It is the And right before Mr. Bryan, | beacon Nght of the world for suffer- ng humanity; the milk of love dl- . vine for all His little ones, who are Down in the subway underneath the : “hungering and thirsting after right- ? cousness UNION. Caught in the turnstile ever turning round See serabe list. mencdds Weed Click, click, click,” I hear, the meter say = “Here's one more nickel far Frank Hedley.” ‘Too Big a Gap. *. To the Editor of The Evening World 1 The credulity of Darwinians is ap- The newest organization of unemployed pro alii. Bacaune thiek have naoverel lo Start a newspaper. Then they will find out what {a law of evolution in animal structure It is to be poor trom the lowest to the highest forms, . Jand that the bodily structure of man Amine iat conforms to that growth and evolu- SAVE THE CITY. tion, they assume that therefore man just grew from an ordinary animal A fale of Hizzoner and the Interess., to man, They leap the gulf be- (Continued,) tween man and @ mere animal at a jump, But Mr, Darwin has been misrepre- CHAPTER UL, sented and misunderstood. In all his Hiczone: wrapped one arm ound the 1 tery | Works he has nowhere claimed that 2 ds Sea SSa man is was the descendant of iamp and braced himself like Ajax defying hu tig CO ae rea ee eoecoe i: ning. original progenitor of man his ts If Dave does not come,” he said, “or if Wop does [an unjust and radical statement and not start something, 1 am lost, Them Ro [te not 18 aecardanse’ with: Mr. pars have taken the lid off one of those stil P aaeanerd distin bot woea Island City! n and animal w ist nd Tis bard to die thus, but” ul ae at imi i sitatos To Be Continued.) } yecial creation, Similarity be- ' 6 laween man’e body apd tbat of all What kind of Jette: do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? Ther - is fine mentil exercise and a lot of satisfaction ir. trying to say much in few wonls. Take time to be brief. THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY Y6, 1993 World Readers animal creation is no proof that man was not a special creation. Darwin followed the developmert of animal structure through the ages and traced the similarity in man's body to that structure, Neither he) nor his followers have been able to, discover, after decades of search ove! all the earth, a man monkey or 4 monkey man—or what is known as the connecting link. They never will, | for in the nature of things the gulf is| too wide and was never bridged. In the sequence of nat 1 law the jump from the highest order of ani- mal life to man is too great. The gulf could not be spanned by the steady and ordinary process of na- ture; it required the intervention of a higher power. J. 1 It's Bitter Weathe: To the Editor of The Evening I note a headline in your paper, say- ing, Mates. “Deaf and Dumb Wife Is Sued for Using Rough Language.” “Rough language would indicate the lady might have chapped hand: B. WwW. New York, Feb. 12, 1922 The, How ‘Yo the Editor of The Evening World: In regard to the Real Estate Board's claim that a housing emer gency ne longer exists, 1 wish to say that they are greatly in error. There | | | mergency. | “ly no apartments for the! are abs laboring class, who are in a position to pay not more than $8 per room. The apartment we are living in, five very small rooms, we rented five years ago for $33 per month. Our landlord demands $85, but will | not take less than $75 as in an apart- | ment rented last week I can name’ hundreds who are similar position—who must deprive | their children of the necessities of life | to pay the greedy, profiteering land- | lord, whose “constant demands not ‘only in apartments but also in stores land lofts are bringing chaos tn this country, forcing business men to the wall and throwing mea and women out of employment. Let the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company use the people’s money to give homes to those from whom they collect weekly premiums. MRS. J. LEITH New York, Feb. 14, 1922. The Task Charch, ‘Vo the Editor of The Evening World: ‘The culmination of the debate that took place in a certain Baptist church Sunday afternoon between the pastor and a leader in the theatrical industry | ‘confirms a statement made by Jesus, jin which He said, ‘The children of this world are indeed wiser than the piilldren of Light.” ‘Vo ministers of like minds, may 1 advise that you preach Christ? Any variation from this on your part : | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake topyright, 1922, by John Blake.) COMPROMISING WITH YOUR CONSCIENCE. Your conscience is a very delicate and fragile affair. [i is given you as a guardian—to wat¢h over you and keep you straight. But it is easily persuadable and can be very readiiy thrust aside. Furthermore, it weakens with every discour- agement and if it is roughly treated it will soon perish alto- gether, We begin as childien to compromise with our con- sciences, If we keep it up too long there is no conscience left to keep us on the right road by the time we are grown, The child's conscience tells him that it is wrong to run away, that it will grieve his mother, and perhaps get him into seriou. trouble. He feels that just going around the corner is not really running away; that he intends to come back in a little while, and that if nobody finds it out no harm will result. What his mother doesn’t know will not worry her, Around the corner he sees a fire engine, or a fascinating fight, or two children playing a new game, and he continucs on his journey. Conscience begins to upbraid him when he starts to return, But it is too late then; the mischief is done. The man who takes an unfair business advantage of another man tells his conscience that the victim is feeble- minded and that somebody else would get the better of him sooner or later.’ If his conscience begins to believe that, it will cease to operate in all moral crises and presently will be winking at vurglary and grand larceny. \ safe rule is to be sure your conseience is right in the first place, which it always is, and to obey its mandates. Implanted somewhere in your conscience is a distinct knowledge of the difference between right and wrong. Very few people are born so unmoral that they do not recognize this difference instinctively. _ Employ that knowledge and you will go straight. And inasmuch as a straight line is the shortest distance between two points, you will reach success far more quickly and in- finitely more surely if you take the straight road indicated by conscience than the crooked road pointed out by weakling self-interest. MONEY TALKS By HERBERT BENINGTON. From the Wise It is bad to hurry, and delay is often just as bad; he is wise who y Press Publishing Co. does everything in its proper time, | SAVING, AN EXPENSE. —Ovid. | Where does the money go? here the | A budget will tell in advance! is whe’ | ignorant rabble the through fear and the wise through love,—Plato, The best country obey law | it in the right way. Philosophy, while it soothes the ambition. automatic and easy thins. Bulwer reason, damps the Lytton, point where we regard our a legitimate item of ex y | ist? | | Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening World) | !es shown that, by planning beforehand a system for spending one’s income, no | matter how small, nor how heavy the | drain put upon it, saving becomes an In other words when we reach the RAVINES a MUSICAL CLASSICS How and Why They Were Written By AUGUSTUS PERRY Comrright,. 4922 (New Tork le ¢ Eroine World NO. VI.—CHOPIN'S MILITARY POLONAISE. Perhaps the most famous of all classical polonalses is Frederic Cho- pin’s Military Polonaise. It is #0 named because of its martial chorac« ter. Published in November, 1840, it has become ono of the best beloved Dieces of the great Polish tone-poes. The Military Polonaise was com« posed during Chopin's famous 6o- Journ at the pleasant Island of Ma- {Jorca. In 1886 he suffered from a severe attack of influenza. seeking to recover his health, he went with George Sand, the authoress, for en extended stay on tho isic-1. Mme. Sand's children accompanied them. Hér personal magnetism caused Cho- pin to become greatly infatuated with her. Her reputation wag not good, although George Hliot, Matthew Ar- nold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and others believed her to be .n injured saint. Hadow, the great music critic, indignantly asserts that there was no irregularity in the relations between the two. Under her remarkable tn- fluence, Chopin composed his best work: during the Majorea period. In spite of her companionship, Chopin was often subject tc fits of melan- choly and depression. He finally caused Mme. Sand to say of him, “Chopin ts a detestable Invalid.” It was not in this mood, however; that he wrote Opus 40, No. 1. It in in his most virile and most happy vein. There is an interesting tale con- nected with the writing of this mas- terpiece, It is related that one night, Chopin, after composing the Polon- e, sut at os piano deeply en- grossed in his exalted thoughts. It was midnight. ‘There was a denth like stillness about the house. sud denly the master was terrified to see the door open. Into the room marched semblage of Polish knights and resplendently garbed. They moved slowly and majestically past him to the stirring and warlike strains of the Polonaise. There were the leading and most imposing figures of Poland's former greatness. Behind them came the famous Polish patriots, Kosciusko, Kollontanz and {gnaty Potocki, gleaming swords raised aloft! Chopin, aghast at the visions his fevered imagination had created, fled from the room. ‘A few words as to the meaning of the Polonaise would be enlightening to the reader. It is a dance of Po- lish origin. It was introduced at the time of the accession of Henry, Duke of Anjou, to the throne of Poland. ‘The ladies of the nobility passed in ceremonial procession before him at Cracow, to the stately music of the polonaise. This became the regular ‘opening ceremony at royal functions. From a march the polonaise devel- oped into a dance, Bach, Handel and others composed in this form, but Chopin eclipsed them all. The piece is full of stirring chords and harmonies, It is a true military march. When played by great artists like Josef Hofmann, Ignace Jan Paderewski and Vladimir de Pach- jmann, it is heard in {ts full glory. You and Your Mind By ANDRE TRIDON NO. XVIII.—FORGETTING NAMES. | The influence of our unconscious ts amusingly demonstrated by the way, in which on certain occasions we for- get people's names, try vainly, to re- member them, have them for a while on the tip of our tongue and then re~ call them when it is too late. One evening I went for dinner with | my attorney, whom I have known for His name is and was, there~ very familiar to me. We dis- | cussed certain business matters which {were to remain a secret between us, After dinner we took a stroll and met another friend of mine, @ journalist whom I have also known for a long while. The> two men were not ac- | quainted, but as I was ready to make introductions, I realized that I could ‘not remember the name of either of ‘them. Being accustomed to analyze my mental states rather rapidly, I ignored the proprieties for a few sec- onds, kept up a flow of conversation about the weather and at the same time examined the reasons why 1 should unconsciously keep those two men in ignorance of each other's name. The actual reason jumped into my, consciousness rather rapidly. I had intrusted a secret to my lawyer. | Might he not betray it to the Journal- A rather absurd supposition, which, however, for the space of a few seconds, called for protective | measures, As soon as the cause of ‘my memory lapse became clear to , the nam s of my two friends came to my tind, I then very hypos critically apologized for not introduc- ing them to each other, pretending 1 | thought they were acquainted, ° If there is some one whose name It is easy to save if we go about} you constantly forget, try and find Experience has| out why you are unconsclously-afraid of him or endeavoring to deny his ex- istence. And likewise, when some one to whom you have been introduced several times seems unable to re- member your name, talk the matter with him if possible, It may be that you remind him unconscious ly of some one who in the past hurt him or humiliated him and whom he over Pigmics are pigmies stilt though jaside. that part to be s9 been trying to forget. Very often perched on Alps, and pyreuids are \tuly and certainly as if we ow 4 simple inquiry and explanation are i veies —Youns to the buteher instead of to ourselves enough to remove the cause of uncon pyramid - then we have solved the problem. scious hostility between two persons The tio penance for t Any savings bank will he glad to who could otherwise he very good ref sis help us work out the system to suit, friends. bine of the rich,—-Italien Proverb. | \Gopyriaty hy Julies Jonduce Aumndiaasedy — ‘