The evening world. Newspaper, February 23, 1922, Page 26

SPARLIEHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER Puotionei Davy 4 Sinday by The Prow Mubliching “an t New York RALPH PULITZER park Row 1, ANGUS SHAW. T JOSEPH PURITAN Jr oN MPMIRER OF THE assoctareD PFs he Associated Prose le execlurively entitled to the u rp ef all news despatches crodiied to {1 or not otnerwi.e er 2 And ass the local news published herein. ‘ania =| 7" RE wa ‘ Fad paper 2 effe CURSORY CRITICISM. FTER what he described as mere cursory 4 survey” of the report of the Transit Commiis- J sion’s Valuation Bureau, Corporation Couiye! ‘ O'Brien felt able to assert that the method of transit valuation “is obviously unsound and tine inclusion of antiquated and obsolete cars, many them twenty and thirty years old, ant wher equin- ment which should be given little or no value.” Under the heading “Expenditures necessary fo place property in first-class operation condition,” the report itself say ’There has been included In the estimates of the necessary expenditures not only an amount to correct deferred maintenance and repair, but also an allowance for renewals and replacements of equipment which, be- cause of age and general inulility, should be retired from service.” Mr. O'Brien was criticising the “principky not the question of whether the allowances are ade- ‘ quate. The Transit Commission engineers ad an i sticipated him. ‘ Mr. O'Brien would be doing’ less than his duiv {f he did not criticise and analyze both the theory and the practice of this valuation. But it is neither fair to the Transit Commission nor (o transit pa- “trons to condemn a carefully considered report on the basis of a “cursory survey” when a more care- ful reading will dispose of the objection, When Mr. O'Brien presumes to condemm, it “should be on the basis of something more thay a =“cursory survey”—or was it a “wavio” from Paim Beach? permits or HELP THE) Yor three months the Sinn Fein National Convention js adjourned, for three months the Provisional Government in Ireland will have its fair chance against the De Valera extrem- ists, for at least three months the people of Ire- land will be given opportunity to prepare their minds for an election that shall reveal their true sentiments toward the treaty and the Trish Free State. M the friends of the Irish Free State in America make good use of that three months. May the Irish in Ireland be left in no doubt as to what they must do to keep, of this side of the Atlantic, the sympathy and support they have professed to value so highly , TOO MUCH OF A RISK. ‘i ENATOR FRANCE wants a movie screen and projecting apparatus in the Senate so tha ators can illustrate their speeches with appropriate views. Senator France’s suggestion will not commend iiself to the G. O. P. majority. It might 4. been well received three years ago, Three ye: henee all the Senators may favor it. But not nov, The trouble is Newberry. Newberry is a stand ing worry for the Old Guard. And, as it happens, | Newberry is mixed up with the movies in a way | Senators who voted for him cannot forget. | In the campaign in Michigan, Newberry min- agers used a film for propaganda purposes. It | showed Newberry pacing the bridge of a baltieship. | PREPAR. Sen- li ca ‘He was supposed to be reviewing the fleet. ne put later that some of the film was taken with ‘Newberry on the bridge of the good ship “Recruit” in Union Square. The rest of the faked reel was patched up faom old fleet review pictures. So the G. O. P. can't take chances on movies in the Senate. Some politically minded Democrat “might get hold of that “Defender Newberry” film speech on political corrup and use it to iMustrate a tion. ” Re- Such a formance would create a Jaughter that would wash Publican yotes. wave away thousands of K's too much of a When blame unfriendly fut when he Lieutenants, he fo the pu ion of the nearly Mayor Hylan speaks he i reporters for writes, as he did must stand by zle-soly Mayor's tion Police misquot to the what he the interpre: what ail which is * nic inertia leav rs we diagno) rent moral the ele ith eriminal affijeted y THE ONLY OBSTACLE LEFT vith York Legislature joins lature in’ ac isive Port Plan. epting Port Authority now power lo fp It can deal directly with the railroad: id with the hundred odd communities withi rt District. Considerable improvement in Poet = conditions may be put forward, no matter what the » aA "City Hall If New ¥ obstructs, ean go pn and help New Jerse af the Port at the expense of Ma and Staten Island. If the Hylanites “ example of the balky mule, it t fication of the Port can he delave That would be a staggering Hylanism. In any event, 19 business. rk City the termined to f How the is probable that uni are dle! ! d for four bill to pay for pa the Port Authority can no Adininistration may come to sve esent If not, the next Administration is The y the light certain to be dret viser, ‘WHOSE CONGRESS? from Washington yester- bonus-bedeville.t frat | ysand Means Comunittee of the House had been cheered by a new hope—the hope being thai if by | July 1 next Great Britain has turned over to the 4 $1,000,000,000. in bonds debt, payments on whi, h | United States upward | to refund part of it | are expected to begin soon, the sale of these securi- ties will meet the first demands of a soldiers’ | bonus. = As it happens, the Secreiary of the Treasury wid such hope when go to Chairman Pordney and Means Committee: | already blasted in advance any few week. Ways the } Wrote a this same As Jaw stands and In Justice to the riy bond holders, the Govern- ment is bound to apply any principal pay- millions of Lit ments by Governments, the retirement of outstanding Liberty bonds, about $10.00 .000,- 000 of which were issued in the first instance foreign as well as any proceeds of sale, to to provide for advances to foreign Govern- ments, Even interest collected on foreign debts, tary Mellon pointed out, ought to go to provide interest on Liberty bonds. ‘Therefore, if proceeds of the foreign debt were used to pay a bonus, the Government would still have to provide for Uw principal and interest of Liberiy bonds from other 5 | | TY sources. Therefore: “The plan to use the foreign obligations to pay a soldiers’ bonus would still Jeave the burden on the shoulders of the American tax- payer.” We are unwilling to believe that either Secretary Mellon or President Harding has told the Ways ani Means Committee one thing publicly and another thing privately. The President is on record as stating that if there is to be a bonus at all, the only practicable way to raise it is by a sales ta . Day by day, in Congress and out, the sales tax Proposal grows more unpopular. There is small chance any bill embodying it could be passed. | Remains Secretary Mellon's suggested alternative: | Find anew commodily upon whigh reasonable .ases would not prove too great a burden, alized light wines and beer offer such a com- modily. | Le; A tax of 20 cents a gallon on beer alone | would furnish $600,000,000 a year; $425,000,000 a year is the estimated requirement of a bon Vhe’ barrier in the way of light wines and beer is ihe Anti-Saloon League, which as dictated | | to Congress its interpretation of the Eighteenth } Amendment. | It it is the right of Congress 6 decide the cou {ry must pay a soldiers’ bonus, not a whit less valid is the country’s right to decide that Congress must | cease its | ¢ | Leag’ We Ce cowardly ‘truckling to the Anti-Saloon mgress is deiermined to pass a bonus bill then let Congress repeal the lie in its present devi nition of money for “intoxicating liquors” and so provide the | a bonus. Whose Congress is it? Seenenenna flight wines and beer, b ACHES AND PAINS A Disiointed Column by John Keetz, RB enannnnnnrmnannnnnmnnninnnnncannnnns | r Harvey 1 have discovered that Amb long-winded and are peeved a sudor George ut it, Don't they know thit braying is a long-winded occupation? . Puss neither good nor bad. \either am 1 gay nor sad; Sumetines last and oftea stow Mosity with the crowd T go. Krave by spells, at others vejlow, Fm just a common fettow! . The pussywillows are beginning (o sprout their spring fur Central is told to “Say it with a smile" Then “Wrong number!” must be a standing joke * ‘The birds can fly, so why can’t 1" quoth Darius Green. The trouble seemed to be in lighting SARA, MPSTRESS, Or, Love in the Sweatshop—A Tale of Yew York, (Continued,) CHAPTER HL, But pevhap were better to resi the thread of the narrative. Had she spoken aloud, Morris Moskowsky, the foreman, would haye heard and made a black mark against her, How the girls hated Morris! He Was always getting a mad on if the nachines stopped for even a second. And why should taney run all the vile with shirts piled up to the vo } (To Be Continued.) ‘Hearing F From the Veterans « iNew Vou fy Prees Pul What kind of lette: do you find most readabie? that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? ‘ay much in few wonls Take time to be brie! ‘From Evening World Readers Isn't it the one There is fine ment.t! exercise and a lot of satistaction in trring to The Break in the Wire. | voring to obtain proper recognition | Vo the Editor of The Evening World Itor ‘the disablod or unemployed: cx- T have just finished reading your very | service man interesting and compreliensive edito-| | If T may be granted @ little m dal Mlring MiseauteNina/tin line euler p. permit me to quote fom at let ' aa . (er uy Naonal Conimanior atch ier j Feb. 20. Please allow me to express} “You would not take two men [my admiration for your sane and |eaually pail in vour employ ant send | tommon sense attitude on the Propi- Jone Out on a particularly dangerous | bition question. Also your courage. |Mssign, which he gladly undertakes | More power to you! out of his lovalty to you, visking his JOSEPH J, BURRT, | life, leaving his family, ready to New York, Feb. 20, 192 jeounter or surmount any diMiculties mits |gladty to serve you (meantime rulti- Rad Habits and Stupta Lawe. | PIY the wage of the man retained at To the Editor of The Evening World | hon Hh SARORY CMAN: SMEAR AE If this letter js publirned you can| {he first man’s return not sive him at tell “ax a7-A0 Chat It lw only Ghe (a? | east an even deal with the other. | ota b Of course you wouldn't, even if you Jone accepted of more than ten T have nuan't promised him ‘that you'd see sent to The Evening World against ne got a squire dew when he re- Prohibition. hee | All abstainers have not yet realized! “ate js not a question of sentiment, that when, like Mr. Edison, they state | op paying for i man's service or his | that people will be better off without rlottsm, heenuse no man can pui i cane th a price on that, nor ean any man pay jo not care for thom, they speak for) for it, Tt is an insult to even suiest themselves, but that doss not stop! it, put there is no reason for penal | the bootlegger from selling his doubt-| jin the man for offering his-life to j ful staff, the poor man from poison: | his country in dangerorts times, ahd ing himself and millions of otherwise | there is every reason for giving bin jJaw-abiding Americans from becom-|a square deal.” jing lawbreakers, HAROLD Bb. SILVERBURGE With all the vespect [have for the | vast Commander Judson 1. W | wizard of Menlo Park and all tee-| bust, No. 611 j totatlers; I must tell them that when Feb, 18, 1922 |they speak of what people should not drink they talk nansense, and our two | Y subway How vears’ experience should show them | ro te tit The Bvening We the impossibility of correcting bad} Taye an your outside guards Bone De Maw’ ees called your attention to adhe posters | Education and wise restrictions ean 5 Jonly extirpate this one of our ex-|that the Subway Sun has nlasti| cesses. ‘The Volstead amendment tn| in the corner windows of each sub obliging people th drink what they! way car? These posters sa y that a |find or concoct themselves works] friendly observer sugi tea” 50 oa against Its own object, if it is that Of} so, &c., ulso that the editor of the stcpping heavy drinking, The answer] arorementioned paper and tie public} has been the wood alcoho! victims, the| appreciate such suggestions (friend) tremendous ineye: in drug addicts| of course). and the crime wave, which has been} Now then, if you will kind always detected where Prohibition has) enough to publish this ietter in your been. adopted. paper, with the following ALPHON “ERRAN DO. lam sure that a great j Haw Ros; VER Si) T92y many of travelling public will , ppreciate same. I am not so sure The NESE ee Legion, | ebout the Subway Sun lst, MinloleAtgonne Vel.” and oanvol or the he who push and refrain from answering one who claims| shove old ladies, old gentlemen and he was a member of our organization, | suns ladies yet shows ©o clearly that he is utterly pgestion Dy the subway out of accord with the true spirit of so that double-decked ears the legion and its position with regard] can be run on te tracks, Then to the bonus. point some one to wee out these 1 think most legionaires will agree| hogs and shove them tip on the upper with me,that the legion’s stand re-|deck, but first he sive there are no rding the bonus (ve call it more | seats up there i rly “adjusted compensation,’ How often, Me 4 Wwe you since it is not to be considered a gift) | notived thexe | 1 nie has been emphasized by the papers as mice of MbONL esi i atecen of xreater importance than its stand) t peo ' Hoes his i since the " ' an fon, | ihom © ‘ “WildJAM J. HYLAND, \¢ | \ | | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) RUNNING ON SCHEDULE. If you had your choice of two parallel railroads in go- ing toa particular vity, which one would you take—the road whose trains run on schedule or the road whose trains were iably from fifteen rinutes to three-quarters of #n hour inva late? ‘Twenty or thirty yeas ago, when there were not so many continental lines, one railroad manager got 75 per cent. of the passenger business by getting all his trains through on time save when landslides or blizzards prevented. The management of the other road awakened too late to what was going on. The tide of travel had gone the other way merely because one man knew the value of running on and it was not brought back for many years. Your value to anybody, whether it is to the boss or to the public, or to your friends, is a matter of dependability. Dependability is a matter of being there when people expect you to be there. schedule, if you are working in a big institution you soon discover that you must be there on time, or not be there at all. It is just as necessary to be punctual with the discharge of your work as it is to be in the office at the hour when work begins. If you are late with a particular job the man to whom you must pass it is late starting it, hurries and slights the task along the no be restored for the rest of the day. and unless line the some one cy schedule ma The man who keeps his engagements and keeps them on time, the man who can always be counted on to arrive when he ought to arrive, is the man who is trusted by business as- suciates and who gets business in consequence. It is quite possible for the early bird to be there the worm is out of bed. It is the bird who knows Just exactly at what hour after sunrise the worm gets up, and who is there looking for him at that exact hour, who is always sure of his breakfast. Be early if you want to, but far niore important than to be enrly is to be on schedule—always. before Liberators =0Fr— Ireland By Bartlett Draper right, 1922, (Ni we Wee ere rane ie XV.—THE ENGLISH PEOPLE. The moral forces that enacted the liberation of Ireland chmo largely from the English people—whether liv- ing in Canada, in the Antipodes, or im South Afri Tt was the voteo of the British colonies speaking to a respon= sive England that furnished the im- Balla tor the MeaCHALONe that cole minated in the creation of the Irish Free State. To these voices were added that of America without distinction of race, Throughout the diffioult negotiations that resulted in an unprecedented {rlumph for reason as against age- long prejudice, resentment and hatred, it was the aroused conscience of the Engitsh-speaking world that imposed ri both sets of negotiators the duty coming to an agreement. These negotiations were growth of democracy in England tt- self. It was this growth of Englist democracy that furnished the moving {impulse for every measure of reform undertaken in Ireland, from the first Land Purchase Act to church dises- tablishment and finally to the treaty, of 1921. From the legislative activities of @ Parliament at Westminster controlled almost completely by land owners, the English people had suffered only less ¢ the out~ «in degree than the Irish, During this domination by hereditary privilege Ireland, only to a less extent than England, had been viewed by the privileged class on the English side of the Irish Sea as the object of ex- ploitation, It is only fair to point out, in the retrospect, that during the centuries of exploitation the mass of the English people knew little if anything about the life of the Irish people— and perhaps cared less. The English people had been trained, by a campaign of official silence, broken only by deliberate of- ficial misrepresentation, tu regard the Irish people as an unreasonable, |violent and obstinate lot, responsive only to the argument of force. | As participation in their own Gov- ernment by the English people pro- gressed, liberal opinion in England ) showed u growing tendency to go back of the official returns on the condition of Ireland and of the spirit |and capacity of its people, | An intelligent realization of the |facts spreading in England and her dominions furnished a powerful im- | pulse toward a better understanding between the peoples that had expend- ed more energy in attempts at mu- | tual destruction than on endeavors |for mutual benefit during seven cen- | turies. | It was this intelligent grasp of |facts that enabled Gladstone to make Home Rule for Ireland’ a recog- nized slogan in British politics. It was this new spirit that moved British labor, in the recent repres- |sive movement in Ireland, to refuse to handle war materials for the | Crown forces. | It is the growing democracy of the English people that has enabled | England and Ireland to enter upon the records of humanity an unpre- ecdented chapter of human progress. ||| Psychoanalysis ‘|| You and Your Mind By ANDRE TRIDON | NO. XXII, THINGS WE FORGET TO DO. We never forget to do things we really wish to do. When we keep on forgetting @ certain thing, we cither |should find out whether our absent- | mindedness is due to some absurd cause, which analysis can eradicate, or whether, as in the majority of cases, our constant forgetting is not a subtle form of protection afforded ta jus by our unconscious. Every physician has one or twa charity patients and FORGETS very tasily to make calls on them when they are sick. We forget to pay our bills, but we seldom forget to send out our own bills or to collect money duc us. When we say to people: ‘Please don’t ask me to do this, I might for- get it,"" some unconscious rexistance jis making us feel that we wil) prob- ably forget it, for IT IS SOMETHING WE DO NOT CARE TO DO. When a patient forgets several | times to pay his fee, even if he later remits by mail and apologizes profuse- ly, I know that he is not satisfied with the treatment, fi 4 that his money is not well spent and is soon going to “leave town’? or Interrupt his treat. ment for some other reason. | Depressed, melancholy pit 3 very often forget to wind up their watches, in ex patients who js should not be ¢ unimporta’ what tim: oes On oF This symptom press suicidal id missed lightly means ‘I don't and whether tim not. § wish time would stop.’ We should not be too enthusiastiq m aa = bout celebrating too many anniver- From the Wise MONEY TALKS -s of 4 sentimental nature, I ° _ knew an overaffectionate husband uilvoads ure like the human By HERBERT BENINGTON who reminded hie wite ith flowsra we he ve their stopping |Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening World) of the day when rst_met hey, o race, they have Ra ‘by Press Publishing the day when they became enj places and their termini; but un THRIFT OR DRIFT! of the anniversitry of their marriage. like the human vace they can make Any man standing in the Sulvation sae Gy) ha Gals ; format ane. of a return journcy.—E. P. Day Army bread line will tell us what it/oy three days later, however, he ren’ The man who does not know his | Means to dritt—and any one of those ized his offense, and tried to atone for way to the sea should always take J™en will also tell us what it would it by being more lavish than ever, All t river for his yuide.—Plautus. mean to him now If he had steered !" vain. She could not let such a - the opposite course, thrift apIRDHIA | GpROSAS ui uae Y obGnings rogrenac fie , ket over the coals, complatt- Take the mysteru out of things It is easy to spend f ‘sily when jn bitterly that his love had grows und they lose two-thirds of thetr |the “goose hangs high." any fool can cold, And she was. perfectly right uttruction—H. W. Shaw do that; but only a wise man wil) Hf the poor Mr. Henpeck, on the other i the garden aut \Wok whead and pave his future with band, had been w better student cé wun'e tovds te eet regular amoUnta saved from hia MQeheanabysls he would have ree ss fubor lave iclds | reeure s kK rom TS lortod, “So has yours, my dear, o aud che wow evation loves the [Weekly pay envelope ; cise you would not have let the anni- Le iy With whieh army shall we march? yersary pass without saying som Tuinas DIAM With the ar Par-seers” or with thing whout it.” setalid se hogre ite: Pm | Copyright by United ‘ghee Syndicaied { = 7, ae 4 ae