The evening world. Newspaper, March 1, 1922, Page 26

— 4 R y The Q World. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER Pudtished Daily Except Sunday by The Press Hublishing Company. Nos. 53 to 63 Park Raw, New York RALPH PULITZER, President. | J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, iso the locel mews published herein. GOV. MILLER IS RIGHT. 5 aia Senator Duell introduced his bill to créate an Industrial Relations Term of the Supreme Court with power to,prevent and punish sirikes and lockouts, The Evening World said: “The one overwhelming argument against an industrial tribunal with punitive powers is that it will not work. Public opinion would not support the wholesale imprison- ments needed to make the law effective.” This newspaper also reiterated its faith in an entirely different kind of Industrial Tribunal which “should confine itself to establishing the rights of a case, depending on the force of an informed pub- opinion for enforcement.” Gov. Miller has come out fair and square in opposition to the Duell bill, He gives excellent reasons for doubting the legality of the bill. But in the last analysis he agrees perfectly with The Evening World's stand: N “They go,” he says, “a great deal further in the direction of establishing State control + over labor and industry than the people of the State are prepared to accept.” 1 As to a High Courteof Public Opinion, the Gov- ernor comments: } “I think perhaps the greatest thing it (the State) can do is to secure exact information of the facts involved in these disputes so that the reblic may know what the facts i are.” } Here is an opportunity for New York to proceed along a constructive and hopeful course. This State has no need to follow a Kansas plan * which has proved abortive under much simpler conditions of enforcement. The Duell bill is dead. Let it rest in peace. et et oe eens GRR nies me ' t William H. Anderson, State Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, discovers thirty organizations in a combined drive to secure legalization of light wines and beer. Has Mr. Anderson also discovered the slow but sure reaction in the minds of millions of unorgan- ized Americans against the lie in the present definition of “itftoxicating liquors"? THE ALL-DAY SUBWAY JAM. Mo. passengers and fewer car miles are sig- nificant features of the I. R. T. report for December. Inadequate service in the rush hours accounts for this. The patrons of the subway are paying in discomfori. Economies resulting from the new doors which require only one guard for two cars are tolerable.’ Economies from the featherweight gates eliminating the need for a ticket chopper may properly go to the I. R. T. profit account. But 4p all-day subway jam is intolerable. The Transit Commission is bound to exercise its powers and order adequate service for the non-rush hours. A BONUS TO PROFITEERS ? EADERS of The Evening World have had the benefit of Martin Green’s complete exposure of the Lasker ship subsidy scheme which the Pres- " ident recommended to Congress yesterday. Any one who has read this tale of waste, inef- ficiency coupled with high overhead, and fruitless spending by the Shipping Board has good reason ‘ for opposing the Lasker plan as approved by the | President. i] “The striking fact that will confound every rea- » sonable man, whether familiar with these details or not, is the comparison between the President's attitude on the bonus for veterans and his advocacy of the bonus for shipping men. The proposal to use customs revenues, income taxes, profits, port charges and rail ditferentials to pay a shipping bonus is no less a diversion of Fed- eral funds than is the soldier bonus. The Evening World is opposed to a soldier bonus * because of its effect on Federal finances and the increased burden put on the taxpayer. It is doubly opposed to a bonus to shipping men who “ad- justed their own compensation” in wartime and now seek a continuing “adjustment” at the expens¢ ' of the taxpayers. A CHOICE, NE of the proposed amendments to the Transit Act is designed to safeguard the 5-cent fare. It was proposed by Mr. De Ford, who has repre- sented the city in so far as the city has had deal- * ings with the Transit Commission. The third amendment, which is certain to w * the tire of he Mayor and his supporters, would deprive. nim of the right to appoint members of the Board of Control for the trial period of one A year * This is a violation of the principle of home rule } There is no denying that fact. Under the circum- *} stances, it is more than justifiable. It js uma- } voidable. The term of this amendment is one year That Associated Press ls excinetrely entitled to the use for republication | All news Gespatches credited te or not otherwise credited im this paper | | | | fs the critical period i ie readjustment. Ab | the end of that year the May power to appoint the represent: The Governor approves this amendment. The legislators should agree. They will not be enact- ing a permanent principle. Rather they will be meeting the needs of a present condition, The Mayor has refused to co-operate. He has offered nothing but obstruction. Under such cir- cumstances it is not a choice between State rule and home rule. It is a choice between State rule and home misrule. State rule is preferable. will again have es for the city. “BEING OF SOUND MIND.” HEN a man makes his will, why can’t he have his sanity certified? When a testator writes, “I, being of sound mind,” why can’t he append affidavits that forestall ques- tioning of his mental soundness after his death? Take the case of the late Amos F. Eno, Those who contested his will charged that he was men- tally incapable of disposing of $13,000,000 ¢s- tate. After a first trial that lasted two months a jury decided in favor of the contestants, only to have its decision reversed by the Appellate Division. The result of another trial lasting seven weeks was a second jury verdict for the contestants. But this second verdict is now set aside by the Surrogate on the ground that it was “against thegweight of the evidence and contrary to law.” Again the Ap- pellate Division must pronounce Think of what all this litigation has cost the Eno estate! Think of the big holes made in other estates by similar will contests! Think of the trouble and money that would-be saved if a testator could establish his sanity before he died instead of leaving it for heirs and lawyers to fight over after he is in his grave! In his opinion setting aside the latest Eno will verdict, Surrogate Foley says: “ “The law requires that a testator must have strength and clearness of mind and memory sufficient to know the nature and amount of his property in general, the names and identity of those having natural claims upon his bounty, and the.relation toward them, and the nature of the act he is about to per form. The memoranda made by Mr. Eno in his diary of 1915, while he was preparing the will, indicate the possession of these ele- ments of testamentary capacity.” Why not provide means for certifying a man's testamentary capacity in the shape of a board or commission whose certificate as to his sanity, based on first-hand, living evidence, shall be recognized as legally valid and sufficient after his death? Such a commission would seem a logical and useful appendage to the Surrogale’s office. A testator need not reveal the contents of his will in order to establish his capacity to make one. Merely to certify his general sanity at the time he signs it would greatly reduce probabilities of costly contest after his will is opened. ; : Why not this simple precaution against post- médrtem wrangles that eat estates and fatten lawyers? An American girl has won the prize tor sug- gestions as to how to make London an attrac- tive city. That's not surprising. American girl tourists in London are giving demonstra- tions dally ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. Pend, We welcome with a warm clasp of the fist our newest contemporary “Good Morning d’'E * pub lished by the I. O. G. (Improved Order of Goats). It appears to have no regular date of issue, but it speaks with feeling and in verse: “We are the goats, we are the gouts, And the derned ole Erie is cutting our throats That is our yell, and we know it well; Curses on the Erie!!! It may be implied that the I. 0. G.'s are com: muters from the skeeter country. . Dave did mighty well during Hizzoner’s absence freckling his toes at Palm Beach. Indeed, we hardly missed him! . The Evening Post is printing the Autobiography ot a Burglar. The old sheet is sure getting Gay . ‘Free as the air” used to be a common saying. Now that's gone with everything else. The air must Lereafter be regulated by Herbert Hoover MIKE MILTON, THE MESSEN A Tale of Wall Street and Its Wealth, CHAPTER II, Putting chance words together, Mike Milton gleaned that the big fellow was out for a big boost of Im perial Bunco, How he longed for money—tfor a chance to get in. He knew a few dollars would go far in the bucket shop across the street—so far they would never come back again. So he kept his mind on the legit acquire a small block of Imp. Bunc? K, How could he Standing, cogitating upon the curb, be wear a passerby say to another: “The inside ’ Imperial.” (To Be Continued.) | _Always THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MXRO® Y, rove. in the Wreckage Copyright, 1022, (The New venting World) By Press Publishing Co. Old Habits Underlying New Problems By Maubert St. Georges. Corea PB os Pueliehing ‘One ; 1. CASTE. Caste is an institution peculiar to India, and the one unabridgable chasm that separates the European from the Hindu. Caste—the word is of Portuguese origin, derived from the Latin word “castus,"’ signifying purity of blood— is a system by which the accident of birth fixes once and for all the social position, the business pursuits and the | domestic relations of all human beings. | Words fail to express tho rigor, the tenacity, with which the natives cling to the immemorial ‘‘dharma,"’ or es- tablished order. .\ coolie carrying a bundle on his head cannot be pers suaded to load it on his shoulders; @ cook will not pluck a chicken; a seller of off will not sell grain—all because caste forbids it. , Malaria is a great affliction in India, even in the large cities, and it could |be suppressed if the wells that serve as the breeding places of mosquitoes were closed. Yet this obvious im- provement is prevented by the fact that filtered water from city mains would be considered impure, and many Hindus would die sooner than drink impure water or perform religious ceremony with it. Yet it is enough that a white man should touch or drink at a well to render that well im- pure forever. ‘There are four principal castes—the Brahmans or priests, the Kehattryas or warriors, the Vaisyas or traders and the Sudras or artificers. ‘The Brahman caste, like the others, \nas many subdivisions. The priests |themselves wear long dresses and turbans. The pandipapans, totoidi- | papans, vanasprastas, sanyashis are only a few of their classes. All, however, ministers or begs can be recognized and are revealed to the veneration of the faithful by certain signs, such as the shaven head with a little tuft on the crown, or the bare breast showing | the sacred, distinctive hempen string of the Brahman. | To the’ second class belong the rajahs and warriors. To it belongs, geographically, speaking, the Mah- | rattas, the Rajputs, the Sikhs and | the Nairs of the Malabar Coast. The Vaisyas are the third of the “twice-born’’—that is, that before be- ing bern into any of the first three castes it is necessary to have been born at least once before. In this caste are found the big merchants, and landowners, and farmers. whether priests, s, that gives the worth of a thousand say much in few words. Irregular Work in 1 Mines. To the' Editor of The Evening World: Noting your editorial relative to coal | miners’ wages, with its allusion to ex- | cessive number of being ployed, would say that this is true enough, but the remedy is beyond the reach of the mine owners As you say, there is not enough work to keep all the miners busy all the time, but as many coal miners do | men em- | the situation to be remedied? It might be possible for some operating com- panies to guarantee ste employ- |ment, but who can guarantee that |the miners would work all the time? There is no process of T"to make a man work against his will You refer to regularity of employ- | ment and seniority of employment and lay-offs making railroading” a popular occupation, but quite a dif- ferent idea actuates the two classes of | men. Every railroad man_ knows | what would happen to him if he made a practice of ignoring the call boy's summons at any hour, But who| could undertake to call the coal miners to work with any assurance | that they would respond? Moieove ‘the miners not only go to work wh they wish It they stop when they wish. There is no ather line of in- dustry in which a similar policy of | working as one pleases prevails. Operators contend, with u good share of reason, that working condi- whole order number are by no work- | tions must be fair on }to secure and hold so large of men, and union official means reluctant to have a la ing force in the coal fields because of what it means in the way of unton membership and union dues Certainly no newspaper office could undertake to run with @ force limited \to actual average requirements if the compositors came and went as they pleased, aid under existing conditions the only way to secure a full supply | of coal for the public is to have an }ample number of men available 50 | that when one group deciles to take a few days off others will be at hand to take their places in the mines and | assure a regular flow of . F. W. SAWARD, Editor Saward’s Journal. No, 16 Park Row, New York, Feb, 28, 1922 No Surplus of What kind of letter doyou find most readable? Isn't it the one There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to Take time to be brief not want to work all the time how is} words in a couple of hundred? -day are certainly ‘speaking up."’ ‘To be perfectly candid, I have come to the conclusion that a surplus of women isn’t ultogether a bad idea, providing they don't get too frisky. The lays seems to be, in the feminine mind: ‘*What shall I we Perhaps they are dividing up the supply of dress goods with their surplus sisters, which may account |for the shortened skirts W. REID. Bronx, Feb. His Last Word. ‘Yo the Editor of The Evening World In this, my final communication, permit me to reiterate that I am not a Prohibitionist. 1 obeying the law, or not only ‘believe whether it ple: es or bigots or ce they may I believe in per- ting every one to exercise nts privileges or act according to his rights as I do, within the law. | My recent letter has seemingly | aroused the ire of several of your cor- respondents so that they drool at the mouth in their virtuous nger. Your editorial comment ot the conclusion of my last communica- tion, in which you claim that you pub jlish a larger proportion of letters ad- vocating Prohibition than those op- | posed to it, is not borne out by the facts. I have kept a tab on them jand find that the average is about 50 to 1 My claim that you are positively unfair in your attitude is again veri- fied by the quarter-page illustrated spread of Prof. Charles T, Terry of Columbia University in your issue of the zist attacking Prohibition and blaming everything from incendiarism to dandruff on the pernicious (?) Fighteenth Amendment and the Vol- etead act, and at the same time bu ing the comments of Thomas A son in agate type so they would p; unnoticed. For heaven's sake, whe Prof, Terry and what has he ever | accomplished to warrant the glorifica gree with me actually tion of his views? Why should his opinions be xi such prominence | while Mr. Edison's are submerged? any fair-minded man_ honestly joa ‘nipition let him inquire et any in- dustrial plant {n the country and learn of the great increase in efficiency and | output due to Prohibition, You are so bigoted in your attitude that you actually defeat your own and’ is some | pury arguments and per emerity of your! sistency in attack are so transp J reporter in her interview with Mr. B.\ that no right-minded man ean Vhillips Oppenheim of date. [} otherwise than laugh at them. Tha must conte to hav enjoyed both! you know this in the bottom of you “interview"! and { cannot be doubted. ‘The on it's ' w an whe « with vou are humor. St ich food for! mem. because they are prived o| Mapught io ber ieiicc, ibe women of cisvholic bevergom I do not believe that all} wants to learn the benefits of Pro- | From Evening World Readers } | re he } they UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) THE BOY WHO SAYS “ WE” Don't laugh at the boy who says “we” when referring to the concern he works for. His job may be merely to sweep out and take care of the waste paper basket. But if he begins to look upon the concern as his concern and to think that he is a part of it, he is pretty sure to get along. _ One of the things that help any organization succeed is the sense of proprietorship felt by the men who are working for it. ; You will find that a railroad brakeman is inclined to re- gard the company he works for as a fine railroad company, although he may have differences with it regarding pay schedules. The office boy in a bank who goes out and talks largely of the size of the bank and the vast good it is doing in the commercial community may be president of the bank some- time. The office boy who doesn’t know what the bank is for, or hasn’é any idea whether it is a big or a little one, will never get anyw here. ' If you are working for a concern, big or little, don’t be afraid to regard it as your own, or at least as partly your own, as long as you work for it. : You are a sharer in the profits at least as far as your salary is concerned, And if it is a well-managed institution y*. are a sharer in the opportunities for promotion its ex- pansion will bring. Look on it as your own, think about it as your own, and work for it as your own as long as you are there. If you discover that this isn’t going to do any good— that you can never possibly rise in it—the only thing to do is to keep your eyes open for another job and take it as quickly as it offers, even though you have to accept smaller pay from the first. : Remember that the relations between employer and ‘em- ployee are never forced. You can quit. And if you think your employer, whether individual or corporate, is using you only to wring profits out of you, the best thing to do is to get a new employer. Choose a business if you can that you can be proud of — one that you would like to own. Then, if you act as if you did own it, you may do so some time. } ® From the Wise rea Ladies wilt sooner pardsn want WHERE. DID YOU GET THAT WORD? of sense than want of manners. 135.—QUARANTINE. Veneroni “Quarantine” does not sound much |like “forty If religion has done nothing for ir temper it has done nothing |'* the precise origin of our term aerauieon Cclavian quarantine. In modern Freneh ‘forty ‘i ii is ‘quarante.” In old French the who aims at and s very foolish alt the La Fontaine torty-day period of Lent was designa ted “Quarantine” “Quaran tain "9 world its 2 or less think, # talk,—Montesquieu, Yet the number forty | their entombment 1 | Hence The time of detention of ships or|the original name stuck to the insti- persons to make sure that they were jas dissase-carrieya was forty daym To the Sudras, the fourth . who with the outcast pariahs /form more than three-quarters of the! pop- ulation, there is no choice but td fol- low the father's profession—artisan, servant, workman, blacksmith, laun- dryman, or whatever he may have been. Never can hope to drive an engine. He is bound by unbending laws to become @ weaver, and only a weaver. Below the Sudras come multitudes of castes generally known to us as pariahs, consisting of beings of shame and infamy or their whom failure to comply with a religt- ous rule, or the eating of some for- bidden food, or marriage with one of another caste has brought to this degradation. ‘Their occupations are the lowest and the most shameful. Whatever has been touched by them is forbidden to all other castes. For this reason their wells are made known by being surrounded by the bones of animals, and a parlah who would dare to drink from another well or even sit upon the side of it | would be immediately stoned te death. ; The white races may compliment | themselves with having been relegated | to this level by all good Hindus, \ Whatever arguments to the econ- trary may be advanced by people } filled with esoteric Brahmantsm, ' such social and religious excesses * condemn to servitude a great people «| that seem well worthy of a more noble |) and glorious desthyy. { a rd ' From Nature’s Past - Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening World) */ i By Prose Publishing Cone y AN ALASKAN MAMMOTH, ’ Bone, hair and hide of a four-footed giant who trod the soil of Alaska and } munched crisp branches of trees many, centuries before Secretary Seward’, bought that empire from Russia for a song are exhibited at the American | Museum of Natural History. It was the rush of gold diggers, and the disturbances in the soil of Ataska °, produced by them in their delving for |- the precious metal that di«losed: many evidences of the fact that Alas- {f ka was once the stamping ground of the mammoth, yy Point, so named because of the many remains of the mammoth found there, L. S$. Quackenbush in 1908 found the parts of a mammoth carcass in the margin of a frozen tundra at Msch~ scholtz Bay. ‘The carcass, despite the ssage of centuries, was remarkably fresh. This complete preservation wae the of nature's fefrigerator, It i» ble that for many thousands of years the hide, hair and bones shown at the Museum were frozen since the |cuiled “Quarantine | As medical seienve developed and ~| the means of providing against infec. -| tion were perfected, the period of de-’ | tention was generally reduced, But period of detention was | Balen, One ts “quarantined” if he ia detained only twenty-four hour, the weaver's son ¢s descendants, “{ At a locality known as Elephant ({™ ‘