The evening world. Newspaper, March 3, 1922, Page 26

Pudiished Datly Company, RALPH PU J. ANGUS SHAW, T H PULITZER Jr. . 63 Park Row, MEMBER OF TIE AssoctareD Pr (The Associated Press ix exclusively entitied to the use for republication of Al) news despatches credited to It or not otherwise credited 1p this paper and algo the local news published herein. OUR MARCELLINE MAYOR. . ARCELLINE, the famous clown, is a truly funny character. So is Mayor Hylan. They have a good deal in common. They are different in that Marcelline intends to be that way. Marcelline in his performances always seems to mean well. He goes through the motions of being heIpful. But after he has expended his own energy iq helping the scene-shifters, they have more work té do. As far as the scene-shifters are concerned, would be easier if Marcelline were somewhere efse—say Palm Beach {Mayor Hylan means well with his Marcelline stunts, but results are as likely to be tragic as comic, for he doesn’t plan his effects as the clown does. | Mayor Hylan is absolutely right in demanding fore subway service in the non-rush hours. But if he has the power to force the I. R. T. to run trains, why in the name of the straphanger hasn't he done something about it before? | That is blundering of an atrocious sort. But the rdal Marcelline characteristic comes out when the Mayor seeks to interfere with the “staggered hour” phogramme for rush hours. The tush-hour jam is something that magisterial otders cannot eliminate. The subways will not carry the crowds in comfort, no matter how com- pletely the management tries to utilize the available equipment. ; The reasons'for the Hylan interference are obvi- obs. Health Commissioner Copeland sought to co- operate with the Transit Commission in promoting staggered hours. “Any co-operation with the Transit Commission is bad, as the Mayor sees it, even when manifestly in the interest of public health. ‘Sooner or later the stage-hands get the stage in spite of Marcelline’s meddling. Sooner or later we shall be driven to staggered hours whether the Mayor:ikes it or not. =~ ‘In the mean time the subway sardines will not be riding to Bushwick in comfortable limousines—- like our Marcelline Mayor. The name, new Postmaster General has a good Perhaps he will sign general orders to employees by adding an exclamation point: ‘Work! aM UNWISE. Ny etna committee favors legislative action’making it conrpulsory upon courts to inflict prison penalties ranging from three months to, one year when individuals are convicted under the Donnelly Anti-Trust Act. .That~sort of law is unwise, because it will not work. ‘The Anti-Trust Act covers a multitude of actions. Sgme of them unquestionably call for punishment, a8 in the case of Brindell and Hettrick, But there exists a-borderland of more or less technical viola~ tiéns. If imprisonment is made compulsory, juries will not convict under a statute which is so vague that it is now declared unconstitutional in an up- State jurisdiction and upheld in this district. Justice McAvoy pointed out the wiser path of procedure in sentencing Hettrick to three years, will the recommendation that he be released on parole he end of the year. jGuilty anti-trust conspirators should be punished with jail sentences instead of fines. But protection of the public is the first consideration. For this it islessential to have a law under which juries will convict. For the protection of the public, it is better to hav® conspirators on parole after a short prison term than to have them freed because of divided juries, at Chicago business men are planning to build the larg hotel in the world. That is, it will ‘be the largest hotel in the world unti! New fYerk builds one larger still. NOT A CHANCE. PUKE of Allegany County is one of those tr individuals who have an idea that it to prevent people from gambling by implements commonly used in forbid the sale vere’ js ain element of chance for winning roney. It can't be done, Mr. Duke. Two years ago the andstake top” wouldn’t have been included in a list of gambling implements. animal, and in few fields i devising ways and mean the hope of winning money. of implements in the use of which r losing Man is an inventive he more prolific than in for taking a chance in As an incidental objection, the United States Con. stitution forbids any such general law. One of the exclusive powers of Congress is to coin money, and it is notorious that men gamble by matching coins. The State of New York cannot abolish “heads” and “tails.” Such a suggestion is all the more surprising, com- in, its as it does from Mr. Duke, who represe a ing community. Strict construction of such a vould prevent the sale of all agricultural im- Farming is a game of chance under- taken in the hope of winning money. What would the Allegany farmers do without their ploughs and harrows and reapers? LOW MARK. F not the cash of the United Statés, then the I credit of the United States. The latest bonus plan of the Ways and Means Committee is to put Uncle Sam back of ‘a huge = money-lending scheme. Under this sc’xeme, only $15,000,000 or $16,000,- 000 in cash will be paid to ex-service men entitled individually to $50 or less. The rest will receive twenty-year certificates which they can “hock,” as soon as they get them, for 50 per cent. of their face value, paying 2 per cent. interest on the an. ‘ From the point of view of Congressmen, the most desirable feature of the scheme is to get the cer- tificates issued next October, so that when Election Day comes in November soldier voters will at least be in a less disgruntled frame of mind than if they had. got nothing at:all. A noble bonus plan to meet political exigencies— with the national credit as “angel” and nobody worrying wher2 the required $5,000,000,000 is eventually coming from! Twenty years is a comfortably long time! Meanwhile, what becomes of President Harding’s earnest protest «gainst any bonus plan which does not provide for an immediate means of raising the necessary revenue? Will the President approve using the credit of the United States to bid for votes for Republican Congressmen nexi fall? The whole soldier bonus proposition has sunk to a sordid plane of scheming and pawnbroking where it can only disgust the country. We are to reward the Nation’s valiant fighters by letting them borrew money at 2 per cent. on prom- ises-to-pay what they demand as their due! THE BRITISH WAY. NE minute England revels in her traditions, the next she kicks them sky-high. One day a royal Princess is married with all the pomp and: ceremony of centuries-old monarchical custom. Two days later the august House of Lords opens its doors and offers one of its privileged seats to— a woman! This, again, is characteristic of modern British democracy. It keeps up with the new times with- out discarding the old. It steps along with progress, | yet turns an ever reverent eye on the past. It mixes advance with permanence. Lady Rhondda will take her seat in the House of Lords, if she elects to do so, without wrecking the British Constitution, which, being unwritten, is sin- gularly adapted to the rapid mingling and mellow- ing of new precedents with old. Nor does there seem to be any reason why twenty-three other women in the United Kingdom who are “eeresses in their own right cannot follow Lady Rhondda into the House of Lords if they choose. A mediaeval royal wedding followed by an ultra- modern recognition of the political rights of women! That is present-day England—where the com- bination of old and new still leaves men and women more true liberty than they enjoy in “free America.” Movement, not movies, is what we need at the Grand Central and Times Square subway stations ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. N | Ann AARNet) Our new contemporary, “Good Morning 4’Erie,” organ of the I. O. G., says that most of the Jersey goats had their previous habitat in Brooklyn or Harlem. Now they are herded on the Erie. For the true goat there is no escape. | . Now they say Ambassador Harvey had frills around the place where his knickers met his stockings at Mary's Wedding, Is this normalcy? . | 1 : | Writing from Lucerne in 1897, Mark Twain said. “I have begun four books, and by shifting from one | to the other of them, according to the impulse of the ! day, I shall expect them to keep me entertained and ated for the-next thrge or four years.” ‘at system, to prevent’ brain fag! . Lloyd George told a friend of ours once that to keep on top in England a Prime Minister had only to get along with the House of Commons. Would he could have the United States Senate to play with, * Let over us be thankful that all for good! the yap about Yap is MIKE MILTON, MESSENGER, A Tale of Wall Street and Its Wealth, | - CHAPTER VY. doing her errands. Now she must repay, in possession of a supply of Hogan’ Soon he wa and never troubled to ask who sent him So when the haughty Hogan put out his buying orders in defiance of Mike Milton's w he found plenty of Imp. Bune comin. (To Be Continued.) words ring sw ‘Tessie, the typewriter, had often smiled him into costly let- ter-heads, soon he was busy placing selling orders among the broker's shops, who knew the messenger THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1922. ou Don’t” Copyright, 1922, (New York Eventng World) Ly Press Pub. Co. From Evening that gives the worth of a thousand Where the Light Doesn't Strike. To the Editor of The Evening World: A paragraph in The Evening World sald: “Retail food prices in New York were 7 per cent. lower in January than in December, If the retailers have at last seen the light, there is hope even from landlords and bar- bers.” How about restaurant owners? Din- ing in several restaurants in the York- ville district, I find that prices have gone up in the last few months, An investigation would be appreciated. BIL New York, Feb. 27, 1922. “Success to Crime.” To the Editor of The Evening World: The newspapers have written much about why criminals go free, and the leniency to criminals, but the news- papers, for reasons beyond my ken, do not seem to understand the cause. Certain men in Tammany Hall are the friends of crime and criminals. Some of these Tammanyites are third- rate politicians, having more or less influence in their respective districts, and some are third-rate lawyers who are often useful to Tammany In polit- ‘ical campaigns. These men aid and jabet criminals—to a degree. |'They use their influence, here and | there, to cover up the crimes and pro- tect the criminals, and our newspa- ' pers see the effect, and never bother about the cause. But behind it all are the men higher | up—the of criminals in Greater Naw York. These men wield influence ammany protectors of erim- linals, through their social, legal ani | political connections, make fortunes Jevery year out of crime, ‘Their toast uceess to Crime triends If you want to stop the effect you |must remedy the Get the facts. ALK. EB, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: | “Worth the Risk.” | The When Evening World have been mailed to Congress plead- ing with all the ardor that “a mother of several sons'’ can command that the Prohibition laws be so modified| crimes such as larceny, holdups, & |as to permit again the sale of beer, the Risk’? on the supposed transac- tion, uses | ;Such material as the letter alleged to} &c., and justifies an editorial ‘Worth! things, then permit the “modified they give substantial grounds | Evening World for believing that some one is taking Why not follow this beer-bonus | World Readers What kind ot letter do you find most readable? Isn't it theone | words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. , the mistake of thinking that the mothers of sons are asking that this be done. They are not, regardless of communications that find their way into the public press and which paid propagandists are producing all over the country. “Law-abiding, temperate citizens of highest standing and repute are un- able to comply with this particular law," &c. Are you real sure of this? If you are, it contradicts the recent survey made by The World embracing all the States of the Union. Both can't be right. We who know The World as readers of it for many, many years do not think of ques- | tioning the motives prompting’ its ed- jitorials. We do feel, though, that in matters affecting the Volstead law| your views are very provincial. What is more to the point, if you had de- voted a very small part of the space now allotted to anti-Prohibition edi torials and cartoons to an open atte ‘on the continued violations by the |saloons of every statute put upon| |the books, the public might have been jsaved the trouble, through remedial legislation, of rallying and demand- | ing that the saloon be abolished for) all time. This was an opportunity |that The World and other papers {overlooked, and in consequence the | wail now going up is almost as amus- ing as it is ineffective | Col. Hayward told us in the janalysis it was Uncle Sam or th: bootleggers. Why not put the soft pedal on for a while and give Uncle Sam a chance and stop encouraging defiance of the laws of the There isn’t a crook bootlegger in the busin final or to-day that don't justify his course by some- thing The World and similar papers have said about the legislation en acted. policy that This was not the constructive dominated The World when it was established, nor was it hrough repeated dis: ct of the Nation’s laws that the man who e: tablished it developed it into the gre \ yearn for an op |portunity to apply the ducking stool {of our forefathers’ days. That, we believe, would be wet enough to s you. J.D. ELLIS. Why Not License Crimet To the Editor of The Evening World Why not raise médney for the sol |diers’ bonus by putting a tax on \Liberalize the law against t loftenses, but tax the offenders is always ik advantage of their youth and inno-/¢o its inevitable end, and let Genes: | n pr prohil ¢ he No sane man or woman with an op- °° olher:propib|tvana,, ‘and thon portunity for observation would con- lect fines, taxes--whatever sou wa tend that the cnth Amendment. to call them—frem these to whom has pleased all of the people or that give the personal liberty to dri some of them would nv nestly seek rob, assault, &¢ jo have it repeated, but don't make| AL KA Vedat) GL & ‘a medium it became. Kor the good! things done admire you, but | > level of a UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) COMBINATIO. Industry is a necessary quality—but unaccompanied by intelligence is means only long years of fruitless labor. Scholarship is a fine thing to have, but many highly educated men spend their lives in poverty. Courage is admirable, but the man who has nothing but courage is not likely to live very long. Success comes to men who combine their qualities, as physicians combine the ingredients in a prescription. Arsenic taken alone and in quantities is a deadly poison. In tiny doses or combined with other drugs it may become a useful tonic, Chloroform will either kill a man outright or relieve his pain, according to the manner in which it is administered. So the human qualities, even the virtues, must be com- bined to effect good results. All the virtues are necessary to that highest of all suc- cess which we call happiness, But none of them alone will bring happiness or even prosperity, which is the generally accepted notion of happiness. Industry is as necessary to the genius as it is to the dullard—even more so, for the genius can employ it to very good purpose. Yet he must use it in combination with his intelligence, and he must accompany his intelligence with industry. Many brilliant men waste their lives and die in misery because they have been too lazy to develop the talent that was born with them, Many men of high courage go about tilting at windmills, \wearing chips on their shoulde and engaging in futile quar- rels, when if they had employed their courage in combina- tion with other qualities it might have carried them far to- ward the head of the:procession. Every man probably has one quality that is dominant in his character—with some it is cleverness, with others de- pendability, with others moral or physical courage. But any of these qualities alone is worthless, You will find that you need all of them and in a very delicately balanced combination if you are to get out of the rut, How to make that combination must be left to you. You know your own qualities. Only by long and careful experi- menting can you find in just what proportions they must be useds “That’s a Fact”’ By Albert P. Southwick | sopyright, 1922, (The New York Evening, Copye ght) iby Press Publishing Co. __| It is generally conceded that gun- powder was used by the Chinese as an explosive in historic times, But when sa propeliet is not known, There | He hn account of a bamboo tube being ad from which — the 1’ was hurled a distance of but the date is not known "alleged, however, that in the century and thunders, Luiove the Clristian era a cannon was their enemies, | with hurling destruction to} and probably resorted to it too late, lenrpleyea bearing the inscription: ‘I hurl death to the traitor and exter- mination to the rebel,’* It has also been asserted that India has equal claims with China to the first acquaintance The ancient Sanskrit writings appear to, point very plainly to the operation of some primitive sort of cannon when sICl. 41.44 qigcovered or its power applied |in recording the wars of the Egyptian ! ules in India it is stated that the ges" remained unconcerned spec- “impetuous | tators of the attack on their strong- 100| hold until an assault was attempted, It is' when they repulsed it with whirlwinds gunpowder. of Industry By Winthrop Biddl ht, 1922, (New York Evening CORFosIay by Prose Publishing Co. IL—MAKING ‘MY LADY'S HAIR NET. Strange to say, the fine hair new that restrains the rebellious blond’ curls of my lady may have comi 4 probably did come—from the scalp of © ‘ a Chinese, But in its travels from ~ China to America, then back to China, to return once more to America a@: finished product, the hair from the Chinese head undergoes so mang treatments that its original could not recognize it. Ono New York concérn maint two factories in China. In 1918 imported hair—Chinese hati valued by the custom appraisers $2,000,000, before the tmposition the duty. The importation had jum to $10,000,000 in 1920, From the factories in China New York concern systemat collects the combings of millions Chinese men and women, . ‘These combings are then sorted deft, sensitive and industrioug Chinese fingers with regard to le! fineness and adaptability to the re« quirements of black, chestnut, blond and Titian red heads—to name only a few of the most popular shadinga, After this process of sorting, pera formed by Chinese labor possessed off infinite patience and indastry, the hair, packed into switches, is sent t@ America. Hero it is subjected ta sterilizing and dyeing processes tha@ make it fit material for white wom —brune‘tes, blondes or Celtic blond —to wear. . Then the switches are sent back China—say to the factory at Chefo ‘There Chinese workers—mostly —do the delicate work of weaving tl nets. And they do it strictly by hi Why is the weaving done in Ching" Because the Chinese girls are able to turn out from ten to as many as twenty nets a day, at a maximin wage of 20 cents a day. Out of this seemingly paltry amount the workers are able to save as much as 15 cents a day. If the work were done in Amertea the price of the hair net would be prohibitive, for it is estimated that the output of an American worl would be one net, or at most two, day. On the basis of the prevailing’ scale of wages the price to the oon- sumer can be easily figured out. And, besides, the American worker would find it difficult to develop the deftness as well as the patience of the most patient and painstaking race in the world. So the hair nets worn by feminine America are made by the only people capable of making them— the Chinese. Through the partnership of Amert- can enterprise and Chinese industry, —and thrift!—America is fast becom- ing the centre of the hwir net supply of the world Psychoanalysis You and Your Mind By ANDRE TRIDON XXV. 1S PSYCHOANALYSIS DAN- GEROUS? A young girl who had been reading books on psychoanalysis committed suicide a few days ago. Thereupon some editors burst forth into tirades against the dangers of psychoanalysis study. They probably meant well bj they knew very little whereof tH®&" were speaking. The most absurd an ticle, one which appeared in a larg@ New York paper, stated that psychos analysis gives a ‘gloomy, hopeles® outlook upon life.'” Psychoanalysis does just the oppo- site. By turning the searchlight upom | the once mysterious thing called the | unconscious it removes all the terrorar | connected with mental phenomena. | By showing us how we can explo | our unconscious whenever we scent | trouble and go to the source of the | trouble it imparts to us a sense af great power and security. By revealing to us that all our men- tal troubles, be they a slight attack of blues or downright insanity, are due (exception made for actual accidents |} destroying a part of our brain) to per- |} sonal and unconscious causes which |} can be ascertained and removed it af- lays the fear of insanity which has }) made thousands insane. ‘i By giving us a key to all the qi y things we say and do it enables us ®) correct them or to understand them $0} well that they do not worry us. \ 3v showing to us that we are “false ing’? many of our troubles and aike | ments in order to gain power or sy: pathy, it causes us to assume a more |) honest attitude to life and to other hur | man beings. } Ry revealing the tremendous powel |” of education and imitation it has dj bys prived heredity of its monstrous pi } to scare us. We no longer say: *Myly father was crazy » Tam bound | to go the same way."’ We now say: “What I need is re-education and sur- | roundings in which I shall imitate } better models than my home supplied me with." Ignorance of analytical psychology leaves us at the meray of a thousand terrors. Knowledge’ of ourselves through psychoanalysis makes us the © masters of our destiny. The poor | child who killed herself might have | lived if she had understood herself better, Thousands of people die while undergoing medical treatment, not om account of the treatment but because for some reason or other they could not receive all the benefits of the | treatment, being too poor, too far from medical ¢entres, &c. Psychor analysis did not drive that child inte death, She probably felt herself driy to suicide, sought the help of Wopyrism by Balted Feature