The evening world. Newspaper, March 7, 1922, Page 22

eh ig ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pudiished Datiy Excep: Sunday br The Prom Pupilshing Company. Nos. $3 to 63 Park Raw. New York RALPH PULITZER, Proaident, 62 Park Row, J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Pack Row JOSEPH PULITIER Secreta Park Row — MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATrD PRESS The Associated Pres le exctusively entit (Of Al! news despatches etedited to tt or not and the local mews published STILL MARCELINING. UR Marceline Mayor, marcelining against the “traction-controlled press’ and the Transit Commission bus programme, is as helpful as usual. The Mayor professes to believe that the Transit Commission is trying-to “get on the band-wagon” that looks like a Hylan bus. The Mayor assails those who, he says, “ignore the vital difference between my plan of ‘bus oper- ation, which conserves the financial interest of the public, and the proposal of the State Commission, which serves the financial interest of the companies that exploit the public.” What the Mayor really wants is to have the pub- lic overlook the differences in the two plans. The proposals are fundamentally different as regards the “financial interest of the public.” The Hylan plan is good where a bus line alone may happen fully to meet the need for transpor- tation. The Transit Commission is interested in promot- ing bus lines as a part of a larger transportation service. The “financial interest of the public” is this: ‘A Hylan bus will take you from one point on the bus line to another for a 5-cent fare. The Transit Commission plan is to use buses to carry passengers to subway, elevated and surface car lines. For most bus patrons the financial interest would amount to a nickel a ride. Under the Transit Commission plan the bus patron would pay a nickel and get a transfer—to the subway, for example. Total cost 5 cents. Under the Hylan plan the bus patron would pay 5 cents for the bus ride and another 5 cents to the “companies that exploit the public.” Total cost, _ 10 cents. * That’s the way Marceline used to “help” the stage-hands roll up the carpet. Shduldn’t we expect more from a Mayor? Secretary Mellon is quoted as calling the latest bonus plan “the worst yet.” The “yet” is a delicate tribute to the Repub- Neans of the Ways and Means’ Committee. It implies that their capacity for putting forth crazy bonns schemes is not exhausted. REGRETTABLY LATE. I€ almost incomprehensible that the ordinarily efficient and business-like Lockwood committee sisould have been so late with its report. The delay certainly gives the lobby of rent profiteers an excellent opportunity to work in the @ark and defeat a housing programme which can only hope to win its way when backed by the full power of public opinion. With only about thirty-six hours 10 consider th: Lockwood bills in the light of the report, it will not be surprising if many valuable measures are lost in the shuffle. Many of the measures have already had full public discussion and approval. The committees of the Legislature will have no valid excuse for failure to report these bills to-morrow. But) where there is doubt it will prove easy for the lobbyists to sow seeds of doubt. Public opinion cannot be roused to overcome specious objections. If the Lockwood committee fails to get iis full programme, the public will suffer by the loss, and the committee itself will have to bear most of the blame. The Secretary of the Treasury also balks at the plan to use the United States Navy to en- force Prohibition. That ought to turn the Anti- Saloon League guns on him, and if the Anti- Saloon League and the American Legion are both down on a man, what chance has he? GATTI-CASAZZA'S TERM EXTENDED. EW YORK'’S opera-going public will cordially approve the action of the Metropolitan Opera Company in extending for another three years af- ter next season its contract with General Manager Gatti-Casazza. For fourteen years Mr. Gatti-Casazza has man- aged the Metropolitan Opera. In those fourteen years there has developed between Mr. Gatti- Casa and music-lovers of this ciiy an esteem that is strong and mutual. On the manager's side thai esteem has shown itself in sound judgment as to the capacity and progress of New York's taste in opera. It used to be said that only great “stars” could fill an opera house in New York, and that, if the “stars” were there, the surrounding performance scarcely mattered. Mr. Gatti-Casazza has rated New York opera: goers differently. He has given them “stars.” But fe has at the same time built up surrounding stand- ards of orchestra, chorus and production in the be- lief that New York would learn to know and like good, all-round opera well enough to go to it even when “stars” ran short. Natural enthusiasm for great alities he has taken for granted. singers and person- Growing faithful- 0 the WN fer republication yewise credited im this paper | on as something to be contiden ly expected from New York. In this Mr, Gaiti-Casaze The present prosperity of the Metropolitan Oper: is the best testimony to his wisiom and to the pub- lic's side of that esteem which, we have already said, is mutual. | The war spread a heavy cloud over opera, Mr. Galti-Gasazza took the Metropolitan through the dim times. He deserves the chance and the credit of carrying what is now the greatest institution of opera in the world through big years ahead T 1S unfortunate the Supreme Court decision in ] the 80-cent gas case has been so long delayed. The decision was expected. It reaffirms a well- established legal principle that public service cor- porations may not be compelled to do business at a confiscatory rate. Nevertheless, it is true thal 1918 and 1919 fig- ures do not indicate anything in regard to what is or is not confiscatory in 1922. The loss of the case should not discourage the Public Service Commission from making any rate cut warranted by present costs of operation. Public utility costs were at the peak when the 80-cent gas case was instituted. Public utility charges in general increased materially. If the Pub- lic Service Commission lives up to its name, it will be vigilant in forcing charges down as rapidly as is possible without making them confiscatory. The telephone reduction was a step in the right direction, even if it is not as large as was to be hoped. Gas and electric cuts should follow. $500 HOME RUNS. NOVEL feature of Babe Ruth’s contract pro- vides a $500 bonus for each home run. This undoubtedly is a good business proposition for the Yankee Colonels and also for their hard-slugging star. Is it, however, a desirable development of the game of baseball? Suppose an opposing pitcher has lost his game and knows it is lost. Babe Ruth comes to bat. The pitcher knows that a home run means $500 to the batter. The pitcher has no personal animus. The “Babe” is a “good scout.” “Why deprive him of $500?” the pitcher is likely to think. Even the mere thought is likely to make it easier for Ruth to find the ball. Who wouldn't make a present when it costs nothing? Babe Ruth is spectacular, but $500 home runs have a questionable place in baseball. They tend to subordinate the game to the star. has banked wise 1922 IS NOT 1918. In Europe it’s just one tiresome question after another. The latest is: Who'll pay the rent and grocer's bills for the exiled Hapsburgs in Madeira? AGAINST IRELAND. IVIL war in Ireland now would be the supreme tragedy in Erin’s history. Civil war would be a flat denial of every claim to home rule the Irish have made for more than a century.” i Home tule is self rule. It is self control. This is as true of nations as of individuals. The Irish will soon have the opportunity of voting on differ- ences of opinion. A free poll is the twentieth cen- tury method for settling such differences, In Limerick tle Republican forces seem to have taken the initiative against the Free State forces. Civil war is imminent. This is neither a blow against Collins and Griffith nor against De Valera, It is aimed at Ireland. ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. The logic of laziness is hard to develop. Darwin once found a little of it in Uruguay. two men,” he wrote, “why they did not w gravely said the days were too long; was too poor' Charles “T asked One the other that he . Sneeze, cough or spit, if you must But don’t mix microbes with the dust When you feel the warning sniff, Choke it in your handkerchief! . Evolutionists had better not laugh at Mr, Bryan. See what he did to the once invincible Demon Rum and the Democratic Party! . The Kilkenny cals seem to be starred again for {- starred Ireland, . Why can't the cops shoot as straigh' when they try as they do accidentally? SWEET LILLIAN. A Bobbed Hair Ro nee of the Present Duy, CHAPTER U. (Continued.) Nothing came of the venture. The heartless gum machine had stolen the coin and only mocked her vex- ation in its mirror. She gave the lever a vicious little yank. Atl in vain, | How she would Iike to have torn out the yitaly! (Bess to all gpod-operg well given he has banked jeaateninggg f° Be Continued.) It had taken her money and given nothing jn ye turn. | That often happened in the Wal) where Lillian ticked a typewriter But this was a personal matter Street office near the tieke ! Dr. THE EVENING WORLD, TURSDAY, MAROH 7, 1922,' Trying to Get Rid of It! Copyright, 1922, (New York Lveuing Wor’ 4) by Press Pub. Co. By John Cassel pi From Evening Ther Slow Sales of Pinm To the Editor of ‘The Evening World: That piano manufacturers report a loss of business is simply due to the housing shortage and to the tre- mendously high rent exacted by profit- eering landlords from the long-suffer- ing tenants, who are compelled to move with costly frequency in order to evade the very unreasonable exi- gencies of grasping anti-American pirates who are demanding and ob- taining for pre-war $12 per month tenements of four rooms $75 or more. The New Yorker in modest circum- stances in general, and the small wage-earner in particular, constitute the music-loving public which is not spending less for musical instruments, as you state in one of your recent editorials, nor prefers a phonograph to a piano; the difficulty in affording possession of the latter is, in my humble opinion, entirely dependent on the housing facilities. If people are compelled to place their household furniture in storage or sell it outright in order to facilitate the prospective occupancy of a very much smaller apartment In keeping with their in- come, how can any one except boot- leggers and conscienceless landlords afford to keep a piano or purchase one? Auction places, warehou: furniture stores throughout New York are simply nd used ireater clogged with pianos. What is the answer? In normal times the phonograph plays second fiddle—so to speak—to a piano, and just as soon stop playing politic as the politicians enough to adjust this intol dition and ive the people a chance to have a real home you will reap the harvest of the greatest plano advertising on record WALTE New York, March 5 2: Favors Tolerance, ‘To the Edi‘or of The Evening Worid It is exasperating to think that in this free and democratic country of | advanced civilization there should still linger the intolerable blue law perse- cutions of the seventeenth century. E. 8. St. Amant truly quoted an | encyclopaedia full in sa “when |man undertakes to execute the laws jof God he invariably becomes a de- mon" (or words to that effect), In a recent article he winds up in the following manner: “Any one who | questions this right (the right of a \ free people worshipping God as they, | see fit, whether it is the upholding of or Saturday) Sunday as the Sabbat} should read the decision of the Su- preme Court of Oklahoma." Why £0 to the trouble of looking up this de- cision when ail one has to do is to Jant ass who clut World Readers | What kind of letter doyou find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. within God's law (man’s law notwith- standing). Of course others’ views should be respected, but this does not mean fore. ing those views onto others, even us they would not stand for different views being jammed down <heir throats. “Do unto others as you would have! others do unto you" is a sentence! quoted in the Bible, but, sad to suy,| rarely lived up to. | SAMUEL ROBIN. | Utica, March 1, 1 Because It Is Law. To the Editor of The Evening World Keep up your sensible gallantry of publishing the Jesters from those who | favor Prohibition. They easily trap themselves. ‘The worst kind are the | easy going non-Prohibitionists who bow to the Eighteenth Amendment just because it is the law. With such people this country would certainly go to the dogs, for nothing is worse in any individual than lack of political independence and self consciousness. To, be and not to be, how ean that te? The non-Prohibitionists who stand by Prohibition ure traitors to their eccuntry. Any one who claims to be 4 non-Prohibitionist and does not work for the repeal of the “impos- sible’ Volstead uct is a fraud and a serf of the vilest species. JLV.P. For Light Wines and Beers, | To the Editor of The Evening World It is with a great amount of sorrow that I read this final communication of e. Jj, a (he doesn't belong in “caps''). He has an idea he is to have the lost word when he cries “unfair in your attitude toward prohibition.” He don't know you receive more than 100 to 1 in fayor of light wines and beer American citizens, others than Pro hibitionists, object to having laws| made in which they have absoluately no say and contrary to the wishes of the majority, demoralizing in its effect on labor, health and prosperiy He prattles like a Prohibitionist on the quarter page spread for Prof Terry and asks ‘“‘who is he?" and wants to know why Thomas A, Edison submerged, Why was Prof. Terry ubmerged when Thomas A, Edison's “foolish questions” received as much space, not only in The Evening World but in the world at large. Edison is working for Edison and he keeps what he makes. ‘This e. j. a. does not believe gj legislators are venal, bigots, &c., be cause perchance they disagree with him, But he does believe everybody who writes a letter indorsing jig); wines and beer legislation is an ignor ers Up Your column ments with childis! t think so tam read his family Bible? God's om | mands were to work six days a week and rest on the seventh, oven us He had don creating this univers Ihe seventl ne to tl Gregorian calor sturday, and __ | eherefors any ang kovphye this days 4s PRED WH. NYHOLM, Sauwuica, die de March 3, 1922, |petting nowhere. Naturally, are travelling. In establishments headed by energetic and systematic managers energy and system are general. In establishments headed by lazy men all the employees fail into habits of slackness. Robert G. health was not catching. Good health is ca wait for others. Very soon you will be keeping the office pace slow pace you will slow down. you will find it very hard to speed up—without overdeing it and making mistakes. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) ENERGY IS CONTAGIOUS— YOURSELF TO IT. You can catch energy us you catch a disease. you fall into the pace that your associates Ingersoll once said, hing to a certain extent, for it radi- ates cheerfulness, and clieerfulness is a help to healih, But energy is certumly catching, and the oftencr you expose yourself to it the better you will be. If you find that you have got into business company which is slow and shiftless, get out of it. You cannot possibly do your work rapidly if you have to EXPOSE mistakenly, that good If itis a Once you begin to slow down Get into an organizetion whose members worl: quickly and accurately and you will asset. Out of business hours cultivate people who ar soon acquire that invaluable brisk about their recreations and whose minds are alert and active. You will soon find that you are unconsciously thinking and acting as they think and act. You will get in step with them and you would have to gel in step if you joined a marching column of soldie Presently it will be easy to keep in step—di fficult to lag. + Every man is profoundly influenced by the company he is in, Most bad habits are formed by a a es fact which preachers and educators have dwelt upon years. or hundreds of Good habits can be formed in the same way. We are no worse nor no better than our habits, which in the main are what carry us along. If you are going to form them form good ones while you are about it. Which can be best done by exposing yourself to the right kind of contagion, Get into an energetic crowd and your own energy will grow before you are aware of it, If you must “catch” something, catch something thal will be helpful. MONEY TALKS. By HERBERT BENINGTON. 9) i 100s (lem, Fore Evening World) Copyrights press Publishing Co, S8(L)AVING. An awful bunch of us are on the treadmill, working and spending and No matter what we carn there is always something to eRulur slave's only one way We p that oe un pun ae and that with it is a decrease in earn- ing power. When we meet it we must have something put by so that our old age will hold some comforts If we work with this in view we will put aside something each month. A man earning $300 a month can| save $60 of it and with this purchase a month's security twice a year, In twenty-five years if he has invested these savings at 5 ‘per cent his present income. Dake the ‘'t” oub of slaving. they will amount to $29.2 » which will yield a third of '|Age-Bound Indi | Old Habits Underlying New Problems By Maubert St. Georges. | compete ht, 1902, (New! York Rventag Press Publishing Co. NO. Il.+EDUCATION. Education in India has been one of the greatest problems for the English. ‘Things that they have boasted of as achievements have been turned against them by their opponents in the form of accusations, Even the statistics published by them have beem avoted against them. ‘The total school enrolment in India is approximately 7,000,000. A very creditable number, say some. An en- rolment of 7,000,000 out of @ popula- tion of $00,000,000 is a disgrace, say others, ‘There are 179 colleres of which 123 give general arts courses. There are twenty-five law colleges, five medical colleges, seven engineering colleges, seven agricultural colleges, three technical and Industrial schools, twen: ty-six commercial schools, four arts schools. Very good, claim some. Others say that the attendance is very small, as for instance the total of 2.000 students in the twenty-six com- mercial schools, and that seven agri- cultural colleges to educate a nation of which over 200,000,000 people are employed in agriculture is a very small total indeed, Many people, however, forget the difficulties that have had to be over- come, These same agriculturists—for that matter, cultivators the whole world over—are against all attempts tu educate their children. They be- lieve that education will turn boys away from labor toward town life. Women in India are only wives and keepers of households and for these duties education might spoil them. Then the Indian peasant, though illit« erate, is by no means without knowl- edge. He is carefully trained from boyhood in the religion of his fathers. He leafns the ancient epics of his land by hearing them constantly re- peated. He has an incredible lore about natur His knowledge of crops and soils him an excellent farmer. In short his education, though purely traditional and very defective, is not without its good points. This, of course, is not an excuse for withholding elementary education from him, but may serve to show 0: what grounds he bases hi. fixed preju- dices against reading and writing. Es- pecially strong is his entrenchment of the idea that since so many of them never leave the village they are born in they do not need that knowledge which we have come to believe to be indispensable, Speaking of education generally, however, it must be admitted that the Indian people are undoubtedly the most illiterate in the world. Only 10 per cent. of the male population and | 1 per cent. of the female population can read and write, Only one boy in four and ong girl in twenty attend |school. The greatest advance, per- haps, is in the spread of English, which is spoken by about 2,000,000 people. Many reforms, however, are under |way. The constitutions of the uni- versities have been remodelled. Teaching is gradually To carry these improving. reforms through to the end will be an arduous task. |Caste, tradition, religious life place lin the way obstacles that only co-op- jeration between the Government and \the communities ean overcome, | Psychoanalysis You and Your Mind | DRE TRIDON XXVIL—WHY DO WE LAUGH. Laughter, at least in normal per- sons, who do not repress thelr mirth, is the sudden and loud emptying oft our lungs, accompanied by a relax ation of our features and at times tumultuous’ shaking of the entire body. ‘We burst out laughing,” ‘we almost split our sides,"’ ‘an explosion of mirth,’ are expressions which all imply the same thing. Laughter re- lieves us, it breaks a tension, it gives us freedom, Life in cfvilized communities 1s made up of many repressions, and re- pressions are due to fear. We repress our desire to speak or to act in certain ways because we fear public opinion, the punishment whic! would be visited on us by the law, th authorities, the police, the deity, Hence, it is ridicule and wit, the shgrpest’ weapons ever wielded by mankind, which split our sides most readily. Whenever they or disparage tl are afraid, we laugh. falls, we do not policeman or a attempt to destroy things of which we! When a child laugh. But if a dignified clergyman should take a tumble, our mirt would have no end. The child small and harmless, the policeman or the clergyman holds us in a certain awe by virtue of the things they sym- bolize. Cartoonists would not amuse us by casting ridicule on unimportant people, but when they throw into re- lief some ridiculous trait of the mighty, our egotism is infinitely gratified ‘The mighty have come down to our level Wit accomplishes the same thing, It diminishes the importance of peo- ple and things whom we are com- pelled to respect and in many cases it expresses our feelings in such a way that we can tell the truth with- out being suspected of really “mean- ing’? what we say. A steady, respectable husband could not cast aspersions on the institution of marriage without losing caste in |his set, He can very well, however, at an Imaginary answer offered a stupid schoolboy to his teacher: What ts life with several wive: “I lygamy “With twa wives? my," "With one wife?’ “Mow —_ | mtoay ACopyieht by United HeslareGratiosion, el nieve we