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She . } { ESTABLIGHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pudiished Datiy cpt Sunday by The Prost Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to 63 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Preaident. 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. agers PULITZER Jr, Secretary, MEMIFER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Tee Associated Pres is exclusively entitled to the use for republication fail news despatches credited to ft or not otherwise credited im thie paper and also the local mews published herein, THE FIRST QUESTION. HE parley between the Transit Commission and the Interborough is getting down to brass tacks—sharp ones. ‘Counsel for the Interborough declares the com- pany cannot obey orders to improve its service with- out risking a receivership. “If it (the Interborough) escapes a receiver- ship, I think it will be due to the indulgence of this commission about as much as anything else. And, of course, any order of the charac- ter that you mention, Judge Shearn, would mean a receivership.” To which counsel for the Transit Commission pointedly replies- “We are dealing not with a matter ofa threat- ened receivership but with the obligations of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company under its contract.” Exactly. The first question is, not the financigl worries of the Interborough, but what the Interborough will do toward providing the service it owes the public at a time when its revenues are admittedly on the increase. To permit the Interborough to treat its obligation to the public as a reserve piece in its financial game would be against reason and justice. How far does the Interborough propose to live up to its contract in the matter of service? There should be no “indulgence” in demanding an answer. \ 63 Park Row. The Mayor talked about more subway service in the rush hours. That's a habit. The Transit Commission orders more service. That's dif- ferent. TO CURB THEATRE TICKET EXTORTION. lL: HE Legislatt:re has made another effort to curb the theatre ticket speculation evil. Licensing ticket brokers seems to offer the best prospect of curbing the worst of the gouging, and at the same time passing the scrutiny of the courts. Successful operation of the law will depend on theatre management and also on the buying public If the theatre managers are in earnest in their pro- claimed oppositicn to speculation evils, they can exert pressure for honest observance of the 50-cent margin for service. li the theatre-goers will co- operate, the path of the gouger can be made more difficult. | So long as the limited number of “spenders” per- ; sist in offering any price for the “third row seats om the aisle” as:late as 8 o’cleck in the evening, 5 New York is likely to witness a “bootleg” traffic in theatre tickets. Nevertheless, the licensing measure is wise. It will make gouging much more hazardous. The new regulation is gett'ng under way at an opportune mo- ment. Hard times have cut into the list of high- rolling spenders, and sane regulation will have a fairer test than for the last few years. , The Legislature seems to be coming to the conclusion that it will be easier to pass the Lockwood legislation now than to wait until the temperatures of the weather and of public opinion are warmer. TIME TO TACKLE IT. INDITIONS in the coal industry warranted the following paragraph in yesterday's news: “The operators say they are inflexibly de- termined that the miners shall accept a wage reduction and the miners’ representatives they are just as strongly resolved that the wages of miners shall be increased 20 per cent.” Apparently this points to an absolute deadlock But ground for hope exists. If industrial states- manship is competent, there is a possibility that both operators and miners may gain at least part of what they ask—and the public may benefit too. This seeming paradox is the result of the chaotic condition of mine labor supply. When employers talk of wage reductions they are interesied primarily in the labor cost of a ton of coal. A lower day wage, greater efficiency at the same wage, or a lower ton rate for piece work- ers, are the real objectives. Any one of the three would meet the demands of the operators, When the miners ask increased wages, the im- portant thing is the annual income received. If regularity of employment could be increased, the miners could afford to accept a lower wage. Regular labor income in coal mining must de pend on regularity in demand and regularity in car supply at the mines, Here, then, is the field for industrial statesman- ship. It presents a complicated problem. It in- volves the owners and operators, the workers and the union leaders, the railroads, the public When Great Britain was faced with a similar condition, Lloyd George showed industrial states- | -y maaship by, instituting aa Commission, which made a monumental report. Less than a month was required for this investigation, which was recognized the world over as a far-reaching and competent survey of conditions as they existed. That report did not settle Great Britain's mining troubles. It did, however, provide the basis for al subsequent settlements. The United States needs something correspond - ing to the Sankey investigation. We need it im- mediately. The Government alone has authority to make the report. The start cannot be made soon enough. The investigation should get under way before any strike is called. AS IT STANDS. HE reservation habit in the Senate is beginning to get lost in its own convolutions, Before we know it we shall have the reservation- ists revolving harmlessly in their own mist, while the Four Power Treaty gets ratified in broad day- light exactly as it stands. Reservation energy is running down. It gets little or no acceleration from the country. Even in the Senate it sounds this time like a worn-out motor. A last whirr or two—nothing more. If the Four Power Treaty is ratified without reser- vation, there will still be urged the question how far other powers with interests in the Pacific can be sure of representation in conferences held under the treaty on matters in which they are specially interested, There is an answer to that question. The treaty provides only for conference. When | a situation develops that calls for conference, when the United States joins the other three parties to the treaty in such conference, the first care of the United States is certain to be to have any other nation or nations concerned invited to the conference. The influence the United States can exert to seoure such invitation need not be underrated. Re- member also that when exigencies arise, the moral Pressure from the right and wrong of the actual facts is often more powerful than a rule laid down in advance. Other nations with interests in the Pacific might well rely upon this attitude of the United States even though no specific declaration of it were made in ratifying the Four Power Treaty. Senator Underwood pointed yesterday to the fact that the Netherlands did not ask to be a party to the treaty and did not request participation until after the treaty was signed. There are more faith and trust to be found in the outlying world than it is the habit—particularly in the United States Senate—to allow for. An appropriate name for the hoine brew cocktail would be “The Mary Ellen.” GLAD NEWS. ENTS are coming down. Condensed into four words, this is the mes- sage of the building situation. ‘ The Phelps-Stokes fund announces the purchase of a model tenement site in 97th Street. The Lockwood bill for life insurance investments in real estate is going through. The biggest apartment house in the world is go- ing up in the Bronx. Millions are being invested in hundreds of large and small housing projects in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, Rents are coming down. The glad news to the tenants is sad news to the rent profiteers Rents are coming down. ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. Careful calculation shows that the amount of human force employed jamming into an I. R. T. train at Flatbush Avenue would move it to 14th Street The rest is easy, and the supply at Grand Central would carry it to the terminus and back. Stop the waste! . The esteemed New York Times avers that column ists are played out. We sometimes feel a little that way ourselves, ° The farmers are busy ploughing over in New Jersey. Wonder what the Erie will plant on its Passaic tracks this year? . Our observing British visitor Herbert B. Mason has discovered that it tak Oo Much time to discuss Prohibition that few of us can get anything done. This makes it all the harder to raise the high price of a drink. IN THE PUSH. A Tale of the Tube and Its Terrors, CHAPTER Ivy, Before be could shake much a pair of heavy bands were placed between his delicate shoulder blades, and he was firmly emplanted upon the bosom of a fat citizen from Brownsville, bound for 14th Street, while the closing door took a slice out of his over- coat, At any rate, he was on board So was the rest of the city, it seemed to Perey. ty the exclusiveness of the bank he did no i close contact with the public. Here } sath ars touch anything else, (To Be Continued, [paaener yenvenre _THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MAROR Tag—Youre It! From Evening World Readers What kind of letter doyou find most readable? Isn't it the ene that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mentai exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te ay much in few words. Take time to be briof. Voices in the Air, To the Editor of The Kvening World In reading Rabelais | came across the following lines in the Fourth Book, chapter 65, page 343, which wel written in the year 1653: “When we were at sea, junketing, tippling. discoursing and telling stories, Pantagruel rose and stood up to look out; hear nothing, then asked us, ‘Do you gentlemen? Methinks that with full ears I sucked in the air, yet I can see nobody, Hark!’ Ac- cording to his command we listenod and with full ears sucked in the air as some of you suck oysters, to find if we could hear some sound scat tered through the sky; und to lose none of it, like the Emperor An- toninus, some of us laid their hands hollow next to their ears; but all this would not do, nor could we hear anv voice. Yet Pantagruel continued to assure us he heard various voices in the air, some of men and some of women. YAt last we began to fancy that we also heard something, or at ‘east that our ears tingled; and the more we listened the plainer we discerne the volees, so as to distinguish ar- ticulate sounds. This mightily tright- Jus, and not without cause: since we could see nothing various sounds and wome dren, hor Further n it sa “f can di Ll can see a hundred m According to this is a pretty old Id electrical wi thing that is new J. EDWARD G York, Mare! over nol radiophone ne now, you and give us some- New Dow't Grind the Dogs ‘To the Liltor of The Evening World I have eiways wondered why «nd huve ulways fa‘led to see the humor in supposedly comic pictures showing the grinding of dogs into I truly believe that su fabrication Is edly sausages. ha ridiculous harmful to children, even tending to arouse a feeling of cruelty toward dogs, and very often incites in the sensitive child's mind a morbid and unhealthy repugnance for that particular article of food, the sau The old-time man’ threat to seare a child into obedience is now known to be quite harmful, and moth- ers are being taucht not to use such threats in attempting discipline a child. Why not request thy kindly refrain from \ into sausages” for some con omic artist 10 4, “to kili’* je wood om tbe average ef every fourth now six aad # hall yea line in telling a story about animal life. Probably to a very large percentage of children this would mean abso- lutely nothing, but there are children, as we all know, whose minds are not normally healthy, although no evi- dence of such a condition of mind is observed by the casual teacher. I feel sure that all stories telling of the killing of one animal by an- other, whether it be in self-defense or as a result of revenge, or even in search of his food, give a child uo very low value of life in the animal kingdom and tend to develop and in- crease whatever strain of cruelty to animals there may be lurking in the child's character. A child's imagination is a very wonderful and amazingly boundless thing. Why shouldn't it be given the more wholesome lines to feed upon? MARGARET DARA. First Preference for Natives, Yo the Editor of The Evening World: As a constant reader of the Evening World 1 noticed an article in regard to the appeal made by the Board of Estimate to the New York City con- tractors asking them to give first preference to w York City citizens on ull jobs to be done by them for the , let's hope that the contractors Who get the jobs, which entail an es- penditure of $50,000,000 cr more of the taxpayers’ money, will do the right thing by those residents of New York City who are out of employment, and sive them first preference I sincerely hope that all those in a position to assist our Mayor in doing Justice to the citizens of the com- munity first will be highly rewarded in gratitude from the unemployed citi- zens of New York City. NATIVE-BORN NEW YORKER New York, March 12, 1922, A Honus Plan Vartation. Tu the Editor of The Evening World The following is a suggestion on the bonus issue: Let the Government issue a non- interest-bearing bond. Let the soldier that feels he should be paid for services rendered sell the bond. Let the fellow that thinks the soldier should be paid for his services buy this bond, In this way the soldier that does not place a price on glory will have a clean slate. If a man is paid for defending his home and honor during the how about the poor simp that is forced out of bed at night by a burglar? Is entitled to a police offic nights work? Does of glory Ngw Xork, Maxch 14, 43a, HLA ie [years _i¢ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) ABILITY IS NOT ENOUGH. Among the people you find reposing on the park benches there will be a sprinkling of men of ability. You will find still more men of ability in the small paid positions in offices and factories and other institutions. Ability is commoner than is generally supposed. It does not always bring success. It often is followed through life by failure. For ability alone is not enough. It is the advertisement which gets a chance at a market. But unless the goods ad- vertised are reliable, and unless they are steadily produced, she thought and money spent on the advertisement are wasted. If you have ability don't depend upon it to secure pro- motion or even to hold your job. You may fancy that, because you can do more work with less effort than the man next to you, you are certain to get along more rapidly than he can. Perhaps you are. But unless there is character behind your ability you may not go nearly as well. Ability, as we said in another article, is useless unless accompanied by dependability. The brilliant man, whose mind operates easily, who can do good work with little effort, is too likely to presume upon his extra intelligence. He is the chap who gets down late and quits early, He is inclined to slide work he ought to do off his own shoulders, and let it fall on the shoulders of other men. He devotes a part of his ability to the devising of schemes to get out of work He thinks, because people admire his quickness, that he was born to succeed. That idea has wrecked thousands of careers which might otherwise have been valuable and pro- ductive. Application and effort is as necessary to the man of ability as it is to the man of ordinary mind. More mediocre people than brilliant people get the prizes in life because there is nothing for them to do but work. They have no bril- liance to attract attention to themselves. It is the dependable man who holds his ability also he will go far. But if he has ability alone he is very likely to spend job. If he has his old age conversing with the other inmates of the poor- house. MONEY TALKS ————_ By HERBERT BENINGTON. Copyright, 1922, (The New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Company also. WEALTH. come rere Wealth is neither accumulated over i i night nor by work alone. F ght nor by mime $1,000 a month at| © FOM the Wise is doing exceptionally well. 1 He is happiest. be he King or ‘same person atarted worl peasant, who finds peace in his veurs of age and earned $1,000 home.— Goethe ; only, $400,010 4 beautiful wonun iw the helt of 4 the paradise of the eyce. Metther work aiene mer working . —Fontenolis, @ | not strong enough to repress his fear and hoarding can accumulate wealth. | 43 1 said in the preceding article, te It is necessary to make money work | Natural animal and human feeling, @ By saving $300 a month and in- vesting it at 544 per cent. compounded interest he would have more at sixty] be slim. than if he had hoarded his entire in- ‘Age-BoundIndiz | Old Habits | Underlying New Problems | By Maubert St. Georges. Copyright, ow York Evening World Publishing Co, “WOMAN.” Probably nothing has much tributed s0 toward retarding progress fm * the attitude of the Hindus women, hus ever been tempter and seducer, ‘Woman leads mam © of hell” is typleat rihe attitude toward womanhood. Similarly the uneducated state of women in India is not the result of neglect, but of a definite de- sign to keep them from obtaining any- thing that might change their abject condition, To educate a woman ts compared to giving a knife to a mom ke She the and the proverty to the chief of the un ey. The belief is firmly established that ha women were created solely in order that they might become mothers. Marriage, therefore, is the sole pur- pose of their life, and preparation for it makes up the total training they receive. A woman has generally nothing to do with the question of de- ciding whom she shall marry. For that matter, the man rarely decides anything either. It is altogether @ matter of business, and it is settled by the parents, As millions of girls are married between the ages of five and ten they really have no interest in the whole proceeding. . At no tume in her life can a woman be regarded as independent. As @ child she obeys her parents, as a wife she is a slave as long as she lives, as a widow She is a burden and the eub- ject of the son. Especially as @ daughter-in-law her lot is an excep- tionally hard one. The husband's mother finds for the first time some one who is not her superior and abuses ber powers with cruel delight. When husband and wife go out to~ gether the fact that she must wali at a respectful distance of about three yards behind him clearly shows the standard of their relationship. Even harder than the lot of a wife is that of a widow. From the death + of her husband until her own death she remains an object of scorn, The very meeting of a widow in the street has come to be regarded as unlucky. # Not only must a widow (she may be % barely ten years old) remain unmar- ried for the rest of her life, but she is forced to wear mourning till her death. She must have her head shaved at least once a month, she must no longer wear ornaments, she must always dress in pure white, and since her very presence is considered unlucky, she may never again par- ticipate in any amusements or festivi- ties whether in the family or outside at tribal fairs. ' For this deplorable state of affairs the laws of Manu are to blame. These laws, which guide the Hindu in his smallest unimportant action, have shaped his attitude toward woman. Yet these laws form the re- ligion of over 200,000,000 of people, and changing a religion is no easy 6 XXXI.—SHELL SHOCK. Shell shock has nothing to do witht shells or shock i Thousands of men were shell shocked a thousand miles behind the lines at times and in places where danger was extremely remote. At the beginning of the war hasty reports described the victims of that war horror as mere cowards worthy of no sympathy whatsoever. Later we learned that many of the shellshocked soldiers had shown wonderful courage, volunteered for dangerous misstons, cutting the enemy's wire, dragging wounded comrades to safety under heavy fire, &c. And then some day the man who had proved his manhood a hundred times, broke down, some- times wept like a child, crying, “Mamma,"’ or shaking, his teeth chaty tering with fear; some became blind, some paralyzed in some part of the body, some just acting strangely. And then the physicians In charge decided that those men must be malin- gering, shamming, faking sickness, and submitted them to an inhuman form of a powerful electric current until they writhed in an agony of pain. And this seemed to cure some of them, But they never remained cured, Some other ailment, often much more serious than the one they had been cured of, made its appearance. And this cruel torpedoing system was abandoned The physicians realized that it was not the man himself who was faking, ~ but his unconscious. The man should have been tested before the war ée ascertain his nervous resistance. Splendid as lie may have been, ange, lous as he may have been to do hig) duty, willing as he may have bees to die in the performance of it, he was very long and remain healthy. Fear, safety appliance of the body without which our chances of survival would In some of us, however, the foar appliances work overtime, trying to save us from perils which do nos exist, Some of us affected with over- sensitive fear nerves may still manage to check their exaggerated impulses, Not very long, however. The fear we refuse to express normally, on the in+ stalment plan, accumulates and ex plodes like steam in a boller, After whieh we out for weeks or months figures of herote bo