The evening world. Newspaper, March 24, 1922, Page 34

lore ee tear eee Seer LPR EATESG EVERETTE prerye: ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pudiished Dally Excopt Sunday by Tho Press Publishing Company. Nos, 52 to 68 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Prealdent, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. SOMEPE PULITIER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBEN OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Prem ix exctisively eptitied to the use fer republication ¢ all news despatches credited to ft or not otherwise credited im this pager 2d iso the local mews published herein. . “FIGHT RIGHT, VOTE RIGHT.” ROM now until election time next fall the “soldier vote” is expected to keep in mind ihat 333 present members of the Lower House of Congress voted yesterday for the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill. Two hundred and forty-two Republican names can be identified on the list. Ninety Democrats are also “in on it.” See the credit marks are duly set down and nobody who needs one forgotten. If anybody asks how many of, these representa- tives of the people who voted for the Bonus Bill believe in a bonus, don’t waste words on him. The question is as much beside the point as is the President's failure to approve the plan the bill pro- poses or the unlikelihood that the Senate will pass it. As to the consequences to the country if the Senate should pass the bill and the President sign it, let the country worry about them. The all important point was that there should be a bonus bill with the votes of Congressmen thereon , recorded for election use. Whether there is ever an actual bonus or not is something on which ex-service men and others must take their chances. The Bonus Bill was provided. The President took a firm stand that he would do or say nothing to prevent Congressmen from getting what they could out of it. The latter did their best yesterday. Whatever happens, if ex-service men forget that 333-70 vote they are ingrates and their patriotism is dead. Those who fight right should know those who vote right. The watchword is now: Remember. “General” Coxey proposes to organize an- other “army” of economic education to march on Washington. Coxey ought to amalgamate his economic programme with Henry Ford’s. Then maybe the army might do its “marching” in flivvers, and enlistments would come easier. FORCED TO IT. UROPEAN ideas of the wildness of life in New York will be re-enforced if European news- papers reprint the interesting information that New York banks are considering the construction of base- ment target ranges where clerks and messengers may learn to shoot accurately and so have an even chance with thugs and payroll bandits. Either because of Enrightism or in spite of En- rightism, it is a fact that more and more citizens are getting into a frame of mind where they are ready to protect themselves if the police fail them. This development will make the business of ban- ditry more hazardous, But it is pretty certain to lave unfortunate sequels. Storekeepers who have decided to defend themselves against thugs will make mistakes. We shall read of the innocent cus- tomer who reached for a handkerchief and was hot dead by an impulsive and fearful shop pro- prictor wao believed him to be reaching for a gun. “New York,” we are told by Commissioner En- right, “is protected by God Almighty and the police.” : Commissioner Enright cannot much fonger blind umself to the growth of a third factor fighting the crime wave. Citizens feel they must protect them- selves. Income tax receipts are $200,000,000 less than estimated. Will a bonus help to balance the budget? IT WOULD MAKE SHORT WORK OF COAL STRIKES. HE impending coal strike should serve to ener- gize the movament for a super-power zone which the late Franklin K. Lane fathered and which the best engineering talent considers to be an essen- tial development of the next decade. The foundation of the super-power zone for the distribution of electrical energy rests on two funda- inental prnciptes : The utilization of all available water power. The generation of electrical energy in great steam plants located near the mines. The desirability of water power in a cual shortage is evident. If it were possible to supply all power, including light and heat requirements, from water power, a coal strike would not inconvenience any ndustry except shipping. az But we must ~xpect to generate most of the power from coal. Under the super-power zone scheme a successful tie-up of the coal mines would paralyze both transportation and industry, for the power houses w« operate from day to day on the output of the mines. An effective coal strike would be a national disaster. For that very reason we should be safer. If a coal strike threatened there could be no back- ing and filling at Washington. Coal would hao e do be mined. Ne ii would be forced t WS Aya SS aitend to its business. What Mr. Daugherty calls “the pinch” would come instantly. The result would put an end to strikes. They would become impossible. Miners would have to bow to arbitration. In return for this the mining industry would be regularized. The power houses of the super-power zone would require a steady daily supply of coal. There would be work the year round for the great body of miners. This regularization of the mining business is by no means the weakest of the arguments for a super- power zone, THE PLAN'S THE THING. HEN Gov. Miller signed the Transit Act amendment blocking fare bodsts, he wrote in an accompanying memorandum: “In the public interest, agitation over fare increases in New York City sould stop. The Transit Commission should have the co-oper- ation of the City Administration and the com- panies in developing its plan. “The plan proposed, with such modifica- tions as further study may suggest, will lay the foundation for improvements and exten- sion of service and for new lines under a unified system which will serve the entire community and mvet the rapidly expanding necessities of the city. No one has proposed any other plan.” There’s the situation to date in a nutshell. Under the amended law the Transit Commission promptly and properly decides it has no power even to consider the application of the Interborough for permission to raise fares. The Governor furthermore sharply reminds the Interborough, in a letter to its counsel, that the rights of the public are involved and are going to be protected. Also “that the courts havo not yet held that a public service corporation can continue to enjoy its franchise and neglect to comply with reasonable orders to render adequate service when such neglect is the result of incapacity produced by its own acts. Nor has it yet been held that a public service corporation may have immunity for a failure to discharge its franchise obligation on the ground of the insufficiency of the fare for which it agreed to discharge such obligations.” And that’s pointedly that—or should be. Next, the companies and the City Administration ought to come to their respective senses and see that the Governor is right. Co-operation is what is expected of them. Co- operation is what the public has a right to demand from them. The more the companies hold back and whine for higher fares the stronger they make the case for a speedy trial of complete transit reorganiza- tion along the lines of the commission plan. As The@vening World has already said: The fate of the plan ought not to hang on the companies. The fate of the companies ought to hang on the plan. The plan's the Get on with it. thing. The New York Stock Exchange has sus- pended ONE firm of brokers because of bucket shop connections. And then the Stock Ex- change assumes an attitude of surprise and indignation over the demand for regulation and inspection! ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. DR “I like to do my bit of public service,” sald the Brooklyn man, “so I sit in the end seat and close the front door for my fellow citizens. They usually shut it on entering but rarely coing out. So I have plenty to do.” . Somehow President Harding's bonus suggests Miss Muffet: Along came MeNider And sat down beside her And frightened the Veto away! * attitude on the Looks as if the U. S. A. would soon be very lone- some again, Where are all the Big Americans? ° The greatest organization in the United States is the What's the Use Club. . How could we pay § cents fare if wished to? Hedley’s turnstiles only accommodate a nickel Mr. MICHAEL MULCAHE VISION, One Bright Moment in the Life of a Trafiie Cop, CHAPTER Y. As his eyes fully embraced this Vision, Michael Mulcahey felt a swelling in that part of his manly bosom where the Civil Service Doctor had located his heart. He saw that when the lghts shifted a tin Lizzie would attempt to cut the beauty Quick to act, he moved forward to stop the intrusion, The Vision parted her lips in an encouraging smile. He stepped before her machine to push away the Lizzie, The lights shifted. The Vision threw in her clutch mug out of the way,” she the pa out. rake your ugly 1 sped on into shouted, a neg show! (The Lud) t = Ak ea ra From Evening World Readers |j THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, MAROH 24, 1922. (New York Dy by Press Pul By John Cassel What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one + that gives the worth of a thousand 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 bo briet. Tell It to the oy ® Editor of The E ing World As the only realty organization that has always been in favor of rent laws that would prevent the eviction of law abiding tenants willing to pay a square deal rent, we take the strong- est possible exception to certain state- ments included in your editorial, To the Good." 1. The Legislatures in 1920, 1921 and 1922 sessions never tried to pro- tect housing pirates. : 2, There never was any landlord lobby in the Legislature except your self-created one. 3. The landlords were not defeated all along the line in the 1922 Legis- lature, as there were only three or- ganizations that very feebly opposed rent law and having tax exemption extensions. STEWART BROWNE, Presidént United Real Estate Owners’ Assoclation. New York, Mareh 21 Normalcy Delayed, To the Editor of The Evening World With house rentals on a war basis, tenants betrayed by their own elected representatives in les lords now afflicted with virulent cupidity and still voraciously clinging to the 800 per cent. above the statu with chronically original problem unsolved; | the life barbers, boot- housing nd mor- ality no longer possibl blacks, bakers ct al., alien emulators of the greedy profiteers, are also reap- ing the rich harvest of our docilit the eventual general wearing of bul- let-proof to guard against the unrelenting epidemic of hold-ups, rob- Deries and murders; plus the y of malefical professional —_ reformers squandering time and money in the stupid attempt to minimize contempt for — the American anti-American hteenth Amendment; the indecent j tra it conditions and outrageously high- public utilities; politicians plunderi public fun amazing incompetent high city officials mis- managing our great mun: rogant terly unab! enme pern pall but helpless police head ut- to cope with the orgy of ently menacing life and property which he is sworn and gen- erously paid to protect, With all this, in the record is it a wonder that we are the laughing stock of the world? Can we feel offended when our so- called Americanism is derided Even Statue of Liberty at Bedloe Island seems to be mocking us and asking un if we are really Americans. or merely the mneekest of Lenin's pros- peetive recruits Are there no in Jeotn, Roosevelt, Wi i Mo patriot 1 s great At the mercy of erss-pool p ue with land- | Will normalcy ever arrive? The com- mon people would like to know if there is a possibility of accelerating said arrival, which 1s already two years late. F. J, ALBERTIS. South Ozone Park, L. I, March 21, 1922, End Enrightism, To The Editor of The Evening World Get busy. Put a stop to the crime now rampant. Go after Enright—hard, The Police Department in spite of the many good men it has, is getting rotten and demoralized. H.R. W New York, March 23, 1922. To the Edlior of The The goal of the Irish of unfluctuat- ing interest is uninfringed freedom for Treland, but the experienced understand they must net Le like the raw veeruits who ave ever inclined to ch what overre cireumstances force to be the immediate objective and so risk not only losing what has been captured, but also a setback, Ireland, im y jous forms, has been inst England since the In- shall continue to be until England ceases to interfere with Ire- land's inalienable rights. The battle of 1916-1921 leaves Ire- land victorious and 1 intrenched | for rest, organization and consolida- tion of her Government, people and forces for the next opportunity to strike, A disastro ul milit attack is invariably followed by m sor suc y or less disorder, which must be met with cool-headedness und s Hngland appreciates the steady sup- | port rendeved by Americans to the} Irish in the Celto-English War ana hence England, with greater caution, is increasing her subtle labors to ex- tend, in verica, her influence, which onee perfected would America, to all intents, to the British mpire and indefinitely deter the re- ablishment of Irish Independence The Irish victory is a respite to England as well as to Ireland. India, Egypt and South Africa are in a menacing state, while ja and Australia are but just awakening and so England is free to give almost undivided attention to Amer England's bol: st diplomatic thrust restore | % t American sovereignty was hex League of Nations st 1 Its de- feat by us entailed putting into power President Harding, who does not comprehend the lesson of his own election, as is evidenced by his co- operation with England in trying to foist upon America the same old re- jected League now painted g perfumed with orange juice fabelled th fou po ’ CLAUDE WAL Broaa, Marvel 28, 1 ~ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 102%. by Joba Blake) WHEN YOU LEAN BACK IN YOUR CHAIR. An important and successful leader of one of the Na- iion’s great industries said to the writer last week: he trouble with business is too much leaning back in the desk chair. “As soon as a man in big business arrives at the grade Epoch-Making BOOKS By Thomae Bragg |Copyright 32 OB Tem erate Word). THE PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN \ KNOWLEDGE. Lord Byron one day, in a facetious mood, penned the famous lines in his Don Juan, “When Bishop Berkeley, sald thete was no matter, and proved it, "twas no matter what he sald.” Of course, Byron intended to be sar~ castic, but the joke of it all was on the poet, rather than on the Bishop. Berkeley DID say “‘there Is no mat- ter:"’ and, full of paradox as statement may seem to be, he ti turned round and proved the state- ment to be true, Berkeley declared that the external world is a myth—save as it exists in the mind of man, or some other intel= ligent order of beings. The material world exists for us only as it is the summing up of certait attributes, which attributes in! not in matter, but in mind. The called “‘attfibutes of matter” are more than the affections (ideas) of the mind which we project into the external world and endow with am imaginary existence. We know nothing about ‘sun, moon and stars, mountain, lake and river,” All that we have any assurance of is the mental conception of such things. ‘Where is.the external world apart from our idea of it?” was asked of Berkeley one day; to which he an- swered, “Where the bundle of fagots is after every single fagot has been removed.” " The solar system is not “up yon- der," but in the brain of man. It im not an “EXTERNAL” fact but an interlor conception, The world is but an {dea. Physical substance is a down- right misnomer. The only real sub- stance is mind. It is the Infinite Mind—God, as men call it for short—that constitutes the cement which holds the of things" together. Apart irom t co-ordinating principle there remains only chaos—that Is to say, nothing. This philosophy Berkeley built up into his work entitled “The Prin- ciples of Human Knowledge;" and it is perfectly safe to say that to this day the book has never been answered. The sharpest intellects of the race have been hammering away at it for more than a hundred years, but the have made no impression upon it. On the other hand, Berkeley's book” has influenced every seminal mind that has existed since {ts publication. Like the light of the sun—or to adopt a happler simile, like the waves of the “wireless'’—that influence has gone out in every direction, making itself felt throughout the mental world, It cast its spell over nearly all of the Continental philosophers of the nineteenth century and the latter half of the eighteenth, and is at the found- ation of about all of the “New Thought” cults of the present day. It is from the masterful influence of the Bishop of Cloyne that the Chris- tian Scientists, consciously or uncon- sciously, get the inspiration of their It is extremely doubtful if the founder of Christian Science ever heard of Bishop Berkeley's book, save in a roundabout sort of way, but it is quite Hkely that but for the infi ence of Berkeley's book, Mrs. Edd} book would never have been written. corresponding to that of Colonel in the army he begins to take things easy. “Other men do his work for him, but he is responsible for it, and he still keeps the position of authority. “Ho likes to say in meetings and conferences: “1 know nothing about the details of this matter. I leave that to Jones or Smith. I only decide the important matters. “But as soon as he stops knowing about the details he ceases to be qualified to sit into the conferences. “If he would only retire and let Smith or Jones, who really are well informed and efficient, sit into the confer- ences they would bring to them the requisite understanding. But he won't do anything of the kind. Long after he has ceased—through too much leaning back in his chair—to be really qualified for power he continues to exercise it, “The result is that he is unable to co-operate intel- ligently with other industries, and there soon is wasteful competition and secret conniving, with the result that the business or a whole set of enterprises goes in the toboggan. “There are enough young and ambitious men in the country to run its affairs well, but their way to the requisite power is blocked by these men who think they ean lean back in their ehe id be just as good as they were in their active days. , can't do it. Nobody ean do it. The only way to conduct a job right is to keep on it and understand it and know its details as well as to understand its larger aspects. ; “Most enterprises are brought to ruin by inefficiency at the top. That inefficieney is due not to incompetencé but to taziness~-to the disposition of the man who has got into a conmanding position to cease doing the work that the posi- tion requires to be done “If the big men of the country would stop leaning back in their chairs it would soon be out of its present commercial and economic difficulties From the Wise. 1 man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman, nor anything that is worse than a bad one,—Simonides. As the Saying Is “GRASS WIDOW.” This term—in England now usually bestowed on an unn a discarded mistress, in America on either a divorec ed from iw her 1 a wife sep some- love the Rum intowicates the toper: sband—is the amorous, and prosperity mes explained as a corruption of Ha oe nee uce widow"?—that is, a widow by or courtesy; not in fact. ‘The If you are acquainted With hape [explanation is plausible but erry pinest introduce him 10 VOUr Ve ros taken trom w horse turned neighbor.—E. Brooks. out to gross, but originally hore no , reproach With it. being applied to Friendship is but a name, 11000 | voran living apart from her hu: no one. Napoleon for ar ason vod or bad who makes uo ef Whately, grave widows, *Jand re XXXIV.—AN EPILEPTIC’S DREAM. The epileptic patient I mentioned in my last article and who had his first fit when playing Wild West with the boys (he being the Indian) and thus escaping capture at their hands, had entirely forgotten that episode of his life. Fortunately, however, a nightmare which recurred frequently and pro- duced “night fits’’ helped us to un- earth that detail of his biography. In that dream he was running away from some danger, some mob which was following him, His Jegs would grow weaker and weaker and he finally would fall in a faint, knowing that his last hour had struck. As a recurring dream, pleasant or otherwise, is invaluable in determining the patient's general attitude to life, we spent much time studying th nightmare. The patient's moth whom I asked for information abot § her son's childhood, revealed to me the story of the fit “thrown playing Wild West. All his life my patient had been running away from life and its prob lems. He had always managed to let his father, and later his mother, sup while port him by pretending that he was too sick to wor A good fit now and in emergencies would corrobor atement to his inability to OT THAT HE WAS FAK- NOUSLY His 0} nism was fuking unconsciously ating a trick whigh had al- ays worked After several months of treatment he began to modify his attitude to life and to himself, He grew more re- liant and more independent rowe ‘And then he once came to me with using dream, Once more he playing Wild West in his he gang was after him and once more he found himself cut off. jut then HE TURNED ON HIS PURSUERS READY TO FIGHT ‘THEM. Instead of a threatening mob there was one small urehin, whom he caught and spanked, Afte ‘hieh, without waking up, without any of the convulsic ch he used to bite his tongue . he just re- sumed his slur He was cured. He was heneeforth to fight his bat. relying on tle 9, longer people sympatlty for the solution of his Hi problems e J Copa rials Wy Lulied Leature Syndicate.) Cre