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perms sate Esxcopt Sunda he Publishing to 63 Park Ray, New York Preaident, 63 Park Row, Treasurer, @& Park Row, @1 Park 2 Pudliaied Datly Company, Nos, RALPH PULITZ: J. ANGUS SHAW, VOREPH PULATARK Jr, Avoretary, MEMPER OF THR AssOCIATED PRE The Associated Drees ls racturteriy entitied to the ure fer republication ef i ews deepatchee cendited to I or not otherwlke credited in this pager and also the local news published heretm MORE TREATIES RATIFIED- ITH the wrangle over the Four-Power Pa- cific pact Senate opposition to the Arms Conference treaties seems to have shot its bolt. Only the solitary vote of Senator France of Maryland was cast yesterday against the naval limitation treaty, Ratification of the treaty regu- lating the use of submarines and noxious gases was unanimous. It was fitting that Senator Borah, author of the original disarmament resolution, should be the chief speaker for the treaty limiting naval armaments. Yet, as Senator Borah was himself the first to recognize and declare in yesterday's debate: “Public opinion is the real author of dis- armament.” It is likewise public opinion that has slowly but surely dulled the edge of bitter-end-ism, subdued partisan passion and reconciled irreconcilables until even Senator Borah can express a generous hope for the success of the League of Nations. “It is perfectly proper,” said the Senator from Idaho to the Senate, “that we congratulate our- selves and also the country on what has been ac- complished, but we should not lose sight of the all important fact that this is only a beginning.” The Senator was speaking of disarmament. What he said applies also—though he might not so apply it—to present tendencies toward a miore enlightened American foreign policy in which politics and prejudice yield everywhere to national interest and honor. Gunmen in Auto Ambush Victim—Wounded Man Dying in Hospital.—Headline to-day. Rescinding the anti-smoke rule ddesn't seem | to have had any effect on the murder-a- schedule. TAXICABS AND THE POLICE. EFORE Mayor Hylan carries out his threat to veto the Steinberg bill which transfers the licensing of taxicabs to the Police Department, he should carefully sift the reasons for and against the bill. The Mayor seems to fear that some one is trying to “put something over” in the bill. It would be worse if the Mayor were to veto the measure and then discover the “putting over” had been in the other direction, that he had been imposed on by those against the bill. If, as the Mayor asserts, the bill confers the powers of a “Czar” on John Drennen, there are hundreds of other Czars in the Municipal Service, for the Chief of the Bureau in question is “remov- able by the Police Commissioner for cause, after a hearing upon charges.” Certainly the bill cannot reasonably be con- strued as depriving Commissioner Enright of any power, for until this bill becomes law he has no Power over the Licensing Bureau. Moreover, the bill expressly provides that the bureau chief shall do his work “under the general direction of the Police Commissioner.” Mr. Drennen was transferred to the office under the terms of the bill because it seemed fair and equitable not to deprive an experienced man of his job because of a simple administrative change in the supervision of his work. The sole object of the bill, as The Evening World understands it, is to secure’ more effective control over the taxi drivers, with a view to elim- inating the criminals and irresponsibles who have been driving taxi-cabs. It is a measure to help the Police Department control crime. Commissioner Enright should wel- come this new power. Spring poetry is frequently spoiled by de- fective meter. Perhaps the changeable weather is to blame. Chilblains? SELECT THEM ABROAD, RS. ALEXANDER P. MOORE, better known to the public as Lillian Russell, has been investigating the immigration prospect as a special representative of the Department of Labor Some of the conclusions in her report will be ‘challenged vigorously, particularly the recommen- dation of twenty-one years of residence as a requi- site to naturalization, Other recommendations are indisputably wise and just. If Congress continues the Three Per Cent, Quota lan for limitation of immigration, Mrs. Moore's suggestions for administration of the law are ex- fellent. { She would require mental and physical exam- ination of all prospective immigrants by American physicians stationed in Europe. She would regulate admission by control of the number of vises of passports issued each quarter in the districts where immigration originates. Once this vise had been secured the immigrant would be free to land here irrespective of whether he hap- ©. pened to arrive on the first day of the month or A THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MARCH 380, 1929," after the theoretical quota for the month had been exhausted. This would put an end to disgraceful racing Not to Be “Embarrassed” Copyright, 1922, GNew York Lvening World) by Press Pub. Co, for port, with disappointment and financial ruin for those who arrive after the monthly quota is filled A STIFF JOB. A DEAL of water has gone over the dam since the autumn days of 1920, when, in the bright hopefulness of candidacy, Warren G. Har- ding said to his fellow-Americans: “I would not want to be your President un- less you are going to give us a Republican Congress.” No premonitions of bloc or bonus darkened the fair vision. The candidate’s wish was crossed by no thought that a Republican Congress might turn its back on him, spoil his pet projects and go di- rectly against his most earnest recommendations. Yet that is what Mr. Harding's longed-for Re- publican Congress has done to him—not once, but often. And soon, by precedent and tradition, he is ex- pected to let it be understood that the fondest de- sire of his heart is to have the country elect only Republican candidates for Congress next fall. Can any one blame him if he chooses to say it -—if say it he must—softly and by letter only? “If 1 am going to serve you,” declared Candidate Harding, “I want the Government to have the ma- chinery with which to serve, and | promise you that under Republican administration the Con- gress is going to resume its constitutional func- tions.” The Congress that has been functioning since Mr, Harding entered the White House is the worst in the memory of this generation. Even loyal Re- publicans gag when they try to speak a good word for it. When it comes to record, the only way this Re- publican Congress can get by at all is to hide its face and lean hard on the President and the Cab- inet. That's what President Harding would be up against when he tried to make it appear that the country and he couldn’t go on if the supply of Re- publican members of Congress were allowed to slack off next fall. We wouldn't envy him the job. TWO ESTATES. PPRAISAL of the estate of the late William L. Harkness reveals that about 80 per cent. of his fortune of more than $50,000;000 was in- vested in oil securities. His real estate holdings were comparatively small and his investment in tax exempt securities amounted to less than 8 per cent. of his wealth. This is in striking contrast with other large estates recently appraised. For example, as the current issue of Collier's notes, Jacob H. Schiff left an estate valued at nearly $35,000,000. The Proportion of tax exempt securities was so large that the net taxable income amounted to about 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 aay much in few words. Take time to be briet. ey “A Moral for a Dollar,” those who had become accustomed to 1) per cent. per year. To the Waitor of The Evening World: A moderate amount of harmless alco- Mr. Schiff as a banker and business man discov- One hesitates to pass by with it |holic beverages to ask them to give it Fi some answer the condemning arti-]UP. but these are the very people who ered that a low rate without taxes was more prof- mee comsemning ort [have made the sacrifice for the greater cle of "E, J. A.," which I have before me. His conception of Americanism 1s possibly throttling the tree speech of the press, that great institution and the only real medium th» +-h which the masses, the people depr'ved of a direct vote, can express them selves, Because the ideals and poli- good of the greater number. It is the itable than a higher rate in productive enterprise Aheipeoiie, theses oelin walk OOnteel but subject to surtaxes. Congressrfen may well study and compare the investment of these two fortunes and reflect on the drift of large fortunes from productive business toward tax exempt coupon-cutting, sacrifices and do it without whining. As to personal 4iberty, I think there is much more of that with Prohibi- tion than there has been for many sad rs under the old way, The drink- never were utisfied unless every- ye and intelligence, that always make the | Either the volume of tax exempt securities must | cles of Evening VY" ‘i aren't H oie te fl ea alae ly be reduced or surtaxes must be revised. Otherwise }#ke his own and his fellow-reform-|iney disliked in order to get along Federal revenues from the income tax will con- [oT they must be trampled upon.|with the self-styled "good sports,” who would be * or get fighting | abused and denied publicity I believe that your publication Is acting in the belief that it voices the tinue to fall off as they have this year. ugly unless their will was imposed on all those present. SS Of course everyone who knows any- An attack on the Civil Service Law was about majority opinion of the people of New | thing ull about the matter knows what was to have been expected from the man York and adjacent States that the |the many and underhanded means the who sald: Present Volstead act ts due for a goo. |"Wwet, Interests” had of encouraging “ scrubbing, and if It can't come to usd foreing drinking. t were pos- At the proper time * * * some fifteen within a, few years with a clean slate, [sible to really leave the matter to the men * * * will sitdown * * * T will be with free from ils present evils, then may | ‘Mdividual, and if an individual could them and will present the mame of Senator it sneak back to the warm office oi ae wnat and how ear, we i aa the reformer in his service ch ag: Pon ew ave Bk We Harding * they will put him over. 4 u would all say, "Go to it, drink yourself quietly and as suddenly as it ec me upon us In its endeavor to change the [to death if you want to—anyone who mode of living of the greatest nation has no higher desire than that 1s not in a day. worth bothering about.” ACHES AND PAINS It ts a privilege to say a few words| 1 have become a strong advocate of pate in praise of an institution which | Prohibition, not only of intoxicants bn} A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. preaches what It believes to be true, [of any other dangerous things or cus- without fear or favor, without polili,|toms which individuals cannot be cal alliances to swerve it in its de-|trusted to use without abusing. Most great men are failures, Alexander, Julius | termination and, lastly, without the| America stands tor progress, for bet- terment, for the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. LUCY MOXEY. Brooklyn, March 22, 1922. Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte, for example, blew up. All made too much trouble for other people. . By passing the Bonus Bill Congress makes higher tariff a fiscal necessity. By passing a tariff bil) it can pay the bonus and its election obligations, Pretty slick, eh? bag of gold which comes to the paid reformer. Thin of It, sir! “a moral 4 R. M. C. lar.” New York, March 1 Knocks It “Galley-Went.” To the Editor of The Evening World You printed a letter signed “BE. J, A."' whining about your stand on Pro. hibition. In this letter he “No Place for Pin-Hends.” To the Editor of The Evening World: 1 see that I am not the only one who has been surprised at tho atti tude of your paper on the subject of Paradise has been discovered, A boomer for Bove- wishes to know man, Mont., says that “over 6,000 contented citizens” Sechib am not naturally a{Wwho Mr. Herbert 1, Mason ts, and reside within {ts limits, Including wives? Prehibitied: Fame Rey netyrely ‘ swa should b a Py Prohibitionist. 1 believe in self {Why his views should be alred? 1 “moderation in all things" {Would answer same with another ques- Perhaps the best antidote for the Society of s sabtno} ang:tme) a Aah ides ‘i - ¥ of Shifters | .¢ teast, I did so believe until 1 saw |tion—viz! Who ts “EH. J. A." and why among schoo] children would be a Society of Spank- eters among parents, what I have seen since Prohibition was “put over.” There has never been anything so effective in showing up the stranglehold of the liquor in terests, the complete selfishness of a large majority of our citizens and the pin-headedness of a still larger pro: portion. I think ft is this last cl. that has swung mo Irrevocably over should bis views be of any more im- Mason's? He also finds fault with you because you do ortance than Mr ° port Hizzoner ought to stay in Chicago. He fits the sur- roundings. The place is rarely annoyed by Civic Vir- tue In any form. not interview others of different mind I would like to know he bases on this subject on what ground mark, this re- fact that you print . They do these things better !n Samoa, where New e p is tanatical nung is ep gh Zealand holds the mandate under the Versailles agree. | tthe side of the reformers Be i De I 9, For a supposedly sane and normal |knock this complaint ley-west."* ment A plebiscite ts to be held to dectde whether minded being to say that beeause in- Granting what ‘Hh. J. A. states or not Prohibition is to continue, “Bootlegging or | toxicants had been prohibited by aw, [that ‘The Evening World stands out Law” ought to be the slogan. and though the law would probably do feonspicuous In its attitude on Prohibi- ° great good, he as a protector of his |tion among the seven first class news. 0} liberty ould a ' New Yark—I an " Cuba has a moratorium, and now Germany wants [Mp thdden rink, thomas | + thet Naot a ee one. So does Park Row! never ¢: them bef ' Met World, i . wind a perfect exammir nah ‘ edness. Amer and the " world has no place fer pir dr UA asking a bit of @ suciitice of Lilacs have bing croak, started to leave out } 1A New York, Jbarch 25, 1 From Evening World Readers } UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Coporight, 1932 wy Jobe Blake) THE REAL LUXURY TAX. The United States Government has remitted the 10 per cent. tax on luxuries of which most people bitterly com- plained, You no longer have to pay an extra quarter if you are foolish or hungry enough to eat food that costs you $2.50 for the amount served at a single meal. You no longer need add 10 per cent. to the cost of a more expensive overcoat than you really need. If you have been what is called a “spender” some of the needless things you have been buying will cost you less than they did. But it is unlikely that you will save the money. Once the luxury habit is acquired it is hard to break. And that money which you don't need to pay to the Government any more is very sure to go into other luxuries which you couldn't get in the éld days of the luxury tax. The real luxury tax is not paid to the Government and never was. It is a tax that you impose on yourself by in- dulging in things which give you nothing in return but tem- purary self-gratification. And it is a far heavier tax than a 10 per cent. tax, for the amount it will take from your income by and by is pretty near the size of the income itrelf. Every penny expended for foolishness—for things that you cannot afford—for luxuries that you learn to want merely because other people have them, is a tax not only on your earnings but on your future, If you have more money than you can spend no one is going to object to your wearng $200 overcoats or even buy- ing a yacht. But if you are getting these things at the expense of yur own future you are putting a luxury tax on yourself which is far harder to bear than any ever imposed by the Government. : The desire to have all the comforts that other people have is natural, but it is very hard to tell just what are com- furts and what are luxuries. And if you fall into the w being toc comfortable you will soon be about as progre as the cat which curls in purring comfort before the fireplace. And you will not be as wise as the eat, for she has the knack of making human beings provide for her and giving no return, That is a knack you will never possess. You are free from the Government luxury tax now, but you can only free yourself from the really burdensome luxury tax by your own efforts. Will power alone, which is a difficult thing to cultivate, will put an end to that tax. MONEY TALKS. ¢ By HERBERT BENINGTON. Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World), by Press Publishing Co. CAPITALIZING FOR EXPENSES. There are a number of expenses that are the same each year such as insurance premiums, telephone bills, ing our expenditures rather keeping an account of them. We can arrange our present of these expenses AAR AAR AAR AAA AAA ARID PA PD DAAPR AAA RAR AAAAAAAAAAA AA, the same ratio to our Incomes, or should be. Personal budgets are made on this basis with a view to anticipat- than in- comes with a view to capitalizing all as years go on. When we have got all expenditures rent and certain classes of taxes, Also lune ind car fares are about the}taken care of by investments we are ime, tiking the year as a whole, [independent of the income from work Ae a matter of fact yeay in und] Tn future talks each item will be taken up, ear out all our expenses are in about } Old Habits Underlying New Problems By Maubert St. Georges. Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening forid) ‘by P Publishing Co. JEWELRY. Many of those who have read of the glories of India under the Moguls or of the wealth of the Rajahs even to-day or of the invaluable treasures with which that country ts filled can- not but wonder on what facts the talk of poverty and famine can be based. But the very gorgeousness for which India is a byword throughout the world has been one of the main causes of her downfall. Where we, as soon as we had any ready cash or surplus, immediately invest it in something productive or at least useful and likely to promote trade and welfare, the Hindu without exception invariably spends his money on jewelry for himself, his wife or his children. Love of jewelry is @ marked passion with every native of India, The fact that over half a million goldsmiths are continually, employed manufacturing gold orna- ments (this does not include jewellers, &c.) will give an idea of the millions spent in satisfying the demands of the people for useless articles with which to decorate themselves. Every Hindu, even those who have made vows of renunciation, wears ear= rings and on grand occasions will put on as many as half a dozen pairs. Pariahs, or people who cannot afford ornaments, will go to the length of passing plain copper wires through their ears and noses. Rich Hindus will wear gold chains or pearl neck- laces and wonderful girdles, In some districts married men wear silver rings on their toes. Another fashion is to have tied to the upper arm a gold box containing some charm to avoid bad luck. Indeed, the variety of ornaments is endless, but each ap- pears to have a definite name and purpose, for no Hindu would think of creating something new for hime self. Naturally, however, It !s the wome an In the household who insists most on jewelry, and one can usually eee on her person by far the greater part of the wealth of the family. No one would begrudge them a certain amount of ornaments were it to ene hance thelr attractiveness. But the craze of loading down women with stones, gold, silver, cop- per and anything else that may strike them as ornamental adds anything but attractiveness to them. A woman with decoration in her hair, her ears, her nose, around her forehead, her neck, her arms, her wrists, her fin- gers, about h breast and waist, iround her knee lves, ankles and toes may be valuable, but not neces- sarily beautiful. Their value ean be computed by the thousands upon thousands of women who are mur- Jered every year. What India needs above all ts to cease wasting cash upon such useless , and to have all this unpro- 6 wealth converted and invoated for the general benefit. Psychoanalysis You and Your Mind By ANDRE TRIDON XXXVI. — THOSE QUEER IM~ PULSES. Egotism, a desire to be noticed, to be the centre of interest without mak- ing any positive effort, Is always af the bottom of the queer impulses which many of us feel and to which a few of us, unfortunately, yield. A young woman whom I had been treating for a certain time and who had developed too much insight to do any more “‘queer’’ things, told me one day that while attending a wedding, the day before, she had suddenly felt an “insane craving’? to shout, which whe, however, rep! ed. When I asked her what thoughts came to her mind at the time she answered: ‘I thought: everybody will turn around, look at me and come to my assistance.” “At what time during the ceremony did you have that the bride, saying how beautiful she was.” Neurotics being always envious of others and intolerant of any one else's superiority, there was a good and sufficient reasoc why my patient should have resented the pastor's r addressed to another woman, but as an analyst must go into the Nest details of psychology in order to make his patients see themselves exactly as they are, I asked the wo- man why she was 60 enyious of the pride, She at first denied such fee}- ings, but finally confessed that the tall and slender figure of the bride had annoyed her when she watched her marching up the aisle. My patient sn was short and strugeling unsuccess« fully with invading obesity As political or relig beliefs opinions in no justified by facts, I usked my patient whether there were any reli- gious differences between her and the bride. Indeed, there were. ‘The bride was a Unitarian, my patient a Bap- who considered Unita: a9 heathens. Finally, my patient's crave ing to have the wi assemblage turn and look at her seemed to point to some unsatisfied craving connected with a marriage ceremony. 1 asked her what memories that wedding brought back to her, After a few minutes tation she explained that she and her husbund eloped and were married secretly without any display of any kind. On the other hand, thera was this young woman whose vedding s being witnessed by several hun« 4 guests. No wonder she felt like disturbing everything with @ neurotig attack. (Copyright by United Weature Syndicatag