The evening world. Newspaper, April 8, 1922, Page 10

| tig Carlo, WHED NY JOSEPH PULITZER Excor day by Tho Prose Publishing Comrans. Ne ont York RAWYH Pt Preaid Park Row ANGUS SHAW. Vreasu & Now PULIT) 3 Park Row « MeMMEN oF TTT The Prrociatrd Pree te exvivelee’: EW mex, despurrhes cromiind to It eR My. the local news peblienrd Berein. —— THE PLAIN BUSIN' OF IT. HE Chamber of Commerce protest against the plan for a municipal dry-dock is beside the point. The fact that there are private drv-docks in the port doesn’t prove that the city ought not to build one Questions at issue are D6ts the city have work enough to keep the dry- * dock busy? Can a municipal dry-dock do the work more economically than private vards Is there danger of conspiracy among the diy- dock concerns to bid up the price on city work + Is Commissioner Whalen's projected improve- ment a good buy at the price he proposes to pay * These are plain matter of fact business ques- tions, Commissioner Whalen ought not be permitted to spend half a million dollars for the sake of gratifying departmental pride in owning a dry dock Nor shauld the city be deprived of the dock be- cause Clramber of Commerce members prefer to Scratch one another's backs for profits from city work. RED RASH. ECRETARY DENBY'S warning against Sov- ietism, Communism and anarchy in’ the “Navy was probably only a manilestation of spring fever accompanied by a Red rash. Secretary Wéeks contracted the malady in a much lighter form If there is danger of extremist movements there is some reason for them. Aid is there is reason, Congress and the Navy Departmen: ave to blame. One cause of discontent, for which Mr. Denby is responsible, rises out of the too abrupt discharge ! of shipyard mechanics when the “scrapping pro- gramme” was adopted. lapering off with ready- at-hand plans for scrapping by mechanics who had been doing the building would have caused less dissatisfaction Congress is tinkering with naval pay scales, and is cutting the maintenance appropriations until most of the remaining ships are tied up to wharves with no place for navy men to go except ashore, where Secretary Denby sees danger “In spite of some provocation, the Navy boys are Not going to turn our fleet over to Lenin. Secre- tary Denby had far better be making plans for (future activities than worrying himself and others with amateur Lusking, KANSAS COURTS ON SKIRT LENGTHS. T takes more than a decision by a District Court to determine the allowable shoriness of a girl's shirt in Kansas. The case has been appealed. It will go higher—to the Supreme Court. The case, Bol the skirt, we mean lhe School Board of Vinland—4 good name the town has—decreed that the skirts of high school girls must come at least three inches below the Knees. [wo girly demurred and were expelled Their parenis supported the girls. At first the Diy- trict Court seemed to favor the girls, but the Judge finally switched to the side of the censors and the ‘ease has been appealed trom this distance it seems the Court may de- cide either way, according to personal preference. _ And personal preferences do not run according to ‘form in the State whose fame is enhanced by such personages as Carrie Nation, Mary Ullen Lease and Jeriy Simpson ff the Kansas Supreme Court starts its opinion with ai axiom, as courts have been known to do i» has a considerable choice. “Children should be seen and not heard,” is one, “Girls will be girls iy another Those who sympathize with the “must-notters of the Vinland Board may be leit to prescribe thei own proverbs, Censors are always long on precept VER-MANNED rye gains in non-union coal mining fields may shorten the strike. If the unionists can tie up enough non-union mines. the pinch will come sooner, The Government will be moved to intervene Many of the non-union mines are owned by the same interests that control union mines. If these interests find that their outlaw attitude toward collective bargaining agreements reacts on them- selves where they are employers of non-union labor they will deserve smal! sympathy But there is another side for the public to con- sider Under the “chech-off” system of collecting un- fon dues the union jeaders gain power from a large membership. To the union leaders the over-man- ning of the coal mines means a big treasury on which to draw. The Lnited States already has three coal miners to do the work two could do if the industry were regularized. It is doubtful whether the union jead- rs are now prepared to accept a basic settlement for repubiention din tals paper which would reduce the number of miners—dues —— payers-—by a third But that must come if the industry is regular- ized rhe employers, tuo. have been responsible for the excess number of miners. The railroads and even the Interstate Commerce Commission must share the blame for the s\stem of rating mines o the number of miners for car supply accordin on the rolls Thus far the union officials have sought to re larize empioyment by cutting down the working day until there will be jobs enough to go around for all members of the union Phat is the path of self-interest for the labor leaders. [1 is also the easier Way. It would take a brave labor leader to tell hiy men that a third of them had better hunt other jobs and stop paying dues to the organization But this last is exactly what needs to be done if the tangle in the coal industry is to be unsnarled Nhe bigger the union becomes. the harder the job wilf be. Prom the point of view of the pub- lic’s interest, the spread of union power is by no means an unmixed blessing “HOW TO GUARD AGAINST CRIME.” ON'T be fooled D DON’T let a thousand Enright “don'ts divert dttention from Enright DON'T be persuaded that crime has increased in New York solely because people have forgotten to lock their doors and look out for their pocket- books when in crowds DON'| be bamboozled into beheving denial ot crime is protection against crime : DON’T think careful citizens can do withopt a competent Police Commissioner DON'T imagine Enright policies will change witl( a larger police force , DON} fancy that any police force, however large, can be properly efficient under improper direction DON | underestimate the big opportunity ba- right has had DON'T forget how he has floated it DON'T expect the New York police ever to give the service they are capable of giving in guarding the city ast crime until Enright is removed. DON’T dream Mayor Hylan will remove En- right DON'T permit Gov. Miller to lose sight of the fact that he, too, must recognize a responsibility toward a community comprising half the popula- tion of the State. DON'T allow the Governor to forget that he has the power to remove Enright. DON'T be satisfied until he uses it . NEXT WEEK: “PLAY BALL!" A ONG with the ducks and geese and robins aod bluebirds, the” big league baseball players have been migrating northward toward their summer habitat. Not even the decoy shooters of the duck passes have been hall so cruel as the baseball managers in killing the hopes of ugly-duckling bushers who have been tried and found wanting in the swan- like characteristics of players who have arrived When next Wednesday comes, summer can be From Evei.ing World Readers What kind 01 jetter 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 /ot of satistaction in trying to say much in few words) Take time to be briet, 1 Language? In There An Ameri To the Fiditor of The Be Is there any such | American language? where did it originate New York, April 4, 1922 Washington? ‘This is the golden age 1 live in a town of ubout 600 enrolled Voters, and when this town went dry it was by about 600 1 ‘0 the one who signed himself uth, Orange; N. d please read ve, “Woe unto him that neighbor drink!’ Hab., 1i., fall wh read also, "Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath ontentions’’ who hath complain ing who hath wounds —withou! wuse ww ness of the ey They that tarry long at the wine ovity Sammes! Vo the Bditor of T 1 wish to éxt right. World nd my sincere con gratulations to your piper for the at titude it has assumed in regard to the crime wave which the Police Depart f iv ment js unable suppress, Also would like to suggest to the Polic Doing His Best—Considering | ~s#¥* UNCOMMON SENS& By John Blak: (Coprright. 1922. GETTING ty John Blane) VOR THE The bexer before he can deliver a telling blow must uct sel.” His fect must be firmly planted on the floor, his body so poised that every ounce of its weight will be added to the force of the arm that strikes the blow. Otherwise the feet will slip. or the weight will fail to sre it should, and a feeble tap instead of a sturdy *‘yunch” will résult Watch the boxer as he sets himself for good golfer ay he takes his stance for a stroke, and you will r un excellent lesson a preparedness. a blow, or a only a traction of a baseball schedule away. Open- - ing day may seem chilly for athletes tanned by the summer-like spring of Texas and vicinity, and the bleachers a cheerless place for any except the most rabid fans, It is nevertheless true that the umpire’s “Play ball” is a command to the Weath- erman as well ay to participants in the first of the ‘long succession of “crucial series” before October's climax April 12 the baseball season opens. Here's hop- ing it will not be a runaway race for the three leans representing the metropolis, though the fans are already counting on another home-made World's Series Department through your paper that instead of having able bodied plain clothes men running through down- town office buildings looking for an odd bottle of liquor or a game of cards, the department might better use these particular men tor runnin down hold-up men or thieve If they are not capable of duing that put them buck in uniform to regulate traffic or keep fire lines intact I know there is more graft for them in hooch and gambling, but what the public needs now is lower insurance rates in the line of burglary. ins ance; the rates at the present time are prohibitive 1. CRANE Pr To the Editor of The Evening World ioe Lust Saturday night 1 was in a high-priced cabaret with woman friend. At the tuble to our sight was u young college boy with his flapper companion, both drunk Ahead of us sul « party of four two flappers with bobbed hair, blond and brunette, costumed in the regula- tion uniform of their kind—and their hoy escorts. The girls were not more than nineteen years old and they were munifestly and thoroughly drunk. The blond, with partner, started danc- ing, and she continued drinking her Highball as they gyrated dizgily over the floor, Suddenly they stopped for aw long, clinging hiss, und every onc vpplauded Rottles of booze were flaunted and consumed merrily, nearly every one drank, smoked und cursed ddenly the two little girl ied OrORA: the floor, apparent weward bound while their eseorts lay wyth heads down on the table, too drunk to mowe. Kissing lecume inom promiscuous, the dancing became merely “mo ments, shouting vod Vulgar langua became louder class material for a moving picture orgy seene Is this) Prohibition must be done New York, April 6, 19 ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. Taking @ little jaunt to Connecticut the other day we were surprised to see how close Yale College is to New Haven, In fact it {8 quite im {ts midst. We al- Ways thought it must sit om the edge of the football bowl, but it is far, far away from that intellectual centre. Indeed, it is not even near to a flowing bowl, the Hote! Taft haying dried up. ° Although J. Henry Rorabach, King of Connecticut, las forbidden municipalities to adopt daylight saving in the interest of his electric light company, the re bellious cities are effecting if through the their Boards of Trade, & . tions of People used to sneer at the Raines law sandwich, but bow glad they would now be to see thai indurated comestible back Hope shines Gen, Semenoff bus been avresied in New York for brigandage in Siberia. Some time the cops may catch the Shattuck burglars. . Who Wants to Go Back t Yo the Editor of The | # World What's the matter with B.A “He's all right.” “Ho wiles alcoholic beverages.” Never was such « thing It has always been @ source of wonder why, with all the spare room there is in the sea, shipa should so often collide, Now it seems there isn't space enough n the limitless realms of the air. See the smash-up between the English express flyers . \ manufactured. Who wants to BO ch OD Ave oe Use tae of Coorge They that go ta scek out mixed wine! Look not upon wine when it is red, when it sparkleth in the cup, when it goeth down smoothly! “At the last it hiteth lke a serpent, and stingeth like an adder, Prov. xxii, 2 verses H. WELL! In the Path of Wilken? ‘othe Editor of The Evening World Now that we ure witnessing one of the most serious strikes in history (the miners’ strike), it may wake up a few millions of American voters to the fact, that labor is dealing with Republicon Administration, as My Samuel Gompers said recently in eu logy of Woodrow Wilson, Yet recall how sh: edly they appreciated him in 19 Mr. Gompers added that President Wilson went further than any other President for labor, and always was the workingman’s triend. Any miner or railway wor However, the xreat Democrat Is now out of political reach or criticisms and slowly recovering from un illness caused by overtaxing himself the cause of democracy The point is this: Are witness another "Ludlow is the present Administrs do the unpre the path ROBE knows this for we going to incident, or jon going to dented and follow’ in Woodrow Wilson? tT RAYMOND ROLF (A Wilsonian Democrat) New York, April 4, 1922 Did 8 1 Hebrews speak wlinhs To the B of The Bvoaing W Reading the column headed “That's « Fact’ in your paper of suturday, April 1, 1 suw that A. P. Southwick says the first Known use of the phrase “God Save the King’? was in the State par about 1545, in connection with @ naval battle at that time. I would like to say that Me Southwick is mistaken and that the phrase Was used over 2.000 \¢ fore, If you will read L Samuel, x, 24, you will find these word And all the people shouted and said, God s the king.” Also in IL Kings, xi, 4 this: “And they chipped tier hands and said, God save the Pblizabeth, Nod Nothing that we do will count as it should count unless are ready for it, The Senator who rushes into a debate knowing little ! the question he is about to argue is soon sent to his seat, beaten and humiliated. The salesman who goes out after a knowing what he has to sell and the business conditions will y and feeble business blows. The engineer, no matter how great are his dreams of battling with nature, must spend years in preparing for the nes or the structures with which he is to combat. If he iy not ready, nature, always ajert, will get in the f.:st blow and his dreams will have all been in vain. i { n absolute necessity to what we call success. "The opportunities to strike the really telling blows come infrequently and usually unexpectedly. The man with the half taught mind, with confused ideas or but a partial understanding of the business in which he has embarked, always strikes half balanced or with no weight behind his hands. And it is he, not the adversary, that is toppled over. Whether we like it or not, this is an existence of fighting and the rewards go to scientific fighting ability. Every blow that is strpck ought to count for something if only as contributing to the cumulative effect of many market without Ling set” is Get set for every one. keep your feet on the floor and your weight where it will follow your arm, and your chances will be good. Trust to chance to deliver your blows and they will never land. MONEY TALKS By HERBERT BENINGTON. i oy Breas Supliating INDEPENDENCE. When a man’s income from invest- is sufficient rent, clothes, amusements, &c., 8 independent of anything he may From the Wise Fame is a vapor; popularity an riches take wings; only certainty is oblivion. —Horace Greeley. First find the man in yourself if others.—A. Bronson Alcott If he has puilt up his capital from an income of $250 a month he has suved at least $60 a month if he is In order that he continue to 250 a month with- have $65,000 Man alone is born crying, lives complaining and dies disappointed. —Sir W, Temple. Life is a conundrum; every one tries to solve it, then gives it up. Francoise Joncoux In the husband, wisdom; in the George Herbert invested at 6% per cent, The $60 a month he has saved will to this in le four years provided he has allowed nterest to accumulate wife. gentleness. and laughter From ceiling to floor The grapes of passion hung from the rafter And curtained the door Vi FASHIONED a House of desir But the wine of that yrape was bilte, laughier When desire had fled, , And the dust bit deep into the rafter TU & fell on my heaa. Then I fashioned @ house of rdinbd delights And butterfly wings, Of odors and sounds from the summer nights When one bird sings. Sunbeam and moonbeam form the shining rafter; And there qpart, The spent leaves of roscs and ¢ wind's pure laughter Fall on my heart. This is a song of ‘Evanescence,’ and the song of a new singer, It is taken from ‘'Vagrants’’ (Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Chicago), verse-book of Georgia E. Bennett, see Robin, Mary aud a Stolen Moment: - - ‘We turn, in Valentine Williams's “The Yellow Streak’? (Houghton, Mifflin), to the parge holding these lines: Resolutely the young man put #n arm about her and drew her to him. Slowly, reluctantly, she let him have hig way. But she would not look at him. “Oh, my dear,’ he whispered, Kissing her hair, “don't you care a little ?”* She remained silent. “Won't you look at me, Mary?" ‘There wax a hint of huskiness in his volo, He ralsed her face to@ his. “L saw in your eyes Just now that you cared for me," he whispered: “oh, my Mary, say that you do!” Then he bent down and kissed her. For a brief instant thelr lips met and he felt the caress of the girl's arm about his “Oh, Robin!" shi That was all Unfortunately. it is not ail, On the next page Mary remembers that #! must marry for millions, not for love But Robin has furnished frst a exemplary young-love proposal, sprit model, 1922. sald se 6 Beetle and Bonus, «+ - The adventure of an ine’ ors in a glass tube as recorded in Mor Beetles’ (Dodd-Meud), a book fr the Frepch of J. Henri Fabre: The Beetle now turns about br neath the load. With the trident driven into the bundle, as a piteu- fork is driven into a truss of hay tossing it into the loft, the fore-legs, with their wide, toothe) gripping the load ‘and pr: it from crumbling, — he pushes with all his might And eheerily! The thing mover 4s, very slowly, it Is true nds. How ta it done tor smooth surfac: s an absolut check to the upward movement? ‘e \ The insurmountable difficulty har boon provided for. 1 selected # clay soll Hkely to leave a trace tof {tx pausage. With the cart before the horse, the load itself sands the road and makes it practicable: in rubbing past every portion of the wall, it ves particles of earth which con- stitute so many points of purchase. Therefore, as he pushes ils bi den upwards, the Beetle nds bed, hind It @ roughened surface which afforils him w fouting as he elimbe. Something seems to tell us tha! here, out of natural history, we ren! an instance strongly suggestive— Of the fashion in which, at Wash ington, the Bonus Bill wus worked (o the top of a slippery way By aid of sticking clay oe The Treason of Parson Kil - ++ In his book ‘Chosen: The Ireland * (Century Cr E. Alex cites from C. W. Ken dall’s "The Truth ,About Korea’ th argument of the Japanese prosecutor accusing Pastor Kil of Ping-Yang of treason, We quote: ‘ Pastor Ki! preached against the use of cigarettes The manufacture of cigarettes ir a Government monopoly. To speak against thelr use ts to injure a Government institution, To injure a Government Inatitu- tion {8 to work against the Govern- ment. To work is treason. ; By a slight inversion of this reason. ing, how clear a case the Anti-Saloon League may make against the critics of Volsteadism. Prohibition having been constituted a Government monopoly inst the Government eee Why to Be Prime Minister». . @ x In the book “Patehwork” (Henry Holt), a story of Oxford undergrad- uate life by Beverley Nichols, we read: It was the last ball of the season, and Ray decided that they would dine at the Mitre alone—his mother, Helen, and himself. He felt brim ming over wlth energy, “Let's be perfectly marvellous ww- night, sball we" he sald to Helen, “We are betng.” “You are. Am I? I wonder. 1 foel inclined to rush round and em brace everybody. ‘Things have only just started, really, Isn't it lovely to be surrounded by so many peo- ple you don't know, but who all know you? I'm sure that’s the only reason that anybody becomes Prime Minister or anything at all—just be- cause they want to walk down the street. and be known by simply everybody. It must be astonishing to drive down huge broad streets and take off one's hat with a eharming sort of smirk. Oh, my dearest ther, IT must be Prime Minister. After all, i's ambition of a sort to desire to doff one’s hat becomingly | as the servant of the people. *