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enone wen Sve EMeNiig caiorto, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ‘ ge Published Dally Except: Sunday by The Prees Publishing Company. Nos, 58 to 63 Park Raw, New York RALPH PULATZER, President. 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row PULITBER Jr., Secretory, 63 Park Row. oe OF THE AssoctaricD Pness. Whe Assoctated Press ts exctusively cotitied to the ure fer republication ot Sil news Genpatches credited to {i or noi otherwise credited im this paper nd also the local mews published bercin. : THE BEST OF THE SEASON. Y all odds the biggest joke of the spring to date is on Mayor Hylan The legislative mandate Hizzoner signed raising his own salary is vetoed by Gov. Miller on pre- cisely the grounds the Mayor urged when he vetoed the other legislative mandate which would have increased the salaries of policemen and firemen. The Mayor said then: “The question of whether the policemen and firemen should receive another raise in salary is one with which the city Board of Estimate can cope without any interferen¢e from Albany I want to say right now that uny legislative bill calling for pay increases to city employees will receive little consideration from me fn those sustances where the Board of Estimate has the power to make the increase.” The Governor says now, in effect: The Mayor reasons well. He has reasoned his own salary raise straight off the map. The New York City Charter provides that the Board of Aldermen, upon the recommendation of the Board of Estimate, shall fix the salaries of, Mayor, Comp- troller, &c,; also that no changes shall be made in the salaries of such officials during their tenure Of office. The State Legislature should respect the City Charter., Home Rule forever! **Home Rule Hylan mustn't take a mandate from ‘Albany merely because it Eanpens to boost his own pay. t To think the reminder, too, has to come from Albany! ‘The Governor should have sprung it April |. It's the best of the season. ' TRE: Spits 1 PS LRP I RETES Politically speaking, it may be significant that one of the first amendments proposed } after the report on the Tariff Bill sought to i raise the rate on peanuts, WHEN IT COMES TO DUTY. ‘ ‘OU cannot,” Senator Borah told his fellow Republicans in the Senate, “become a member of the Reparations Commission and do your duty as a member of that Commission and carry, out the obligations of that Commission or execute the obligations of the Treaty, without joining the League of Nations.” You cannot. But since when has the Republi- can’ policy in foreign affairs paid any regard to “doing your duty”? So far as revealed, the Harding policy has been to try to use the Reparations Commission as a col- lecting agency and then to shirk any obligation as a member of that Commission or any other. “That was what the separate peace treaty with Germany put into black and white. This is neither an honorable nor an admirable z attitude, but it has existed. Senator Borah is honorable enough to admit that if we go in we should go in and do the duty ; that exists, He may yet force the Administration into that path as he did into disarmament. hi THE ONE WAY TO FIX IT. RESIDENT UNDERWOOD of the Erie Rail- | road, discussing the coal tangle, put a basic truth in few words when he said: “When a man is as fundamental as a coal miner, somebody has to fix it so he can work as many days a year as he needs to live de- cently.” There is the big trouble in the coal industry to~ day. Nobody has “fixed it.” Those in contro! have had no incentive to “‘fix it.” The two parties who stood to gain have not __ made their interest felt in effective manner. The public has paid tribute to the operators. The miners have paid union dues to their union lead- ers. ‘ The coal operators haven't cared when three men have drawn pay checks for the work two men could do. They have passed along the wage of idleness to the consuming public. The union leaders haven't cared, because the larger the number of men employed, the greater the total of union dues. The union collected from ‘ the idle man as well as from the two workers. And cre ee busy, They would bid low for coal to beri deliv ered in the dull season, and charge higher for coal in rush periods. Surplus mines unprofitable under such eondi- tions would be, forced to close The working of economic law might be better than arbitrary licensing of mines by a commission. But whatever the machinery there should be rega- larity of employment for regular workers. The public is the Esmee to “fix it,” LESS ‘SHEEP. LIKE, S a result of what happened Tuesday in the Thirty-seventh Congressional District, every friend of sanity and freedom in the United States will take fresh courage - The tremendous ctit Judge Irvine made in the normal Republican majority of this normally dry district may in all fairness be credited chiefly to his strong stand against Volstead enforcement of Prohibition As State Senator James J. Walker said of the returns: “This shows that the people want to get back to normal ideas of temperance. Even those who had been dry have seen the hy- pocrisy of the present Prohibition Law, and the reaction has set in. If it keeps up we will soon have a Congress that will not bow to the sway of fanatics.” “Even those who had been dry.” A representative case in point is the esteemed New York Times. When the Eighteenth Amendment was jammed into the Federal Constitution, the Times accepted this violation of national principle as “the will of the people” and said; “We do not think that any reasonable man will deny that abstinence from the use of in- toxicants will be of national benefit aud advan- tage.” But the Times now speaks differently of Anti- Saloon League-Volstead Prohibition, It refers with sarcasm to “the sacred Volstead law,” and to Anti-Saloon League officials who expect to be “lis- tened to humbly by a docile public.” Only last week the Times said: “The law, as it stands, should be enforced, but the rigor and the absurdity of it make its enforcement difficult. The amendment might have been and may still be carried out pros- perously, But the Probibition zealots love the unreasonable law. It remains to be seen if public sentiment will not in the course of time insist that this statute be licked into a . practicable shape.” Thtee years ago the Times was typical of many Americans who were like sheep in the hands of the Anti-Saloon League— herded they knew not whither. Now even the sheep have become less sheep- like. A few more stiffening examples like that in the Thirty-seventh District and we shall see smug shepherds on the run. GREATER CAUSE FOR MISTRUST. WO weeks ago our suspicious Mayor vetoed the bill to make the police responsible for the licensing of taxicabs. It developed later that he had been too hasty, that some one had appar- ently “slipped something over” on him. He erred because he did not investigate fully. The gas cut-off ordinance passed Tuesday by the Aldermen is now before the Mayor. It needs investigation, too. It bears all the earmarks of an old Tammany device to favor “the boys.” Alder- man Collins, the Tammany leader, forced its pass- age but passed the buck to the Board of Stand- ards and Appeals. The reason for the ordinance is shrouded in mystery, From all appearances two firms stand to make fat profits from the contracts. Under the present rent laws every cent of the expense can be ih passed direct to tenants. The Mayor isn’t responsible for what the Alder- men pass. He is responsible for what he signs. If this ordinance were to result in a scandal after the Mayor had signed it, he would have no one but himself to blame. ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. Why doesn't Mr. Hedley say it to music—something like this: Drop in two nickels, not a dime, The stile takes only two ata time! . ‘ From Evening World Readers 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 Jot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. “Art In Ever Art To the Editor of The Evening World: From the protests it would seem that the allegory of ‘'Civic Virtue" is not appreciated or understood, Would it not be well to have two heroic figures, male and female? If undraped be considered too >erilous for passive contemplation, what more appropriate for the female than wom- an’s dress of to-day, concealing yet revealing lines and forms to meet the artistic sense? The one-plece bath- ing suit so much in yogue at Coney Island would for the male eliminate the conventional fig-leaf. Coney is nearer than ancient Greece, and art is ever art. R. H. MOLONEY. Brooklyn, April 10, 1922. The Automobile Crime. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘As a long-time reader of The Eve- ning World permit me to say that your “How to Guard Against Crime” editorial and the adjoining cartoon in last Saturday's paper was not only unfair to the present Police Commis- sioner, but did no good for the public. It Is easy to criticise, but not so easy to devise ways and means to end this era of hold-ups. The one self-evident fact is that the introduction of the automobile hus completely changed the condl- tions attending the proper policing of large cities, ané it looks us if {t will be necessary to have a p eman on post at each corner of every square block in this city if there is to be any real chance of overhauling a gang of hold-up bandits having an auto be- fore they can make a getaway. INDEPENDENT, New York, April 10, 1922 Prohibition a Farce, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World Reading your letters of ‘The Peo- ¢’ column has become a habit with not for the white man. No, Pro- hibition there was only for the colored brother. And so it goes. In to-night’s issue a Miss H. Wells writes that the town she hails from has the enormous Population of 600! (about the popu- lation of one of our east side tene- ments) and that it went Prohibition by 500 majority. Fine! Well, that is the place for Prohibitionists. Let them gather to- gether in towns of their own and pro- hibit to their heart's content, And if I want a drink and can't get It in that town, why, let me move on to some live place, away from these busybodies, and be able to mind my own business and let my neigh- bor mind. his. There, that is the whole crux of the issue. That is what makes this thing so odious, this nosing into other peo- ple’s business by these pious hypo- J. A. 8. April 10, 1922. crites. Brooklyn, Sacramental Wines. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: My first vote for President was in 1888, when I cast a vote for Clinton B. Fiske, Prohibition candidate. Since then I voted to elect Bryan each time he ran for President. But never again! Permit me to ask H. Wells, who quotes Bible against wine, to designate ‘on religious creed—Protestant, Jewish or Catholic—where the holy sacrament of the Lord's Supper or Passover would survive without the use of wine? And alcoholic wine also? Imagine a religion existing without the wine representing blood? answer, if you will do so honestly. AGNOSTIC. Brooklyn, April 10, 1922. Just right, but he did not say that these same States represent a very small percentage of the entire population of these United States. You know the South was Prohibition for years, but Ir RS, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Coprrtght. 1032, by John Blake) WHEN YOU ARE SORRY FOR YOURSELF. As Longfellow poetically observed, some rain must fall.” He states this well known and not at all disturbing natural fact by way of consolation, The nature of the poem he was writing prevented him from adding that it would be a very barren life indeed if some rain didn’t fall into it, and if some days were not dark and dreary. The poet meant well, however. It was his purpose to cheer up the self-pitiers, although he would have done better to take the other method and laugh at them. For self-pity is really a vice and deserves no sympathy. Stefansson, the explorer, has written a book he calls “The Friendly Arctic,’ wherein he relates in a cheerfully matter-of-fact way experiences which would make an ordinary man’s hair stand on end. Moved solely by the desire to add to the knowledge of humanity about the world in which it lives, he crossed Arctic ice, drifted helplessly about on detached floes, lived wholly on seal meat, and underwent the most extreme privations. He had no,luxuries of any kind. He had few of what , most people regard as necessities. He was in constant danger of losing his life, yet he calmly continued his travels over the ocean and into unknown islands for five years—and enjoyed every minute of it. When you begin to feel sorry for yourself because the telephone i is temporarily out of order, or a commutation train is late, or a coal strike makes it impossible to keep more than one room warm at a time, it will do you good to read this book. - You can also read about Christopher Columbus, sailing over an uncharted sea and now and then feeling a little trouble as to whether or not he was not going to reach the edge of the earth and sail right off into space, You have civilization around you, with radio concerts, and phonographs, and a bottle of milk left on the doorstep every day. If under these circumstances you are sorry for yourself, you do not need pity but ridicule, Longfellow was kind and sympathetic, but that poem of his about the dark and dreary day will do more harm in the world than it does good, for the premises are wrong and its conclusion is weak. “Into every life On eet ge-Bound India Old Habits | Underlying New Problems Maubert St. Georges. MONEY LENDERS. Undoubtedly the most hated class in India are the baniyas or moneylenders. Yet it can be generally stated that in an average Hindu community the small farmer or tradesman who is not in the clutches of an usurer is a re- markable exception, Throughout the whole country, usury is a recognized institution and there are no laws to limit the rates of interest that may be charged. Indeed the most consclenceless wretch any where else would balk at what the Hindu calls “‘dharma-vaddi"’ or fair interest. To demand only 12 per cent. is recognized to be self-sacrificing and charitable. Eighteen or 20 per cent, is perfectly legitimate, _ and loans at 60 or even 100 per cent. are known to have been offered and ac- ip the extreme dearth of actual cash that drives the Hindu to the moneylender, They are obliged to pledge half their future crop at absurd prices in order to pay their taxes or buy sufficient food to live on until the harvest season. If by dint of self-denial they succeed in securing a crop the interest on their debts has so grown that practically nothing is left. Often, however, hunger drives them to devour their own grain while still green and as a result when the debt falls due there is nothing but dry stubble left to gather. Many then persuade some well-to-do cultivator to pay off their debt, offering their labor as return, The unfortunates find the wages they obtain in this way totally inadequate to the task of repaying. even the interest of their debt to their new masters and are thus condemned to perpetual servi- tude, often dragging wife and chil- dren to the same fate. The terrible thing about this situ- ation is the countless occasions throughout the Hindu lifetime that demands the expenditure of cash that must be borrowed before it can be spent. The death of a parent, « marriage, a birth and all such events must be accompanied with proper ceremonials and therefore with ex- penses. On the other hand, another view- point of the money-lending system ts that the Hindu having nothing can pledge nothing and that the usurer therefore frequently ruins not only his debtors but himself. Land used to be inviolable under the Moguls and under English rule until recently, and besides land a Hindu possesses very, little. To the Hindus, imprisonment for debt, a punishment introduced by the white man, is a huge joke. According to them, all a prison is good for is to keep one from running away. The idea that being fed, clothed, housed is a punishment strikes them as com~- ical, even if they are made to work in return. If we remember that a Hindu who can afford it would never leave his home, that when he borrows money ‘his inmost hope is that circumstances will arise that will do away with the necessity of his paying up, and that there is no disgrace attached to a prison, we cap understand how inad¢ quate imprisonment is as a punish- ment. XLIV.—SICK HEADACHES. The majority of sick headaches are neurotic manifestations. I do not deny that wrong food, protracted mental application to some hard task, sleepless nights and a few other un- avoidable incidents of our life may not be the cause of headaches, accompa- nied in certain cases by pallor, dizzi- ness, nausea and vomiting, but the several cases of obstinate, recurrent sick headaches that have come under my observation revealed in eyery ease the neurotic trend, the search for the line of least effort, the morbid way out of one's difficulties. Women are more often affected by sick headaches than men, Those women are geherally persons of low elligence, weak personality, over- burdened with family duties, unabis to retain the love of their husbands or to control their children; incapable of winning interesting friends or to take any interest in the world’s af- fairs, loath to-ussume responsibilities or to make decisions. To such a woman a sick headache is a blessing of a most painful kind, but a blessing just the same, for It confers upon her an importance she could not acquire otherwise, ‘The day when she wakes up with rnd ; he sick feeling she {s absolved of event 3 bi e a great deal of pl € ‘ ‘ situally the Public paid those union dues, 00. | wonder now much the face figures in the vernac- [AM JMisme capecaly the Tete ee Gasiaipied), 5 Fesponabilty as far an the household Mr. Underwood advocates the creation of a | yar? We have dough-face, scar-face, face about, two- tera on the Prohibition Amendment, | ro tne Editor of The Evening World is capearese ae Wil Bare a permanent Federal Commission modeled on the | face, pieface and save-your-face. Think of any others? |for and against We would ask, Why interfere with ry peddlers, bill collectors, unwelcome : Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate the , Laat min ae ronibinoe inte] our timepieces in order to ave day- From the Wise MONEY TALKS visitors will be #hooed away by the , aa ee 4 sa . , announcement that the lady is vei coal industry, prevent the opening of too many The Chief Inspector of New York's police is to here. lof booze and has the price need go light? 2 anes |S By HERBERT BEN DENINGTON. an pent Shae teeny woe mines, and prevent the employment of too ms FE after wear the stars of a Major General. Somehow {i | yithout, and those that don’t drink,| The Board of Health bas once done Nothing annoys me m nan Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening World) | ever indifferent her husband may : * A Many | yominds us of the stars a certain Mr. Hennessy used to |ena don't care for it for themsclves,|and ean again do certain things to| see men waste their few short days by’ Press Publishing Company ve been, he must manifest ‘dleness the trac through have serge AEN, Ln seMil-ialeness. employ as a trade mark. funigh at the idea that their neighbor | distribute the traMe throughout non-) so sning and disputes LIFE. sympathy and say he {s sorry, even’ lf such a Commission were formed, ‘Nt would . . be SRE ety aye bec 4 Te eee oe ae Beate, Fey —Goethe. Do not take the joy out of life nor] if his soreet Mag es eased be due to ‘ that the y don’ pelleve a a1 t in the household, need to achieve one result, whatever the mactiin- If Lloyd George and the Russians continue to co |i: is a law. How can you bring a] order @usiness places to open an mind ‘what your nelghbor Goon. To | He ee acon ca he raore seaily ery necessary to accomplish it operate, French will soon cease to be the language of |person to believe that what was the|hour earlier, and let our clocks alone. The miser is a tyrant and im- |eMJoy life one's mind must be free] .jjenced by being reminded of the fact iT 300. workii diplomacy accepted rule last week, say, this] Why tamper with Father Time by! grisong gold, the generous man |from financial worry; the failure to] that mother is sick in bed. However Allowing working days a year, operators y - week becomes a heinous crime? What {setting back ome clociee ja certain} ote it at Kberty. meet one's obligations by living be-| unreliable Bridget may be at any the Government was a partn: our towns while in other places . o time, she feels it is hi y should be held to payment of wages for perhaps Some vandal has stolen the 1” before “regret” on |woek, the same Government pute you|the solar time prevails? : —Ibn Dinar Malik, [Yond one's means eater (uses (cum loareeion eee 275 days a year to every man on the payroll will- | tne pedestal of the Nathan Hale statue in City Ha) {in Jail this week for doing Save daylight in a proper man: Fy canna tae bpathiauidoee There is no worry greater for an} one ig at the helm. Neighbors mani- ing to work 275 days a year, preference being | Park, leaving his attitude on his great sacrifice open | {don't drink myself, but you woud |by beginning work earlior each day; | Ae salt savor ire honest man than financial worry. it] fest some sympathy and proffer of- rt iF ke to doubt. Will not the D. R. or D. A. R. or aomedoay [have & hard job to convince me thnt|but please do not confuse the ma-| labor give a reliah to pleasure, is caused by trying to live, not by| fers of help or bring dainties. ‘The given to regular workers, 0 dou ni . RR. body lie my neighbor war lvink L have {jority to satisfy the lazy minority, Downey. peta wat family physician calls, bringe neigh- 1 have ]J y one's purse, but by one's néighbor. i If operators were held to such a policy they please put it back? Ithe power and privilng atop him We rise with the mun throughout < ve borhood gossip and cheers the patient ‘ ppt dee Pha ait ¥ . s Re Sh qe No matter how flat the purse, try] a vould scale de h ki , My the year. Then why should we ent Phaweral leaves, triatt, ave the air The patient has become a centres of be seas Sewn the working force. They would The Interborough would appear to be bankrupt only | {het mort opr clocks back af hour | We will not! even ohaldre light fovarrauge the onpenclty ees menor Pais egies fone monotony of jorced devise for keeping the men | gp ta. hibition long be Tit NINE BHARLY BIRDS, oft, ance, saving, if only a trifle, as a] her life ts relieved » mgans apol F Amendmens wens | into ofteot, He ie Mypooklya, April 13, 1943, is re = Molaschott, bulwark of happineam . _ = <Copycight bi Kinited Reature Syndicate.) ei