The evening world. Newspaper, May 12, 1922, Page 34

hata > RTE HP ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Fudiished Daily Except Sunday by The Press Publishing Company, Nox, 53 to 68 Park Row. New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEP PULITZER, Becretary, 63 Para Rew, — . eee] MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Arenctated Prem ls exclusively entitled to (he use fer republication Of all news despatches credited to M or not otherwise credited in this paper tnd also the local news published herein. EXAMPLES WANTED. ig the tangle over the imposition of a double fare on the “unscrambled” New York and Queens trolley system, one point stands clear. It is im- portant. The Transit Commission states it this way: “The receivers and the company have delib- erately ignored the orderly p-ocedure. * * & The law provides for fines and imprisonment in cease of such violations. Receivers are created by the law. It is the more surprising that they should “ignore orderly pro- cedure.” Meantime the trolley patrons suffer a continuing inconvenience and damage Orderly procedure would have been to try out a technical violation and so force a test case. In the event that the companies and the receivers lost, the natural course would have been to have de- manded a merely technical fine, and probably no imprisonment But in a case where orderly procedure is “delib- erately ignored,” to the harm of the public, the authorities should press for the full letter of the Jaw in fines and sentences. In the course of tha Transit Commission’s pro- posed unification of lines, the Commission will probably issue many orders that receivers and ' company officials will want to ignore. The New York and Queens case presents a fa- vorable opportunity for administering a lesson that may be a warning against deliberate defiance of the Commission. . Judge Hand gives proof of the judicial trend of his mind when he says the “disagreeabl of Greenwich Village “ought not to be taken more seriously than they take themselves,” But that leaves a rather wide margin of treat- ment. Some of the sefious take their serious- ness most seriously. WHAT WERE “THE WORST”? 'N a Senatorial comparison of political acts pre- vious to the last Republican convention, Sena- tor Harrison suggested that the Goldstein case was one of the “worst.” Senator Spencer disputed this. He upheld the fair name of Missouri. “The worst things,” he de- clared, “did not occur there, but entirely in other States.” It must be admitted that Senator Spencer's opinions of good and bad in politics are not worth much, for Spencer led in Newberry’s defense. But . + anything that shocked Spencer would shock the country even more severely. The Goldstein case was bad enough. The pub- lic has no certain knowledge of anything worse, even though it may suspect. If Senator Spencer knows of something worse, it is his duty to take the public into his confidence. Does Spencer have information as to why some of the original Lowden men from Missouri switched to Harding and have since been rewarded j with Federal office? ¥ Buying venal and-unfit delegates with cash is “1 bad enough. Buying them with the promise of of- fices for which they are unfit would be worse, if not “worst.” Is this the kind of thing Senator Spencet refers to as “the worst cases”? . ‘When stories of profiteering in carnations for Mother’e Day come each year we wonder whether the florists somehow managed to be born without mothers, WHERE LABOR NEEDS THE COURTS. IE serious disorders in Chicago growing out of the attempt of the Citizens’ Committee to enforce the Landis wage award should not be turned into a wholesale indictment of labor unions. It looks as if Chief of Police Fitzmorris hit it about right when he placed the blame squarely on certain “ex-convicts and hoodlums who have got ints power in the unions.” “They have all been in prisons and now they are carrying the war to the Police De 4 partment. They shall have it. They are just as guilty of the murder of these policemen as the Anarchists were in the Haymarket riot. They no more represent honest labor than the Anarchists. did. Labor does not need them and the Police Department will not have them around.” The unions can fight their battles without thugs and murderers. At the same time, it is up to the unions to re- pudiate thugs and murderers in a way that will leave no doubt in the public mind who is to be held accountable for lawless and murderous acts. Mr. Gompers has lately held that organized Ja- bor should be left free to work out its own salya- tion without interference from the courts. But organized labor cannot afford to stand for the kind of things that have been done in its name in Chicago, nor can it get along without the courts to furnish the justice that will keep its record glean. Surely Mr. Gompers would admit that in such a AOR THE Se RR TERETE So 5 ‘ #/situation the Tabor unfons and the courts must work together. THE RUSSIAN REPLY. HE Russian reply presented yesterday at Genoa can be read with satisfaction and pride at Moscow. It mixes firmness and conciliation in well- calculated proportions. It flatters Soviet self- confidence without killing the expectation of Soviet concession. It is a declaration—also an invitation to prolong debate. Moscow will assuredly applaud the proposition, supported by precedents, that: “Governments and systeins of government which have emerged from a revolution are not - bound to respect the obligations of Governments which have lapsed.” “From this standpoint it becomes nothing short of purc magnanimity on the part of the present Government in Russia to be ready to accept lia- bilities for the payment of public debts. Nevertheless, provided Russian counter-claims are recognized, the readiness is still there. Moscow will also highly approve the declara- tion against letting any “super-arbiter” pronounce on the property claims of foreigners in Russia. Here again, however, the present Government in Russia is still prepared to match concession with concession. One paragraph in the Russian reply is significant: “If the Russian Government lacks financial resources or credits to assist industry and agri- culture, restore the means of transport and establish a stable currency by stopping the issue of continually depreciating paper rubles, foreign commercial relations of any magnitude will be met by very great difficulties. Moreover, meas- ures almed at the relief of Russia can only be applied by the Government itself or according to a scheme drawn up in advance.” Herein may be felt a major resentment of the Soviet Government at the attitude of other Gov- ernments who are willing to do more for “private traders” than for the bolstering up of the Soviet Government itself. The obvious retort is, of course: What has the Soviet Government done with such opportunities as it had? What is the present state of Russian industry? Who flooded Russia with “depreci- ating paper rubles’? On the other hand, it is the Soviet Government with which other Governments represented at Genoa are trying to deal The strict logic of a situation is not always th best guide to agreement. é Kaiser Shows Signs of Religious Mania.—- Headline. The partnership between “Ich und Gott” was one the Versailles Treaty couldn't touch. PART OF THE PICTURE. IHOMAS A. EDISON has expressed his appro- val of the “Manhattan Extension” project, which proposes to fill most of the Upper Bay and so create several square miles of land south of the Battery. The project is advanced by a private company. Perhaps it would be wiser for the city to undertake the work. The company engineers do not think so. The city’s engineers do not appear to be giv- ing much attention to the project. If they did, suspicion of political influence would weaken the effect of their report. The project seems feasible, but the interests of the city must be protected. The new “Plan of New York” organization fostered by the Sage Foundation is being put forward at a fortunate time. Its field would naturally cover just such de- velopments. Its engineering, social and legal bu- reaus are designed to undertake just such investi- gations. Its findings would be free from political bias and its advice should be worth heeding. ACHES AND PAINS *A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. All that glitters is not gold; I wonder why! For ‘tis glitter, not the gold, That takes the eye. ° They are almost calling him “Lied George” in their beastly Cockney tongue. . In politics people who go right usually get left. . Buch a sensitive United States Senate! It accepts Newberry, a beneficiary of corrupt practices, as a mem- her, but objects to Goldstein, a tool! ry . When I am tll Like some old dog I creep Into a dark corner, Leaving the cure ‘To rest and silence! ° . The newest and happiest thing is the Public Speak- ers’ Soctety, new bloomed at Harrisburg, Pa., which gladsomely offers the following to our overtazed in- tellects: ‘The Public Speakers’ Society * * * fe a bureau organised for the purpose of supplying prepared Or prepared-to-order epeeches, Addrenses, cosays, orations and papers upon any desired subject and to fit every uso and occasion, We furnish tmmediately Addresses for fraternal social clubs, church organi annivernarie Do not hi us for @ paper upon subject; we @re prepared to meet every requiri If you are called upon to deliver a public no need for you to take hours of time from necessary work to collect material for a speech, Fr have to arise before your audi- ance In embarrassment to apologize for tack of preparation, or to make the lame apology that the preceding speakers have exhausted ihe subject under discussion most difficult 4 eee eee Gathering Campaign Material By John Cassel | By Press Pi | From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ien'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 satiafaction in trying te ay much in few words. Take time to be brief. More Than Fatr. To the Editor of The Evening World: I wonder why The Evening World editor dignifies letters of Prohibition fanatics by putting them in the letter column? Of course there's such a thing as trying to be fair to both sides, but the letters of these fa- natics — these unreasoning ‘Dry’ people are so devoid of any element that shows or proves their case that It seems foolish and a waste of space to put them before the public. Prohibition and its tactics do not in- spire respect, even—only arouse the ridicule of fine thinking, lberty re- specting men and women. Why encourage the puerile writings of the opposite alde? The Evening World's determined stand against the high-handed methods of the “Drys"’ is commend- able, but {t {s lenient to the point of erring when it permits senseless, vituperative letters to appear in {ts papers, The principle of fatrness 1s not involved when right is so palp- able, A WOMAN, A Spiritual Soul, To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘According to Mr. Sutton’s article oi a few weeks aga, the chief difference between’ man and the other animals ts man's ability to invent. In a late article he challenges readers to sup- ply any proof other than faith for the existence of the soul as a separate or different entity from the body. The ability to Invent means the ability to conceive an abstract plan which may or may not be put Into a material form. There is no building nor machine, nor anything man-made, that was not first an idea, That 1s, the abstract always gives birth to the concrete, and not the concrete to the abstract. A purely material mind, a protoplasm soul, therefore, could not invent—namely, produce the abstract. Hence, if the material does not pro- duce the abstract and man can invent, be something else within our “ego” besides matter. Therefore, man must have a soul which is a dif- ferent or separate entity trom matter, —namely, @ spiritual soul, M. T. BABCOCK N. Y., May 3, 1922, Nanuet To the Fditor of The Evening World: According to your editorial May 9, Evening World, Mr. Coler and former Court Justice Hoffman charge that} many persons, whose mental condition ie only slightly and, perhaps, tempo- rarily deranged, have been railroaded to asylums where they became per- manently insane. Also, Mr, Hoffman says “that there is no Institution In this country that has for its objects the taking cure of men, women and children who are for the moment de- ranged in mind." There are plenty of institutions who could take care of such persons, but there are not enough persons capable of caring for the deranged. Insanity is often caused by jealousy. Quick temper also is the foundation of insanity. All persons have traces of insanity and traces of knowledge. It depends upon the person which he cultivates more. Insane persons can’t be cured in padded cells or when chained to bed. Such a person has to be studied and cured by lectures and proper food. Kindness shown to an insane person will make friendship at once. Arti- ficial kindness is the worst thing to prevent the improvement of the In- sane. T. B. New York City, May 10. bit Them Work a To the itor of The Evening W Continental Europe has destroyed its own surplus and a portion of ours. What we hold in our claims against them are their promises to replace the wealth borrowed of us and destroyed. [ut they cannot replace without pro- ducing. They cannot start to produce because war has destroyed even their working capital. They cannot buy raw materials with which “to start their factories. Meanwhile the interest is piling up. In order to recover what we have lent, we must lend them more. They have skill and experience, organizing ability and the desire to work. They are weary gf disorganization and ex- periments, Even Russia ts willing to pay old debts as well as new. In former years every country In Europe built up large stores of cap- ital by working and saving. They will do it again, Thereby they can and will pay their debts to us. Slowly, though, they may pay at first, giv: them time and they will pay in full Meanwhile our money ts well invested. Let us not hesitate, but get tl rangements made and their factories going. DANIA KYSOR, New York, May 6, 1922. For Mo " Day. To the Editor of The Bvening World: Next Sunday is Mothers’ Day. The carnation is, I believe, the recognized emblem of the love and respect we bear her. A line to such a one: Mother, dear, The longing for you has never ceased And never will Unti! in passing over soul shall seek you, you above, The weary spirit.nestle close to thine And feel at last the sweet embrace Of mother love. LILIAN MADEIRA, New York, May 10, 1923. ~ oes eae UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1983, ty Fone Blade) MORNING INSPECTION. The great ship is on its way across the ocean. Over- side the steady swish of the water accompanies the thump, thump, thumping of the propeller. On the bridge is the officer of the watch with his eyes sweeping the sea ahead. Above him is the léokout in the crow’s nest. In the pilot house is the quartermaster, with his hands on the steam steering gear, his ears alert for orders as to the course from the officer, though no word about the course may be spoken for hours. The passengers are coming out of their staterooms and making ready to stretch themselves on the deck or go to the dining room for breakfast. Everything, to all outward appearances, is in ship shape. Yet, presently the inspecting officers appear on deck and with painstaking minuteness look over every part of the ship. A second inspection is taking place in the engine room. For unless the Captain can know beyond question that every- thing is all right he is not satisfied. The symptoms of ship health and steadiness may be all present. That is not enough. He must be sure that every- thing, from the position of the vessel to the working of the smallest pump that supplies water to the boilers, is what it should be. If it isn’t, it is made so immediately. It is by rigid and regular inspection that ships perform the seeming miracle of safely crossing an ocean on which there are no roads and no lighthouses and arriving in their destined port on schedule time. It is by the same sort of inspection that armies are kept fit for action, No baataone organization can be effective without such a system. No railroad could operate without inspection for more than a few months. Yet the average citizen pursues his way calmly without troubling himself to take his position or even to examine into his physical condition unless some malady and the ac- companying pain or disability sends him to the sick-bed or the hospital for an overhauling. He is satisfied with where he is, no matter how far towerd his goal he may be; he takes it for granted that everything will move in the same orderly fashion to the end of his days. A morning inspection established by every individual would dispose of at least half of the illnesses and all of the laziness in men, and as the world is what it is made by those Nistvypar's famino, which cost the who compose it, the progress upward which we are all hve millions, remained almost une striving for would be soon marvellously accelerated, Ht fous A ~ id Mia’! fond ‘Salutation of Beatrice,'* Whose Birthday? MAY 12—DANTE GABRIEL ROS- SETTI was born in London on the 12th of May, 1828. Early in chilhood he displayed a remarkable apility for drawing and painting, so it was de- cided that he was to study art. He studied under Ford Madox Brown for a short period and thrqugh him be- came acquainted with Millals and From the Wise A nation is a thing that lives und acts like a man, and men are the particles of which it ts com posed.—J. C, Holland. The only cure for envy 4s to look upon the prosperity of the envied | Holman Hunt. With these men and ; ‘3 self, [others he established what ts known person ag belonging to one's self. as the Brotherhood of Pre-Raphael- —Dionyslus. ites. His best known paintings are Unwieldy China By Maubert St. Georges yrisht, 1982 (New York Even! oeiorta) by reo Fubitsning Cone It was the disastrous defeat of China at the hands of Japan in 18%, and the humiliations subsequently heaped upon her by European powerg in forcing her to grant concessiong and leases, that were the starting potnt of the transformation in Ching that has attracted so much attent With the realization that cored) countries could no longer be ignored, two new groups sprang into beings The one was a progressive party made up of those who believed thag the advantage of the foreigners lay it their scientific methods and organiza« tion, and who thought that to save China it was necessary to make he# adopt this western civilization. The other group, the reactionaries, deck ed that China at any cost must be of the foreigners who were threatene ing her independence. It is the mane oeuvres of these two parties whichf together must number less than 1 pew cent. of the population, that have a@ continuaily been brought to our ste tention by clever’ publicity. At first the progressives, who warg for the most part wealthy merchaht around Canton, obtained from th¢ Emperor the promise of reforms that would quickly transform China, Buf before these could be brought inte effect the Emperor's mother, at the instigation of the reactionaries, ime prisoned him and took control of the Government. {Immediately what ig@ known as the Boxer rebellion broke olt and she issued orders that all r elgners should be killed. These murders simply gave an ex cuse for greater encroachments, an@ the resulting competition betweem Russia and Japan brought these twa nations {nto war in 1904. The victory of Japan, proving the value of ae up Western methods, galvanii China. Plans for bringing about @ representative Government were grade ually put in action and finally @, National Assembly met in 1910. . 4 In 1908 the death of the Empresa had set on foot a republican moves ment, under the leadership of Dr. Sum Yat Sen and of southern merchantyy who saw in republicanism the only hope for New China. An attempt by, the Central Government to control the railways and complete them with fore eign capital provoked a rebeiliom, After a few weeks Yuan Shih Kal, leading statesman and soldier who hag been charged to resist the republicans, announced that resistance was impos sible, and advised abdication. This ade vice was followed, and Sun Yat Seng who had been elected President, ree signed in favor of Yuan Shih Kal ty order that this man, who was populag in the north, might bring unity to thé country. This much wished for co-operati; did not, however, appear. Inst friction increased until a rebelliog broke in 1918. This was over a loam @rranged by forelgn powers and calewflated further to compromise Chinese independence, and whicl Yuan Shih Kal ratified on his own Tesponsibility in spite of popular dis« sent. The rebellion was easily put down, and with the money in his pose session Yuan Shih Kai dismissed the assembly and in 1916 declared hime self Emperor. Upon the oppositio: of Japan, Great Britain, France Russia he abdicated, but only death prevented further civil war. The Vice President automatically became President and he succeeded try maintaining peace until 1917. Th during the trouble aroused by Caing entering the World War, he driven from Peking by a general tried to reinstate the Emperor, even when this movement had beet} frustrated by popular feeling, he re+ fused to resume his duties. In 1918 Hsu Shih Chang, tha present President, was elected by the imperialists, but the southern praye inces refused to recognize the ude ministration. The negotiations of new loans from Japan placing China more than ever under {ts control, and the unsatisfactory result of the Peaca Conference further widened the breach, between the two parties. During the Washington Conference the belief that the Peking Administration was proe Japanese increased ill-feeling and several times It seemed as if fighting would occur. Finally the Governor of Manchuria, Gen. Chang Tso Lin advanced on Peking und forced the President form a new Cabinet under a Premige who had been Gofivicted last yeur of conspiracy against the Government, Gen, Wu Pei Fu thereupon sent ultt matums to Peking, Asa result of his threats, Gen. Chang, who is negottate ing with the Canton Government, oc cupled Peking “in order to try to and civil war broke out. It strange, however, that these disturbances, important in that they may decide the future policy of hin, yet relatively insignificant te fithb. Jatwe mass of the population, ‘rouse so much interest, while ‘8 Dream," ‘‘Venus Verticor~ fut though Rossetti distinguished himeclf as a painter, he succeeded in achieving greater fame through his poetic writings. His princlpal works include ‘Hand and Soul,!* “The House of Life,” “Dante af Verona, “Sister Helen" and ge i 81 his health began to give way, and after a long illness he died on tha Sth of April, 1882. He left a deem impression upon the poetic methods of his time and ts said to have duvenated. the. depapatiys. arts. ek