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: Boris ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITABR. |) Publimed Daily Excopt Sunday vr Tae Press Pablishing HH Company. Now. 0 68 Pa: # RALPH PULITZER. Preaid ' t,o » 3, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 68 Park Row. & JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 68 Park Rew. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES. entitled (0 the use for repablleation yerwise credited in this paper BI-STATE TRANSIT. OV. MILLER, addressing the Chamber of Commerce of Westchester County, warned -them that it might prove necessary to devise new and improved means of transit between that suburban residence region and the business hive of Manhattan. Commuting service is almost too much for the railroads and the Governor suggested the pos- sible development of a “distinct system.” The same, he said, applied to Long Island and ‘to New Jersey. The New Jersey problem is fur- ther complicated by the fact that the traffic is interstate and so not subject to regulation by a single Public Service Commission. The Governor suggested that this feature might ‘eventually lead to the creation of a bi-State tran- ~-‘Sit commission organized after the fashion of the Port Authority. The Evening World suggested this possibility some time ago. It is a natural development and should benefit both the New Jersey commuters and the business of New York. Present facilities are not satisfactory. The Hudson Tubes are an jimprovement on the ferries, but the 10-cent fare from mid-New York is too high. The time and | inconvenience of changing cars is onerous and uneconomic. A bi-State commission ought to be able to plan modifications which would bring New Jersey | trains direct to suburban stations in New York City. | | | | “Goods do not move in an economic vaguum,” Mr. Hoover remarks, referring to Russia, Mr. Hoover ought to tell it to the tariff thakers who are working the air pump as hard as they are able. | THE CLAIM OF THE NEAR EAST. N a letter signed “Fed Up’ in another column the writer.grants the need for charity in the Near East but is of the opinion that charity should begin at home. He cites in particular the case of the West Virginia miners with their low earnings and hard conditions of life. The two cases do not offer a parallel. In the Near East charity is essential to check the death roll. The United States cannot alter the causes of poverty, famine and suffering in the Near East. The thing to do is to alleviate as much misery as possible and save lives. That is char- ity. Charity knows no limit. If it begins at home, it should extend itself wherever the need demands. West Virginia's case is different. The West Virginia miners may need charity, but what they want is a square deal. The people of the United States are in position to remove the causes of suffering in West Virginia and to make charity &S vunnecessary. | If the plight of the West Virginians touches “the Heart of America, by all means offer charity, but do not stop with charity. Go to the roots of the matter and force a removal of the causes MeanWhile the need for charity in the Near East is great and terrible. Start charity at home and send it to the famine lines. Imagine a party on some Houseboat on the Styx where Cameron and Quay and Penrose might gather and shake their heads over what happened in Pennsylvania Tuesday! INSTEAD OF FEDERAL LICENSES. ISTRICT ATTORNEY BANTON has urged the licensing of automobiles by the Fed- eral Government. The principal feature of this «licensing would be the stamping of essential parts of a machine with a number difficult to remove or alter, ‘Tampering with the number would be a serious offense. The need for such a system of numbering rises from the growing industry of automobile-steal- ing. Federal licensing and numbering would un- doubtedly be of service in checking interstate commerce in stolen cars Opponents of Federal licensing fear that such a system would be only an entering wedge for taxation of automobiles. The license fee pro- posed is nomihal, but Congress might gasily raise the fee when added revenue is needed. Why not a voluntary organization with a simi- lar system of numbering? Why shouldn't the leading automobile clubs, manufacturers, deal- ers and insurance companies get together, agree on a uniform system of numbering and inaugu- rate a sales and insurance policy founded on registered and certified bills of sale? Such an organization could enlist the aid of individual owners, law enforcement agencies and honest garage-keepers, all pledged to protect the numbers, use the registered bills of sale in all transfers and wage unrelenting war on the auto- mobile thieves. In days when horse-thieving {flourished the _— _Anti-Horse Thief Societies used similar methods successfully. The idea would be even more ap- plicable in the case of automobiles. Motor cars are manufactured. Horses are born. if all automobiles were numbered in a single series, detection would be much simpler. A sin- gle list of stolen cars could be issued to all garage-keepers and police officers with rewards for recoveries. In a few years the lack of a certified bill of sale would be presumptive evidence ‘that the car was not honestly acquired. Such an organization is possible. It would be worth while. It would do the work even better than a Federal license. ‘ NO LOANS IN HIS LUGGAGE, HE end of the Genoa Conference recalls what Lloyd George said to the Soviet delegates at its beginning: . “Let M. Tchitcherin finish this voyage and go home with all he can carry; then we will welcome him on another voyage when we know what Kind of a passenger he is.” M. Tchitcherin has done much toward demon- strating what kind of passenger he is. He pre- ferred the demonstration to finishing the voyage or to carrying anything substantial home with him. When the Soviet Government takes stock of what it got out of the Genoa Conference, what will it find? Item: Opportunity to parade Soviet doctrines of non-responsibility for debt which have only made a hundred times more cautious the nations with which the Soviet Government wants to deal Item: Opportunity to claim that other theories of property should defer to Soviet theories of property—a claim already vigorously and widely challenged Item: Faint hopes that smaller nations may some time furnish Russia with a puny part of what it needs from the bigger ones We do not count the treaty with Germiny. To all intents and purposes the Russians brought that to Genoa. When Moscow gets over the first elation at having put the Soviet Government so boldly and assertively in the spotlight, there may beesoberer second thought. There are no loans in Tchitcherin’s luggage. Nor is there the desired degree of recognition or the “equal footing.” On the contrary, there is only a warning to think it over and come in a more chastened spirit to The Hague. This warning, coupled with the renewed albeit long-distance reminder that the United States is still particular as to the basic economic prin- ciples of nations with which it deals, may nave its effect. M. Tchitcherin, or whoever heads the Russian representatives at The Hague, may prove a very different passenger. Even a Soviet Government is not impervious to plain demonstration of what it must pay for what it must have. Pennsylvania political bosses lay the blame on the women. ‘There never was a compli- ment more sincere or full of meaning. READY FOR BABE. aide heavy advance sale of seats in anticipa- tion of Babe Ruth's return to the business of bombarding the fences at the Polo Grounds is a fair measure of the punishment Judge Landis imposed on the owners of the Yankee club as well as on: the premier batter. The severity of the punishment and the good spirit in which it was accepted indicates the strong position Judge Landis holds and intends to maintain Landis is the ‘Dictator’ in truth, and now that Ruth’s season of suspension has passed, the fans may find it easier to indorse the action of the Commissioner, If Ruth were not a star of first magnitude the lesson in discipline would have been less impressive Having established his power in this first case, the Commissioner may find it easier to temper justice with mercy in the future. ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz, There is a wide difference between @ reason and an excuse . “M" stands for Murphy, Tammany’s boss; Could we but lose him ‘Twould be no great loss! . vAfter all,” the Old Guard Republicans are begin- ning to argue, “we are only being licked by our younger brothers.” . . Very leaky weather for the merry month of May. . Apropos of Senator Medill McCormick's effort to stop the naval excursion to Jqpan, some people occa- sionally spell his front name “Meddle.” . Having ably agreed to disagree, Lloyd George catis the Genoa Conference “a great success.” Some men can even praise cold buckwheat cakes! . Stocks rose when it was made known that President Harding hud patted the Bteel Trust on the back, Nice doggic! S “Nice Kit From Evening THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1922, World Readers What kind 01 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 satisfaction in trying te ‘ay much in few words. Take time to be brie: Will Not “y To the Editor of The Evening World Referring to letter signed “J. J Forrest,’ I would say it is not the true Americans, the ones who are the backbone of their country, who will “yell” for thelr beer. The beer industry is connected with or partly responsible for the great crime wave that now sweeps the country. ° Soon, very soon all these things that bring misery on the world will be on the downward move—for wrong in- fluences of all kinds are doomed ‘To the Editor of The Evening World The letter of Joe Taylor in your issue of May 14 emanates from a true patriot. No traitor or sedition- spreader should be released from jail. Our false sense of leniency to crimi- nals of this type will get us into the same fix as Russia if we continue it. I was hoping when we threw Prof. Wilson out of office that weak-kneed treatment of anarchists and their ilk would cease, but there would seem to be a good sprinkling of the yellow- stripe “‘international’’ idealists still in control of several departments of our Government. Perhaps the same condition exists here as Lord Sydenham told the House of Lords exists in Great Britain—‘‘dominion of the ‘Hidden Hand." CHARLES M. WHITE New York, May 16, 1922 To the Editor of The Evening Worid I am touched by the appeal for aid from the Near East. But deserving as this cause is and notwithstanding my heartfelt sympathy tor them, 1 cannot but think it is about time we apply the old adage “Charity begins at home, In order to bring my point forcibly to all your readers | need only to refer to the sermon yesterday by the Rey. Dr. Mercer D. Johnson of Baltimore, Md, delivered at the Church of thi Ascension, Sth Avenue and Street, and the four little children taking up a coll fon at the door for the starving miners, their families and children of West Virginia. Also the good advice and sentiments expressed at Carnegie Hall yesterday by Rabbi Wise concerning the proposed talks to be given throughout the mining re- gions by Billy Sunday to the striking miners, the object of which, as Dr. Wise says, will only be to get the poor miners to yield to more punishment. I know nothing of the merits of either side of the controversy and neither do I want to know anything. The fact that miners are paid $550 to $600 yearly is enough for me, and I ne¢g know nothing else as this injustice Mone is enough to surmount en] could benefit. anything brought forth by — the operators. It is a fine state of affairs when ‘the so-called State of West Virginia will stand for such an out- rage. It certainly looks as though Dr. Johnson is absolutely right in saying that West Virginia bears the name of a State, but that it is not, and that it is absolutely governed and controlled by the coal operators, mining interests, &c, This.being the case, why not close shop at Wheel- ing? + We Ave enough on our hands right here at home not only to assist but to drive us to shame; theretore iv behooves us as Americans, accord- ing to my opinion, to help one an- other, as T can fancy how much “charity” we would get from any country were we to ask therefor. FED UP 1922 New York, May 17, Entrance to Bridge. ‘To the Editor of The Evenlig World lam a constant reader of The Eve ning <World, and neve: without reading same. T am a resident on the lower east side of New York City, in the section where the Williamsburg Bridge crosses to Brooklyn. This bridge starts at Clinton Street, which is eleven blocks from the East River. This section below the entrance to the bridge is very thickly populated—that is, not only the eleven blocks which I figured running from east to west but also the streets on the, north and south side of the bridge. What T would like to know is why shouldn’t there be an entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge a block or two before it crosses the East River. Why should so many thousands of citizens traveling to and from Brook- lyn daily be so inconvenienced? Why should they have to walk big distances and then take cars to travel to Brooklyn when they could walk right across, or even take cars if they chose, at a much shorter dis- tance? 1 could brfitg out lots more facts whereby 80 many thousands of people I feel confident that 1 am voicing the opinion of thousands of people. It would not only be of ben- efit to the people but It would also be a big improvement to our city ‘An additional entrance to the Wil- liamsburg Bridge is an absolute ne. cessity, DG Ao Willlamsbarg miss a day A Question, To the Editor of The Evening World Is it a fact that U. S, Grant at any time during his pyblic life publicly or privately congratulated some for eign power on its success in a cer. tain war in Europe? Did it at that time arouse any feeling as to the discretion of such a remark” New York, May 17, 1022. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) A MAN WHO MADF, OPPORTUNITY. At nineteen the late Henry P, Davison was a clerk in 4 little bank in Pennsylvania. When he died he was one of the foremost financiers in the world. This is not going to be an effort to convince young men that they can all rise from obscurity to eminence in financ: merely by hard work. Davison accomplished what he sessed very great and unusual ability. But his life disproved the assertion that one hears many times a day—the assertion that ability has no chance in the world—and that only luck and pull will get a man anywhere. Davison had great ability, it is true. He made a mar ket for it. He not only achieved distinction but great wealth during a comparatively short “life—for he was only fifty-five years old when he died. But his ability, if it had not been seconded by a willing: ness to work as few men ever learned to work, would never have brought him so far. In his youth he was without influence or wide acquain tanceship or rich and powerful relatives. . There was nobody to advance him, to lift him over the heads of his fellow workers. He even lacked the* special education that so many men who started at the same time had been given. . But he possessed one of the greatest qualities——deter mination, Any one who ever saw him or who ever looked at his pictures could see that, It was his determination plus his ability that put him practically at the head of American financiers, Doubtless he had been told, as all young men~are told, that pull ruled in business and that unless he had rich friends all his study of finance would do him but little good. But if he was told anything like that he didn’t believe it. Somewhere within him was a confidence that going to succeed. and succeed he did. Davison's life does not prove that every young bank clerk can grow up into a Davison. It does prove, however, that ability can be made to count in this country if the man who is born with it is willing to back it up with energy and determination, did because he pos he was WHOSE BIRTHDAY? MAY 20—ANTOINETTE LOUISA BROWN BLACKWELL was born at Henrietta, N..¥.. on the 20th day of May, 1825. As a child she was very religious and after recelving an ex- cellent education at Oberlin she de- cided to become a minister. But she was refused a license to preach, so she gave her attention to lecturing on both theological subjects and upon suffra- ae MONEY TALKS By HERBERT BENINGTON. Copyright, 1 (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Comapny. INSURATICE. One of the oldest and most popular methods of saving is by life insitr- ance. 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Osborn York Brentn Boris), by Peees Publishing Con WOULD no sweeter treasure knew From your dear love than I can give, And in such peace as you destow I pray for you to live, Star to rejoicing star shall move And flower on happy flower shalt shine, But ail the sorrows of our tove— Let these be wholly mine. Yet this is treason. For I bear No prouder heart than is your own, And you would scorn the love would share Delight and grieve alone. A little sample, from “Seeds of Time" (Houghton- Mifflin), of the love John Drinkwater can sing when he turns for a poet's moment from the problems that draw his graver moods. Recon The Politeness of a Penguin --- In his “Great White South’? (Me- Bride), a book of Antarctic nature studies, Herbert G. Ponting tells of an adventure in courtesy with a great Emperor Penguin, thus: As we approached he came for- ward and bowed his head in greet- ing, with a grace that a courtier might envy. We clumsily returned this salutation, whereupon his majesty made severa) more genu- flexions, After this ceremonial he gazed at us; and then, advancing to within two yards, delivered a short speech in penguin language, (o which we endeavored to make appropriat replies, It was obvious that ¢ comlaisant bird, never having our like before, en took us for fellow creatures and was extending to us a {rlendly greeting; but he appeared to be much puzaled at our speech and hilarious demeanor. ‘Though he must have thought a set of dull-witted churls, as stood there like yokels, in comp: son with hie perfect se! and faultless manners, n attempts to imitate him; yet th polished gentleman of the eternal snows exhibited no annoyance. He graciously began the whole formality over again, uttering a fur- ther speech in soft, guttural ac vents, accompanied by more pune= tilious bowing A noble citizen df the Penguin Re- public of ‘Anatole France's wonderful tale. We could wish that he might uplift our New York with a school of cour- teous deportment. * In Violet Time A happy thought of spring by Gama liel Bradford, collected into “It Can Be Done” (Sully), a new anthropology of ‘Poems of Inspiration,” by Joseph Morris and St. Clair Adams: The south wind is driving His splendid cloud-horges Through vast fields of blue. The bare woods are singing, The brooks in their courses {re bubbling and springing And dancing and leaping, The violets peeping. I'm glad to be living, Aren't you? A House of Blissful Blighs--- From Phyllis Bottome’s novel, “The Kingfisher’ (Doran), we borrow this description of a right little, tight, little English household: Warren Manor was not a house in which accidents often happened. When the village children had measles all the little Blighs escape: it; they did not fall out of tre nor get into moral and physical difficulties over summer fruit. There was a certain amount of trouble in the household caused by Mr. Bligh’s ardent temperament; but Mrs. Bligh managed to keep most of it to herself, and as Mr, Bligh haf a tender heart, and ale ways told her everything, she sue- ceeded in steering him through the results of his blunders without dis« he had married him for love, and called him ir her youth the Don Quixote of her dreams; but she was very careful to remove all the windmills in his vicinity. It is interesting to reflect how the happy family Bligh is separated from a possible family Blight by the width only of a single crossed “t. a 6 Mrs. Austin’s Sunday Dinner --~ The neighbors, according to Bertha Streeter’s ‘‘Home Making Simpl- fied” (Harpe: are always wonder~ ing how Mrs. Austin manages always to be ready for her Sunday compangy The lady explains: “Sh! T'll tell you my secret. ¥ decide on Friday what 1 will have ‘and begin my preparations thi For instance, this week T made pie crust and the salad dressing on Friday. Saturday I seared the meat and put it in the oven to roast; then I made the pie, and when that was done I turned off the fire. left the meat in the oven until ft was cold, then I put it in the refrig- erator. “When I prepared new potatoes for dinner last night J fixed enough for to-day, so ail I had to do be- fore going to church was to boll them a few minutes and put them into the cooker. While I was wash- ing the dishes this morning the meat was being reheated; then I put it Into the cooker. If you stop to think, the vegetables you have had here on Sundays were either fresh and such as required little time for thelr preparation, or they were from my home-canned stock and required only reheating to pre= pare them for the table. “Salads, too, were generally of fruit. and could be put together quickly in the morning. ‘Those hot rolls you like so well were bought of the baker yesterday, When 1 put the meat Into the oven te brown and keep hot the gravy is made, I put the rolls in, too, just as they are in the bag, which I close tight at the top. By the time the vegetables are dished, the coffee and gravy made, they are lke freshly baked rolls. ‘That accounts for everything but the nuts and the bonbons, and these need only to be put into dishes.”” We ask Mre. Everyhousewife if that docsn't sound perfectly easy,