The evening world. Newspaper, May 27, 1922, Page 10

1 0 @he EMH datarie. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pwritmhed Daily Except Sunday by The Press Publishing Sompany. Now, 58 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 65 Park Row 63 Park Rew. } MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES: } * Gre Associated Prem ts exclusively entitied to the mse for republication ‘ @ all news deepatchen credited to {t or not otherwise credited Im thle paper ‘ ‘ Grd alto the local mews published berete THE COURTS BACK LABOR. HE Appellate Division of the Supreme Court T confirms Justice Wagner's recent ruling that an injunction may halt contract-breaking employ- ers as certainly as it has been used to punish con- tract-breaking employees. Coming soon after Mr. Gompers’s latest tirade Against the courts, this decision is most welcome. The injunction was granted on application of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. It put an end to the “outlaw” effort of the Manu- facturers’ Protective Association to break a con- tract entered into with the union. The action was taken as the result of a sugges- tion made by The Evening World, and the con- firmation by the higher court ought to commend similar action to other unions. Mr. Gompers will not approve the decision. Mr. Gompers prefers to fight it out on the lines to which he is accustomed Wiser labor leaders ought to be able to see that they cannot successfully break or defy the courts. The better, more peaceful and more economical way would be to use the courts in behalf of labor organizations whenever the courts can give effec- tive aid The Aldermen propose to license laundries and to standardize laundry marke. Is this a new Chinese exclusion act? \ WHY DID THEY REFUSE ? } A TORNEY GENERAL DAUGHERTY wants the people of the United States to believe i that he found it impossible to get a competent | lawyer to undertake the prosecution of war frauds. We are asked to believe that the Attorney Gen- eral of the United States applied to sixty leaders of the bar and that all sixty turned down an op- i portunity for public service. This inspired news will not be accepted. The legal profession isn’t so low, sordid, selfish as Daugherty would have us think. If the Attorney General did in fact apply to VF sixty lawyers only to meet with refusals, then the reflection is on the Attorney General and not on the lawyers. If sixty lawyers refused, it must ; have been because the Attorney General's plans | for prosecution did not meet with the approval of the leaders of the bar; that he imposed restrictions the sixty were unwilling to accept. Daugherty’s decision to be his own chief prosecutor, together with the names of his first three assistants, lends support to this view. Reavis, McCulloch and Anderson are better known as politicians than as lawyers. Did the “sixty lawyers” decline to serve because Daugherty intends to institute political persecutions instead : of legal prosecutions? Ireland and Texas are running neck und neck in the civil disorder race, If the Coali- tion Government can pacify Ireland, Texas will have time to catch up/with ite lynching record, TO SERVE COMMUTERS. LTHOUGH at present the plan is what he calls “sketchy,” Transit Commissioner Mc- Aneny regards as inevitable a rearrangement of commuting service. The proposal suggested Thursday was for a union commuting station at 33d Street and Fourth Avenue to serve both the Long Island and Westchester traffic and so relieve the two terminal stations of their overload. } Perhaps that will be a first step, but it may not ‘ prove an ultimate solution. Dumping all the commuters out at one spot to jam the subway trains for distribution is not a satisfactory way of settling the long-haul business. It wastes time. It is a serious incénvenience and adds to the subway jam at the rush hour. Already the Transit Commission has plans for an Eighth Avenue subway. Another east side subway is inevitable. Would it not be possible to consider a commuter loop to be constructed in con- nection with these two lines? If six tracks could be constructed instead of four, it might prove feasible to run suburban trains on the two extra tracks and deliver com- muters in the vicinity of their business places, A crossover, say, at 57th Street and another down- town would permit trains to make the complete circuit. Westchester trains would enter at the north end of the loop, Long Island trains would fonnect on the east branch at 33d Street, New Jersey trains from the west. This is approximately the system followed in He the Chicago elevated lines entering the “Loop.” : This would of course require the electrification of all the New Jersey lines and the adoption of approximately uniform equipment. But such ser- _ View would be s0 convenient and expeditious that it would stimulate the “spreading-out process” so desirable as population increases. THE CONFLICT. ~ LOYD GEORGE told the House of Commons that there is only one kind of public opinion in Russia just now that counts, and this is “not the public opinion of vast masses of people—95 per cent. of the people are indifferent to ‘this (Soviet) system or hostile to it “The only opinion there that matters is the opinion of the workmen in the towns, who represent less than 1 per cent. of the whole population, But the Soviet system and Its power is based upon that, It is not de mocracy, it {s oligarchy. * * * “The fact is that the vast majority of the Russian people are more individualist than the people of this country, and you have the paradox of a Communist Government speak- ing in the name of an individualist popula- lation.” Nevertheless, paradox or no paradox, Lloyd George is still ready to deal with this present un- representative Government in Russia as the only medium through which it is possible to reach the Russian people at all On the one hand is a capitalistic world ready to aid Russia but trying to condition that aid in such manner as not to strengthen the hold of com- munism in Russia On the other is a Soviet Government eager for capitalistic aid but manoeuvring as hard as it can to keep the administering of such aid in its own hands in order to preserve its prestige and present a bolder front against capitalism. It is a difficult situation, and Lloyd George him- self cannot show that it has advanced beyond the mere supposition that Soviet representatives, hay- ing paraded Soviet doctrine for the gratification of Soviet pride at Genoa, will be more ready to get down to business and accept terms at The Hague The Russian problem long since proved itself too big a handful for every-day diplomacy. For it represents two economic systems—irrecon- cilable, antagonistic—trying to deal with each other without yielding to each other in their re- spective claims to the right to survive: HANNA AND LODGE. iy his personal recollections of the ‘‘sound- money” campaign of 1896, published in the Saturday Evening Post this week, H. H. Kohlsaat recounts an incident that reveals one of the rea- sons why Mark Hanna was a power in politics. While Mr, Hanna was busy reading—or cen- soring—the keynote speech of the convention a visitor bustled in and said: “Mr. Hanna, I insist on a positive declaration for a gold-standard plank in the platform.” Mr. Hanna’s comment was: “Who in hell are you?” The visitor identified himself. “Well,” replied Mr. Hanna, addressing the visitor by name and title, “you can go plumb to hell. You have nothing to say about it.” The visitor threatened to fight it out on the floor of the convention, Hanna replying: “I don't care a damn where you make your fight.” After the visitor departed, Mr. Kohlsaat pointed out to Mr. Hanna that a fight would be incon- venient and begged to show the visitor the plank proposed. Mr. Kohlsaat reports: “Hanna replied: ‘You can’t trust.that blankety- blank man; he will give the plank to the press.’” The visitor was Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Kohlsaat showed him the plank. It was printed in the newspapers the next day, although Lodge had agreed to keep it confidential. Lodge gave out the plank as “what I stand for,” and accepted credit as its author. Mark Hanna was a shrewd judge of men. Hanna mistrusted Lodge on sight. Massachusetts is twenty-six years slow. ACHES AND ‘PAINS Oswald Garrison Villard desoribes the Genoa Con- ference as “dancing on a voloaho.” We once knew @n ancient country fair showman, Esra Stevens of Bryont’s Pond, Me., who exhibited a coop of “danc- ing turkeys.” The novelty went very well until a curious rustic discovered that under the sheet iron floor of the cage an oil lamp made it uncomfortably warm, so much so that the birds kept hopping about to cool their feet. The rhythm of @ hand organ per- fected the delusion, Looks as if Babe Ruth were @ spoiled child, . The first English woman barrister has just been called to the bar in London. She is Miss Ivy Williams. Our British brothers are very deliberate, but they arrive, Think how long ago they started for Jerw- salem! Stephen Leacock says the difference between Ameri- can and English newspapers is that here the editors throw the news at the reader, while in Britain they break it to him gently: Which is about it, Reports from Cos Cod are to the effect that the tautog are biting well and there is a fine run of perch. . Who says poets never realize their ideals? Maxwell Anderson has bought a waterfall 25 feet high up in Rockland County and every sunrise he sits in the pearly pool at its foot and lets the Hackensack River pour over Rim. JOHN KEETZ. ee So REA THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1992. From Evening World Readers What kind of letter doyou find most readable? Isn't it the one that dives the worth of a thousand words In a couple of hundred? There ie Aine menta! exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te «ay much in few words. Take time to be brief. —$—$ $< “Mental Tests.” ‘To the Editor of The Evening World Well, I solved the puzzle in five minutes. Greatly pleased as I was by this proof of my ‘‘superior'’ intelli- gence, I thought very much less of it when I found that six other men to whom I gave the puzzle had not more difficulty in solving it than I had, I must add that we are all engineers, but even at that I don’t think that Mr. Fraurblau is right when he rates the average intelligence of adults so low and regards this test as so extremely severe. High school and college man- uals of mathematics contain problems which are without comparison more difficult and are supposed to be solved by young men from Ofteen to eighteen years old. As a matter of fact, they are usually solved by 20 to 80 per cent. of the class. For those interested in the solution of our problem, here it is: 1, Fill the five-quart bucket, 2, Pour three quarts out of it into the three-quart bucket. 8. Empty the three-quart bucket. 4. Pour the remaining two quarts from the five-quart bucket into the three-quart bucket. 6. Fill the five-quart bucket again. HENRY MENKES. No. 141 Hast 18th Street, New York. To the Editor of The Evening World: I wish to thank you for publishing “Bp, J. A.'s'' recent letter, ‘What a perfect portrait of himself he gave us—not @ high-light, notsa shadow lacking! What a magnificent Dempsey “swing’’ for, Prohibition! Starting from somewhere near the heel and gathering force as it journeyed, it landed squarely on the point—of his own jaw. If Prohibition has any sincere friends they will do well to seek out the habitat of “E. J. A.’ and break his pen. As an admirer of this Chester- field stylist I will contribute toward the bullding of a new one. ; CHARLES MACKAY. Applause. To the Editor of The Evening World: T wish to take exception to the statement of Dr. E. E. Free, scientist and psychologist, that ‘the weather more thaneany other cause is respon- sible for applause in the theatre.’ Dr. Free, who is reported to have con- ducted a series of experiments at a local theatre, uses the following argu- ment to prove his contention: ‘*The fact that on some nights certain lines receive tremendous applause, while on other nights these same lines, deliv- ered in exactly the same way and at the same tempo, recetve no applause whatever, indicates clearly that weather conditions govern the action ' of an audience in its attitude toward a play.” On the face of it, this argument is ridiculous, for it would not hold good in sections of the country where the temperature remains practically the same throughout the year’, territories such as Florida and Southern Califor- nia. Applause in the theatre or any other place is the result of the intelligence and mental equipment of an audience, and not the weather. Although the ability of the actors must, of course, be taken into consideration, in the final analysis the mentality of the audience is the basis of all applause. JOSEPH SANTLEY. Great Neck, May 24, 1922. Standard Time. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World. ‘Then here's to the Good Old Standard time ‘That never made us one hour behind, But always got us there on time; Three cheers for the Good Old Stand- ard Time! Let us have the Good Old Standard Tipe Our fathers had of yore, Let us have faith it will be changed And we will keep the Standard Time once more. ‘We love the Good Old Standard Time ‘We'll keep it till we die. The sun time is the time for us; God give us Standard Time.’ ‘The heathen tn the foreign lands Keep God's time by the sun, Then why shouldn't we America Keep God's time, every one? AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. New York, May 26, 1922 pete ALLL Jail WHOSE BIRTHDAY? MAY 27TH—JULI@ WARD HOWE was born in New York City on the 27th of May, 1819, and died on the 17th of October, 1910. She received a liberal education, and when she was only sixteen began to contribute poéms to New York periodicals. After her marriage to Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe she assisted him in editing the Commonwealth. She became a famous lecturer and advocator of abolition, and she was so sought after as a speaker that besides her regular work she occasionally preached from Unitarian pulpits, She was chief of the woman's department of the New Orleans World Fair, served a num- ber of years as President of the Amer- jean Woman's Suffrage Movément, and gained a high reputation for philanthropic work, Some of her works include ‘Words for the Hour," “Poems Old and New," the “Famous Women Serles,"" her own “Reminis- cences,"’ and the famous poem, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic." in free aes By John Cassel UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) WANTS. Man is a bundle of wants from birth. His first want, which is food, must be satisfied, and usually is. His second want, which is clothing, is supplied, in some fashion’ or other, by his mothet. . She supplies his third want, which is care. *Through childhood he continues to want. Almost the first thing he learns to say is “I want‘’’ following the two words by the name of the desired object. By the time he is ten years old“his wants are so nu- merous that he himself could not enumerate them all at once. But gradually a few wants begin to grow prominent among many little ones, and upon the nature and extent of these big wants depends the future of their owner. Wanting—wanting badly—can accomplish miracles for a normal being equipped with an average brain and nor- mal health. But they cannot accomplish miracles ynless their wants are the right sort and unless in time they grow so big and so important that all other wants sink to insignificance beside them. . The man, for example, who wants wealth has got for a time to,stop wanting comfort and play and a thousand of the pleasant things of life that other men consider indis- pensable. - He has got to think about that big want when he wakes in the morning, and to go to sleep at night still thinking of it. Perhaps—even probably—the wealth that is the answer to the want may not be worth dropping all those other wants for when it is attained. But that is the only way that it can be obtained, save by the money-making genius, and even he must be ready, if need be, to forget to want other things if the gaining of them interferes with the pursuit of wealth. The same thing is true of great achievement, which is far more important than wealth and sure to be worth the sacrifice of smaller wants, which it will mean. Our desires are much like a garden. Those who are given the best start will flourish and become satisfied. But they will do so at the expense of others which must be neglected. Wanting is important, and intelligent wanting is neces- sary to happiness. We know it usually by a more preten- tious name, which is ambition. MONEY TALKS By HERBERT BENINGTON. Soman ohr pen ecm Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World) Es y Press Publishing Company. From the Wise HOME. Year after year many of us pay rent. At ‘the end of twenty years the only real property we have to show is a bundle of rent receipts. my danger first; your speech afterwards, Yet the money paid has enabled some one alse to buy more tangible La Fontaine. property. Men possessing small souls are If we can do this for the landlord we can do It for ourselves, ‘The interest on a mortgage would i —Goethe. not be more than the rent on the house, and as we amortize the mort- gage the house slowly but surely be- Hey! my friend, help me out of you can make generally the authors of great evils, TURNING THE PAGES ‘By— €. Wi. Oxvorn Cored), by Prose Publishing Geet ishing Ca, ( UGGLERS keep sia bottles in the atr, J Clud swingers toss up sic and eight, The knife throwers miss each other's cara by @ hair, and the steel quw- ers in the target wood. The trapeze battlers do a back-and- forth high in the air with @ girl's feet and ankles upside down, So they earn a Uving—till they miss once, twice, even three times. So they lve on hate and love, as gypsies live in satin skins and.’ shiny eves. In their graves do the elbows joatie— once in a blue moon—and toriggle to throw a kiss answering @ dreamed-of applause? Do the bones repeat: It’s a good act— we gota good hand... One of those weird wonderings of the poet, Carl Sandburg, who assists. at the theory that Chicago is @ Iit- erary centre. This sample borrowed from Vanity Fair. 8 @ “Are You Married?” « - « : Turned out by the fine femining! hand that directs ‘The Point © * in Scribner’s Magazine: “Are you married?” That seems to be the criterion by which « woman over twenty-five stands or falls. Whenever my mother chances upon an old acquaintance she is met with the question: ‘Oh, and your daughter, T suppose she is married?” ‘The reply being in the negative, the inquirer changes the subject. Every time I run across a married classmate her first query is: “You're married, too, aren't you?" And when "1 feel like the little girl who was told to bring a written exercise to school—and didn’t, T am even beginning to wonder if St. Peter at the gate of Heaven will not look at me kindly but firmly, like the teacher, shake his head and, saying gravely, ““Ah—but where is & your husband?" turn me away. d We're not so sure about the con- tinued inevitability of the ‘‘Are you married?” question Even mere man does not, in these days, ask his brother first and al- ways, “Are you a Mason?’ wee Her Mother's Progressive Daughter. A story adorning Maurice Francis + Egan's paper on ‘The Une pects of “the Inevitable,"’ in the Century! Magazine. It is a long way to Omaha, and during the journey there was on the train, when “the boys'’ were coming home, an aged farmer who sang dolefill hymns in a bad voice; he likewise very often gave his opinion in a loud tone as to the fate of the other passengers who had not “got religion.” There came a young bride and groom; the car was half full of re turning soldiers The bride bit off the end of » ! cigar and gave it to her husband. The old farmer rolled his eyes; he opened his mouth to denounce her she took out a cigarette case, of fered it to "the boys’ in the seats near her, and then lit a cigarett® for herself, The old man’s eyes flamed. “Stop that!’’ he cried out, as John Knox rebuked Mary Stuart. “‘Jeze- bel! ‘Think of your mothe € “My mother amoked a pipe," the bride replied gently. A daughter confident in her gener- ation, If not also wise, what is any- body else going to do about it? She asks you The Way oi the Zuni Girls -- - Writes Elsie Clews Parsons, in “American Indian Life'’ (Huebsch), concerning the girls of the Zuni tribe’ Apprehensive of desertion a wo- man may put a lock of hair from the man in her house wall or, the better to attach him to her, she may wear {t over her heart. A woman who Is deserted may take sofl from the man’s footprints and put it where she sleeps. At night he will think of her and come back—even if the other woman ts better looking. Women and men alike may buy , love charms from the ne'wekwe, a curing society, potent. in mi black or white. There is a 1 jong, too, which men and women may sing in their heart to charm the opposite sex. And there is a song which a girl may sing to the corn as she rubs the yel- low meal on her face before going out. “Help me,"’ {s the substance of it, “TI am going to the plaza. Make me look pretty.” Rarely do our girls pray, I suppose, when they powder their noses. Apparently civilization In the sooiat circles of the Zunis is far, as yet, from the flapper-producing stage, . 8 The Girl Who Is Different - - ~ ‘When Stephen Culpeper talks with Margaret Blair, in Ellen Glasgow's — “One Man in His Time” (Doubleday- Page) a new story of Virginia: “You are so different from the other girls, Margaret,” he md at last, oppressed by the old difficulty of making conversation. “You don’t belong to the same world with Mary \l a He was going to y Vetch," but he checked himself before ¢he name esopped hin. “No, I don't," ebe replied, wigh # ness, “I sometimes wish that I did. “But why, in Heaven's name, should you wish that when you are 7 everything that they ‘ “As if that mattere: her voice that was new to t's gone out of fashion to r about your being what you ought to be. ‘I've been trained to be the kind of girl that doesn't get on to-day, full of-all sorts of for- and refinements, because everybody ring so hard at the girls who are -improperly dressed. ‘There is only one place where I can be sure of having attention, and that is In an Old Ladies’ Home. Old ladies admire mé,"* The plaint of a Margaret, we under stand, who carries back to ole Vin ginny.