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4, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER 2 Pulsed Dally Except Sunday by ‘The Prowse Publishing Company. Nos, 53 to 63 irk Row, New Tork RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row « J ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. 4 JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. ; MEMBER OF THE assoctareD Pr ; ‘The Astociated Prew te exclusively entitied to the = : OBSTACLE MEETS OBSTACLE. d UPREME COURT JUSTICE DELEHANTY’S { decision that Hylan buses may not compete t ith the Belt Line Railway surface cars on the t 65th Street line is a fair example of the legal ob- ; stacles in the way of the Mayor's so-called transit “programme.” The Transit Commission is, of course, under some of the same legal handicaps, but in its programme the necessary legal steps are carefully considered. ry The Mayor, on the contrary, confines himself to vague generalizations about “junking” surface lines—until the court brings him up standing. Justice Delehanty’s decision is also useful be- cause it emphasizes the hollowness of the Mayor's talk about “municipal operation.” Justice Delehanty points out that the city re- ceives no profit from the operation of the bus line and that it pays about $46,000 a year in salaries to superintendents and starters. On the Hylan buses the public pays a 5-cent | fare—plus. It also pays in taxes for the deficit incurred for inspection, starting and management. WORK FOR THE RANGERS. { I ME was when “Texas Ranger” was a name to } conjure with. The organization was practi- | cally on a par with the Canadian Northwestern { Mounted Police. A Ranger “got his man.” If a 5 criminal “got” a Ranger, it was the worse for the criminal, because the other Rangers took up the case in carnest. Justice as administered by the Rangers was implacable and grim. . The Rangers were formerly the ostensible model of most of the other State constabulary organiza- tions. But there is evidence that the Ranger or- ganization has declined of late years. If it had not, the State of Texas would not have been dis- graced by so many recent lynchings. Saturday it was reported from Waco, Tex., that the Rangers had been called to prevent a threat- ened outbreak of Negroes. This is a wise precau- tidn, but it should not stop with protecting whites against blacks. The Rangers should be used to protect accused Negroes from mobs. Rangers could furnish better protection than Sheriffs and deputies. The Texas lynching record demands a renewed strengthening of the Rangers for just such work. ie s* for repubiteation W@ allsnews despatches credited to tt or not otherwise credited in this paper the Jocel news publ herein. Be EVENING the tricks. But it would not be public service, neither would it recommend him in the larger political field. The Nassau political situation might prove an excellent springboard for an aspiring young politi- cian—providing his spring succeeded in breaking the situation. Mr. Davison has been preparing for thie bar. When he is ready to make a serious effort for ad- vancement he might do well to turn on the ma- chine and fight it. It would be a hard fight against bitter and unscrupulous opposition, but it would be worth while. The man who can purge Nassau would have an excellent recommendation fot a broader field of endeavor. THE RAILROAD WAGE CUT. HE $48,000,000 cut in the wages of railroad employees announced by the Railroad Board yesterday applies chiefly to maintenance-of-way workers. It must be considered as only a part of a larger readjustment of railroad wages to take effect July 1. The Railroad Board is expected shortly to announce wage reductions affecting other classes of railroad labor. It is, therefore, fair to discuss the present cut only as indicating the general plan of the Rail- road Board in reducing wages. And in this con- nection the following from the decision itself is worth noting: “The board is not in sympathy with the idea that a Governmental tribunal, empowered to fix a just and reasonable wage for men en- gaged in serving the public in the transporta- tion industry, should be controlled by the one consideration of the low wages that may be paid to labor in a period of temporary depres- sion and unemployment.” Approaching the problem in this spirit, a two- thirds majority of the Railroad Board neverthe- less reached the conclusion that after the 13.2 per cent. cut in current wages, “common labor on the roads will still be receiving as a rule a wage in excess of that paid to similar labor in other industries.” The three labor members of the board dissent from the opinion of the three railroad members and the three members representing the public. It will be noted, however, that even the labor members admit the purchasing power of the new wages will be 15.9 per cent. higher than the pur- chasing power of the wages of 1917. The ma- jority opinion of the board puts this increase in purchasing power as high & 44.5 per cent. Either figure would indicate an advance for this class of railroad labor over the pre-war standard of remuneration. It would be too much to expect complete agree- ment as to how much the advance is or ought to be. But at least there is an advance, substantial and not denied, to be measured alongside ‘age Some Lik ‘WORLD, MONDAY, MAY 29, 1922,~ Some Don't Romances of Industry By Winthrop Biddle. Copyright, 1922, (New York tyvening| World) by Press Publishing Co. XX.—THE FUR THAT 18 COSTLIER THAN GOLD. When Vitus Bering sailed down from Kamtchatka under the orders of Peter the Great in the second quarter of the Highteenth Century he dis- covered more than Alaska and the sea that beurs his name. Shipwrecked on an island covered with kelp, the Russians saw the kelp jumping around as if it were alive. The animals that made the kelp jump around were what the Russians called sea-beaver Ghorskt bobr) and what the English-speaking peoples later named the sea-otter. Having used the rancid but only available meat of the sea-otter for food, the shipwrecked crew, after the death of their leader, made their way, in an improvised skiff to Siberia— and to the famous fur market of Yukutsk. At Yakutsk the keen Chinese traders paid from §100 to $150 (in modern value) to the Pacific vikings for every one of the 1,000 odd pelts which they wore as clothing. And the sea-otter race was on. The English, the Americans and the French got into the game—always in addition to the Russians, The sea- otter was shot, netted, clubbed and otherwise captured, dead or alive, te ‘ the extent of many hundreds of . thousands. Just before we bought Alaska from Russia, the Russians were getting about 400 sea-otter a year. By 1876 the American hunters were captur~ ing 8,000 a year. At Kadiak, off the Alaskan peninsula, the Americans were getting as many as six thousand otter in a year. Oonalaska was yield- ing 3,000, the Prybilof islands 6,000, Cook's inlet 3,000. In the scramble for his skin, the sea-otter just vanished—that's all, His present habitat is almost limited to the Commander Islands, where the Russian imperial government waa trying to save the remnant of the species by rigid hunting laws. We do not know what Bolshevism has done to save the sca-otter—or finish bim. In New York, the other day, @ woman who owns a sea-otter skin declined to sell it for $5,000. You will find sea-otter quoted at from $2,009 to $2,500—but you'll have aw mighty hard time getting the peltw' for that or almost any other amount. This refers, of course, to the real sea-otter skin. For sea-otter skin, as for many other kinds of furs, there are substitutes. The “sea-beaver,” like the land< beaver, which served as the basis of the Astor fortune, served as the mo- tive for tho exploration of the Pacifie Coast of Northern America, just a: gold served as the motive for the ex- ploration of Southern Siberia an@ From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ian't it the ome that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ie fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying $e A HOLIDAY NEAR HOME. A* inspection-of.subways and railroad stations Saturday would have suggested that New York would be a deserted village by Monday. changes in other fields of labor. Mexico. WHERE DID YOU GET | UNCOMMON SENSE A CHARGE THAT FAILED. By John Blake HE speedy release of William Blizzard by the Suit cases, golf bags and tennis rackets were éverywhere and the owners were evidently leaving town. The opportunity to enjoy a four-day holiday in the country by losing a single working day at- tracted thousands. But many more thousands are remaining for a week-end in town. The streets, cars and offices are not perceptibly less crowded because the holiday makers are away. Out-of-town holidays are expensive. For many the. loss of a day’s wages overbalances all other considerations. These are working to-day. But most will be absent from work to-morrow. These stay-at-homes can enjoy the holiday in the open if they will. New York has outlets for pleasure seekers. Cross the ferries to New Jersey, get, to the end of the transit lines in the West- chester neighborhood, take the Staten Island ferry, or go out into Long Island, arid the outdoor pleas- ures are possible at small expense. It is possible to tramp, rest and picnic for a day and return to the city in the evening, tired and at the same time rested. The. week-enders and resott patrons have no monopoly on early summer weather. Is there a better way of spending Memorial Day? DAVISON OF NASSAU. years Nassau County has suffered from the evils of a variety of “absentee landlordism” .in politics. . This has encouraged graft, corruption and ‘crooked machine control. Nassau politics have been a synonym for scandal. The only rivalry has been a rivalry of the “ins” and “outs” for tee. ypoils and profits of being “in.” Nassau y > political Organization has displayed all the bad § features.of Tammany, with few of the redeeming Ae ities. his is interesting because it is as a fepresenta- of Nassau that young F. T. Davison made his as Assemblyman. _ Assemblyman Davison is one of the few young of good family, wealth and intelligence’ who deliberately shunned business in favor of itical career. Theodore Roosevelt did so, the younger Theodore has followed the ex- mple. A few other similar examples might be 7 to illustrate 9 hopeful tendency in politi- life. } blyman Davison chooses, he can learn practise Nassau politics as they are. Either be glad to seach him the game and West Virginia jury that heard the evidence in his trial for treason merits public approval. The evidence of Blizzard’s “treason” was sketchy. The evidence against his persecutors was more serious than against the defendant. Bliz- zard’s “treason” was against the kind of lynch law fostered by defiantly powerful coal operators. If the Governor of West Virginia had enlisted Blizzard and his union mates to go into Logan County and drive out the gunmen, there would have been a>stronger case of treason against the operators and their law-defying cohorts. It is surprising the mine owners, attempted to press so absurd a charge, unless, as The Evening World suggested at the opening of the trial, the object was to intensify the feelings of hate in the district and the likelihood of more civil war and denial of constitutional rights. If this was the object it may have succeeded in West*Virginia. But it has failed in the Nation at large, where the demand is growing for restoration of a republican form of government in the non- union coal fields. 7 “ACHES AND PAINS How much uplift and overhead ntight be saved if all hands were to adopt Thomas Carlyle's apothegm: “Behave yourself and there will be one rascal less!” . Now they say Sing Sing ts bothered with the housing problem, Thanks to the new boom in Centre Street, all the cells are full. It is so hard to preserve propor- tions in our progressive land, i . Who ts Who Are very few. . The Department of Justice promises a vigorous prosecution of wartime profiteers, But who will vig- orously prosecute the Department of Justice? . Guglielmo Ferrero says that Germany “twill be van- quished in spirit only when the frenzied and orgiastic sentimentality by which she ves and works has yielded to a serener, more wholesome and harmonious vision of mankind's possibilities at large.” Maybe true, but sounds complicated! . Pascal d’Angelo, in the Century, avers that the names of some modern poets are like “decapitated giants bleeding black oblivion.” Pretty tough, when you come to think of it. * “We were walking along the aveuue one day, the devil and I,” remarks Lincoln Steffews, as a prelude to something el We should think a ntan with his cx. perience in muckraking would avoid such company, | JOHN, KEKTS, nent mentee al pe. oes Bs Re eay anuch in few words, A Courteous Criticism. ‘To the Wditor of The Evening World: , Lady Astor has delivered her last verbal message—or shall we say or- der? . I wonder how long it would take you and all other American editors, preachers and people to scream out for the deportation of Mr. De Valera had he tried to regulate everything, political and otherwise, and insult all America that didn’t think just ex- actly like himself when he was here in the land of his birth. What right did this woman have that he didn’t have? He didn't and couldn't insult any one, or try to reg- ulate anything here because he is a gentleman. But what screaming headlines you would have demanding his deportation! You fail to see how pitifully ridiculous your cringing syc- ophancy to British royalty makes you appear in the eyes of all real Americans. Of course, you have plenty of com- pany, ¢ Cc. C. Police Tria To the Editor of The Evening World: I have visited your wonderful city for the last few weeks and have admired your great city and naturally observed your police. Your traffic police are wonderful and police on patrol seem to ert and {atelligent. But when I visited, Police Headquar- ters last Thursday to heac the trials of police officers-charged with vio- lations of the rules, [ found the trial room crowded with patrolmen charged with various offenses, but no superior officer on chai You must have a saintly bune Sergeant: Lieutenants and Captains. I ed one young patrolman, who was fined two-days’ pay for the heinous offense of talking to a citizen for five minutes, if the superior officers are ever brought up on charges. He said no, unless they commit murder. J. O. Chicago, May 26, 1922. A Share in the Land. To the Editor of The Eveniug World If we are determined not to restore the land to the people, we must sup- press the Bible, for the reason that the Bible from Genesis to Revelation teaches us that God made this earth for all. The writer has a collection of scriptural quotations, probably 1,000 in number, by Frederick Verinder of England to this effect. Jesus said, “1 came not to destroy the law nor the prophets, but to fulfill,” The prophets, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Michae) end many others, foretold a time when words should be beaten into plough- shares and spears into pruning hooks, and the nations learn war no mor Is not that glad time near at hand? Have we not had enough of war and {ts wees? Tho life more abundant was what Christ taught, and said se-yes babe Abe aod boldee pg nade Take time to be brief. that day as of this denied men equal- ity of opportunity in the use of the earth amd !ts resources, and so Jesus was crucified, his yoice silenced in death, as was that of every other who dared to insist on absolute justice between man and man. The writer, talking on this subject with an old gentleman in California some three years since, was silenced by his saying, "I don’t believe one word, of the Bible,” Again talking with, a communicdnt of the Catholic Church recently, he said he didn't believe thére was any God, and chal- lenged me to prove it! As I have fre- quently said before, the injustice of the world has made criminals, agnos- tics and desperadoes of men. We have in great part ignored the teachings of that book of books. “Judge not, that ye be not judged. Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord." Equality of. opportunity In the use of the earth will restore to men their birthright in the land and bring a practical application of God's words here in human affairs. Do we denire it? J. Y. PRICE. Inwood, May 24. Susanne. To the Editor of The Evening World: Recently I visited the Masonic Fashion Show and Exposition, and was particularly interested in the gigantic baboon, Suzanne, captured in Borneo, Suzanne weighed about 300 pounds, stood about 5 feet 11 inches in her socks, and admitted to the age of thirty-five years: She had a young bambino of seventeen months hang- ing onto her skirts. Now, the point is this: Will she, In some future age, be the acknowl- edged ancestor of a new species of protoplastic humanity, or will she, like the dinosaur of prehistoric times, become merely femur antag- onistic? WILLIAM REID Bronx, May 22, 1922. A Memory. To the Editor of The Evening World: Now that Lillian Russell is in the limelight again as a.student of immi- gration a picture comes to my mem- ory of a girlish figure standing before the curtain in response to a furious encore. She wears a pink dress with short skirt, such as are worn now, but with shoulders more prettily cov- ered than is the present style. The audience applauds wildly, and calls for *“The Silver Line,’ I. am charmed, not only with the girl's beauty, grace, and modest bear. ing, but more with her lovely voice and the waltz-rhythim of the song. Lilllan Russell singing “The Silver Line!’ A memory which ts a joy forever! 1 am glad that she has lived long to do good, as well as to give pleas- ure cmammeein rw (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) PLAN. Cities are congested and unhealthful and ugly and hard to get about in because they just grew. Many of them are beautiful in spots and pleasant enough to live in—if one has enough money to live in the most desirable parts of them. But always there are slums, where the houses are. dark and dingy and the streets narrow and dirty. Even little towns have their slums, usually in the out- skirts that are scattered about them, or in little congested centres left to decay because trade or dwelling sections have gone elsewhere. : . And the reason why cities are always ragged and patchy and not at all what they ought to be is because nobody plans them until too late. A great builder named Hausmann did make over Paris to some extent, laying out great boulevards and setting a system on which the rest of the city was to be built. But already there were vast districts which could not be built over, and these he had to leave as they were. When the City of Washington was built, another archi- tect, L’Enfant, provided a plan for it. But the plan was only half followed, with the result that much of the city is ugly and uncomfortable. It will take scores of years and millions of dollars to make it what it ought to be. , If any great nation should decide to-day to build a new capital, it would be built according to plan, and it would be peeultae! and healthful and a delightful place in which to live. But it is too late to make the old cities over. People settle in homes and will not leave them, and the people decide what shalt be done about rebuilding. We speak of city planning to-day partly because such a thing has just been suggested for New York, but chiefly because the ragged and irregular growth of cities is much like the ragged and irregular growth of human lives which are not planned in'the beginning, the plans being followed throughout life. The man who plans his career—his education, his busi ness, his home—will have a life that is orderly and beautiful. The man who just.grows will realize some time that he too is at loose ends, and that he needs rebuilding and rear- ranging. And then it will be quite too late to do anything about it. p ee? THAT WORD? 171—CONSIDER. A page of profound philosophy 1# concealed in the word ‘“‘consider.’* ‘The word ‘‘star’’ is a component paré, of the word “consider.” Aryan many early in his childhood, contemplated the stars as the source of wisdong., when he carried out the process of ' “considering” (thinking over or fiz~ ing one’s thought on) any grave: thing. So the mental process was desige nated as ‘‘considero,” to be with thet stars (con, “with,” and “sidus,” gen! itive “sideris,"” of star). “From the hills cometh thy? strength,” says one of the old say ings of the world, derived from th@ Jewish race. The forebears of the people who created the word ‘‘oone sider” looked even higher than they hills, They raised their eyes to the? siars themselves. That’saFact”’ By Albert P. Southwick Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Co. Agate was named from the rivet Achates, in Sicily, where it was first found. 2 ee Dr. Syntax was the pseudonym of an able but eccentric man named Wil- liam Combe, who wrote “Adventures in Seach of the Picturesque,” a very popular work of about a century ago. Tustrated by Rowlandson, it was pubs lished in the Strand, London, and had for that time an almost paralleled “run,” Combe was extravagant and exhausted not only an inherited for- tune but also enormous sums earned by his facile pen. He died in the King’s Bench Prison Et cetera means “and so forth” om “and others,” and, as it is a neuter plural, should never be applied to persons, It is, however, a common Chor in closing a list of persona present at a meeting or ceremoniad to add the symbol, &c. or ete. him. WHOSE BIRTHDAY! MAY 29TH.—CHARLES II, King of England, was born on the 29th of May, 1630, and died on the 6th of Feb. ruary, After many years of exile in Europe he was recalled to the throne of England as a result of dis- sensions among the: Puritan leaders, The evil reputation which his extrav- agances and profligacies gained for him cannot hide the greatness of his character which is manifest in the way he dealt with the numerous dif- foultieg that plots. by the powerful of France, Louis XIV sea. It was he who in settlement 0: to William Penn. It was during hi reign that the Great ravaged England occurred and wa His own character and Roman Catholic tendencies aroused the sus- picion of his people and had results such as the Popish and Rye-House Oy the other side he was faced nd ambitions King Fis ware with Holland left England mistress of the a debt of 18,090 granted Pennsylvania Plagne which followed by the fire which consumed bouses te London. At first, pens were made of reeda and such are still used in some parts of the extreme East. The earliest notice of quills is in a passage of Isie dore, who died in 636, he mentioningy as writing materials, reeds and feathers. In a Latin poem by Adele mus, who died In 709, allusion is mad@ to writing with a pelican’s quille Beekmann tells us that Mabilion saw a MS. of the Gospels written in thd, ninth century, in which the Ewan gelists were represented with quill pens in their hands, Soon after thiq , reeds seem to have f 8