The evening world. Newspaper, June 3, 1922, Page 10

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. | wrmtimes Dally Bxcopt Sunday by The Press Publishing Company. Nos, 63 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZBR, President, 68 sein J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 63 ow. = Secretary, 8 Park Rew. PAE lv the local news published de N THE pending revision of wages of railroad = | shopmen the position of the Railway Labor * Board is far weaker than in the case of the + maintenince employees ~The Evening World suggested the relations of diving costs and wages, the deflation in the case of other labor and the general policy of accept- «sing decisions of the umpire as three reasons why __ public sympathy would not be with the mainte- nance employees if they struck. These do not ““aipply in the case of the shopmen. They already shave a justifiable grievance against the board and the employers Several railroads have “farmed out” repair ~ Work to private contractors. This has resulted in the discharge of shopmen. These could find em- *, ployment only with the private contractors. The workers have been “deflated” by being forced to accept lower wages and less advantageous work- “ing conditions. ™” ‘These railroad employers have gone against the ~ decisions of the umpire. The Labor Board has 4. Mot proved powerful enough to enforce discipline “on employers. If a serious strike occurs, the «=-companies guilty of this dishonorable evasion of .ontracts will be largely responsible. Nevertheless, we believe a strike would be un- wise. The unionists had better accept the de- isions as they come—protesting as effectively as ‘they may—and then make a straightforward and eehonorable campaign to strengthen the Labor ..Board and make its decisions binding on the employers. ‘ » ** Such tactics would be an innovation in labor “\tedisputes, but they would set a valuable precedent. ,, Labor is strong enough and right enough so that it can afford to make the umpire supreme—and _ then educate the umpire to the rights of the _ cause. ’ md : de Night sessions and long tariff discussions are blamed for the fact that United States Senators have been getting on one another's nerves. What about the country’s nerves? Nobody *% © worries about them, They're supposed to stand anything, wer ea° “HOW DOES PUBLIC OPINION STAND? «A LETTER from officers of the National Security League is printed in another column. In reading the argument presented and the facts stated it is well to have a basis of com- ' parison. bd In 1914 the authorized strength of the army as 100,000 men, the actual strength 86,000. ‘or the navy the maximum enlisted strength al- Jowed by law was 51,500 men. « There is need for ecenomy in governmental . affairs. The potential strength the United States , Tevealed in the great war is fresh in the memory ‘of every nation that might conceivably threaten ' ‘our national security. A widespread popular de- . mand for limitation of armament is coupled with® @ general recognition of competitive armament as a breeder of war. Congress, according to this letter, “is largely seguided by intelligent public opinion.” * How much. intelligent public opinion supports “the view that we have pressing need for an army =-Mmore than 50 per cent. larger than in 1914, or a yPavy 65 per cent. larger on a basis that the eSecurity League considers inadequate? , sf ‘We suppose Mr. Hearst is lunching and dining daily with distinguished Britishers just to con- firm his worst suspicions, ‘LAWYERS ON PRESENT LAW PROCEDURE. HE meeting of the Committee on Law En- : forcement of the American Bar Association **fast Thursday was a regular field day for criti- _ sism of courts and legal procedure. The critics of the existing order in the field of criminal law were not “radical” exhorters. They were not thieves expecting to “feel the halter _ draw.” They were, on the contrary, men of the elaw, Supreme Court Justices, public prosecutors, eminent lawyers, all perfectly familiar with the machinery of justice now existing. _. But no criticism could be more scathing and destructive. Henry W. Taft told the committee that the interests of justice would be better served if rules of evidence in criminal cases were "wiped out entirely than continued as they ‘now are. And this was by no means the extreme in it~. Probably some of the points were overstressed, Not all those present would agree on all the pro- sposals advanced, But when lawyers and Judges make such protest, the layman may be pardoned for prejvwces he may hold against the existing courts, ‘ — When those who know most about the courts “3 ie = Paes a ree seed et ’ WHERE THE RAILROADS ARE WRONG, tion. the country, they Why rub it int find so much-that is wrong, it makes a complete revision of procedure imperative. duty of the Bar Association to go through with a constructive programme of reforms and help to rebuild the public confidence that Thursday's meeting tended to impair. ITS ONLY HOPE. ILLIAM H. ANDERSON, State Superin- tendent of the Anti-Saloon League, says: “The platform of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment is 4 bald nullification Proposal, In my judgment it 1s a criminal eon- spiracy against the orderly administration of the law, Men guilty of far less serious offenses have been indicted and in some cases convicted, “However, the Anti-Saloon League has no thought of proposing the indictment of these men, for they will be worth far more to the Pro- hibition cause {f allowed to continue their work of kicking the law and order element awake.” Mr. Anderson risks much by thus yielding to an impulse to indulge his own natural modera- It is not by such policies that the Anti- Saloon League has succeeded The wiser course would be to set out to secure the indictment of every American who openly disapproves of fhe Eighteenth Amendment or who points to the lie in an enforcement law that defines as intoxicating any liquor containing more than one-half of | per cent. of alcohol. The Anti-Saloon League put the country to sleep by sheer, knock-down display of nerve., The only hope of the Anti-Saloon League is to pro- long that sleep by blow upon blow. of waking ought to be viewed with instant alarm. If the Prohibitionists are to continue to rule can't afford to be kind to it. They must sit on its head and treat it rough. The first glimmer of returning reason will be the death warrant of present Prohibition law. Where's the old Andersonian sagacity? The May Grand Jury reported to the County Court in Brooklyn yesterday as follows: “In the course of our work it has been made clearly evident that the possession of concealed firearms is conducive to crime, and that the ease with which firearms and permits to carry them are obtainable by the criminal element demands a more effective control than the so-called Sulli- van law.” Hasn't there been about enough testimony on this point to warrant doing something about it? PRINTING-PRESS MONEY. URBSTONE hawkers are selling “money” e these days, It is possible to buy crowns, marks and rubles at almost any price the pur- chaser is willing to pay. Paper money in large denominations is on sale for “a quarter apiece.” These Austrian, Russian, Polish and German currencies are offered pri- marily as souvenirs or curiosities, and the hawk- ers are actually getting prices from two to five times the exchange rate. ness where the suckers are plentiful. to make-a good summer graft at county and State fairs where the novelty of foreign money is\greater and where purchasers are even less in- formed regarding values than street crowds here. But after the hawkers have made their heavy profits the lesson ought to be worth the price to Americans in casting new light on the nature of money. After a Kansas farmer has paid half a dollar for a sample of printing-press “money” imported from Europe, perhaps he will be less inclined to want printing-press money in Kansas, particularly if he discovers that the quoted “value” of his 50-cent slip of paper is only a dime. This will be gratefully remembered by New Yorkers as the week that saw a substantial re- duction in the odds against finding a seat in the subway. Luck has to turn some time—even for a straphanger. ACHES AND PAINS Attorney General Daugherty has secured forty rooms in the Land Office Building at Washington as head- quarters for his war fraud prosecutors, Let's see! Ian't that the ewact number of jars the fair Morgiana used to can the Forty Thieves? Genius can be improved upon but not made, Among the many quiet benefactions of the late Emerson Mc- Millan was the education of a score of young people for musical careers. Not one of them scored, . Man ts usually credited with being the erterminator of wild life. The great auk vanishes from Funk Isiand, ita last stand, at the hands of oil hunters. extsted on Mauritius until passing ships landed hogs, These ate eggs out of the ground nests and devoured the huge squads that were unable to fly. Thus the diggest of birds vanished, without human help. . The dandelion has other uses than in hooch-making, Our post, Maxwell Anderson, has discovered on hig Rockland farmlet a goldjinch’s nest partly constructed of and smoothly lined with the down of the ripened floweg. According to Dr, W. T. Hornaday, who ought to know, wild animals, when protected, do not become Iriendly with man, They merely cease to be afraid of Mm, . The boomers of the National Editorial Association, which is to meet at Missoula, Mont,, announce that thig meeting place possesses a “cool, dry atmosphere,” Once dry meant something to an editor when “extra” stood before it, JOHN KEETS. A , f | meen +. neenlg sewn It is now the “Temes By John Symptoms 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 lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words. UNCOMMON SENSE: By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) Take time to be brief. It is a profitable busi- As the National Security League and is indeed a credit to the police It ought Crooked politicians are particularly rascally cheats. They are elected because they are trusted by their fel- low citizens, The pay of the offices they hold may be sma}, but they express their willingness to serve for it by running for To the Editor of The Evening Worl: On behalf of the National Security League and its representative mem- bership fn all the States, we ask you to editorially urge upon local public bodies and your readers generally the Importance of their immediately, by telegraph or letter, with their Senators and Congressmen, demanding that navy and army® ap- propriations conform to tae requests of the Secretaries of Navy and War, the minimum Propriations which national defense consistent with na- tional security. The issue hangs in the balance, and any infuence you and yqnr readers can bring to bear will be of distinct service at this time, seems disposed to vote an army of 150,000 men, as requested by thé Pres- ident and Gen. Pershing. The House has cut the army to 115,000, which is deemed inadequate for national pro- Brooklyn, May 2! Neither Dr. Free, the psychologist, claims that applause in a theatre weather conditions, Santley, the actor, e mentality of the audience is the basis of all applause,” is quite right While Mr. Santley IS caused by Once in office they become the employee of a city or a State, or perhaps a country or a legislative district. To those people and to nobody else they owe allegiance. Every time they sell out to a private interest—every time, for any reason whatever, they vote or work for or favor anything but the interest of those who have chosen them they become plain, ordinary thieves. Often it would be difficult to convince them of this. Many of them feel that they are not taking a bribe when they accept favors from men or from institutions which want to take some unfair advantage of the general public. It is easy for them to convince themselves that if they accept favors from causes they believe to be in the right they are acting with perfect honesty. Talk to any convicted office-holder who “has made a mistake” and got into jail, and he will tell you that he is misunderstood and that publics are ungrateful. He will point out many services he has done the people and inquire why he should have been martyred merely be- cause he couldn't afford to live on his Such men are merely petty, whining cheats, who have deliberately turned against-the people who trusted them with their most important possession—which is their gov- communicating in his deductions. comes nearest to being right. as I see it, both he and Di to have lost sight of the real cause— Is it not true that all applause (or lack of it) is brought about by what transpires on the stage? true, then why not give credit to the cause rather than the effect? And {f Dr. Free’s argument be cor- rect, that applause is determined by weather, then what of the poor mo- tion picture aetor, who once he plays his part before the camera, can do no his pictures shown In all climes, under all weather and still remain success- ful or otherwise on the strength of the original acting. Therefore, I say again, it is the art of the actor that determines applause. RICHARD BARTHELMESS. New York, May 29, 1922. As to the navy, the 86,000 person- nel voted by the House is insufficient to maintain the 5-5-3 ratio established by the Conference on the Limitation of Armament. America should have @ navy that tn all respects ts of the full size allowed by the conference. Congress Is largely guided by Intel- igent public opinion, and the oppor- tunity 1s, therefore, presented to you at this time to render a distinct na- tional service by support of the mini- mum army and navy recommended by our experts. LINDLEY M. GARRISON, Honorary President, 8. BTANWOOD MENKEN, To the Editor of The Evening World. The Board of Estimate may be run- ning buses across 65th Street in vio- lation of the City Charter, &c., and ut an expense to the realty taxpayers us decided by Supreme Court Justice As « twenty-elght year resident of 8ist Street and Central Park West there {s no question but that they are absolutely necessary for public trayel between the North and If the Board of Bsti- mate has the right to permit the Fifth Avenue Bus Company to temporarily extend its bus routes, I assume that it could also permit such pany to conduct the present crosstown of which there are four That, however, would cost the whereas the It is true‘that it is hard to get able men to take public But that is no justification for men who take office for what they can get out of it or who turn unfaithful to the citizens after they have taken office, ; There are thousands of men who serve their constituents faithfully and honestly and for small pay. That is sufficient argument for the contention that it is not necessary to be crooked in office. If every office-holder who does not live up to his prom- ises were refused office forever after, public life would be far cleaner and there would be fax less need for investiga- tion after the mischief has been done. DE L, KOUNTZE, East Rivers. Chairman Nat'l Defense Committee. The dodo A Brave Act. To the Editor of The Evening World: I was fortunate enough to witness a scene this morning that I be- Neve deserves public commendation. While standing on the corner of Ful- ton Street and Bedfora runaway — horse, tearing down Bedford Avenue at a rate of speed that imperilied the lives of pedestrians who had the misfor- tune to obstruct continued on its about five blocks when Officer No. 87, attached to the 88th Precinct, who had commandeered a passing auto- noblile, caught up with the horse at the corner of Bedford and Fulton, leaped from the running board of the machine apd grasped the horse's The horse swung the officer around at least two or three times, seriously endangering the latter's life. The policeman was finally able to subdue the horse and bring him to a standstill, amid the plaudita of the public 10 cents, buses charge only 6 cents, the repeal of the Corn Laws and was influential in promoting free trade. He was one of the most noted statesmen who ever served in Parliament, ———>_____ From the Wise He that blows the coats tn quar. rele he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.—Johnson. If the pitcher knocks the stone or the stone knocks the pitcher, it ig equally bad for the pitcher, ~—Spanish proverb. Beware of a bull when you are in front of him, of @ donkey when you are behind and of a monk wher- ever you aré.—Russian proverb. WHOSE BIRTHDAY? $D.—RICHARD COBDEN was born -at Heyshott, England, on the Sd of June, 1804, and died Aprif He received only an ele- continuing his means of the city supplying a crosstown park bus service and elimi- nating all present city cost of opera- I am strongly tn favor of crosstown buses even at a 6 cent fare without transfer, for the present at least. The city, however, should not operate them if they can be operated under a fran. chise by private enterprise, The present conditions are chronic T fail to see how mentary education, studies in the Ibrary of the London Cobden was Interested in political economy, and after the publication of several arti~| cles on the subject that he was well mentary life. ckless fight for friends realized emergent. Mee Du i He entered Parliament latter condition might the clty in undertaking bus operation while the former did not, legal definition, whereas the practical would be guided more by the chronic than the emergent. z STEWART BROWNE. New York, May 29, 1023, But the red rose bleeds elected for the West Riding of York for the young and tn 1859 was chosen to represent He was an advocate of peace for England, favored eytending Hforeign trade, but opposed interven- tion in the affaire of other nations by Public recognition of his “erote act He atded largely in military, force. OPA}, by Prose Publishing Car ERD deginneth a A song of thought; Soundless yet vibrating speech in its flight, Magical, mystioal, swift to unite Heaven and earth and all depth and all height; Messages flashing and secrets caught; Fail we to see them, fail we to hear? Yet in the voicelessness, hovering near Bong beginneth. Here beginneth A song of spring Leaflet and grass-blade and slumber- ing wing, Heart-beat and color hidden away, Petal and blossom preparing to bring Their music to flowering birth; Too eager with living, to ive ts to pray! Spirit of freedom tmpatient of earth. Song of all flight That waketh and winneth Away to the Ught Here beginneth. Two stanzas of a singing poem by Mrs, Arthur Park Smith that opens the June Issue of the new thought magazine, Nautilus. eee Selence Eyes the Elmpper - + - After considering the American flapper in all her mannerisms—per- haps her tmprudences—of dress and conduct, G, Stanley Hall writes in the June Atlantic: Never since civiliaztion began has the girl in the early teens seemed 80 self-sufficient and sure of herself, of made such a break with the rigid traditions of propriety and conven- tlon which have hedged her in. From this, too, it follows that the tension which always exists between mothers and daughters has greatly increased, and there now sometimes scems to be almost a chasm be- tween successive generations, If a note of loudness in dress or boisterousnesa in manner has orept in, and if she seems to know, or pretends to know, all that she needs to become captain of her own soul, these are really only the gestures of shaking off old fetters, Perhaps her soul has long been ripening for such a revolt, and anx- jous to dissipate the mystery which seemed to others to envelop it. Let us hope that she is really more innocent and healthier in mind and body because she now knows and does earlier so much that was once admissible only later, if at all. “All the world,” said another wise writer, ‘is only every, woman's chil- dren."* And the flapper, too, will grow up. eee The Owner and the Machine - - - He had complained, according to C. A. Bennett's paper in the ‘Lion's Mouth" department of the June Har- per’s, because the people to whom hv lent his car proved unfit to handle thw machine. Then he took a friend to lunch, and— “Well, what's {t to be? Retter try some of this lobster salad. ‘That's what I'm going to have You can't beat the lobsters they serve you here." The friend demurred, ‘Hardly the thing for you, is \t? Thought I heard something about a doctor having put you on a diet.”’ “Oh, pshaw! That's all poppycock! ‘These doctors are all the same. This man I went to got off the line of talk they all sald I was eating too much meat and smoking tyo much and not getting enough exercise. Wanted me to do setting- up exercises before breakfast, cut out meat-and all smokes except one cigar a day, and ordered me gener- atly to live like a monk. I waited until he waa all through, paid him $5 for his valuable advice, came home and took a pill. And now I am as right as rain. Nothing but an ordinary billous 3 boy. + .. Waiter! We want two orders of this lobster salad end... ™ Wherefore, again the moral: “Some people are not to be trusted with a machine." The Three Needs of Nina - + - The bride and the bridegroom converse in “The Love Match” (Doran), the new Arnold Bennett You're elways ruthless tn your appetite for life. You want to taste everything, enjoy all the sensations there are. This evening you like intensely to sit very quiet on the floor; but last night you were mad about danc- ing and eating and drinking. You couldn't be stl, To-mor- row night It'll be something elae. There's no end to what you want and what you want tre- mendously, and what you've jolly well got to have, You aren't @ woman, You're a hun- dred women, Nina: You wouldn't have me al- ‘tered? Nina: I implored you to thought best, Russ: Yes, you're happy now. You need three things to make you really happy: to put me in the wrong, to show your power over me, and t tisty the desire of the moment. And you've got ‘em all three at once, But why, In this play, does Anne ask: “Whoever heard of a marriage where neither -he husband nor the wife was absolutely perfect?’ es 8 6 Love's Relativity - - - Thus in his book “Heavens” (Har- court-Brace), Louis Untermeyer re- duces the Hinstein theory to terms of soattered loves, his verses taking the style of Sara Teasdale: The moon 4s in love with the nighting And the nightingale worshipe the ro. and pale Queen of the garden close, The young queen turns to a singing young inging Whoes lips have a single tune; Bhe leans to him like a ray dent down But he t# in lowe with the maon, §