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bit orld, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEP PULITZER Wobdiimhed Daily Excopt Sunday by The Pros Publiching Company. Now, bi to 68 Park Row, Now York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 69 Park Row. 4 J_ANGUE SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. & PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. — MEMPER OF THE ASSO tAsiD PRESS. Ammociated Pres ts exclusively entitled to the ure for republication despatches credited to tt or not otherwise credited im this paper the jocal news pablished herein. PUBLIC SENTIMENT AND A RAILROAD STRIKE. N a letter printed on this page yesterday a ] railroad employee took exception to a recent Evening World editorial expressing the opinion that public sentiment would be opposed to a rail- road strike resulting from wage cuts ordered by the Railway Labor Board Mr. Browning of the Telegraphers wrote i “Did it ever strike you very forcibly that, re- gardless of the fact of how many times the rail- road companies defy the rulings of the Labor Board, public sentiment {s never arrayed against them? The poor old public and its sentiments } are only brought into play when the laboring man has enough courage to fight for his just 1 dues.” |> This has not escaped The Evening World, and "The Evening World has repeatedly condemned * this outlaw attitude of the railroads in an effort to rouse public sentiment on this very question. No fair-minded observer of labor affairs can * deny that public sentiment is laggard in making itself felt in many cases where it could help to remedy injustice. However, this does not alter present facts. Occasionally a union finds circumstances so fax yorable that it can win in spite of public senti- ment. All too often employers can defy public pinion. But industrial affairs are now in a con- dition where popular sentiment is powerful. Public opinion is growing in power year by year. In time it may become decisive ‘in all disputes. Meantime, unionists might better face the situ- ation. Public opinion would oppose a railroad strike now. The wiser course would be for rail- toad unionists to protest but accept the decision Of the Labor Board, and then turn to with a will and educate the public until it is ready to stand for fair play for both parties to disputes. pe Order of Railroad President Harding approves the Fall. policy of leasing of] lands. President Taft also approved simildr policies instituted by Secretary Ballinger. But the voters did not approve that approval. THE SIMPLER COURSE. ENRIETTA RODMAN has ‘been a storm centre in educational affairs for years. Many will disapprove many of the enthusiasms ef Miss Rodman. But in her defiance of the committee to ex- amine into the loyalty of teachers she is pro- * viding an excellent example for all the other teachers of the city. The committee headed by Archibald Steven- $on} notorious as he is for his perverted concep- tion of Americanism, loyalty and free opinion, is not a proper judge and jury to determine or even " recommend the qualifications of teachers. Commissioner Graves has refused to abolish this agency of the Lusk law. But he has ruled that any teacher may refuse to appear before the " gommittee. _ The simplest and most desirable procedure for’ teachers is to ignore the Stevenson committee and allow complaints to go directly to the Com- ty / missioner. \ _ If all teachers would follow this plan, the com- Py " mittee would have to go out of business. It Be * would die a natural death, and the members *. would eventually resign. In which case (Commis- © sioner Grayes would hardly be likely to repeat the experiment. ~~“ Miss Rodman is not popular with many of the New York teachers. But she has set a good precedent. Personal prejudice should not restrain other teachers from following her example. Somehow these presentations at court fail to thrill us as they used to. Most everybody now sees things in a “before the war” mood. It aged us‘all more than we realize. PIANOS ON LOW SPEED. 1ANO manufacturers view with concern statis- tics showing that some Western States have more than 100 automobiles for every piano. One person in seven owns a car of some kind, and one piano suffices for 900 people. In the agricultural regions it would be fairer, perhaps, to compare the number of ploughs and automobiles, for a car is now recognized as stand- ard farm equipment. We would also get a fairer picture of these Western States if we compared the phonograph and piano figures with the auto- mobile census. Another feature is the great and growing number of purely commercial vehicles, which could be compared to the number of pianos in motion-picture theatres, For the present the musical instrument busi- fess seems to have been hard hit by the phono- “graph. !t is no longer necessary to play in order to have music in the home in the lone run however, the phonograph is likely to stimulate the musical instrument busi- ness by stimulating genuine love for music, The instrument dealers are planning an adver- tising campaign to bring their business back to its former popularity. They might do worse than to build this advertising around the central idea that you can play for yourself what you hear on the phonograph and have the added joy of per- sonal creation. “GET SOMEWHERE.” W HAT a genuine pleasure it would be to hear to-night that Mayor Hylan has had a change of heart. What a relief to learn that to-day’s meeting of the Board of Estimate had revealed a Mayor who no longer denounced every move of the Transit Commission before it was made, who could see better ways of serving the city than by “going to jail” rather than vote a dollar for the Transit Commission's expenses. Borough President Cahill of Richmond has set an excellent example for Mayor Hylan to follow. President Cahill is ready to confer, compromise and co-operate with the Transit Commission on the Staten Island Tunnel project. President Cahill said yesterday to Chairman McAneny of the commission: “If we can reach the polnt whereby we can deal with one another in an’ honest, open- hearted, sincere way, giving way where we are wrong and expecting to receive credit where we are right, there was no doubt in my mind as I listened to you, Mr. McAneny, that we can get somewhere, “I would not stand on any technicality. What we want is service, and we will go nine-tenthe of the way to get it.” Surely that should also be the attitude of the Mayor of New York toward a plan of urgently ‘needed transit reorganization backed by the only authority that can put it through. \ Service, as Mr. Cahill says, is what the city is after. The Mayor ought to be as ready as any Borough President to “go nine-tenths of the way to get it.” The Mayor should be the last man to have to be dragged or pushed to it. He ought to lead the way. Is “Charley Ross” trying to steal the cop- eluding record now held by Nicky Arnstein? AN ALL-ROUND WARNING. ONVICTION and fine for the American Cot- ton Exchange is another salutary step toward control of larceny under the guise of speculation. “Bucketing” is stealing. The law says so. Judges and juries agree, If one prosecution will not stop the practice, then we must have more Prosecutions and severer penalties, It is needless to say that a $5,000 fine is not an adequate punishment for bucketing. The “pickings” from one cotton deal might pay the fine. But knowledge that the District Attorney is on the trail and that juries and Judges will convict and punish will be a restraining influence. Most valuable of all, however, should be the lesson to the public to stay away from “invest- ment” firms of the bucket-shop class. When the urge to gamble or speculate becomes overpow- ering, it is wiser to go where the game is not complicated by outright stealing. “It is perfectly clear,” declares Job Hedges, receiver of the New York Railways Company, “that regardless of ‘where that traffic comes from, whether it is to be taken from the ele- vated or the subway, or is to be invited, culti- vated or conceived, there will be no traffic that amounts to anything on the surface cars until they can move with a sufficient celerity and with the least interruption.” Sounds like a hint to metamorphose as many as may be into buses, ACHES AND PAINS A British’ bookseller lists in a recent catalogue sev- enty editions of John Bunyan's “Pilgrim's Progress.” Nezt to Don Quixote, this is the best selling book ever written while the author was in jail. Neither might have been penned but for the durance. This fact, how- ever, has never made the calaboose popular with writers. . Eda Lou Wallace in the Measure says that when she writes of love words drift down upon the paper like brittle, tinted leaves, That's the trouble with words of love, They are apt to be brittle and break, . In the same Measure, Kenneth Slade Alling describes the centipede as speeding inconspicuously against the epidermis, We always thought the insect’s numerous legs made him prominent not only upon the epidermis but elsewhere as well, . A cable from Paris announces the celebration of the discovery of asparagus as an edible 100 years ago, and adds that so far as known there is no poem extant in celebration of the esculent. How would this do? In spring the crocus And asparagus Are the first things green That are usually seen! Somehow, when Hizzoner deging to describe the virtuous sort of person who. ought to be Governor, and blandly thinks he is depicting himself, we recall sir John Falstafts: “A goodly, portly man i faith, and a corpulent, of cheerful look, a pleasing eye and most noble carriage.” ; JOHN KEETZ, Soe The |THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1922, Copyr'y (NewYork wv — ’ 1922, Sing Worldy By Preset b. C By john Cassel 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? is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. The: to say much in few, words. for Mothers.” To the Editor of The Evening World In Mr. Berman's letter, ‘“Excur- sions for Mothers,’’ published in The Evening World of June 5, lies the nu- cleus of a brilliant scheme that is sure to carry with it an ardent reception as a torch of enlightenment for the improvement of conditions in the con- gested section of the east side, Tt suggests a problem that many settlement workers have kept con- tinually uppermost in their minds, But these have failed to voice so prac- tical a solution as that suggested, If put into effect it is sure to al- leviate the distress occasioned by the warm, tepid July-August months on the tenement dwellers who live under unbearable conditions, For the poor mother who lacks the money and must materially suffer the restraint that financial embarrassment entails this is a hopeful suggestion, something to be taken advantage of. Such excursions would be a digres- sion from hard toil and tribulation. Personally, I think the matter of momentous consequence. I approve Mr. Berman's plan. The authorities who run this big city ought not to turn a deaf ear to such an appeal for a most worthy cause. Due delib- eration and careful forethought 1s sure to evince approval, ALBERT WEISS. New York, June 5, 1922. AC of Latin. To the Editor of The Evening World: I am of the opinion that America is entering upon a second Renaissance in the arts and sciences, Why not do all In your power to advance this movement? Make all the fellows in High School take an interest in their studies. This could easily be done, say, by printing a column of Latin on cur- rent subjects. If all countries were to do that the next generation would have an inter- national language, as they had during the Middle Ages, AUGUSTINE, Central Park. To the Editor of The Evening Worlds I am endeavoring to interest some of the newspapers in pushing a re- habilitation of Central Park. The existing aspect of this beauti- ful and former orderly recreation «round is at present in a most un- kempt state of neglect, To enumerate all that should be done would take too long a note, but in pointing out the dilapi- dated fences, worn-out grass plots and broken-down benches, one would think in these particulars there 1s ing spaces for exercise and health pur- aspect of what was a few years back a garden of order. | decay” of things in general. enough said to inspire any official responsible for the upkeep of the park grounds to get busy at once. I am a daily visitor to these breath- poses; that brings me into familiar knowledge of the park area. It 1s al- most pathetic to witness the shabby Containers and discarded newspa- pers are scattered everywhere, adding very much to the progressive state of What is needed is a new commis- sioner who will do things. Such a man can be readily secured if poll- tics are not to interfere with him. D. L. WATSON. New York, June 6, 1922. e Where In the Bronxt To the Editor of The Evening World: Will you kindly advise me as to the boundary between the Borough of the Bronx and the Borough of Manhat- tan? My purpose is to settle a dis- pute as to whether 242d Street and Broadway is in the Bronx or Man- hattan, and also whether any part of Broadway is within the Borough of the Bronx. HARRY D. WEISS. Now York, June 6, 1922. (Note—The Harlem River and Spuyten Duyvil Creek separate Man- hattan and the Bronx. Broadway is in the Bronx north of Spuyten Duyvil Creek. The place mentioned is tn the Bronx.] For Safety in Driving. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: I am a tax! chauffeur aud have been driving about six years. I have never had an accident. You always read after a rainy day or night of many smash-ups and peo- ple getting hurt or killed, I think most of these accidents could be avoided by making it a law to require all drivers to keep their headlights out and their windshields up. From experience I think this will prevent most of the accidents, THOMAS SULLIVAN, New York, June 5, 1922. Gan Rates, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: ¥ have read of the different meth- ods of gas manufactuting, explana- tions of which have appeared in your valuable ‘paper lagely. It just goes to show how the people of New York are being unjustly treated by its gas companies. Keep up the good work until pub- Me opinion demands a reduction in the gas rates. c, 8. (Copyright. 1922, an Emperor. ple ought to envy to-day. his suecess was the success of those of Napoleon. Oil Company of Indiana. menial positions. They were working—as with their hands. . But they were working minds, to advahce. the ranks because they were while they were working. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake OUT OF THE RANKS. It probably means little to the average modern reader to'tell the story of Napoleon's rise from a private soldier to Napoleon lived a long time ago, and his achievements on the battlefield are not the sort of achievements that peo- For he worked for himself. There are, however, in every-day life instances of rises from the ranks just as picturesque and more inspiring than Two men were lately made directors of the Standard One of them had been a porter as a young man, the other an office boy. While the men who are now their brother directors were receiving college training, they were working long hours in It was their muscular activity for which they were paid. They were observing the men in the office with them and studying the work that these men did. They were storing away facts about the marketing and manufacture of oil products in their brains. They were asking innumerable questions, and if the first men to whom they applied did not give them satisfac- tory answers they turned to other men. And all the time they were showing, by thelr eagerness to learn and their willingness to work and their interest in the business, that they were the sort of boys who are bound That sort of boys are not particularly common. people find them they notice them, Inasmuch as any big concern would prefer to have its executives trained in its own office, such boys are given their chance, as these boys were. To-day they are important officers of the company, beyond the reach of want, and conspicuous and useful fig- ures in American business life. Neither of them had any hel by John Blake) And selfishness: far as their positions went— at the same time with their When Both of them rose from willing to work and to think WHOSE BIRTHDAY? JUNE 9—CHARLDS JOSEPH BO- NAPARTE was born in Baltimore, M4., on the 9th of June, 1851. He ts @ grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, After complet- ing his studies at Harvard Univer- sity and at the Harvard Law School he began a successful practice in Baltimore, where he became promi- nent in reform movements, In 1902 he was made a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners, and two years later was Chairman of the Na- tional Civil Service Reform League. He was made Secretary of the Navy by President Roosevelt in 1905, and in 1907 he became Attorney General of the United States, “That’sa Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick Copyright, 1922, (The New York Event World) by Prose Publishing Co. Lucerne, Switzerland, is called the “Lakes of the Four (Forest) Can- tons,"" from the fact that it borders on the cantons (divisions or counties) of Lucerne, Schwyz, Uri and Unter- walden, see Pacte de Famine (French for 'Fam- ine Compact'’) was a monopoly formed by certain rich men of France at the end of the rego of Louls XV, Romances of Industry By Winthrop Biddle. Copyright, 1093, (New York Mrening ‘ork. Press Publishing Oo. XXHL—VAST MEAT RANGES IN THE ARCTIC. Recently back from a fi ear study of the polar regions under the auspices of the Canadian Government to find out what the Arctic territory is good for, Vilhjalmur Stefansson has laid a tangible proposition before the Dominion authorities. What he says is, In effect: “Make @ huge cattle range for the, breeding of musk oxen of the now barren territory, You need all your eul- tivable area for cultivation. The musk ox (only Stefansson names the animal the “ovibos," because it par- takes of the properties of both the ox, “bos in Latin, and the sheep or “ovis in Latin) has large areas of the Arctic to himself. “He ranges territory so far north that even the Eskimo cannot follow him, Give him a little protection, the minim! of protection, and he will multiply at a rate that will give you The ovibos, to use the name which Mr, Stefansson has given to the ani- mal, gives about three times as much meat as a sheep gives. An ovibos in the Bronx Park Zoological. Garden has yielded fifteen pounds of wool per year, And the expense of herding large numbers of ovibos in their na- tive territory north of the Arctie Circle is next to nothing. Their native territory is now so much waste land that never could be used for agricultural purposes— many thousands of miles of it, over which the Canadian Northwest Mounted hold only distant authority. So, says Stefansson, why not con- vert these thousands of square miles of waste land into a huge meat pre- serve? Mr. Stefansson is an tmaginative person. But his imagination is elg- idly kept in check by scientific at- tainment and the acientitic habit of mind. He knows the Arctic as few men haye known It One of the scientific theories that he carried out on his last Northern trip is that an expedition, even If It be a large one, can “live off the country” in its venture North. That theory he proved by starting off with lHmited supplies and “living off the country,” and living off it in no niggardly fasl fon, And the ovibos was a generous contributor to his food resources. While the world is casting about for means to meet the demands of an increasing population for meat, Ste- fansson’s recommendations are at- tracting the attention of the Cana- dian Government and enlisting the interest of Canadian and American capital. It would not be at all astonishing if he had placed before the world the means for a great romance cf indus- try—a romance of the immediate future. When You Go to the Museum A MAN WHO LIVED MORE THAN 200,000 YEARS AGO. A massive jaw, probably more than 200,000 years old, found in fossilized condition near Heidelberg, in Ger- many, supplies one of our earliest, if not the earliest, glimpses of man. But he was very different, this so- called Heidelberg Man, from Thomas A. Edison. The jaw, of which a cast is to be seen at the American Museum of Nat- ural History, is massive. It must have had a tremendous crushing power. This man, or near-man, has a weak chin, if the carefully con- structed model is a correct presenta- tion of his features. The jaw is much like that of an ape, but the teeth are hnman. How did this man live? Did he have aspirations? Did he plan for the immediate future? The probabili- ties are that this ancestor of ours did think, that he did store food for fu- ture use, that he used weapons for defense and to bring down his prey— weapons that probably, were limited to clubs. But in that respect he was immeas- urably higher than the highest known anthropold WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 176.—SNOB. = The origin of the word snob ts to be found, most likely, in the Icelandic word “snapr,"’ @ dolt, an idiot. Thej words dolt and idiot correctly, describe the man or woman who, through a supposed and self-assumed superiority of birth, education, finan- clal position, affects to look down upon others. But the word gnob applies not only to the person thus assuming su- periority but also to the individual who, for personal, social or financial reasons, bows down to the person thus assuming such a superiority. “Snobbishness’’ would cease to exist if there were not Individuals who thus kowtow to the Individual assuming a higher social plane and guarding it carefully from invasion by others whom he affects to regard as more or less his tnferiors in the scale of creation, (1774), for the purpose of raising the price of corn by causing a fictitious scarcity of it. Even then the profiteer was in evidence, e 8 The town of Lincoln at one time dyed the best green of all England and Coventry the best blue. Kendal was also noted for {ts green. Henoe John Dryden wrote of “girls in Lin- coln green” and Shakespeare of “Kendale green,”