The evening world. Newspaper, June 15, 1922, Page 30

BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Delly Except Sunday by The Press Publishing ‘Company, Nos, 53 to 68 Park Row, New York. RALPH President, ¢8 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW. Treasurer, 63 Park Row. § JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. HAIRMAN LASKER of the Shipping Board charges that the Busches, in calling attention to the sale of intoxicating liquors on American ships, are “acting in the hope of creating a pub- lic revolt against Prohibition.” The Busches admit they would like to brew beer again. At the same timesMr. Lasker admits that the gumber of Americans who would desert “dry” American ships for “wet” foreign ones is so large that “the competition would be, from a profit operating standpoint, very greatly against the American ship.” In other words, the much vaunted public senti- ment behind present Prohibition Lay in the United States is top weak to be trusted t miles beyond the actual territory on whi tyrannous “minority has fastened legislative When American Prohibition sentiment is put to a simple, practical test involving the prosperity and permanence of American shipping, it is the weakness of that sentiment and not its strength that must be officially emphasized. Chairman Lasker says he is “ashamed” to state the facts of which his experience has convinced him. But he states them, nevertheless. conclusion from them is that America’s “new- born merchant marine” can’t count on American enthusiasm for Prohibition to save it from the junk-yard if its ships go “dry.” This is significant light on the true depth and breadth of the popular will behind present Pro- hibition in this country. the appraisal is not expert and disinterested. In charging a brewing cohcern with attempts to create a public revolt against Prohibition the Chairman of the Shipping Board is forced to a painful disclosure. He has to show what ripe material for such fevolt exists. It carinot be claimed Honoring the flag yesterday was slightly complicated by the intrusive question: far does Prohibition follow it? CONTRACT EVASION. MPLOYEES of W. J. (Fingy) Conners’ are _on strike in Buffalo. The Conners shop for repairing railroad equip- ment was formerly a railroad shop. over to help the railroads evade and nullify wage and working rules laid down by the Railroad Labor Board. : When Conners went into the business the rail- roads discharged men hired for the work, Con- ners employed them at reduced rates and under less favorable working. terms. railroad are able to split the saving. It is a per- fect example of “sweating.” The profit is the re- sult of contract evasion. The Conners employees deserve the full support of their union and of the public. Their objective should be to induce the railroad to go back to the previous arrangement. In all fairness the Railroad Labor Board ought to come out with a vigorous statement of the facts and support the rights of the men. Conners and the A triumvirate to take the place of a sick Lenin does not sound very healthy for Soviet @scendancy in Russia. MARKET DEMANDS IN THE MOVIES. N the widely discussed scenario contest con- ducted by the Chicago Daily News an inter- esting point is the age of the heroines prescribed by the writers. The late twenties seem to have it. and early twenties are “also rans.” This has generally been accepted as a tribute to the class once called “old maids"—o: young " There is small doubt that there has been a change in the marrying age and the period of romance for Everywoman, but one factor in the scenario contest seems to have been overlooked in most of the comment. Scenario writers are ambitious to market their products. They are also anxious to deserve the best possible cast for the -production. them have an eye to one particular favorite for whom the scenafio is well adapted. Here, then, the commercial sense may interfere with exact judgment of romantic age. The early feminine stars of the cinema have worn well, on the whole, but they are growing It would be invidious to name names, but this actress and that is bo longer able to play sweet tixteen and look the pgrt. Nevertheless, the mana- @ rs count 6n the “folfowing” and the advertising value of the name. They are searching for parts established stars can play. The market for hero- ines in the late twenties is better than for girlish parts. On the stage a sophisticated audience may ac- cept a mature Juliet. In the movies Juliet must look the part. So the scenario writers try to satis- fy the demand for a role to fit the grown-up Juliet. LIMITED. HE Transit Commission dismisses as “futile, senseless and prejudicial to the spublic’ in- terést” the demand of the Ilylan Board of Estimate that the Interborough Rapid Transit Company be ousted from ifs present position on the ground that it has violated its contract A receivership for the Interborough and a tangle of lawsuits would be, as Chairman McAneny + points out, the sole contribution such action could make toward a transit settlement. The Transit Commission defines its chief pur- pose at the present time: “To secure more service and. not» more litigation.” Nobody can say the Interborough subway ser- vice has not already shown substantial effects of that purpose. f he &ould tie up the Transit Commission, Mayor Hylan would gladly tie up the whole transit problem in’ten years of litigation and let the service go hang. Thanks be, the Mayor hasn’t the authority to do ALL the harm it is in him to do. Apparently the facts in the Ward case must be obtained from anybody except, the persons who know them. INCOME TAX FIGURES. S a reminder, perhaps, that the second quar- terly payment of income taxes must be made to-day, the Internal Revenue Bureau issued yesterday the summary of income tax statistics for 1920. The most interesting feature was the compari- son with 1919. This showed a large increase in the number of returns in the lower brackets up to $5,000 and an equally sharp decline in the num- ber of large incomes reported. The $50,000 in- come was the dividing point. Above that the number of in¢éomes decreased, Below that sum the numbers in each bracket increased. — The lower income brackets in general reflect the trend in wages, salaries and commissions. The higher group incomes are from profits and from investment. If anyone could have foreseen this report two years ago it would have been a valuable guide to business. As it is, it merely reflects what we all know has happened. It illustrates, for one thing, how wages and salaries tend to drag, some distance behind the curve of business activity. When profits are ris- ing -wages do not follow immediately. When profits decline wages do not follow instantly. One other feature demands the attention of Con- gress. The decided decrease in the upper brackets probably indicates heavy investment in tax- exempt securities. Normal taxes for 1920 ex- ceeded the normal tax for 1919, but surtax re- ceipts decline from miore than $800,000,000 to less than $600,000,000. Congress should investigate the price paid for the advantage in borrowing enjoyed by. Federal, State and local Governments. If you haven't paid halt your Income tax by midnight to-night, don’t expect Uncle Sam to be. jovial about it. ; ACHES AND PAINS. The distressing news that no whiskey is available to cure snake bites will lessen the popularity of copper- heads in North Jersey and Rockland County, where they are plentiful. It was always hard to see any use in @ snake and now the ophidian’s last raison d'etre disappears. The annual flower show on the line of the New Haven Railroad from Mount Vernon to Stamford is getting under way. Millions of pink ramblers are bursting into bloom. We doubt if there is any such display ewisting anywhere else in the world. more generally soothe the stomach! . higher-ups. . shed them now!" a flowing and a wind that follows fast! f i JOHN KEETZ, _THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, er School” “Or Stay Aft From Evening WorldReaders What kind of letter do you find most readable? UNCOMMON SENSE Isn't it the one Unwield, China By Maubert St. Georges it, 1922 n eWorta) by Press’ Publishing Core THE UNDERLYING FACTOR. To those who have not an intimate © knowledge of China the very name brings forth a conglomerate vision of contradictions. An ancient clviliza- tion for instance, and yet a country in which the murder of girl infantis, the selling of children, smuggling, begging, ‘banditry, murder, plagu war and famine seem to be perfectly ordinary events. 3 These things are indeed quite com~ mon, but they have a reason for their Sxistence, and that I, the fact that the food supply is insufficient for the needs of the population. Before this simple statement all other questions whether of politics, business or angD of the things that continually attract our attention to China must neces- sarily pale into insignificance. For centuries an unnatural equlli- brium has been maintained between the population and the food supply by wholesale infanticide and by the fatalistic acceptance of pestilence nd famine. For thatvmatter natural calamitie’ such as floods and earth- quakes or a civil war have been ac- cepted thankfully as they accom- Plish swiftly what would otherwise be left to starvation and disease. The whole life of the Chinaman throughout the history of the coun try consists of one long, bitter strug- gle to secure enough food to live on, Under these conditiong especially. where the duties of the Sores ne consist of tax-collécting only, a element is bound to rise forced by hunger to prey upon the more for- tunate and who become the pirates and robbers that infest the. countvy. To these a war or a revolution means an excuse to loot cities, and it ix from this element that the armies that continually rack China with givil war are drawn, It would seem that this should be, the problem that would be faced by. those that had the welfare of Chinw at heart. Yet last year, almost un noticed amidst the publicity. given to the ambitions of $elf-seeking politi clans and generais, there occurred = famine which, in spite of the millions of lives it cost, did not for one mo- ment distract the people from their petty struggles as Northerners ov Southerners, as Republicans Monarchists, as civilians or soldiers. China has by far the largest pro portion of farmers in the world, an these by centuries of experiment have developed a system of intensive culti vation unequalled in any other coun try in Asia. Scientific farming, as we understand it, might perhaps help to By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) 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. Take time to be brief. — STARTING NEAR THE TOP. Read history, even though it is only an outline of it, and you will never complain of your start in life. You who were born in this particular country are really starting very near the top. The wisdom of thousands of years—the brain develop- ment that ages have been required to build—are yours at the beginning. Y You have the advantage of all the knowledge that men have ferreted from nature, of all the thought that centuries of reflection have put into-their brains. Your mind is a machine that is well along toward com- It is a machine which, if you control it and keep it healthy, will do for you what would have been utterly impossible for the mind of the man of the early centuries of civilization to do. “ You begin with a saving of countless centuries of time that has been spent by. others in gaining experience and storing away learning and in deriving wisdom from happy and grateful lot of good men, women and children who have enjoyed the hospitality of the greatest city in the world. ‘This scheme can be worked out to cupancy by the ‘To the Editor of Ye Evening Wort) Now that so much attention has been given to the transit lines in New York and Brooklyn, is it not about time some attention were given to the Richmond trolley line on Staten stated, our Mayor is at pi gaged in the emanation of rud-blasting oratory which, from the originality of the vitupera- tions, means nothing, therefore | am afraid there is no relief in sight from Ww. We have suffered long enough, rid- ing in the Hylan garbage cans, which are always in a very unkempt, filthy, foul-smelling condition, never washed, so that one can see out when they are closed, not to say any- inconvenient boat Give us the old line back again, even with an 8 or’ 10 Then we can ride like hu-. man beings should. the windows New York, June 10, 1922. On the Bonus. To the Editor of The Evening World: Your anti-bonus propaganda would be a great deal more effective provid- A. J, CATTLE, Staten Island, June 10, 1922. Using the taxpayers and wounded soldjers as your shield to de- feat the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill facilitates its passage, because statistics show that all bonus legislation brought up for public referendum was overwhelmingly by the people, every one outside of public institutions is a taxpayer either directly or in- Toward a “Habitable World.” | To the’ Editor ‘of The Evening World. indebted to your newspaper and to You live in a time when your bodily health is practi- cally insured by medical skill—when you can employ one man to look after your teeth and another to see that your circulation is what it ought to be, and a third to warn you of all the hidden enemies to your physical well-being. Within a short distance from every man are institutions where the wisdom of the world is stored, with intelligent and able men to show you where to find it, and what to do with it when you have transferred it to your own brain. All over the world people are toiling to provide you with the food that nourishes your body and the clothing that keeps it warm and with the materials that make the com- fortable habitations in which you dwell. The meanest city tenement is a far more agreeable place to live in than was the dirty old castle that housed the robber baron. You have a race to run, of course. be easy, and no one is going to pick you up and set you down the victor of the winning line. But the past ages have picked you up and set you well toward:the top, and you are a pretty sorry creature if you do not’ finish what is left of the climb without grumbling that you never had a chance. ‘ Miss Sophie Irene Loeb for the show- ing you are making against the gas companies in New York City. graft hus been going on for years with none to molest or make afraid, in consequence of which thousands have suffered and gone down to death from the effects of the bitter cold in} The greatest bonus advocates aro wounded soldiers because they have not forgotten that when they were rendered incapacitated on the field of battle it was their able-bodied com- rades who applied first aid, protecte) them from exposure, they were immediately transferred to this northern latitude. Miss Loeb has gone inio the sub- ject in a thorough manner and from her talk at the City Hall on the eve- ning of the 6th he is am able adversary of the hoary raft she is attacking. glad to see she was followed by H. H. Edgerton, an expert in the gas busi- ‘who corroborated Keep up the good work, and in time this may get to be a hab) itable world, despite the reactionaries. JOSIE THORPE PRICE. Inwood, L. I., June 10. and saw that the rear for proper treatment. illustrations prove conclusively that Dr. Scott Nearing, who has been visiting in Mexico, says the natives make up in colors what they lack in food. A red serape takes the place of beefsteak, for example. It would be a great comfort if the eye could your anti-bonus bunk is less than JOHN A. BAKER. New York City, June 9, 1922. Life is not going to Noisy Street Cars. To the Editor of The Hvening World I am a resident of 106th Street, between Columbus and Amsterdam and to tell you that the noise of the 116th Street crosstown cars is enough to drive one crazy is not a bit of exaggeration, they must put all the derelict cars on that line, as they grind with their flat wheels and loose parts, According to the Washington figures, the rich are at last getting poorer and the poor richer, Perhaps the art of tax dodging is becoming more perfect among the To the Editor of The Evening World: A remedy should be found by our self-praising public officials who are not a bit concerned in the peopl infelicity despite their bogus proft sion sof interest in the people’s—what people?—welfare. There is a fine hint to the Sheriffs of the South in the use made by the Jackson, Mich., jailer of tear bombs to repel a mob bent on iynching a prisoner, Each Southern jug ought to be furnished with a sup- ply forthwith and Mark Antony's remark could be em- Dlazoned on the wall: “If you have tears, prepare to nnn nnET neers eee Rermit me to offer a suggestion tending to relieve said shortage: the City of New York open the lawns of all.the parks to the public; allot each. family in need of a home suf- ficient space to erect a tent and camp tired to.the village of Ferney, near| Geneva, . Switzerland, where he pro- duced much of his work. “That’s a Fact’ By Albert P. something loos for over a month, Of course the huge joke of the whole thing is that they run cars frequently in order to accommodate one'or two passengers. I have counted the Passengers in the cars as they pass the door and have marvelled at , | the company's generosity im the num- ber of cars they run, Southwick York Evening ivilahing Co. “A tinker’s dam” is a wall of dough or of soft clay raised around a spot which a plumber, tn’ repairing, de- sires to flood with solder. This mat rial can only be used once and there- fore is considered of trifling useful- there for the summer months; pre- seribe rulcs and regulations intended to preserve health and maintain order The prettiest girl in the Jersey State Capitot has been prohibited from saying sweet things to the Only One for half an hour at a time on the ground that the practice interrupts business, Why not broadcast her? . and direct each camp as other similar Ir Zingaro, (meaning ‘the Gypsy’) was a sobriquet bestowed ‘on ‘Antonio de Solario,,a celebrated painter of the fifteenth century. ae. + camps are directed in other smaller but efficient municipalities who solved he problem in this maaner 1 no cost to ta: # reasonable fee to thos n afford to defray the expenses in- curred in: helping those: who may not have the means to purchase tent, &c. By the end of September a great many houses now in course of construction would be completed and ready for oc- The original ably Spurius Metius Tarpa, a famous critic of the Augustan Age, of Rome. Apollo | *Solveig's Lied."’ Mis greatest coe colleagues to judge the]position is no donbt the incidefitaty of theatrical productions be- fore they were acted im publia, It is too bad Chairman Lasker announces firmly that he wili seit liquor on all United States wessels so long as his for- cign competitors do the same. Hooray for a wet ship, The Patriarch of Ferney was a name giyen to Volt the French philosopher, of whom ‘Thomaa Carlyle said, ‘Voltaire is the eighteenth century,"” because he re- they don’t donate a few of the rattling old cars to Amsterdam Avenue or lines where one Is for hours waiting for a ear aire (1694-1778), A RESIDENT. York, June 18, 1922, solve the problem, but how long will it be before the small Chinese farmer can be persuaded to use machinery’ Yet something jnust be done. Su rounded by desegts and, oceans “tg driven away by restricting legislation emigration is’ Impossible, On the) other hand, obeying the behests ij Confucius, who said that the highest, duty of man is to'have ‘posterity, () ;. Chinese are constantly increasing tli population by the practice of poly amy and of minor marriages, it would appear that the only remedy possible is to strive to educate public opinion as to the calamities that must result from the continuation of suc! customs, a WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 178.—SOMERSAULT. ~ It may seem strange that the an- cestors of the English part of us should have had to borrow from the _ French the word for so simple a cir+_ cus trick as making @ somersault. But they borrowed it from the French, as the French had borrowed it from their elders in civilization—and circus | stunts—the Italians. The English word is a corruption of the French soubresault, and tlic French word in its turn ts a litera! translation of the Italian ‘‘sopia salto” (“sopra,’’ abgve, and “salto, * a leap). The reason why both the Frenciy and the English, juniors in civilization, borrowed the Italian word ts that the . Ttalians were the originators of circus tricks as we know. them. The first cireus in Europe was undoubtedly this Coliseum at Rome, with its collection ~ of “strange people” and stranger wild | animals. Thus, the spiritual: ancestor of the ‘‘Greatest Show on Earth"’ wag the Coliseum at Rome. : WHOSE BIRTHDAY? JUNE 15— EDVARD HAGERUP.. GRIEG was born at Bergen, Norway,\! on June 15, 1848, and died Sept. 4,” 1907, His musical education began at - the age of six, when his mother, real- - izing that he had musical tendencies, = began giving him lessons on the piano. After completing a course of study. at | the Leipsic Conservatorium he re- 3 turned to Bergen, where he delighted ~ the Norwegians with his compositions, The people recognized their own folk) songs in his works, and induced the Government to grant him a pension that he might continue his stydies in Rome. As @ composer Grieg is best — known for his songs, which. are, full? of spirit and of a strange, wild char. | ‘Tho most famous of his songs used in| concerts are ‘Ich Liebe Dich’: as muste, written for Ibsen's “fran “Peer Gynt." “st we