The evening world. Newspaper, June 26, 1922, Page 20

THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JUNE 26, tion was the ultimate aim, in order that all workers might enjoy the goods produced, thus raising the standard of comfort in living. To accomplish this end Rathenau believed a social reorganization based on conscious altruism This altruism he advocated with an In it he saw the only way to repair the wastage of past war and prevent new ove efits exon, re ESTABLISHED BY iy Oy The Ag Bal bliahed dally except Somer ‘Company, RALPH PULITZER, Be aon 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. 22, rk Evening World) almost religious fervor. Rathenau’s industrial philosophy was open to Perhaps he hoped too much, had too But the assassin’s bullet is anything but conclusive evidence against such reorganiza- tion as Rathenau advocated. ‘SUBSCRIPTION RATES. “Entered gt the Post Office at New York pe the United Staves, outside One, Year Bix Months One Month World Almanac for 1922, 35 cents: by mall £0 cents. A GENUINE PROBLEM. N a letter addressed to members of both Houses of Congress, Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board defines the problem the United States Goy- ernment faces as the owner of 11,000,000 tons of ships, the maintenance of which is costing $50,- 000,000 a year, exclusive of depreciation, insurance and interest To junk them, only colossal waste but a confession of American fo sell them abroad would be to strengthen the commerce of other nations at the fo sell them at home ap- pears an impossibility in view of the fact that the utmost efforts of the Shipping Board have sold The board admits “that it ate its fleet remotely as economically as private owners operate their vessels.” then is to be done? In trying to find an answer to the question, neither the Shipping Board nor Congress has had much help from a public opinion that has studied the facts or that is even interested in them If Americans generally don’t know. whether they want a merchant marine or not, who is going to TON, Wyatt Bidg., 14th and F Ste. DETROIT, 521 Ford Bldg. 1608 Mallers Bide. 7 Avenue de l'Opers. LONDON, 20 Cockspur St. pvt OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. is exclunively entitled to the use for rep! credited to It or not otherwise credited ere lotel ‘Theresa Bi monks" “ito Be hagth Bey neat BROOKLYN, 292 Washington St. Arsociated Press | Gt all news despatches ‘thie paper, anc also the local news pu THE BLAME FOR HERRIN MASSACRE. HE verdict reached by the Coroner's jury in- vestigating the Herrin mine massacre was what was to have been expected in a community Strongly in sympathy with the union miners. The jury places initial responsibility on the mine owners who imported armed guards and patrolled not only their own property but also neighboring public roads. Hunter, the only impartial witness, confirmed this Lasker says, would be not incompetence. expense of our own 150,000 tons, The testimony of Col. | cannot ope But the accounts of the massacre of men who had surrendered remains uncontradicted. is the unforgivable offense for which the members of the mob should be punished if a way exists to punish them. One sentence of the verdict is excellent: “We recommend that an eonducted for the purpose of fixing the blame personally on individuals responsible.” There should be an investigation both of the mine owners and the miners by an officer of the State free from local prejudice. should be probed far more thoroughly than the Coroner's jury saw fit to probe it. investigation be SURFACE CARS. RANSIT hearings last week emphasized the traffic snarl as one of the great hindrances to convenient and profitable operation of surface The whole affair Traffic—particularly motor trucks—congest the streets until the street cars cannot get through. Both the transit engineers and the traffic experts Experiment and careful A sharp cam- Nevertheless and notwithstanding, Freeport, L. L, is NOT a Hollywood. Peete ot dalla recognize the problem. study may improve the situation. paign by traffic police, with co-operation from the courts, might improve the manners of the “car- track hogs’ on the trucks. With a unified transit system it should prove possible to discontinue certain of the surface routes and make some of the north and south avenues one-way streets for heavy hauling. On some of the avenues the flexible, adaptable bus can cope with heavy traffic more successfully than the surface car. New York streets are fearfully congested, but WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER. F John D. Rockefeller had died fifty years ago, William Rockefeller would still have become a great financier and built up one of the world’s huge private fortunes. » The younger brother was never in any sense the On the contrary, William Rockefeller was credited with a larger grasp of finance and a closer knowledge of the intricacies of Standard Oil than John D. himself possessed. was William who used his brains and the power of his money most widely in other fields—railroads, protege of the elder. iH { From Evening World R eaders| What kind of letter de you find most readable? Isn't it the one UNCOMMON SENSE XXVIIL—HUNTING BIRDS’ FOR SOUP, One of the supreme delicac tables of rich Chinese’ is nest soup. It is a delica: the misguided palate of the G tal. « To supply bird's nest, thou Chinese spend considerable p61 their lives in a perilous ahd at ous occupation The bird that produces that serves as the basis mous soup is the Call the swift, one of the m of the swallow It inhabits the islands of dian Ocean, from north ‘of car eastward as far as the’ Mi Islands and the hill country o} It builds its nest in its.s6 habitat in caves, sometim by bats in the daytime. of which the nests are bull various substan glued toge' iva with wi bird catches its flying vietims, sects, or else the pure salivay any deleterious admixture, The finest sort of nest fq purposes is unadulterated sall its ideal state, this materiat: appearance of isinglas: The who is lucky enough to find of a nest by intrepid climbing side of a cave, perhaps alive Wij aroused from their slumber forms a highly profitable stunt ‘There are second and. thj perhaps fourth—grades of ,the depending upon the degree of tles, such as feathers, that a adhering to the nest. For thi grades the nests are cleaned carefully as may be. The highest grade seldo' of China, The wealthy for wealth is pretty closely with scholarship of a sort in. absorb the entire output. most fabulous are paid for bird's nest. ‘The secondary grades find to Chinese restaurants in The commodity comes in boxes costing from six to apiece. The substance lo dry, brittle, grayish whit something like solidified sea’ soup is made by boiling abo minut . The hunt for the bird's nes laborious as well as an adver undertaking. But in some in the nest is worth several ti weight in gold. The soup has a rich, slightl flavor. Its consumption is 2 ther from the accepted “fresh’’ food than the consu the highly “‘ripe’’ cheeses to many Occidentals are givéi. the sume sticky s that dives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? John Blake mining, gas, electricity and other public utilities. DIO Vere ne TesuLting ys rore) expermentsain One: There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying way traflic direction has been so marked that we William Rockefeller belonged to a well-known to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. Philosophie need not despair of the tangle of trucks and group of financial giants who believed themselves big enough to swing anything if they got a tight enough grip on it. STOPPING FOR REPAIRS. lessons have been drawn ing does not pay; de Wheels Up. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Read letter by D. night's Evening World and wish to man could not have ¢ By roms M. NG Copyright. (Now Yorke Worl): Oy Prrdaa Publeath What happened to the New York, New Haven Again Mount Everest has beaten man by n iy beyond our present powers of definitior and the possi- bility (1) that a large proportion of the Princeton alumni their business income them by parental and social connec tions, entirely apart from any college training; (2) that compared with nis starting point and state that he is wrong when he states that the outside wheels of an automo- bile go up when rounding a curve. Martin Meyer is right. wheels of an automobile go up when rounding a curve. rounding a curve to the left the left side wheels of an automobile go up: rounding a curve side wheels of an automobil and Hartford Railroad when that group undertook Reel, Reames Ate the geaboulden’ turned to to use it to secure a monopoly of the common- carrier business of New England remains a monu- mental warning of the damage such giants can do» The methods of these Wall Street colossi are Vheir era passed with the death of the elder J. P. Morgan and the shock of the New Haven collapse. William Rockefeller was one of the few surviving Titans of the regime. » its substance. We can photograph it and learn its shape. BETTER DAMP THAN DEAD. HEN a rain storm strikes in the early eve- ning of Saturday or Sunday it is safe to predict that next morning's newspapers will re- count from two to two dozen deaths from auto- mobile accidents. Saturday and Sunday the roads are thronged Approaching storms tempt The first rain makes as much of e foremost scientist rned himse already out of date. rned himself ‘ lerstandable other complicated machine man ever cone about then It is much like of his classmates who on $3,600 for e highest earners « WILLIAM H Race tracks are banked on the out- side to keep the inside wheels of an automobile from going up. . lf D, K. E, thinks that he is still right he can try this stunt: uround a corner of a block very fast and he will understand what I mean It is the same with an automobile. the power to make automatic repairs, to get rid of old and outworn parts, and substitute It remakes itself a number of times in a lifetime, rarding all the used-up material and substituting new mate This is done so gradually and so marvel changes but little and the American Ships. To the Editor of The Evening World I suppose if the Subsidy Bill passes than American citizens in executive positions super- vising the operation of our ships order to prevent this do you not think it would be a good idea to offer « with pleasure riders. the motorists to rush home. the pavements slippery and obscures the vision Whiskaway is well named—until some colt whisks away his glory glory of Morvich. he whisked away the It's a whiskaway sport. rial in its place. outward body individual residing in it char The elements that compose the brain end of aterm of years, but the memory and the power of cannot be changed save on improvement through study and on the r or bad habits, as a chauffeur and the interesting are all new ONE OF GERMANY'S BEST BRAINS. ERMANY and all Europe loses in the assassi- nation of Dr. Walter Rathenau, one of the all too few constructive and reconstructive thinkers of the post-war period. Rathenau was a rare combination of the thinker and the man of action, the dreamer and the prac- tical executive. In business he was a successful financier and administrator.: He was also a student, philosopher and economist. He served politically, but was too sturdy and self-reliant to be a politician. Press reports indicate the reactionaries are re- sponsible for his death, The Communists had as much to fear from him. Rathenau chose his own path. was a menace both to the individualistic and super- capitalistic imperialism of the Stinnes group and to the materialistic Socialists. Rathenau advocated a super-capitalism of his own design. state Socialism, but as a practical programme it had much in common with state Socialism. Rathenau favored the formation of super-trusts imilar to the Stinnes organizations. was not to be by either individuals or by the state, but rather by “foundations” governed by trustees. the ablest men of the nation. Rathenau would not have destroyed private ownership in productive enterprises, but would have induced it to sell out. super-trusts he would devote to buying out private interests, after which profits would go to the state or to increase efficiency of production. Speed, crowded highways, slippery and blurred wind shields make a fatal combina- - The morning death roll is the consequence. Under such conditions the speed laws should be Motorists should impose self- Frigid New Engle: ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: It has been my pleasure to read a number of articles in your paper in the past regarding the coldness and frigidness of New York. As a former resident of the metropolis and a trav- eller, anchored at last ‘under Puri- I have had my tested on all sides and in my opinton there is no place any reflection are effect that the entire office personnel in charge of deterioration through di Regarding the strictly enforced. = take out their papers interdependence, Without the auiomobile the chauffeur cannot get where chauffeur the The list of injured after every Sunday storm ought to be a sufficient warning to drivers. Speed- ing in the rain is a poor gamble. be damp than dead. tanical skies, Ship Ram Selling. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World When Lasker wails Without the a skilful cha car cannot move. iffeur and uses his machine . there will be very little stopping for repairs till the parts, which the automobile unhappily does not know how all worn out colder or more It is better to New England people are unsociable, uncongenial and inhospitable. I have been here in this city about four months and I have yet to find a friend that I could call a real friend. Yet in old New York I who have invited me to thelr homes and who have treated me fine. We hear people continually knock- ing New York, calling it an iceberg, If these people wish to get a good taste of icebergs I would advise them to drop down here to New Eng- land and I think one day would be enough for them and a week would see them on their way or in some graveyard with their epitaph written, “Died of a Broken Heart."” I was once a knocker myself, but since I came here I have learned a vig lesson, and when I stand on dear old Broadway again I shall breathe a breath of relief that I too was not ‘one of the poor victims to be buried in New England. AN OBSERVER. Worcester, Mass, June 19, 1 Suggest that the United States « in his charge also sell would draw still more passengers. ‘TY r is reckless or wasteful or in too much of a hurry or regardless of traffic laws, he will not go very thout having to call for the \ normally healthy body ought to Inst for eighty years The time will come when it will last much longer care ‘and few brain at the wheel, always on the alert to see that it is running properly and ACHES AND PAINS. Mr, Taft has been made a Bencher of the Middle They will have to nail him to the friends nave fy Neve (and I don't) Polson and kept us harming our health or morals. The rotten thing about the ship rum selling is its cash basis to the foreigners’ anything to get the dollar The ship rum selling controversy only one more example of how hibition is debasing the o: as one citizen I thank you for y splendid stand against the the Eighteenth Amendment Temple in London. from us to fF bench if they expect him to sit on it. . His philosophy Sir Oharles Whigham announces his belief that Mayor Hylan ought to be supported. Ought not Sir Charles be promptly deported? . In other words, Stops for repairs entail suffering and doctors’ bills. and Lee Wilson Dodd i 2 “ ; ; ilson Dodd in Harper's says “the boreal wind » wise chauffeur avoids them when it blows makes a very deplorable sound,” quite agree with him. sometimes lifelong misery as much as possible, PE a LAD New York, June In his latest verse Richard Le Gatlienne announces that he “awoke at dawn with a troubled mind.” That's the worst of waking up so early, snooze to finish at 7 A. M. WHOSE BIRTHDAY? married the beautiful Anne Ward never lacked commissions, but through his continual extravagances and wild he accumulated h heavy debts that he was forced to fly from his creditors, The Courts and the A, To the Editor of The E It will take something printer's ink and convince the American people of the aS nganme near EARNS PEALE was born in London, 26th of June, a long line of artists and engr dat a very early age his ent was perceptibl a student at the Royal Acs he remained there When he reached the ag he was apprenticed to bh Ae tha andor this time he launched H 3 On the 19th of Sidewalk merchants are selling 40,000 Russian rubles arrested and where, while attempting painting which could be sold to cancel his debt, he was seized with a fit which developed into brain He died on the 29th of October, As a painter he holds 4 high His work is marked by It seems a high price for paper souvenirs Big business will applaud it—but the of the greatest revolution in history, common people know what to expect before they reach a verdict This present wave of critic only been slumb, American's brea of course gave it the publicity it de- Colleges—Wages- To the Editor of The Bvening World: Wide publicity ha the earnings of Princeton's 1912 class, From the reports that the average income for the class wi about $15,000, and for th cation, teaching, not quite $3,600, two taken to jail, Profits from these been given to only a short ti Renee Py RT RANE ETD Nearly a century ag0 Thomas De Quincey wrote an essay on “Murder as a ine Art. It reads very crude- ly in comparison with our frequent modern instances. JOUN KEETZ, he fled to Paris, upon his famous curcer as He returned to London, New York, June 24. |, harmonious coloring. IV. THE ARISTOTELI OSOPHY—SENSE OF TION—GOOD DEEDS. Avistotle may be said to i the first sociologist. He said “Man ts by nature a $04 Whatever a man seeks b sity and inevitable referéne Judgment of other men, asi) terest of society as a whole a man of his relations and no man left. The man who son, brother, husband, father, neighbor or workman, is able.” Goodness does not consist or refraining trom doing this particular thing. It depends| whole aim and purpose of who does it or refrains fro t, We must have the piop of proportion, The good mi who, in such act he does or from doing, is seeking th wll the persons who are aff nis action. 1 pod 0 who, whatever he does org from doing, leaves out of acq interests of some of the p his action is sure to affect. Aristotle came to the ¢ very early in his philosoph soning that @ man is what Therefore, man must Ww worthy ends. We must to work with; means by gain our ends. We must” struments, tools. furniture o} in the shape of health,’ wi fluence, power, friends, by social and political connes which to carry out our end the larger and nobler our mere of these instruments require. Aristole preached hated extre: constantly the Mean” or happy medium, words, have in mind the proportion, He says: * neither celibacy nor licentia is far deeper than either, nobler than these @vo extre| devotion to the great ends. Integrity, It is including: tare of society, and of @ woman and child involy comprehensive end for live.” Tho virtues cannot be } of a book or picked up re They must be acquired, bj as is the case with the arts are not really ours until become 60 habitual as to cally automate,