The evening world. Newspaper, June 29, 1922, Page 30

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DEVELOPMENT in the threatened strike of railroad shopmem was reported yester- day as follows: “It was learned that rail officials planned to Place all shop work under the contract system, letting it to outside firms. They have long de sired such an opportunity and believe the strike will give it to them. “This move is opposed by the Railway Labor Board, but the railroad excutives assert that the men by striking will violate the board’s ruling first, and to meet the situation they will have the right to extend the contract system.” This talk of “violating the board's ruling first” tomes with poor grace from railway executives. The railroads have engaged in collective bargain- ing with the employees through committees of executives having power to make agreements as to wages and working rules. Every executive is in honor bound to see that his fellow executives live up to these agreements. In the matter of shop work this has not been done. Not all the railroads have violated the de- cision of the umpire—in this case the Railroad Labor Board—but so many of them have violated it that the railroads carfnot come to the court of Public Opinion with clean hands. When it comes to a question of who broke the contract first the railroads as a group are guilty, and no present sophistry can excuse the breach, If the shopmen were striking only on this question they would be in the right. ‘When a Senator is willing to make the effort, he can be a greater nepotist than a mere Con- gressman because he is allowed a larger force of salary grabbers. STRAWS TELL. HE Weather Bureau wasn't conveying any startling or astounding news when it an- nounced that the rainfall for June, 1922, has broken the records for the month. y Every man with a straw hat has been acutely aware of the fact. For the “snappy dressers” June has been just one straw hat after another. The general run of men who have to get along with one or perhaps two hats in the season have had only one comfort: Most of the other hats on display looked equally disreputable after a short month’s usage. The man with a last year’s straw didn’t need to apologize or explain. It looked as well or better than the current vintage. The hat stores probably accepted the weather with smiles. A good many straw hat wearers who would have weathered the summer with one hat are looking forward to a second on or about the Foyrth of July—and they hope July will be dryer. The dictionary defines “consolidated” as “made solid, hard or compact; united, solidified, strengthened. Applied to the Stock Exchange so identified, the word has strong elements of irony. ' A TRANSPORTATION TRAGEDY. A SHORT news item from Port Worth telis of the pending abandonment of the Orient Railroad in the heart of the Texas cattle ranges. The promoter went broke building the road. Then the road itself went broke and into the hands of the receiver. Now the receiver finds that he cannot run the read to clear expenses, even without return to invested capital. It will be im- possible to continue service. This step will affect twenty-eight counties, leav- ing them without rail connections. What this means will be better understood by New Yorkers if they realize that one county affected is larger than the State of Connecticut and that the adjoin- ing county is larger still. Five counties served by this road are approximately the area of Massa- chusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Such an event spells tragedy. Of course the road ought never to have been built, but now that it has been built some measure of development has followed. Land values have appreciated. ‘Towns have started. Small traders, small farm- ers, small investors, homeseekers, have followed the railroad ‘and now stand to lose all or nearly all of their investments. If the trains stop it means that some railway fowns will be more than fifty miles from the near- . at #100 Wyatt Bide, cn and resourceful. But the pioneers in that territory are ingenious They have the advantage of the automobile. Perhaps we shall hear of some makeshift device of equipping automobile trucks with railway wheels so that the country can carry on. THE ISSUE IN IRELAND. N Dublin, Free State troops are fighting with rebels to compel the latter to evacuate the Law Courts The rebels say: “Mercenaries wearing the Irish uniform, paid, equipped and acting under England's orders, are attacking our brothers of the Irish Republican Army who defend the living re- public and will defend it to the death in the The Provisional Government of the Irish Free State says “None but Irish forces, with the co-operation of citizens, who are loyally and enthusiastically supporting the Government, are engagod in putting down the disorderly element who at- tempt to tyrannize over the people and defy their will.” “Irishmen will go into English jails as prison- ers, with their heads held high, but never into the British Empire as citizens,” declares Rory O'Connor, the rebel leader. Irishmen have decided and their decision is the treaty, is the stand of Michael Collins, head‘ of the Provisional Government. As between the force of reason and order and the force of fanaticism and disorder, the issue is clearly joined. It has to be fought out. ‘Until it is settled which force is to prevail there can be no real peace in even a free Ireland. President Harding's call for a White House conference on the coal strike next Saturday put it squarely up to the coal operators. Un- willingness of the operators to confer was one of the chief causes of the strike. The Presi- dent proposes a conference on the possibility of a conference. The operators have accepted the President's invitation. To have refused would have been to admit what no coal operator ean afford to admit, MR. TAFT REMEMBERS. Ct JUSTICE TAFT is not trying to per- suade British audiences that his fellow- countrymen at home are “internationally- minded.” At a luncheon given in his honor by the English-Speaking Union in London this week Mr. Taft said: “To the man in Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis or in the West, Europe seems very far away. What is happening on this side of the ocean does not interest him very much unless the price of wheat or other commodities is affected.” It was as far west as Wisconsin, at a joint meet- ing of the Minnesota and Wisconsin State Bar Associations in July, 1919, that Mr. Taft made one of his most eloquent public pleas for the League of Nations. The address was afterward published under the title “America Can't Quit.” It contained the famous challenge to Senators and to those who had power to influence Senators: “Suppose after twenty-five years your grand- son should come up to you and say: “‘Granddad, why did you vote against the League?’ “What will you tell him? . “You will do one of two things. You will either say: ‘Run away, grandson, you do not understand those issues.’ Or else you will lie about it.” The Chief Justive of the United States is not talking politics to his British hosts. But neither is he putting up any bluff as to the. influence exerted by large sections of the United States upon its post-war foreign policies. Mr. Taft is not battling anew over “those issues.” But he is too sincere a man to have for- gotten them. After the Saturday and Sunday grist of sum- monses for traffic violations have been served the Traffic Court is a busy place. When offend- ers gather by the hundreds ¢ i dooms aud halls are hot and stuffy places in the summer weather. Perhaps it is just as well the courts are crowded, Perhaps it is just as well the motor- ists have to wait some time for the privilege of paying their fines, A few hours’ wait in the court will be more of a punishment to some of the financially well-upholstered motorists than larger fines. sy Perhaps if the Magistrates will make the wait- ing tedious enough it may have an effect in mak- ing drivers more law-abiding and cautious. TWICE OVERS. 66] 'T is well known that it is nol the profit of the bar, but the loss of passengers owing to the lack of liquor, that would constitute the greatest danger to the American merchant marine.” — Representative Edmonds of Pennsyloania. * . * “cc ERTAIN newspaper men, who sit in their offices and never mingle with the people, direct malicious criticism against my Administration.” — Mayor Hylan to school children. + * * 66 J AM somewhat puzzled by the ambidextrous mental processes of the protectionists.’’— Senator Stan- ley, ( THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1922. est competing line and even further from: the in frequent stations. Romances ° of Industry By Winthrop Biddle. Sopyeignt, (New York Evening World) By Preas Pub. Oo. _ Padding His Salary! By John Cassel XXIX.—THE GOLD NUGGET TH. OPENED UP A CONTINENT. Up to 1851, Australia was simply convict camp, so far as Europe America were aware, In that year Englishman by the name, of graves changed all that by a bid his pick, so to speak. What that blow of his pick closed in the vicinity in New 8 Wales wher¢ now stands thé named for him, was @ mass ol weighing no less than 106 pounds. The news rang round the world. the twinkling of an eye it char Australia from a convict settlement an Eldorado—the continent that ¢¢ tains the richest square mile in all world, Hargraves's lucky disc: the races of the earth, civilized, rushing to Australia, The} fringe of habitable earth around internal desert of Australia quickly to broaden inward under the) pressure of swarming population. Ir- rigation, cultivation—in short, Austra- lia itself as we know it, was the di- rect result Pre-eminently a land of gold nuge gets—that’s what Australia is, Not gold dust, as on the golden beach at} Nome, but large nugget pure gold or of rieh qua Australia gives to the lucky ones. The history of gold mining in Aus- tralia is dotted with gold nuggets. In 1858 a lump of quartz and gold weigh ing 1,117 ounces was picked up at depth of sixty fect. Two days later. in the same area at Ballarat, known as Canadian Gully, up came another nugget weigting 1,111 ounces, Then came other masses of pure gold ranging up to 217 ounces. But the luckiest find of them all was yet to come. It came when "The Wel- come Stranger’ was found. A stone obelisk now marks the spot ve it| was first exposed to human view. “The Welcome Stranger,” as found, weighed 2,520 ounces. It gave 2 ounces of pure gold. That mass of the gleaming yellow metal set everybod that saw it crazy to find its mate, Up to the end of 1912 a total 1,327 nuggets of gold, weighing from 20 to 2,844 ounces each, had been| found in the soil that definitely fixed! Hargraves’s name high up iti the a ords of gold mining. Many of the finders of these ri went insane as soon as they had laid! hands on them. Others were no less} promptly robbed of tho fruits of theirf} enterprise and their luck by those less} fortunate. Gold brought misery as well as happiness to Australia, ee Famous Philosophies By LOUIS M. NOTKIN Copyright, 1922 (New York World), by Press Publishing Co. From Evening World Réaders UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ien’t it the one .— DESCARTES — PHIL PHY] that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? * O80! | fina OF REASON. There is mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Ci ight, 1922, b; hi > to say much in few words. Take.time to be brief. a Ale) y send mee) Poeapecirisenrnis: | ry ea! at! “Work and Happiness for Every- body.” To the Editor of The Evening World: I heartily agree with Mr. Adolph Lewisohn in his prison reform, but why not start the reform before pe0-| aq stretched upon fertile plas ple get into jail? Why wait until}; isWIkhah and @ouDtalba; Mex? they have lost hope, patience, self-|ico to-day is one of the few nations in respect, confidence in themselves, and|the world actually building additional oarainit " railway facilities. In my opinion with- te sea cal pet in Its territory Mexico comparatively good and industrious people} possesses the greatest store of unde- could always find work whereby they | veloped resources in the world, Most could earn a decent living under tol-|of our American people do not realize erable circumstances, and lazy and that nearly half of the silver of the world comes from Mexico, and that neglectful people were compelled tO} the binder twine which makes our support themgelves, there would be] American harvest possible is almost fewer criminals. the exclusive product of Yucatan, a This theory is proved by the fact} Mexican state. In the enormous pro- that when business {s prosperous} auction of oll Mexico is only second to there are fewer crimes committed|:he United States, while the popular than when business is stagnant and Amercan chewing gum is almost many people are idle. Mexica: The Idle brain is the devil's work- Rey yeaa ee es paid shop and idle hands his tools. Let Us| other enterprises are successfully op- abolish his workshop and control his| erated there, which enables Mexico to tools, and this earth will be a better! send more copper and lead to the place to live on, United States than any other country Let “Work and Happiness tolin the world. verybody" be the slogan of thi8|" American people should visit and great mation. know better their next-door neighbor, for I am sure that eventually they will find something that compensates their time and effort in so doing. G. PENA, New York, June 25, 1922. tured articles, machinery and con- structive services. A country poten- tially able to increase its production of wealth in manifold ways, if her capi- tal and skill are fulfilled. It has over 16,000 miles of rail- THE FORCE OF HOPE, A well known advertising man, asked about returning prosperity the other day, replied: f “It 1s returning. And it will keep on returning. I know it, because when any one asks me about conditions the question always is: “ ‘How is business? A lot better, isn’t it?’” The last question is the whole thing. As long as people add it to their inquiries about busi- ness, business will come back. It is a wistful question. It is not based on the fear that business isn't better. It is a hopeful question, business is better. As a man thinketh, so is he and so is business. The world got tired of pessimism after it had nearly been wrecked by it. It got tired of the cynical belief that people were hard and selfish and cruel merely because a great war had devas- tated the world. It now sees in the earnest efforts of all the statesmen of Europe to restore good feeling and insure peace a certain sign that men’s minds are set on better things. Once put abroad the idea that business is going to the bad and many firms that are in a tight place will give up’ and ask for receiverships. But let it be noised about that better times are coming, the same firms will put forth, the extra effort needful to tide them over till the better times are here. Discouragement causes more losses than lack of ability It is the “What's-the-tise” idea that sends many business houses to the scrap heap when, if their members thought there was a great deal of use, they would keep on going. The world is as large as it ever was. It is as produc- tive potentially, and has much latent energy. The people of each nation need to trade with the people of other nations. That means business, Continue to ask the question, ‘How is business? A lot better, isn’t it?’”’ and depression will soon be at an end. knowledge was confused and utiér. tain, Therefore he decided to anew, at first, doubting everything,| proceeding slowly, content to kno but little provided that little be be-| yond all possible doubt. He laid down four rules of pro-| cedure. The first was never to re-| ceive anything as a truth that could not himself perceive as such, The second was to divide every culty into as many parts The third was to think always in an| orderly manner, going from the) known to the unknown and from} the simple to the complex. The) fourth rule was to make enumerations) so complete and reviews so compre-' hensive that he would be certain of omitting nothing. Descartes believed that only) through the medium of reason could he analyze and fully appreciate the realities of life. He dis¢ussed the deep- t problems of philosophy fearlessly and frankly. He tried to prove ta. tionally the existence of God, knowl- edge of the external world, sub- stances, nature and the very exist- ence of the soul. Descartes reasons thus “Where do I get the idea of a God, and what truth is there in it? I know’ that I am imperfect. I know that God exists from the fact of my own existence, if T had been tie author of my being T should have given myself possible perfection, and I must attrib. ute my continued existence as well as) my creation to a God.” “But how sure am I of the extst= ence of the external world?” Des- cartes asks himself, then answers ra= ly in the following mann ow, it is utterly impossible that God, a being of infinite perfection can wish to deceive me. I know, therefore, that whatever I can cl ly and distinctly conceive as exist! 8 does really exist, just as I know that God exists from the clear and distinct conception of him, I clearly and dis- tinctly conceive the external world. as existing. Therefore it really exists." Of the soul Descartes says: perceive the soul to be sim tended or immaterial, and hence im- perishable, except it be destroyed by direct act of its Creator. The acts of the soul are either ideas or volitions,”* eee ene TS It arises out of a belief that GEORGE W. MOHR. Jersey City, June 24, 1922 Mexteo. ‘To the teaitor of ‘ine kivening World: Does the conception of most Amert- can people about Mexico depend upon the bandit und murder stories they read in newspapers und magazines,|* Pursuant to the various, articles and even see them enacted in moving] that have been appearing lately, isn't pictures? Do they depend upon the|it about time these open cars with the propaganda found in books of certain|running board at the side were would be authors? I have made @lusraineao Besides being injurious | tour throughout Mexico, in- po and admiring that great|to life, health and limb of women and country, I have learned some realjchildren they are a menace to every facts which would no doubt interest} sense of decency. many of us. * Any sak surprise come of our| ‘t'# all very well for the B. R. T American people to know that Mexico|t® call attention to the fact of the is larger than Great Britain, Japan,|extra seating capacity, They mean Italy and Germany combined’, Wie the extra number of people they temperate, tropical an sub-trop! lands, wotually end potentially capable|°*® crowd on top of one another on of producing ulmost every concelv-|the running board. A person has to able product known in the world, Tt|be a veritable note of interrogation to has 5,801 miles of combined coast line] sit In them, as the standees lean on on the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans|one's neck or crowd one's knees. and the Caribbean Sea. This country] On a rainy day the water comes in is so situated as to easily commandjon all sides. The curtains are of the traffic to South America ané the/little or no use and half the time one Far East, Free ports are to be estab-| has to stand as the seats all wet. lished at both terminals of the Inter-]The space between seats is so narrow oceanic Railway on the Tehuantepec|that either one is on top of the per- Isthmus to offer facilities to the com-|son sitting or vice versa. Many men merce of the world in the near fu-/are only too glad of this opportunity ture. t resh'’ by putting their knees There are over 15,000,000 people|against a woman who happens to be across the border line from this coun |near them. try, towards the south now peaceful-| I hope the women of the League of ly struggling up to better conditions, |American Voters will take up this better standards of living and educa-|issue as well as the lowering of the tional facilities, with its ever increas- | running board, L. BL ing markets for all kinds of manufac- Brook, } Open Street Cars. ‘To the ditor of The Evening World: WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 182.—BRIAR. The word briar, as applied to a pipe, is no relation to the Bonnie Briar Bush. In fact it ts no briar at all. The word is a corruption of the French word ‘‘bruyere,’’ the name of the shrub, many times cut ‘own being used for the making of pipes. In the end the French peasants had to pay the Government for the priv- ilege of digging the root of the “bruyere’’ from the public domata. ———_ WHOSE BIRTHDAY! JUNE 29—PETER PAUL RUBENS was born at Siegen, Germany, on June 29, 1577, amd died in Antwerp, |his return from France sje sent him May 80, 1640. His talent for painting}on a mission to Spain to negotiate " asserted itself at an early age and| peace with Philip IV., and on a similar above the ground, one Hees Be upon reaching his thirteenth =. he|mission to England to treat with cumulated root, with its fine Srain.}iccan to study art. In 1600 he pro-|Charles I, Rubens was a man of ex- the French produced the PIPe DOW | -eeded to Italy to continue his studies|traordinary character, and his large known as a ‘‘briar. and while there he became court}number of productions (numbering ‘There is an Interesting story, be-| painter to the Duke ot Manttia. Marie|about 2,500) places him at the head of longing to French history, about 4]4e Medici invited him to France in|the Flemish school. Among his most’ controversy between the French peas-|\621, where he executed a series of|noted paintings are ‘‘Adoration of the ants and the Sovernment over the} nictures Mustrating the life of that right to dig up the roots o' rincess. Rubens had hecome a great “pruyere”’ after it had been made *}ravortte in the court of the Arch- commodity of considerable value by duchess Isabella in Antwerp, and upon n, June 24, 1923.