The evening world. Newspaper, July 14, 1922, Page 16

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BRONX, 410 E, 140th St, meer! CHICAGO, 1603 Mallers Bide. BROOKLYN, PARIS, 47 Avenue de l'Opera. 202 gVashington St. | fend #17 Fulton nt LONDON, 20 Cockspur St. MEMRER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republl- gation of all news despatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper, also the local news published herein LET LABOR TEST THE CGURTS. BY-PRODUCT of the railroad wage con- troversies of the month is a suit in equity Started by the Brotherhood of Clerks to enjoin the wage cut recently announced by the Penn- sylvania Railroad as the result of an agreement with a committee of .its employees. The Pennsylvania plan of collective barga ing with “company unions” has drawn the ire of the railroad unions. The details have been sharply criticised by the Labor Board. But the Pennsylvania went to law to prevent the Labor Board from interfering—and won Now the clerks protest that the new wage scale is void “because it was arranged with a com- mittee selected by the railroad but supposed to be representing the employees.” The Pennsylvania has deticd the Labor Board to much the same eventual effect as when Mr. Jewell defied it, but with this difference: The Pennsylvania defiance was couched in polite terms and was voiced through the courts. The effect was to reveal a loophole in the law that seems to call for repair. Mr. Jewell would have been better advised had he too resorted to the courts rather than to demagogic tirades against Wall Street influences. The clerks are doing well in following the ex- ample of the employers in seeking relief from the courts. If the Pennsylvania System elections were in fact fraudulent; if-the “company union” is in fact controlled by the company and not by the employges, the courts may give relief. If the protesting union is unable to convince the court under the present law, it will at least have laid the foundation for an orderly appeal for altera- tion of the law by Congress. The Evening World is not convinced that labor unions cannot get fair and just treatment from the courts. The garment workers here in New York appealed to the courts and won their case against the employing organization. If the unions, on their own initiative, try to get justice and fair dealing from the courts and fail they will have a strongér case against the courts. One trouble with union experiences in court is that the unionists have usually appeared as defendants, rarely as plaintiffs. Why not make the other side “show cause?” IT MIGHT HAPPEN TO MAYOR HYLAN. HANCELLOR EDWIN WALKER of New Jersey rendered a decision yesterday that may serve as a lesson and warning to the Hylan contingent in New York City. Jersey City officialdom has been using much the same sort of obstruction against the vehicu- lar tunnel construction that Mayor Hylan has used toward the Port Authority and the Transit Commission. Chancellor Walker stopped it and enjoined Jersey City from further interference with a State function. The Port Authority enjoys much the same power and position as the Joint Tunnel Commis- sion. There is small reason to believe that New York courts would differ from the reasoning of Chancellor Walker if a similar test case arose. The Jersey City officials can continue to pro- test and obstruct if they so desire. But if they do they must count on the probability of going to jail on a contempt charge Mayor Hylan has frequently expressed a willingness to do this but without ever making good on the threat. But even if Jersey officialk—or’ Mayor Hylan —choose this form of martyrdom the work is likely to go on and the sacrifice prove vain. CARRYING THE WATERMELON, READER-REPORTER for The Evening World's “What Did You See To-Day?” columns told of a man who lost a bet because he was unable to carry a watermelon around the bivck iouching it with.only one hand. The stunt may “.ave been “‘old stuff” to some readers, but it was new and interesting to the bettor and to many others. Carrying the watermelon is a variation of a once-popular test of carrying a bag of shot. And that in turn may trace back to the primitive man who bet a cocoanut that his fellow couldn't carry a stone from the water hole to the cave. The test is built on (he-fact that the tendons are strong but tire under a con- jad supported on a hand beni of the wrist tinued stray \ at the me rate Old friends in chronicle of h much the Wrist scems to grow heavier at an alarm- new guises ae sure to creep into altars Human beings are preity ear after year, gen- eration after generation Onls rarely do we find something wholly “new under the sun.” Meanwhile the “What Did You See To-Day?” department in The Evening World is proving a highly popular hot-weather feature—just because the incidents recorded are so intensely human any aman ame ORDERS FOR THE B. R. T. HE Transit Commission's expected order for increased service on the B. R. T. was forth- coming to-day The B. R. 1. is directed to improve its traffic Aug. 15, to the extent of 100 more trains per day, sixty in rush hours and forty in non-rush hours. [he company must at once buy fifty new steel cars to replace the wooden cars now operated on the Centre Street loop. Next fall it must order, thirty-five more steel cars. Apparently the B. R. 1. means to obey orders with less protest than was made by the I. R. T. Receiver Garrison and Federal Judge Mayer are reported to be in accord with the Transit Commission as to the need for the “new service The Transit Commission long since showed its adherence to the principle which Gov. Miller thus laid down: schedules by under similar circumstances. “That the courts have not yet held that a public service corporation can continue to enjoy its franchise and neglect to comply with reason- able orders to vender adequate service when such neglect is the result of incapacity pro- duced by its own acts.” The public owes much to the Governor and to the Transit Commission for sticking to this principle and requiring improvement of current service no less than consideration of the larger transit plan. The Fordney-McCumber tariff seems to be toppling. * “PLASTER AND LATH.” N his latest invocation to Mr. Hearst to stand forth and save the people, Mayor Hylan makes dark reference to a “plaster and lath Democrat” whom “the corporations and the re- actionary elements” are determined to have nomi- nated for Governor on the Democratic ticket. We take it this “plaster and lath Democrat” can be none other than Alfred E. Smith, whose host of friends will be more amused than enraged at the absurdity of the characterization. . According to Mayor Hylan, if the Democratic Party in this State nominates William Randolph Hearst for Governor, William Randolph Hearst will, of course, be a Democrat. If the Democrats refuse to nominate Mr. Hearst, then Mr. Hearst will be anything that puts him in a position to bid for votes. Structurally speaking, therefore, as between William Randolph Hearst and Al Smith, which, in the name of all the solid brick-and-mortar that ever was built, is the “plaster and lath Democrat’’? ( FROM A GREAT AND TIMELY SPEECH, “We propose to take up what is known as the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill. I am perfectly aware that both sides of the Chamber are in favor of that proposition to a large extent. We are now pay- ing out over $1,000,000 a day for the disabled veterans; about $436,000,000 for this year will be paid, more than a million dollars a day. If we calculate the obligations which we owe to those men—and if they are disabled it is an obligation which we must meet at whatever cost —it will cost this Government, upon the ratio . that it cost us after the Civil War, in the next fifty years over $65,000,000,000. Some estimate it higher. But adding that to the $22,000,000,- 000 which we already owe and the immense budget which we have, you have about all that the American taxpayer will be willing to carry during these coming y¢ “But it is proposed out of hand to lay upon the American people at this time an extra bur- den of from four to six billion dollars, almost twice as large as the debt which we had at the close of the Civil War; and if we pay it in the same way and at the same rate that we paid the debt after the Civil War, it will take us 250 years to pay off the debt which we propose to lay in a few weeks for the purpose of meeting this supposed obligation.”—Senator William EB. Borah to the United States Senate. ACHES AND PAINS Why all this pother about the sale of liquor on American liners? “Half-seas over” has long been a recognized condition. Why is it that members of the Gould family need so much matrimony? i: It seems to require an awful lot of justice to take care of Charles W. Morse and sons. * ola Rosebore an is the best tale in the Bible, It certainly pans out pleasantly for everybody but the fatted calf, ve e the story of the Prodigat Which reminds us that the sun in the high heavens is getting somewhat prodigal with its rays, . The movie magnate of Moscow before the old repime blew up was a colored man from He te now making good at the same yame in Constantinople. Beveral former residents of Moscow have hecome M. Ma. in the Y. 8. A. JOHN KERTZ, ssissippi ES SIR NY STS ARE Can gece AN TELL WHO AND WHAT ARE YOU ACCORDING 7ONY TESTS YOU ARE A z I'LL TAKE OFF NY HAT 70 YOU ___THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 19s, Beat it! > ALLRIGHT PROFESSOI Te TEST ME AND SEE |F YOU CAN YOu SAID IT / ay HOORAY ! NY TESTS ARE = INFALL/BLE J r\: THE DARN CROOK STOLE NY to say mach in a few words. Esp e Act Prisoners. To the Editor of The Evening World: on for a million signatures to a peti- tion to President Harding to free the labor and other political held since the war under the Espion- age Act. As a member of the A. E. F. I wish to protest the official atti- tude of the American Legion which has declared against a general am- nesty. All the German spies have been re- leased and there are no war profiteers in prison. Why this discrimination against the eighty-seven I. W. W. and other labor prisoners still in LeavenwortH prison. WILLIAM HORNBLOWER. Mount Vernon, N.Y., July 10, 1922. To the Editor of The Evening World: John Blake, observing that his mind has a habit of wandering when he tries to read a book that at the time does not interest him, whips up his mind with what he mistakenly calls his will and starts all over again, in- stead of putting the book aside for a time when his mind may prove more receptive. This, he says, is a much needed discipline, and if we are ever to get anything done the whip of the will must be applied with vigor to the mind. It apparently does not cecur to Mr. Blake that this inability to fix his mind upon the book in question may be nothing less than a manifestation of his will to think of something else. If this 1s so, will he still continue to cram the book down his int gullet? It seems to me that instead of the will dominating the intellect the process should be reversed. Mr. Blake, however, is a “go-getter. “gets things done." He ignores the clamant fact that the unbeidled exer- cise of the will is always vulgar and often vicious, Ignoring this patent truth, he cannot of course accommo- date its equally patent consequence— that the intellect should ve the su- preme ruler of the individual and should serve as a check-rein to the will, which, being extravagant and irresponsible, really needs discipline. What was it that bade the Kaiser enter Belgium? What mide M. Lan- dru marry a batch of women and then kill them? Why do men kill them- selves to pile up money tney can have no use for? What causes* robbery, divorce, suicide, strikes, Prohibition? Is it Intellect? Hardly, [t is simply the unbridled freedom of tne will, vio- lently manifested, without the mitl- gating qualities of the intellect. We are in such a mad frenzy to get things done that we never stop to think what kind of things we are get: ting done. Instead of sutwrdinati the will to the intellect we do the From Evening World Readers | What hind of letter do you find most readable? Isn’t {t the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine metal exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. exact opposite, and with the will in the saddle the intellect atrophies and A campaign is now being carried}the individual is spurred on to new heights of inanity. Mr. Blake's advice contains the the quintessence of all that is wrong prisoners | with the world. GEORGE W. SCHOPENHAUER. Brooklyn, July 11. Why a Hearing? To the Editor of The Evening World: According to information published in the daily pres. a ‘hearing’ will be held before the Department ot Justice at Washington, D. C., begin- ning next Thursday, and estimated to last several days, as to whether or not intoxicating liquors should be sold on vessels of American registry. ‘As the question involved is solely a matter of law and thoroughly covered by the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act, why is it necessary to stage such a “hearing” of pros and cons? It is well established and set- tled in law that ‘the Constitution fol- lows the flag."’ Is Prohibition to be made an exception, for obvious rea- sons? When in the past has a ‘thearing"’ been arranged by the Attorney Gen- eral of the United States when called upon to render a decision on an exist- ing law and, besides, one that had already received so much attention by the Supreme Court of the United States as the one in question? Is the public to understand that the Attor- ney General is not sufficiently com- petent to decide the point“involved? THEO. J, WALSH. “Civic Snobbery.” To the Editor of The Evening World: Yes! It is about time to call a halt to the “snobbery’’ of utilizing the public parks for private use of our modern “elite” American. Let the public use the parks and other places for which they already pay. Public parks for public use. A case in point is Hyde Park, Lon- don. Some years ago a “sclect” party thought it would be to their advan- tage, so, without getting “public ap. proval, just !ron fenced ucross the public highway through this large park, which had always been open, night and day, being properly lighted at night. The ‘elite’ did it all right, |but, presto! One morning at 2 o'clock. when all was quiet, from all parts of London came groups of men, armed with crowbars, sledge hammers, wire- cutters and anything for heavy work, and met at that public park. There was no closed park after they gut through and left word that: “Ww. claim the public park for public usc."* Of course outlying police did not suspect a few men passing along. George Washington still lives! Let thd public use thelr own Central Park. ONE OF THE PUBLIC, UNCOMMON SENSE By lohn Blake (Copyright, by John Blake.) A SURE CURE FOR CONCEIT. An astronomer of Victoria, Bri' h Columbia, has lately discovered two seemingly tiny stars whirling about each other fifty-two billions of miles from the little earth on which we tiny human atoms creep about. Their light is twenty thousand times brighter than the sun, their mass is three hundred and eighty times as great. An aeroplane travelling two hundred miles an hour would require thirty-two million years to reach these spheres. Doubtless in the vast universe that stretches infinitely beyond these suns are others still larger. They are as much greater than we are as we are greater than the tiniest microbe that burrows somewhere within us and gives us influenza or small-pox or pneumonia. It would be difficult for Napoleon or Mr. Jack Demp- sey, or even a head waiter ina fashionable New York restau- rant, to believe himself of any particular importance when contemplating these distant orbs. It would be imposs:ble for the most conceited among us to think that our doings were of any consequence when thinking of a universe so vast that our earth could travel about it for a thousand times more ages than has been in existence without ever coming into contact with the heat given off by such prodigious bodies. We have been given life for a useful purpose, of course, but we are prone to exaggerate that part we play in it, or to ignore how little the greatest men and women among us change even the progress of existence on this single little sphere of ours, which is less than a marble compared with even our own sun, which we can see and feel and try to un- derstand. When we know that every star we see, outside of the planets in our own solar system, is a sun like our own, with perhaps its own little circle of surrounding worlds, we begin to think that perhaps after all it would not matter so much to the Great Power that controls the whole system whether we lived or died. Conceit keeps most of us from doing all that we ought to in this tiny world of ours. own importance, and to think We are prone to magnify our that trouble would be sure to follow if we were not permitted to function as we choose. Reflection about the universe and its giant suns and flying comets ana spaces that are beyond our power to un- derstand gives us a better perspective. If continued for a reasonable time every few days it will absolutely banish conceit. “That’s a Fact” By Albert P. Southwick . 1e New York Evening bee nerves Publishing Co. “The Old Guard” was a noted body of troops in the army of Napoleon Bonaparte. It made the last French charge at the Battle of Waterloo, on June 18 1816. eee be his own grand- father in a legal sense, Tho anomal is proved thus: A widower and hi son marry, the father taking for a A man may wife the daughter of a widow, and the son marrying the young lady's mother. Thereby, the latter becomes ‘ather (in-law) to his own father and, consequently, grandfather to his father's son; that is, himself. Peer La Paix de Monsieur (French for ‘Peace of Monsieur'') was a religious truce concluded in 1522 between the peror Charles V. of France and he Protestants. “The Widow's Peak'’ was a point nade in the forehead by the hair pro- Jecting toward the nose like @ peak, and said to indicate widowhood. Epoch-Making Ds BOOKS By Thomas Bragg Copyrtant, 1 epyright, 1022 (New York Rventng 1 by Press Publishing Co. THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN. ‘The debt of gratitude that the world owes to George Combe can never b overpaid. He was one of the mos' useful men that ever lived, and 1 would be difficult, if not impossible, to) point out his equal as an enlightepw# and benefactor of mankind, Combe was born in Edinburgh ¢ 21, 1788, and at the age of twenty- eight, when he was in the first flush of his splendid powers, gave up thi Profession of the law, to which he had thought to dedicate his life, and begaa the study of human life as related to the laws and facts of nature. Eight years later (1824) there ap- peared from his pen a book which ha entitled “The Constitution of Man. Considered in Relation to External Objects"'—a book that was to do mor actual good, perhaps, than any book that had been printed for a thousand years. The hard-headed, _clear-seeing Scotchman—whose heart, by the way, was as warm as his brain was sound— had written and given to the world a book that was destined to make men think along the most important lir that thought can possibly travel, witl the result that great and lasting good was to come to them. Truth, like the tortoise, travels slowly, owing largely to the hindrance that it meets with from the various self-appointed ‘‘authorities,"’ and even so late as the dawn of the Nineteenth Century the idea set forth in Combe's book was but dimly perceived by thw rank and file of mankind. The aim of “The Constitution of Man" was to demonstrate the essen tial harmony of the nature of man. with the surrounding world, and thi necessity of studying the laws of na in order that we may reap the antages flowing from our obedi- ence to those laws, escape the sor- rowful consequences which are sure to follow our disobedience to them, and thus secure for ourselves and our posterity the blessings of a. stead physical, moral and social improve- ment The book made quite « folly of breaking natur then PRAYING for an the consequences of the Combe made it plain th the laws of nature was to suffer, while to understand and obey the was sure and certain well-being and happine The book had, for its day, a won- derful sale. Hundreds of thousands of copies were sold. Edition " edition was called for; various trans: lations were made, and the leaders o' thought in practically every civilize lund were deeply influenced by teachings. Jt was impossible, after the publ cation of “The Constitution of Man, for the world to continue going on if the slipshod way it had been goin, since the dawn of history—content t« remain ignorant of natural law, or of knowing about them, deluded with the miserable notion that men migh® break the laws and yet, somehow. » consequenc publication 44 Combe's book there began the recon struction and readjustment of ou thinking which was to result in the scientific situation we are witnessing to-day throughout the civilized worl —a situation that is dominated by the idea of the absolute necessity of har monizing ourselves with the larg! nature of which we are a part Every Governnient, — university] school, humanitarian scheme, benev olent society on earth is now workin, under the inspiration and guidance of this idea of Combe’s teaching: Obe! the great laws of nature and_ the: pray—and your prayers will surely t answered. r the utter, "s laws and cape trom® breaking t to disobey ee WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 188—WIDOW. “Widow'’ is one of the words tha by the similarity of its forg among most, if not all, whi people goes to show their comni origin. Such variants of the word a the Italian ‘‘vedova,"’ the Russi “ydova"’ and the German “‘wittwe! point back to the time when all ped ples—at least those with white skins used the same word to designate given idea. Take the Latin ‘vidua,"’ femint of “viduus,"’ deprived of, bereft, an| you get a good !dea of how the wor originated. So considered, the word ‘‘widow’’ ap| pears to be closely related to tl word ‘void’ or empty. The two word are, in fact, descended from a co! mon ancestor, probably still older ths the Latin tongue. jbl Lane ETS WHOSE BIRTHDAY? JULY 14—JULES MAZARIN wi born at Piscina, Italy, July 1602, and died in Vincennes, Fran March 9, 1661, He was educated Italy and Spain. In 1624 he beca' Captain of Infantry in the Pop army, and in 1629, as the result his successful management of the w of the Mantuan succession, was al pointed to the court of France. He he met the Prime Minister Richeliq who, recogniaing his great abili offered him an important office una the King of France. This he cepted and in 1689 became a naturd ized Frenchman, He succeeded Rid elieu as supreme Minister yand co pleted the latter's work of destroy! the power of the nobles and ing feudal ownership of land, By work he may be said to foundation of modern F possible her greatness. ing among the comm: movement which culminated in, French Revolution,