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Associated Preet ts exclusively entitied to the use for republt- ek Gt all pews deopatebes credited to itor not otherwise credived this paper, and sleo the local news published herein DISTRICT ATTORNEY BANTON AND THE TAXI-BONDING LAW. ILL somebody explain the strange attitude of District Attorney Banton toward the new Taxi-Bonding Law which, for the greater msotection of the public, requires indem bonds or insurance policies for owners of taxi cabs and other classes of motor vehiclés trans- porting passengers for hire in cities of the first class in this State? Here is a law enacted by the State Legislature and so far upheld by the courts On June 30, the day before the law went into effect, Judges Hough, Manton and A. N. Hand, sitting as a Federal Statutory Court, denied a motion for an injunction against the operation of the law. Judge Hough declared that the only way in which the court could entertain the mo- tion would be on a showing that the new law was obnoxious to the Constitution. No such showing was made. Last week Justice Finch oi the State Supreme Court upheld this same law and denied an ap- plication for an injunction restraining the Police Commissioner, District Attorney and Attorney General from enforcing it. In his decision Jus- tace Fincn said: * The att, in regulating a class of common carriers for hire, is a valid exercise of the police power, and the means adopted appear to be reasonably appropriate to the end sought. Robert S. Conklin, representing the Attorney General, brought to the attention of the court the fact that there are ypward of 12,000 unpaid judgments duly recovered for injuries and damages caused by the negligent “and wilful acts of taxicab drivers. “It is clear that the Legislature has devised a plan effectively to regulate tais class of carriers by fixing responsibility, even though in certain cases it may be only to a small extent.” Yet instead of helping to enforce this law which has been sustained by the courts, District Attorney Banton is still helping taxicab owners and optrators to challenge it. In a test case now under way, the arrest of the chauffeur was ar- tanged between the District Attorney and the taxicab owners. Seventeen other States have laws similar to this law. The courts have as yet cast no doubts upon its constitutionality in this State. Why, then, should District Attorney Banton treat it otherwise than as « law to be duly.and straightforwardly enforced? Even fairest-minded Americans will agree that the most helpful contributor toward the settlement of present strike troubles is NOT Eugene V. Debs, JUST AS IMPORTANT. NOTHER fire in the east side subway Sun- day seems to have been handled with skill and common sense. News reports are so conflicting that the public is not certain as to the difference between this fire and the recent one in which more than a hundred passengers were threatened with death by suffocation. One feature of all the reports is that the motor- man managed to run his train several blocks to a station where passengers could alight with a minimum of inconvenience. This short-circuit accident which did not prove disastrous and was well handled deserves an in- vestigation as thorough and comprehensive as the previous fire. The Interborough, the Tran- sit Commission—and ever, Mayor Hylan and the city departments—would do well to discover the differences between the two, find out exactly how the procedure Sunday was better than ten days before and so take steps to install equip- ment and instruct motormen and conductors in the best ways to meet an emergency. Careful. planning to prevent and minimize future fires is far better than recriminations over past mistakes. ~ A WONDERFUL SAFETY RECORD N a twelvemonth, the Air Mail Service an- nounces, postal flyers have flown a distance equal to seventy times around the world But the most striking fact of the report is that not a single mail wip has been killed in flight. ( \ “public can only conclude that the operators, like This compares with twenty-one deaths in the previous year The air mail completed 92.5 per cent. of its trips in all ‘sorts of weather and over all sorts of territory, including the mountain stretches in the New York to San Francisco service. The mileage was 94 per cent. of what was planned, A year ago the air mail was seriously criticised because of the death Some models of planes were abandoned and the present highly satisfactory record is the Criticism justi- fied itself. The air mail is not on a paying basis. It is the duty of Congress and the Post Office De- partment to investigate as to the practicability of continuing the service. But it is reassuring to find that pilots have at last been provided with safe planes—-and that such reliable machines are in existence record re also | EO CUETO ’ ieee eee A NOTE WHEN PARLEY FAILS. LTHOUGH a majority of the bituminous A coal operators pay lip service to the pro- posals advanced by the President, the ultimate effect is no more satisfactory than the reply of the miners. Professing adherence to “the broad principle of arbittation,” the operators nevertheless seek as a practical matter to narrow arbitration to district areas and so to overthrow a system of collective bargaining which for years has given better results than the district bargaining it super- seded. This principle, the check-off, and the other stipulations made by one district or an- other—all these are fair to submit to arbitration The President's prompt reply to the operators may mean much or little, depending on the stiff- ness of the Presidential backbone. But dis- regarding the polite phraseology and judging the published statements by immediate effects, the issues FUNNY IF THE the miners, prefer a private fight and “the public be damned.” That is what will happen if it is permitted to happen The attitude of both parties to the coal strike makes mo.e difficult an immediate solution. But the joint refusal may make simpler the remedy for the fundamental eviis Gi Uie coal industry A week ago The Evening World said of Presi- dent Harding’s proposal for a commission of arbitration and inquiry: If either miners or operators hesitate, the com- mission must go on with that party unrepresented. Even if both parties to the dispute should refuse, the public group should proceed to investigate That advice is good to-day. By refusing the COUNTRY mececd cred (C(t \ UU [ eee —o vil 4) THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1922, (RACs FLENSTIONUIZENS Wy ae Ts WOULDN'T IT RE We Men JOHNS IN THIS, CHEAP FORSAKEN PLACE D dete WWU Zoe, Are Wend Katto ee «.. Copyright, 19% (New York Evening Eve rid) By Preas Pub. By Maurice Ketten | HIDE THEY ARE COMING THIS WAY Suc BLUFFERS THEY ARE FULL OF THEY WERE GoING TO A VERY FASHIONABLE President's offer both the miners and the oper- ators have forfeited claim to special representa- tion and consideration. The President should Proceed to appoint an able and courageous com- mission, armed with absolute power of investiga- tion and requested td form a programme of regu- lation for the coal industry at the earliest moment Three of the fundamental evils which must be met and faced as part of a permanent solution are: the division in labor policies; the excess of mine capacity, and the over-supply of labor. What kind of letter do you find that gives the worth of a thousand to say mach in a few words. Tetrachloride Profits. To the Editor of The Evening World Mayor Hylan’s somewhat selfish effort to get popularity by ruining the busin of the pyrene manufac- turers has an aspect which has not been touched. It has been pointed out often that there are a score of companies selling extinguishers under different patent names for their containers which use the tetrachloride of carbon mixture both for fire extinguishing and remov- ing grease stains from clothing. (Camp Fire Marshals of the A. E. I. were freauently warned, with the ut- most secrecy, by the way, to make frequent inspections of hand extin- guishers in the quarters of officers, to make sure that the officers were nov emptying the containers by using the flued to keep their uniforms neat; en- listed men were supposed to be able to draw clean clothing when they needed it—officers couldn't.) But why didn't the Mayor get after the whole Bupeh of tetrachloride ex- tinguisher makers as profiteers? They chage $1 for a quart of the fluid to refil] the containers. A manufacture: who has to buy quantities of tetra- chloride of carbon from wholesale chemical houses to fireproof inflam- mable liquids used in his plant, tells me he buy# all he wants at 11 cents & pound and it takes eleven pounds to make a saturated solution in a gallon of water—or a little more than 50 cents @ quart. D. FROM A GREAT AND TIMELY SPEECH. We have a’ this time an indebtedness of about $22,000,000,000. Our budget is running from §3,500,000,000 upward, According to the report of Mr. Mellon, the Secretary of the Treasury, the sources of taxes in this country are drying quite as rapidly as in Great Britain, We have a deficit for 1923 estimated at $500,- 000,000. That is the situation presented to us, not a speculative proposition but by actual figures. At the close of the Civil War we had an indebtedness of about $2,674,815,356. By 1915 we ‘nad reduced the indebtedness of the Government to $1,090,148,006. In other words, during the space of fifty years we had reduced our public indebtedness something over $1,000,000,000. If we are to judge the future by the past, we now have an indebtedness which it will take us more than 1,000 years to lift, to say nothing of the constantly increasing bur- den in the way of increased taxes from year to year by reason of the increased budgets;- and it is proposed, in addition to that which we already have, to lay on an extra indebted- nei Senator William E. Borah to the United States Sena ACHES AND PAINS Bobbded hair ts not becoming to fat flappers, . Cracking. To the Editor of The ig World; I was amused by the letter in your signed ‘Public Ser- vice. : “The people speak of voting this fall for the return of the devil's brew." Then he calmly admits he has liquor in his cellar— for medicinal purposes, of course! When the poor man who could not afford to stock his cellar hike this wise temperance writer did has illness in the family all he has to do is pay for a doctor's prescription, then pay a rousing good price to a druggist for diluted, inferior stuff which in many cases 1s not fit to drink, or else let the patient die of fu’ or whatever he is afflicted with, 1 nice for the Probitionists to protect the poor man like thht when their own cellars Mr. Hearst reminds the public that he has been nearly forty years in journalism. Yet he is still re. garded a8 a frivolous young thing with hopes that he will grow up, ° “Just my luck,” I heard him say When his money went at play: “Just my luck,” I heard him ery When the chance went filtting by. . The step between a rightful strike and civtl war is altogether too short. * are stocked t n 0 The letter continues: “All work- Britain is sending a delegation here to discuss ing people are better clothed and fed debts. This is always painful, but easier than set- |etnan before Prohibition,” I wonder if any one believes that rank lie, The money the poor man once spent for his wholesome glass of beer Is now spent for tax to help support Prohi- bition. He doesn't mention the mil- Hons who are jobless—partully due to Prohibition. Evidently the people tling up. . Think of Henry Cabot Lodge calling at the White House and finding W. G. H. too busy to see him. H. C. L. had better have joined the League of Nations, . 0 r lock stocked their E,W. Howe says that in s0 good a country as this [in bis BI heir cellars poverty isa fault and should be punished. It usually an ened bought a lot of clothes H—autyinatteatty. JOHN KEETZ. | He refers t) himself and fellow From Evening World Readers most readable ? Isn’t tt the one words in a couple of hundred? There ts fine metal exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. Prohibitionists While the re; “we Americans 1 Americans were fight- ing the war to free the world from tyranny the Prohibitionists were busy slipping over this obnoxious law on t uintry as and since thetr rary victory they have suddenly be come the only ‘we Americans."’ The soldiers who fought the are against Prohibition—are wa they Americans? Labor came out flat footed for beer and wine—are they Americans? The Elks are against Prohibition—and they arg first class Americans. How about the thousands who refused to sail on dry Amer ican ships? Are they Americans? The letter state: Our Senators and Representatives know enough not to pay any attention to the raving of the wets.’ They also knew enough not to make the United States ships dry b Americans would not sail Mr. Anderson said “Prohibition is cracking.” It isn’t cracking, it's eracked—and WE Americans are go- ing to put the Prohibitionists in their places so that America will be a fit place for free men to live, a8 the men who wrote the Constitution’ of the United States meant it to be. And as for The Evening World, it is the finest paper in New York. Any paper which has the courage to criti- cise an obnoxious, unenforcable law which the best people in America do not obey is 100 per cent. American. J. J. BYRNES. New York, July 18, 1922. Safety First, , To the Editor of The Evening World You are worthy of praise for your never ending drive in advocating pub lic safety and happiness. Your plan, as described in yesterday's Evening World for securing public the subway is excellent The deviation from safety in using pyrene which, according to chemists, throws off phosgene gas when cast upon flames, will, perhaps, save many lives in case such an acc! ‘ent occurs again Your plan, however, that of cutting off the electric current in the small- est possible number of seconds after a short cireuit occurs in a car, will be very effective Also your suggestion of using a few buckets of sand and thus more readily extinguishing the,fire will, I hope, be seriously considered by the proper authorities They should heed your call because your en! is that of the public. Your indomitable perseverance in bringing about complete public safety is a praiseworthy undertaking which the people Must not pass unnoticed Your attitude toward New Yorkers is will obviate our present GEO, CASAVIS. York, July 18, 1922, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) GREAT WOM Interesting but rather futile is the attempt to discover the ten greatest women in the world. Ten great women may easily be found. Any intelligent newspaper reader could make his own list and it would be accurate. But there is no person living who can say who are the len greatest women: in the world. : It may be that there are hundreds of women now living who are greater than any of those named in the lists that have been printed. . This statement is not at all disparaging to any great and prominent women whpse names figure in the news. But women are engaged as yet so little in business, they figure, in comparison to their numbers, so little in pub- lic life, that many of the greatest are kngwn only to their families and to their immediate neighbors. Abraham Lincoln’s mother, with little education and no prominence at all, was one of the greatest women of her time. His stepmother was another great woman. Neither of them could have made a political address, or given a lecture in a young women’s college. But together they gave life and training and inspira- tion to one of the greatest men ever born into the world. Any woman who successfully raises a family of chil- dren, teaching each child to go out into the world clean in life and ambitious to do something useful, is great. The sacrifices such women endure cheerfully would be impossible to any man. The inspiration they give to their children is beyond estimation. Almost any sensible man will insist that his mother was one of the greatest women in the world and it would be idle to dispute him. Because men have written most of the history, the im- portance of women in the world has never been fully un- derstood. Even if women had written it the same thing would be true, For they would have praised their husbands or their sons lavishly and said little about themselves. A statue to motherhood would well commemorate the greatest women in the world. For it is what women do as mothers to their sons and to their daughters that comprises the noblest work that has been done for mankind through all the ages. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 189—VOLCANO, ‘The word “volcano” tells an inter- esting story. The word was taken over by the English language direct from the Latin ‘“voloanu: The older form of “voleanus” {a “vul- canus," which ts taken rect from the name of the mythological char- acter, Vulcan, Vulcan, it will be re- called, was the gentleman who car- ried on bluckemithing operations underground, on an island in the Aegean. Tt ts quite likely that evidences of his active forge were visible from time to time in the neighborhood. It {ea certainty, in fact, that Vulcan ‘was the creation of the mind, seeking to explain these visible subterranean activitios, ‘What more natural then that when man learned something about the real nature of thi tivities he @hould give to them the name of his hand-made divinity? " Unwieldy | China by Maubert St. Georges Word), by Prove Pubitaning a | THE FAMILY. In China the national unit is not the individual, but the family. This does not mean only the parents and their children, but a large circle of blood relationship. Most of the vil- lages of China are inhabited by one or perhaps several such families who pool their resources for the common 00d S80 as to provide for themselves schools, hospitals and such things as the Government should be responsi- ble for, but which the comparatively high taxes they pay failed to procure for them until very recently. This recognition of the family as a unit is not only an ethical tradition preserved among the people but a legal fact upheld by the state. For instance, until Ffecently crimes were punished not only on the guilty one, but on his relatives as well—even on the most distant ones if the crime was great—on the theory that some- thing must be wrong with a family that could produce a criminal. This family system has many ad- vantages. By tending to discourage individuality in order to strengthen @ community of interests \t has served to preserve the fine moral standards for which the Chinese are noted, and made it possible to unite under one government one-quarter of the world’s population. The respect of the family, which developed into ancestor worship and brought about the belief that mo crime was more terrible than to die without leaving sons to carry on the family, was the principal cause of the longevity of the race, maintaining one of the highest birth rates in the world throughout a history crammed with wars, plagues and famines. Each of these arguments has an- other side, however. The subordinat- ing of the individual will to that of the family and the constant venera- tion of the past finally does away with moral courage, perseverance and far- sightedness, the secrets of our own successes. It is the lack of these qualities both in individuals and in the people as a whole that has been such a handicap to the Chinese in their present troubles. Similarly the large bir though tt may have helped to recuperate after continually increasing rs brought about extreme pov- 1 all its attendent evils. greatest break in the The order of things that has taken place old in China has been with the tradi- tional family system. Yet it is only in the treaty ports that mcedern in- fluences have begun to make them- selves manifest whil the interior remains practicallly untouched in its adherence to the pest, and concu- binage, slavery, infant marriages and ail such old pernicious customs con- tinue, unrestricted in any way. en When You Go to the Museum AN ESKIMO HOME. A housewife on the upper east side, engaged in her household duties, does not differ materially from the Eskimo housewife shown in the interior of an igloo or snow-house in the North Cor- ridor, main floor, of the Museum of Natural History. She is bending over the pot, but the contents of te pot are nol a Hun- garian goulash, but blubber, which is the great food staple of the Arctic North, And the fire under the pot, instead of being coal, Is seal oil, con- tained in a primitive lamp, To give the touch that makes the whole world kin, a bright-eyed, fur- pundled imp of a baby is lying on its little belly beside the mother, waiting for the pot to boil, And the domed snow-house is bigger t good deal than the average New York kitchen- ette. > * WHOSE BIRTHDAY? JULY 18.—WILLIAM MAKE- PBACE THACKERAY was born in Calcutta, India, July 18, 1811, and died Dec. 24, 1868. He attended the London Charterhouse School and Cambridge University, but he left the latter before graduating. At the death of his father he inherited a large fortune, but= through extensive traveling and personal extravagance, he soon found himself almost pennt- less. Originally he had intended to become an artist, but he became con- vinced that literature would be more suitable to his taste and ability. The greater part of his works were pub- lished monthly in mag: and cluded “The Paris “Vanity Fair,” ‘whieh novel served to give him first rank among the novel- ists of England, ‘The Newcomes,"’ which was his most popular novel. “The Virginians,"’ ‘Denis Duval,” “Henry Esmond,” and ‘The, Four Georg “That’s a Fact” By Albert P. Southwick Copyright, 1922 (The New York Evening World), by Pr ubliehing Co. Priscian was a great grammarian of the fifth century. The Latin phrase ‘“‘diminuere Prisciani caput’? (‘to break Priscian’s head'’), means “to violate the rules of grammar," “Howe's Cave’ is 4 natural curt- osity in Schoharie County, N. Y, It has been penetrated a distance of eight or ten miles, and visitors usu- ally go in About one-third of the dis- tance, Discovered in 1842, it is be- leved to be surpassed only by the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. It ts also called ‘‘Otsgaragee Cavern."’ “The Butcher of England” was a surname given to John Tiptoft, Earl Worcester, about 1470, on ‘Account of his cruelty.