The evening world. Newspaper, August 30, 1922, Page 22

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They seemed fo agree that it was a convenient time tor them also to stop mining coal on thé pretext of coming to some new adjustment The public doesn’t know now what the anthra- cite strike was about or whether it wasn’t some- thing pretty close to a collusive halting of pro- duction in order to suit the purposes of both operators and miners Ld There never was a better instance of the help- lessness of the country to save itself from the sus- pension of a basic industry when employers or employees in that industry choose to quit the job and fight. To dread strikes in great public service indus- tries, to writhe under them when they come and rejoice when they are settled is still the public's humble role. Will it never rise to a better one? Is it John Maynard Keynes, distinguishes economist, or John Maynard Keynes, doliberatu trouble maker? WHAT'S THE CITY'S OWN CHOICE? OMMENTING Monday on Mayor's transit plan, with the express reservation ‘that “the members of the Transit Commission have not, of course, had an opportunity to ex- amine minutely the details of the Mayor's scheme,” Chairman McAneny said: “The commission, under ordinary circum stances, would avoid any advance comment of a positive sort upon the particulars of any matter likely to be submitted to it. In the consideration of any of the particular routes the Mayor proposes, it certainly will follow this rule. It may well be that some of the modifica tions suggested would improve the routes it has already laid out and made public.” the What does a fair-minded public think of this attitude as compared with the vociferous refusal ‘of the Hylan Administration to work toward any ‘plan of transit relief in which the Transit Com- ‘mission has a hand? The Hylan point of view was set forth by Acting Mayor Hulbert as follows: H “The one remedy that can possibly bring relief to the suffering dally travellers {n our city 1s the abolition of the present Transit Com mission and the substitution in its place of the local authorities—the Board of Estimate and ‘ Appertionment.” This is arrant nonsense. The one direct and speedy way to transit re- lief is through the sane co-operation of the Board of Estimate with the present Transit Commission under the law of the State. The Transit Commissicn is ready to build new subways and unify transit with the advice and help of the Mayor. y The Mayor is willing to keep the city waiting indefinitely for transit relief while he tries to scotch the Transit Commission Which does the city prefer? The dairymen announce that milk will cost the distributers nearly half a cent more per quart in September, Is it the soft or the bard coal strike that is worrying the cows? THE SUPER-VACATIONISTS. WO or three years ago it was quite the thing for a certain class of young men in business fo take more than one vacation in the year, to stretch holidays a day or so either way, and to run the “week end” from Friday to Tuesday. !f there were any question, the holiday makers were prompt and glib in explaining how these » frequent breaks in routine kept one fit, how they could do more work in the long run, how it was 80 eqsy to go stale and considerable more of the same tenor. i} This season hasn't included so much vacation- & ing of this particular kind, The usual vacations THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1922, have prevailed, but not so tjany extra trips and play times As a matter of faci, 4 gowd many of those newly made executives of the expansion period are no longer in position to take extra vacations Not a few of them were married to war bride industries and the extra vacations were in the honeymoon period of the job A year or two of stress has resulted in many war bride executives becoming widowers or divorcees, and those still married are staying at home and playing the part of “good providers.” IN JUSTICE TO TENANTS. NDER the broad and sweeping powers of 0 the State’s new Fuel Emergency Law it seems probable the Administrator could, at his discretion, go a long way toward meeting the fuel conservation measures advocated by the Real Estate Board, Some of the suggestions advanced by this or- ganization are excellent. Some are not so good. There is no use in becoming panic-stricken over the fuel situation. On the other hand, there is no point in shutting eyes to the possibility that some homes and apartments may be on short measure of heat. + It may be necessary either to wink at violations of the heating code or else quirements somewhat to modify the re- However, it is clear that the Real Estate Board suggestions, while conserving coal, light and ser- vice, would also have the effect of conserving what the landlords would otherwise have to spend for them. The burden would hit the tenant first As a matter of fair play and alsofto hold the landlords up to the marl the of doing the best they circumstances, any order modify- he heating and code should include 4 provision which landlords must rebate to tenants the full savings resulting from the change. It might even be wise and safe to re- quire a rebate of a little more than the saving. should not be permitted any gain whatever from the chilly discomfort of tenants. Those who are chilled will buy oil stoves, use electric current and gas to eke out scanty heat. The rent-payers will need all the savings land- lords make can under ing service under Landlords EPITOMIZED. S AN admirably concise yet comprehensive epitome of eighteen months of President Harding's Administration, we present the follow- ing extract from a statement by Representative Winslow, who happened to be talking about coal but might as well have been considering almost any other Harding poliey: “Since the utterance of the foregoing sugges- tion by the President, his advisers * * * have determined and agreed that the possible plan suggested by the President could be well put aside and another method followed in work- ing out the problem.” Have we a President, and if so, who are they? Mushrooms are attacking the Palace of Ver- sailles and eating away Its woodwork. After all France has done for the mushroom! ARBITRATION GAINS. HE new Arbitration Court is beginning to appear more frequently in the news. In time it will drop out. Only exceptional cases will be “news.” Arbitration will have become customary because preferable to court proceed- ings. An interesting example this week was the arbi- tration of a financial dispute arising from money advanced to an actor by a theatrical manager. In disputes over personal and professional ser- vices arbitration is far more satisfactory than law. It is usually possible to select arbitrators familiar with the details, special circumstances and customs of the trade or profession involved. These are far better equipped to do justice than a Judge or jury lacking this technical knowledge. Not a little of the dissatisfaction with courts and juries may be traced to legal specialization, which falls down when applied to non-legal affairs. Even at that, lawyers can far better arbitrate claims for fees than to go to law about them. ACHES AND PAINS The Demon Rum ts being closely hunted. Siceden, which has erperimented much with regulatory meth- ods, now comes within 44,000 votes of going dry . Howo ts the State of New York going to get coat to distribute under the Miller plan tf nobody digs any? Which reminds of an old song: “Down in a coal mine, underneath the ground, Digging dusky diamonds all the season round.” . The King of Abyssinia has invited our colored folks to come to his dominion. They would hardly feet at home. Abyssinia is a mountainous country on the enst coast of Africa, Our black people come from the west shore and its uplands, A form of the Greek Church prevails in the kingdom. . Just why there should be a shortage of coal carg with so Uttle coat moving is one of those things no fellow can find out. . Looks as éf the rattroads would ike to be setsed a ttle. . Connactiout woodohoppers are getting $8 per oord at the roadside. This means $20 out up and in the cellar, JOUN KEPTZ, « “Much Depends on the Rope! Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening World) by Press Pub. Co. From Evening W orld Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn’¢ it the ons that gives the worth of a thousand Words in a couple 9! hundred There is fine mental exercise and a Jot of sacistactioa Take time to be briet. te say much in few words. Is Fighting the Only Parpose of Mankind? To the Editor of Ths ening World In The Evening World of Aug. 15 Terence Mahoney expressed surprise “The that any one called our Breatest fighting machine despite the fact that the examined men were found to be mentally underdeveloped Ordinary mentality for a soldier. In the hearings some years ago on obi military training (peace-time scription in disguise) a General, as a witness, declared: ‘‘In the first place the recruit has to be bawled out until he has no opinion of his own any more,"’ or words to that effect Many years ago in a dining room of Prussian officers, these experts in the training-to-kill business, a poster was secretly put up. Two lines of it were approximately, nlearn to think, be @ mere tool ally guided by any fool.” army ever seen,” per cent. of is a handicap Congressional Be ‘To no avail a big reward was of- fered for betraying the offender. another poster appeared sayin= Only four are we: ink and me; rly on gua: tor any rew Should the majority of mankind start to think, they would not believe all the propaganda, and the noise about preparedness would soon be silenced. Catch words like ‘‘clvilized war fare,"’ ‘democratic army," ‘‘fustified reprisals,"’ &' would be known as punk, ‘There ain't no sucli animals A SIMPLETON 24, 1922 Only New York, Aug Language In the Markets To the & World In reference to the statement fir T Evening World on the in the examination for Markets the preference will be be stowed on those who speak Ttaltan and Yiddish, may I inquire why a man porn in New York City and speaking this country’s language {s descriminat ed against? Por 0, New York, Aug. 28, 1922 Too Much Regulation To the Editor of The Evening Worl If I had the power of your editorial pen, together with your pages and your public, I think the percentage of people voting Class 1 (beer and wines) in the Literary Digest’s rofer- endum on Prohibition, would mata. rially decrease as tho vote gocn along If there is anything more absurd than that definition of tntoxicants promulgated by Congress, it tn the utter absurdity of trying to imagin: {i Why, then, continue bunderers on the job, which in the flrat placa belongs to our individual States or a beyen munictpalities and not 4 By what right has Con urped the powers of States, counties cities to make laws and regulations for citizens therec In that respect we have always believed the District of Columbia provided the full scope of authority of Congress to enact regulations for the conduct of in dividuals How long would the people of New York City tolerate the whole balance of the United States (Congress in- tuded) in an order, law or regulation, to control our Fifth Avenue traffic, not as we wanted it but as the rest of the country imagined it might suit? If Congress, backed by every indi- vidual outside of New York State, decreed that no murderer should be punished by more than three years of imprisonment, what would the citi- zens of this State (having legislated for a "death" penalty) tell Congress about enforcing it? If wo in this State fix a certain day for our open fishing season, shall we defer to Congress and the rest of the country if they should decide they'd like another date, not for their own but for our State? How then, when !t comes to the tn- comparably more intimate things— our food and drink—shall the citizens of this State surrender to the crazy notions of a conglomerate crowd out- side? It 1s disgusting to think of the lack of thought, self-respect, and ‘home. State’ respect which Class B vot- ers are now asking Congress to modify the Volstead joke. Mind you, str, ac- tually asking usurpers of rights to continue the crime. When they come to realize what abject surrender this means, you will find Class B neg lected and Class C growing by leaps ind hounds HOME RULE, New York City, Aug. 24, 1922. “Wine and Wickedness, Vo the Editor of ‘The Hvening World Fugene Fe !n to-day's paper criticises “Brought Up a Christian.’ Personally I think the latter has too much of the “Uplifter's” Intolerance and I have no bri What I feel Mr. simple f to defend him Ferris neglects 1s the question, How can one who worships Jesus as God declare that it 1s wicked for any one to drink wine when wo know that Jesus not only made tt and gave to the company at the marriage in Cana but drank it with His menis as others did? . That Mr. Ferris or any one has the right to abstain no one denies, No one denios either that he may persuade thers to do the same, What we deny is that !t {8 a orlme to drink wine with our meals but right to take 1 sip at communion, PHILIP VAN CORLEAR. Staten Island, Aug, 26, 1922, | Copyright, 1922, by Bell Syndicate, Inc KEEPING UP THE STOCK In the city of Portland, Oregon, some ten or fifteen years ago was a young man who had acquired a great deal of prominence as a fovtball guard and a baseball pitcher who had a wide circle of He tried working in a few places after he got out of school, but beginners’ positions were distasteful to a lad and who had been used to being So he finally persuaded his father, a man of means, to buy him a sporting goods store. For six months the business seemi was a good deal of a cinch. Then presently people began to call for articles that were notin stock, This happened more and more frequently by and by ‘other stores got all the business The young man’s father, uneasy about reports that his was not doing well, went down to the store to sec what and son was the matter. He soon found out. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake customers came in large numbers and gly flourished, The young man had more money than he ever dreamed of having, and: made up his mind that success in business By John Cassel < Ne friends and admirers. very important. His son had sold the goods on the counters and neglected to get any new ones to take their places. NG hen he had sold the whole stock there was nothing left to sell. This seldom happens in business, for few people so ill-equipped as this lad have fathers who will set them up in trade. But it happens every day and right along with salaried men, who use up all the knowledge and skill they have gained and do not take the trouble to get any more. — Three-quarters of the underpaid and hopeless clerks do not keep up their mental stock, They expend all the knowledge they have learned and find that there is nothing on the mental shelf when more knowledge is demanded. The brain that goes back is the brain that is not kept up. A mind must be supplied as a store must, and if the goods run out or deteriorate and are not replenished the mind's owner is a mental bankrupt It is not advancing age but continual neglect that makes the man of forty less valuable than the man of thirty. If he would keep up his stock he ought to he four or five times as valuable. WHOSE BIRTHDAY?! AUGUST 80.—STEPHEN W KEARNY, the famous soldier who, through his bravery and military genius, rose to the rank of Major- General in the United States Army, was born in Newark, New Jersey, August 80, 1704, and died in St. Louts, October 81, 1848, When the War of 1812 broke out Kearny entered the American Army a8 a Lieutenant, and in the following year was made a Captain, His unusual ability in military tactics was recog- nized {n Washington, and when in 1846 the Mexican War broke out, he) was appointed Rrigadier-General and given the command in the West. He Succeeded in taking possession of New Mexico and driving the enemy out of the territory, In 1847 he was appointed Governor of California and in the following year was made Mili- tary Governor of Vera Cruz and the City of Mexico, where he main tained his position with great ability and good judgment. His brilliant career was cut short by his death, which occurred in St. Louis, 80 great wns the regard of tho people for Hin that towns have been named after him, and statues have been erected {n his memory all over tho country. Blue Law Persecution By Dr. S. BE. St. Amant, copyright, 1922, (New York Eventn, World) by Press Publishing Co. CONTRACTS MADE ON SUNDAY. A few years ago the Court of Ap- peals of the State of Missourt, In an action brought by the St. Louts Re- public for the recovery of money due In payment of advertising which had appeared in its Sunday issue, decided egainst tho plaintiff and held that such money could not be collected. Not all the States agree on the ques tion of the validity of contracts made on Sunday. For instance, Connecti- cut, In its General Statutes, holds that: “No person who receives a valuable consideration for @ contract, express or implied, made on Sunday, shall de fend any action upon such contract on the ground that it was so made, un:ii he restores such consideration. ~ The same position ts shown in tle Code of West Virginia, section 4368 of which roade: 'No contract shall be deemed void because it {s made on the Sabbath day''—meaning Sunday. These provisions. are directly con- trary to the usual declarations con cerning contracts made on Sunday But why should not men be held as responsible for what they do or pledge to do on Sunday as on any other day” Would a marriage contract made on Sunday be supposed to be invalid be- cause of the day when made? Then ae any other contract made on that lay? The & paper made on Sunday than to vod & paper tnade on Tuesday or any other day of the eek. Notwithstanding the evidence of the religious phase of these Sunday statutes, the State Leg - islatures still cling to them with all the tenacity characteristic of churcl: and state Governments, Every movement for the freedom of the individual, every movement that encourages Individuality and lessens the power of the Government over tho minds and actions of its subjects, has been successful only after a long aod severe contest with the domina: church, with established custom au‘ with superstitious laws. It was only by Indomitable will and indefatigable energy that Jefferson and Madison and their co-laborers succeeded in establishing the princ ples of entire separation of churci: and state in our national political system; but men with like will and energy seem not yet to have risen tv establish the same principles in thei, entirety, at least in the political sys- tems of the States, ‘Romances of Industry By Winthrop Biddle | Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening | “World! by Press Publishing Co. | XL.—COLLECTING WILD ANI- MA' Ls. ‘There is an army—and !t ts a con- sidera army—of men scattered throughout the wild places of the curth, collecting wild animals to satisfy the curio of highly civil- ized communitie: Many of these hunters are white men, but most of them are yellow, «rv brown or black men The prince of these collectors, of course, was Karl Hagenbeck, the Hamburg ‘animal man,’ who died recently. Hagenbeck’s business is g0- ing on, apparently on the same old impressive scale. Heinrich Hagenbeck., a son of the Hamburg ‘‘animal king,"’ recently bronght a shipload of wild animals direct to New York from Africa, The cargo included many varieties of jungle denizens, including zebras, lions, small carnivora, twenty secre tary birds, 300 miscellaneous smal! birds, a pigmy buffalo, wild swine and other animals. These had been collected by the director of the Pretoria Zoological Gardens, an enthusiast in the bus ness. ‘There is a considerable demand for wild animals in America. The five largest ‘‘zoos’’ in America are our own garden in the Bronx, the inst!- tutions in Philadelphia, Cincinnut! and Boston, and the National %o- olgical Park in Washington. ‘These establishments, in addition to many smaller ones, and a host of showmen besides, are constantly clamoring for wild animals. A cargo of wild animals !s no unusual arrival in New York. In San Francisco the other day ons of the world’s busy collectors, Ellis Joseph, arrived with a shipload of mammals and birds from Australia ‘The passengers included one of the ravest creatures, never before survis ing captivity. This was the platypus, a quadruped with a duck's bill (hence popularly called the “duckbill'’) and hatching its young from the egg in stead of bringing them alive into this vale of tears, and then nursing them The platypus brought by doseph is now an inmate of the Ne# York Zo- ological Garden. Louis Ruch, who has a place on the Bowery, is the most extensive collect or of wild animals in America, He has agents all over the world, keep- ing a keen eye peeled for the strange, the rare and the curious in animal or bird flesh Among men op outpost, so to speak, 1s Henry Bartels of New York, who from time to time brings in an ani mal cargo from South America Ansell W. Robinson of San Fran- cisco conducts wild animal sales t resemble the department store sulrs in the ble cities. And there are ha gains to be got at these sales, tv Fancy buying an okapi for 60 cents —but that never happens, ‘ate has no more right to void |