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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ” Prees ie exciuatvely, entitl to the nee for republl- SA Sees deopatches credived to It or ot cberwlan credited eet per and sind the foral news publiaed i LEMON AID. ERHAPS the tariff-makers will find cheer in Hiram Johnson's victory in the fornia primaries. For Hiram Johnson was the champion of that wing of the Republican Party that evoked the derisive campaign cry, “The duty of the Republican Party is a duty on lemons.” Other Senators who have often agreed with Hiram Johnson went on the warpath, Borah, La Follette, Lenroot and Norris denounced this, that and the other feature of the Fordney-McCumber bill. But Hiram was as meek and gentle as a lamb. The tariff framers bought Hiram’s silence with the duty on lemons and the Hell-Roaring One didn’t roar a roar. . Hiram pulled through the primaries, though it was a narrow squeak. Other Senators from favored States are likely to pull through because the tariff is still, of anticipation Cali- matter Californians are enjoying the Prospect of a duty on lemons and they have not yet felt the real weight of the duty on wool, on Sugar, on cutlery, higher steel prices and the other offensive schedules. But wait until realization supersedes anticipa- tion and then the real how! will come. The Re- publicans are planning to get all possible benefits of anticipation and hold up realization until one- third of the Senate is safe for six years more. *The tariff time-table isn’t much of a mystery. for the most part, a If a newspaper man in the White House can't eet along with reporters, who can? * HOW MUCH A MILE? N DISCUSSING Mayor Hylan’s transit plan, let’s disregard for the moment differences of opinion between the Mayor and the Transit Commission and consider a statement in the Mayor's own explanation of his plan. He says: “The City Administration will spend $600,- 000,000 for the construction and equipment of 126 miles of new and additional rapid-transit lines. The Transit Commission wants to spend $318,000,000 for the construction and equip- ment of thirty-two and one-half miles of new and additional transit lines.” Dividing the expenditure by the number of miles in each case, it appears that the Mayor plans to build subway lines at a little less than $4,000,000 a mile and the Transit Commission at only a little less than $10,000,000 a mile. A discrepancy like that needs explanation. If the Mayor can prove his figures and show that he can build subways for two-fifths of what the Transit Commission can, he will not need to bother about most of the other points. On the other hand, if the Transit Commission's judgment as to the expense of byilding subways is correct, then the Mayor's estimated cost of $600,000,000 is entirely inadequate and his whole set of financial calculations falls to the ground. If the Mayor's 126 miles of subways are to cost $10,000,000 a mile, the $600,000,000 financing plan he presents will never do. Motion picture art is evidently the real super- realism. So many of the artists get to believ- ing their own scenarios. For example, the Edgewater murder. TIPPING. NTEREST in the tipping question is accelerated by the story of an American and his wife who, through oversight or misunderstanding, left a British hotel without tipping anybody but the hall porter and the chambermaid The head waiter of the establishment sent a letter after the wife roundly denouncing her hus- band for having done “a disgraceful thing’ and threatening to post their names “with my club and association so that every hotel in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales may know your mame and the ungenerous way you treated the staff of this hotel.” Nothing conid better illustrate the degradation of the tip and the reason why so many people now rebel against it. L Time was when a tip was something gladly j given as appreciation of extra zeal or thoughtful ness in the rendering of personal service What is it now? Nine times out of ten, a piece of cold-blooded extortion for no real service expected with insolence and handed without the faintest feeling of kindliness or interest. The man who gives it doesn't even look at the man he gives it to. © The man who gets it pockets it without so much asa If you want to study the tip at its low mark of meaninglessness, watch a hat boy at a restaurant Most tipping to-day is a habit fastened upon a thoughtless public by fear of not doing the right thing. The average man hasn hold a tip when there + it, The result is the debasement of the tip to a level where it is not the reward of service or zeal but exacted as a fixed duc The best thing we could do for the tip would be to abolish it completely until the natural feel- ing that originally prompted it has had time to shake off accretions of stupidity and bad habit The fact is, there’s hardly any such thing now- adays as a real tip It has sunk 1o a mere irksome whatever over “thank you.” t the to with- that deserve: courage regarded a gesture ‘CHECKING U P. the N a situation so involved as railroad strike the public gets an overwhelming mass of misinformation. The thing is too vast and the facts are too jealously hidden for any one re- porter or whole newspaper staff to get all the details Not even the press associations of na- tional scope have the organization or the techni- cal knowledge to discover the underlying condi- Both parties are busy manufacturing propaganda favorable to themselves and pre- venting a check-up on the made by opponents. tons. claims Under such circumstances the next best thing for intelligent readers is the warning that both sets of propaganda statements are false. That the situation is grey and not all all white In effect, this is what the Interstate Commerce Commission report to the Senate on the present condition of rafroad rolling stock does. Not even the commission has been able to get the full truth, but it has enough to “indicate a very general let-down in the matter of inspection.” Representatives of the commission found loco- motives “not safe to operate.” They found others in urgent need of repair and still others deteriorating. Many engines were in good re- pair and ready for service. What the public needs is a great deal more of such unprejudiced and expert advice as an antidote to propaganda untruths, black or “No excuse for cold apartments,” |s a slozan New York tenants would like to hear with each new improvement in the coal outlook. LOANS TO STUDENTS. pls will of Frederick Bertuch provides, among other worthy bequests, that Colum- bia University shall have $100,000 “to be used at the discretion of the Board of Trustees in as- sisting impecunious students.” If the Columbia trustees so decide, this money may be used for loans to students. . Columbia already has a small fund of this kind, but it is never adequate to the need. It is loaned to worthy students who have demonstrated by work in the university that they will make good use of the help. Students able to save enough to finance a year or two of the course may borrow and finish and then return the money when they are gaining the financial returns of a university education. : At Columbia and at other universities a moderate interest charge is made for such loans. The borrowers are notably good risks. The losses from those who fail to pay are few. The interest more than balances such losses Used in this way Mr. Bertuch’s bequest would be of service to many. A legless penc!! peddler who lives in a hotel suite, keeps an automobile and chauffeur and spends his winters in the South, is New York's latest. If anybody on this dollar pile looks poor he must be pretending. ACHES AND PAINS The automodile has scaled its last barrier, One now conveys the Pope in his daily ride around the garden of the Vatican where he keeps himself pris- oner, It tong ago conquered the sands of the Sahara, Short skiits were a long time coming. be a long time going They witt If there ts to be u bet that Atlenta, Ga, Nation-wide beaut contest we will win the palm . New York will get plenty of coal, It is too near Scranton and has too much money to shiver . Now Stgnor La Guardia has flown from the Henrat Hylan coop. The slats must be pretty loose Grapes ave selling at from $125 to S1j0 1 and are s¢ at that, Hoch the Hooch! To-morrow will be oyster day, JOHN ky "Nothing Dong! EY John Cassel Copyright, 1922, (New ore By Pr venting World) b. Co. From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand Words in a couple of hundred’ There is fine mental exercise and a jot of smtisfaction in tryiad 1 say much in few words, Take At Low To the Editor of The Evening World As a citizen of New York for nearly forty y 1 have time when party politics has low in the moral scale. + Alas, representative government by party has reached its lowest depths! All one has to do Is to look over the fifth rate, ‘scrub politicians Boss Murphy and Boss koenig have desig- nated as their candidates in the pri- maries. Such a lot of incompetents to represegt New York at Albany and at Washington has never been heard of before, and in comparison to the representatives of a decade or more ago these automatons are really insig- nifleant What are we going to do about it? There 1s really nothing to be done, it seems to me, while our newspapers are quiescent to the forces of “‘invis- ible government," and the voters are so busy looking after their own per- sonal affairs that they have no time to look after their greater affairs— good government—in the city, in the State, and in the Nation. Every one knows that Murphy and Koenig work hand in hand for thelr own purposes all the time, They are two miserable little bosses Oh, for a crusade of our citizens, and our newspapers to wipe conditions, and send rr tives to Albany, and to Washington, who have initiative, vision, and abil- ity to save the yvernment from rev~ olution! JOHN L. STYLES. New York, Aug. 25, 19 ars, never known the sunk so Amencten, ning World nk Dunn regard- agencies and it Employment To the Editor of The The letter of ing employment is correct in every detall indeed wonder that some one has not starte an investigation, In one big company downtown there are a score of well known men interested, according to names on the letterhead, and be that they are beyond the re t'= public opinion that brought to bear on the mi The employment agencics now exist have absolutely no son why they should continue. A man entera an employment agency to ob tain a position to his liking and in line with bis experience. He is sent to sume job and forced and persuad ed to accept It whether he wants to or not. He pays a week's salary for what? Something he could have ob tained through the ad columns of any large newspaper. ©n the other hand, if the agencies wer tlon to get the better kt sny one would gladly j wonld then he rendering s ervier w they render nes hd get the money, and the emy sure the real culprits, Soldiers re ig from France have had to pay to get work just because some Inzy employer tume to be bret, gave the call to an agency, which grabbed part ¢f the first four weeks’ salary Besides, the treatment one obtains pplying for u position through an agency {s very discourteoys, to say > least. No éne is examined or in- vestigated to se whether he is fit for the position or not Wipe ‘em Salaries are low enough as it is without having to pay part to obtain a job that could be ob- ed through a more efficient way. BE. GEOE *HEUVREUX JR Brooklyn, 4 ta De Vv To the Editor 0 I would like concerning the lins, the recogn Free State Grifith. De Valera could have done nothing better to defeat lis cause. The world is now disgusted with this De Valera and his band of tnurderers, They can be termed no less, In Collins, Ireland had an Irishman, a true one, working Collins. «World express my opinion th of Michael Col- leader of the Trish after the death of Arthur for the good of Ireland and from no selfish motives, « man who did not want to see Irish people pd. De did not mind ed fighting Valera, on the other hand how many Irish were ki for his selfish motives, Irish lives meant nothing for him. ‘‘Murder any one who tries to keep me from my deatres’? seems to be his motto. But there is comfort in thinking that if De Valera is not punished by the peo- ple of this earth there is a God who has seen his murders and whom De Valera must face her or later and reveive due punishment While De Valera did not f fire the fatal shot, he could have prevented tts being fired if he had abided by the will of the majority of Ireland instead of trying to eet for them something which they did not want Well, Do Valera las ruined his chances for carrying out his cruel plans by murdering Collins, He has disinterested America and disgusted the world RAY BH, HARRIS. New York, Aug. 2 Rents and) Prohibition To the Editor of The Evening Wortd Answering Jas. 1.'s letter in to- day's Issue (Aug. 24) would say that Marie Doran {» rght in saying that Prohibition is a contemptible law, as those who have made it are using it ‘a means to make money at the only 8 yers and the Goy- expense of the taxpé ernment Let it be said again that no one favors the saloons, Which really have heen the eur f tt ¢ ! Anderson and his associates, had hotter Cif they are re 1) mak an effort to bring aby W which would prohibit: lan 1 ' still in sist on asking over r cont, in- crease in rent for apartments tn old \ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 19 A VERY OPEN SECRET. Success has about as much of a chance to keep its secret kyscraper has to hide. he minute a man gains it he gets into the limelight 2, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) asa His pictures are printed in the newspapers and maga- zines. The story of his life becomes public property. And the world discovers in a very little while that he got his wealth by wanting it very much and trying extremely hard to get it. The young man who thinks success is a secret, and that he will never find it, will learn something to his advantage if he keeps his eyes open a little wider and a little longer than most people do. All about him are men making successes, and so proud of it that they are eager to tell all mankind how it is done. If they are very successful the editors of magazines get them to inform subscribers of how they did it, which they do in very intimate detail. If they are only moderately successful, they are only too anxious to talk of what they have done and what they mean to do, And all their articles and all their talk are records of working a little harder than the men who started with them, and keeping a little sharper lookout for opportunities. Very recently a man who has built up a very lucrative business was riding between Albany and New York in the smoking compartment of a Pullman car, To five men, two of whom were travelling with him and three of whom were strangers, he explained the details of his business, and how he had expanded it. He did not do this boastfully—he showed no evidence of conceit. But he felt that this was the could talk about—which it was, Perhaps none of his hearers got any profit out of the conversation—they still, perhaps, think he “holding out on them.” As a matter of fact he was telling the simple truth The secret of his success was working harder than any of his employees and,thinking more about the business. Success is blazoned on signboards and in newspaper advertising all over the world. It is attained not by a seeret process—but by very wide publicity. And nobody who has gained it honestly is in the least ashamed to tell all about it most interesting thing he was houses making {t almost impossible : for a respectable person of moderate From the Wise means to save a dollar and in many| rotate Save dollar and ip moot | _ No poem ig born in the daylight; Fer tiesriperteeaes it can be written in the sunshine, but it is conceived in the silence of night,—Ibsen Six years ago we occupied a seven- oom apartment on West 136th Street for which we paid $48 per month, Mor this yery same apartment, without Girls we love for what they are; any {mprovements, they are asking ave now $100, ‘This is really criminal young men for what they promise But there is no money in suc to b th ndevtaking. for the Prohibit Our sweetest joys ave with sad who, like Jas, L., were drinking men 4 ness mingled.—Corneille can't or do not care to understand that other persons can drink without mak ing beasts of themselves. MRS. 8. N. Ne ork, Aug. 25, 1922, Happiness is in the enjoyment, not in the possession—Montaigne, The Nations * and Their Music By Augustus Perry 1922 (New York Biv BOHEMIA. “Where there is a Czech—there you bear music. ‘This 1s a favorite saying of the Bo- heminns, Of ali the Slavic nations Tiohemia has the liveliest folk-songs. Seton Watson says: ‘Singing ie the chief passion of the Slovaks. Nothing will find its way so surely to heart of the Slovak people as a well sung. An old peasant wot once complained to a friend of mine that her son was a useless, disappointing fellow, ‘What was the matt inquired my friend; ‘did he frink or refuse to werk?’ ‘Oh, no,’ said the old woman, ‘but nothing will noke him sing. It's @ great misfor- tune?" I'he favorite Bohemian dance is the polka, which has become world-popu- lar It has an interesting history. The polka was invented about the year 1880 by a country lass who was fi) service with’a cltizen in a small Hohenitan town, The schoolmaster of thot village, happening to witness the airl's performance of,the dance, which he had contrived merely for her own wrote down the tune as she sang it while dancing. The new on found admirers and in the snusement, year 1835 it made its way into Prague the Bohemian metropolis, where tt received the name polka, probably on account of the halt step oceurripe in the dance, for the word ‘pulka’ designates ‘the half.’ ’ Another popular dance is the wild furtant, which means the boasting farmer. ‘The famous composer Dvo- rak (troduced it in his First Sym- phony, using it in place of the usual Smetana wrote some won- derful polkas and furjants. ‘Teutonic influence#are present in the folk music of Bohemia, due to her position between Germany and Aus- ia, Yet despite the fact that Bo- jemia has been governed by a foreign nation she has retained to a marked xtent her own language, customs and music The town pipers musicians preserved the folk music sixteenth century to the present day, Bohemia was described by Wagner as “the land of harp players and street musician: A real Bohen school of music was established by Friedrich Smetana (1824-1884). While visiting the plan- ist Liszt he heard Herbeck say that the Czechs were not original but merely imitators. He decided to dis- prove this, and succeeded brilliantly His operas include the bright comedy, “The Bartered Bride.” Its “Lust spiel’ (comedy overture) Is an inter national favorite. Smetana has been called the Bohemian Beethoven be cause he became deaf at the height of his pow 5 The great orchestral master, An tonin Dvorak (1841-1904) carried on the work begun by Smetana. Coming as he did from the peasant class, he had a thorough acquaintanée with the folk material of his country. In his compositions he used the native mel edies with rare skill. His ‘Slavonic Dances’ gained as great a success as Brahms's ‘‘Hungarian Dances.’’ Dur- ing his stay in the United States Dvorak composed his beautiful and wandering from the from also phony, “From the New World which he introduced several Negro themes Zaenko Fibich (1850-1900) was an- ther national leader who yerfected modern melodrama or vecitations music. His best work In this form is a_ trilogy called ‘Hippo- jamia."’ A son-in-law of Dvorak. Josef Suk (1874-), has become famous as a modernist. Movak (1870-) fs at present the outstanding figure of Czech musical art. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 206.—DOUBT. A whole chapter on the brotherhood, or, rather, kinship of nations is in- sed in the word ‘“doubt.’" It also throws light on the ways by{which primitive man formed words of physi- cal meaning to express the higher co™- cepts. In a good mat for doubt’ semblance, ancestry to doubt The Latin, in its turn, when the world was young, used the word duo," two, as the basis of ‘dubius,”* which has been transmitted to the English language as ‘‘dubious.” A man who is in doubt {s of two minds He Is, so to speak, at the junction of two paths and does not know which path to take languages the word a marked family re- All these words trace thelr the Latin ‘‘dubito,"’ to BIRTHDAY? -CAIUS CAESAR, Caligula, Emperor of s born Aug, 81, 12 A. D died Jan, 24, 41. Through skilful ittery he managed to escape assas- sination, the fate Imposed upon all his relatives by Tiberius the Emperor of » Hetaliating, he succeeded in ing about the murder of this n, and*ascended the throne, to the ‘eat Joy of the people. ‘The Senate conferred the imperial power on him lone, and his first eight months in wer did not disappoint the public. Mut after his recovery from a serious lines his true character asserted it- self. He was cruel and his extrava- gance exhausted the treasury. Ac- cordingly, pe put to death his wealthy subjects and confiscated their prop- erty. In 89 he set out with an army to Gaul where he plundered and confiscated and put to death every one who came In his way. On his re- turn to Rome he ordered temples to Rome be built and statues to be erected in his honor, and through this ground Jown the people who were already overburdened with taxation, On the whole. Rome Was free from internal disturbances during his reign. Fut Caligula’s constant cruelties, base policies and Insults finally led to his assassination, wr