The evening world. Newspaper, September 18, 1922, Page 22

ESTARLISHED BY JO! ‘Povasna daly “xcept Sunes Company, 68 to 03 F 4 r ER, Presivens, 63 Park Row, W, Trewrorer, J? Park Row, ER, Secretory, 63 Perk Row, ,THE EVENING WORLD, 4 » New York City, Remit by Rips ed Letter. SUBSCRIPTION gt the Post Office at New York as Second Claw Metter, fase treet fa tas ‘United “Ataite,’ Outelde tirraver Rew RATES. Ope Year Siz Months One Moen . 81000 5.00 385 a BS yw 100 Bal World Oniy wes id * Sunday Wor'd Only: 9.25 a5 ‘Thrice-A Week World. ay World Almanse for 1922, 45 cents; by mall 50 cents, > BRANCH OFFICES AT: 1202, Biway,.cor Asta | WASHINGTON, Wyett Blég.; at aan an | fe spear) 4th and Fate 125th St, Hotel Theresa’ Bldg. | HETR IIT, 521 Ford Bide. BRON X, 410K. Mam BE, MeN CHICAGO, 1603 Mollers, Bids | idoRys, 202 fesbington se, | PARIS. 47 Avenue de SOpera 1 and 417 Fulon s! LONDON, 20 Cockspur HE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Jusively entitled to the use for tches credited to {t or not otherwise the local news published berein j Mr MIRER or ¥n this paper, and al | THE PUBLIC PUT RIGHT. : A T the, Board of Estimate’s first public “hear- ing” on Mayor Hylan’s $600,000,000 transit i -pian a citizen representing the Central Republican \ Gtub 19th Manhattan Assembly District | wase and said / * "We received an invitation to come to this meeting, and, believing the Mayor was sin- eerg, We ask you to give us cars and do away with the injunctions by obeying the law. e “Under the Transit Law, plans must ema- “pate from the Transit Commission. This ze Board of Estimate ts nt above the law, and if the ¥ “you disobey the law you must expect the court "af to issue an injunction. | ge» “As citizens, we want you to get together with U the Transit Commission and build subways.” aa “This man,” declared the Mayor, “insults the intelligence of the honest, thinking Republicans of Whis city. This man’ represents the traction *erowd ¢ Whereupon the Mayor's followers at the “hear- ing” turned upon the citizen with jeers, abuse and Fells of “Put him out!” until he left the room. Thus it is made plain =Public “hearings” on the Mayor's transit plan are open to those who are willing to forget the “truth and shriek defiance at the Transit Com- mission. * To insist that going ahead with new subways under the law is more important to the people of New York than stamping impotently around with @ Mayor Hylan outside the law is to “insult intel- ligence.” It's a good thing to have the public put right about these “hearings” at the outset. What the Mayor expects to “hear” at them has “Rothing to do with the practical business of tran- ait relief. re ee Just a thought of coal in the air this *-tnorning. N. AN editorial of this morning under the cap- zion, “Nothing to Be Proud Of,” the esteemed ,Eribune is taken with another fit of Republican aiisea over the Fordney-McCumber tariff. «Putting the power of indiscriminate revision of “tariff rates into the hands of the President is likely “wp prove, the Tribune believes, “a remedy worse than the disease.” <L.. “Think of the havoc that might be wrought if Congress happened to be of one political faith “ and the President of another and both were trying to play politics with the tariff! “ “This tariff bill is political in character. It is not structurally sound in an economic sense. For that reason the Tribune still hopes that it 2 May be sidetracked or vetoed.” 2% No need to stir from the Republican camp to find proper denunciation of this latest Republican tariff project. By shamelessly going beyond all limits in turn- _ing the tariff into a frank bid for campaign con- “tributions from favored pockets, the framers of othe present Tariff Bill have shocked and alarmed their own party. Another traditional Republican issue is toppling because grotesquely overloaded. > Reports from Berlin say the talking movie has proved a success. The question is now: °@ Will the talking audiences give it a chance? rs POPULAR GRAND OPERA, HEN New York thinks of opera, its thoughts centre by habit upon the great Metro- »poltan enterprise. j ®x; a brief period in the late season its attention j _ has turned more or less earnestly to the visiting -Chicago opera. ~*~ 'To-night it may, and there are excellent reasons “why it should, regard with interest the presence and the opening performance for the new year in ‘music of the San Carlo Grand Opera Company. This organization, which will be heard at the _Century Theatre, is heralded by no extra blare of "press agents and. no luring promise through the sprinted prospectus. Nor has it the backing of a “millionaire directorate. It is a one-man institu- tion, the man being Signor Fortune Gallo, an impresario whose wealth includes large portions ef optimism:and of the real love of great music But the San Carlo has the distinction of being the only permanent travelling company in grand (> TURNING REPUBLICAN STOMACHS. = (ene emerge THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1992, oper. It carries the masterpieces of Verdi, Puc- cini, Wagner and the rest of the big composers to cities which might otherwise have never a chance at them. And it has always singers well worth an enthusiast’s Signor Gallo does not pose as a rival to the Metropolitan. We wish he could, for experience has shown that rivalry is good for the soul of the House of the Glittering Horseshoe. Signor Gallo popularizes grand opera and puts the small profits of one season, when profits there are, into the extension of the next season's work. His is the one approach in America to the Euro- pean plan of making opera a joy for the people at large. time to hear, AS THE TURK ADVANCES. HE horrors of Smyrna have naturally set the Western World ringing with the old slogan: “Keep back the Turk! The Turk out of Europe!” People in the L nited States can afford to be extra loud as they shout it—conscious of the width of the Atlantic, the length of the Mediterranean and the comforts of a policy of isolation, dodging responsibility before and after the event. Even in America, however, it will be well to bear in mind that the problem might call for some- thing more than righteous Christian sentiment urging on somebody else's battleships. It may disturb many Americans to hear a Brit- ish General who knows the situation as thoroughly as does Sir Charles Townshend declare that the Allies have got to get out of Constantinople. The idea of Constantinople becoming for Mo~ hammedans in the twentieth century what the Holy Sepulchre was for militant Christians in the Middle Ages is, however, not a pleasant one. There are 227,000,000 Mohammedans in the world, and Islam is more “rested up” at the pres- ent moment than Christendom. The Treaty of Sevres deprived Turkey of an area of 438,750 square miles and a population of about 8,000,000. Yet a nationalist leader of New Turkey with a comparatively small army is now a conqueror in Asia Minor. And in the background of his vic- tory vaguely loom vast multitudes always ready to fight and die for the Prophet. Voices amid these multitudes have lately startled the world. There are more than 70,000,000 Mohammedans in India alone. The European Allies are cd-operating none too well with one another#*And the United States of America—save for purposes of disarmament and peace in the Pacific—is leaguing with no one but itself. Christendom is not at its strongest. feelings must not blink the facts. Outraged Also, the Turk has given the Soviet Govern- yright, cxew Yorke Evenina World) By Press Pub. Oo. BOOTLEGGING'S NEED OF A MAN. 6¢°A BUSES Have @rept in,” sadly admits Mer- kih? McLaren Mudge, the refined’ and college-bred bootlegger whom the esteemed Times permits to soliloquize over the state of business in two of its less conspicuous columns. And the thoughtful Merkin goes on to express his idea of what in the bootlegging industry, be- sides earning a million for himself, such a man might do as is Landis in baseball and Hays in motion pictures. The new business under Volstead, we gather, needs stabilizing, a code against price-cutting, more liberal attention to housing, a curbing of middlemen, a greater degree of sales efficiency and ment in Russia a new interest in life... @@ aay much in few words. Take The Salvationn Arm: To the Editor of The Evening World It is with very great regret that { have read of the order of General Booth withdrawinr = Commander ine Booth from her post at the head of the Salvation Army work in this country. Those who are familiar with the extent and value of that work ap- preciate its importance to our peo- ple, and also know with what devo- tion, genius and inspiration Comman- . i, der Booth has aided in that great many more things which would suggest themselves | achievement. She has the respect, the admira- readily to a man on the high spot. All in all, the earnestness of the Mudge solilo- quy reminds us of nothing so much as of the plea of the late Senator Pat McCarren before the Amen Corner some years ago for a more humane regard for the poolrooms of a great city, some of which under the existing conditions had neither light nor ventilation. Almost in the fervof of its two columns the Times persuades us that there might be a Merkin McLaren Mudge. tion and the affection of the Ameri- ‘an people, Her withdrawal would ye an irreparable misfortune not only to the Salvation Army but also to the country at large. It is greatly to be hoped that Gen- eral Booth will reconsider his de- cision, GEO, GORDON BATTLE. Sept, 16, 19 Be Just to Teachers, To the Editor of The Evening World: A To further enlighten M. G. N. Mr. Wlilliar: Lyons Phelps, a for- mer Harvard professor, in his book, “Teaching in School and College,"’ has the following to say about teach- % are no authority on elephants’ tempers, but feeding the poor critters pebbles and empty peanul suells wou.d seem to us inviting what- ever happens, ers: “These persons, more than any others, hold the future destiny of our country in their hands, I wish that those who have never taught and never give a thought to the work of teaching could be put in charge of a room of children in x district school just one hour, Their nerves would be In a frazzle. “and then many of them in the summer vacation, when they ought to be in a sanitarium, go to a sum- ACHES AND PAINS It takes 17,000 miles of cotton cloth thirty inches in width to make the bags used to pack tement in for road-making and business purposes in a year, And ita name is mud! : mer school and study strenuously, Should think that as the Tribune “To: coiume |Tcn in thelr seal for learning and is now conducted by an Old Soak 4t would change the | self-improvement.” K. R. caption to “Tank.” Brooklyn, N. Y. Maybe if the rum-runners satled brigs instead of schooners they would not be emptied so often, ° ‘The Way of the World. © the Editor of The Evening W ’ In agreement with the letter of J, T. Price and for the enlightenment of those like Mr. Bragg, I could name offhand a hundred men and women “Good citizens” are those who agree with and ad- mire Hizzoner, “Bad citians” are those who do not. ¢ that are really writing for the bene- In his new book of memories, W. Av Rogers, the |fit of pumee te putting it just as cartoonist and illuatrator, quotes an Indian friend as lanes he ealtore and publianere saying that his people regarded the white man's civilt- It seems incomprehensible that any zation as a multiplication of complications. Which ia | thinking man should have not yet dis about it, covered our double standard of life e and the way of the world. There are always volces erying in the wilder The remark leads toa further thought: There ought |ycas, but the wise man is he who to be some place where the wild folks can reside un- | has long ago given up the refurmation Asturbed, Muybe the Turks are jizing one up for | of ve sens knowing the fate of the saviors ang saints ana thankful if their region, ho can escape with his own skin. JOHN KEETZ. Arthur Schopenhauer in his essay on £ From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ien't it the one that gives the worth of @ thousand words in a couple of hundred P There ie fine mentai erercise and a lot of satisfaction ‘n trying ime to be brief. human nature will who is willing o be words of Jesus have more mean day than ever, but if you w them into practice, first make your will and say goodby to your supposed friends. W. P. PRANKLI Bridgeport, Conn., Sept. 14, 1 Rats and Mice. To the Editor of The ning World I see by The Evening World that Congress is getting after the rats and mice. I think it would be a good idea if the people of this country were to yet after some of the rats that are in Congress and get rid of them and put some good men in their places, and let thé working man have a real ‘lass of beer and a little light wine after working hard all day. A READER OF YOUR PAPER. Sept. 14, 1922. “put any one or the Common Sense Will Win. To the Editor of The ning World: The writer has just read E. J. A.'s letter of even date in your good paper in which he ridicules John Lynch's letter printed in your people's col- umn some weeks ago, on the Prohi- bition question, stating that voters were asked to vote on this matter as to whether or not the amendment was to be presented to the State Leg- islatures. That is true enough, but it was put in such a way that few voters under- stood it, Furthermore, how about the thousands of voters of each State who Were away in the service, and could not vote? Prohibition was a.war-time meas- ure to conserve food products, but the Anti-Saloon League took advan- tage of us absent voters who were away fighting their war and forced Congress, under threat of politica destruction, to make the measure per- manent. E. J. A. says that Prohibition is here to stay and will be 100 per cent effective shortly. From the writer's observation, Prohibition has not yet started. I would refer E. J. A. to the recent Nation-wide survey of both Leslie's Weekly and the Literary Di- gest as to the public attitude toward this unpopular farce law called the Volstead act. ‘The time is not far off when com mon sense will bring pressure to bear on Congress, forcing that body to vo modify the law as to permit beer and light wines, in the same way that the Anti-Saloon League had the law put through More power to The Evening Worl and John Lynch RATIONAL AMERICAN, Sept, 12, 2 UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake «Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) THE REAL RULE OF PRIORITY. Lhis is not an article on unionism or on union rules. But the term ‘Priority,’ so widely employed during a recent labor dispute, offers an opportunity for thought. “Priority” means literally stne It was priority as applied to war that old illiterate Gen. Vorrest was talking about when he said that fights were won by the General who ‘got there fustest with the mostest men,” And the battles that people engage in year in and year oul, in times of peace or war, are very largely regulated by priori In other words they,are won by the people who get there first with the best goods, or the most brains, or the highest degree of skill The whole game is a good deal like the rivalry that existed in small American towns each of which boasted at least two volunteer Fire Departments. When the alarm sounded the boys left their regular jobs by day or their beds by night and rushed to the fire house for their apparatus. Honors went to the company that got first water on the fire, and if in doing this the opposition company was impeded, so much the better. The glory was held to consist } fire, but in getting water on it first. ority was all that counted. If this were the hard and fast rule of existence, all the important places in the world would be filled with old gen tlemen who “never resign and seldom die.” 1 happens often in Government offices, and some- times, though rarely, in business, It is the rule in armies in times of peac: war makes BILITY of prime necessar: to set priority rule aside. As a matter of fact, long service is entitled to RECOG- NITION,*but not to priority. The only valid claim of prior ity of employment and of pay is based on a combination of ability and energy and honesty, That combination will make its way, whether the world wants to grant it priority or not, For it is rare and valuable, and the law of supply and demand, which regulates all human affairs as well as all, es, puts rare and valuable things at the head of* . NOT in putting out the In other words pri- » but as soon as a way is found WHOSE BIRTHDAY? SEPT, 18TH—MARCUS ULPIUS YRAJAN, Emperor of Rome, was born ar Seville, Spain, Sept. 18, 62, and Med in Selinus, July, 117 A. D. He lescended from a family of Roman throne. In 105 Trajan succeeded, after a long war, In overcoming the Dacians and making their country a Roman province. In 106 Trajan made an extensive campaign to the East, annexing Armenia, Parthia, Arabi Mesopotamia and many other small states. The government of Trajan Is orig a 8 uch militar rigin, He showed mu ¥ |noted as one of the most vigorous and skill in the campaigns against the /eficient of Rome, and the Roman Em- arthians and the Germans, and his|pire reached {ts greatest extent under him. He adorned Rome with splendid buildings and bridges, built canals and highways and founded new cities. He distinguished services resulted tn his appointment to the Consulghip tn 91 In 97 Ne the Roman Emperor, latso founded several libraries, the created him a Caesar, and upon Ner-|mont celebrated of which waa the Ul- Va'e death In 98, Trajan aecended the | pia Bibliotheca. ~ Romances of Industry By Winthrop Biddle. ent, ty et aN York Ld XLII. — VALE1S TO WILD ANI- MALS. There are thousands of our fellow Citizens, both male and female, w! gain thelr livelihood by acting as per sonal attendants to wild animals : zoological gardens, private collectior circuses and other institutions of pul lc entertainment. It takes courage, decisive charact, and a thorough knowledge of anima psychology to enable one to earn one’s ving without losing life or Itmb i: that precarious occupation Willlam T. Hornoday, who has spen a Mfetime studying wild animals tr thelr native haunts or between bars calls attention to the Razardous cha: acter of the valeting of wild anim when he says in his new book, Minds and Manners of Wild Avi mals"’: “Make no pets of animals lesr enough to become dangerous. Make every animal understand and adint! day by day that you are absolute master, that it has got to obey, and that if it disobeys or attacks you, you will ill it.” Despite these instruction: Kkeepere in the Zoological Park in the Bronx, several of them have bee hurt at various times by anima! ranging from my lord the elephant to the Texas rattler, and four of then have issued from these encounters maimed or Injured for life. One of them carries a hand out 6 h an angered bear tore a con le piece. Another bears th: marks of a rattler’s bite which might and almost inevite would, hav proved mortal had it not been fo: the.accldental presence at the park o* a celebrated Brazilian expert ov snakebites who bears the curious name of Brazil. Elephants—or rather phants—are dangerous at certai: times, as they advance in years Deer, generally inoffensive, are » menace in the rutting season. Some antinals, for reasons of the to all some ek own that not apparent to the man eye or mind, develop viol aversions for individuals of the genu, homo. It behooy when their occupation h. take them within the separate the public from the animals, to go about their bust watchfully and p: emer gencies at all times On the whole, howeve wild animals manage 5 avoid death or injury plish this result by a judic ture of kindness and which, however, ate For, as Mr. Hornads presses upon his asso: New York Zoological Garden, animal of strength and size—not t mention cunning—must always b kept impressed with the mastery man. keepers risingi hey a mix firmness— firmness predom!+ y always fa t a wil! Blue Law Persecution By Dr. S. E. St. Amant. | Dopsright, 1222, (New York Evening rid) by Prese Publishing Co. CHRISTIAN KINONESS AND TOLERANCE, Hore is a letter, written by C. 1: Davisson of Orlando, Fla., comment- ing upon the protest of good citizens against the passage of the drasti: Sunday bills now pending in Con gress: ‘Dear Sir—t will say Amen to law proposed to be passed at Washington, D. ©. The world now has settled on the seventh day commonly and adopted it as Sunday, and in union there is strength, I will say in all cando: if after 1922 years you are not satisfied, get out of the country. You are compared to a smi fpeck on @ pound of butter, Yo ‘can’t work on our Sabbath with- out annoying your nelghbor. G out and let's bave peace. Yours, &e., C. R. Davisson, a Christian." Could a better argument ba pre sented why such a religious measure should not pass than the writing o/ such a letter by one Christian to another Christian? It, however, is of! the same piece as the following state ment by one of the leaders of the blue law movement with which our land is cursed: If the opponents of our meas- ures do not like them, let them go to some wild, desolate land and there, in the the name of the evil and for the sake of the devil, sub due it, set up a government cf thelr own on infidel and atheistic ideas; and then, if they can etana it, stay there till they die." Not long ago Rev. Blue Law Bow! by, Secretary of the Lord's Day A Hance, visited Denver, Col., for thr purpose of causing to be enated cer- tain Puritanic Sunday blue laws. In the course of his activities in that city he made a vicious attack upon thos: who observe another day than Sun day as the Sabbath, because of thelr opposition to his blue law programme. Although good citizens honestly dit- fer in opinion as to which day ts the Sabbath, Rev. Bowlby says that these @re all ‘‘fanatical,"’ and has an nounced his intention to ride rough- shod over them because of their ay position to his programme. He makes of himself a second Torquemada to pronounce the decrees of the Inquisi tion. Do we need stronger proof o the wild fanaticism of these blue lay advocates, and what they will do if only given the power Bui wey, y is not the seventh @ay, any- but the first day of the week, 4