The evening world. Newspaper, October 5, 1922, Page 30

‘ashington PARIS, icon se St | TONDON, 90 Cockepur Mt. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. titled to the use Ps ae be eactactray, to ent ohn tithe See ree cea ae BIG ISSUES. OV. EDWARDS of New Jersey, Demo- cratic candidate for United States Senator, picks the three great issues of his campaign this fall as follows: (1) The high-binding extortion of the Repub- lican tariff. (2) Hypocritical enforcement of the Bight- eenth Amendment, (3) The political debauchery of Newberryism. The New Jersey Governor has named three issues, each and every one of which can be brought straight home to, the individual citizen and voter. if The first takes away his money. The second takes away his personal lib- The third takes away his respect for his political system and his confidence in representative government. These are, indeed, big issues, to settle which every voter in the United States should have «his fair, full chance. Ralph A. Day, Federal Prohibition Director of New York State, has resigned. That makes four ,Prohibition Directors the State has had and lost in less than three years, Seems to be a short career if not a merry one, ONLY CLASH AND CONFLICT? UPREME COURT JUSTICE MULLAN é handed down yesterday a decision” which $ enjoins the city from using municipal funds to buy or operate municipal motor buses and from protecting privately owned buses operating with- out franchises. This is a sweeping condemnation of the May- or's policy of rushing buses wholesale into the Streets to destroy existing transit lines and fran-, chises without regard to law or larger pian of transit relief. i Justice Mullan has nothing against buses. On the contrary, he emphasizes the “noteworthy ser- vice” the bus has rendered and can render in solv- ing the city’s transit problem. Also, he says, “it may, perhaps, be a justifiable cause for regret that the City of New York has not been given greater power to work out its own destiny in the matter of transportation.” ’ But the law is the law and in this matter the Legislature is the lawmaker. The Legislature has passed a law and established a commission to deal with this city’s transit emergency. “There is no other emergency here involved.” City officials have no right to override the statute. There it is again. If the Mayor had worked with the Transit Commission there might have been an orderly introduction and increase of buses wherever needed and no court would have dreamt of enjoining them. ’ The Transit Commission is thoroughly commit- ted to buses as an important part of its plan. The commission might gasily have sanctioned some of the Mayor's buses if he had not deliberately used his whole bus scheme as a reckless means of at- tacking the commission’s authority. As matte:s stand, however, it would be a shame suddenly to deprive the public of the new buses on routes where they meet real present wants and where there is nothing to take their place. The Transit Commission can well afford to con- sider such needs as a pressing part of the larger emergency. Mayor Hylan has begun to show a commendable change of manner toward the com- mission. Some way should be found to save the public from suffering the full severity of such an injunction. It’s about time the people to whom it means most heard transit relief as something else than endless clash and conflict, getting nowhere, New York still breathes—but only between innings. : ‘WOMEN’S KNICKERBOCKERS IN COURT. IHATTANOOGA isn’t New York. That is clear from a news story in The Evening World yesterday, wherein it was recorded that a Chattanooga Judge ordered the arrest of a woman wearing knickerbockers—and because of the knickerbockers, The Judge first accused the woman of creating a nuisance and then changed his charge to one of masquerading in men’s cloth- Perhaps feminine knickers are not quite the vogue for court wear, but in this vicinity and also in the Far West the knickers have “come in” until they most certainly do not qualify as masquerade costumes. Only the other day the news recorded a wedding ceremony in which both the man and woman were “knickered.” Three piece suits for women in- cluding knickers as well as a skirt are advertised in the best shops. And the kitchens and gardens as well as the golf courses and hiking paths are full of women who are wearing knickers, not be- cause they are mannish but because they are comfortable. ‘ East is East and West is West—and Chatta- nooga lies somewhere between. WHAT EVERY FAMILY KNOWS. OV. MILLER tries to use his economical ad- ministration to put former Gov. Smith in a hole. Before voters pass judgment they should recall some recent history, with which they are well ac- quainted, if they will only stop to think. With a few minor changes the Governor's indictment might be made to fit a good share of the individ- uals who read the address. There is a close parallel between the State's spending record and that of most of the families in the State. In war years economy was fashionable. Repair and upkeep on homes and wardrobes were post- poned. New ventures were frowned on. And so with the State. . After the last war loan the United States as a Nation, as a union of individual States and as a Nation of individuals began to spend, to catch up for the period of war time economy, to make the repairs that had been postponed, to embark on new ventures. This was true more generally of individuals than of the State. The spending orgy resulted in inflation of the currency. The dollar wasn’t worth as much and didn’t buy as much as there- tofore. 7 Among other effects, the same number of dol- lars wouldn’t buy as much government and there was a demand for new services by the State. In effect, the demand was that the State put in a new bathroom, paint the house, repair the front pérch, and make the home more comfortable. It all cost money and the Republican Legislature provided the money. . The turn in family financing came about the time Gov. Miller went to Albany. Fainily budg- ets were pared by necessity. The dollar began to be valued more highly. It would buy more food, clothing, or effort. It would also buy more gov- ernment, as Gov. Miller demonstrated. This explanation is far simplier than compar- ing columns of figures. It also comes closer to the true explanation than mere figures can. It takes into consideration the circumstances that account for the figures. It's the upsets of “dope” that make baseball the game it is. If the experts could settle things in advance the box offices would soon be empty, . A BLACK MARK, T HE first visible black mark against the United States as the result of the new tariff is the premium that has come to the Canadian dollar, Only a few months ago the greenback of the Canucks stood at a depreciation of around 10 per cent. To-day, according to the Federal Reserve Bank, it stands at a slight premium, to be exact 139-10 cents on a thousand dollars. This, of course, is infihitesimal, but it is indica- tive of an unhealthy state of things in relation to our neighbor to the north. An appreciation of a Canadian dollar means‘a proportionate deprecia- tion in our own wher used beyond the border, Small as this is, it is a blot on the buying power of the American dollar across the line, a reflection on American wisdom and an embarrassment to American business, French Marshals in active service, including Marshal Foch, can each have a War Depart- ment automobile with free gasoline, but no longer a horse and groom unless at their own expense. Vive le thrift! ACHES AND PAINS “Dr, Copeland gets $25,000 to fight diphtheria,” say the headlines, He wilt need more than that to sight Calder, : . Secretary Wallace claims that “legtslaNon has saved the farmer.” It will be news to the farmer to learn that he has been “saved.” * Of what good is knowledge and experlence in this world when the author of “Frenzied Finance” and “Priday the Thirteenth” can go 100 per cent. broke? * How pleasant it is to see Hizzoner and Mr. McAneny pat each other on the back, . . The Senate has often been dubbed a body of old women, but steps have now been taken to prove it true—the new lady member from Georgia is eighty- seven, ° Worn out auto tires have been added to the big signs and other negligee that grace the typical American landscape. . Extremes continue to meet. “Tom Foley now loves William R, Hearst, We should think this would strain oven Mr, H.'e almost boundless capacity for affection, JOHN KEETZ. 1942, rom Evening _ THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, vvrunun 0d, ah Se sae Stas tee he World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the on that gives the worth ot a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise to say much in a tew words. and a lot of satistaction in trying Take time to b. brief. Five Questions, To the Editor of The Evening World: I would like to ask Mr. W. H. Anderson to please answer the follow- ing questions through your columns: How does tho A. 8. L. use or spend their money? Why dogs the A. S. L, use the house of God for political purposes? Why does the A. S. L. fight against the saloons when there is no such thing? js Why does the A. S. L. condemn the Literary Digest poll? bg What does the &. 8, 1. think of the Nght wines and beer situation? i AL KOROPSAK. New York City, Oct. 1, 1922, Vandalism in Connecticut. To the Editor of The Eyealng World: Upon a recent sketching trip in North Stonington just out of West- erly, R. L, my attention was directed by some local nature lovers to a place called Lantern Hill, This locality in colonial days was used as a landmark at sea by mariners in the American Navy and to this dey is used by fish- ermen in the vicinity of Noank and Fishers Island, When I arrived at this spot, I was amazed at its char- acter. The formation of theso hills is of a great and rare beauty; usually odd in its elevation, On the heights above the large facade of cliffs which rise to about 600 feet is a grove of rugged pine trees oddly shaped; vet- erans of many storms. At the base is a pond full of lilies surrounded by a dense forest, For miles around the approach to this place is through fa region of lakes, To my disgust, progress had hit this place a fowl blow, and across these imposing cliffs, engineers had blasted and cut an ugly railroad to reach a mine far in the rear, Upon investigation, I found the mine could have been reached and worked with- out this destruction and vandalism, Lantern Hill has been forever dis- figured and destroyed. To what for ages had been reverenced by pre- historic men as a religious shrine and a place where the North American Indian had communed with the Great Spirit, at last came the modern degenerate, who not seeing its charm, had destroyed all in his worship of the almighty dollar. Does it not seem that the State of Connecticut should have a board or a commission for the protection of natural beauty at Hartford? That no group should be allowed to de stroy beauty without appearing before a court or a commission for per- mission to operate without unneces- sary destruction, and annihilation a beautiful spot. Should not some one be responsible for the violation of nature? Let Connecticut take example from New York State, which saved the Palisades; or j Stockbridge, Mass., which preserved its Laurel Hill, the Glen and Monu- ment mountain, Indiana has a State Conservation Committee whose great work is well known. Virginia and many other of the several States of the Union of a more enlightened and Progressive type, have solved this problem, In a country where religion is faat becoming fanatical, and art neglected, what does the future hold out? And is it any wonder that the people rush to Europe by the hundred thousands to see these very lovely things which we here annihilate, and desecrate. FREDERICK K. DETWILLER, American Federation of Arts, Tides ‘To the Editor of ‘The Evening [ lave seen the assertion that higa and low tide conditions affect moun- ‘0 springs as well as the ocean. Is this correct? If so can any one advise me at what time to observe the hign tide in the springs of this locality? LEITZINGER. Clearfield, Pa., Sept. 30. A Daylight Saver. To the Editor of The’Bvening World: Like two other readars I am won- dering what is wrong with the party who penned so childish a note re- garding the closing of the daylight saving season. BH. H, surely assumes a lot when he thinks that we all are sick of ft. Per- sonally, during midsummer, I would like anotier hour added, for to any one but a city “night hawk'’ who Is only happy under artificial light, the extra hour In the evening ts a positive delight. Aside from the city dents who like to visit the parks, &c., in daylight, there are a million or so commuters who appreciate having an extra hour to tend their gardens or to roam the countryside, It is all very well for people like EF. H, to say that nature lovers can get up earlier in the morning if they want to but this hour before business is not like the hour after business, It is sheer piffie to argue that no one wants to go to bed, no sleep, anc’ so forth. What time does EB. H. go to bed? It is dark under daylight say- ing at 9.16, and if he can't wake up in the morning he should buy an alarm clock. What would he do tn Alaska, Scot- land, Norway, or other northern sit- uations where there is practically no. night in midsummer? _ Even in Eng- land, they have one hour or more natural daylight in the evening than here and it is Nght at 3A. M. Yet daylight saving is generally favored Daylight saving is doing more to encourage home lovers to take a pride in their gardens than anything else and not until all suburban people . By John Cassel | SERIE RENEE ee a 5 eerie anne a TS Sa meee leanne inatenaet SA teen geo UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake) STRAIGHT TALK. The circuitous talker usually arouses suspicion. The talker who goes straight to the point inspires con- fidence, Business is organized to save time. chance for the man who wastes it. In salesmanship it was formerly the custom to begin talking about the weather, -continue the conversation with a political discussion and finally slip in a word or two about the business in hand. The old-fashioned salesman appeared to think that he would frighten the prospectiye customer by asking him to bny anything at the start. To-day, with confidence that he has something to sell the other man needs to buy, he gets down to the subject at hand in the opening sentence. And if he has the right sort of stuff in him he makes that sentence so interesting that the other man will listen to what he has to say. Applying for positions nowadays is also a matttr where straight talk counts. Not long ago a young man made repeated visits to an automobile agency, each time finding the head of the estab- lishment busy. He came back every day for a week, On the morning of the eighth day the boss accosted him with: ‘You've been around here every morning now fora week, You must want something. What idit?” “A job,” said the young man, His persistence, coupled with his directness and brevity, got him the job. To-day he is using both persistence and brevity on customers and selling half a dozen cars every week, It should be borne in mind that every man in business who amounts to anything has travelled the same road that beginners are travelling. He kpows that salesmen must sell to live and that applicants will get no jobs for which they do not ask. If he is approached directly he is more likely to listen than if he is addressed in an apologetic and roundabout fashion, Timidity is a very poor asset for youth, Being straight- forward and fearless when he goes after something is far more likely to get it for him. Particularly will straight, plain speech help him in his start to fortune, AAA AA AAA ARRAN AD PDD WHOSE BIRTHDAY? OCT, 6.—WILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSON, American illustrator, author and naturalist, was born in Sandy Hook, Conn,, Oct. 5, 1850, and died at Washington, Conn., July 18, 1896. The failure and deuth of his father, a New York broker, put an end to his studies in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and {t was necessary for Gibson to earn his own living, After spending some time in the life insu ance business he turned, to the study of natural history and {Ilustration. He rapidly became an expert tilustrator and a remarkably fine wood engraver, and also eyen drew on stone with There is little follow the same custom shall we cease to hear travellers talk about the beautiful gardens of Europe compared with the average in America. When well kept gardens are the rule rather than the exception, maybe we shall see more respect paid to private prop- erty, and that is what the auto does not teach us. One has but to ramble around a little to see the damage done by people who have no regard for anything but their own selfish selves. Maybe E, H. is one of this class, content to watch the Broadway lights! rather than the beauties of the vari- jous parks, If he ever visits the lat- ter, perhaps he is one of the crowd that leave a trail of paper and other rubbish behind him. T. A. W. New Jorscy, Oct. 2, 1928 By Winthrop Biddle. orid)_by- Prete ‘Fubtaning XLVII. — PRODUCING MASTE! PIECES WHILE YOU WAIT, Some painstaking individual estimated that there are 80,000 or nal, or near original, Corot paintin iu the United States alone, In add tion, there are thousands more’ these ‘‘masterpleces” in Hurog some in Asia and a fair sprinkling them even in Africa, « Wheg it is remembered that Cord produced 235—or was it 237?—slzabll paintings, all,told, during a busy / 4 the question arises, Where did'<a these Corots or near-Corots “om from? The answer }s that Corot never sa' but a small fraction of the ‘maste pledes’ credited to him} that ‘bi pupils saw only a small fraction d the remaining ‘Corots,"” and the most of the “Corots’ in the world] including many museums, ty “fakes."” The fact is that there is a favtor in Paris where Corots, and perhap! other masterpieces, are turned out generous quantities. On large roll of canvas, set out moving panorama wise, needy painters who have ac quired some of the tricks of the Cord brush, work industriously turning oi “masterpieces.’* To each artist is assigned the par ticular phase of the painting in whic he has attained the maximum of “tl) Corot trick.'’ One man handles skie another trees, another grasses, and s| on, The résult Is a piece of work tha bears a striking resemblance to thi work of Corot—but is in no way UJ Corot, Antiquities are produced inQ same industrious way. ‘The story told of the Milanese sculptor wh) sold a bronze figure purporting have been disinterred from the co of Pompeii to an obscure Italian ai dealer for the equivalent of $40, ‘The obscure dealer sold it to a mor prominent confrere a large amount, and so on through variotg gradations the Pompeli bronze (_ purchased for the South Kensingtd) Museum in London for a figure aj proximating $50,000. for Here, © however, some carele: manipulator shook some ashes out the figure—and the discovery w. made that they were fresh wood ashi And not the volcanic by-product. So the unscrambling of the omd ette began, and it did not stop un the Milanese sculptor was brought book. f That ts why American millionaii in purchasing rare masterpieces enormous sums find it pays them employ the most expensive expel procurable. But the experience of the Sou! Kensington Museum definitely shot ‘hat even the most expensive art e perts are not infallible—or shalt « say incorruptible? WHERE DID YOU GET | THAT WORD? | 218.—DISCHARGE. Curious is the orlgin of the wo “discharge.” In the old French find the ancestor of the English wo which is “descargier.’ That, in turn, w made up of the par particle “des” and the word “cifitr er,” to load. (See “cargo,” waif means a burden.) Originally in’ English the ro. “discharge” meant to unload or ul burden. ‘Then, by analogy, tt wy applied to a person unburdened of debt or a crime or an obligation, ‘The man who “discharges” a de! for instance, unburdens himself that debt. The prisoner who is di charged by a Judge !s unburdened the responsibility of an offense wi which he is ‘charged’ or burdened Pepe Vanishing American Birc DUCK HAWK ON PALISADES One of the most remarkable ¢ hibits in the habitat group in t American Museum of Natural Histc js the nest of a duck hawk ona oe ing rock on the Palisades, with. rocky rampart of nature stretchit the backgound and the placid ri below. It deserves to be ranked as a we of art—this glimpse of the pird 1 of New York's beauty spot—as, fact, do all the exhibits in the hahi group. As one enters the booth in whi the scene is installed, one finds it’ he to believe that he is looking at ¢ combined work of the artificer aj the painter, and not on the shelving rock hundreds of fest. Aq the Hudson, with the mother-b] poised in the summer air, hoveri over the nest with the food for } young grasped in her claws, | And the duck hawk 1s still to found—or was to be found there 1908, when three pairs were nest{ across the river from the city’s hu bub. great success, He drew for 1 American Agriculturist, the Yout’ Companion, St. Nicholas and for va ous Harper publications, especia Harper's Monthly Magazine, where illustrations first gained populari}| son Was also a popular writer lecturer on natural history, his be] known lecture being on "Cross-Fert zation.” At the height of his sucee| ful career Gibson was selzed with a of apoplexy, which was brought on continued overwork, and died at summer studio In Conneetient. (