The evening world. Newspaper, October 23, 1922, Page 22

| } { ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. , Bie eb Na how New yok RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. ‘J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. AGérese all communications teTHE EVENING WORLD, Pulltser Building, Park Row, New York City. Remit by Express Money Order, Draft, Post Office Order or Registered Letter. “Cireulation Books Open MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1922, SUBSORIPTION RATES. Forage He hatte Uitted stats, Sutalde Greeter New Nok, Bt oO ‘Six Months One Monta ogee hin OF ks +8280 S800 108 1000 5.00 ; 4.00 3.35 48 100 cents; by mall 50 cents, BRANCH OFFICES. PURORN: en Baran ycer. at | WASHINGTON, Watt Bide Oe are, Tacs’ Ble, 14th and 7 is ho eresn’ Bide.| NETRIIT, 621 Ford Bide. BRONK, 410K. 140th Be, neat | OyicaGo! 1608 biallers Nida. 202 Washington St.| PARIS, 47 Avenue de l'Opers. iT Pulver Bt. LONDON, 20 ate MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. paper, ‘also the local news THE REEK. HE the Hylan buses been operated for the general benefit of the city and the particular benefit of the 200,000 people for whose convenience the Mayor has professed such solicitude? Or have these Hylan buses been operated primarily for the glorification of John P. Hylan and incidentally to provide favors for John F. Hylan’s friends? The Evening World has repeatedly asked these questions. They are now being answered. The Transit Commission's investigation of the Hylan buses has only begun and already the testi- mony shows: (1) That to become and remain a Hylan bus driver the applicant had to get in touch with a political club, prove himself a reliable voter and be prepared to pay his way among grafters. (2) That James Paul Sinnott, who is lucky enough to be a brother of John F. Sinnott, the Mayor’s Secretary and son-in-law, brother of Francis J. Sinnott of the Corporation Counsel’s staff and son of James P. Sinnott, Water Supply Commissioner, has done a brisk business in Hylan bus driver insurance. 2 (3) That the city spent nearly $1,000,000 to smooth the roadway to the Bronx garage of Com- missioner of Public Works William J. Flynn, who got $2,500 a month for garaging Hylan buses. (4) That damage claims totalling $1,350,000 resulting from Hylan bus accidents are now piled up against the city which has no protection (in the shape of operators’ bonds) against such claims. Vote-corralling, favoritism, graft! Here is a first sample of the kind of municipal operation Mayor Hylan is ready to extend to the city’s entire transit system. Here is a faint foretaste of what politics can make of the municipal operation the Mayor is now insisting upon as the prime and paramount feature of the transit plan with which he hopes to overthrow the Transit Commission. Vote-corralling, favoritism, graft! Would the people of New York City stand for having all their traction lines in that grip when- ever they got a municipal Administration like the present? Would they willingly see twenty or thirty thou- sand traction employees rounded up into political clubs; hired, suspended or discharged according to their voting habits; reckoned as so many pawns in somebody’s political game; victimized and exploited by all sort of petty grafters with « “pull” at the City Hall? Fine argument such municipal operation would furnish for larger measure of municipal home tule! Fine chance a Legislature would listen to pleas for more home rule from a city that saw in home rule what Mayor Hylan sees in municipal opera- étion of traction lines! : The bus inquiry now in progress should be carefully followed by the people of this city. It is showing them, not what municipal opera- tion could be and ought to be in the right hands, but what it is and would continue to be whenever it got into the wrong hands. Vote-corralling, favoritism, graft! This is the reek that rises from the first scratch through the surface of Hylan municipal bus op- eration, THE “SING SING SHIFT.” ARVARD beat Centre College. In fairness to Coach Moran of Centre, the result ought almost to have been a small victory for Centre, Centre had a brand new trick shift. If the teams had been closely matched, with Harvard Mound moderately ar that shift might have ieenbcch been decisive, In a game so thoroughly stand- ardized and routinized as football, ingenuity and inventiveness deserve something better than the losing end of the score. By sheer novelty and audacity this “Sing Sing shift” play gained ground aguinst a team superior in every other respect. Moran will have imitators a-plenty now. It is altogether possible the shift is not “sound” and will not retain its effectiveness when opposing teams understand it. But in the second half at Cambridge it was new, it was unexpected, it was effective. In a way, {t is only sportsmanlike to hope that Harvard may defend its goal line against all other comers so that Moran ngay at least have the satis- faction of having done with his brain what no other team could do by brawn and old style play Pity the football coaches who woke up yester- day to read of the success of the lock-step forma- tion only to thump their heads and regret that they had failed to be equally inventive! In framing his new Cabinet, Mr, Bonar Law must have been vastly cheered by the kind assurances from all sides that whatever it {s it won't last long. DON’T DESPISE THE INDOLENT. [ a letter to The World, the writer expresses indignation that H. G. Wells should have de- scribed George Washington as a “conspicuously indolent man,” Maybe Washington was indolent, maybe not. But why should indolence be regarded as a vice or as disgraceful? Newton, according to the story, was “indolent” under the apple tree. When the apple fell it started the train of thought that led to the dis- covery of the laws of motion. Watt, we are told, sat dreaming by the fire—a most indolent custom—and so discovered the ex- pansive power of steam, the application of which inaugurated the industrial era. The least indolent creatures that occur to mind are the lopsided little mice that whirl like danc- ing dervishes, never resting until they wear out and die. But do they get anywhere or serve them- selves or do any good to others? Indolence is defined as “aversion to exertion.” When indolence is properly: applied it leads to savings of time and labor. Man must work enough to live and cat. If the indolent man can find a way to save time he can have that time for indolence. When he saves exertion, others follow his example. The newer, better, easier way of do- ing things becomes commonplace. The desire for indolence is frequently the driving force of achievement. \ Indolence may be reprehensible if the indolent man fails to achieve. But’ Washington did achieve. If he did what he did in spite of his love for case and leisure all the more credit to him. Senator Calder will need a warm election day. Voters who go to the polling booths are le: likely to vote for the “Glove Senator” if their fingers are too cold to grip the pencil LYMAN ABBOTT. YMAN ABBOTT was one of ‘those rarities who lived up to the merits of his ancestry. His father, Jacob Abbott, his uncles John S. C. and Sanwel C. were writers, teachers and preach- ers who did much for American education and morals, We laugh at the Rollo books and latter day critics scorn “The French Revolution” and “Napoleon Bonaparte,” but they were enlighten- ing and inspiring works. The school founded by the family in Farmington, Me., still flourishes. Of Dr. Abbott's own part in‘ affairs little need be said. It is well known. He kept the pews of Plymouth Church filled after the demise of Henry Ward Beecher. His pulpit service was always of the highest type, his ideals pure and inspiring. As an editor of semi-religious journals he was liberal and true to all good causes How often does Mayor Hylan have to get his tion-Owned Press" rubber stamp renewed? LLOYD GEORGE. ills to rise and, rising, gains in sti: npens often when one falls his length ACHES AND PAINS. 4! is too bad that in calling a spade a spade Gov, Miller appears to be digging a hole for himself. . President Obregon has issued a ukase Protecting wild animals in Mewxico for ten years. It does not cp ply to bandits, Bobbed hair is vanishing and with the cold weather coming on it will soon be time for the girls to do away with fure. . It is a chaste coincidence that the two papers that feel the most fervid toward Oohalan's cimdidacy print the most Surrogate’s notices. . Murder continues to be a great Amerior accom plishment, Yet we derate the Turks! . Some of the Western colleges are getting pretty dig. The Ohio State University boasts of 7.080 studenta, Husky corn-feda, all of thom, . The new Queen of Creece has a Roman noae, A JOHN KENTA, tan poe MURR e-waste RE ETRE om THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1992. Municipal Operation! Comerteht. 1922 (Now York Rrening World) By Press Pub. Co. From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find moet readable? Ien’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand worde in a couple of hundred? There ie fine mental exerciee and a lot of satisfaction n trying @@ aay much in few words, Take tithe to be briof. A Query for Old-Timer: To the Editor of The Evening World: B, contends that in the year 1891 he rode on Second Avenue horse-car Une, turned east on 69th Street and continued north along First Avenue. A. contends there was no such route. Cc. R, New York, Oct. 18, 1922. The Will of the People? To the Editor of The Evening World: Why all this fuss about Prohibi- rion? If it was the will of the people, as our Congress claims, I wonder why it should be the main topte of con- versation of almost every one in all walks of life. Wonder why newspapers should devote whole columns and editorials to criticise same. Wonder why the Literary Digest should spend time and trouble to poll these United States if it was the will of the people to have Prohibition, Something is wrong somewhere. I wonder why the people let them get away with it when we sent soldiers across the pond to fight for democracy, It is to laugh. Remember the “No Beer, No Work” buttons? Well, the rem- edy was right in the people's hands, but, as usual, we did not have back- bone enough to use it. What the people need here now 1s a good shock to wake them up. Attorney General Daugherty has pulled one switch and started the current slowly, but it is not quite strong enough. PRANK CRIS Brooklyn, Oct. 16, 1 INGER. Hyle a Police Pay. To the Editor of T Evening World: 1 was a great admirer of Mayor Hylan at one time, but since he turned down the firemen and the police I think he 1s all bluff, The secret meeting of the Board of Estimate the other day proved that, Does he know that some of the me- chanics’ helpers are paid at tho rate day, a total of $42 a week? speak of are civil ser- vice employees. I don’t think he is playing the game square. PORT RICHMOND, ‘This Settles It. To the Hditor of The Evening World: Hi I quote Maxwell Bodenhetm “Paychoanalyaia is the spoiled ohiid of @ reallatio age, and Ita bolaterous manners should be correoted by a metaphysioal spanking,” Ko mucl; for what Andre told Margaret, The procedure for handling intellj. gently that J: enue Would have een for the ot af Police, upen | being notified of the finding of the bodies, to have called the officers on the beat and told them that he de- sired that the party or parties who committed the crime be taken into custody immediately. J. M, JR. Richmond Hill, Oct. 18, 1922, Too Big a Bite. To the Editor of The Evening World: What must the European nations and all other civilized countries of the world be thinking of our wonderful men in Washington who are trying to hoodwink them as they have hood- winked the common people of Amer- ica? American ships, no matter where they are, are United States territory as far as we are concerned. Not so with foreign ships, subject to search and selzure within the three-mile limit. Now comes Wayne B. Wheeler and other fanatics insisting that the Gov- ernment extend the limit to twelve miles, whether the foreign powers like !t or not. Our American merchant marine ts but an illusion. We'll never have it with Prohibition. If one American ship is allowed to carry and sell booze you have got to allow it on land also, or the Eighteenth Amendment ts not worth the paper on which it Is writ- ten. Anyhow, we are about to see some fun pretty soon, Those Prohibition “*bugs"’ have bitten off more than they can chew. FREE LANDER, “Why Do They Drink the ‘tua To the Editor of The Evening World: John Koen's article published” in The Evening World Wednesday, en- titled “Instead of Drink,” was rather amusing, Hoe says in reply to a let- ter, entitled “Obey the Law,” “They don't get intoxicated nowadays. They go blind or insane and wake up dead." He seems to approve of intoxicaiion 80 long as they don't go “blind, in- sane or wake up dead," In all manner of common sense and decency, why do they drink the stuff? Are there not other beverages to drink? When humanity becomes so low and degraded, with no earthly or spiritual control over themselves and all through old ‘John Barleycorn,” was it not about time a law was parsed to govern those helpless mor- tale? I waa never a total abstainor my- olf, but I think any respectable ! w- abiding eltizen will agree with me WwW. 8, Oot, 19, 1929. Wlmhurse, 2 Why Hxpoct t t To the Hditor of The kivening World) T gm net up on international law By John Cassel UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1928, by John Blake.) WHAT IS LUCK? A golfer recently made a very difficult hole in one stroke, Luck? Of course. But if he hadn’t played a smileful shot and got his ball on the green he couldn’t have had any such luck, A business man lately made a profit of a million dollars on a stock of goods he couldn’t have sold ore years ago save for a big loss. A foreign firm happened to nee just that par- ticular kind of goods and happened to have the money to pay for it. Luck? Perhaps. But if this man hadn’t had the courage to hang on, believing in the future, he would have neither the goods nor the profit. It is a little difficult to tell just what luck is. What may be good luck to one man is hard luck to another. There is no denying that most people are to some extent creatures of circumstaces, but circumstances do most for those who try to mould them. To the world at large it looks as if a youth who is born to wealthy parents is very lucky. He will be provided for through youth. He will never be hungry or without clothes. He will have the best instruction obtainable. Yet almost always the achievements of this youth will be surpassed by some boy born of poor parents around the cor- ner and compelled to fight for everything he gets out of lif As to happiness, for every rich boy who is happy there are a thousand poor boys. Of the men who occupy the most prominent positions in Government and business, very few are lucky. Those who really do the ruling have made themselves by sheer hard work. It is true that luck now and then seems to favor the lazy. But luck now and then favors the dishonest and the mean spirited. A few instances of this kind prove nothing. Take a hundred men and ninety of them will get exactly what they earn in this world—no more and no less. If ten of them are creatures of luck, good or bad, their number is not sufficient to make any real difference with the rule or to justify in any one the hope that luck may do for him what he is unwilling to do for himself. and would be glad of An answer to the following question: If an American ship in foreign waters {s American territory, what 1s the status of a forelgn ship in Amer- tcan waters? In other words, if we claim the right to keep American ehips ‘dry’ when abroad, how cun we logically prevent foreign ships being ‘wet"’ in our own ports, provided they make no attempt to bring the Iquor ashore? ‘To a more layman, it looks am tf we wanted to eat our cake and have it, & process which only a Prohlbl- tionist mind could attempt to justify, AUATEN BOLAM, New Zork, Oct, 20, 1929, From the Wise We should ask not who ts the most learned but who is the best learned,—Lady Montague. We drink without being thirsty and make love at any time; that ts the only distinction between us and the other animals, French proverb. Give mo a standing place and I. twill move the earth,—Archimedes, What 4s harder than rock, what softer than water? Yet hard rooke are hollowed out by eoft water, ous, Epoch-Making BOOKS By Thomas Bragg Waris: vy Prove Puvlishing Core THE GERM THEORY OF DISEA\ That there fs death in the alr aa truth that ts almost as old as the alr itself, but the fact was but dimly per- celved prior to the middie of the elghteenth century. Anthony Leuwenhook, the weal founder of scientific microscopy and Pioneer in the biological research which made possible the success of such men as Koch rnd Pasteur, was born In Delft, Holland, in 1633, and died there in 1728, Leuwenhock was one of the most indefatigable students of nature that ever lived, and while not entitled to the honor of actually launching .the germ theory of disease, it is certain that his work furnished the sugges- tions which led to its final discovery. The germ theory of disease is the theory that certain diseases are com- munioated from an infected person to an uninfected one by living organiama, which guin access to the body by the air, or by food or drink, and whioh, growing and multiplying in the im- fected body, produce the changes characteristic of the particular @ils- ease. These micro-organisms are exceed- ingly minute, being from the 10,000th of an Inch to the 80,000th of an inch In length, and yet each potentially alive, and having within itself the ten- dency’ to assumo a definite form, With these rascally germs the alr is literally laden, the atmospherte our- rents carrying them into the most remote and sheltered corners. As far back as 1843 Schwann point- ed out that fermentation and putrefac- tion were intimately connected with the presence of organisms derived from the air, and in 1857 Pasteur proved that putrefaction is but a spe- clal case of fermentation. In 1872 it was demonstrated by Pas- teur and Cohn that neither putrefac- tion nor fermentation could take place with the presence of the bacterta, In the meantime—between 1866 and 1872—experiments with rabbits, mice, pigs and dogs established the fact that the splenic fever with which these animals died was the result of the organisms that were introduced into their blood. This accurately ascertained fact made it practically certain that many if not most of the diseases that af- filct the human race come about im the same way. Another thing 1s practically certain —that as a consequence of the tri- umphs of scientific microscopy the most fearful diseases that afflict hu- manity will sooner or later be mas- tered. It 1s not too much to believe that the time is near when it will be pos- sible to do for tuberculosis, yes, and what has already, even for cancer, been done for smallpox, hydrophobla, typhoid fever, diphtheria and malaria, In the light of this assurance wo can see the immensity of our debt of gratitude to Anthony Leuwenhock, whose work inaugurated the aclence of microscopy. —__——_——_ WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 224—CAMEL. We owe the word “camel” to elther the Hebrew or the Arabic languages. The first Western European race to become acquainted with the camel were the Romans, who came into contact with it in the Near Eastern world long after the animal had ceased to exist on this continent, and probably had found its way to East- een Asia by way of the isthmus that once bridged Bering Strait, It was natural that the Romans should bring back with them the word they found applied to the camel in Eastern Asia. That word is “gimel” in Hebrew and “jamal” in try rowing (ue wortloamel tne Romans acted true to type; for they were such persistent borrowers that they appropriated even all the gods of all the peoples they conquered, ~ WHOSE BIRTHDAY? OCT, 23—THOMAS PINCKNEY, the famous soldier and diplomat, was born at Charleston, 8. C., Oct. 28, 1750, and died Nov. 2, 1828, He studied law in London, England, and joined the American Army on return- ing to America. He was severely, wounded at Camden in 1780, and ree mained a prisoner until the close of the war, In 1787 he was elected Governor of South Carolina, and tn 1792 became Minister to England, He was sent to Spain in 1794 to nego- tiate a commercial treaty which re- sulted in concluding, in 1795, the agreement that navigation on the Mississipp! River was to be free to the United States, In 136 he was the Federalist candidate for Vice President, He later served a term in Congress and served as Major Genera} in the War of 1812, At the Battle of Horse Shoo Bend he defeated the Creek and Seminolo Indians, Pinck- ney, like many other South Carolina revolutionary leaders, was of arlsto- cratio birth and polities, closely cone nected with England by tles of blood, education and business relations, rene doring his attitude in the War of Bae dependence the more remarkable. »