The evening world. Newspaper, October 25, 1922, Page 26

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. dally except Sui J, Sto 88 Pate howe RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Ro 3. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Rot JOSEPH PULITZER, Secretary, 63 Park Row. New York City. Or WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1922 SUBSORIPTION RATES. tbs Post Office at New York as Second Clam Matter, fn tbe United ‘state, octaide Creates New Sores One Year Stx Months One Mouth 00 $50 6 85 Fonase MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. also THEIR RIGHT. PT°HE taxpayers of this city have no wish to see it stingy or grudging in the matter of municipal salaries. They wish their public offices to carry ade- quate pay for all incumbents fit and willing to earn it. They wish‘each Department of the Ciiy Government to have as large a supervising force 2s it needs. They know salaries of heads of de- partments have not increased along with recent increases in salaries lower down. But whenever pay increases and new depart- mental jobs are proposed, taxpayers are entitled to expect two things: (1) Openness. (2) A fair claim to public confidence based upon the actual current conduct of the departments concerned. On both these points the Hylan Administ-a- tion is deplorably weak. It may well be that a Commissionership in the City Government should carry a salary of $10,000 instead of the present $7,500. But the Hylan method of trying to put over that particular raise defeated its own aim. It was fatally lacking in frankness—being stealthily promoted behind closed doors. It wa- calculated to benefit at least four Hylan Com- missioners who do not command public confi- dence. It failed at the first touch of publicity. The same reasons will now account for close public scrutiny of the unexpected payroll exten- sions disclosed in the 1923 budget. It is estimated that at least $3,400,000 of these payroll expansions, including an assistant for the Mayor and some twenty-five new assistants, deputies, &c., for his Commissioners, cannot be classed as mandatory from Albany. The Hylan Administration must be held responsible for them, Judgment as to how far they are necessary will inevitably be based in part upon the character of the Hylan Administration, its reputation for openness or the reverse, its record as to favorit- ism, its achievements or failures, its observed notion of what it owes the public in return for what it costs. New York taxpayers are anything but mean or miserly toward their City Government. Prove to them that government can be bet- tered by multiplying jobs and raising salarics at (Nt top and they'll be there with all the money needed, But when it comes to asking them to look to the present Hylan regime for such proof, they have a right to use thelr own intelligence, Be sure they will exercise that right in study ing this budget. INCREMENT, ; HE sale of the National Democratic Club Property on Fifth Avenue is the sort of transaction that fills the hearts of honest Single Taxers with glee—and also with regret. The club purchased the sito thirty years ago for $175,000. Whatever the improvements may have cost it is not probable that the present purchaser considers them of value, The present sale price of more than a million dollars is tho site value at the moment, The difference is what the Single Taxer describes as “unearned incre- ment,” for which the owners were In no wise responsible, It is difficult for the reasonable and socially minded individual to escape the conviction that such a profit is somehow essentially unfair and that a large part of such profits from land-holde fag should, under such circumstances, revert to the city. SAFER FOR THE NATION. RESS reports do not make clear the spirtt that moved Ambassador Harvey in his re marks anent the feminine soul, One may im- agine him engaging in sorio-comic persiflage for the entertainment of his fellows of the writing trade. His classical and Biblical references might even suggest that he was burlesquing his friend Henry Cabot Lodge. . If this wasn’t the spirit of his remarks— a hatp fim! If he cannot make clear thet Registered Letter, Al World... 00 we 12.00 600 100 3 eg 38 2 “A Week World.’ ):) 1.00 ‘World Almanac for 1922, 35 conte; by mail 60 cents, BRANCH OFFICES. Waa Bway, cor 3etn. | WASHINGTON, Wratt Bide, be + peer 14th and a ae ght Theron Bids. | HETR IT, 621 Ford Bldg. 410 B. 160th 88, veer! CHICAGO, 1603 Mallers ide. 202 Washington 8t.| PARIS, 47 Avenue de Opera, fSod 817 ulon Be. LONDON, 20 Cockspur St. i Siren anes he was only spoofing, he is in for some bad half hours. He will find that women have souls and also tongues to express the sentiments of those souls, In such a controversy the Colonel's blood must be on his own head If President Harding Col. Harvey in England, the status of the feminine soul is a lot safer as a subject of dissertation than the Har- America does or thinks keeps veyized version of what or ought to do or think THE INTERESTED PARTIES. N DISCUSSING plans for tariff revision bv | the Tariff Commission, Chairman Culberson is reported to have said: “Proceedings will be of a judicial character” and “on specified dates all interested parties will have an opportunity to Le heard.” Such expressions are enough to cause serious concern They mistaken attitude toward the work indicate a ahead It is rank nonsense to suggest that in the usual tariff hearing “all interested* parties” will have opportunity to be heard. It is impossible. In most tariff disputes the most interested party is that inarticulate mass known as The Public, made up of the consumers, the wage-earners, the millions who live, eat and sleep in a Nation bur- dened by tariff extortion, The intérested parties are the ones who are forced to pay too much for wool clothing, for gloves and for sugar. These never appear at formal hearings The Tariff Commission, if it is to be helpful must be of a “judicial character” to the extent of using good judgment in discountin§ the selfish and partisan appeals of manufacturers and im- porters, of producers, wholesalers and retailers. But its chief function, if it is to be a construc- tive element in tariff regulation, {s to serve pri- marily as attorney for the people of the United States. It must make coherent the incoherent rumblings and resentments growing out of the “unscientific” tariff-making of log-rolling Con- gressmen This is a difficult and responsible task. It is infinitely harder than adjudicating the claims of rival lobbyists with an eye to partisan advantage. But it is the job of the Tariff Commission if the tariff is to be made “scientific.” Starting off with too great regard for pro- cedure and too little attention to popular dis- satisfaction would be a most serious error. Bonar Law seems to have avoided the sturdy oaks of British political life in making his Cabinet. But perhaps the softer material with \bderal trimmings will serve, for tt is generally conceded that the Bonar Law Cabinet | oly a temporary bit of furniture, WHAT ABOUT LIQUOR IN STATEROOMS? A NEW play in the fascinating and edifying World Series between the American Anti- Saloon League and All the Alcohol on Earth The British Board of Trade insists upon a British law which requires passenger ships to carry one gallon of brandy for each 100 British subjects in the steerage. Hence, the United States Line steamer President Adams came across the Atlantic from London and in over the three-mile line yesterday with five gallons of forbidden fluid aboard in defiance of the Daugherty rum ruling. There's another matter that still confuses this mighty issue; Does drying up a ship include drying up pas- sengers’ luggage and passengers’ staterooms? Is the Prohibition Power that now speaks for the United States going to insist that every pas- senger boarding a ship bound for the United States shall be searched before he embarks, or can he drink what he likes in his stateroom both outside and inside the three-mile limit? We are only at tho first, elementary stages cf the new game, As @ sporting event the race between the Henry Ford and the Biuenose has been pretty nearly @ flivver, ACHES AND PAINS Col, Harvey proves the ease of Deing prominent, Say fome Disarre thing from the apes of an ambassador ap and the sirat pege headlines biasen it Editor Wickham Steed of the London Timea ta quoted aa saying of the esteemed HN, G, Lowry; “If that man Lowry were in Hapland 1 would prab him quick,” Mr, Lewry has now deen fairly warned, . The owira dry ruling of the United #iates Court may land the U, #, A, Moh ond dry among the nations Home of them are adie te keep sober without Pronidi- Hon, . Thia euriows congiomeration, The Universal Yankee Nation, ‘Throws a fit with deuss te pay Aad cures it all on Blestion Day . 11 (a porhape more prefiisbie to be the won of « poet than @ poet, The late Brnest W, Lengfollow left half 6 million behind. . Bonar Law says he is 4 “commenpiacs man of them have a good deal of merit. . Why compiain because Hiszoner hee taken on an ae astant? He needs heip! yi FoR Ee Bome ae The New Pilot! a x etme ime PPPOE esata A cia ‘THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, OOTOBER 85, 10239. Copyright, 1924, (New York Evening World) By Prees Pub. Co.» By John Cassel Pe From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ian’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying ¢o say muoh in a few words. Take time to bs brief. Careless. To the Editor of The Evening World Passing the Columbla Bank on Fifth Avenue this A. M., a young miss of about ninety pounds came out of the bank with @ checkbook and a roll of money. No doubt she had been warned by her boss to be careful and not to allow any one to see the money, so she stood in the doorway in full sight of every one passing and carefully wrapped the money In a pillow case. H.T Brooklyn, Oct, 18, 1922 Opera Prices. To the Editor of The Evening World “Absence makes the heart grow fonder,"’ We are a band of students, vocal and Instrumental, living at a club and pursuing our studies here. The San lo Opera was one of our joys—finest education for a and one within our means, an essen- tial factor in the life of students, Now that the San Carlo has gone we mourn the loss, particularly as no opportunity 1s presented for opera other than Metropolitan, and that Is a different song. The best seat in fan Carlo wan for a price that applics at the Metropolitan only where the stoge is not even visible without stretching and straining. Too bad the San Cai left, Much luck to them! MUBIC LOVERS, Immigration onlatios To the Bdltor of the Evening World: I would Iike to take exception to some of the remarka made by Mr. Ray Harria under date of Oct. 20, writing to you undor “Foretgn Language 6! Farris ta either a stranger in New York or else he exhibits an astoniehing nalvete, for in says that one cannot pass through the ghetto without secing myriads of store signa in foreign lan- qungos, There are, I think, a fow Americans living in what are sup- posed to be refined residential neigh- borheeda (or what remain of such nelghberheods) who have no need to go as far au the ghetto for thia gra- lruitoug instruction In foreign len- gwuages, Mr, Marris ts also misinformed when he says that certain races somo here solely to make money end take back this money so made to the! native lands, there to pass the declin. ing of their Lives tn comfort and in the lovely recollection of their childheed days, This is not #0. The lands from whieh these people come are administered by laws in soma re- ¢peots much better than ours and hy customs which are not to be too lightly trod upon. As a It, cer- tain of thelr former “oppressed” sub- jects are perfectly eontent te remain ame Yoon cereme tek fe wee opinion, our unwillingness to look matters straight In the face will shortly result tn strife compared with which all previous race troubles will pale Into insignificance. The irony of {t is that we have the most ridiculous- ly easy means of avolding this situa- tion if we only willed. A suggestion: Assuming that it is necessary to allow certain races to come in at all, what is to prevent the passage of a law, either State of Fed- eral, prescribing the kind of work an immigrant 1s to be permitted to en- gage in for, say, the first ten years of his stay in this country, and in this way earn partially, at least, the privi- 6? If it is worth anything ould be compelled to pay for it; 1f not, he has always the right to remain where he was born. Owner- ship rights for such a period should also be provided for by law. In spite of the above criticisms of Mr. Harris's letter, I say more power to him and to The Evening World for publishing it. READER. Newark, N, J., Oot, 21, 1922. Police Interferen: To the BAitor of The Evening Wo! The police did themselves proud in their interference with the meeting of Capt. Rheba Crawford of the Salva- tion Army. We certainly are to be congratulated on the remarkable effi- clency of our Police Department! Why not begin an investigation of police methods in our city? Is it true that an organization is being effected for the purpose of such an investige- tion? It ts time that the Police De- partment be taught to realise that petty tyranny will not be tolerated. Cannot The Evening World take the matter up? And yet they ask consideration of a demand for more pay. G. L. RUSSELL, Elmhurst, Oct, 21, 1992. In the Melting Pot, To the Biter of ‘The Evening World Allow me to answer Ray Harris re- garding ‘Foreign Languege Bigns’' ih The Evening World. Tt {# yidtoulous and puerfle to say that signs written in foreign lan- guages are unpatriotic and should not be tolerated, Every people hes a lan- gusge end «a culture besides his adopted country's and is entitled to practise it, for liberty is a loense, Tay Harris must have been aslesp and ignorant of the fact that a great percentaga in our schools and col- loge are foreigners and some colleges of renown have also tried to limit the Jewish students in their classes, Tho night schools of the Ghetto are over whelmed with Yiddish speaking pupils orger to learn English, This country is & melting pot And the young genera- tion {s adaptable to our language and te rapidte eAwemntne temmrd the habite By John Blake UNCOMMON SENSE | (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) Look over the men reading newspapers in a railroad train or a passenger car, Most of them are skimming the news, glancing at the headlines, stopping for a minute or two at the comic pictures. A few of them are reading intently, and absorbedly Those few are doing what every newspaper reader can do {f he chooses—getting an education Everything that is in a newspaper {a put in because its readers want it there. Because there is a wholesome end legitimate demand for entertainment, illustrations, comic pictures and other amua ing features are carried by the majority of papers But every paper carries also a complete digest of all the news of the world, and many informative and thoughtful articles about the news, and about national and international affairs.. MAKING IGNORANCE INEXCUSABLE No man or woman who has learned to read has an ex- cuse for ignorance in these days. The cost of a newspaper to its publishers is very great, but its cost to its readers is insignificant. None of those who read it carefully—paye after page— including the advertisements—can remain ignorant very long. witnessing all that is happening in the world, with a wise interpreter by their sides telling them what it all means. here is news of the business world, of politics, of world movement, or art, and the always fascinating news of the doings of the important people who are leaders of thought. Such information is gathered all over the face of the earth, gathered and put on cables, and in the mails, and on the radio, that the people who buy the newspapers the next day may know as much about it as the trained observers who were on the spot. To get this view of the world every day is to get an education. No reader of this newspaper, if he is an atten tive reader, can defend his ignorance. The meang of enlightening his mind is at his hand. If he really makes use of it, he will in a little while be able to talk intelligently, which is a sign to other men that he is educated, and to think intelligently, which removes all limits from the education he will be It is as if they were standing on some high eminence, | i é able to acquire and modes of living in Amertca, al- though their fathers and some of the young persons still adhere to their native tongues. Further, Ray Harris expresses that ‘m great majority of thege foreigners come here to make mon to be apent in their own country.”’ It is an old ory which has never been proved, The people that come here to find shelter and a haven settle hore for goed and live according to the rules and regulations, Do not the Amerioans, too, scoumulate a great Gea! of wealth in this country only to spend tt in foraigm countries? Ray Harrie and patriots of that (Ik whe prattle and pride themeelven of country’ and ‘my country above all" are narrow minded and a mennc te humanity, They should remember “Deutschland uber Alles” and the orien of 1) OY RR ANTRM ART “That’s a Fact” By Albert P, Southwick Copyright, 1922 ( w York Evening ord), by Press Publishing Co. Surnames were introduced into Eng- land by the Normans and adopted by the nobility tn 1900, eee Melosh (or Molech) was the fire god of the ancient Phoenicians and Ammonites to whom human sacrifices were offered “@hibboleth'’ is regarded as the Password of @ seoret society, a coun- tersign, When the Ephreimites, who had been routed by Jophthah, tried to Pree omer Seren Rewer ther scare v .| they HER VOTE How New York's Women Electors Figure in the Fall Campaign. By Marcaret H. Speer Copyright, 1922 (New’ York Evening! Worid Preas Publishing Company. Il, THE TARIFF, The women of thé United States do a large part of its purchasing, ae the wife buys the food and clothing for the fainity By the inning of the year Women will begin to feel the effects of the new Fordney-McCumber taritt, Already New York City stores are advertising that this ts the “last op- portunity’ to buy imported clothing at the pre-tariff prices, ¢ The aim of this tariff, which the * Republican 67th Congress passed and which went Into effect last month, is to protect American industries by preventing the competition of foreiga manufactures. That Is, if a German made doll can be sold here cheal than an American made doll, the is to put a large enough tax on the 2 German doll to prevent it underselle 4 ing the American doll. 4 It 1s computed that the new. tot a will bring In a revenue of $400,000, @ year, with a tax of about $4,00Qe +< 000,000 to be paid by the const of the United States. As Gov. Smith safd in a speed at Ogdenburg last week, this tariff is “reaching into the Sosa of the housewife to give special ade vantage to the privileged few" whe control the manufacturing plant® here It Is stated by a tariff expert in % New York store which deals agente: bs cotton goods that imported do’ i Swiss which {s now selling for $1.25 @ yard, will shortly cost the consume? about $1.75 a yard. The dye runs ta American made dotted Swiss and the weave !s coarser than in tmported Swiss, So fhe Republican tariff? makers are forcing women to weet clothes made of inferlor material, ag J many women cannot afford to pay aff Increase of $2.50 In the cost of mates .\ rial for a summer dress. The cost of imported tweed suits will be about §f more next year, says a buyer in @ New York department atore. The tax on dolls, toys and Christe mas tree decorations has been Ime ¢ creased from 85 per cent. to 70 per cent. ad valorem or 70 per cent. of the value. An import tax man in a de- partment store which 1s {mporting dolls now for the Christmas trade says that German dolls will probably cost from a third to a half more These are just a few Instances showing what the actual tariff in- crease will mean in dollars and cents to women purchasers. The women leaders in the Demoe cratic Party In New York feel that the teriff Is an !mportant Issue in the campaign this fall. New York will elect a United States Senator, and the women, If they will vote, may have @ real share in the choice. “Women must be made to see the seriousness of this issue,’ urges Migg Marion Dickerman, who {s in charge of the Democratic Women's State Committee office here. “The most effective method will be through personal explanation from woman t® woman “Women will protest about the time crease. It will be like an Italian dowm near Greenwich House who came te me the other day and sald he had looked at a sult of clothes which cos§ $18. Later he went beck and the sul was $24. Then the Italian sald in @ puzzled way: ‘They sey !t is the tariff. What !s that?” “The tariff brings the question of svernment Into the home,"' says Mra, ranklin D, Roosevelt, Chairman of the Women's Finance Committee of the Women's Democratic State Come mitttee, In a speech last week. “Thal ts the compelling reason why womem should vote.’ Miss Ethel H. Stebbins, Presidend lof the Democratic Union of Manhattas, Womei, declares: ‘‘American manus facturers make the poorest possible material and then protect It so tha@ women are forced to buy it becaus® cannot afford to pay the tne creased cost of forelgn goods,” Miss Stebbins believes that the best action the women can take this fall is te Democratic Senators and Cone gressmen who believe in lifting the 6 F burden of taxation tmposed by the tariff Another point for women to remem ber in rega tures tn or other nations may pay us their war debts amount ng to some $11,000,000,000. How cam these nations sell us thelr goods through a tariff wall? Women need to read carefully the various candidates’ stand on the taritt, Most women cannot get much defl- te information from reading the ot understand what em dut but they do un« rease in the price of have to buy for nd their families. comes to expressing their minds about this monstrous Republl- can tariff that ts already preying om thetr pocketbooks they need find ne dumoulty They can say It cles they with votes. made to prono e the word Shibboe leth, They it Bibboleth and were thus de All geographical wonders have come petitors, Our Niagara finds a rival if the Victoria Falls of Africa, The Ree % tornna district of New Zealand ts @ competitor of the Yellowstone in the United States, The crater of Katmal in Alnskn must siand comparison with Kilauea and Crater Lake of Hawalt, ral religion te said to have the sixth century legislator and Ite Bible , € b ¢ iI . prophet of ancient Per \s the Zend Avesta, its basic Araliern af wand ond wwf, \ y Z