Newspaper Page Text
34' THE EVENING WORLD, FJ&JPA7' MARH 24, 1922. ESTAnursirKD nr Joseph nruTZEn. . ruMlrfml DAllr Exccut Rjndar br Tin Pron PuMlslilnr Company. No, ns to 83 Park now. New York. IlALPIt rUUTZKn. Prroldent. 63 Park now. J. ANOUS PIIAW. Trcuiurrr. S Tark now. JCUUPi: rUliITanri Jr.. Secrrtarr. 83 Park How. immvn np Tttr 1 ccn.' I I f-rn prm W. ii n n . i u i aa.i- -w.,-. - Th AnMUttA Prrn 1 ridulrrt; rtllUnl to te fr waMlMUta f all BtWI 0p4t(ll CTrOlIfa 10 11 w HO- Ul.u.ni uwim w w id alu U local ntwj jmMWiwl ken-la. "FIGHT RIGHT, VOTE RIGHT." FROM now until election time next fall the "soldier vote" is expected to keep in mind that 333 present members of the Lower House of Congress voted yesterday for the Soldiers' Bonus Bill. Two hundred and forty-two Republican names can be identified on the list. Ninety Democrats are also "in on it." See the credit marks are duly set down and nobody who needs one forgotten. If anybody asks how many of, these representa tives of the people who voted for the Bonus Bill Iwlieve in a bonus, don't waste words on him. The question is as much beside the point as is the President's failure to approve the plan the bill pro poses or the unlikelihood tint the Senate will pass it. As to the consequences to the country U the Senate should pass the bill and the President sign it, let the country worry about them. The all important point was that there should be a bonus bill with the votes of Congressmen thereon recorded, for election use. Whether there is ever an actual bonus or not is something on which ex-service men and others must take their chances. The Bonus Bill was provided. The President took a firm stand that he would do or say nothing to prevent Congressmen from getting what they could out of it. The latter did their best yesterday. Whatever happens, if ex-service men forget that 333-70 vote they are ingrates and their patriotism is dead. Those who fight right should know tliose who vote right. The watchword is now: Remember. "General" Coxey proposes to organize an other "army" of economic education to march on Washington. Coxey ought to amalgamate his economic programme with Henry Ford's. Then maybe the army might do Its "marching" In flivvers, and enlistments would come easier. FORCED TO IT. EUROPEAN ideas of the wildness of life in New York will be re-enforced if European news papers reprint the interesting information that New York banks arc considering the construction of base ment target ranges where clerks and messengers may learn to shoot accurately and so have an even chance with thugs and payroll bandits. Either because of Enrightism or in spite of En rightism, it is a fact that more and more citizens are getting into a frame of mind where they are ready to protect themselves if the police fail them. This development will make the business of ban ditry more hazardous. But it Is pretty certain to have unfortunate sequels. Storekeepers who have decided to defend themselves against thugs will make mistakes. We shall read of the innocent cus tomer who reached for a handkerchief and was hot dead by an impulsive and fearful shop pro prietor who Relieved him to be reaching for a gun. "New York," we are told by Commissioner En right, "is protected by God Almighty and the police." Commissioner Enright cannot much longer blind himself to the growth of a third factor fighting the crime wave. Citizens feel they must protect themselves. Income tax receipts are $200,000,000 less than estimated. Will a bonus help to balance the budget? IT WOULD MAKE SHORT WORK OF COAL STRIKES. THE impending coal strike should serve to ener gize the movement for a super-power zone which the late Franklin K. Lane fathered and which the best engineering talent considers to be an essen tial development of the next decade. The foundation of the super-power zone for the distribution of electrical energy rests on two funda mental pitodptes: The utilization of all available water power. The generation of electrical energy in great steam plants located near the mines. The desirability of water power in a coal shortage is evident. If it were possible to supply all power, including light and heat requirements, from water power, a coal strike would not inconvenience any industry except shipping. But we must xpect to generate most of the power from coal. Under the super-power zone scheme a successful tie-up of the coal mines would paralyze both transportation and industry, for the power houses would operate from day to day on the output of the mines. An effective coal strike would be a national disaster. For that very reason we should be safer. If a coal strike threatened there could be no back tag and filling at Washington. Coal would have lo be mined. Thcjpovernment would be forced to attend to its business. What Mr. Daugherty calls "the pinch" would come instantly. The result would put an end to strikes. They would become impossible. Miners would have to bow to arbitration. In return for this the mining industry would be regularized. The power houses of the super-power zone would require a steddy daily supply of coal. Hi ere would be work the year round for the great body of miners. This regularization of the mining business is by no means the weakest of the arguments for a super power zone. THE PLAN'S THE THING. WHEN Gov. Miller signed the Transit Act amendment blocking fare boosts, he wrote in an accompanying memorandum: "In tho public Interest, agitation over tare Increases In New York City should stop. Tho Transit Commission should have tho co-operation ot the City Administration and tho com panies In developing Its plan. "The plan proposed, with such modifica tions as further study may suggest, will lay the foundation for Improvements and exten sion of service and tor now lines under a unified system which will servo the entire community and meet tho rapidly expanding necessities of the city. No one has proposed any other plan." There's the situation to date in a nutshell. Under the amended law the Transit Commission promptly and properly decides it lias no power even to consider the application of the Interborough for permission to raise fares. The Governor furthermore sharply reminds the Interborough, in a .letter to its counsel, that the rights of the public are involved and are going to be protected. Also "that tho courts bavo not yet held that a public service corporation can continue to enjoy Its franchise and neglect to comply with reasonable orders to render adequate service when such neglect Is the result of incapacity produced by its own acts. Nor has it yet been held that a public sorvlco corporation may have Immunity for a failure to discharge Its franchise obligation on the ground of the insufficiency of tho fare for which it agreed to discharge such obligations." And that's pointedly that or should be. Next, the companies and the City Administration ought to come to their respective senses and see that the Governor Is right. Co-operation is what is expected of them. Co operation is what the public has a right to demand from them. The more the companies hold back and whine for higher fares the stronger they make the case for a speedy trial of complete transit reorganiza tion along the lines of the commission plan. As TheEvening World has already said : The fate of the plan ought not to hang on the companies. The fate of the companies ought to hang on the plan. The plan's the thing. Get on witih it. The New York Stock Exchange ins sus pended ONE firm of brokeiB because of bucket shop connections. And then the Stock Ex change assumes an attitude of surprise and indignation over the demand for regulation anil inspection! ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz "I like to do iny hit of public service," said tho Brooklyn man, "so I sit in tho end seat and close tho front "door for my fellow citizens. They usually shut it on entering but rarely going out. So I hava plenty to do." Somehow President Mardlug'R attitude on the bonus suggests Miss Muffct: Along camo McNIdcr And sat down beside her And frightened tho Veto away! Looks us if the U. S. A. would soon bo very lone some again. Where are all the Big Americans? The greatest organization in tho United States is tho W'hafB tho Uso Club. How could we pay 8 cents faro if wished to? Mr. Hedley's turnstiles only nccommodato a nickel. MIC1IAKL MULCAIM.Y'S VISION". Ono Bright Moment In the Life of u Traffic dip. CHAPTL'1! V. As his eyes fully embraced this Vision. Michael Mulcabey felt a swelling In Unit part of his manly boBom where tho Civil Service Doctor had locuted his heart. He saw that when the lights shifted a tin Llzzlo would attempt to cut tho beauty out. Quick to act, he moved forward to stop the intrusion. Tha Vision parted her lips in an encouraging smile. Ho stepped before her machine to push away the Lizzie. Tho lights shifted. Tho Vision threw In her clutch, mug out of tho way," she shouted the passing show! (The EU'l.j Very Well, Girls, We'll Change It Copyright, IS22. (New York liirnlnj Wor') by I'resi 1Mb. Co. By John Cassel , "'i From Evening World Readers What kind ot letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that lives the worth ot a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words. Take time to be briei. Toll It to the Marine. To Tho Editor of Tho livening World: As the only realty organization that ImB always been in favor of rent laws that would prevent the eviction of law abiding tenants willing to pay a square deal rent, wo tnko the strong est possible exception to certain state ments included In your editorial, "To tho Good." 1. The Legislatures in 1920, 1921 and 1922 Bcsslons novcr tried to pro tect housing pirates. 2. Tliero never was any landlord lobby In tho Leglalaturo except your self-created one. 3. Tho landlords were not defeated all along tho lino In tho 1922 Legis lature, ns there were only three or ganizations that very feebly opposed rent law and having tax exemption extensions. STEWART nUOWNE, President United Heal Estate Owners' Association. Now York, March 21, 192'.'. Vurmnli- Uelnyrit. To tho Editor of The KcnlnB World. With house rentals on n war basis, tenants betrayed by their own elected Will normalcy ever arrive? TUo com mon peoplo would like to know If there Is a possibility of accelerating said arrival, which is already two years late. F. J. ALBE11TIS. South Ozone Park, L. I., March 21, 1922. Unci nnrlKlillam. To Tha Editor of The Evening World Get busy. Put a stop to tho crime now rampant. Go after Enright bard. Tho Police Department In spito of tho many good men it has. Is getting rotten and demoralized. H. 15. W. New Yotk, March 23, 1922. Piffle. To the Editor of Tho Evening World: Tho goal of the Irish of unfluctuat ing Interest Is uninfringed freedom for Ireland, but tho experienced understand they must net Lo like the raw tecrults who are ever inclined to overreach what circumstances force to be tho Immediate objective and so risk not only losing what has been captured, but also a setback. Ireland, lt vatlous forms, has been representatives In league with land- ! nt war against England since tho In- "Tako your ugly and sped on into L lords now chronically afflicted with virulent cupidity and still voraciously clingtpg to tho 800 per cent, above the oiiglnal status; with the housing problem unsolved"; home-llftt and mor ality no longer possible; barbers, lioot blackH, bakers ct al.. ullen emulators of the greedy profiteers, are also reap ing the rich harvest of our docility; the eventual general wearing of bullet-proof veat to guard against the unrelenting epidemic of hold-ups. rob beries and murders: jjlus tho army of mate Ileal professional reformers squandering time and money in the stupid attempt to minimize American contempt tor the anti-American Eighteenth Amendment; the Indecent transit conditions and outrageously high-rated public utilities; politicians plundering public funds; amazingly Incompetent high city officials mis managing our gieat municipality; ar rogant but helpless police head ut- teily unable to cope with tho orgy of csmo permanently menacing lite and piopcrty which In is sworn and gen erously paid to protect. With all this In the record Is It a wonder that wo are tho Intighlm, stork of the world? Can we feel offended when our so callid Americanism is derided? Even tho Statuo of Liberty at IJcdloo Island seems to bo mocking us and asking tin If wo are really Americans or merely tho meelust of Lenin's pros pective recruits. Are tliero mi nmie followers of Lin coln. ltooseet, Wilson and other ;;n.i: p.iti lets'.' 1 this gieat rou.rn al the ineioy ot cms-pool pblmuuub. vaslon and shall continue to bo until England ceases to interfere with Ire land's innllenablo rights. Tho battle ot 1916-1921 leaves Ire land victorious and well Intrenched for rest, organization and consollda- Uon of her Government, people and forces for tho next opportunity to strike. A disastious or successful military attack is Invariably followed by more or less disorder, which must bo met with cool-hcndeducss und M.ill. England appreciates the steady sup port rendoicd by Americans to tho Irish In tho Cclto-Engllsh War ana hence England, with greater caution, is Increasing her subtle labors to ex tend, in America, her influence, which once perfected would restore America, to all Intents, to tho British Empire and indefinitely deler the re cstabllshnient of Irish Independence. The Irish vlctoiy is a respite to England as well as to Ireland India, Egypt and South Africa are only In a menacing state, while Canada and Australia nr but just awakening and so England Is free to givo almost undivided attention to America England's boldest diplomatic thrust ot American sovereignty was her League of Nations strategy. Its do. feat by us entailed putting into power rrcsiuem naming, who does not comprehend tho lesson of his own election, as Is evidenced by bin eo- operation with England In trying to foist upon America the same old re jected League now painted green and perfumed with orange .iuiee and re I. dulled th" four-power tieitv ri.vrni: w alter iullcx JJioiu., Match 2S, 19::. - UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Otprrtm. MIL br leta Win ) WHEN YOU LEAN BACK IN YOUR CIIAIK. An important ami successful leader of one of the Na tion's great industries said to the writer Inst week: "The trouble with business is too much leaning back in the desk chair. "As soon as i man in big business arrives at the grade corresponding to that of Colonel in the army he begins to take things easy. "Other men do his work for him, but he is responsible far it, nnd he still keeps the position of authority. "He likes to sny in meetings and conferences: " know nothing about the details of this matter. I leave that to Jones or Smith. I only decide the important matters. "Ihtt as soon as he stops knowing about Ihc details lie ceases to be qualified lo sit into the conferences. "If he would only retire and let Smith or Jones, who really are well informed and efficient, sit into the confer ences they would bring to them the requisite understanding. But he won't do anything of the kind. Long nfter he has censed through too much leaning back in his chair to be really qualified for power he continues to exercise it. "The result is that lie is unable to co-operate intel ligently with other industries, and there soon is wasteful competition nnd secret conniving, with the result that the business or a whole set of enterprises goes in the toboggan. "There nre enough young and ambitious men in the c tuntry lo run its affairs well, but their way to the requisite power is blocked by these men who think they can lean back in their chairs and be just as good as they were in their active days. They can't do it. Nobody can do it. The only way to conduct a job right is to keep on it and understand it and know its details as well as to understand its larger itipeels. ( "Most enterprises are brought to ruin by inefficiency at th" top. That inefficiency is due not to incompetence but to laziness lo the disposition of the man who lias got into a eommiiMding position to cease doing the work that the posi tion requires to be done. "If the big men of the country would stop leaning back in their chairs it would soon be out of its present commercial and economic difficulties." From the Wise. A man cannot povacm anything that in letter than a good u-omaii, nor anutliing that is worse than a bad one. Slmonldes. Hum intoxicates tho toper; love the amorous, and prosperity the fool Downey. you arc acquainted with hap piness introduce him to 'jour neighbor. V.. Brooks. Friendship is hut a name. I tnve no one Napoleon. II only In ' m p 1rom pu'vrcs uho diu.'.'i no cfloils. Whatei). Epoch-Making BOOKS By Thonia Bragg CoDrrtrit. 1921. IStm Tort Etmtiit TTorUV u? itim niblbbln Co THE HUMAN PRINCIPLES OF KNOWLEDGE. Lord Byron ono day, In a facotlous, mood, penned the famous lines In his Don Juan, "When Ulshop Berkeley, said there was no matter, and proved It, 'twas no maltcr what he said." Ot course, Byron Intended to bo sar castic, but tho joko of It all was on tho poet, rather than on tho Bishop, Berkeley DID say "thero Is no mat ter:" und, full of paradox as tltf statement may seem to be, ho thci" turned round and proved tho state ment to bo true. Berkeley declared that tho external world Is a myth savo as It exists In the mind of man, or somo other Intel ligent order of beings. Tho material world exists for us only as It Is the summing up of certain attributes, which attributes Inhore. not in matter, but In mind. Tho scA called "attributes of matter" are no1 moro than tho affections (Ideas) of tho mind which wo project Into the external world and endow with on Imaginary existence. Wo know nothing about "sun, moon and stars, mountain, lako and river." All that we novo any ussuranco ot Is tho mental conception of such things. "Where Is tho external world apart from our Idea of It?" was asked of Berkeley ono day; to which he an swered, "Whero tho bundle of fagots Is after every single fagot has been removed." , Tho solar system Is not "up yon der," but In tho brain of man. It Is not an "EXTERNAL" fact but an Interior conception. Tho world Is but un Idea. Physical substance Is a down right misnomer. Tho only real sub stance Is mind. It Is the Infinite Mind God, as men call It for short that constitutes tho cement which holds tho "frame, of things" together. Apart from thV co-ordinating principle thero remains only chaos that Is to say, nothing. This philosophy Berkeley built up Into his work entitled "Tho Prin ciples of Human Knowledge;" and It is perfectly safe to say that to this day tho book has never been answered. Tho shnrpest Intellects of tho race have been hammering away at It for moro than a hundred years, but thev:, have made no Impression upon It. On the other hand, Berkeley's book' has Influenced every seminal mind that has existed since Its publication. Like the light of the sun or to adopt a happier simile, like the waves of tho "wireless" that influence, has gone out In every direction, making itself felt throughout tho mental. world. It cast Its spell over nearly all of the Continental philosophers of the nineteenth century and tho latter half of the eighteenth, and Is at tho found ation of about all of the "Now Thought" cults of tho present day. It Is from tho masterful Influence of tho Bishop of Cloyno that tho Chris tian Scientists, consciously or uncon sciously, get the inspiration of their creed. It Is extremely doubtful If the rounaer or unrtstian science ever heard of Bishop Berkeley's book, savo in a roundabout sort of way, but It is quire riKery mat. DUt ror tho lnnuax enco of Berkeley's book, Mrs. Eddyt book would never have been written. As the Saying Is "GRASS WIDOW." This term In England now usually btstowed on an unmarried mother or n discarded mlhtress, in America, on cither n divorced wife or a wife sep mated from her husband la some times explained as a corruption ot "grace widow" that Is, a widow by graco or courtesyr not In fact. The explanation is plauslblo but errone ous. It Is really a homcwhat coarse metaphor, taken from a horse turned out to grass, but originally horo no reproach with it. being applied to any woman living apart from her husbatid for any reason. '"'nl or b-id. Th wr.m hi v.' ii' 1 n.l ai m olll i'cp . i.n well . . .IivoikiI "omen, weic grabs widows. Psychoanalysis You and Your i?Tfnd By ANDRE TRIDON hat t OUT XXXIV. AN EPILEPTIC'S DREAM The epileptic patient I mentioned In my lost article and who had his first fit when playing Wild West with tho boys (ho being tho Indian) and thus escaping capture at their hands, had entirely forgotten that episode of his lire. Fortunately, however, a nightmare which recurred frequently nnd pro duced "night fits" helped us to un curth that detail of his biography. In that dream ho was running away from some danger, somo mob which was following him. Ills Jegs would grow weaker and weaker nnd he finally would fall In a faint, knowing that his last hour had struck. As a recurring dream, pleasant or otherwise, Is invaluable In determining the patient's general attitude to life, wo spent much tlrno studying tho nightmare. The patient's mothd whom I nsked for Information abo: her son s childhood, revealed to me tho story or trio nt tnrown wnue playing Wild West. .1, i.i- 1 1 ... . . , i . i n ilia iiiu iwy iiuweiii uiiu ireuii running away from life and Its prob lems. He had always managed to let ) his father, and later his mother, sup port him by pretending that he was too sick to work. A good fit now ijnd then in emergencies would corrobort' ins siaiemi nis aa 10 ms mammy io work. NOT THAT HE WAS FAK ING CONSCIOUSLY. His organism, however, was faking unconsciously nnd repeating a trick which had nl uuy.i worked. Alter several months oi tirutnirnt lie began to modify his attitude to life and to himself. Ho grew moro re liant and moro Independent. And then he once came to mo with an nmusing dream. Onco moro he had been playing Wild West In his sleep. The gang was after him und once more he found himself cut off. Hut then HE Tl'HNED ON HIS I'l'ltSUEHS liEAUV TO EIGHT THEM. Instead of a threatening mob thero was ono unall urchin, whom lie cuught and spanked. After which. without waking up, without any of tho convulsions in which ho used to bite his tongue cruelly, he Just ro- KUined his i,IuiiiIh.'IH. Ho was cured. 1 .u IwniMfn lit tr. rinIL 1.1- 1.... in- n ,u iir.ui hid "at i tin, ni longer relying on poopleisf sympathy lor the .)lutlrn of his llrSV pi obtains. Jt' tC'uWiUUl hi Uulttd l'taluie fyndlctti.X