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THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 1922. 20, ISTABUSKKD BT JOSEPH PDTJTZHR. rufelli&td Dally Except Sundsr br The IT" Pabllthlnr CMUWliy. Jio. St to 3 Prk now. New Telle. nALPII PULlTZEn. President. 3 Prk Row. J. AKOUS STIAW. Treasurer. 8 Park Hew. 4. J08ET1I PTJUTZEn. BtertUlT. 08 P" Kw. HMxxirsR or toe associated peras. Tkt Auocttttd Pit 1 ielqitlj fntitlfd to ti for MreMUuilep T xU iwi diipitckn mdlud to U or sot oUunriM mdltfd in thtf lint ill tho tfct loot mm published kertln. BI.STATE TRANSIT. jV"OV. MILLER, addressing the Chamber of JL Commerce of Westchester County, warned jthem that it might prove necessary to devise new jand improved means of transit between that suburban residence region and the business hive of Manhattan. Commuting service is almost too much for the -railroads and the Governor suggested the pos sible development of a "distinct system." ; The same, he said, applied to Long Island and jto New Jersey. The New Jersey problem is fur ther complicated by the fact that the traffic is interstate and so not subject to regulation by a single Public Service Commission. . The Governor suggested that this feature might eventually lead to the creation of a bi-Statc tran sit .commission organized after the fashion of the Port Authority. ' The Evening World suggested this possibility some time ago. It is a natural development and (should benefit botli the New Jersey commuters and the business of New York. Present facilities jare not satisfactory. The Hudson Tubes are an (improvement on the ferries, but the 10-cent fare ;from mid-New York is too high. The time and inconvenience of changing cars ( is onerous and !uneconomic. : A bi-State commission ought to be able to plan modifications which would bring New Jersey itrains direct to suburban stations in New York !City. "Goods do not move In an economic vacuum," Mr. Hoover remarks, referring to Russia. Mr. Hoover ought to tell It to the tariff linkers who are working the air pump as hard as they are able. THE CLAIM OF THE. NEAR EAST. IN a letter signed "Fed Up'' in another column the writer.grants the need for charity in the Near East but h, of the opinion that charity should begin at home. He cites in particular the case of the West yirginia miners with their low earnings and hard conditions of life. The two cases do not offer a parallel. In the Near East charity is .essential to check the death roll. The United States cannot alter the causes of poverty, famine and suffering in the Near East. The thing to do is to alleviate as much misery as possible and save lives. That is char ity. Charity knows no limit. If it begins at home, it should extend itself wherever the need demands. West Virginia's4 case is different. The West Virginia miners may need charity, but what they want is a square deal. The people of the United States are in position to remove the causes of suffering in West Virginia and to" make charity ) unnecessary. i IP the plight of the West Virginians touches 'the Heart of America, by all means offer .charity, but do not stop with charity. Go to the roots of the matter and force a removal of the causes. Meanwhile the need for charity in the Near East is great and terrible. Start charity at home and send it to the famine lines. Imagine a party on some Houseboat on the Styx where Cameron and Quay and Penrose might gather and shake their heads over what happened in Pennsylvania Tuesday! INSTEAD OF FEDERAL LICENSES. DISTRICT ATTORNEY BANTON has urged the licensing of automobiles by the Fed eral Government. The principal feature of this licensing would be the stamping of essential parts of a machine with a numbeAlifficult to remove or alter. 'Tampering with the number would be a serious offense. "The need for such a system of numbering rises from the growing industry of automobile-stealing. Federal licensing and numbering would un doubtedly be of service in checking interstate commerce in stolen cars. Opponents of Federal licensing fear that such a system would be only an entering wedge for taxation of automobiles. The license fee pro - posed is nominal, but Congress might easily raise the fee when added revenue is needed. Why not a voluntary organization with a simi lar system of numbering? Why shouldn't the leading automobile clubs, manufacturers, deal ers and insurance companies get together, agree on a uniform system of numbering and inaugu rate a sales and insurance policy founded on registered and certified bills of sale? Such an organization could enlist the aid of individual owners, law enforcement agencies and honest garage-keepers, all pledged to protect the numbers, use the registered bills of sale in all transfers and wage unrelenting war on the auto mobile thieves. In days when horse-thieving flourished the Aatf-Horse Thief Societies used similar methods successfully. The idea would be even more ap plicable in the case of automobiles. Motor cars arc manufactured. Horses arc born. If all automobles were numbered in a single series, detection would be much simpler. A sin gle list of stolen cars could be issued to all garage-keepers and police officers with -rewards for recoveries. In a few years the lack of a certified bill of sale would be presumptive evidence "that the car was not honestly acquired. Such an organization is possible. It would be worth while. It would do the work even better than a Federal license. NO LOANS IN HIS LUGGAGE. . THE end of the Genoa Conference recalls what Lloyd George said to the Soviet delegates at its beginning: . "Let M. Tchltcherin finish this voyage and go home with all he can carry; then we will weleomo him on another voyage when we know what kind of a passenger he is." M. Tchitcherin has done much toward demon strating what kind of passenger he is. He pre ferred the demonstration to finishing the voyage or to carrying anything substantial home with him. When the Soviet Government takes stock of what it got out of the Genoa Conference, what will it find? Item: Opportunity to parade Soviet doctrines of non-responsibility for debt which have only made a hundred times more cautious the nations with which the Soviet Government wants to deal. Item,: Opportunity to claim that other theories of property should' defer to Soviet theories of property a claim already vigorously and widely challenged. Item: Faint hopes that smaller nations may some time furnish Russia with a puny part of what it needs from the bigger ones. We do not count the treaty with Germany. To all intents arid purposes the Russians brought that to Genoa. When Moscow gets over the first elation at having put the Soviet Government so boldly and assertively in the spotlight, there may besoberer second thought. There arc no loans in Tchitcherin's luggage. Nor is there the desired degree of recognition or the "equal footing." On the contrary, there is only a warning to think it over and come in a more chastened spirit to The Hague. This warning, coupled with the renewed albeit long-distance reminder that the United States is still particular as to the basic' economic prin- ciples of nations with which it deals, may nave its effect. M. Tchitcherin, or whoever heads the Russian representatives at The Hague, may prove a very different passenger. Even a Soviet Government is not impervious to plain demonstration of what it must pay for what it must have. Pennsylvania political bosses lay the blame on the women. Thero never was a compli ment more sincere or full of meaning. READY FOR BABE. THb heavy advance sale of seats in anticipa tion of Babe .Ruth's return to the business of bombarding the fences at the Polo Grounds is a fair measure of the punishment Judge Landis imposed on the owners of the Yankee club as well as on-the premier batter. The severity of the punishment and the good spirit in which it was accepted indicates the strong position xJudge Landis holds and intends to maintain. Landis is the "Dictator" in truth, and now that Ruth's season of suspension has passed, the fans may find it easier to indorse the action of the Commissioner. If Ruth were not a star of first magnitude the lesson in discipline would have been less impressive. Having established his power in this first case, the Commissioner may find it easier to temper justice with mercy in the future. ACHES AND PAINS A DiajoiAted Column by John Keetz. 1 "Nice Kitty!" &ss& gyjotmcassei I UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake " " " " ' nr mikj. There is a wide difference, between a reason and an excuse. "M" stands for Murphy, Tammany's boss; Could we but lose him 'Twould be no great loss! "After all," the Old Guard Republicans are begin ning to argue, "we are only being licked by our liounger brothers," . Very leaky weather or the merry month of May. .tpropot of Senator iledill McConnick's effort to stop the naval excursion to Jqpan, tome people occa sionally spell his front name "Meddle." Having ably agreed to disagree, Lloyd Qcorge calls the Genoa Conference "a great success." Rome men can even praise cold buckwheat cakes! Stocks tose ichen it was made known that President Harding hud patted the Bteel Truit on the back. .VJcp doggie! From Evening World Readers What kind oi letter do you find moat readable? Itn't it the one that iiret the worth of a thousand word in a couple of hundred? There it fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in tryinS to ear much in few words. Tnke time to be brief. Will fot 'Yfll." To the Editor of Tho Eenlng World rtorerrins to letter signed "J. J. "orrest," I would say It Is not the true Americans, the ones who are the backbone of their country, who will 'yell" for their beer. The beer Industry Is connected with or partly responsible for the great crlmo wave that now sweeps the country. Soon, very soon all these things that bring' misery on the world will be on tho downward move for -wrong In fluences of till kinds ure doomed. O. T. V. Federal lrlnoncr. TO the Editor o The Evenlnp World- The letter of Joe Taylor In your Issue of May 14 emanates from a true patriot. No traitor or sedition spreader should be released from jail. Our false sense of leniency to crimi nals of this typo will get us Into tho same IU as Russia if wo continue It. I was hoplnsr when we threw Prof, Wilson out of oftico that weak-kneed treatment of anarchists and their UK would cease, but thero would seem to be a good sprinkling of the yellow BtrlDe "International" idealists still in control of several departments of our Government. Perhaps the same condition exists here as Lord Sydenham told tho House of Lords exists In Great Britain "dominion of the 'Hidden Hand." CHARLES M. AVH1TR. New York, May 16, 1922. Clmrltj. To the Editor of The Evening World: I am touched by the appeal tor aid from tho Near East. But deserving as this cause Is and notwithstanding my heartfelt sympathy for them, 1 cannot but think It Is about time wo apply the old adage "Charity begins ut home." In order to bring my point forcibly to all your i taders l need only to refer to the sermon yesterday by the Rev. Dr. .Mercer D. Johnson of Baltimore, Md., delivered at the Church of tho Ascension, 6th Avenue and 10th' Street, and the four little children taking up a collection at the door for the starving miners, their families and children of West Virginia. Also tho good advice and sentiments expressed at Carnegie Hall yesterday by Rabbi Wise concerning the proposed talks to be given throughout the mining re gions by Billy Sunday to the striking miners, the oojoct of which, as Dr. Wise snyB, will only be to get the poor miners to yield to more punishment I know nothing of the merits of either side of the controversy and neither do I want to know anything, The fact that miners are paid $5S0 to 600 yearly Is enough for me, and I need know nothing else as this Injustice alone li enough to surmount anything brought forth by the operators. It is a fine stale of affairs when 'the so-called State of West Virginia will stand for such an out rage, it certainly iooks a mougii Dr. Johnson Is absolutely right in saying that West Virginia bears the nnmo of a State, but that it is not, and that It Is absolutely governed and controlled by the coal operators, mining Interests, &c. This. being the case, why not close shop at Wheel ing.' We have enough on our hands right hcte at home not only to assist but to drive us to shame; therefote it' behooves us as Americans, accord ing to my opinion, to help one an other, as I can fancy how much "charity we would get from any country were we to ask therefor. FED UP. New Toik, May 17. 1922. An lliitrnnur to WIllinniNliiirir llrlilicr. To the Editor of Tle Ucnlng World ant a constant reader of The Eve ning .eWorld, and never miss a day without leading same. X am a resident on the lower east side of New York City, in the section where the Williamsburg Bridge crosses to Brooklyn. This bridge starts at Clinton Street, which is eleven blocks from the East River. This section below the entrance to the bridge is very thickly populated that 1b, not only the eleven blocks which I figured running from east to west but also the streets on the, north and south aide of tho bridge. What r would like to know Is why shouldn't there be an entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge a block or two before It crosses the East River. Why should so many thousands of citizens traveling to and from Brook lyn dally bo so Inconvenienced? Why should tney nave to walk big distances and then take cars to travel to Brooklyn when they could walk right ncross, or even take cars I they chose, nt a much shorter dls t.mcc? 1 could briifg out lots more facts whereby so many thousands of peopio could benefit. I feel confident that um voicing the opinion of thousands of Deoplo. It would not only be of ben cflt to the people but It would also bo a big Improvement lo our city. An additional entrance to the Wll llamsburg Brldgo Is nn absolute nc cesslty. O. a A Qnentlnn. To the Editor of Tho Hvenlng World : Is It a fact that U. S. Grant at any time during his public life publicly or privately congratulated some for j-lirn power on Its success In a cer tain war In Europe? Did It at that time arouse any feeling as to tho discretion of such a remark? J. A. New York, May 17, Hit. TURNING THE PAGES By E. M. 00born Copyright, World), 1P22 (New Tark Brenlag by Pn rubllthlng Co. (Copyright. 10J'.', by John Blake.) A MAX WHO MADE OPPORTUNITY. At nineteen the late Henry P. Davison was a clerk in little bank in Pennsylvania. When he died he wns one of the foremost financiers in llie world. This is not going to be an effort lo convince young men lliat tlicy can all rise from obscurity to eminence in finunc merely by hnrd work. Davison accomplished what he did because he pos sessed very grent nnd unusual ability. But his life disproved the assertion that one hears many times n day- the assertion thut ability has no chance in the world and thnt only luck and pull will get a man anywhere. Davison had great ability, it is true. He made a mar ket for it. He not only achieved distinction but great wealth during a comparatively short "life for he was only fifty-five years old when he died. . , Hut his ability, if it had not been seconded by a willing ness to work as few men ever learned to work, would never have brought him so far. In his youth he was without influence or wide acquain tanceship or rich and powerful relatives. i There was nobody to advance him, to lift hint over the heads of his fellow workers. lie even lacked the special education thnt so many men who started at the same time had been given. t But he possessed one of the greatest qualities deter mination. Any one who ever saw him or who ever look.ed at his pictures could see that. It was his determination plus his ability that put him practically at the head of American financiers. Doubtless he had been told, as all young men" are told, thnt pull ruled in business and that unless lie had rich friends all his study of finance would do him but little good. But if he was told anything like that he didn't believe it. Somewhere within him was a confidence tha he was goinr to succeed, and succeed he did. Davison's life does not prove that every young bank clerk can grow' up into a Davison. It does prove, however, that ability can be made to count in this country if the man who is born with it is willing to back it up with energy and determination. WOULD no sweeter treasure knew From vour dear love than I can nit;. And in such peace as you bestow I pray for io to live. Star to rejoicing star shall move And flower on happv flower shall shine. But all the sorrows of our love Let tltcse be wholly mine. Yet this is treason. For I bear No prouder heart than is your otw. And you would scorn the love would sliare Delight and grieve alone. A little sample, from "Seeds of Time" (Houghton-Mifflin), of tho love John Drlnkwater can sine when he turns for a poet's moment from the problems that draw his graver moods. , ' The Folltencss of a Fengaln In his "Great White South" (Mo Bride), a book of Antarctic natur studies, Herbert G. Pontlng tells of an adventure in courtesy with a great Emperor Penguin, thus: As we approached he came for ward and bowed his head In greeting-, with a grace that a courtier might envy. We clumsily returned this salutation, whereupon hi" majesty made several more genu flexions. After this ceremonial he gazed at us; and then, advancing to within two yards, delivered a short speech in pon-u,In language, to which w endeavored to make appropriate replies. It was obvious that the comlalsant bird, never having seen our 9ike before, took us for fellow creatures and was extending to us a friendly greeting; but he appeared to bo much puzzled at our speech and hilarious demeanor. Though he must have thought u a set of dull-witted churls, as we) ojood there like yokels, in compari son with his perfect self-possession and faultless manners, making silly attempts to imitate him; yet this polished gentleman of the eternal snows exhibited no annoyance. He graciously began the whole formality over again, uttering a fur ther speech In soft, guttural ac cents, accompanied by more punc tilious bowing. A noble citizen St the Penguin Re public of 'Anatole France's wonderful tale. We co-uld wish that he might -uplift our New York with a school of cour teous deportment. In Tiolet lime A happy thought of spring by Gama liel Bradford, collected into "It Can Be Done" (Sully), a new anthropology of "Poems of Inspiration," by Joseph Morris and St. Clair Adams: The soutli wind is driving His splendid cloud-horses Through vast fields of blue. The bare woods are singing, The brooks in their courses Are bubbling and springing And dancing and leaping, The violets peeping. i'm ylad to be living, Aren't vouT MONEY TALKS By HERBERT BENINGTON. Copyright, 1022, (New York Evening World) by Prcs Publishing Comapny. INSURANCE. One of tho oldest and most popular methods of saving Is by life Insur ance. When a man takes out a policy he Is not only protecting his fnmlly against want but Is also establishing a "thrift fund" for himself. A 10,000 twenty-five-year endow ment policy, not entitled to pa :..' pate In the profits of the company, can be had for about 1340 a year If the insured Is In good health and un der forty. In twenty-live yeurs the premiums puld amount to aboit $6,500. When the final payment ' made the policy Is worth $10,000 cash. Should he die at any time during tt.? life of the policy his beneficiary re ceives (10,000 from the company. W1T0SE BIRTITDAYI MAY 20 ANTOINETTE LOUISA BROWN pLACKWELk was bom at Henrietta, N. .Y.. on the 20th day of May, 1825. As a child she was very religious and after receiving on ex cellent education at Oberlln she de elded to become a minister. But ehe was refused a license to preach, so she gave her attention to lecturing on both theological subjects and upon suffra- gism, of which she was an eminent advocate. Her fame as a speaker grew rapidly nnd soon she was In vlted to become the pustor of the Congregational Church at South But ler. Among her numerous workB nro "The Shadows of Our Social Sys tern," "The Sexes Throughout Na ture." "The Market Woman" and "The Physical Baals of Immoral ity." A House of Blissful Blighs-- Kroni Phyllis Bottome's novel, Th Kingfisher" (Doran), wo borrow this description of a right little, tight, llttl English household: Warren Manor was not a house In which accidents often happened. When tho village children had measles all the little Bllghs escaped It; they did not fall out of trees: nor get Into moral and physical difficulties over summer fruit. There was a certain amount of trouble in tho household caused by Mr. BUgh's ardent temperament; but Mrs. Bllgh managed to keep most of it to herself, and as Mr. Bllgh haO a tender heart, and al ways told her everything, she suc ceeded In steering him through the results of his blunders without dls- " aster. She had married him for love, and called him lrf her youth the Don Quixote of her dreams; but she was very careful to remove all the windmills in his vicinity. It Is Interesting to reflect how the harrov family Bllgh is separated from a possible family Blight by tho width only of u single crossed "i. m w Mrs. Austin's Sunday Dinner The neighbors, according to Berth Strceter's "Home Making simpli fied" (Harper's), are always wonder ing how Mrs. Austin manages always to be ready for her Sunday, company The lady explains: "Sh! I'll tell you my secret. I decide on Friday what I will haT and begin my preparations then. For instance, this week I made the pie crust and the salad dressing on Friday. Saturday I seared the meat and put it in the oven to roast; then I made the pie. and when that was done I turned off tho fire. I left the meat in the oven until It was cold, then 1 put it In the refrig erator. "When I prepared new potatoes for dinner last night I fixed enough for to-day. so all I had to do bo fore going to church was to boll them a few minutes and put them into the cooker. 'While I was wash ing the dishes this morning th meat was being reheated; then I put It Into the cooker. If you stop to think, the vegetables you have had hero on Sundays were either fresh and such as required little time for their preparation, or they were from my home-canned stock and required only reheating to pro pare them for tho table. "Salads, too. were generally of fruit and could be put together quickly In tho morning. Those hot rolls you like so well were bought of the baker yesterday. When I put tho meat Into tho oven to brown and keep hot the gravy Is made. I put the rolls In, too. Just as they ure In the bag, which I close tight at the top. By the time the vegetables are dished, the coffee and gravy made, they arc Ilk freshly baked rolls. That accounts for everything but the nuts and the bonbons, and those need only to be put Into dishes." Wu ask Mrs. Everyhouaewife If that doesn't sound perfectly, eaaj. i ) Iir inri i i'i i 'f y""H" i.