The evening world. Newspaper, December 7, 1918, Page 10

Published Daly BRITAIN’S DAY. , HE place for every British flag in New York to-day is where it can be seen. This city it wanted to. But it can have a Londonish feeling as part of its hearticlt appreciation of what Britain’s Day means in tho cele- “bration of that great comradeship Sts supreme test in The War. “Americans are thinking to-day what the British Fleet has meant to America in helping to protect American lives in the mighty ferriage of this Nation’s troops across the Atlantic. They are thinking of British valor on sea and land displayed constantly during the fighting of the last four years—never more finely than in the face of heavy odds and at dark moments when was to hold the enemy in his onrush., They are thinking of the sacri- fiees Englishmen and Englishwomen have made and of the losses they mourn, The two great English speaking nations are very close together in their ideals of democracy, in the lines of their progress, in their) instinctive feelings, in their reasoned judgments. They share a noble heritage toward the guarding of which they share also an immense responsibility. Admiration for Great Britain comes as generously from American hearts to-day as did the cheers and praise for America’s soldiers from those gallant British veterans who saw with their own eyes the demon- stration of American fighting qualities on the battlefields of France. —_———— 1 . Would it not be friendly ‘to Mayor Hylan to point out to him that, inasmuch as, among other circumstances, the Federal ' Department of Justice has produced telegrams sent by von | @rnstorif to the Berlin Foreign Office thirteen months after the sinking of the Lusitania in which the Hearst organs are referred to as having “during placed themselves outspokenly on our sid on ell accounts to remove the name of Mr. W. R. Hi the head of a municipal committee specially appointed to wel- come returning American soldiers who land at this port? ‘The boys themselves might ances. They come from a job where they had to see in _—_—_—_—__———— ; TIME AND THE B. R. T. straight 1i HE B. R. T. receives with a T “Even though the war is market {s still congested. Preparing for tho advertising of the bids alone will take a month, &nd more time after that will have to be allowed for the bidders to make their estim: Time, time and always more whenever pressure exerted upon it for the improvement of its service develops what threatens to be compelling force. Why all this exaggeration of the time to be consumed by adver- tising, bids and estimates? What's to prevent the B, R. T. from placing orders at once for 250 new steel street cars of the pattern now in use? fications for this type of car are already available. tem years or ten weeks to get started on them. Call a sharp halt on this perennial B. R. T. practice of setting the lawyers to work and playing for time whenever it is ordered to provide rélief for the jammed and suffering public that has to use its lines. Cancel the B. R. T.’s long lease on time and give its passengers something better than far-off prospects and faint hopes. ee} Semana Thirty-eight persons killed by motor vehicles in the streets of Greater New York during the month of November! Is the biggest city in America and the most up-to-date city in the world powerless even to keep down the increase in the «+ number of victims of this modern Moloch? Letters “Let Other Tollers Be Heard.” ‘To the Wiltor of The Evening World: Your recent editorial “Let Other Toilets Be Heard,” with reference to the loudly-voiced protests of the so- called war workers who have had their munificent and largely overpaid salaries reduced or their overtime cut, was very good. Without wishing to detract in the Teast from the good work accom- Plished, still I venture to say that! Probably not one of these war work- ers gave up his previous position for amy other reasons the large wages paid or to escape military ser- vice, Mr. Gompers et al. notwithstanding, the wages of these men will come down, and the sooner these war work- era become “peace workers,” turning out peace products instead of muni- tions, even if at lowered wages, the better it will be for every one, them- selves included. Then, and not tli than Except WOnSeE 02 the, Frees Fubisning Company, Nos. 63 te MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ! ey eo ee Court mandamus requiring it to comply at once with the long- standing order of the Public Service Commission and ffnine- diately purchase for operation on its sutfa Before the war’, when new cars could have been readily obtained, the B.'R. 'T. evaded the order by appealing to the courts and getting it repeatedly sidetracked. During the war “market conditions” served as an excuse. -Now the B, R. T. lawyer pleads: From ries to war workers in peace tlines. then, will the rent, food, clothing and fuel profiteers be obliged to cut off théir war profits. ‘We who have struggled througn these lean war years on peace salaries and Bought bonds and thrift stamps until {t pinched, don’t propose to go om Being overtaxed to pay fat sala Saturday, “EDITORIAL PAGE Decemb r7, 1918 ——' . JOSEPH PULITZER, - Honor t iaied"bern couldn’t look like London even if in trial and conflict which has mot the most that could be hoped for the course of the war always | it might be wiser | ‘st from not understand or make allow- characteristic whine the Supreme es 250 new steel cars. over, the car manufacturing How time is the plea of the B. R. 'T.; RUSSIA had leaped Frederick the Gre dethroned Kalser a as murderously sel A brains, Plans and speci- Frederick had It doesn’t need ous power, After Then he inflicted heavy defeats, and forced vineible than before, In 1806 Russia and Prusela and against him. Napoleon made use of united front against him, th e P eop le the same move he later attempted in $ i then failed, | ne He attacked Prussia before Russia could come to her ally's aid. 1807, it worked perfectly, Great | By Albert Payson Terhune Copsrixt, 1018, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wo 9.—-NAPOLEON’S WAR WITH PRU: yITA, to Importance through the genius of at—a man as unscrupulous as the nd as greedy for world dominion and fish, but with fifty times the Kaiser’ fought and brived and tricked und bullied himself into fame, and his country into danger- | his death Prussia still continued io profit by his conquésts and frauds. came the period when flashed like a red meteor across the political sky, sweeping everything before him. @ diazgy pinnacle of greatness. He smashed one rival nation after another. Alliance after alliance was formed against him. But for years every one of these alliances was powerless to check him. On each and all of thew Napoleon Bonaparte He raised France to peace treaties that left him more in. one or two other nations combined his favorite trick in this brief but bloody war. He gave his foes no chance (to get together and present a It was the Waterloo campaign, and which But against Prussia and Russia, in At Jena and at Auer- 1 am not a Socialist or @ cmautead | Napoleon Attacks } stadt he met Prussia’s mightiest armies. And but just an 13, Pru he outgeneraled and outfought them, wrecking enn AMERICAN WORKMAN, Brooklyn, Dec. 4, Weald Honor B: face the Russian armies, which were Friedland (June 14, 1807) he not only the alliance against him, He did t jain for Her Part War. Breaing World To the Miitor of Prassia’s power, and entering Berlin in triumph. As goon as Prussia’s strength was broken, Napoleon wheeled about to rushing to Prussia’s assistance, At thrashed the Ruysians but destroyed his latter by mingling flattery and Apropos of “Britain's Day” it 18] Lwery and terrorizing of the Russian Czar at the Tilsit peace conference, well for all men of magnanimous) acing the Czar to abandon the beaten Vrussians, spirit to pause for moment and give ‘Phen Napoleon proceeded to inflict peace terms on Prussia which expresuion to that fair meed of pralve| svi ey out that nation, In after life Napoleon loudly blamed himscif which cannot be denied to the peo- ple across the sea, The significance of Britain's con- tribution to the war will never fade; our children and our children’s chil- dren will contemplate the story with | wonder and admiration and will be! IN iNew York to Become Diamond Centre| EW YORK CITY during the war hus become one of the world’s | great centres of the diamond | +The United States now buys | uplifted and inspired thereby, One may hardly choose any single factor | entering into that mighty epic for) trade. special mention—it {s all so consist- |tmowt the entire output of the South ently glorious and immortal, Perhaps! African diamond mines, whicb supply it may be admissible, however, to!95 per cent. of the world’s diamonds. recall here a few words from one of | Several diamond cutting factories the utterances of Lloyd George, |havy been established in New York words that convey to the open mind} and large numbers of cutters are the true index of the strength and! focking here from Antwerp and Am- humility of British character, Said | sterdam, which formerly held pract!- this God-given leader and inspirer cally a monopoly of the diamond cut- of his people: “We are scourged fol tee industry. an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things that matter} The diamond headquarters of the for nations—the great peaks we had | West are in Chicago. It is said more forgotten, of honof, ‘duty, patriotism cut and uncut diamonds are housed acle sacrifice point- % ing like a rugged finger to heaven,” jio the Columbus Memorial Building In honoring Britain We do credit to !” Chicago than in any one building ourselves, w. tT. in the world, Canada’s | 6-Mile Tunnel Will Pierce Rockies HE Simplon tunnel, the iongsst railway tunnel in the world, was completed in 1905, It is 121-2 miles in length, and gives France and Switzerland direct communication by | rail with Milan, Italy, The Simplon tunnel, however, is destined to lose its supremacy when (he great Cana- dian project of piercing the Rocky Mountains at Kicking Horse Pass is completed. ‘The eastern portal of this tunnel, sixteen miles in length, wil be in Alberta, and the western ond in British Columbia, It will be about $1-2 miles longer than the Simplon, One of the most wonderful railway tunnels in the world is the Trans-An dean, in South America, which was epened in 1905, It affords direct rail communication between Argentina and Chili, It is only fly les in length, but it surpasses all others in altitude, being 12,000 feet above sa level. for his folly in neglecting to dumand also the overthrow of the Hohenzollecn But, at the time, he overlooked this vital step, and thus gave Prussia a chaneo to rise again. Nevertheless, the peace terms which he imposed on his whipped foe were so severe as to amaze all Europe. Perhaps that was because Na- poleon had the sense to understand the need of destroying Prussia, and the rest of Kurope had not yet learned that lesson, By the terms Napoleon forced (upon thé present Wilhelm’s ancestor) Prussia was shorn of a full half of her territory—including much that she had wrongfully snatched from weaker nations during the campaigns of | Frederick the at, All of Prussia, west of the Kibe, was turned over to Napoleon's vassals Out of this tract he formed the new kingdom of Westphalia and gave it to his younger brother, Jerome Bonaparte, zollerns in the second and third partitions of Poland, were now formed into a duchy, which went to one of Napoleon's allies. A goodly slice of the Prussian frontier was piven to the Czar as part payment for the latter's desertion of Prussia, The city of Dantzig was also made “free.” In addition to this, the Prussian Army was cut down to a minimum, and everything possible was done to turn the once powerful kingdom into a helpless and harmless realm, Nupoleon had done much, But he had not done enough, ten years afterward, Prussia had recovered from the ruin so far as h tfirned the tide of batue against France at Wavagleo. monarchy. | and relatives, Prussia Loses Territory. Orr) For, less than ply the army wi ‘The lands, grabbed by the Hohen- | No War Likely Employers and Employees; ‘War Too Unprofitable The Associated Manufacturers and Merchants of New York State comprises 1,856 firms and corporations in its membership, who repres sent 75 per cent. of the manufacturing capital of the State, with a total investment of approximately $1,250,000,000, The membership gives em- ployment to 400,000 males and 100,000 femates, or one-third of the 1,500,000 wage-earners of the State, That is the question I Unhesitatingly, my reply is: I do And I am basing my opinion on kind in the country. to spite its face. It is unprofitable. or irresponsible utterance. If there are émployers in the United States who are inclined to believe that the ending of the war means op- portunity to seize an advantage, I do not know them. Certainly I know of none in New York State I cannot get excited regarding this situation because of the practical |facts that confront us. There is ab- jsolutely nothing to go to war about except the question of wages. And that question has been with us dur- {ing all the one hundred and forty- two years that we have been a Nation, and it will be with us to the end of the journey. With variations we ‘have heard the same thing we now (hear, over and over again, with and | without the impetus of national high ltension. And always the solution was reached in the natural, common- sense way, without war or even the {rumblings of war. Speaking tor New York State, 1 can say that one former controversial point has been forever climinated, 1 refer to that delectable morsel with whick orators were wont to sway audiences—“conditions of labor.” No matter how much an employer in New York desired to revert to condi- tions which existed to a greater or less extent years ago he could not do so, The health, safety and comfort of employees are securely guarded by laws which are more comprehensive than in any other State in the Union, and I never have heard an employer cbject to the principle underlying those laws, though considerable at- tention has been given to perfecting the practical details and the admin- istration of the laws, It will be ob- vious that there can. be no contro- versy here, “Hours of labor” is merely « pi.rase, There is statutory limit to the bours which women and children ma. work, and for adult male labor it means an instrument for measuring the stze of the pay envelope. For the employer it is an economic problem to be solved as his production necessities |demand, So that it 1s actually only @ phase of the question of wages. ‘The question of wages must neces- |sarily be solved with two things in mind. ‘There may be other things to consider, but the points I consider of primary importance are, first, the ex- tent to which the industries can use labor in the reconstruction; second, the cost of living. There is no disposition on the part ‘of the great mass of employers to pay ‘less than a living wage. Neither is |there any disposition on the part of employers to support drones. Indus- ‘The By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1918, by The “ras Publisting Co. | the democracy for which he fought, (The New York Eyening World.) and for which he had given his life. N angwer to an article I wrote 00 | who to-day doubts his loyalty to the the reconstruction period a col-| ag or his valor as @ soldier? In the ored woman writes to me 8! iaunching of every Liberty Loan and follows: | Stamp Drive, colored Americans have “You have made | made records for themselves and its meaning 80 | their Government, | broad that every wwhen the colored soldier returns citizen can help to to his home in the South, will he again be subjected to the same in- dignities? Will ‘his civil rights still | be denied him, or will he too receive | the welcome the other heroes will re- a large extent in this great work, “I wish that you had contributed a clause in your ar- | ceive; will this recohstruction do for mescep ticle that would| nim what it will do for his white have referred particularly to the col- | otner; will it enlarge his opportun- ored citizen of our United States. | i+, 9 develop and fill the place God jenerally speaking, he is classed AS | Lust have had in mind when He citizen, yet here in the North he i8|tveateq him? often set apart, and especially 80 In| ""wr Go hope, dear Miss Loeb, that the South. Here in the North he gets | Joy will write something which will all his civil rights, but color prejudice closes many opportunities to him. “Every race has its bad and we are just as ashamed of our bad as any | other race of people, I have lived in the South and I know what it means to be subjected to indignities, dis- | courtesy and insult, help my people.” This woman's certainly intelligent plea is worthy of earnest reflec- ever in the history of the world has the colored race played its part |with such heroism as on the fields of battle in France, Many a mar- “When the United States entered! vellous incident has been recalled by the war the negro took his place be-|the leaders. Reporters have come side his white brother and fought for|from the other side and gloried in world democracy in spite of the fact|the recital of the noble work done that in the South he did not anH97'| the colored race. Returning Colored Soldier While the new day is dawning and we are preaching democracy in the day of brotherhood—let us practise it, Let us give opportunity to the colored soldiers ,who return. Reconstruction means in their di- rection as well as in the case of his white brothers. As I stated in the other article ali reconstruction comes right down to the individual, There can be no real reconstruction in the world’s work unless the individual plays his par- ticular part. Playing his particular part means {giving the chance rather than char- | ity. | back and seeks work of you, Mr, Em- When the colored soldier comes ployer, squelch your possible preju- dice for his color and say to yourself, “He fought for me while I remained at home, He took the chance to die. Is it not up to me to give him the chance to live, the chance for liveli- hood?" All any honest man of any color or creed wants is this opportunity to make his way. It does bappen that sometimes because of his color he does not get a job as readily a¥ his white brother, No better time than the present to reflect on the fact that God made us all. The color line should certainly never be drawn to the strangling point, if the world would surely be \ fe for democracy, employers of the United States and their employees?” | I know that the time has passed when industry will bite ymgern Zine & Between By Carleton A. Chase. President Associated Manufacturers and Merchants of New York State.- Copyright, 1948, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World.) ‘ TS you believe there is an industrial war impending between the am asked to answer, not. the experi I have gained during the two years that I have been the head of the Associated Manufacturers and Merchants of New York State, the largest State organization of its off its nose From my observation of organized labor I am led to believe that it is guided by a sound common sense which will not be overturned by impulse If there is danger in the situation which we are facing it will not come from either organized labor or organized employers. | that voiceless element which is sullen in prosperity as well as in adversity land for which another element professes, without authority, to speak. It will come from try will employ such labor as it needs and I believe will pay it a Mving wage. What will happen to those who do not fit into the scheme is an- | other problem which we have before and which has been solved. will be solved again. This brings to the first point of the reconstrac- tion and its effect on industry. I do not intend to go into that except to say that I have faith in the good sense of the business men of the United States and equal faith in the food sense of substantial workmen (who comprise the majority) who will go serenely on their way unwor- ried and unexcited by the public dif- ferences of earnest ledders whose chief fault is overzeal, For four years the Associated Man- ufacturers and Merchants and the New York State Federation of Labor have lived in amity. We have brought those problems which we had in common to a common table and we have laid our cards face yp and talked it out. Of course, we did no’ always agree; wo did not expect il But we have had that measure of success which emboldens us te con- tinue, and when we do not agree wa do not fly at each other's throat or bear malice. We hope for better luck next time. I do not need. to tell any thinking man what that has meant for the in- dustries of New York State, and also for the men. Friendly co-operation can lead only to one thing—sooner or if later wo will reach the place where we can agree. The attitude of As- Sociated Manufacturers and Mer- chants iy typified by its recent action: indorsing the principle of a Mving wage for women and children and declaring, In favor of a Minimum Wag» Commission which would be representative of the employer, the employee and the public. IT am not a béliever jn mawkish sentimentality, nor is the association of which I have the honor to be tho head, Manufacturing and mercantilo enterprises are built on practical, fundamental facts which must be taken Into account in considertog any Problem that concerns them, Abso~ lute, impartial and unbiased justico all we ask, and I feel free to say, even at the risk of being misinter- preted, that we are prepared to fight anything that threatens to deny us Justice, j And there lies the answer to all this talk which has been brutted about since the armistice was mado @Fective, and also the basis upon which we must reconstfuct—justica for business, justice for labor and justic: for that third party in inter. est, the public, Of course, conditions have changed, They have been changing since 1176, And cach time we have readjubied ourselves sensibly and, in the end, satisfactorily, There will be petty bickerings here and there; they aro unavoidable. But I bave no fear of any extended conflict between em- ployers and employees, because neither one of us can afford it. ‘The big task will be to maintain the bal- ance until such time as even the smallest of us is able to see that there is plenty of room, Plenty of business and plenty of opportunity for all of us to Jive and Prosper, Stop the talk about industria! wai, Be sensible, —_—— PRUSSIAN STYLE? VERY estamable widow in Ger- A mantowg, Philadelphia, ts the mother of a son who has given her much trouble, “Tam afraid,” said a friend one day, “that you are not firm enough with him.” 7 “On the contrary,” said the mother, “I sometimes fear that I am much too harsh.” “Indeed!"" “Oh, I don't mean to say,” the fond mother hastened to explain, “that I have really taken any summ: ace Hone Dut I have talked to him « great i) dt .