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| ! SERS Ty y mi SRN Same je GS FSTARLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Podtished Dally Except bongey the he] Bl ad Company, Nos. 63 to RALPH PULITZOR, President, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secret MEMRER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Ase! Prem cts ibtieation of all Aeevatee som ate rlnersted cried tn thie pater wod’'aiev te"local news publluhed bere VOLUME 60. cove eNO, 91,219 CAN THE LEADERS SETTLE IT? N THE first illuminative account of the steel strike to reach New York, The Evening World’s correspondent, Martin Green, makes plain: sh Lied (1) That inner conflict between radical and conservative ele- ments in the leadership of organized labor, the present stage of which finds William Z. Foster, syndicalist and former I. W. W., now a compelling voice in the executive councils of the American Federation of Labor and a chief directing force in the eteel strike. (2) The fact that it is not skilled English-speaking workmen who have gone on strike in the steel industry but mainly foreign laborers who, although they have been getting higher pay than they ever dreamed of, are easily persuaded by the professional agitator that such Srievances as they have can only be remedied by first shutting down and then seizing the steel industry. Corroborative testimony is found in the Iron and Stcel Institute report on the strike: Investigation shows that almost without exception the strikers are of @ nomadic disposition. Not a single record has been secured so far to show that a single home owner has gone on strike. We cannot find a single worker who owns stock in the corporation on etrike. There is no reflection in this on the foreign-born worker as such. Many alien toilers in this country have made themselves stanch ‘Americans and become the stoutest defenders of Americanism against insidious alien influences tending to disruption and anarchy. It is this latter type of foreign-born worker, no less than the native American workman, who has made the labor unions respected. It is the two types together who, after a long struggle, have made collective bargaining one of the recognized and accepted rights of labor. It is these two who have won labor much to which it was entitled and who can go on winning more without disorganizing industry, strangling production or striking at the order and security upon which ihe country’s prosperity—including that of its workers— depends. “ What is to become of this kind of workingman—native or for- éign—in the United States if irresponsible leaders seize control of his organization and convert it, with the help of the least intelligent, least self-respecting labor elements, into a dangerous, recklessly de- structive force? The American Federation of Labor, which finds itself manoeu- vred into a position where it is backing the steel strike, claims a membership of 4,000,000. Would it not claim also that a majority of those 4,000,000 are whose desire is to go on working and producing—contending, when necessary, for their just due—but with no thought of overturning the institutions of the country or of replacing the Federal Constitution with the charter of “one big labor union”? * Surely members of the American Federation of Labor stil] Tetain some power to say who shall lead them and whither, As between the more sane, patriotic leadership of a Gompers and the frankly revolutionary leadership of a Foster, organized labor in the United States is not a servile body without will or choice, The question who is to control organized labor and dictate its fature programme is a main issue in the steel strike. Upon the settlement of that issue may depend the further question whether industry in the United States is to remain free or to be handed over to dictators who have little use for the Consti- tation or indeed for any of the principles by which the Nation has #0 far progressed and prospered. * Between the leaders, the fight is on. ~ What about those who are to be led ? es Letters From the People Motormen Vs, Patrol the Ualitor of The Kveuing World I noticed in this evening’s issue of ‘The Evening World, under the cap- fon “Underpaid Cops Need Higher Wage, but No Unionism,” a letter from Patrolman,” in which he 8: ‘Some time ago His Honor the or expressed his sorrow for the their conditions. On April, 19 flatly refused ts permit their Ae oe ntatives to talk to him and walked Out of the room. And this after he had by letter over his own signature invited them to call upon him. This letter Js now in possession of the Brotherhood. After these motorm guards, conductors, switchmen, agent gatemen, porters, motive p 4 wer men Uaderpaid motormen, saying that they|4"4 shopmen were forced to take Were deserving more money, as they|™atters into their own hands, Ine ‘Were underpaid, and after a prear- cause the Mayor had refused to per Fanged strike the men were given a mit them to submit their © EDITORIAL PAGE | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1919 | Comprtaht., 191 by The Drom Pitbliahn (Lue Now York Eveoing B y J. H. Cassel Copyright. 1919 | | ‘The Prene Pubiia! | Helped which he is best remembered. In the first place, he resolved thus far been deprived. family to Americ How They Made Good By Albert Payson Terhune hing Co, (The New York Evening World). No. 99—ANDREW CARNEGIE, the Emigrant Boy. Who Humanity. EK had worked as handy-boy for a weaver and as ap- prentice in an iron foundry at an age when most youngsters are barely out of the nursery. For times were hard around Carnegies were a family of day nfembers must work, and work hard—even little Andrew, who had to sacrifice education for the sake of bread winning. ' When Andrew was eleven his father borrowed $50 to eke out his own savings and to bring his --* Presently the Carnegies settled neay Pittsburgh and Andrew got a mill job at $1.20 a week, and almost at once he prepared to make good along two lines by Dunfermline, to score a financial success. In the second, he planned to gain for himself the education of which he had He heard that a Col, Anderson had fitted out a library for the use of local mill-workers, negie was swift to take advantage of this opening. spare hour in studying the books he found there, and he profited by what He spent every a Scotland, and the borers, all of whose The world at large profited by it too. For Copyright, 1919, WOMAN in PX small estate and made her de- pendent daughter her sole heir, stating in her will, “My husband 18 absent without leave since the year 1905, and his whereabouts are unknown.” The story is told in theso brief words, ‘The woman has had to be the eh sole guardian of +e her child, And the Seniesa race that who has been able to leave that child some- thing is to her everlasting credit, This news’ item brings to mind the severul letters that have come to m recently about mothars who have been deserted by their husbands and left with the children in destitute circumstances, Many a woman does not know how to proceed in such instances and is loath to bring her family into the public prints by having her husband arrested, Many a aensitive soul has suffered endlessly rather than bring to the bar of Justice the father of her children, In answer to these various com- munications, 1 have looked into the matter and find that a new departure has been made from the regular method of proceeding in such cases in the District Attorney's office, Much of the responsibility is taken from the shoulders of the woman and in rare cases hay the husband been arrested a Wh } arbitrat bs mM ms to In order that these deserted women r cent, increase. en His ration, by calling what “A Pa-( and. chil ay undcrste o Rooor made his remarks was he not|‘olman” is pleased to tal a . Fos] and children Ter Pig rabAns thelr @ware that the same motorman were|fanged strike, His Honor indicated | 80% and that other women voters making a larger salary than elther|®iS friendliness by trying to show | ‘terested in the new methods de- the firemen or policemen without the|that they are guilty of every crime| vised affecting the welfare of their @% per cent. increase?” One of the|that His Honor's wonderful tinagina- tion is able to conceive. Horough President Dowling of Manhattan told the Interborough employees that he itves of the Brotherhood of Inte! eh Employees might well be pted by “A Patrolman.” “Never sex, I present the following brief de- scription of the efforts made in behalf of the women and children as ob- to get something at the expense of | Could not favor their proposition right| ted from the District Attorney's gome one cise." The motorman, who|or Wrong because “it is not good poll. | office, t spend several years learning| tics.” If municipal employeos and railway employees will vote as a unit we can make Justice to us darn good politics. “A Patrolman” #ays that a union js not necessary. Right if you vote right, I hope that “A Patrol. man” will continue his efforts to im. prove the conditions of his fellows without finding it necessary to com- plain because of the sucoess of other working men. Again assuring the po lice, firemen and all other city em- ployees our earnest wishes for the success of their efforts, 1 am, Very tuly yours, business, is not getting anything it does not belong to him. An in- ‘ice to patrolmen is not an argu- pt in favor of continuing an in- e to motormen. The motormen guards, whom “A Patrolman" are getting too much money, with all their hearts that the olman will get all he considers { worth, and we can produce signatures of 15,000 citizens to petition with this end in view the police or firemen may desire. motormen are not unger the im- whatever to i. .wve His Honor the “ayor * “Instead of its principal object being the arrest of the father charged with child abandonment, the bureau has the father arrested only as @ last re- sort and only after all other mediums have proved a failure, “A plan was put into operation for the handling of abandonment cases through the agency of the District At torney or Prosecuting Attorney of the county where the fugitive was located, requesting the authorities there to send for the man and advise him of ‘Husbands Absent Without Leave | By Sophie Irene Loeb | 7 by The Press Publishing Co, i loyal, level-headed Americans whose instincts are not predatory and Delinquent Fathers Forced to Assume Domestic Responsibilities by Abandonment Bureau. Brooklyn left a] suggest to him | the complaint made at this office and he defendant was indicted. A tele- | he read, Stud , in immortal Tah s celina Mle founded ow days. good books.” all over the country. | work. So he studied telegraphy. | Superintendent at $35 a month. | At sixteen he lost his father, | building of sleeping cars. | brought him $10,000, His career He had a genius for seeing mon: eeaperee borrow a good! capital for. jard. | by it. In spite of all advice to ‘And eventually he cleaned up | States, | future and of being ready for th not for money's sa fu » but for what | worthy causes. He did not fulfil | enormously rich when he died. But | thropy abopt $300,000,000. Carnegie | pr Carnegie said, many years later, in speaking of the had just Library system he just then, The boy's first step as head of the bereft little family was to persuade his widowed mother to mortgage her home for $500 and to invest the money in Adains Express Company stock, scraped together another $200, which he put into a new company for the ‘Not many years afterward this $200 investment a financial giant had begun, ey where nobody else could see it, and t such times he did not hesitate to throw his own funds into such ven- tures and to borrow all the cash he could to supple- ment the investment. For example, after he had Nore Investment $ aiready begun to win fortune he hazanded all his Yielded $10,000. 3 assets by putting $40,000 into a farm. He had to rer y share of this sum. the contrary, ho took the $40,000 haz- @ profit of more than a million dollars He had a genius, too, to foresee the marvellous future of steel, and | he mastered the best processes for steel making. As a result he rode on the very crest of the wave of steel prosperity which presently swept the United Always Carnegie had a mysterious faculty of reading the financial ture when it arrived. He loved money, it would let him do for mankind. He used to boast that he intended to die poor by parting with his wealth for this queer ambition, for he was still he managed to give away in philan- gram requesting his arrest was tor- | warded to the Cleveland authorities, | and immediately upon his arrest there his family grew anxious and submitted a proposition for the sup- port of the children, with the request that the warrant in Cleveland be withdrawn, “Lhe matter was finally settled by the defendant giving to his wife the (The New York Evening World) the advisability of making adequate provision for the support of his minor children, “He is also advised at that time that the crime of child abandonment 00 and execut! surety | Is @ felony,and untoss he shows a| "wm Of $900 and executing a surety swillines to provide property for |C2mPany bond in the sum of $1,000, rdprigslnn Meah thant bil ait | |guaranteeing the payment of $7.50 his minor children he may be indicted ; weekly for the support of his children by the Grand Jury, arrested and ex- tradited to this county to anawer the | Until they became eixteen years of | charge, age, the limit allowed by the law. joc After an examination and with the "The only section of our Penal Law | approval of the assistant in charge of referring to child abandonment 18 No. the Abandonment Bureau, a request 480, which reads in part, as follows: | was made to the Cleveland authorl- “‘A parent charged with the |ties to release the defendant, the care, &c., of a child under the age | matter having been amicably adjust- of 16 years, who abandons the |ed at this end. child in destitute circumstances, “It must be admitted that in the &c,, 18 guilty of a felony punishable | administration of this work the prob- by imprisonment for not more than |iem ig more difficult than appears on two years or a fine not to exceed | the surface, because of the social $1,000, or by both.’ questions connected with it. “The Abandonment Bureau, during “The offense is a public one, and the Administration of Judge Swann, | society is obliged to furnish support has been conducted along the above for this family. Unquestionably the lines and the system of co-operation | offender should be punished, but pun- with the District Attorneys of the va- | ishment is most times very diMcult rious counties in which the alleged | because of the private relations be- defendants were located has resulted |tween the man and wife. Although in @ large number of families being | desertion deserves severe punishment reunited, husbands and wives recon-|as an offense against the public, dt is ciled, and many fathers enabled to] primarily an offense against the fam- earn money for the support of their |{ly, whose interests are dependent up- children, instead of the old method of | on the welfare of the man. commitinent to prison, “For this reason punishment which “However, where \t has been found} might be proper for other crimes is that this method was not effective, | not suitable for child abandonment. If there has been no hesitancy on the man alone were to be considered part of the bureau to present the ca it would be proper to impose a jail to the Grand Jury and cause the ar-| sentence, but by doing this it simply rest and extradition of the defendant." avates and emphasizes the in- alae ; to the family, and regard A typical case of the bureau is as oho Hie tami, 600 fenetd follows; directed this office to a dif- ent course in the administration of Abandonment Bureau than is fol- d in other bureaus of the District Attorneys office where offenses are of a different nature, “The Abandonment Bureau has been guided, whenever possible, by meth- ods which will restore family rela. tions and benefit the family, while re- lieving society of the burden of pun- ishing the ofender, “The ultimate purpose is to oblige the offender to support his family properly, and it is in the light of these complex relations and influence that the Abandonment Bureau has adopted its advanced system of re- sorting to every possible means of having the defendant support his children, “it is only when the circumstances “Mrs, M, S, complained to this office that her husband deserted her and their two minor children in destitute circumstances. He was believed to be in Cleveland, 0, A communication | and photograph of the man were gent to the Chief of Police there, but the man could not be located, In the mean UUme the father and brother of the defendant wero sent for and questioned with a view to locating ‘him. ‘The family, however, were un- able to give any information and it was aranged that the defend- ant’s relations provide for the minor children, | that a person cannot buy a bottle of The Gay Life of a Commu Or Trailing the Bunch From Paradise. Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening Worl Introducing Sip-O, the New Soft Drink EWCOMER returned from his) time friends; he was particularly vacation last week and inci-|tentive to the new rector, who was dentally told of @ marvellous) the leader of the Anti-Suloon forces new soft drink recently introduced in| in Newcomer's native town. the West, known as Sip-O, also attentive to the new drink, Sip-O. His trip included @ visit to his old| Ife liked the flavor from the first and home town in Jowa, near the west | drank copiously, becoming more talk- bank of the Mississippi River, Iowa) ative as the dinner progressed, later has been a Prohibition State so long | getting voluble and finally relapsing into silence and a fixed stare. Bill Stunts, in order to impress New- comer with the merjts of Sip-O, had mixed it liberally with the old hard drink, “P, A. T."—Prohibition Anti- Toxin—which Newcomer had given him, and that was all Sip-O needed to run its voltage up to the nth power. When practically all the guests had bid him welcome in short addresses and the new rector had spoken feel- ingly of the reunion of old associates and hoped Newcomer was lead'ng a2 exemplary life so near the wicked metropolis, Newcomer wag called on for bis reply. As he arose, clutching the table for support, his friends attributed his unsteadiness to overpowering emo- tien, His eyes, instead of beaming pleasure, had the vacant star of the eyes of a dead mackerel, He had thought out his opening sentence carefully, and still remembered it. After wetting bis lips until they thought he would wear out his lemon extract without arousing susp!- cion, 60, as a mere matter of pre- paredness, Newcomer took along sev- eral bottles of the old 100 per cent. and made himself doubly welcome by distributing it among his old friends. His boyhood friends, especially those who had been rescued from the horrors of a Saharan thirst, decided to give him a dinner and, as ladies were to be present and the guests also included the new rector, it was decided that no one must drink any- thing to arouse a breath of suspicton, and there is nothing that will arouse suepicion out there as quickly as the breath, ‘The new rector was seated on New- comer’s left, while Bill Stuntz, the village cut-up, dare-devil and all round hellian of his boyhood days, who had licked the teacher and eet fire to the schoolhouse, acted as toast- master and sat on his right, In his younger day@ Bill had run a “high-toned" saloon, and later was suspected of keeping a “blind pig,” but he had reformed and was now in- troducing a new soft drink called Sip-O, which was the selected bever- ogo at the banquet in Newcomer's honor, Newcomer, naturally, was on his best behavior, He had thought out an eloquent and poetic speech, remi-| niscent of the old days; he wanted to make a good impression on his old~! tongue he began: “When I first saw the light of day it was from the western bank of this the old ‘Father of Waters,’ and bright sun rose in the beautiful v ley of the Ohio and set in the wit derness of Lowa." ‘Then Sip-O began to work and the next half dozen sentences were dis- connected and meaningless, Newcomer took a@ fresh start and How Our First Birds Looked. 1O-DAY the birds are all quite different than they were hundreds of years ago, Many, many years ago the first bird that was ever seen on earth was called the Archaeopteryx which Is a Greek word mean- ing “ancient wing.” It was a very odd bird. Jt had a long thick tall with ‘Later the police of Cleveland lo- | ated the defendant and notified this office, The wife was sent for and brought before the Grand Jury and are very aggravated that a man is ar- rested and convicted under the Aban- donment Act, and in such cases it is ed that the sentence to prison will ag a deterrent to others who are Uke mind,” bows of flesh and with feathers growing from it. It was not like a bird's tail {s now, but more like a lizard’s tail, It had two legn with which it could walk and perch in the trees, It also had two other limba like hands which it probably used to climb about the trees instead of fying from bough to bough as birds do now, Its eye wan fitted with a wort of armor shield, ag the reptile'’s. Its beak was armed with atrong teeth Of course there is no such bird an thin naw and jt in nol eurprining that such a bird should pass away. Even in tiene daya two or three strange birds have died out, Men have killed many birds and animale, ut In making the world what it now is, Nature has killed far more, been destroyed by earthquakes &nd floods. In time Nature changes all things and so she 4i4 the birds, White races of animals have He was | ter By Rube Towner |repeated: “When I first saw this old ‘Father of Waters,’" &c., but Sip-O countered on him and had bim hold- ing on to the table. The first two or three repetitions were painful, but after that when weomer came up at the beginning of the fourth, fifth, sixth and sev- enth rounds, each time with, “When I first saw this old ‘Father of Wa- ters’ "- Bill Stuntz led the wild | aughter and applause. The new rector’s face resembled u dolled lobster. ‘The ladies gazed upon \the orator with mingled sympathy and despair, If he would only quit; if he would only repeat that first sentence once more and sit down, But Newcomer felt that his reputa- tion as an orator was at stake. He made one last desperate attack on Sip-O: “I was in Iowa the year of the reat drought," Newcomer continued. “Phe horrors of the great American desert, the blazing suns of Africa, were nothing to it; we were parched and sbrivelied and the suffering was beyond description. It seemed as if we would all perish. And every day we went down to the banks of this old ‘Father of Waters’ and looked eagerly down stream for the add that had been promised us, and each night Wwe returned, saying Uke Enoch Ar- den, ‘No sail from day to day.’ But «ne morning, as we. watched in the last agony of despair, our eyes were sladdened and our hearts rejoiced at the sight of the old River Queen coming proudly up stream, with Capt. | Struthers up on the deck—coming to our relicf—with seven barrels of whiskey!) boat Bill Stunts gave the old town gang yell; the rector “beat it" after @ hur- ried excuse, and when the scandal. ized lady members had departka the guests voted Newcomer's speech the Kem of the evening, Newcomer, who is not yet wise, is negotiating with Bill Stuntz to tatres duce Sip-O in Paradise, —————___.. SCIENCE NOTES. Australian engineers have invented switches for use on railroads where three rails are laid to accommodate cars of different gauges, ove More than 151,000 tons of crude peat were produced in the United States [last ye xceeding the best previous jyear by about O6 per cent Ameri A process has been invented tm Australia for irrigating, aerating and fertilizing soil through perforated pipes laid in it without waste, He “When I began to get ahead in the world I was always able to trace back each advance to the reading I did in those mill What is why I have tried to make it easy for young people to read Thus it was that the germ of the Carnegie libraries was born—a germ (whieh was to develop into an educational blessing for millions of people Meantime, Andrew Carnegie had already taken the first step in his climb toward success, There seemed scant chance for advancement in his mill By applying himself with all his tireless energy to this new pursuit he presently became one of the most expert | operators in that region, As a result he got a position with the Division He was certain there was oil on the farm. Ot] was worth risking bis wt