The evening world. Newspaper, November 1, 1919, Page 14

_ control of the coal mines had been busy not in vain among the soft te Ee Curnnirg IT WAS TIME TO SETTLE IT. 0 A TRIAL of strength between the Government of the United ‘ States and the present leaders of the United Mine Workers of America there can be but one issue. The Federal power is stil] sufficient to deal with any leadership of labor which attempts ‘to put itself above the Federal courts. 1 Whatever happens to the President of the United Mine Workers ‘and his associates, the last cry that can be raised is the cry of injustice and oppression. These men, who professed to speak for the miners and their interests, were given every assurance that the latter would have prompt, impartial consideration. To that end the President of the United States himself offered appoint at once a tribunal.” All that was required of the miners was that they should not carry out the plan of paralyzing the industrial life of the country by cutting short the production of bituminous coal. Fven the injunction issued yesterday by the Federal District Court at Indianapolis restraining all strike activities of the United Mine Workers of America was asked by the United States Government not to prejudice the rights or claims of the miners but solely to pro- toot the people of the United States from an undeserved, unjustifiable blow threatening their welfare, No. Union officials who have professed to act for the miners in all matters bearing on the echeduled coal strike have laid bare by their own actions the real nature and motive of the strike. By refusing justice they proved that what they were after was not justice. By evading a fair investigation of the miners’ claims inder the auspices of the United States Government they showed they were looking for something other than equitable adjustments and ewarde. CCl | Tnstigators of the coal strike, backed up against the’ wall and offered the justice they pretended to seek, have given a sinister and significant revelation of the kind of purpose that underlies much of labor's present reaching after what it is careful to call in public “fair play.” Is it “fair play” when professiona] representatives of labor ect out to get from a given industry, not the wages impartial inqui might decide the industry should pay, but the wages labor can wring from it by taking it by the throat and forving terms before arbitration in the economic interest of the community can utter a word? Is it “fuir play” for worker to say to employer: * “To hell with what justice might rule you ought to pay me. What I mean to have now is what, by holding up you and the public, I can MAKE you pay me, before justice gets a look in at all.” In the case of the coal strike we are careful to speak of union leaders and representatives of the United Mine Workers of America as distinguished from the miners themselves. It was by no poli ttuken among the latter that the strike of 400,000 workers in the soft eoal mines was ordered. Thousands of miners have declared them- pelves ready to go on working if the Government will protect them. That protection is assured. The number of miners in the soft coal fields who stay on the job will afford some measure of the unwar- ranted extent to which a radical element of organized labor speaks these days in the name of those it has intimidated. Tt had become plain enough that agitators working for Soviet coal miners and in the councils of their organization. Here as else- where the radical element was quite capable of rushing conservative leaders off their feet and creating a labor situation which is really @ struggle within a struggle. : The Government of the United States, acting through the Federai courts; bas declared that in any case this struggle shall not cost the country untold harddhip and loss by tying up bituminous coal production at the beginning of winter. That declaration will be backed with all the force needed. The President’s proclamation restoring the authority of the Fuel Administration over coal prices is, at the same time, a warning that the situation will present no opportunities for profiteering at the public’s expense. Tt was high time to settle the all-important question: Which is the stronger: , The sovereign power of the people of the United States exerted for its own protection, or . The power of a radicalism that now creeps up behind organized labor ul) over the country trying to persuade it that loyulity is stupid, herd work ridiculous, contracts mere “scraps of paper,” arbitration joke, the general welfare not worth considering, and American insti- tutions themselves of small import compared with the allurements of ‘a Bolshevistic state in which liberty becomes license to grab? The coal strike challenges a test. Of the result there can be no doubt. Newest Notes of Science @haracters for the biind to read, a Wrenchman has invented a typewriter ‘with a standard keyboard that can be ‘used by a person ignorant of Braille. A Gouth Dakota inventor has pat- ented a device that enables photo- jc plates to be loaded into hold- ‘or removed and developed in day- which faust be placed together to form ts number, preventing mistakes causyd by checks with similar num- bere, Japanese have developed a process whereby silk worms can be cultured ten times a year instead of twice, as Detter silk produced. ~y “Great Scott!_He Likes to Work!” Te res Way Telephone rvice.” Brooklyn, Oct. 31. To the Editor of The Evening World: In reply to Mr. Hartridge in regard to another telephone company, I gues: he did not look into the matter 0’ two companies being more expensivi and wor: rvice, as he would be| compelled to have lines and instru- ments of both companies in order to reach ali of his friends or customers. | Some would be on one company's) lines and the balance on the lines of the opposition company, and the two companies would not be likely to be! connected together, 1 understand that people tried to organize an op- position company several years ago. Many people were interested and signed contracts, and when they found out that they would have to have another equipment installed the downtown business houses fought hard against it, as they could not be inconvenienced by having two switeh- boards and outfits. The time they would lose hunting up their custom- ers in two books was too valuable, I think if Mr. Hartridge would think this over a while he will have a little more patience. Jc. F. a Daties of the Drag Clerk. New York, Oct. 30. ‘To the Baitor of Tho Brening World: While I do not believe in strikes, if they can be avoided, I do think that the public would benefit more than it would suffer by a strike of the drug clerks, Prescriptions must be prepared with great skill, and can- not be thrown together in any sort of way. The profession of pharmacy, under the present conditions, 1s dwindling to nothing, and if it is lost entirely the public will suffer greatly. The organization of those in the ranks Is necessary to’ keep it from annibilation, DRUG CLERK, Local 326, Is Here! New York, Oct. 31, ‘Te the Wiitor of TRe Brening Work: ‘What is the law in regard to steam heat and hot water in apartment houses? On Oct, 20 the furnace was Kindled and the hot water stove lighted, Dut we can get neither heat nor hot water. And yet our rent has been raised $96 a year in two years, Incidentally, our ‘landlord, who ts hardly able to read and write, has not deen in this country ten years, A DISGUSTED Win NANT. ‘The following letter has been sent to the Board of Estimate: May I ask#in behalf of my organ- teachers, as provided in the budget, is nadequate to meet the needs of the present critical times? In my own ase, out of a raise of $166.67 my land- ord will receive $120.00, the State neome tax $1.67, the Teachers’ Re- | tirement Fund 95.01, the car com- panies (for a two-cent transfer privi- lege) $8,00—leaving me less than three cents apiece per day for my wife, each of my two children and myself, to meet the increased cost of living. This will just about enable me to buy an egg or a quart of loose’ milk, if prices do not mount still higher. You will probably refer me to the budget request approved by the Board of Education, which was based upon the State law which fixes min- ima that the Board of Education in- terpreted as maxima. The teachers of the city will be loath to believe that the Board of Eaucation would not have asked the same considera- tion that policemen, firemen and street cleaners are receiving, had it) known that the Board of Estimate was disposed to be considerate of} city employees, even at the expense of a heavy budget. It must be known to you that many of the teachers, particularly those of the “non-agitator” type, failing to get adequate relief eltner from the State Legislature or the local authorities, have simply thrown up their hands in despair, If we make a noise we are agitators, but we get a few cents; if we keep a respectful silence or po- litely petition, what may we expect? Is it too late to make decent pro- vision for all teachers this coming year? Is $250 increase per year too large? Yours truly, JACOB THBOBALD, Representative of the New York City Teachers’ Association in the Matter of Salaries. A Sugar “Substitute.” New York, Oct. 31. ‘To the Editor of The Brening Work: I have been to at least twenty places on Columbus Avenue and have been unable to get any sugar. It has been this way for the past two weeks. Last Saturday one grocer tried to sell me what he gald was “a substitute for sugar, put out to meet the de- mand.” It was @ pint can of sugar syrup,.and I paid 36 cents for it, One of my neighbors managed to get a half pound, but she paid 12 1-2 cents for it. A WORKING WOMAN. _FAMOU **Sacharissa”’ Dorothy Sidney, the “Sacharissa” of Edmund Waller's (Cavalier Poet) perfect and impassioned verse, was born in 1620, In the year that the Pilgrims climbed into the Mayflower, the lovely girl who shone as a lily in ization, for an expression of opinion— if you feel 90 disposed—as to the jus- tice of the plea that 10 qpnts a day reise in salary for large pumber of & quarrelsome and corrupt age first saw the light. She was one of the brightest ornaments of virtue in the Court of Charles I. The eldest of e.ght daughters of the Han of Lai- ee LITTLE while ago I wrote an JN pea in these columna “A Plea for the Shut-In.” It brought many letters from those reeking to inter- est the well and strong, who could go out dur- ing the summer into the cool woods and sooth- ing streams “to commune with nature and her visible forms” in ones who Boonie Lone behalf of unfortunate could not. And now that the “Shut-Ins" will be more shut in than ever, I am greatly impressed with a letter from the National President ‘of the Flower and Fruit Guild, Mrs, John Woods Stuart. Its Vice Presidents comprise several good people including Jane Addams, It reads as follows: “I am taking the liberty of bring- ing to your attention the work of the National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild, an organization with a record of twenty-five years’ service among shut-ins, the poor and sick of the tenements in our great cities. “Brought into existence ‘by, the realization of a craving and hungry multitude for the beauties of nature and the comforting and cheerful in- fluence of plants and flowers upon dark and saddened lives, the guild has carried happiness and cheer into tenements, dwellings, hospitals and other institutions by a well system- atized plan of distribution of plants, flowers, fruit, jelly and window boxes. Window Boxes for Invalids, “This year, we have had many ap- peals for window boxes for shut-ins, for invalids and for old people who WOMEN | coster, she had in her veins the noble blood of the Peroys', her mother be- ing the daughter of the ninth Ea: of Northumberland. Waller was bh ardent suitor, but the young lady de- clined his addresses. She, gentle and virtuous; he wild and gifted and dissolute. His poem to “Sacharissa” is one of the gems of English litera. ture, “Sacharissa” married the Harl of Sunderland. Waller cursed, and |tore up the earth, and vowed anathe- mas on her, These latter are amus- ang, for they never came trua, wv rom Evening World Readers A Window Box For the Shut-In Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) Flowers Minister te the Soul—Bringing Joy and } | Brightness Into Lives of Suffering. | ‘ork Evening _ World, By Sophie Irene Loeb cannot leave their homes, requests for many more than our limited treasury permits. The cost of each window box is $2. compared with the amount of comfort and happiness it brings to the re- | | cipient, ‘ “Would you be willing to make this particular form of ministry for the shut-in the subject of one of your articles, as a sort of sequel to-your beautifully written ‘Plea for the Shut-In,’ and suggest to your read- ers that the guild will be happy to.r ceive cohtributions for this purpose and to see to it that each $2.25 re- ceived materializes in the miracle of flowering plants in every darkened home it can reach? Your interest to this extent would have our heartfelt | gratitude and would be an inestime | ble service to the cause of the shut- in, and to those whose hearts never know the thrill of the ‘cool woods and soothing streams,’ " What more can one add to such an appeal? During the summer his or- ganization in New York City alone distributed $11,125 bunches of flowers, 4,686 bulbs and potted plants, 35: bushels fruit and vegetables, 12,525 specimens of nature material to chil- dren in school, 1,520 packages of seeds, 1,488 glasse: of jelly, 180 pints | of grape juice; 717 window boxes were placed in tenement homes, The expenses are kept at a mini- mum, The greater part of the ad- ministrative work is voluntarye Flowers Bring Happiness. Therefore, these good people seek our volunury aid in the fine work they are performing. How little we are prone to think, in our busy, bustling existence, of those unfor- tunates who constantly look out through a window at bricks and mortar and fire escapes and without a single softening influence coming before them in that vision, Just what.a window-box means, a few plants that grow for them and which give so much joy, is only known to those who suffer and have & sordid existence. With just a little we can play such a big part. I hear so many women say they would like to do something, they would like to get active in char- itable work and civic betterment, Surely here is something, that is so simple, so straightforward, so far- reaching, In a word, the object is to carry brightness into such lives. Kind- hearted persons in the country have an opportunity to share with the leas fortunate the surplus of their flowers, fruits, vegetables and jelly. They sum it all up in this pointed sentence: “Food and clothing minister to the needs of the body: flowers minister to | Maxims, of a By Marguerite ’ Mooers Modern Maid Marshall by The Frese Publishing Co, (The New York Eventus World.) ROADWAY “gold diggers” are footloose prospectors. But a wife sinks all her capital in one mine—and often it’s only a “pocket” poorly lined, { A woman looks for the Fountain of Youth in a drug store, but a man is wiser—he knows it sparkles in every new love affair. The only thing crosser than a man with one aching tooth is a man with two aching teeth. “There's a woman like a dewdrop, she's so purer than the purest,” sang Browning. Yet he died too soon to see one of our female uplifters of the universe. Playing around with somebody else's husband is never playing safe, “The gods gave the world to any woman,” says Lord Dunsany. If they ever did, they were Indian givers. Marriage is a leap in the dark, and sometimes you land on a bed of roses, _, 4 sometimes on sharp-pointed stones. ad The three most evanescent things in life are the dew on grass, the sparkle of an epigram and the glory of first love. Question: Can any woman keep a secret? Answer: Can any MAN? Why is the American husband so averse to paying his wife compliments? She would rather have them than candy—and they come so much cheaper these days. Of course any woman can marry any man she WANTS; the trouble nowa- days is to find one worth wanting, Count that day lost whose low-descending sun Views in this town no witless strike begun. How They Madé Good By Albert Payson Terhune P Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) ' No, 99—Julius Caesar, World Conqueror. ULIUS GAPSAR started out with the modest intention of malig, himself master of the known world. And he did it.’ He was the son of an impoverished old Roman family and with a reputation for dissolute liv- ing. After dabbling in politics and warfare, plunging into many dissipations and undergoing a series of dime-novel adventures he came to this decision to master the world. And he wasted no more time before starting to put it into effect. In looks he did not suggest anything very heroic. He was little, thin, bald, hook-nosed and was subject to fits of epilepsy. But he had @ flaming ambition and a genius that overbore all obstacles. i Firet building up a powerful political faction at + Rome and putting himself at its head, he turned his attention to the swarms of barbariuns in nearby countries who we! fore ever clashing with their Roman neighbors. Among these were the Gauls (French), the Helvetii (Gwiss), the Bel- gians and the Germans—a mighty. horde of fierce and hardy men. With a small anny of Roman veterans Cacsar set forth to subdue these barbarians. For eight years he battled against them—conquering them in open fight and by strategy and by diplomatic skill. He crossed the English Channel with his legions and made Britain a Pe maenere Homan province. Nothing could withstand his ; advance. srevere iene i This unbroken string of victories and con- Roman Province. quests and annexed territory arid wealth made Cmmmmmmnrnrnrr"9 — Caosar the idol of the people, But the same suc- cesses stirred up against him a host of political enemies, who envied his triumph and who feared his ambition. Caesar's own son-in-law, Pompey, was at the head of this hostile fac- tion. Pompey had seized the reins of power at Rome, and he feared lest Caesar might tear them from his hands. ° So Pompey wheedled and threatened and bribed the Roman Senate— as Caesar began his homeward march—to bid the conqueror resign his command and to come home as a private citizen, Should Caesar refuse to obey and to submit himself to this cruel dis- grace, sentence of death or of exile was to be passed upon him. Caesar got word of the order just as he reached the Rubicon River, which formed the boundary of Roman soil, If he should obey he must leave his veteran troops here and go orf to Rome, humbly, as a mere ser- vant of the Senate to yield himself into the hands of his enemies and to see ‘his career smashed forever. Should he disobey he was an outlaw. Should he lead his legions across Owners the Rubicon into Roman territory it would be an p Meee Daggers ¢ act of war against the Senate. His whole future hung on his act. He took Ended Career. 3 his choice of the various evils and decided at once ——errs on his course of action. He crossed the Rubicon with his army and bore down upon Rome Pompey and his other foes, at news of the popular hero's approach, fled for their lives. And the Roman people received Caesar with open arms. Nothing henceforth could oppose him. He continued his conquest of the known world. In a very few years he had made good on his soaring ambition, He was master of the civilized earth. It is thought he might have gone a step further and have given him- self the title of King—changing Rome from a republic to an absolute monarchy, with himself as its ruler, But the dangers of assassins cut short his career before he could wreck its glory by this unpopular act. ‘ nthe ectaedidbe lth Ell il Medi se oll, The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Rvening World.) Mr. Jarr Is to Have a Party— A Prohibition Party [I ETI Te A SOS EE eS Ore | 66X70U never remember my silver wedding, 1 could take some of birthday, but I always re-|'¥ rich women friends to where that mber yours,” remarked | “Ver set was and say—it would be member yours, “ just during a shopping trip together, Mrs, Jarr, the other evening. “I am,|and they wouldn't suspect-—and say: tnerefore, reminding you that next | I’m just dying to get that solid silver ‘Thursday eet, Be its $600!" And I could take ” another friend with means that 8 “Oh, 1 know, I know!" interrupted | way past wl eans that same “put a birthday isn't any | w et where the silver chests ac ton 1 saw a beautiful set in a ches novelty after you're over twenty-| all grape and leaf design—and then a five. week or so later, when they get our handsomely engraved cards to our sil- ver wedding they would be re- minded” “But our silver wedding is a long way off and we don't know any rich ople, and perhaps won't know any then,” said Mr. Jarr, breaking in upon “Well, I've been thinking that we ought to be giving @ little affair of some kind, We haven't had a party for the longest time, and now that the Prohibition laws will not permit | that liquor be served in my house to your cronies"— § Seanad: these blissful dreams, Me ots arr went on, as she| “I do declare! I never saw a man bent her mind upon the matter,|like you!” crted Mrs, Jarr in exas- “maybe your cronies will bring some | Peration, “You won't even let a per nice presents for you that I can use, | $0n think they'll get nice things spme * For a woman's birthday, friends only bring a box of candy or some flowers, but to a man they bring necktles and such things, At least that saves me from paying my money to buy | them, and now there'll be more to pay for coal”—— dear,” said Mr, Jart soothingly I work hard’ and hustle, and maybe when it is our sii- ver wedding, I'll be able to get you all those things myself.” A Dry Affair Ahead, uppose I suggest that my friends! “It isn’t that,” said Mrs. Jarr, “Rich bring ,coal—and sugar?” interjec people do get such nice presents from Mr. Jarr. s their rich friends—for rich people The Silver Years. only associate with rich people who 7 sh they'd bring me some |Could afford to buy thom, But rich chinawate ana’ table linen,” sighed |Pe0ple are all the more eager to get rs, Jarr. “Real linen or rea] cut|tiam us presents! ‘ass—-beautiful pieces and plenty of ‘Well, it has all to be paid back . solid silver. Sometimes when |On other people's anniversaries,” rea- ree | how black that silver-plated |80ned Mr. Jarr, “So, ll say no 1 oot tof ours is getting I wish we |More about it and walt until your were married twenty-five years and |birthday and give you a nice party.” had rich friends. I ‘saw the most I don't want a birthday party, beautiful Colonial design solid silver | Those are for men and children,” said tea set downtown the other day"—— | Mrs. Jurr, One's best friends sit “What ood does that do?” asked |around and whisper how old you must the astounded Mr. Jarr, who was|be because their elder sister went to thee leagues on the back track of] high school with you in 1905. But you | Mrs. Jarr’s mental processes side-|shall have a party, a birthday party the needs of the soul.” ‘The offices of this good work are at No 10 Fifth Avenue i 4 ee yoo tracking his birthday. all of your own, But no liquor for “Why, don't you see,” Mrs. Jarr ex-lyour cronies, remember. It's ugaingg plained, “a few weeks before our (he law—and it costs too much!" i