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f Rn ana y a i Po ih 4 i ees EP EE a ea ee ert. Seeger ciate “Een JOSEPH PULITAmR, . ESTABLISHED 1 ~ Pubtished Daily Except Senger by fhe Frese Putushing Company, Nos, 68 to soft LAR reeset SP ow, okt resnesinaisr eo csr ree Rabe = wh aihotnadenethnranibendire reste sonata cartaneneneesenenen IN) VOLUME 60.......... seeeees NO, 21,287 _. WHERE LABOR CHEATS ITSELF. “O NLY what is produced by the combined efforts of capital J. Philip Bird of the National Association of Manufac- fhrers, is “the fundamental lesson that must be driven homo to all the people of the country and particularly to organized labor.” | : It woul4 be worth all it cost to send forth ten thousand clear-, ‘paded men with convincing tongues to spread this lesson throughout | the sength and breadth of the United States. Wherever higher wages and shorter hours have nieant decreased | Production, labor has been cutting down its own returns. You can’t more in the cupboard to take out if you put less in. | The most dangerous fallacy abroad at present, as The Evening | World has pointed out, is the notion that out 6f war and economic epheaval has come a huge legacy of more ease and higher pay for all Morkers who are insistent enough in demanding their share. This| ry may not be definitely formulated and expressed. But thou- and tens of thousands are acting upon it, nevertheless, It is the direct opposite of the truth. The only legacy war has} is a legacy of colossal wasic and destruction, which can only be cc good by hard work and an unprecedented maximum of pro- a oh. ' Present prosperity based on shigher wages and lowered produc-| tion is no true or lasting prosperity. It is a prosperity restricted, rary, insecure, because neither distributed nor self-supporting. It is an‘ economic fool’s paradise. ** Capital and labor wrangle over what each shell receive. Can't they see they are fighting over a pile of gold that constantly dimin- | and contains less for each unless both work to make it bigger ?| can’t go on dividing rilpre extept as they produce more. And sither can produce more wAhout the other. Can’t labor see that it cheats itself wherever it takes without and labor can be divided between them.” This, asserte * { ite share to replenish @ ~ \é ! New York's Great White Wal is perturbed over the prospect ! ‘of lightless nights, A coal famine could be faced with courage and calm if the consequei¢ suffering were confined to a metro- Dolitan theatre district where the present spending power of -athusement seekers puts the price of theatre tickets on high luxury levels. CN eee . THE NOTE TO MEXICO. HAT Secretary jpg emphasizes in his note to the Mex- ican Government demanding the immediate release of Con- gular Agent Jenkins is the “wilful indifference to the feel- the American people” shown by the Mexican Government's action in allowing Jenkins the benefit of no doubt even under law, but, on the contmry, putting itself deliberately in the ition of “prosecuting the victim instead of the perpetrators of the ee | "ot fi e e The purpose of it all is'pointedly laid bare in the American note: In the first place, to divert the attention of the American public ang-the American Government, and indeed of Mexicans | themselves, from the actual situation, namely, that Puebla, the | capital of the State of Puebla, and perhaps the second largest city in Mexico, is without adequate protection from outlaws | who Jjnfest the immediate neighborhood and who are accus- tomed openly and freely to visit the city without hindrance; that by the failure to furnish adequate protection in this dis- “trlet the Mexican authoriies have, through their negligence, + made possible the abduction of Jenkins, and that in harmony ». with such an attitude on the part of the Mexican authorities " they have failed to carry out the duty and obligation incum- bent upon them to apprehend and punish the bandits con- h cerned in the crime of which Jenkins was the victim. f To attempt to conceal weakness and inadequacy behind bluster sand proud talk, to try to cover indifference as to the safety of Ameri- ‘eats in Mexico with clumsy diplomatic protests couched in terms of ‘yeullen patriotism, or to seek to change the subject by parading pre- ogy grievances—all these devices of the Carranza Government dwere long since as familiar to the United States as the barking of a neighbor's dog. Uncle Sam has been a very patient man, but his patience has The new Industrial Conference sits behind closed doors in order to be free “to think aloud.” If only the Conference will ti think to some purpose the country can cheerfully wait awhile | , outside. | ’ THE LADDER | " . (MOUNT OKUMA, former Premier of Japan and head of Waseda | University, a democratic educational institution which he| hie founded, had wise words to say in a recent address in Tokio concerning the League of Nations: ‘ “The spirit of peace bas made the greatest progress since 1 the war. The fourteen points of President Wilson, for ex- ample, upon which the League of Nations is based, are but a | step forward toward the realization of the great ideal of the | President, and this may be greatly modified when realized. { The road to an ideal has many turns. I am not satisfied with the League, but we can make it the ladder wherewith to ascend to better international relations.” § ‘In other words, it is worth while to keep climbing toward the | even when the latter cannot be reached in one jump. How like| confident optimism and progressiveness of the Lodge political | losophy ! 4 f 2 —_——_ ++ --- When Lady Astor is present at a sitting of the House of * Commons, what about the timehonored custom which nermits ‘| male members to keep their hats on when not address, * the \ + Mipesker or the House? . ” ( | zone EDITORIAL P. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1919 FromEvening World Readers Why Fifth Avenue Is Jammed With treaty, Why wait till 1920 to pass ‘Trame, the bonus bill for soldiers? Give x New York, Noy. 29, 191% | them the bonus awhen they need it, Yen Ribas 68 Sie Bresing Wyre and also make it a certain amount for Fifth Avenue between the hours of | Ven i in pervice, not six 5 and 6.30 P, M. Is blocked from 23d | months’ pay for all soldiers who were Street to 60th, ‘Traffic moves at a|in the army for one month or two snail's pace, Fully three-quarters of | yoars, which is not a fair deal for the an hour is required to cover this dis- | soldiers. SOLDIER, tance. The Police Department seem-| Need “the Four Minute Mea” Once ingly ts doing nothing to solve the 5 Pc problem, It requires only ordinary New York, Dec, 2, 1919. aight to discover the reason tor most|_ New York, Dee. of the trouble. The fact is the buses) Practically monopolize the street.| Again and again have I read in Only Friday I counted six buses! your column, “Letters From the Peo- abreast in the block between 37th and | Hie" eis game vital question of the hour—"Bolshevism, and how it in- th, running as indicated in this volves our foreign bern.” etoh: The business men must again ap- ply their wonderful educational cam~- paign as they have. done against Kaiserism, which -had been defeatea with the aid of the “Four Minute Men,” who inspired the foreign born and taught them the truth how the war was started and why the United States went into it. You can there- fore readily see that if another cam- paign of this kind Is begun against Bolshevism it will be a thousand times easier to defeat the element that lies within our doors than it was to fight Kaiserism 2,000 miles away, Thanks for your wonderful editor- fals in favor of the League of Na- tions, for it is aiding the individual who depends on a paper like yours to pass. voice the public’s opinion, In the block between 43d and 44th rae eS Streets I coun en buses, running To Curb Rent Pr. wes about as this sketch Indic: A ‘New Yor, Deo. 1, 191% ‘To the Fulitor of The Evening World: Allow me to offer what I think would be a simple and effective method to curb those rapacious vul- tures of the human family who in these extraordinary days are the Hasvyae A2ayNIQuo Bos 35vdS The space allowed for other traffic | was not sufficient for two cars to} anarchy in our midst, namely the “Gouging Rent Profitee! To ex- terminate this nefarious and de- testable brood nothing more is needed than the co-operation of the New York Bar Association, The remedy for this evil is simply this: Let the New York Bar Association, by reso- lution, state that “No member of this association can appear in any court to plead or hold a brief for any gouging How auto traffic could move} int poonteee wager net Md Ouse ” dis rom. no «association through this maze is impossible to] A\Miasel thom ie arment from conceive. Either this trattic should | Peaceice be con d to sing! i with Ao The question is: Is the New York Th tule same airecton--or Fil we | Bar Association big enough, broad maa abeuld bev enough, public spirited enough to orn tmaawis Aly forthe | tackle this serious problem. that permitted to Will about | Menaces thelr fellow citizens in this Streets instead of being confined to| enlightened age and community? I | again confidently state they shall not and will not fail us in thig dire ex- | tremity, confusion ton Fifth tricted, straight line rails! The would be no worse than t Avenue with the buses unr And why should privat permitted to park at the cur’ indicated etween the hours named? How can tiafe move unde I tly in be Justice heard in whicl eviction proc the Municipal Court, Robitzek, a case was landlord broaght against several such conditians of his tenants » rent he desired HELD UP EVERY DAY, | to raise from $23 to $5 and from $38 ; | to $0. ‘The attorney for the landiord | A Bonne for tn'dle . disputed the right’ of the court. to HBO bn lw Nov 1919, | qajust the matter, Yet this same To the Balter of The Kronivg World attorney would no doubt denounce I would like to say the same about the bonus bill ae you say about the any laymen who defies the courts as a Bolshevist, M. J, LENNARD, greatest breeders of Bolshevism and | Playing Politics” == RTA eT, The Poor Horse And Citizen Duty . by Ths Preve Publishing Co, Copyright, 191 9 Every One of Us Has the Power to Protect Dumb Creatures From Bri Power We Should Use Frequently FEW days ago, in crossing Park Row, I noticed a driver beating a horse unmerci- fully. I called to him and asked him to stop hitting the animal, He laugh- ed at me in @ bloating manner, and calli taunt- ingly, kill him if I want to, that's what I'll do.” And he suited action to his words by a few more lashes, I could feel the blood mounting to my cheeks and something rise in me something of primaeval instinct— keen desire to lash him in like man- ner. I knew I could not do this, but I had another alternative, I rushed to the policeman on the corner and begged him to follow the driver and have him arrested, As the policeman had not seen the actual beating of the horse, he in- formed me that I would have to go to the nearest polige station at once. I hurriedly agreed to this, urging him to run after the man, which he A did. The officer immediately ordered the driver to go to the olice station, which was a few blocks away, and I proceeded with the officer to this place. A little crowd had gathered, and although I resented the gaze of the curious, I felt the importance of the cause and paid no attention, except to the task 1 had at hand. Arriving at the police station, 1 made my complaint and it meant either jail or il for the driver, He was very bold and brazen at first and denied my statement, He also had a pal on the seat with him ABHORRED BY PRINTERS ATHANIEL HAWTHORN N handwriting was so illegible that somo of his manuscripts remained unpublished because no- body could read them. This was like- wise true of Carlyle, ‘Vhe story is told of a type compositor who was employed by a London printing offi because of a strong recommendation yhich he brought from Scotland. The tirst piece of manuscript given him to set was by Carlyle “My heavens!" sald the new type setter. “Have you got that man here too? I fled from Scotland to avoid him,”~Ladies’ Home Journal, 3\the line of publ | | By Sophie Trene Loeb (The New York Evening World.) utality, and It Is a & who wag willing to attest to denial, I then made up my mind to go through with it and see whom the court would believe. ‘The young man then proceeded to try to get bail from his employer. but scomed to have difficulty over the telephone in doing this. He then began to realize the situa- tion, He changed his tune and be- gan to plead for mercy. He told me ‘he had just returned from the army and had a grandmother to take care of, &e. To make a long story short, he ad- mitted the truth of my statement and begged to be given another chance and pleaded for me not to press the charge. Realized Seriousness of Offense. I talked the matter over with his employer over the telephone, who agreed with me as to his wrong, and I realized that he would get “all that was coming to him" ‘before he was through with the matter, ‘The seriousness of it all was ap- parent to him before he left the po- lice station when a promise from him and an assurance of vigilance of his employer finally induced me to give him another chance, As we left the station, I looked at my watch, and it was less than half an hour from the time I called the officer until the driver had a lesson |that I think will stand him in good | stead. He realized that he could be appre- hended for such an act—and quickly. It never dawned upon him before that Jan ordinary citizen could stop him right then and there and take him to 4 police station and have the matter proceed agaihst him. I am only citing the above as an example of what any person can do in less than half an hour toward stopping the mistreatment of dumb animals and seeing that the offender is punished. If 1 had pursued the case it might have taken another hour of my time to have appeared before the Judge, |but it would have been worth while, in my judgment, to spend an hour and a half or two hours even in our busy lives, in the interest of some suffering animal, fer it is certainly in spirit secur= tures who cannot | ing rights for erl {speak for themselves. | | “Many times in these columns I have printed letters from people who solicit interest in measures against cruelty t r Here js one in which the individual m, art toward this a little of his hending the transer sod may be accom; As soon as the play his king just 18 Hi 10! that every citizen ize job of protecting the dumb er The Lov Copyright, 1919, by ‘The Press Publishing No. 19—‘*SAPHO.” had come to Paris berth visions of becoming one—fresh, clever, masquerade ball, he still fascinating. In the studio world some lad. And the dance. shackle building, wi by a steep spiral staircase. e Stories | Of Great Novels By Albert Payson Terhune By Alphonse Daudet. himiself for a diplomatic career. capital with high hopes of fitting himself for in the consular service, world flattered Jean. The apartment wi (The N co. York Bvening World.) from the South of France to prepare He had come to the ue In the distance lurked eat Ambassador some day. His name was Jean Gaussin, and he was only twenty- unspoiled. One night, at a riotous met a woman older than himself, but She called herself “Fanny Legrand.” of the Latin Quarter she was better known by the nickname of "Sapho.” Fanny was strangely attracted by the clean and hand- interest of this popular woman of the He escorted her home from the on the fifth floor of a ram- ith no means of reaching it except Half in a joke, Jean offered to carry the tired girl up the four winding filghts, She did not believe he had the strength for such an exploit, To | prove how strong he was and to imprss her witn his prowess, Jean caught | her in his arms and started up the first flight. He found the climb exhil- arating. One of Fanny's earrings pressed ictly against his hot cheek. Flight after Might of the spiral stair he climbed, carrying her. j every step her weight was heavier, until Jean was almost fainting with F fatigue. y Ss cheek wit) eats of Strength check wit Did Not Win Love. sick with And at The earring no longe! h a pleasant coolness. a knife. woariness. pressed his It cut into his His arms ached. He was Ho staggered up the few final steps out of breath and half dead. Then, sett! ‘At last!” But Fanny, who had enjoyed the “So soon?” well as his cherixhed career, died in Paris at Funny's side. account. And all the while she was had been risking apoplexy by carrying to himsel: pointmen: for Ex-Convict. be no fut coud live world he had thrown away for her sa turned his back resolute! his and prepared to bury himself, wit: parture for Peru, the woman deserted loved in former days. She sent him a curt letter, for the earlier sweetheart, had made that life worthless. telling Then, when he had made this supreme sacr! But even this resource was denied him—for, then vanished forever from his her down, and dizzy from the tremendous effort, he muttered: novel sensation of being carried all the way upstairs, murmured regretfully: That stair-climbing episode was an example of their whole love affair. The romance which began so delightfully for the country youth grew daily more and more wearisome to him until it wrecked his life and his hopes. Fanny, on the other hand, was smugly happy in the belief of his love, and had not the brain nor the heart to realize she was ruining his character as He let his best chances in the consular service slip by while he daw- He estranged himself from his family on her 4s complacently content as when he her up those steep and endless stairs. At length, after he had tried in vain to free himself from Fanny's in- | Muence, he decided that their lives mi She Deserted Him ust KO on together, at whatever cost f. Declining a splendid consular ap- t, he obtained the position of Consul to an obscure town in Peru, where there could ure for him, but where he and Fanny out their lives together far from the ke. ifice of his ambitions, he on the glorious career that might have been h Fanny, in the Peru town. on the very eve of his de- him for an ex-convict whom she had him of her decision to throw him over life—after she By Roy L. Present Opulence The 66] 'D do it!” remarked Mrs, Jarr aloud, as she roused up from her reveries, “I'd do it if I had the clothes!” “Do what?” asked Mr. Jarr, to the opera?” “Go to the opera?” repeated Mrs. Jarr, “Why, I can't even think of! evening dresses, let alone an opera cloak and jewels. No, I was only thinking of some plain everyday clothes—but everything is so expen- sive, even in street dresses, and the cost of furs this season, that even taking up charity work is out of the a tion.’* arity work?" echoed Mr, Jarr, replied Mrs, Jarr, “every woman that has nice clothes tries to bring some comfort to the poor when the Christmas holidays approach. Look at all the drives for this char- ity fund and that. Every one of them has fashionable women as_patron- esses, and, you can say what you please, they do a lot of good. Mrs, Stryver'’s clothes, just for charity af- fairs alone, cost her a fortune, and she can afford to be a patroness. And when you're @ patroness you don’t have to buy tickets—you make your friends buy them.” “What is on dit In philanthropy tn fashionable circles now?” asked Mr. Jarr. “Go Funds and Drives. “Oh, lots of things.” said Mrs. Jarr, “Funds for college professors and everything. At this time of year we must bring holiday cheer to the poor. Mrs. Stryver wants me to join the Friends of the Friendless and Mrs. Kittingly asked me to help with her favorite charity—the Lend-a-Hand Ladies’ Aid—which is placing sani- tary drinking cups in penal institu- tions.” se?” asked Mr. Jarr, was the reply. “Clara Mudridge-Smith is an ardent worker for the Prevention of Poverty Society, She visits around among the poor and shows them how to prepare modified milk for their babies, Every one I know, except myself, has nice clothes to go around and do good among the poor—but I can't afford it!” “If that's the case, why not have your friends come around here and do The Jarr Family McCardell Copyright, 191%, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) of Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl, Is Apparent to Mr. Jarr. said Mrs. Jarr, peevishly. “1 t like to find fault, but I wan Joutes more family pride. I felt like going through the floor when I heard you tell the Stryvers how the automobile had impoverished your Uncle Ben who was a horse doctor.” “Well, he is a horse doctor, tsn’t he?" asked Mrs, Jarr, You could have said vetertnary surgeon,” asserted Mrs, Jarr. “li sounds more refined. If you must talk about your male relatives when our friends are present why don’t yor Speak about your uncle who is o Judge and your father’s cousin who ir @ Senator in Washington?” “My uncle, the «udge?” repeated Mr Jarr. “Why, that old rascal isn't » real Judge; he was only a horse race judge for once, and got kicked out o} the judges’ stand at the Steuber County Agricultural Fair for rank de- cisions!" ‘Well, you could speak of the Sen- ator in Washington then.” Old Family Skeletons. “Tm afraid I'll have to destro; iNusion regarding the Senator, too" said Mr, Jarr, grimly. The only office he ever held in Congress was as- sistant janitor, and he lost his job be- cause of malfeasance in office. He stole brass cuspidors and sold them te @ junkman!” “Stop!” cried Mrs. Jarr. to stop! And one thing more: When I speak of our family after this | shall only speak of my side of the family!” “Your family has its false alarms, too," replied Mr. Jarr a little hotly. “There's your cousin Ralph, who"—. “We will not discuss my cousin Ralph, if you please,’ interrupted Mrs. Jarr coldly. “Let us return to 4 less acrimonious topio—Charity, Even Georgia Smilax, who is the ayer woman I know, is interested In charity, jut what are erin- ning about a “That's not a grin; It's a sarcastic smile,” replied Mr, Jarr. “I want to know why charitable ladies think firat of dresses for themselves before they think of clothes for the poor?” “Because,” replied Mrs, {ty should begin at home: “Let it stay there then,” Jarr, “Don't forget that auadie tT, “char- good among us? We are poor enough, goodness knows." “[ wish you wouldn't talk that way,” classes are now the lower that Bertha, the sewing sauee ae machi. can now buy better clothes tor joy self than she makes for other people!" int Cecilia. HE lovely creature who looks at | us from the canvas of Raphacl, the chef d'oeuvre of the Bo- logna galleries, gives us an infinite horizon, ‘Tho young saint, the patron of music, is casting down her musical instruments of earth to listen to the yenly choirs, Cecilia was @ Roman lady of noble birth, and lived in the third century. Those were the cays of red-blooded moments, of stout faith of abandonment to love Divine, tyrs! In the Sixth 1 under Maximinus, Ce expire gradually, bein, decapitated, Her love for rm nd | brought down an angel from heaven to listen to her lute, Pocts have taken her for their theme; Dryden, Popa, [just so soon will he hesitate before he uses the whip ' N Anne Hathaway. S there a question on God's rownd earth moro interesting than the following: “What attracted Will- Jam Shakespeare to Anne Hatha- She wae a woman ten yeart his sentor, He married her when he was elghteen. She lived in a thatehed cottage in the hamlet of Shottery (you may see that cottage to-day) While his imagination was away among kings and queens and women of rare blossoming, whose bewiteh- ment stilled conscience, whore beauty ruled cautious men, whoew nimble wit overthrew the Shyloeks of the Middle Ages, Shakespeare chose Anne Hathaway, She bore him two De sous and a daughter, ! be lett her hia’ sot ie ep wil! ‘Ded, —,