The evening world. Newspaper, December 9, 1919, Page 30

. ESTADLISHED 1 Published Dally xcept Sunday by the Press Puritening Gompany, Nos, 54 to 63 Park Row, Now York. 7 RaLri © R. President, 63 ru ~ ) ANGUS AW, Treasure: 3 Park Row By slain PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 64 Park Row, 4 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated reas is exchonively entitled 10 the use fur republics Gil Bows depatches credited to it or vot otherwise credited in this (eid also the local news published herein, ——— « - LOAD FOR LOAD. i T WAS time somebody showed the Senate how to Hy tead the Constitution of the United States. The lesson comes properly from the President. The Fall 1ésolution, aimed to force the hand of the Chief Execu- _ tive, and bring on war with Mexico, furnished fit _ “1 am confident,” the President writes to Senator Fall, “that 1 am supported by every compel con- stitutional authority in the statement that the initiative in disecting the relations of our Government with for- gn Governments is assigned by the Constitution to the Executive, and to the Executive only.” * “Only one of the two Houses of Congress is associated with the President by the Constitu- tion in an advisory capacity, and tho advice of the Senate is provided for only when sought by the Executive in regard to explicit ugree- ments with foreign Governments and the ap- pointment of the diplomatic representatives who are to speak for this Government at for- eign capitals.” We can see from here the shrug that went with fi ae 4 ad the rejoinder from Senator Lodge: “Now the entire -. Mexican situation goes to the President, The responsi- a” bility is upon his shoulders.” tf Just as responsibility fos holding up the peace treaty is upon Senatorial shoulders—where, for -the | | time being, the President lets it settle, B To Mr. Lodge and some of his fellow Senators it ie seems more profitable to invoke the Constitution than fo study it. opinion? Constitution or no Constitution, isn’t the present sentiment ot the couritry certain to make Mexico tor the President a far lighter load than the one the trealy- wreckers have to carry? But do they feel the same about public Col, William Cooper Procter, the svap manufacturer, bas accepted the Chairmanship of the Leonard Wood National Campaign Ce mittee. It floats. TURN IT TO ACCOUNT. ai HE country hopes to-night will see the end of the coal strike. Legally it has been a controversy. Actually it has been a strike, with the consequences of a strike. | Thankfulness for a settlement cannot blind the public to facts: Even though the miners go back to work, measures to conserve coal will still impose bur- dens on every one. Street cars stay heatless. Hun- dreds of railroad trains in various sections of the coun- try cease to run. Chicago stores are closed cach day {il! noon tp save coal. Fuel Commissions are every- where urging the need of strict conservation. Five weeks’ idleness is not expected to make much difference in the miners’ habit of working half time or less during the holiday season. There will be no re- turn to the normal output of coal before January, It has been the American way patiently to endure strikes, rejoice when they are over and be thankful y were no worse, But since the war the country as shown signs of feeling that maybe industrial dis- putes might be settled without so many black eyes for millions of people in no way to blame. We shall hear lots of talk about the “lessons of the coal strike.” Couldn’t one of them be turned to some real account for the public? [on nr ee a a ee a a = re et ee ) I } 4 ‘ i uk t ‘ - ' { r When “Reds” seek to enter this country there are doors, It is when we try to get them out that we find only loopholes. CONGRESS AND SUGAR. ACING the immediate prospect of a decided ad- F vance in sugar prices after the authority of the Sugar Equalization Board ends, the first impulse of Congressmen is to scuttle to cover and shift the blame to other shoulders. The result is a partisan dispute in the Senate which does absolutely nothing to increase * the sugar supply or prevent profiteering. The public is no longer particularly interested in where the blame lies for any specific shortcoming in Washington. If the Congress showed any real disposi tion to consider and pass legislation for which the need is perfectly apparent the case would be different. But the sugar situation is typical. It is only one of many impending tangles which may or may not be met by hastily contrived emergency measures passed too late to meet the Nation’s need. » Perhaps Senator McNary’s bill extending the life of ~ the Equalization Board was not perfect. Certain it is that every day of delay has made it less workable and has encouraged sugar hoarding in hopes of a market freed from price restrictions. If the Congress devoted half the time it spends in reeriminations to constructive j legislation based on foresight it could be abreast of the ‘ country’s needs instead of dragging along as it does . under the burden of general condemnation, 1 ‘ | ' 4 ' 1 ' Nationa! thrift week is set for Jan, 17 to 24. Coredering prices, it wil! requir & Mouth to recover from the x sien | x4 6 at ieast H & Met THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1919. WHAT THE SENATE HAS DONE, HE Supreme Council's notes to the German peace delegation Concedes little enough. Apart from agreement to consider what Germany yan afford to pay for the sinking of the war fleet at Scapa Flow | there are few soft spots, Despite German protests, the terms of the treaty requiring the surrender of German officers charged with violating international rules of warfare in Bel- gium and France stand, This has been one of Ger- many’s chief grievances. It remains unmodified. Germany is warned, moreover, that she cannot use the prestnt attitude of the United States toward the Peace Council as a means of holding up the treaty. Do Americans realize that the United States Senate is chiefly responsible for a situation in which the Allies’ first thought in the consideration of German claims must be the danger of increasing German presump- tion? The treaty-spoilers in the Senate tave not only kept the United States out of peace. They have com- plicated the problems of securing any peace in which Germans can be made to respect the purposes for which Americans entered the war. Senator: Lodge “wanted to help” in Mexican crisis. He admits it. So did “ the story of “Betsey and I killed the bear.” Senator Lodge's help was just as effective as in the ease of “I" who from a position of safety said “Go it Betsey, Go it bear.” “UNJUSTIFIABLE CLEMENCY.” JEUT. COL. ROOSEVELT in a recent book, “Average Americans,” indulges in severe criticism of President Wilson, As an example he characterizes as “unjustifiable clemency” the President’s action in setting aside the death penalty in the case of two young suldiers who slept at their post. In this connection a letter which Secretary Baker sent to the While House on Aug. 19, 1919, is interest- ing. Mr. Baker wrote: * My Dear Mr. President: You will recall that early in 1yis four death sentences were presented to you trom Franco—two, for disobedience of orders, you remitted to terms of imprisonment, and two young boys, Sebastian and Cook, you fully par- doned, It will interest you to know that upon res- toration to duty both made good soldiers. Sebastian died in battle in the Aisne offensive in July, 1918. Cook was wounded in that battle and was restored to bealth in time to fight in the Meuse-Argonne battle, when he again fought gallantly and was second ume wounded. He has now been restored to bealth through medical attention and has been bonor- ably discharged from the service. Cloak and sult manufacturers forecast a rise in prices and also in the hems of the “skirts.’ If theré is any connection between the two, fathers of large families will favor the re- turn of the sweeping train. MOVIES HERE AND IN BERLIN, HE WORLD'S Berlin correspondent reports the German film industry in deep concern over a} ible invasion of American motion pictures, At the same time German cinemas are flooded with a wave of indecent, risque and licentious films pandering to the lowest instincts of the populace. If this is the sort of entertainment Berlin wants, why the worry over Amer- ican competition? With hardly an exception, American producers are not making films objectionable on moral grounds, No important motion picture concern has gained a reputa- tion from salacious exhibitions, Even the “vampire” stars seem to be passing or reforming. ‘The late Sid- ney Drew attained marked popularity because he | banked on clean-minded patronage and produced clean comedy suitabe for family parties. Whatever the fate of the German film industry, the morals and welfare of the country as a whole might profit by an American invasion, | The Brooklyn man who died leaving most of his fortune in diamonds was either a shrewd or fortunate investor, In recent years money in diamonds has multiplied in value more rap- idly than in savings banks. In spite of doubled importations this year the price has been sky- rocketing until the market seems about due for a cbeck, WINDOW SHOPPING, O BORDER LINE of age, color or sex separates the players in the seasonal sport of “window | opping.”” Whether on Fifth Avenue or Grand Street, in Brooklyn or the Bronx, the crowds are much the jsame. With noses pressed to the glass the window opper revels in the attractiv® displays of merchan- dise. Window shopping is not for all, To be a success-| fu! player one must have a remnant of childlike faith in | fairies, one must have a feeling that Alice could go through the looking-glass into Wonderland, Peter Pan and the Never-never Land must have a semblance of jevery single Soul of our population, Premature Fireworks! — ty THETA. ‘. the New York Brening World.» ry “Glaring Nonsens New York, Dec. 1, 1919. To the Editor of The Evening World: As one who has spent two years in various parts of Mexico and for twelve years has often been in intt- mate contact with Mexicans in New city, 49 @ medical consultant, | van not resist an inclination to inform yow that your editorial of this date is a glaring exhibition of misconcep- tion and nonsesse, pute, ‘CHARLES B, SLADE, 245 West 74th Street, ee. 5, 1919. The Dead tn Fe Now York, Dec. To the Fditor of The Evening World: As a constant reader of the Eve- ning World 1 am ever coming ta touch with articles regarding thy United States soldier dead in France: | My only brother (a twin) was killed | and L believe those who are forever | xaying “let the dead lie where they have fallen” are in most cases people who lke to hear spernsel ys Scorn the fiteer. ‘To the Faitor of ‘Tho Evewing World: Your “Examples in Profiteering” strike popular approval I am sure. | Lot us haveyaome more of them, #0 | that we may know what to avoid) buying when possible, both now and after the prices have dropped to something near normal, People are not going to forget the firms who! gouged when the gouging was good, There must be hundreds of instances bad as those you have ex- Let us heag about them so} can take warning and hold that the profitecrs up to the scorn they so well deserve, SUFFERER, Power of the Press. ' 141 West 85th Street, New York, Dee. 6, 1919 To the Editor of The Evening World For years The Evening World has held my constant patronage, With a| nicety that is both assuring and com- | forting your editorial staff exyound my views. You write—1 purchase, We are indeed dependent on each other, are we not? ‘This letter “to the editor” has been by the superb editorial un iree speech, This writing carries a message that deserves a delivery into the home of every family and should | be accorded a hearty welcome by yet No one newspaper would dare un- dertake such an expense, nor could any lonely voice reach the ears of a sation teality, For these fortunate mortals, and there are many of them, window shopping is an excursion into a fairyland where the holiday spirit reigns supreme, where Aladdin’s genii are always at command, where the shopper can give what fancy suggests and not according to dictates of the pocketbook, { Happy are those who can enjoy the game of wine i dow shopping, It is one of the most interesting accom. pani of the bolidays, » ‘The Evening World has the organ- ization fitted to devise a system for drilling holes tn the Socialist plat. | form, one plank at a time, until the! structure became so weakened that none would trust to its support, You have the brainy writers who can plainly, foreibly and HONESTLY pre- e the pro and con side of an argument, and you no doubt have influence which would gain the hearty co-operation of decent publi cations, If 75 per cent. of our pre joined hands with vou and daily as signed a sinall space for the purpose of obliterating “Redism,’ ries would soon be tossed | don {FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | mental junk head. Why, if a tew sheets of red or yellow can secure 4 following, what will happen to such Journalistic abnormalities if a chain of red, white and blue papers ¢ AN constant barrage against their de- © views? If our national press ever gut to- gether for the support of Old Glory, for the protection of our Constitu- tion and for the elimination of erim- doctrine we would quickly ob- that the pen is mightier than We would promptly bear fromi a hundred million souls that they are not a hard-to-be-aroused people, that they do not look upon existing Wrong with any spirit of in- difference, No, indeed! But if disor- ganized right becaie orgapinnd and kave battle to organized @rror then our hugo body of people would turn into a frenzied ms ger to Support our institutions and hold an intoler= ant attitude against any programme which denied 100 per cent, justice to the employer, the employee and the public, Yes, dear Evening World, you would indeed establish a spirit of loyalty and form a homogeneous body of patriots “who would turn as one man upon any miscreant who pro- oved to overthrow our Government.” ey would tear into fragments any serv the sword, | theory which would pretend to offer a system for human government more sublime than that which |s s0_se- curely invested in the phrase, " ernment of the people, by the pe and for the people." ARTHUR C. BROWN From a Mausteal Friend. Brooklyn, Dec 4, To the Editor of The Evening World: T was never more pleased and happy than when T read the article in Th Evening World awarding me th Hugo Gutfreund scholarship for play- ing the piano, Words fail me in expressing my gratitude for your ef- forts in obtaining this long-worked- for reward, I aysure that all that is done for me by you, Mr. Gutfreund or any one connected with the Children’s Talent Foundation will be greatly appreciated Again thanking you and awaiting to heat from you further, I am, A. J. WOLMAN, —. PROFITEERING EXHIBITS, The Evening World resently offered a profiteering exhibit which showed that whereas 5 cents used to buy tw spools of four-strand darning thread, forty-five yards to: the spool, the housewife now pays 5 cents for thir- ty yards of three-strand darning thread wound on a spool with a bulge in it. A friend of The Evening World calis attention to an item in the Lon- Chronicle which reports ‘the profits of J. & P. Coats as 40 per cent, after paying heavy excess profits taxes and building up reserves, ‘Tho Chronicle foregasts an early capital. ization of the reserve fund and p dicts a 100 per cent. stock dividend in the n future. Our eogresp nt points out that the American { Company is controlled — by dnglish Sewing Cotton Company, @ subsidiary of J, & P. Coats, eb antl 4 HOUSING BY PUBLIC UTILITY SOCIETIES How the British Government Stimulates Building and Keeps Down Rents. _ The United States, since the war, has become acutely aware of hous- two sorts of ald: first, credit, and, second, a subsidy, ing proble te which the British THE LOAN PLAN. Yovernment bas long given expert] Suppose a soeicty in view a attention. building project, ed by the housing authoriti expense ry piving a total buildings of rganizing the move War time suspension of building in Great Britain greatly emphasized the for land need for more hou: facilicies.| bers must either subscribe stock cr During the carly part of the war the] borrow from private individuals one- Rritish Government made plans to r of the cost or, in’ this ine Meet the situation, An investigacton ,000, The Government will vance — three-quai or {in 1917 indicated a shortage of aoe . to be repaid in ‘fty annual k i than 400,000 houses Wales and Scotland, Facing a period of high cost for labor and building materia’, the Gov- ernment realized that private initia- tn Jand,|imstalments at moderate inte LIBERAL SUBSIDIES, nulate immediate building, roment offers a substantial equal to two-fifths of the an- ace ETH sated ea "| nual repayment charge, For instance, tive could not bo relied dn if sut:| on this $200,000 project the annual ficlomt homes were to be bwit and] repayment charge’ would be. roughly, the evils of rent gouging and The Government would allow crowded housing avolded. Substan- nnual subsidy of $3,540, leaving tia! stimulation of the home building industry was considered essential, Government aid to so-called Public Utility Societios was decided on as the best means of meeting the condition. Both Government credit and sub- sidies are offered to societies willing to build houses approved by the housing authorities, CO-OPERATIVE BUILDING. rents, If the society can borrow from its members or from any other source at a rate lower than the Government of- fers, then the Goversment allows the same subsidy as though the society had borrowed the full three-quarters from the Government. The subsidy is purely an inducement to immediate building, and this offer may he with- drawn where the housing officers be- lieve sufficient stimulation of house- A Public Utility Society for] building hax resulted, housing ix an English development} ‘The subsidy amounts to a free of the building and loan association} 8rinl of roughly one-third of the total familiar to Americans. In order to] cost of building. qualify for Government registration LOW RENTS. ciety Must have not less than woven |, TRE limit placed on dividend and Members and a secretary, ‘Tho totni, nierest payments by, the societies in~ of shares held by any individusil trnment, the private investng, ond member may not exceed $1,000, Divi-lihe society shareholders have re= dends and interest rates are limited! ceived their limited return, the addi. strictly. The object sought 13° co-/ tional income must either be used in operation rather than large profits. |gecreasing rent, caring for the ‘ups When the building programme of al keep of the prope or in providing society is approved by the h desirable surround s 8 lor the houses authorities the Government built, | How It Started | By Hermine __Neustadtl q "raged: lies a curious story. The first dra- matic representations which were Copyright, 1919, by The Co. crude festivals to the deity they wor- (The New York E shipped ceased very soon after their 4 oi famous tragedies we all Introduetion, to atisfy the scholarly thenlans, he coarse scenes offend- know, But we do not think of) ed them as inappropriate to honor a the word “tragedy” as belong- ing primarily to the lexicon of the theatre, We assume rather that it was used originally in the general sense, and only adapted to literature to distinguish plays that end in death for one of the leading characters—in| & god and incongruous taste and learning. In an effort to Improve them they offered a prize for the best ode de- livered in the most dramatic manner at the next celebration, The prize was a “tragos" or goat, And he who rned it had the privilege of person- with Greek Arp ally sacrificing it to the god. In this other words, the tragic from the light. | Connection every dramatic represen. But “tragedy” was not adapted to| tation in which a fe was supposed the play, It started conte: rane-|to be t came to be called the ously with the play, and Manne af the matt! am ad tan in t 0 for the society to provide from | yo, eee, Rabilanine ork Evening Word.) ' Uncommon Sense ; By John Blake, eep Your Lye on the Bail. O man who is good for any- thing likes tasks that are easy. If in five minutes one could learn to drive a golf ball 300 yards you-would not find distinguished lawyers, bankers, engineers and statesmen trudging fron: bunker to bunker every pleasant summer and autumn af- ternoox. The rightly constructed human mind is nol happy without a prob- lem to solve. Long before ‘the Scots were following the little-ball over the moors the highly intel- lectual Arabs were working out rece unoee problems in algebra or poring over the clieas board. The keen | {mind is never Idle. For rest it merely tackles something differ- ent E to the ve! ble gold fur- nishes a problem. And its prob- lem, once solved, will help greatly to master the great problems of life. However athletic, however agile, however many pounds he can put behind the smash of his driver, the golfer must learn to keep his eye on the ball or he will never know the game. ; It sounds easy—until you try it. Then you discover that to Accom- plish it you must combine self- mastery, patience and concen- tration, qualities which are pas all valuation .2 the fight for suc- cess. ‘That 1s why men who have won the most important places in busi- ness and professional life toil painfully for years to cure the bad habits which make bad golfers. Such men hate to be beaten. In many games it is the opponent with whom you struggle. In golf it is yourself. And as Scripture assures us, he who conquers him- self is greater than he who takes a city. If you can keep an eye on the ball in golf you can become a good golfer—not a great thing iu itself, but great as a symbol of victory. If you can keep an eye on the ball in life—(he ball being the purpose you hope to attain—suc- cess is bound to come, But in life, as in golf, there are bad habits to overcome, special faculties to train, concentration to cultivate. The will must be-bent toward achieving one object;,and the soul must be taught patience and tranquillity when victory is long delayed. “Keep your eye on the ball.” That is a sermon in six words—a whole correspondence school in success compressed into a sen- tence. If you can do it you will conquer, And you can do it if you try hard enough, > = —S HOW MUCH SALARY GOES FOR FOOD? HE relation of wages to the food requirements of working people has been the subject of much | study and some discussion by econs omists, most of whom agree that in the ideal division of income the ca- penditure for food is approximately one-third of the total funds avatlable, Miss Winifred S. Gibbs, in her boolg “The Minimum Cost of Living."* | showed that prior to the war the le-s | well-to-do classes spent more thar 00 ‘per cent. of their income for foci. he concluded that the income muse go beyond $1,200 a year (in pre-war | values) before a reasonable decreas@ |in the percentage spent for food | |eould be expected, | The English Board of Trade in 1906 showed that for families in receipt of less than 25 shillings (normally about $6.25) a week 67 per cent. of the total outgoings were for food, the propor- tion falling as low as ‘67 per cent. only in families earning 10 shillings (then about $10) or more weekly, Data collected by the Working Classes Cost of Living Committee in England in 1918, after nearly four years of war, | indicated th notwithstanding in- Jereased wages, skilled and unskilled | workers alike spent for food 60 per » of their income, 8," says The-dournal of American Medical Association, at this time as a text tor the discussion of the actual food necds of workers.” The Journal therefore takes up the subject ax a physiological problem, and shows that the energy requirement of the lightest | class of workers, a8 expressed in calories, may be only about three- quarters that of tho heaviest, “Never- theless, the remuneration of the kind of work conducted by the latter ts often much less than that of several operations calling for many fewer calories.” ‘Any scheme of remuneration that aims to make returns adequate to keep the cost of food at a reasonably low proportion of the total income, \2 the “may serv the Journal concludes, must take into account the decidedly greater food needs of those who often represent the least well vecompensed group. “Thus, a food allowance of $10 @ week, {which just suffices for the less active worker, must be augtented to $18 in case the greater effort is expended, ¢ ¢ © In any scientific appraisement of the income needed to maintain an accepted standard of living, it is es. sential to determine the minimal ex- penditure n d by the ve : tion of the wage earner, | Varlatoms in physiologic demand translated into forms of money may nowadgys be nok (‘a be -_ A A