The evening world. Newspaper, December 10, 1919, Page 30

} 7 i ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. i PPeriened Daily Except Sunday by the Press Pubitahing Company, Nos. 5 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PUIATZER, President, 63 Park Row, “J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. | \ i JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. } 4 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Associated Prem is exchusively entitled to the use fur republic. i” Glen of all news deepaiches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this (aper and also the local news published herein, VOLUME 60............ seveeesNO, 21,295 NEW YORK HARD HIT. {The settlement of the coal strike is a matter of hours. This ought to be cheering naws for the country, It would be, had the Fuel Administration not chosen the ending of the strike as the moment to spring his for- midable programme for restricting use of coal. | New York is particularly hard hit by orders which put out its lights, curtail its business hours and slow j down its industries, q It makes no difference that New York burns a large Proportion of anthracite, production of which has not t been affected by the strike in the bituminous fields. It makes no difference that New York has big supplies of oval on hand, enough in many cases to last until the Dormal output from the mines is restored. Fuel Administrators must resume the sweeping powers of their war dictatorship. They can make no discrimination. Whether it has coal or not, New York must suffer with the rest. New Yorkers yield to no other Americans in patriot- fsm or patience when the need of sacritice is demon- i strated. Fuel Administrators did not always deal with i oval shortage during war in a way that left unquestion- t) ing faith in their policies and methods. They acted too i often and too obviously on the convenient theory that hi privation for the public is the first, last and easiest solution of all fuel problems. Any Fuel Administrator tan make an impressive showing with commands for wholesale cuts in coal consumption regardless of local ! _ conditions. f New York, however, expects no special favors for ftself in a situation that is serious throughout the country. If it must share its coal it will do so. ‘All it asks is competent assurance that the blow to its business is warranted, despite the contents of its coal bins and the size of its nearby reserves, by national mecd, a <== <= ea ee ~- WHY STRIKELESS? would be interesting to know just why the American Federation of Labor granted a charier to the Associated Teachers’ Union, Local No. 71, of this city with a specific provision prohibiting strikes, This union is made up of college professors in marious New York institutions including Columbia University, New York University and the College of the City of New York. Chartered last April, it is mow engaged in a drive to enrol new members from sixteen similar institutions, Membership is also open to principals and higher officers of New York’s public school. system who are not eligible for membership fn the older Teachers’ Union organized several years ee ago. a Among the stated aims of the professors’ union is the following: To co-operate with organized labor in rais- ‘ ing the standards and furthering the democrati- zation of the industrial, social and political life 4 of the community. Maybe here is the reason why the professors are “not permitted to strike, Whatever labor may see fit to do itself, labor’s apologists must be kept steadily en the job. 4 }! ik i IN A GLASS HOUSE, eS ILLIAM M. WOOD has given a novel twist to x the cost of living tangle. Mr, Wood is President ¥ of the American Woolen Company, which owns and controls fifty-five of the principal woolen mills of th ; . Five of these mills are at Lawrence, Mass. ; Mr, Wood has served motice upon retailers of Law- \ rence that, unless prices of commodities essential to living are marked down, he proposes to set up a retail store organization to supply his employees. Mr. Wood observes that it is useless to raise wages 4 and find the effect lost in an increasing cost of living. : Mr, Wood may be on the right track, Very likely Lawrence retailers have been profiteering and deserve : Punishment. But Lawrence retailers and ultimate | consumers elsewhere who have been waiting for al 7 drop in price before purchasing a suit or overcoat | may find something of interest in Moody's Industrial : Manual for 1919, pages 2,149 to 2,151. b We read that regular dividends on common stock | £ cf the American Woolen Company are 5 per cent. | Feb. 1, 1919, the company granted an extra dividend } of 5 per cent. payable in Liberty bonds, April 15 an- ether extra dividend of 10 per cent. payable in Liberty | bonds was distributed to stockholders. Net profits for the two years 1917 and 1918 were 4 trifle under $28,000,000, or about $1,500,000 more than the total profits for the preceding seven years. Lawrence retailers may be inclined to counter with the question “Who's a profiteer?” “ THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE. LCHEMY’S riddle of the transmutation of matter has been solved by Sir Ernest Ruther- ford, a distinguished student of physical science, a trief cable from Paris announces, Pet T and fakers, wise men and knaves, the greedy and the studious, since history’s dawn. A generation ago the matter seemed settled as an impossibility. Scientists of 1890 would have scoffed at such a report. To-day the report is interesting. Science will lend a respectful ear to proofs of the find. Scientists now living have seen so many “impossibilities” become commonplace that their minds are open to evidence. Experiments with radium have shaken down some of the firmest foundations of chemistry and physics and have opened broad new horizons for exploration. Sir Ernest Rutherford may be the fortunate dis- coverer of the long sought philosopher's stone, THE PRESIDENT TO THE MINERS. President Wilson's letter to the coal miners is an admirable statement of the case for resuming work as the first step to a final settlement of the strike, It ac- complishes the seemingly impossible in harmonizing the conflicting views of the members of hig: official family. This is possible only because he makes “rea- sonableness” as determined by an impartial tribunal the final test of the judgments of his subordinates. He points to the “unnecessary and unfortunate prejudice” accept the test of “reasonablenes: He emphasizes that if the miners “persist in remaining on strike they will put themselves in an attitude of striking in order to force the Government to increase the price of coat to the public.” the investigating tribunal to consider the reasonable- ness of the fixed coal prices, as this promises an airing of the McAdoo and Glass statements in regard to ex- cessive profits by operators. Perhaps this result would be even more certain if the tribunal to be formed were to include public representatives as well as operators and miners. The pity of it all is that this tribunal was not formed and in action before the strike was called. The chief lesson of the coal strike seems to be the imperative necessity of just such machinery to decide on the “rea- sonableness’* of conflicting claims before and not after a strike, MAN THE BRAKES, E must prepare for the reaction, as the peak has been reached,” “The peak” referred to is the cost of commodities. The speaker quoted is Harry J. Tregge, Secretary- Treasurer of the National Assoviation of Credit Men, who addressed the Associated Dress Industries’ Asso- ciation at Atlantic City, The public is prepared. With growing impatience it has awaited one peak after another, hoping for a down grade path toward business safety and more bearable prices, The public is more than prepared, It is weary of waiting on the anxious seat and hopes Mr. Tregge is correct, His statement is a ray of light in the gloom, but it is encouraging. He sees the danger that lies in the ready sale of merchandise, “no matter what the price.” Every convert to his statenient that “brakes must te applied” will slow the runaway train afid prevent the smash which will develop if the brakes fail to hold. BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS, RETCHED weather and heartfelt weariness of the very word, “drive,” may help to account for lagging sales of Red Cross Christmas seals that tequire an extension of the sale périod if New York is ‘o purchase its quota. There may be other reasons but none to justify a failure in selling the seals, New York should bear up its end, Antistuberculosis work is “safety first” for each and all, Perhaps everything accomplished by the Proceeds of seal sales ought to be done through taxa- tion, but until it is so done the need for seal sales will continue. Every year tuberculosis counts more victims than died in the A. E, F, Everyone has equal interest in checking the white plague, which is no respecter of persons, . Buy Christmas seals because it is a beautiful and charitable custom, Buy also as you would invest in life insurance for the benefit of your loved ones, = A FLOURISHING BUSINESS, M Y a fairly important business concern has an annual turnover of less than a million dollars, Yet the Silk Association of America announces that silk thefts for 1919 widl aggregate more than $1,000,000. Including Saturday evenings and Sundays, which are the best days in this business, the average daily haul is about $3,000, Here in New York three successful deals netted 10,000, $20,000 and $50,000 loot in a single week. Silk merchanis may soon feel the need of instafling “pill-boxes” to guard their treasure, 8 There have been precedents for Henry Cabot ladge, In 1869 Charles Sumner, Senator from Massachusetts, succeeded in killing the treaty with Great Britain which provided for the ad- justment of the Alabama claims, He was duly dropped from the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate at its next reorganization; John Lothrop Motley, the Ambassador to Great Britain, who persisted in voicing Sumner in- stead of the Administration, was recalled, and the treaty adopted—a triumph for diplomacy over arms for which Ulysses 8, Grant deserves a credit not always g'ven that simple soldier, whotthas not received the appreciations as a the philosopher's stone has been a dream he ages. | ility of changing one metal . thinkers wise and honest gentieman which his civil Garggr truly carnsd Ne which would certainly follow a refusal to| It is encouraging to note that the President expects | ™ Wanr | # DEMocRac WE ARE Nor To GET one WE WAVE a if | je Wants to Stay, F Coblenz, Germany, Nov. 13. ‘Yo the Matitor of ‘ihe Breving Work: The other day I received from home an advertisement pertaining to the November elections. It asked. the people to vote for the candidate al- luded to in the advertisement, One of the matters which this Congre man-to-be-favored was the taking cf| American soldiers off of foreign soil and returning them to their homes as soon as possible. Now, I for one, a member of the Army of Occupa- tion in Germany, disagree with this proposal. And about 'y one else over here disagrees with the proposal also, The Army of Occupation in Germany now consists mainly of re- placement troops. ‘They enlisted this year when the call for 50,000 replace- ments was sent out. They enlisted for a three-year period with a promise of overseas service if they so desired, I have been in the Army of Occupa- tion for the past few months and, taking everything into consideration, Larrive at the conclusion that I would rather “soldier” over here for the re- maining part of my three years than anywhere else, ‘Things that a soldier buys, whether he needs them or not, are cheap and easy to get, When our day of “soldier- ing” is finished, we are allowed out of our compound or barracks till a desig- nated hour in the evening. (If not on guard or other duty.) In their own time, of which they have plenty, they can go to the best show in town and get the best seat in the house for 4 marks (15 cents), If they desire other means of amusement, they can go to thy Fest Halle, same being gun by the Y. M. C. A. ey have vaudeville and movies most every night at this hall free of charge. At the Libert Hut, which is also run by the Y A. they hold boxing and bouts every Saturday night There is also a larwe library operated by the L. A., which always has a large supply of good reading books. Salvation Army has a large, cozy club room, with big soft cushioned chairs, and good music 18 also furnished, All of the aforesaid is run solely to help make the “Yanks” stationed here feel at home, If the parties who are in- teresting themselves in the Army of Occupation will give a little thought to the above, their minds might be persuaded to “let well enough alone.” If you will publish this letter you will take a load of trouble off of an A. of ©. doughboy's mind, I am and wish to remain, A MEMBER OF THE ARMY OF OCCUPATION, Headquarters Com- pany, 8th United States Infantry. in School Lanches, New York, Dee. 4. "To the Editor of The Brening World Tam deeply interested in your cam- paign favoring school luncheons for children, for I know how much real w ide |NDUSTRIOUS DEMOCRACY” HE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1919. © AN v Buy | GOINg UNTIL N FROM EVENING WORLD READERS tige in influencing the city authori- Ues to divert this surplus of $250,000 or more now on their hands from the Army Food Sales to create a fund for this worthy purpose? This money, if spent in this way, for the better- ment of our future citizens, I feel sure could bring objections from no one, MRS. ANTONIO PISANI, Member of Local School Board, District No, 1. To the Editor of The Evening World: Stage wit is sure ebb. I attended three Broadway shows during the past week and at each alleged humorous references were made to certain brothers who manufacture cough drops, For twenty years—during periods of wit- drought—the same lines or slightly varied—have been ‘sprung. — Last night I saw a Douglas Fairbanks movie ugh drop joke was shot on the sereen, What has become ot tho American humorist? DBSPAIR, Lodge As a Hamortat, New York, Dec. 8, 1919. To the Editor of ‘The Brening Worlt Senator Lodge ought to go on the vaud@ille stage, It strikes me that he would be no less than @ “riot” in humorous sketch in which the actOr must keep a@ perfectly straight face while telling something funny, Senator Lodge says, "We wanted to help." Cer- tainly, But whom, what, and why? Did he want to help kill the President? Did he want to help his friends of the oil companies? Did he fant to give the American people somthing to laugh ov. and to take thelr minds off of su corking good joke, as most anyone but the Battalion ‘of Death will admit, SCHOLASTICUS, EVEN WORLD PROFITEERING EXHIBITS, No. 2% 00:1 comes from same. What do you think of my sugges- tion that you. use your valuable pros (The New York Kvenin UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. Compridht. 1919 TRY BLAMING YOURSELF FOR A LITTLE WHILE It is always easy to find somebody to blame for your mistakes, Yourare probably misunderstood. Everybog You are probably a square peg in a round hole. So is every other unsuccessful person. Doubtless the world is blind to your talent. It was blind to Shakespeare's talent for many years, But Shakespeare died a rich and successful man, The temptation to “pass the buck” is often almost irre- ible. But yield to it till it becomes a habit and you might Il quit now, You will never get anywhere, While most of the bicycle repairers in Dayton, O., were blaming the collapse of the bicycle boom for their hard luck, Wilbur and Orville Wright were at work on a vehicle that would as far, surpass the bicycle as the eagle surpasses the anybody but themselves, and they blamed themselves severely when they made costly mistakes. : By and by they found a way to escape their own blame. Then they began to succeed, In every office there are clerks that blame the boss for their lack of opportunity. They find an excuse for all their bad work, for the results of their idleness, And they are so busy finding excuses that they never have time to find the opportunities that are around them. If you don’t want other people to criticize you, be your own critic. Don’t be an easy one either, Make your own standard higher than your boss's. Give him a little more than he expects, or a great deal more than he expects and you will attract his attention, If you don’t attract his attention except unfavorably, he'll begin to hunt for somebody who will. By J. H. Cassel + The New Plays Valli Valli the Chief Asset of “Miss Millions” BY CHARLES DARNTON. ONEY may talk, but “Miss M Millions” fairly yelled Jast night at the Punch and Judy Theatre, Both song and spect! were sp noisy that the ear was hit with- out mercy for two acts. Then the clamor of the city gave way to the peace that is supposed to steal, over you when you settle yourself on a Jersey farm. A little theatre like the Punch and Judy has nothing jn common with the Hippodrome. This fact, evi- dently, was not considered by R. H. Burnside, who not only wrote the “book,” but staged the piece. Mr. Burnside's sense of sound is greatet than his sense of humor, though I must admit that a reception room in “N. Y, City” was funny. A penel reserved for happy maidens tak'ng a bath—they didn’t seem to eare about swimming—left nothing to t artistic imagination except a frieze of impressionistic elephants, , On the other hand, nothing could have been more simple than the story. A rich youth loved a wait- ress in a tea shop, and to keep him from matrimony his businesslike uncle “staked” the pure and deserv- ing girl to a fortune for a week or 80, believing she would leave Jack * flat the moment he appeared to be “broke.” But, as you may guess, ahe loved him for himself alone. Sen ment means as much to mu comedy as the lumps of sugar we treasure these days. Incidentally. chorus men wore high hats in the tea shop. Vinton Freedley did very well as Jack. Rut it was Valli Valli who Proved to be the chief asset of “Miss Millions.” She {is as young and charming as she was ten or twelve years ago, when she came from Eng- land to the Broadway Theatre and made a delightful impression in “Veronique.” She ‘sang pleasingly, danced with the lightness of @ feather in a spring breeze, and dia played such good taste in dress that she was always charming to the eye. , The music by Raymond Hubbell » was tuneful, though commonplace. * For the most part, it was sung lust- ‘ily, in keeping with the acting. layton White bellowed his lines until I looked for the walls to crack, and another fat actor, Rapley Holmes, was almost equally explosive. Mr. White had an advantage over his part- ner in noisemaking, for he gave us his word that he would kill Uncle Ephriam. But William Burress was permitted to live in spite of a per- formance that would haye made murder justifiable. Happily, Cissie Sewell danced cleverly, and thes chorus girls+-especially a red-headed ! charmer—were so pretty that “Miss Millions” was not without the charm of the glorious vex. It would be unfair, at the same time, not to mention a man who said‘ he couldn't find his tooth powder In_ the morning, but added he had found a jar of powder on the mantel, whereupon # venerable yokel ex- claimed: “My land, that was the last that remained of poor old Aunt Mary!” This toothsome tidbit of humor may give you a fair estimate of “Miss Millions.” FS" palais aioe Film Records. ILM records as @ source from F which future generations may reconstruct effectively tho hbs- tory of to-day have had their share of attention, and a goodly number of * them have been laid carefully away for @his purpose, says the Scientifia American. A feature of this proce- dure to which attention, has not beem called is the increased fire hazard which its general adoption would cre- ate in our schools and museums, & There are of course people who are abused as much as }|!4rge stock of celluloid ts excellent they think they are, but you can write on the postage stamp $| Material for a conflagration, and thia the names of all such persons you know. You and nobody $]| Po8sibility should be well guarded, af, * bd —————_—_—— else are to blame for your failures or responsible for your success. Be unsparing of the blame. Check up every day’s NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE, | rat 4 j > y A Japanese inventor has patented « work and see if it would satisfy you if you were the boss, If }| gedic*bmploying balloons to help raise it wouldn't, do better work the next day, . sunken vessels, Nobody will be interested in your excuses or your ; “alibi,” By. ery} the end of the handle of a new alibis.” Everybody will be interested in what you really }} ,dtt,the,cnd, Ne Inserted a card wit accomplish, You can get somewhere in the world if you try, $|it# owner's name. But ‘you'll have to try extremely hard, for there ‘will be E Beit? etition, The Servien Government buil sbundant competitio: a canal from the Daaube to Salonica, 373 miles long and Yequiring alxty+ tive locks. AND THE COAL STRIKE. with foresight will provide at once] To give sheet lead rigidity amd (From Collier's.) measures for volunteer replacements! strength a process has been invented Violence may be passive, Our] the form of police squads and per-|for reinforcing it with iron oF étee! haps of industrial brigades to guaran- | gauze. citizenship has too slight a protection| tee preservation of order and to in- provided against passive yiolence.|sure the constant flow of the bare] yyaying only about three horses to People, however, will not long be pectenitien af life. This after a ©0011 each 100 residents, Switzerland's the part of anyone to do the things|lesson of the railway strike jn Eng. [2% 2aton. necessary to keep life safe and pos-| land. eee ‘itis aeuniaa Sateaek-toaes an tana | sible, no matter how legal it may be, - of eggs will eat a ton of mulberry is in effect an assault upon public NOT WITH THEM. Teaves and produce from 160 to 200 3 4 it (From Warikaturen, Christiania.) pounds of silk. welfare, just a8 serious as the assau boect, Waiaresn'ladeeds He ie auly a of direct and unlawful violence, and}, iieq, His brother professors have| Using @ secret process of his in~ just as serious in effect as the refusal] attended the funeral, At the end of| Vention, a French scientist comverts of men to serve against an enemy in| the ceremony the professors take their | flowers, fruits and even anima) Gl - time of war, It may be that peoples| departure and on the way from the|S8ues into metal the world around, acting for self-| church yard Prof. X, who had assisted preservation, may write into thelr|{n conducting the services, looks| A metal basketvhich can be folded laws prohibitions against this form| around and, eyeing his companions,| compactly enough to be carried in @ of passive violence; it is almost cer- ‘say ‘Where's Petersen? 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