The evening world. Newspaper, December 11, 1919, Page 26

ws -” eee nao a enero meanness at nena nome THE EVENING WORLD, | fair deal. The very existence of tie Steel Corporation | rests on the publicity of Its price and profit schedules, | Most Americans are willing to be fair, provided the relation is reciprocal. This applies both to employees and the general public, 63 Park Row { r Wary, 63 Park Row. | By J. H. Cassel The Love Stori of Great Novels| By Albert P. Terhune! aes Voli Wah No. 23—The Sorrows of Werther; By Goethe T's is one of the sloppiest and y JOSEPH PULITZER. by the Press Pub ESTABLISHED | Published Datty Excep Company. Nas. 53% is ana, » ITS OWN HIGH COURT. is cdaeee aie Oo Oe Br the question remains—large and insistent as ever: Was there no other way? : ¥ «NO. 21,296 ’ | No, will be the answer of men whose policies pre- WANTED: SPECIFICATIONS. vailed in the earlier councils of the mine workers’ or-| FFORTS to hold down Federal appropriations are ganization. | welcome even though they come from a disciple No, will be the answer of the kind of labor leader of the same political faith as T. B, Reed, who utged whose first axiom is: No settlement without a strike! libesal appropriations and gloried in broadcast spending __in which | take command. of tariff receipts because “this is a billion dollar + country.” In growing to be a “four to six billion dollar coun- try” the voters and taxpayers have learned to discrim- !4ce 4 coal famine in zero weather, who must see their c inate more clearly in the matter of Federal expendi- industries slowed down, their business hours short- tures. Economy is demanded, but not parsimony. ened, the lights of their cities dimmed, cannot be so Federal expenditures have expanded enormously in easy convinced that were it not for their suffering recent years because the Government has added one and ‘lessee the mind worker could not be cel service after another to its duties. This has resulted : f — _ because the voters wanted these services more than brating his victory. they hated to pay for them. ; lis his victory—his deserved victory. He has a Economy in Government affairs is imperative. | right to call it so. The 14 per cent. wage increase But Specifications in economy are very much in order. with the guarantee of further adjustment of claims as: A budget bill centering responsibility for appropriations sureq him under President Wilson's plan of settle! is the first specification. There should be reductions, ment js undoubtedly the miner's due. The public is’ but Chairman Good would render a greater service bY giag to ste him win it. ‘The public would all along specifying’ where the cuts should be made rather than pave been glad to see him win it, r iow much must be cut off. | It is when the mine worker and his leaders—and Appropriation paring, such as cut off the ripened other workers and other leaders—begin to tell one an- etaployment service a year ago at just the time wl en | other such victories can never be won save by such it: was. most needed, is not economy. Do Chairman) means, that the public listens with misgiving and longs Som sy “es es tn ad De eae reel for some jolt strong enough to start labor reasoning ro} co-opera vs" {along new lines, Uullding? In vocational education? In Americaniza- The same victories for workers, the same results fed rate sen as contrasted with — be and Va to be won by fighting that takes r lace on a different field. { It is too soon oe how much should be cut vil Where claims of employers and employed conflict, thé appropriation bill. Taxpayers need to be saved fight of some kind there must be. The average worker from every cent ee unnecessary expense. It is time tikes publicity for his fights. He likes the attention of rather to point out Tahir s ohek ram with) the public focused on his wrongs and his efforis to | __ tofit to the nation as a whole. ‘Then it will be time to| rient them. Conferences in back rooms with closed ne, a of the beg eeatetal doors do not appeal to him, He feels they get him ab in ere are disquieting rumors % a revival nowhere, and in-many cases he is right, He likes | the old-time pork barrel measures over which T. B.| fieht in the open with something to hit against—even iJ i VOLUME 60. | silliest love stories of all litera ture, Nevertheless, for more than a half-century it was accounted as the most famous romance of its [age. So it merits a place in our series. . Werther was a student, who was also a poet and a dreamer, He was supposed to have a wonderful future; The country cannot accept this answer, ase eves: th Big youth We Wie WAlle® sei tad ‘ we <2) ‘as @ genius. Millions of people in the United States who now y ‘ | He had little real knowledge of the , leveryday world, and had lived and walked among his poetical dreams. So, when at last he fell in love, be ‘had no experience or common sense | to save him from disaster, And dis- laster was not long in seeking him lout. | During @ holiday journey the young poet accepted an invitation to visit |the home of a village burgomaster. |Race suicide had no chance in the | burgomaster’s family. Hjs house was \fairly swarming with children. The oldest of this brood was @ |pretty girl named Lotte, who acted as | housekeeper and nurse and governess for the younger folk.of the home. Lotte was a stolid, dutiful, worthy girl. If there were more like her | there would be no ‘seryant problem. |But she was rather stupid and jaek- ing In imagination. Not at all, the kind of woman to &ppeal orcinai te ja poet-dreamer, except by contrast | with his own impructical ¢ 5 ("When Werther walked in |kitchen of the burgomastera he had his first glimpse of \ She wag leaning over @ table, cutting |up bread and butter for the children's supper. ‘ She looked so sweet and domestic as she ‘busied herself with this motierly task thut poor, fodlish Werther proceeded at once to fall lerazily in love with her, She was the one love of his erratic life. | Werther's education’ and his t= coms manner—#o different from the | ways of the village swains—made an \instant impression on Lotte, She fell in love with him; as deeply’ her placidly cow-like nature would 3 her fall in love with anyone. And''that was all the good it did either of them. For the burgomaster had already chosen a future husband for thg girl. 'He had picked out for her a stodgy land well-to-do young farmer tamed Wert. And Lotte was too dutiful to fon her fathor’s decree. Ibert had no tdea of Werther’s Recret love for Lotte. And he formed an admiring friendship for the sor- rowful poet. Werther fled in despair from the scene of his lost happiness, Lotte and Albert were married and settled down to bum-drum life to- gether. But Werther could not keep away. A few months later he ventured back ‘to the village for one more look at Lotte. Albert invited him to pay them +@ long visit. Werther accepted. And he fouffa himself ten times more deeply in love with Lotte than ever he had been, But Lotte was a dutiful wife, Wer- |ther was honorable, ‘The husband ‘trusted him and was his friend. To the German's sentimental way of thinking, there was but one way out ot the dilemma, And Werther took that “one way.” In other words he killed himself. | (Note: To sane, modern readers, this story may seem not only stupid but idiotic. Yet, in 1774, when t peared, it took the whole rea world ‘by storm. For years it was considered the ideal love story. Wer- ther’s cowardly example ‘served to © / make scores of other sighing lovers commit suicide, Goethe built up the tale from @ set of experiences in bis own romantic life—and thereby won the hatred of the real-life people con- jcerned in his story.) een ae a _ Reed gloated. if it’s only a bystander. And he likes leaders who will bean lead him into a fight that means something and that people will talk about. The trouble is, we haven't sufficiently understood these natural instincts of the workingman with a grievance. He wants his claims to stand forth as boldly and publicly as possible, where they will have their full chance. We urge him to go and arbitrate them in some dim corner, What we ought to do is to provide a tribune or stage for industrial disputes that would become the most conspicuous forensic centre ever established in of the earth. the United States. The best legal brains should meet + Capt. Smith’s feat is less spectacular than Capt. Al- and contend there. There should be a body of judges cock's or the flight of the NC-4, but as an evidence of selected in such manner as to command the respect of the! wonderful development of the aeroplane it is even both capital and labor. When the workingman more significant. ‘The distance traversed was vastly brought his claims to that court ‘he should be certain greater, He has been on the journey for nearly a of a hearing at which he could feel the whole country month, making short jumps in comparative safety,with to be present. The capitalist should be required to time to care for his machine and himself, a pioneer come with every fact and figure the court considered ait tourist. him bound to fumish, if It is such flights as Capt. Smith’s that truly measure If we had such a tribune for industrial contests the achievement of the aeroplane builders. It is diffi labor might begin to choose for its representatives cult to realize that it was only ten years ago that the great lawyers instead of professional agitators and brothers returned from France after demon- irresponsible radicals. It might find zest enough in a g that men could fly for a few minutes and a fight carried on “thus conspicuously in its behalf to iew miles, ener turn a cold shoulder to the temptings of professional * strike promoters, With the potential right to strike always behind its demands, it might be satisfied to ; “OPEN BOOKS.” urge those demands first and last, in its own special lee W. PERKINS, speaking before the! court, witMfout” stopping work or slackening pro- Institute of Arts and Sciences at Columbia Uni-| duction, Or ig ay y e versity, expressed some truths to which every employer If such a tribunal had existed, the miners in ihe feecthen Wocanventoone epee their °" the public, of labor and every producer of commodities may well| soft coal fields might have been celebrating to-day [ DAmande, HIRE SUCK ad Such & He, ANOTHER “ACE OF PEACE."’ shaper enyadarhog yma ead ral , major aviation events of the year by flying home from England, approximately half way round the . His name goes in the list of “aces of peace” “i thos of Hawker, Reed, Alcock and Maynard. «" Fhe~year has-witnessed a succession of wonderful flights over long distances and in the average run of weather conditions. Those best versed in aeronautical affairs are confident in predicting the circumnavigation UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. Coprm@nt, 191%, YOU WILL NEVER BE A NEGLECTED GENIUS. One of the best known of modern poets, ill and desti- tute after a lifetime of toil, announces cheerfully that he is emphatically not a neglected genius. True, he has no money, but it was not money that he worked for.+ His fame is perhaps not as great as his talent merited, but he did not work for fame, He worked for the joy of working, and that was enough. He looks back upon his life feeling that it brought him all that he could ask. Genius is not neglected any more than diamonds are neglected, and for the same reason. This man, had he chosen, could now be comfortably supplied with money, We believe that he should have been, Every man owes it to himself to gain independence, and money means inde- pendence, Our poet's celebrity could have been coined into enough cash to ease his old age, but if he preferred to neglect his opportunities it is nobody's business but his own, It is his absence of bitterness that is worth heeding. He has discovered, what every other man should discover, that no earnest effort is wasted. He has learned that people are only too ready to recognize genius when they find it, and to reward it when they recognize it. Indeed, so keen is the hunt for genius that hundreds of near-geniuses grow prosperous in America as soon as they betray the least sign of talent. Feod Profits for School Lanches, New York City, Nov. 28, 1919. ‘To the Diitor of The Evening World ’, I see that the Board of Education is too poor to give penny lunches to the children any longer. I think this ig an outrage. It would be better if they gave milk to the children instead of paying large salaries to nurses to cail on mothers to see why children are not up to the standard in health and leaving orders what to feed the | children on and all that stuff, Why Fenny | Trust is also in the candy making | business and no doubt they are us- | ing up tens of thousands of pounds of sugar to supply their numerous stores, Is it any wonder that the | public ts unable to get a single pound of it The Evening World has done won- | 1 things in the past to protect lic interests and 1 know it will | rontinue to do so in the futur . A REA 1 living on 11 Cents a Day. New York, De . 1919. | To the Editor of The Evening World: | I have just read in The Evening | World Dr, Harvey W. Wiley’s sta! ments on living costs. | How much does he himself apend during the day? Does he eat corn | ™meal himself? Does he live on 11) cents per day? How many days did | ne live on such meals as he urges | | the laboring class to have? W, B. | Cold as Greentand, | | New York, Dec. 6. To the FAitor of The Brening World y that is standing le that was taken in on the army od sales? They don't know what with it, Well, use that ‘or for the children who need it M. R., @ Mother, Profttecring im Clotht New York, Dee. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World; The men's and women's clothing manufacturers and, wholesalers an- | hounce that clothes for 1920 will DFO e 60 pe 5 F teed Rida Wee os ae Doesn't it seem that Hedley js too ing to? Have we no law in this coun-|°ager to grasp the opportunity to try of ours {to prevent groups of (ura off the heat during rush hours wholesalers and even retailers in . carat thelr respective commodities from ‘24 to curtail the number of cars? xetting together and fixing prices?|! can iinagine the glee with which Or if we have, why are they not en-| he seizes the chance to put one over | 1919, | From Around |The World In Lonoke and Prairie Coun ties, Arkansas, wild ducks have done such serious injury to the | Where Wild Ducks Injure Crops. We poor slaves, forced by eco- | > re , pe s that the Department cessity of life will be higher, ‘They| omic reasons to live long dist Publish a cass hy ih , i | viee crop: ‘ ‘ ime o e 0 vance from our work, who ar t ca ublishers and producers hunt for men who can write. a give thoughtful attention. the same victory, so far as their gains are oncerned,' tell you that in advance so you) |i Diy) Bot ielong to labor un | Of Agriouiture, Nas teens ‘on shouldn't be shocked, and then a lit- tle later they raise the price | We surely are jumped on by | I'll just state one example and a Sides. Just think of it! We get up one at that of profiteering in| the morning in cold flats, gulp uainted | down a cup of coffee and a roll and | st retail, ride to work in a car that has b he city, if! laid up all night on a siding and jnot in the entir vountry; namely, therefore is cold as Greenland's 4s 4ll To stop asking that question merely because the Canal Street, Manhattan, ‘Suits and/| mountains, The cars are crowded overcoats that ere sold for $15 to| pow, but when they cut out some of | coal strike is over would be to stultify American in-| 320 two or three years ago were be-| the trains you can imagine the re- | telligence. We have got to find a way. ing sold up to within two months sult. The well-to-do, of course, who | as : fe ago for $40 to $50 apiece. Even the) go down later, will have heated | As a first step, try giving labor its own high court. Great Sorporations send out scouts for men with executive or enginecring ability that is beyond the common order, No musician who is really gifted ever fails of an audi- ence, And even industrious mediocrity will sometifnes be mistaken for genius and have riches thrust upon it, Cast the fear that you may be a neglected genius from among your worries, If you are a genius somebody will find it out, and you will have to hire an office boy to keep people from invading your privacy. Even if you are not a genius you are likely to be mis- taken for one. But that will not harm you unless you make the mistake yourself. Be carcful not to do that, for it will be fatal. order, effective during thie month, to permit the shooting at night of these birds, under cer tain restrictions. , ¢ eh f£atire Church Built From One Pee. In Santa Rosa, California, ac- cording to a writer in American | Forestry, is a church which will hold 400 people, duilt entirely from timber sawn from a single redwood tree, Everything used without the loss of a day’s wages and without having deprived the country of a day’s output of bituminous coal, Was there no other way? ‘© he first requisite to a better’ understand- ‘ing ail around is frank, square dealing and publicity of the most open sort as to the cap- itglization of @ business, the volume of busi- ness done, the profits earned, &c, Open books * will do more than anything else to open the ‘way to a solution of these problems (of rela- tions of employer, employee and the public). Square dealing with employees and the public is _ the best insurance against industrial trouble and against unfair restriction of business. Open books are the final hes. 1 am fairly well h conditions in the la nen's clothing centre in old jeftover stock too, The salaries | cars, | of the saleymen were then increased| Hedley shows no compunction, ex-| on an average of about $16 to $20 a| presses no sorrow for the necessity— | week apiece, Immediately the same] in fact, his eagerness shows his sat- | | suits were marked up $8 to $15 ea isfaction, He even asks carte | COAL AND CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. 5 ' Ane arat ite that th 1 oe eo S| | in the construction of the church +o 5 + yn the firs! wits a he ~| Manche, cannot believe, though, | ” Pp ot Y) ‘dl proof of good intentions. Business men are coming to, man sells h his increase in| that the Public Service Commission ~ was furnished by this tree, with On al rest, which on an scsi sae ? _ a better understanding of this. It is not a panacea for ARLY Christmas shopping advice has become sors pe A baer id NE d business ills. Too frequently in the past books have trite that we had thought to omit the annual suita per week, the additional profits rf . or, ., *, 5 £0 he pocket! ff thi er, not*been open until the business was sick, Take the| reminder, After all, the sin of late shopping carries Same oe the stores have all the way ' from ter to twenty salesmen, 80 you will allow him to do such an_out- rageous thing. HOT ICICLE. LIKE THE LAWYERS. eR X - AMBASSADOR GERARD w York, Dec, 8. condemned at a dinner in Lenox ning World the logal red tape which has the exception of the glass and hardware. The building is 80 feet wide by 100 feet tong and cost $5,000. A sister tree to this NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE. The National Library in Paris con- tains the oldest map of the heavens, ‘To the Baitor of The Es case of the tractions. Take the charge of profiteering | with it its own punishment in crowded aisles, depleted Sy coal operators which alienated public sympathy stocks and sales forces suffering from the strain of the from the coal operators and has fostered unwise pro- But taken in posals, for “nationalization” of mines. time it is a business tonic, + «Open books does not mean the revelation of busi- mess to the public and to competitors, It does mean frank and truthful statements to Jesponsible commit- tees of employers and to responsible representatives of public, who are in position tu assure their constitu- ents that all is fair and square, holiday rush, all establishments. can find the time? Shoppers and merchants must make the best of al But the coal shortage has complicated matters. The full effect of the coal saving rules is not yet clear, | , but shopping hours are to be curtailed in many if not | 7,‘ PAitor of The Brening World: Early Christmas shopping is’ no ing in th longer possible, The question now seems to' be, Will there be hours enough left so that all who wish to buy! can readilg see the enormous profit- coring. Where in 1916 the owner made a profit of $5 on a suit, he is | to-day making $25. “RACK.” Boosting Tobacco Prices, East Orange, N. J., Dee. 8, Much has been said about profiteer- 8 of life, but noth- necessit ing has been sald a profiteering in Five-cent at first went to six cents, then seven cents and now they are two for fifteen, Other cigars and tobacco have gone Your editorial on the coal strike in last Saturday's Evening World struck the nai! on the head. Whither are we drifting In this glorious land of the free and home of the brave? Our President has cer- tainly done the very best he could for our country and mankind in gen- eral, but it has seemed to be a fara task against those wrangling poli- ticlans, As for the bravery of our good Americans, that has been proved by the prompt response of our boys in going over there. As for our freedom this makes me laugh, They spring this Prohibiti permitted the Kaiser to escape pun- ishment so long. “Legal red tape and lega! incon- gvuities,” exciaimed Mr. Gerard. “This Kaiser business makes me sym- pathize with the young lady law student who ridiculed the familiar legal plea, ‘Not gullty; but if guilty, alleviating circumstances,’ “This plea,’ said the young lady, ‘reminds me of my little niece's ex- cuse when she was found with a kittem in her bed, made in China in 600 B. C,, and show- ing 1460 stars, Bellows to be worn like shoes, pumping air as a user walks, operate a recently invented vacuum cleaner for carpets and rugs ° It is estimated that Germany could obtain 1,500,000 horsepower from its waterways, only about one-fourth of that amount being utilized now, A transparent shield to be fastened to one side of an umbrella has been one furnished employment for two years to two men in reds ing it to shingles, 22. 8 Let's Go to France! In journeying through France, Trade Commissioner Hertz re cently visited many shoe fac- tories and tanneries and did not notice the presence of time clocks, He says a great many’ of the French technical journals 7% | up in Proportion of course and the | on us and tell us what we must drink.| ** "Gladys," said the child's mother, Datented poral anil to, see | here hom een much promt Open books stands the pragmatic test. It works.’ disagreeable situation with as good grace as possible. | "18 Wouat ia: should the ‘Tobacco | NOxt, they will tell us what we must / uf thought 1 told you never again to crican efficieney Some of the most successful experiments in industrial Careful planning of shopping lists and buying Bemocricy-and indusirial peace have been founded on morning hours, when stores are least crowded, will help in ‘Trust have unlimited power to do as it pleases and “pass the buck" to a long-suffering public without @ pro- | test? . | As you will notice, the Tobacco eat, and next no smoking will pe al- | lowed in this country, With the high lcost of living, rent profiteering and this coal strike we poor consumers are certainly having a fine time and are paying the freight, oO. H. M. allow pussy in your bed?" ” that was last night,) mother," Gladys replied, ‘and, be-| sides—I never heard yor --Washington Star, A radio station with a sending ra- dius equal to half way around the world and with a capacity of 72,000 words 4 day will be built near Bor- deaux, methods, and as a consequence, the French manufacturer shouts offer a market for the sale. ops, time clocks, ning,