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4 A] | JOSEPH PULITZER. vbitehing Compiny, Nos. 53 to 63 Park Row, New Yorks RALPM PULITHER, President, 63 Park Row, 1US FAW, Treasurer, i PULITZER, Je. Secretary, ~ ESTAPLISH &! [Published Datly Bxcept Sunday by the Preav MEMHER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Anvociaied Press te exclusively Bom of ai) news deapat entied hes erediicd te, Wh on, not Paper and also the jocal Bews published SAFETY FIRST TRUST POLICY. TTORNEY GENERAL PALMER announces & dissolution agreement entered into by the “Big Five” meat packers. It involves the complete aban- donment by the packers of all lines of activity not , directly connected with the business of providing meat, poultry, butter, eggs and cheese, The department pre- sumably will supervise a bona fide disposition of sub- sidiary concerns, not a farcical “unscrambling” as in the Standard Oil case, The packers’ action, it is under- stood, is a bowing to the inevitable, and is a move to forestall an even less agreeable mandatory decree from the Supreme Court. The action marks a distinct step in the Federal policy toward business, It is, in a measure, a recogni- tion of the validity of the conclusions of the Federal Trade ‘Commission, whatever may be the opinion in regard to the methods by which the commission ar- ® tived ai these conclusions, In the section of the series of reports on the pack- ers which was transmitted last July, the commission 2 Meu: ‘} & fair consideration of the course the five packers have followed, and the position they 4" have already reached, must lead to the con- , ,@lusion that they threaten the freedom of the 4 ‘ “market of the country’s food industries and of ae “the by-product industries linked therewith. )» The meat packer control of other food will not -«; Pequire long in developing. What, then, is the test which is to be applied to Blg Business? It is not entirely a question of business practices. If it were, heaven knows the packing concerns would ‘ gi tave much to answer for in the swollen net profit ac- — ‘@ founts rolled up during the war period, Nor is the} Case in which the District Attorney's office may be- ‘question confined entirely to size or present business | come itself an object of Grand Jury investigation. be policy. The final test is not what a great business “Searetteceealied tn tale WHY NOT THE STRAIGHT LINE? lic, The main points are easily grasped. tion 264)2 ‘The District Attorney of the county, an As- sistant District Attorney, or, in the County of New York, am attorney regularly in the em- ploy of the District Attorney of the said county, who ehall be under salary paid by the said county * * © must be allowed at all times to appear before the Grand Jury, at his request, for the purpose of giving information relative to any matter before them. * * * Hence the refusal of District Attorney Swann com- pletely to dissociate himself and his office from counsel the present Grand Jury secks to have appointed for its service, There is, It is true, another side of the matter. The Executive Law of the State of New York (Section 62) provides that the Attorney General of the State shall: Whenever required by the Governor, attend in person, or by one of his deputies, any term of the Supreme Court or appear before the Grand Jury thereof for the purpose of manag- ing and conducting in such court or before such jury such criminal actions or proceedings as shall be specified in such requirement; in which case the Attorney General or his deputy so at- tending shall exercise all the powers and per- form all the duties in respect of such actions or proceedings, which the District Attorney would otherwise be authorized or required to exercise or perform; and in any of such ac- tions or proceedings the District Attorney shall only exercise such powers and perform such duties as are required of him by the Attorney General or the Deputy Attorney General so attending. Obviously the Executive Law herein provides for Note, however, that the Governor in requiring the +» concern has done, nor what it proposes to do. The) attorney General to conduct proceedings before a , too many unrelated side lines, such as groceries, fish, | versity. Admitting that public school graduates scored higher in scholarship and deportment than those from \ private schools, “A Harvard Alumnus” maintains the | superior value of private school training and points out the leadership in unacademic activities enjoyed by private schooi students. Very pertinently he remarks, te | i} | i . Goyerhinent here is concerned with the potential power for harm which a corporation may come to possess if misdirected. The Department of Justice in- ~ tends to prevent any such interlocking of distinct lines of business as might in the long run attain such power 1 as to be able to defy the Government and control many different fields of enterprise, using the strength of one business to batter down defenses of the next. In the Harvester dissolution proceedings the De- partment of Justice stated its position as follows: It was not the policy of the Sherman act , to wait until the evils of undue concentration of commercial power have already come to paiy, but ratber to strike at once at undue concentration of commercial power itself. Had the packers been content with control of all the auxiliaries of meat production, stock yards, private transportation lines, banks for financing live stock pro- duction, and even control of such important side lines as hides and leathers, then they might possibly” have maintaindd, theif status. When they reached out for fruit and vegetable canning, and even acquired hotels to insure a market, then the Government decided they * were growing too fast and covering too much ground to be safe, However sound the packers’ contention that each development was economically sound and conducted in 2 manner to benefit the public, the Government's position is that they were spreading over too much territory, getting too firm a grip, which might some time, under less benevolent direction, turn into a ' squeeze. It is reasonable to assume from the packers’ acquiescence that they believed the Supreme Court would uphold this view. Grand Jury must specify in the requirement what the proceedings are for. It does not appear that this Extraordinary Grand Jury has submitted to the Governor anything specific which he could put into a requirement compelling the Attorney General or a deputy to conduct a hunt in this county for an “overshadowing crime,” which is still— for anything the Grand Jury has done—aii shadow. It should be remembered, moreover, that the At- torney General appoints his own deputies. The law gives the Governor no power to name them. The Extraordinary Grand Jury has been trying to force the game without showing its cards, Giving the Governor nothing upon which he could require the Attorney General to act, it has sought to bring Gubernatorial pressure to bear hard on the Dis- trict Attorney by putting the latter under the necessity of accepting or rejecting Grand Jury advisers picked chiefly with a view to eliminating anybody that could he called his friend. The latest bone of contention is Mr. Proskauer, who, it is proposed, shall serve the Grand Jury as a Special Assistant District Attorney, independent of the District Attorney’s office—which is to furnish only the appointment and the expense money. District At- torney Swann refuses to agree to this. If the Extraordinary Grand Jury has knowledge of facts that point to wrong-doing involving the Dis- trict Attorney's office, why in the name of straight- forwardness doesn’t it submit those facts to Gov. Smith, that he may start an investigation by the At- torney General? If it has no such knowledge, why doesn’t the jury settle down to its duties before it loses all public con- Perhaps this policy may not result in economy of production and lowered price. If so, it is the price we must pay for insurance against future oppression, LEADERS AND SCHOOLS, CORRESPONDENT takes us to task for our praise. of “Public School Results,” as revealed by comparative scholarship records of Harvard Uni- “fn a democracy we need leaders.” Precisely! It is from a broad national point of view that the public school shines brightest. The need ‘for leadeps de mands the fullest development of po- tential leaders, and private school students as a class are the | developed. Were there no private schools, the best of their students would become leaders in the public schoois, From a national point of view, one of the strong- est counts against the private school is that it deprives the public schools of the influence of these leaders, A | second objection is that the private school does not fidence and respect? ATCHOO! Two wet feet And a flowing nose, And a sneeze that follows fast— A sneeze that follows fast—my boys, A sneeze that follows fast! » COLD CARS A CRIME, ITH the influenza epidemic fresh in memory, New York will have scant patience with traction officials who save coal by Many of the cars in storage yards during the night be- come so thoroughly chilled as to seem colder than the outside air. They supply a still, penetrating cold from which there is no escape, Colds, pneumonia and in- fluenza follow. Seven of the jury believed John J, Dempsey guilty vest material from which these leaders may be) of manslaughter because of failure to exercise due care, \in protecting the public in the Malbone Street tunnel disaster. The danger from cold cars is no less real, | ing a cold snap is paving the way for deaths and sick- a train, when the mercury hovers around zero. the public school. Appoades teader if he pragtised in public schools, ‘5, gimingt action, | . ‘THE EVENING AW that underlles the collision between the Ex- traordinary Grand Jury and District Attorney Swann may not be altogether clear to the general pub- The Code of Criminal Procedure implies that a Grand Jury shall seek or permit legal advice from no other source than the Supreme Court or the District Attorney's office, {he Code also provides (Sec- turning off ‘ \the heat in subway trains during the rush hours.|'T | An operating official responsible for heatless cars dur- ness just as certainly as though he deliberately wrecked There is sufficient coal for many inessentials. | afford the best opportunity for natural leaders to de-| Rush hour and every hour heating is not in that class welop themselves through the democratic contact of No “drastic ¢ action” by Public Service Commissioner Nixon can be A private school leader would be a better and too severe. If he fails, there will be good ground for | ee _For the Horse! _WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1919.7 icht. 1919, Tee irae Panliehing Oo, New York Evening World.) ome COMMUNAL LIVING Heating and Washing P. gestion and overcrowding in housing lation % now pending or in force to barracks that are being considered with fawor in England. cated and plans advanced for both It is suggested that attractive wooden cottages and dwellings of the California bungalow type be con- structed om outlying tracts of land, grouped tegether about a central meeting place and community play- ground, Central heating arrangements would be made for the entire group of houses, and in large schemes the electrical and heating plants might be combined, utilizing the waste heat from the generator and saving cost in the upkeep by making use of one en- gineering staff. Communal washing arrangements are recommended, @ common wash-house being installed for the group of houses and women washing in rotation there, While community cooking has been sug- gested the report states that the idea has not met with much favor with the English housewives, most of whom prefer to do the cooking in their own homes. ‘One interesting idea that is worthy in the United States but in every country of Europe. and Regae the situation is critical, and in every country of Europe legis- entt presse wees we ene nw 7. seas PLANS IN ENGLAND Women’s Sub-Committee on Housing Suggests GroupDwellings With Common lants, Also Playgrounds, Bearcity of labor, high prices for building material and lack of pro- duction during the past four years have combined to bring about a con- conditions that is being felt not only In London, Paris remedy the condition. The suggestions for solutions run all the way from the municipal in Spain to the elaborate plans for workingwen’s villages and the system of communal life that is meeting In a recent report of the Women’s Housing Sub- Committee, Ministry of Reconstruction, this community system is advo- urban and suburban community life. of development in America is the plan for communal holiday houses. it is pointed out that working men and women have little opportunity for real rest and relaxation, and that it would be of great benefit to establish houses in the community where mothers could, without anxiety, leave their young children while they them- selves take a holiday with their hus- bands and older children. Large houses in seaside or country places could be given over to this work, and groups of working people could go there for a holiday. This plan has al- ready been taken up by co-operative societies and has been found to be an improvement on the usua! beach hotel or boarding house to which the work- er goce for a summer's vacation. Playgrounds for young children are very strongly recommended, as are playgrounds for children of more ma- ture age, The need for social centres is pointed out, and the work of the neighborhood house type in America cited as an example of what can be done In this field, right. who were good enough to fight for this country who are good and sore because the slackers slipped over the | Prohibition Law while they were gone, Soldiers who did not get demobilized until spring or summer did not have |money enough to lay in g life supply Jof stuff with a kick in it, On $30 a month they couldn't save enough for more than a bottle or two, The f '- lows who stayed at home have got full cellars and the fellows who did the fighting are good and sore about it, I can tell you. BEER-PROOF, New York, Dec. 17, 1919. Silly Excus. To the Editor of ‘Tho Drenuing ‘as The prices of food and all other necessities are constantly increasing. ‘The reasons offered are an insult to the intelligence of the American peo- ple. For instance, the winter of 1817-18 was the coldest in years. | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | that no river ice was used in New York City or the borou, Am- monia, which 1s used in ice manu- facture, was scarce and high priced, &e, Last winter was mild and last summer ice soared higher than ever. After another investigation the pub- lic was informed the increase was due to the nilldness of the previous winter During the war fish gradually tn- creased in price. In the fish store I inquired why fish should be expen- sive, as no one had to feed the fish. The reply was that owing to the mines laid round the coast it was dangerous for the fishermen, and many who formerly had fished would do so no longer, The mines are gone, but fish continues to soar in price, Nov. 1 the price of milk was ad- vanced. Another investigation, The consumer was informed the increase was due to the raise in wages the men were awarded to avold a strike. And the public must not remember that early last summer they were in- formed that by Nov. 1 the price of milk would be 20 cents a quart, though at that time there was no strike, and no talk of one, Shoes are high priced owing to the seareity of leather. If this {ts why make caps and couts of les The following summer ice went up ‘in price. After the usual ailly in- westigation the excuse wan given ful te The However, at present there is very Wttle leather in shoes {he public should be very grate- Bvening World for axnoe. THENEWPLAYS| “Curiosity” A Sex Farce. By CHARLES DARNTON 'F H. Austin Adams had set bimeett the task of writing a farce tm stead of “an inquisitive comedy,” to quote the programme of the Green«' wich Village Theatre last night, he might have made “Curiosity” an ene tertaining affair. But the author eg deavored, in an ingenious way, to tell us what every man and every woman knows. A man may forget his mare riage vows, but a woman remains constant to them. This may be @ beautiful theory, yet it cannot be dex pended upon to make @ play, The idea is blown up the moment an at. tempt is made to bring it down to earth, “Curiosity” is a sex farce, and tf it had been written as farce it might have won laughter, if nothing esa But to consider jt seriously would be’ equivalent to blowing out your braing with @ popgun, in this ext: case it appears that the husband 4 trusting young woman “wend sq) broke” in Wall Street, and then weng IF YOU COULD TRA The best way to get the bos: self there now. Copyright, 1919. You will get several surpr covery that the boss wants you little profit on you now. You e work mechanically, his business, do it. services, is sorry that you won't let him. of you that need to be filled. train him, But until you begin to take as you do in the baseball scores, you. And the fact that he is foolish. Look at yourself through t favorites, better. in the best places. If you are Study yourself from the bo self in his place later on unless, self in his place now. Also you will see that the boss wants to promote you, and a man inside the office than to get a man from the outside and worry about favoritism in the office, No boss can afford to play He could as well substitute a poor typewriting ma- chine for a good one, because he liked the paint on the poor one The man who can do the best work is the man he wants ting, you will never get any more. will get more—when there is a shift, and shifts are frequent. self that you will satisfy him, well and good. If you can’t do that, change your method, You will never be able to put your- UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. DE PLACES WITH THE BOSS. s’s place later on is to put your- We don’t mean to throw the boss out and sit down at his desk. We doubt if that would help you much, ing the trade with your imagination, And when you have made it, take a look at yourself through the boss’s eyes. Begin by mak- ises, The first will be the dis- to get ahead. He makes very ome in late, quit early, do your That is bad for him, worse for you. What he wants is a man who can tell him how to extend You can’t do that now. And when you have learned to do it he will be glad to pay you more money, for he will get more value from your But you can learn to There are several jobs ahead He would rather fill them with as much interest in his business he would be foolish to promote the boss is proof that he isn’t he boss’s eyes and you will not worth as much as you are get- Be worth more and you ss’s angle, If you satisfy your- in your mind, you can put your- Ing the profiteers, who cause most of the unrest in this country, ALICE L, ESLLING. Coming Soon, bd The Evening World Te peuld you please “ask Mr. MAx Watson to tell how to go about getting electrician, also as @ Stbert HARRY COHEN. New York, Dec. 17, 1919. Matrimonial Protection, To the Eulitor of The Brening World; I see Senators in Washington are talking about protecting the American working girl by preventing foreigners from coming here to work, But how about protecting the American woman too? 1 sce yesterday that @ steamship from France came in with thirty French gizls who are coming to get fnarried. Ie that fair to the American girls who want to marry and have @ fone and will have to go out and work in a@ factory or teach if these forelun girls marry the American men? . Just thirty French gizls would /not make much difference. but there is lot of talk that hundreds and thou- sands of English women are coming over here looking for husbands, and Had there not ought to be a law to keep them out unless they are already en- that does not seem fair to me. gaged? JULIA K. New York, Dec. 17, 1919. Seamer OUR CHEER! ] deep thought. A party of French sallorg were celebrating the sign- ing of the peace treaty. They were clustered about a table in a quaint French restaurant in the backwater of one of Boston's cobblestune alleys. Being pleasantly warmed with wines and bursting with Gallic enthusiasm and fervor, the party stood and cheered—"Vive la France!” (Ap- plause), ‘Vive l'Amerique!” (Ap- plause), ‘The calendar on the wall read—June 30. A rather large-voiced woman who presided over the desk at the end of the bar whence the wines were served leaned forward, with a filled glass held high in her hand, and cried: “Bevo! Bevol!”—H, W. Flint, a eeeeneT ene Oar eTEn pasar Tene T occurred in Boston, the city of assent se--tianengergaenamii jto Honolulu, where he met @ lady [who had survived two hu: jand, well, it was a beautiful n with the moon shining and ail sort of thing. There's a lot of talk about it, and the play doesn’t get anywhere until @ more or less ancient lover of the wife makes his way to her mountain cabin in California. Her husband has flown away for the time being in an airplane, If he were an mail carrier he would be plausible. But he just happens to fly off and leave his wife alone for the man who has loved and lost her, as Laure Jean Libwey might say. She is #0 curious to know what happened to her husband in Honolulu that she says to Peabody—and that’s an awful name for a hero—"Tempt me!" He does his best in this unholy direction, yet the moment he seizes her in his arms and calis her to account, she exclaims “No, no!” in horrified tones and urges him to behave himself. This is really all there ts to the play. The wife doesn’t care ang about her old-time lover, and closes her bed~ room door against him when she is on the outside of it and he on the inside. The closing of that door has a slam about it that reminds us of “A Doll's House.” In this silly affair Irene Fenwick suggested a young animal that didn't know its mind; Cyril Keightley took a humorous turn as the lover that taxed his sincerity; Ramsey Wallace was a healthy-looking husband; Merle Maddern talked to no end as @ 80+ phisticated widow, and Arvid Paulsen was a silly Chinese servant. “Curiosity” is too silly for further words, Speeds at High Altitudes CCORDING to the experimental data in the possession of the technical sections of the Air Service it has been found that at a height of 20,000 feet an engine gives only 45 per cent. of the power for which it is good at sea level, says the Scientific American. The great value of the surcharger now being used with some engines les tn its ability to make a motor yield the same power at 20,000 feet that it does in flying at the lowest altitudes | Whereas the Lepere biplane, recently used by Major R. W. Schroeder in am |altitude record flight of 31,800 feet, with one passenger, is capable of @ | speed of 136-137 miles per hour at sea level, at 25,000 feet, where most | of the air fighting is expected to take place in the next war, the machine equipped with the surcharger, has shown a speed of 134 miles. —— HOME TREATMENT FOR TUBER- CULOSIS. Large numbers of persons with put |monary tuberculosis are benefited |by home treatment, and in many causes so treated the disease is ar rested, Dr. W. EB. Brown of the Oa tawba’ Sanitarium told the Medical Society of Virginia at its recent am nual meeting. | “Sputum cups and gauze handker- chiefs that can be burned should be used,” he said. “Nothing should be placed in the mouth except tooth- |brush, food and drink, Cough cas be controlled largely by will power,” and he added: “Cough is sometimes a reflex from wax in the ears or trom enlargement of the lingual tonsil,” Three substantial meals, with a glass of milk at each meal and one between meals, should be given, The patient, he said, can do as well in his own climate as in any other, if he is properly cared for. Dr, Brown recommended that the patient study constantly how to relax completely. He said recovery may be expected tn 75 per cent. of incipient cases by strict attention to these suggestions, In a following discussion, as re~ ported in The Journal of the Ameri- can Medical Association, Dr. Charles R. Grandy, of Norfolk, said: “For control of cough 1 have been using inhalations of chloroform, I have it mixed with creosote and alcohol so that it can be left with the patient.*® Dr. B. B. Bagby of West Polmt said that patients sleeping out of doors should wear two suits of heavy underclothing and two pairs of yarn socks, also that the bed should be warmed before the patient gets tnto {t, Stress, he said, should be laid on the matter of cleansing the teeth, spent a al is THE MATTER WITH KANSAS? (From the Kansas Editor.) W. A. Hill of the Plainville ‘Trswen recently put a full basement under his residence, His home is com- pletely modern and his office one ef the neatest in Western Kansas, i NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE, Asiatic Russia has 168 rivers with a total navigable length of 13,658 miles and four lakes that can be navigated for 707 miles, WHAT To keep a swimmer's hair dry and prevent water entering his ears a rubber cap shaped like an aviatorts helmet has been patented, The first steamship ever designed especially for carrying sea planes, @ 10,400-ton craft, recently was launched in Great Britain. Put a piece of coarse muslin af the bottom of the flower pot before pute ting in the plant. This will pi the mould from washing away. nh