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ah . cS . orld, i § ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. } Published Dally Except Sunday by the Preas Pubiishing f Company, Nos, 63 to 63 Park Row, New York. i She . . RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SUAW, Treasurer, 68 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr. ary. 63 Park Row, 4 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ‘Tee Associated Prese is exclusively entitied to the use for republication news deepttches credited to {t or not otherwise credited tn this paper | WHERE IT SHOWS. ‘ HIS is the twenty-third day of the new year and ed Bh the United States Senate has not yet ratified the Peace treaty. The United States is still excluded from peace an the League of Nations, of Americans just now, but the hold-up of the treaty has not passed out of their minds, What many of them think of Republican tactics as , displayed in the lon@wrangle over the treaty is sig- i nificantly shown in the present enthusiasm with which they are hailing the bold suggestion of a non-partisan Presidential election. No wonder Senator Lodge feels it incumbent on him to find the prospects of compromise “bright and promising.” Every day the treaty remaihs unratified is adding to the number of voters in all parties Who would rather elect a man like Herbert Hoover President on an independent ticket than vote for candidates who represented primarily the plans and projects of party politici 4 Qu for the at borough Company, offering a $33,400,000 issue of painted its Unless William H, Anderson will run for Governor the people of New York must feel thembelves cheated of the full referendum ‘ to which they are entitled. “PAY TEACHERS MORE, HHICAGO'S school system was threatened by dis- content and dissatisfaction over teachers’ salaries. Chicago has faced the question and revised the scale, * On an average Chicago teachers will receive about $50 a month more in 1920 than in 1919. What does this mean for New York? Jt is just as | New York’s recent salary increase didgnot prevent last year. Clearly it is not large enough to meet the sult the schools are under-staffed, dition will continue until wages generally are increased |‘ u sufficiently to attract an adequate supply. school authorities everywhere must bid against each other for the services of the available supply. Chicago | , ould prefer New York, As a matter of justice the teachers deserve more pay. \.. AS a matter of business policy it is essential that they e ; §tt more pay—and soon, No community—and least of all New York, witlt its + large foreign-born population—can afford schools that gre not efficient and productive. 1 THEN—AND NOW, “Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson were I considered tra{toré in their time, and but for — | Jon, them the Stars and Stripes which you so elo- . quently wave would not be in existence” — Morris Hillquit to the New York Assembly, at as the trial of the suspended Socialists, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson Said: “Cesar had his Brutus; Charles the First bis Cromwell; and George the Thigl (‘Treason!’ cried the Speaker) may profit by their example, It this be treason, make the most of it."— Patrick Henry, “Speech in the Virginia Con- vention.” “Brror of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it...... Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever sfate or persuasion, religious orgolitical...... freedom Jany of the press......trial by juries impartially se- b lected—these principles form the bright con- vic stellation which has gone before us, and guided ig our steps through an age: of revolution and reformation.”—Thomas Jefferson, “First Inau- gural Address.” Would the patriotism of Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson pass muster with the New York Assembly? be ‘cio WHICH END IS THE HEAD ? es Party? he Can any one—even Chairman Hays—reveal it? imi. Can the prize platform plank essayists clear up the, fat charged with “packing” the Military Affairs Committee | ar( against universal military training. | of military training. opposite ends of his body. Ordinarily, the trunk may ‘ai 1. three-year convertible 7 per cent. gold notes, prospects thus rosily; be distinguished by its greater size, But which is the |{runk in this instance? * The question of military policy might be bothersome for the Democrats as well, but the Republicans have the burden of responsibility because they are in power. | HAS THE TIME COME? its digging close to the roots, Railroad, which afterward sold for $27,000, cannot point to a past of poverty and struggle. , The Interborough auditor admitted yesterday that the Interborough has now a surplus of between $10,- 000,000 and $12,000,000 invested in the New York and} 1eens Gounty Railway Company. He also admitted, “to some extent,” that the Interborough’s subway lease has been reckoned valuable enough to become the basis $120,000,000 of bond and note issues and $35,- {000,000 of stock. The Interborough cannt conceal the fact that it has} found the business of carrying billions of passengers in} biggest, busiest city of the United States highly profitable, Whether at a given moment the Interborough has boasted or belitiled its profits has depended on whether, that moment, it was borrowing in Wall Street or pleading for permission to raise fares. No longer ago than September, 1918, the Inter- “It is estimated by independent engineers that with the present rate of fare the total net income available to the company will be $12,- 440,000 in 1919, increasing to $17,480,000 in 1922, as compared with $11,520,000 required for estimated interest and sinking fund charges payable out of income in 1919. “This estimate of earnings is based on a S-cent fare, amd the engineers state that in making the estimate full allowance has been made for the unfavorable conditigns brought about by the war.” ' The Interborough had a succession of fat years, Part} Abell to’ face the facts, | of its profits put aside during those years might have) carried it through present troubles to a time when con- 1,300 resignations from the teaching ranks during the | ditions may improve. . That this was not Interborough policy during pros- competitive bid from the commercial field. As a re-|Perous days; that, on the contrary, a $50,000 bonus here, $100,000 for lawyers’ fees there or “commit: | There are not now enough teachers to fill the Na. | ments and obligations” to the tune of $1,500,000- tion's schools with competent instructors, This con- |i" some other direction were considered well within means of this favored corporation is a regrettable Meanwhile |“itcumstance for which the public can in no wise be {held responsible, That is where earlier traction finance in this city | It is necessary that New York prevent this with 4 /&ance, over-capitalization, creation of fictitious values counter-bid., Otherwise our schools will deteriorate, |"egardless of what properties or franchises involved were actually worth, One point established is this; ‘ In providing transit service in this great metropojis | Uaited States. 1 am not a Socialist, of 5,500,000 people, the Interborough has not gone | broke because the public would not ride in its cars or because it could not earn 17 and 20 per cent, dividends on the basis of a 5-cent fare, fraction policies inherited from the past have laid burdens on the earning power of the present, las the time come fearlessly to examine those bus s and, so far as may be, get rid wf them? Or are they, concealed, to be carried, in the future in the past, by ‘the potential paying-power of the | public? That is the real question. A PURE FABRIC LAW. \ DVOCACY of a national pure fabric law com- parable to the national pure food law seems to a worth-while suggestion, Is there any reason why fabrics should not be figged insure the purchaser against adulteration? Is there reasonable objection to such a course from repu- je dealers or manufacturers who are themselves the tims of less scrupulous competitors? There will be opposition. Tricksters will have spe- us objections, * Not all of our “allewool” fabrics {come from the ba ks of sheep, This accounts in large measure for the favor bestowed on English woven suit- ings. | which foreign buyers purchase American fabric It also accounts for some of the reluctance with The honest manufacturer suffers for the sins of the dis- 4 \ honest, . F HAT is tne military policy of the Republican) ‘This is ot \ say that only “all-wool’ goods should manulactured. There is a place for shoddy, for xed goods, for artificial silk and treated eotton icle. A pare fabric law is in line with modem theories Major Gen. Wood, the present leader in the race for of business which froivn on the old maxim of “caveat the Presidential nomination, was the original prophet | empior.” A pure fabric law would be a tremendous a home and abroad, a Board of Estimate’s traction inquiry has begun | It has already delved well down through the surface of known facts. Interborough Rapid Transit profits in recent years ? |are no myth, , / A transit corporation that paid dividends totalling | ; 18714, per cent, in sixteen years, that could afford to | give August Belmont $1,500,000 for services of the | Many important matters are claiming the attention |Sort required to obtain the franchise of the City Island } set in eg > I _ THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1920. — By J. H. Cassel ft, 1020, ? New York Rrening. World) It Makes Soct Te the Editor of The Evening World: In your issue of Jan. 19 J. B. T. upholds the action of the New York Assembly, In the first place, it will Las started and will draw away teachers who normally went wrong. Profits based on honest earning power | be noted that he Is a resident of an- were so great that they were temptations to extrava- | ther State und, as is natural with out- of-tqwn people, they are the ones to howl most about something which happened in another State, I am a true-born American. My father fought in the Civil War, and when the war was over he became a citizen of the but an everyday Democrat. When I read such stuffy which is supposed to come from an American citizen, it makes me believe that I should ‘be- come a Socialist, Mr. J. B. T., in all fairness to every one concerned, would it not be,to your interest to, mind your own Business and keep your own doorstep clean? We have problems to meet in our State, and we are well able to meet them without outside in- terference. If a number of men in your class would only go to Wash- ington and start housecleaning, so that those of us who are still in the good American class can retain the freedom which our forefathers fgught for, you will accomplish something, but when you come out with such statements as were puplished you are Stepping on the wrong foot. We are trying our mightiest to keep down the Bolshevist movement, but such acte of the Assembly as you uphold only tend to create @ stronger inclination of various people to join the Bolshe- vist ranks: ‘The Evening World is right in its fight against such downright un- American political play. Why don't they (the Assembly) unseat all Pro- hibitionists who are elected? They are just as guilty as the Socialists. They have taken away from us, not through clean politics, the only salient point we Americans ‘cherish—FREE- DOM! Some other nonsensical party is now endeavoring to take away the smokes, and before long there will be another party who will tax you for the air you breathe. [ Mr. J. B, T.. your forty years of reading The Evening World has not benefited you yery much and your knowledge of good politics is very vague, | suggest that you either give up a part of your time studying po- litital edonomy or else read some Jer- sey backwoods paper to complete your ining days. remalnE GORGE B. MERWEDE. N. Y,, Jan, 19, Brooklyn, A vw Deal, fo the Kditor of The Evening World 1 am a constant, reader of your yalvable paper and Nave read numer- ries, but the public has’as good a right to know|ous articles In your columns, 1 also question? what it 8 getting to put on its back as to pul in its] have @ Briewance to state tn 3 i , i elle Saar "| to the Anti-Saloon League. I am a Chairman Mondell of the Committee on Committees | stomach, When it is buying adulterated or mixed | jartender, thirty-eight va of age, is titular leader of the House Republicans. He is|goods it should not be required to pay for the real| married, and have been tending bar ever since | was able to work. Ww }1 have been forced out of work by the Prohibition Party, 1 very hard to get a position, but al- ways seem to meet with the same yesults when applying for — one: “What have yeu worked at before? “As a bartender, just now.” some heavy labor, . and bred is this great country, to be, am trying “We have nothing Or perhaps the entployer The elephant’s trunk and the elephant’s tail are at making the “Made in the U, S. A.” mark popular both | {ite°Keavs tubor.’ Dot you think it 1s |fair for an American citizen, born | hoe, | treated like this? With the few dol- lars that I had saved I bought Liberty bonds, but was forced to sell them to keep my wife and myself from starving: Jam one of thousands (at | meet the same fate. Don't yoy think something ought to be done for the bartenders? The majority of us are sober, upright and clean living men, A raw deal like this does not. seem fair, aE Brooklyn, Jan. 21, gent. Why City Horses Shiver. To the Editor of The Evening Worl Miss Beatrice Eton asks, “Why are horses with D. 8. C, on blankets and owned by the city not properly coy- ered? Blankets are’ bunched up around the horses’ necks.” I can tell] her. It is pure laziness on the part of the drivers, and nothing else. 1 can safely say that if I did not cover my horse properiy, if he stood still’ for one minute, I would be arrested jand fined by the American Society | | for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- | mals. But the society has not the| |nerve to interfere with animals owned |by the City of New: York, I am a |driver with a heart and believe in‘ |square deal for the horse,” which |unfortunately,~a dumb animal and |cannot speak for itself. JOSEPH RAYMOND. (A Truck Driver). Y,, Jan, 20. him. verse. Brooklyn, N. Ode to John Barleycorn, To the Editor of The Evening World: | Oh, the good old days of yore No more again we see; Without you, dear old Barleycorn, Oh, how lonesome it will be! No morning after the night before, NQ head that’s like a ton; No gayety on Saturday night, Oh, never any more fun! What will we do?) Wh Without you, Whiskey You were our only When the rollingpin was near; You were with us in the morning And always there at noon; And even in the great, dark night Beneath the yellow moon, We mourn! We mourn the loss of ye Who made us so jolly and gay And we hope, oh, dear old Bar! That you'll come back to us some day, RF building. Demands a To the Editor of The Evening World Referendum, {your paper lakes in regard to the | ehsh nth Amendment, I ask the /in the \\iberty, through the columns of your | our libertie: told those we send to Washington w| We i of 21 es ve not repre- | feeling oul | represent us that th Whave not repre- | Ve Gemand sented us as they had promised when | will. give We must inform them that we lovers |own desires. of our country and its Constitution | found the and the liberties and pri 8 Rrant- ed us therein, do no lon, tend to have laws passed to satisfy the wishes of a few fanatics, The law now prohibits the poor man's lass of beer and grants the rich e y UNCOMMON SENSE The one is useless—even harmful. driving force that is behind all science and all progre A man gets out of an automobile in a busy street to pump up a tire, The same people will stand round a mam who has fallen and injured himself, gaping at him, and interfering with those who want to aid him, being there. They have seen hundreds of tires pumped up —scores of men fall down: rudeness and idleness. Intelligent curiosity is born in the human being. It prompts the baby to pull his rattle to pieces, and later on to punch a hole in his drum to see what ds inside that makes the noise. It finds its fullest development in the painful investiga- tions of the scientist, seeking to solve the riddle of the uni- nding out how things work is almost all of useful knowledge. The man who is indifferent te his going very far on his journey in this world. He needs curiosity. gratify it. He ought to be curious about thg growth of the tree, the manner in which buildings are put yp, or bat- tleships are put together—the movements of the stars in their courses, He ought to cherish an abiding thirst for knowledge— ‘knowledge about everything. Such a man will get an edu- cation, whether or not he ever sees the inside of a college His curiosity rightly directed will force him to know things—and knowing things is education. The child who asks countless questions should be en- Moreover his‘ curiosity should be employed as a means of educating him, and made greater as the years go by. And presently it will serd him out into the world de- termined to find out things for himself. that stage his parents and teachers can stop worrying about him, Ne: He will get along. couraged. It is with pleasure 1 read the stand| man his wine cellar. them that such laws will no longer be their vote, |tolerated, that we shall"have our say | passing of laws which affect We must tell them that American, paper, to speak a few|if they cannot find time to Some tHe Race wege among us, who elect the ce, | a words to my fellow citizens, It Is rare ‘ask our wishes as to how we, afi _Red-bloodea he-| high time, fellow citizens, that we! should like them to vote or whether )™eh; men who resent the fanatics’ we are for or against such laws af- liberties, ferendum vote, which | ch and every Ame they carfle to us seeking our votes. | citizen the opportunit to expr These representatives to come among us when they were seeking our yotes, to intend to | elect them to office. endure the juggling of our personal} wanted wo represent us, liberties, as has been done in the | citizens, we must inform our Con- passing of the Prohibition Law, and |greasman, each and every one of us, we, the majority, do no longer in-| by letter or petition, that in the pass-/ ing of the Prohibition Law his rep- resentation does not meet with our approval, and that we shall never be satisfied until the Eighteenth Ainend- time They said they By John Blake. (Copyright, 1920.) CULTIVATE, THE RIGHT KIND OF CURIQSITY. ' There are two kinds of curiosity, morbid and intelli- The other is the A hundred people gather round to watch They gain nothing by “Their curiosity only breeds surrodndings is not It is important that he should It should be fed, and developed, When he reaches We must tell ment is submitted to the people. for i W. H. Bronx, N. Y. C., Jan. 19, 1920, le Violation,” claim that they are a lot of weak-| minded pinheags who haven't enough | pense to decide for themselyes what | beverages they shall drink; men who | believe im the old-fashioned American principles of personal liberty and ine dividual rights. Are there not enough of this kind of Men in the United States who will unite in a protest that will show that the American people will not tamely spbntit to the intoler- able violation ‘of their rights and lib- erties imposed by the National Pro- hibition Amendment? WHIDDEN GRAHAM, $39 West End Avenue, Jan, 20, then | can his But, fellow {8 =@ total of $26,900,775. By Albert P. Terhune. 39—Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott. VANHOE, the soldier eon of the grim old Saxon nobleman Cedric, was disinherited by his father, and went to the Crusades in the army of Richard Lion Heart, King of Eng- land. But he left his heart behind ’ him. He left it in the keeping of flaxen- haired Rowena, hia father’s ward, whom he had loved since childhood. During the Palestine wars Ivanhoo Won the esteem and friendship of the King. Richard himself was in almogt as bad case as was tlie young Ivan- For, during his absence at the Crusades, his younger brother, Prince John, had seized the throne, Back to England, in disguise, came Ivanhoe and the King. Ilyanhoe, drawn by IdVe, went at once to Cedric’s hall, where, unrecognized by his own father, he made his present known to Rowena, who had mourned him as dead, Rowena and Cedric were about to set forth for a grand tournament at Ashby. And thither, to win favor in Rowena’s eyes, fared Ivanhoe Still in disguise, he gave battle to the tournament's stoutest knights, overthrowing their champion, Brian de Bois Gilbert, and receiving from his sweetheart's own fair hands the tourney’s prize. But during the mimic battle at Ashby he was sore Wounded. Re- becca, .a gloriously beautiful Jewess, and her father, Isaac of York. took pity on him and carried the wounded knight away with them, to tend his hurts and nurse him back to health. On the journey toward Isaac's liome, the whole party was captured by Front de Boeuf, a robber baron, and imprisoned in his castle. "The castle was besieged by foes of the baron. These besiegers were led by the King himself, — As Ivanhoe lay sick and helpless in his cell in the castle Rebecca at the window told him the course of the siege. Bois Gilbert, when the castlé was stormed, carried away Rebecca, with whom he was madly in love. When she would not listen to his vows of adoration he denounced her as @ witch. She Was sente to die, unless some champion should come forward to fight Bois Gilkert in de- tense of her innocence. The champion that came forward at the very last moment was Ivanho: He-wought thus to repay Rebecca f Ter care of him during his illness. it he did Mot guess that that care vas due to the fact that she had fallen in love with him. Yet he paid his debt, right gal lantly. For, in the duel for Rebecca’ life, he overcame and slew Bois Gil- bert, and established ghe luckless girl’s innocence. By this time the King had con quered or cowed his own enemies ar had recovered his endangered crow One of Richard's first steps, after re- establishing himself on the throne, was to reward the faithful service of Ivanhoe. He made a peace between . the disinherited young knight and old Cedric. And, after years of sorrow and sep- aration, Ivanhoe and Rowena were at last united. . News Flashes From Around The World Air Mail In Finland, A Finnish air mail and pas- senger service has been estab lished between Sordavala and the Murman Coast, the first trip be- ing made successfully a few days ago by the Finnish airman, Capt. Mik. Where Celery Comes From, The lettuce and celery crops of Florida contribute annually about $1,500,000 to the incomes of the truck growers in that State. About 4,000 acres now are devoted to the culture of these crops and this area is being in- creased constantly. a ce) He New Overseas Wireless. The Minister of Public Works has introduced a bill before the Danish National Legislature pro- viding for the erection of a pow- erful wireless station by the Dan- ish Government, It is planned to build a@ station of sufficient size to send wireless messages directly to the United States, * « « Safety Ravors for Soldiers, Only safety razors will here after be issued for use as part of the equipment of American soldiers in the field, the War De- partment announces. No move “straight” razors will be pur: chased after the present supply has been erhausted, 8) 6 Great Fire Losses, The destruction of property by fire in the United States and Canqda in 1919, according to the records compiled by the Journal of Commerce,” reached The fire loss during 1918 was $317,014,3885 and in 1917 was $267,273,140. e The total of loss in 1919 has been exceeded only twit “Onve in 1918 and once in 1906 when $439,710,000 was lost in the Sun Francisco fire, 7