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eye aN ESTABLISHED BY JOBEPH PULITZER. [Published Datly Except Sunday by che Press Publishing ma. . ‘Company, Nos. $3 to 63 Park Row, York. RALPH PULAT? Pr 8 Park Tow, J. ANGUS SHAW, Trearurer JOBEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park ¥ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press te exclusively entitled to the use for repabiteation ef all news despatches credited to it oF mot otherwibe credited tm unis paper {and ‘also the iqoal news published herein. IN THE NATURE OF A SERVICE. T may be questioned whether the refusal of the Dutch Government to surrender the former Kaiser will not have to be reckoned a kindness rather than an injury to the Allies. Condemnation of the Hohenzollern has not changed. His guilt is as real as ever. But a kind of guilt that is always liable to its just and proper punishment during war may become an exceedingly embarrassing thing to deal with under the more exacting standards of peace. Adequately to punish the former German War Lord would require the enactment of present law to cover his past crimes. Ex post facto laws are abhorrent to civilized peoples of to-day. Any tribunal which at- tempted to try the former Kaiser would find itself in an impossible position between desire to inflict due punishment and demand for strict adherence to prin- - ciples of justice which the modern world regards as fundamental. A trial ending without due punishment would be a deplorable farce. The system which William II. represented was tried and sentenced to death. The sentence has been ex- ecuted. William 11. was not the originator of that system. He was anly its product. Alone, he is not big enough to be dangerous, He is no leader of Napoleonic mould. He is no lion to frighten the world so lohg as he is known to be alive, All things considered, the Dutch Government has; done the Allies a good turn. \ Not because the Amerongen exile deserves mercy, but because to try him would force Allied peoples themselves to argue for mercy from faithfulness to their own basic principles of law. THE COUNTER-PLOT. 66] T is the duty of the Senate,” said Senator Ashurst of Arizona, “without regard to what the Presi- | FARMERS AND LABOR. | ORMER sheimbers of the Socialist Party the organization because of its war stand are | advising industrial labor to abandon both old political parties to unite with farmer organizations, They sug- gest the formation of Workers’ Independent Political | Leagues, as in North Dakota and Minnesota, This, ee assert, is preferable to formation of a labor party. | who left Granting all that these volunteer advisers say in re- gard to the decadence of both old parties, it behooves the labor voter to examine carefully into what the | Social Democratic League describes as “the only tried method by which farmers, workingmen and the simi- larly situated elements of the urban middle class can co-operate.” | What are the conditions under which the trial has | been made? North Dakota is as nearly completely agricultural | |as any State in the Union, There is no industrial }element worthy of the name, and even if it received {the most favored treatment the dollar and cents gain| would not be an appreciable burden to the farmers. | Minnesota too is predominantly agricultural, But | | there is a substantial group of unionists. A working | agreement that may prove effective has been reached between the Non-Partisan League and more radicai | elements of labor. Political conditions in Minnesota are abnormal. years the State has been ruled by a vicious corporation. | controlled ring acting through both parties, but prin- cipally through the Republicans, who are virtually su-| preme in the State. | Next to North Dakota, Minnesota is the principal battle-ground of the Non-Partisan League. Controlled by A. C, Townley as it is, the league is making a des- perate effort to break the ring control. Because of} the ring, the league will gain support from many who will hazard anything to break the ring. Town- ley is willing to promise anything for the vote of the labor element, which probably holds the balance of power, Both examples cited by the volunteer advisers are abnormal. The North Dakota experiment in agrarian State Socialism has not yet proved its practical value, is still accepted on faith rather than on a record of accom- plishment. i For dent thinks or does not think, to press forward and ratify the treaty as the Senate thinks it should be rati- fied, instead of planning, scheming and plotting as to who should be President.” The Senator might have added that Senatorial planning, scheming and plotting which holds up the Peace Treaty in order to lay the wires for the Presi- dential campaign is digging a grave for its own projects. The country has sized up the situation and started a counter-plot. His name is Hoover, A PROMISE, ‘The voters of this State will never be happy until they can mark a ballot on which the name of William H, Anderson appears among the candidates for Governor. If the Prohibition Boss pgsses that rei- erendum they guarantee to make him President. Minnesota is entirely in the promissory stage. In most other States the farmer organizations show little or no desire to co-operate with labor. Many granges oppose the eight-hour day. The “only tried method” has not been tried under normal con- ditions, What is the situation in New York? That is the question for local laborites to consider. Here the up- State farmer vote, largely Republican, is openly hostile to the city labor vote. Consider the example of the Dairymen’s League. Also the opposition to wage and hour bills, Is the Minnesota plan applicable? Are there any farmers who will co-operate? The Minnesota-North Dakota alliance cannot last if itis successful. In the final analysis the economic in- terest of the two classes must clash, as in New York. Farmers want high prices for food. Labor wants low living costs, Farmers want cheap machinery, Labor wants high wages. There is an opportunity for independent group action by labor, In the long run, it must be without co-operation of any very large group of farmers. The OFF THE SAFETY VALVE? MS country of ours is at present torn between two diametrically opposite forces—extreme re- action and world radicalism. If we follow the policy of reaction we are sitting on the safety valve and it will blow up. We must take the central course, and that is constructive liberalism. — Assemblyman Theodore Roosevelt to the Bronx County Republican Committee. It is difficult to reconcile so worthy a statement with \Assemblyman Roosevelt's vote last week to unseat the five Socialists. These are good, wise and statesmanlike words. That swas a bad, foolish and political vote, It is fine to be right all the time. It is almost equally fine to be wrong, to admit it, and to rectify the mis- take as far as possible. Perhaps the nature of the Judiciary Committee hearing has disgusted Mr. Roosevelt as it has others. We hope that his words to the Bronx Republicans indicate that he is ready to climb off the safety valve and oppose the Socialists instead of oppressing them, A STRONG CASE. HERE is no dissenting voice in the opinion handed iT down by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday sustaining the decision of Supreme Court Justice Finch which restrained Lewis Nixon, Public Service Commissioner, and Receivers Begg and Hume from increasing the fares charged on the lines of the Manhattan and Queens Traction Company. The view that a contract is a contract, even when one party to it is only the city representing the inter- ests of people who have to pay street car fares out of their daily earnings, appears to be the view of the court. It remains to be seen whether the Court of Appeals will hold that the Legislature must equally respect the city’s right to insist on the five-cent fare provided in its contract with a traction company. So far, the public seems to have a strong case. nnn | Cee Social Democratic League plan is impractical in so far as it relies on much rural assistance, TO ROB OLD NEPTUNE. oe cables report a scheme to salve the more valuable parts of the cargo of the Lusitania, The hulk itself lies too deep to raise from its resting place in the depths of the Irish Sea, but special machinery is being constructed to recover some of the movable treasures from the ill-fated victim of the German sea ghouls. The news itself is ordinary enough, yet thousands of men in offices and factories felt a quickening of the pulse when they read the brief article. For the mo- ment confining walls faded away into the dim horizons of the tossing ocean swell. The desk became the steering-wheel of the salvage ship, The workman's cap became a diver’s helmet and the commonplace companions of the workaday world were transformed into adventurers in search of a more than Golden Fleece. Security and comfort were forgotten in the spell of ihe siren call of the treasure beneath the waves. A hundred similar schemes are afoot unknown to ihe world at large. Inventors are puzzling over devices to thwart old Father Neptune's jealous guard and add a fathom to the depth at which man may work and recover the valuables lost at sea, For a thousand years Neptune has taken his toll. His treasure vaults hold the ransom of a thousand kings. The profits which Sir Francis Drake was able |to wrest from the loaded galleons of the Spanish Main are but a trifle compared to the treasure just out of reach to-day. Science is enlisted in the contest, Science has an eye for accomplishment as well as for profit, and the invasion of the ocean depths is a fascinating problem, It will require brave and hardy men to rob the ocean of its loot, But when were men lacking for such haz: Jardous enterprises? He would be a foolish prophet | who would place a limit on the possibilities of enor- |mous recoveries within the next few years, } . THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1920. Some Acting! right, 1920, Cop: , by The Pres Piblishing Co, (The New fork Erentug World) PSS WHEN PLEADING ron) S ; \ WRCENT FARE “To the Te: Yo the Editor of ‘The Bren I wish to extend to you and your associates of The Evening World my sincere appreciation of your fine edi- torials on the Prohibition question. I read them every evening and am proud to notice that a big metropoli- tan daily is so conscientious about the welfare of its loyal citizens. Your fine editorial to-night about “To the Test" was a masterpiece and I hope and pray that little Rhode Island, the smallest State in the Union, and the first to test the validity ‘of the Kighteenth Amendment, will be suc- cessful, and that the grand old com- monwealth of Massachusetts and the Empire State of New Yons, which have always been the stepping stones to so many who cherished liberty and freedom and whose citiz ! ways been first arise like one man liberty and freedom away from. its citizens by the hypocrites who fear Prohibition, Worcester, Mass., eral years Ago was voted dry ‘by ti same hypocrites for two years. Why? Because they could go to the nearby cities and towns and replenish their supply of beer, wines and liquors. This year a3 a last hope that Prohi- bition would not come they voted Worcester wet by thousands—in fact the largest majority it ever went for license. CONSTANT READER. Worcester, Mass, Jan, 21, 1920. He In Deeply Moved. | No bhe Falitor of ‘The knening Word, Have read in your paper regarding the ejection of the five Socialist mem- bers of the Assembly, and although it is not very often that I am moved 0 write of even speak about public airs, I simply cannot help it in this case. Tam r that they should have been given a hearing before being expelled, and al- though up to this time I was not per- sonally in favor of their party, jus- tice to all regardless of party is my motto, 1 would like to add, how would Mr Swoet like to be ejected without a hearing? 1 don’t think he would stand for it. Tt seams absolutely ridiculous to speak about patriotism and Ameri- ‘anism by other parties than the So- clalist, when the cost of living is still soaring, when the right of its own American boys for six months’ pay was not upheld, when light wines and light beers as’ beverages have been taken from the people, and also the total disregard for a popular vote on any measure that may arise, Mr, Sweet speaks about the benefit of the people and working in their interest. It looks just the opposite to me. ‘To suspend the tive Socialist moem- bers was very unwise is an admitted fuct by all, and yet why do they have Unwise and foolish men as Mr. st in charge. I would like to ex- press my feelings in language a little | stronger than ti G. B. Brooklyn, Jan dy to debate with any man World 's letter of Jan. ‘Ty the Kaitor of The Bren In regard to W. 19 about telephone operators, 1 am sure no operator needs to take any instructions from another operator as | hibition”), if you think she is very polite to you when she is speaking to you, I’m sure| you don’t know what she is saying about you under her breath. The rea- son for the abrupt answers is because of the insults we have to take trom subseribers. I'm sure, W. S., whoever you are, if you were an operator and had to do two girls’ work and get one girl's salary, and have some one yell- ing at you all day long and insulting you, you would get a little impatient. Just suppose all the operators should resign, what would you do without them? I'm sure the people could not do without them. But still they are always kicking: Some people can't be satisfied. I would like to see some of them do our work. A TELEPHONE OPERATOR. What Sweet Is Doing. To the Editor of The Evening World: lam a daily reader of your valuable paper and I know that your paper stands for justice. As our great President Lincoln said, “Justice to all and malice toward none" I would ask you what right Speaker Sweet has in expelling five men rep- resenting more than 65,000 voters? I, as an American and ex-service man, have never yet voted a So- cialist ticket, but when the principle of democracy has been violated and representative government has been denied { will certainly voice my senti- ment for the Socialist, Fah Be New York, Jan. 22, 1920, To the Eaitor of Tho Evening Workd Thursday morning, Jan. 2, 1920, I left the subway station at 157th Street and Broadway on the second train after 9 o'clock. I was just recovering from a severe cold’ and did not care to expose other passengers to the danger of infection and I allowed the first. train, which was filled with packed-in ‘humanity, to pass, The second was not so crowded, but I discovered that I had made a mistake It was icy cold, must have been standing out ail night. When I reached my office I was thoroughly chilled, I agree with you that the I. R. T, has no right to call itself a safe railroad when it subjects passen- gers to such danger of illness. WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, New York, Jan, 2, 1920, To the Editor of The Evening World: 1 am desirous of entering some very good business course, either night class study or correspondence, but he- fore doing so would like to get the advice of some one who has been in about the same position as [ am now and Who has gone through some good course which has helped him advance himself, Any advice on this topic will be greatly appreciated. W. J. R. New York, Jan, 22, 192 Wholesale To the Kaltor of The Evening World I read an article in The Evening World of 14th inst. (‘Predictions of Dr. Robinson on Enforcement of Pro- and I thoroughly agree with what the doctor says. I am a man sixty-one years of age and have used whiskey every day for a good many years, ever since I contracted a certuin disease, Now that the saloons UNCOMMON SENSE | By John Blake. (Copyright, 1920.) DON’T BE AFRAID TO USE YOUR TONGUE, You differ from the beast of the field, first because your thumb is opposite your other fingers, which enables you to pick things up and hold them; second, because you can communicate your ideas to others. Don't be afraid to talk. Don’t be wary of the talkative Speech is your greatest gift. It was given you to use. Men who do not argue are slow to learn, Argument brings out mental combativeness. It makes you think. If we all were agreed on everything we should be a dull race. It was argument that made the Greeks a great nation, long before learning was at the elbow of every man who chose to profit by it. Groups of men walked or sat about, discussing, dis- agreeing. The strength of one man’s argument forced his adversar: to think up arguments to refute him. Their minds were exercised. Their wits were sharpened. And gradually, because of the intensive thinking necessary to intelligent argument, they became wiser, shrewder, better able to understand the problems they were trying to settle. Argument is always valuable. Young men at school do well to join debating societies. When their school days are done they gain by meeting their friends and discussing everything discussable, fom Presidential campaigns up to the mystery of the hereafter. Thus ideas are exchanged. Thus minds which have thought only on one line are turned into fresh channels. The reasoning power grows, and it is the reasoning power of the human mind that will one day solve all the problems that can be solved by finite creatures. It is a common vice to sneer at talk and at talkers. Much talk is idle. Much talk is to no apparent purpose. ‘ But all talk is better than silence. Listen to any debate in any legislative body and you may be bored but you will be sure to learn something. And if you were taking part in the debate instead of listeni iz to it you would learn still more, for your mind would be busy, and only the busy mind develops. You can ply a spade all day with no mental effort. But to talk at all you have to think. And to talk well you must think -hard, Learn to talk as well as you can, It is the best possible mental exercise, although, like everything else, it can be overdone, man, will shorten my life by several years. I am surprised that the country has remained still and let a lot of fat- heads pass such a law committing (indirectly) wholesale murder, what with hundreds of people being poi-| soned drinking alcohol and others | over middle age who have been in| the habit of taking whiskey and now . having their lives cut short for the|!0Wing persons would be a fair rate: want of same, Of course, it's the| The wife who no longer receives beat- working class who will suffer, as the|!"#8 from a drunken husband; the |moneyed class have ma mple pro- | father who can no longer see his son vision for remedying this by having| Towing mentally, morally and ph; their cellars fitted up for storing| Cally through the inspiring influence liquors, I am greatly surprised the| Of the corner saloon; the citizen who matter has not been taken up before|thinks he has a right to travel in our this and aired through the press, 1/8treet cars without being molested by would like to see the matter taken|the bestial actions of a person under up by some persons better able t.|the influence of liquor, handle the subject. Hoping to see| Such a tax, I assure you, Some New Taxes. ‘To the Editor of The Evening Wi You are right, . W. FG." We should tax the churches for that $10, 000,000 which New York City is losing through Prohibition. I, _ however, would go even further than that. [ think a tax of $10 on each of the fol- would you suggest. 1 am sure she is no bet- ter Even than any other operator, are closed I feel the want of same, and I know if this continues that it the case publicly thrasned through’ easily cancel that deficit the papers, I remain, r GBORGE M'NULTY, St, Albans, L. L, Jan, 19, ‘New York, Jan, 22, 1920, ere Wy Where to Find Your Vocation | By Max Watson Vo.ational Adviser Re-employment . Bureau, N.Y. c by The Press Publishing 0% York Evening Wor) Copyright, 1920, rie Now nee Below is given an article of The \ Evening World's Series of At ¥ alytical Descriptions of Vocations Suitable to Young Men entazing | $trades and business. Study tease y \Qcarefully, weigh your qualifica \Stions, and find the work for \$which you are best adapted. een | Automobile Mechanic. | 1, Opportunities for entering this trade, More young men are interested ™ [becoming automobile mechanics than ‘any obher trade. There seoms to 66 |some unknown romantic connection [which draws them to it. The experi« ence of the Re-employment Bureau |for returned soldiers in New York has beén that more young mén want- jed to take up this work than nearly Jall other trades combined and that there were fewer opportunities than jin any other line. Many returned soldiers who had yome experience im * {the army around automobiles seek to | become mechanics, and often have given little consideration to their natural abilities for such work, The |country is full of automobile schools |that are turning out men with mee chanical training, but it is rather difficult for these men to find posi tions. Auto mechanics who are first class workmen and own their own vols have not much difficulty in find ling work, but most concerns will not |take time to train partially ‘iilled | men. There is a mistaken idea | working in an automobile factoryy f= ¢ fers from other forms of mechalsSal \ production work. Men can be secured | | to work in an auto factory at a low wage when they would not consider working in a plant making stationary engines. An auto mechanic is a ma« chinist who specializes in this work. jIv young men who want to become |outo mechanics would be willing to ‘ get their experience as machinists they would have a better chance of changing to auto work after becom- {ng good general machinists than if ( they tried to start at the bottom as bs apprentice auto mechanics. Auto me- |ohanics as a trade is not an especially desirable one. It is noisy, dirty and not very healthy on account of the fumes. Unless young men have a very decided mechanical trend and have handled tools in one fonm or an- other they should not take it up. “S» < ( 2. Salary. With no experience the beginner May receive from $16 but these openings average mechanic in a |; ceives from 60 to 65c. An expert who can find the trouble in any make re ceive from 75 to 85c. an hour, | 3, Schooling. More than a common school educas tion is not necessary. Theoretical training in a schoo! is helpful but cannot ‘rive the practical experience to make a first class mechanic. Many employers do not give much value to courses which turn out an auto me- chante in a few weeks. Any general training in mechanics is heiptul if @ man desires to become an expert. A high school training which includes | Physics gives a good background, | 4. Duties of an auto mechanic, a large shop most of the men The motor mechanic must to do all work in the adjust- ment and repair of the motor proper, inelu e transmission. His most: difficult work has to do with scraping, fitting and lining up beurings, The ignition man works with the timing |and repair of tne magneto and gen- era! ignition system. He should have a good knowledge of electricity. ‘The rear-end man works on the differen- tial and rear axle, including the drive ishaft. The chassis man specializes |on the frame, wheels and springs. In an automobile factory all work is highly specialized and a man may work for months doing one single operation over and over again which only takes a few seconds, This work requires but little mechanical ski * and therefore is of but little value as training for a better position, 5. Type of young man best suited. High class shops will not consider a youns man unless ‘he is naturally | Mechanical and has had some worl | with tools. He must be bright, ae. tive and quick to learn. He cannot | bo afraid of getting dirty and must lke to work with machinery, Young men are preferred who come from a | mechanically inelined family. | 6. Remarks. | Taken as a whole, this trade is not ewsily entered by young men, A young man would do to know where he will find work before he takes up a special course of training, He should a'so consider he has a natural mech |is willing to work w will alw It is no’ collar job" and not suited to the boy who is particules about his appearance, —- France Coming Back, ‘ST a word about Europe, In figuring out what is likely to happen over there don't forget that man—and this applies to the collective man, or nations—has ree markable powers of recuperation, Economists, seeing only the waste and jruin whieh afflict their rly minds, |quite often overlook the human ele ment with rirth of hope, To illustrate: ruction of the texs. tile industry in France, dec! a few months ago to be hopeless k, is now rroceedi speedily. Fully 40,000 workerg aad busy in textile mills that were “hope. lessly" looted by the Germans, Europe will be awake to the necenst. ties of peace almost before we realize Recuperation, slow at the start, I finish dts course with the usuad \"snap back."—Forbes Magazing,