The evening world. Newspaper, January 27, 1920, Page 20

- THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, IBD WY JOSEPH PULITZER. op Freed Fab ishing * ESTA Published Daliy MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Amocinted Press ie exclusively entitled to the use for republication Of All mews deapatenes credited to {t oF wot otherwing credited in (his paper And else the local news published Rerele | WATCH CALDER AND WADSWORTH. HE “bitter enders’ in the Senate have frightened Senator Lodge into a new rigor of obstinacy and obstruction. With compromise in sight, the isrevoncilables in the anti-treaty group have stiffened the Article X. reser- vations into a last barrier between the country and peace, To whom is the United States Senate responsible ? Or is it a law unto itself? Some thirty New York business men representing | the Merchants’ Association, the Chamber of Commerce it serves to wake Ainéricans to a thor mug ion of the immensely important part our plays in making America what it i aliza American schools are facing a crisis. Unless America wakes up, pays up, and insists that chools mu be placed on a firm financial footing once more, the schools will retrograde. Thi plant and the instruction stat American national lite higher than i applic: boi to pi schools are a distinctive feature ot Demougracy in America touniain head, the public scho¢ can tise no I system PITY THE NEW POOR. AYBE consciousness of their common plight will eventually draw them together. Maybe they wiil organize or form communities. Maybe they will evolve a programme, a platform, a leadership of their own. The Evening World has already detined and de- scribed them, | They are the people—salaried workers, minor mem- | bers of professions, widows living on the interest trom | and other commercial and civic organizations of this - small investments, and the like—who have struggled | city and State, lave gone io Washington to-day to’ in vain to keep up with a post-war cost of liv urge-upon New York’s two Senators demand for im- pre-war incomes. | mediate ratification of the peace treaty. They are the people who have had to step down Sénators Wadsworth and Calder of New York lave and abandon their former living standards witen it ing on | been, from the first, obedient members of the Lodge wrecking crew, ‘Can Senators Wadsworth am! Calder serve whom they please and snap their fingers at the interests of the commonwealth they were elected to represent? Has the will of the ‘people of New York ceased to, have weight with the State’s own Senators? Keep a close watch on Messrs, Cakler and Wads- | worth, ‘It's about time some State undertook to teach a lesson in Senatorial responsibility. TO TAX “INTANGIBLES.” MXATION we have always with us as a never) failing subject for reform. For twenty-nine the New York Tax Reform Association has been issuing annual reporis, and the present system is ‘any- thing but satisfactory to the association. ‘As usual, the persona! property tax comes in for a libesal share of criticism. It is unfair, unworkable, not | patticularly productive and a constant temptation to; the tax-dodger. It is so evidently unfair that dodging | is od rule rather than the exception, he Evening World has received a suggestion for a novel variation of the system of collecting the personal property tax which seems worthy of consideration and discussion for what it is worth, Perhaps the salient feature may be found applicable to the problem. Stating the plan in brief, the sponsor takes the view that"a great quantity of so called “intangible” property, suth as stocks, bonds and credits, escape the assessor. This type of wealth has one distinguishing oharacter- iste... It is a creation of law. The pieces of paper are mot valuable except as the law will give them force. than from immediate possession. Experience has showrf that local and State assessors cannot list this sort of property for taxation, Many States, recognizing this, have abandoned the attempt | and try to reach such property through income taxes. - But by putting the obligation of assessment on the owner instead of the tax officers the situation would be reversed. obligation could be enforced by requiring owners to register such property with the assessor and by providing that unregistered property should have 0 protection at law. Title could not be trangerred by bill of sale or by probate. Theft of unregistered property would not be larceny and the owner could not recover. + Under such conditions tax dodging would cease be- cause of the hazard of loss. All this type of property would yield to ready and easy assessment. The tan- giblé. personal property might come under the same nulef? All such property could then be taxed at a fair and equitable rate. is, in brief, is the suggestion. It is by no means ete. But there seems to be the germ of an idea that might be used in modified form as a basis for reliet of a sorely tried body of taxpayers, One serious ob- jection to the scheme as outlined is rather apparent. What are the others, if any? # THE FOUNTAIN HEAD. N eminent English student, Dr. Ida Smedley Me- A Lean, finds as the most striking characteristic of | America ‘a love for education comparable only to that which we find in Scotland.” “Among the plain people,” Dr, serves, “there is an innate respect, almost reverence, tor education. To send their children to college seems a duty to them.” We have already taken occasion to point out the large proportion of facelgn-bom in this country who have: expressed precisely the same idea in the “What America Has Done for Me” letters appearing in The| Evening World. (Dr. McLean and many of our foreign-born advocates ericanism are on widely separated planes of edu- I achiévement. ‘They reach, however, this com- conclusion, perhaps because they have a certain ment from American life and each has a basis of ison different from the native American who the idea of education as a matter of course, even with “respect and reverence,” spending carnival? Can it go on indefinitely without le to the wealth they represent results from law]; | >enator Wadsworth was a misrepresentative McLean further ob-| came to competing with the new spending power ot | classes favored by war. They are the people who, though they work just as | hard or harder, cannot pay the present rent of living | ;guarters as good as those they occupied before the} ‘ar, carmot provide the former plenty tor the table, cannot replace old clothes with new, cannot give their! | children the advantages they used to see their way to, cannot afford the occasional treat at the theatre—and | who, despite all their self denial, cannot save, | The kind of poverty from which the New Poor are | | suflering is nol the poverty of slarvation or want. {) is the poverty of lowered standards, the consciousness 4 going down instead of up in spite of undiminished | effort, relative, is real? How do these New Pour feel when the Director of | the Savings Division of the Treasury Department | jassures the country that high prices are being main- }tained because people are charmed with the idea of | paying them and that stances of manufacturers being forced to take back goods from retailers, eradicate the old price stamp and imprint a new and higher price mark?” Price levels are being fixed, then, by the spending power of classes whose pockeis have been filled as a consequence of war or inflation and who are keen to taste the unwonted delights ot extravagance. How durable a prosperity can come from such 4 Who will deny that such poverty, though “there are authenticated in- crash? Can a sudden concentration of spending power in new hands pass itself off permanently for a genuine era of good times for all? The New Poor have one consolation : High prices are not everywhere purchasing high values. Complaints as to quality and workmanship are numerous and increasing. Labor in many quarters is so flattered with demands and so busy securing higher wages that it has little time to devote to the honesty or excellence of the products it turns out, Who wants to build a house when he is warned tha workers are too flush and too indiflerent to care about the standard of the work they put into ii ON SURE GROUND. BNATOR WADSWORTH, seeking re-election, is facing the stiffest sort of opposition from several sources, particularly from the enfranchised women voters, who without regard to party admit that they are out after his political scalp, Senator Wadsworth was a stifl-necked and unyield- ing opponent of Woman Suttrage. But as we under- stand the maiter, il is not for this that he is to be re- tired to private lite. Truly, it would be most uniortunate it Svomen voters were to enter an important campaign carrying a grudge. One of the best features of American political life has heen the good sportsmanship which prevailed in most political struggles, however bitter, | But the women voters, as we understand the matter, ue opposing Mr. Wadsworth on much broader and} more fundamental grounds than the mere fact that he| an “anti.” They say, and rightly we believe, that} So long as New York had tailed to admit women to vote he had a logical basis for opposition. His attitude represented the expressed will of his constituency, But once women were enfranchised by vote of the men, {was evident that his male constituency had changed | | opinion, and this quite without regard to the sentiments | of the entranchised women. In continuing hii opposilion, Senator Wadsworth! | proved himself a misreprasentative instead of a arp \sentative. In matters where the voters have had no opportunity of expressing their will, a re epresentative | may be excused for failing to interpret the will of hi constituency, But in the case of Wadsworth and the | Anthony amendment no misinierpretation was possible, | Misrepresentation Is, of all reasons, the | that could be advanced for the replacement of Senator Wadsworth, The Women are on sure ground and en- about st penny is aie now to the extent that rely logfal In thelr opposition, | ing on the | during (he presem\ epidemic open re ~~"! Reaping What He Sowed! .. 1920. Prolong _ Your Life | By George L. Meylan, A. M., M. D., Columbia University. 1920, by The Press Publishing Company (The New York Evening World.) New York Krening World cmc By J. H. Cassel | Copyriaht banner 13 Dr. George 1. Meylan of Cotum- | $via University, who recently Stated that most men of to-day are living on a plane of 40 or 560 per cent. physical efficiency, has \ $ specialty prepared this paper for The Evening World on the best meaus of prolonging human life and efficient life span, He advocates moderation as the secret of good heatti the q { “Moderation in All Things.” ai t4 Hie desire to live is paramount in <4 ‘ “ human being. Sinco the won | Vgalinist wrote tha: Uiree score 5 at Oa and ten years is the normal duration t of human life man has manifested a keen interest fountain of youth or | Ufe which would and death ’ | Scientists huve devoted much time | and effort in the search for the secret of life. The work of Loeb on the | spontaneous life of the cell and the discoveries by Carrell of methods for | prolonging the life of tissues after | removal from the organism have ad- vanced our knowieage of life pro- cesses, but, tlius far, no practical ap- | plication has been made to the prob jem of increasing the duration ef | human tite The only definite have to-day concerning the proble:n of deferring senility and premature death is found in the science of par- sonal hygiene. A comparison of the mode of life of persons who live more than seventy years with that of persons who die prematurely of organic diseases and senility reveals one stri {lifference, The almost universal characteristic in the mode of life of healthy old paople is mod eration in all things, They are mod nulation in the search for the some elixir of postpone senility ' knowledge we t frente t ing und neg victous ¢ Why Medicine Comes High Kaitor of Phe Becning Word Permit me to take issne with you n reference to the chargé of protit part of druggists, in r At $9 per Yo wh ard to the sale of whiskey pint Would the editor please state what n his opinion, would be a nominal pharge for one pint of whiskey Jicinal purposes upon a doc $50, or about $8.25 per pint, | the container. and busin him to olin, olling His time tainly entitle third of the bring the | Phis is not o gist obtain t Now if to be il purposes, t Government tax, St ax and any other tax should be- abolished No country should tax medicine of Jany kind And if the druggist, with the as sistance of your support the whiskey throw channels without any viously mentioned red ta District Attorney Toss t per gall: Lam sure t ul drug gists wi atch a point and deliver a pint of Whiskey free of any ree to any one upon a doctor’ The writer does not but under conditions be af epidemic, Tam willing providing 1 for as PAU 1 ¢ oO KRAUSE Pharmacist Port Jefferson, L. 1 The Public Veloce 1) the Hatter of ‘The Keoning Words a constant reader of your Rel pres able find great inter ies," and | for this pu It It is ribed people who ‘ca they could not obt | some of the ul Govern this heen tie talitor ¢ with pleasure It and y sic whiskey wh now would say sh no doubt how any start Poe Meening World Americ in good Kvening World Readers 1 want to approve of Whedden Gra- | ham's Good red-blooded he what how men rolling not be would It only “Wanted oup of who have personal like and get us hav gathering so quickly regiment of soldiers to sepa Anderson Men.” Whe men, we feel “pussy-footers" for him liberty, him in the tho took it sane sts should objec POW would start ted nd whisk to tford to even pay n lan, for a preseript nd certainty ¢ not afford to pay $6 for a pint hem gett drugs and whiskey which other holds n Ts it would ta ate to your pa eading the He wou poor! used precious would) 1 Chr istian Something. rom, the art prohibition; it only takes one good American to start to show hiltn he 1s | | not all “America.” Will [ ever forget Armistice | How happy everybody wa | let's go in for another” day like that, | the day we will call erendum Day. | And the revival of Old John Bi leyeorn If | were a man, T would do me than f can write, But Tam ju woman (out an American), and will] do my share in any way possible to help rid our country Anderson. | eae * L BLOOD RELATION OF} | paper, ui think that those few columns | ra from (he peoplo” | devoted to one of the greatent Idean of the day It is the “public voi true and sincere. I really belleve a paper con ducted on this plan and containing nothing but “letters from the people” would help in this stage of unrest and be wonderfully oducational it tends to show public sentiment In true form, and in no other way could people exchange views and Ndeas no clearly und have them vend by so many people 1 thank you r editor, for the happy und Interesting hours you have provided for me and many others by this aplendid plan and do hope you will continue and ¢ this wonderful plan "COMMON SENSE Favors Whisk 1 the binor of Mh A large number of our most prom, nent pl . Inen of exper and who know what they are ta abou, advocate ih “ for Medicinal purposes, especial influenza Why could not the Goverame: URCL New York, J oMixing Mea SAM To the Editor of The Frening World You well say ns meddling, mea s fundamental.” cognizod we cannot right of way jumrlal peace any m¢ vhen Mrs Tincoln 6a ornmen; cannot perma lf slave a f fr Give the nop port wh vuld he rules ide in mi ‘, Whatever n line with governm: by the people sland on the righ collective trie Meddling.” the “This Gov- nly endure ple the op to organ bargalning, or calling through | and 1 representatives makes J reguiations as to hitire, and eondiions they are \ rules and regulations, if stituents, mast be v by tthe | ‘The flaw bor nsensus of opin nest vital problem ef to- the American copie | View, 8 1. where | have remalned fsver will ge throug, KEniies | eines. 1 in an editorial, mixing | “the right to strike | It ig about time we | '? have two | justrial systema contending” for and expect to have in- now then DER LAW. the authorities at either institution,| Pontumity to advance to @ position, New York. Jat or L einnot get well. NoramtTa which may lead to an almost unlim~ to work. I have nev f he can become a suc- feel in any way a de man. An Appreciation. a ¢ : tne Hainor of ‘he Hrening Work rd institution as generally vecepted F Boy Best Suited: : tereste, der of yo ANot De applied to tHe hospital, f lis Is not a position for a boy who norte eoiglprie oredeed “ |in my case it has been my only fr rested in construction or me paper I have noted among the many! And. as one whe can spank from one Rin Gacantlauiy tis oiaee tae articles that have called forth particu- , perience, it would be an outrage were hant and salesman, \iar commendation your pleas on “be- | the free work of the hospital su boy with natural Instincts as a trades- half of Flower Hospital and your |‘? e for of Tunds. man will very quickly become inter statements to the effect that there is EXT BURPHIND. | ested in the foods handied, and soon a Me the thas wards, Jan. 26 1920 be advanced. Otherwise he will fing RAN GR SO AR Coe satan - Ss work mere drudgery vote in November veel svon able to | elise wie : m $18 to § hough from PPPPLLPLPLPPLPDAS sci siebaa his advance to may be tii ow. ‘The ultimate found that out, and evidently somefone to experience better Hoole clerk tx from $25 40 of the Would-bo Kaisers over here |than { have had at both p| $20 a week. For the hoy who is ana are in need of the same lesson he got. encing the benefits of the free work Har Dempsey. A stock clerk re 8 and checks u t : A A stock clerk and che Pp of Unie inatitutlo me add my picas | hing Wor sip and keeps a proper record of to those of you uable columns reader of ‘The Ail materials coming under his super- About five i athe » T was Evening World I would lke to say a vision brought as\an ambulance ¢ aw words re i ualifications: DEOL RANE MOURNE | few words regarding Jac Dempsey.) @ for about n week lesa In this country, a victiin of tuberesiionis, Realizing to be able to escape the drat, He sibility r r v1 a vintiin of tuvalonis: salle Ag | 18 and from Ume to tine ne Possibility of marking goods incor pationia $f I were to be kent there fought in the ring, but le; Remark (Biower hus no tuberculosia ward), | worked very little, and even if the! “The position of stock clerk te very the matter Was brought to the niten- | war had lasied another year or more, similar to that of a storekeeper, tlon of a social eervice Worker at the !he never would fave been call d, be- vhipping clerk ov receiving cler! na institution, who tmmediately inter. eause toe sd'pyaida were Lis cxcuse, the swme conditions hold for these to ented herself in my behalf. Thevefore, every boxing commission a lave extent, They lead to a‘number Through her t Wee p.aced at Sea should bar him ef positions in business hous ng usually in n, Worry, ex and abuse of ) i), - cepting deaths caused by (in fectious dis dd violence (aeci- “ae dents, suivide, murder) there is abur dent evidence to verity the belief that ihe average du N of life could be ——-———- — increased grom > twenty year rs Dy ithe Re ul adoption of the eames errr | ciple “moderation in all things,” - UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake 199 Where to Find | Your Vocation By Max Watson | Focational Adviser Re-Lmployment Bureau, N.Y. C | 1420, be The 0 New York right WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT YOUR GOVERNMENT? This iy Presidential year, Parties will nominate can didates in the late Spring. The candidates and swarms of their supporters will go forth to talk to the people. It will be an excellent year to learn something about the Government under which you live. *You can hear twe, 3) perhaps three or four, to every question. You can sides learn, if you listen carefully and think over what you have Stock Clerk. re heard, more about your country than you ever knew before. 3 opportunities-for Entering This Fie, fost: Americans, desirous of knowing just how their LCEEVALURRORARIOLERI ea TTR Government operates, buy a very wonderful book called $ jine of goods requires b ‘The American Commonwealth, written by James Bryce. in the x Of stock James Bryce was an Englishman, He came to this coun big Gems nd fo: boys try with a keen interest in its instilutions, He spent years $ bed (Here is patiently getting information. And he learned fag more $ fcdity wu th about America and the Americans:than most Americans had ~ eft"! 08.60 * hunted the aduptadility of the boy for wean furn bosilion Dr a man man, ads y of becuming ever thouglit of learning. Ignorance of our Government is one of our curses. We take things too much for granted, ‘To-day we are for or against the League of Nations without knowing in the least what the League of Nations would or would not do. Leeroy Ae aemer We vote against men because we do not like a candi- $!wnether or ngt they would be ftiltec date for County Surveyor who happens to be running on t ode | ago Unlevs a the same ticket, Public questions, matters of government, a know ted ser | merch. solved problems that must be if we are to continue our ° : possible tor hin , Ww national existence, we do not think about at all, find this a "bi ie Noh with Take an active part in the coming campaign, at least aily no future, ; Schooling Required: The boy who expects Lo find his future in the mercantile field ay a listen Hear the speakers and weigh what they tell Compare their positions on public questions and Study you, the questions themselves, have a common school edi " You will gain nothing by caryying a torch and shouting $| Pe. matioe whe worsen eee for a party, but you will gain.a great deal by listening to } study und the speeches by public men, by reading and studying platforms $ ™anufectu me Oe and by deciding, insyour own mind and from a purely panini patriotic motive, whom you are going to support with your at from $16 to is no possibility that T ca yas to learn there is ulways the op- ever As one who {s even to-day exper! Description of Dut He must know how to keep simple \ecounis; he must be accurate and careful in his work so as to avoid the | Dempsey was a slacker, he worked in the shipyard in Port Newark in order 1 was poor out of w WHITEY SANHOUS. which Now York, Jan. 26, . so ca ls Tt would be impoesible for any- 4 ;