The evening world. Newspaper, January 29, 1920, Page 26

Miarld, Y JOSEPH PULITZER. except Sunday by the Pros: Pubifening Aa (0 G3 Park Row, New York. 63 Park Row, 84 Park Row 03 Park Row MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, exclusively entitled to the uae for republication wed TWO KI 1E President's Coal Strike Commission heard this week from representatives of the miners some amazing figures purporting to show coal operators’ profits. According to V. H miners’ union: In 1917 eigat coal mining companies ma Je over 1,000 per cent, on their capital stock; one ( hundred and fifty companies made 50 per cent or more; hundred and thirty-two com- panies made 40 per cent, or more, while profits of from 15 to 30 per cent, or better went to up- ward of 1,200 companies the jan for two Mr, Bittner figured that the net profits of the Pitts- burgh Coal Company jumped from $3,000,000 for the two-year period of 1914-1915 to $21,000,000 for the two years 1917-1918. $14,000,000 in 1917 repre- sented a profil of $690 on each man in the company’s employ. t These figures were prepared by a miners’ statis fician, Nevertheless the public will remember that last November no less an authority than former Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo declared that} | Profits of from 100 to 300 per cent. on capital stock | were not uncommon among biluminous coal operators | in 1917. Mr. McAdoo said such profits ranged as f high as even 2,000 per cent. He urged that the in- come tax returns made by the mine operators for the | year 1917 be made public. . The coal operators cannot say, therefore, that these | estimates of their profits are derived solely from a| source whose interest is served by figuring them as high as possible, Enormous coal profits have a distinct bearing on the general problem of ‘high prices and high living costs. Inflation, the public is told, is what has caused prices to rise. How much of the rise is due to inflation of currency and credit? How much to inflated profits? How much of the latter kind of inflation has been oing on in other snug and favored corners besides the coal industry? The Republican Party in this State will miss the chance of its life if it fails to nomi- nate Wm. H. Anderson for Governor, All parties are begging for him. Overwhelming popular sentiment is that the next election will be Dead Sea fruit without him, BEGGING THE QUESTION. « QOHAIRMAN MONDELL’S billion-dollar objection to a military training bill is conservative rather than extravagant. Even so, he is begging the question. The question of military preparedness hinges di-| rectly on the Treaty of Peace and the League of Na- tions, Until that is disposed of the adqption of a mili- tary policy must be subject to revisiof in the light of international development. é If the gentleman from Wyoming is convinced that this Nation will not willingly support a large military me, he should labor with his associates in the Senate for ratification of the League Covenant as part of the Peace Treaty so that the United States may have a voice and influence in restricding the armament of other powers. It is only through international con- ciliation and agreement that need for such billion-dol- | « Jar appropriations car: be eliminated. | Until the Covenant is ratified European nations will | be pointing to the arch-imperialism of the Lodge group a$ a valid reason for armament against America, And Lodge’s munitioneer friends will see the need of arm- ing against Europe and A Prof. Hart of Harvard already sees ten years. a war within If there is one Republican Assemblyman who OF not otherwise eredited in this paper | TH | that has come about in the intelligent electorate of this Commonwealth since it was made plain what sort int methods jammed Prohibition into the Federal Constitution, There is a pfoverb about locking the stable door | ter the horse is stolen, It is an encouraging sign, j Nevertheless, that a few legislators still understand the gislative function well enough to see that unless the | People are brought back into touch with it there will be all kinds of trouble ahead. Gov, Sinith's message urged a referendum giving ‘he people of this State an opportunity to express themselves regarding the ralitying the Eighteenth Amendment. rhe Walters-Amos resolution would make this pro- cedure in similar cases a matter of law under the State} Constitution—with the Le the people's decision. islaiure bound to accept THE ISSUE REMAINS. ae cl to mad aie by the Alban losest approach an incriminating point jhe opposition of the Socialists to maintenance of State |military forces, If this is a valid test of qualification, are there not several Democrats and Republicans who should be ex- cluded on their past records? | This point, it i debatable and might properly have been submitted to | the Assembly as a reason for exclusion of any one or c atel ms rather a etched far-t but jall of the Socialists. It has the merit of definiteness. | By straining the letter and spirit of the Constitution and { ; In passing, it is well to recall that (Quakers have not been barred from office although they entertain equal- ty positive opinions on the subject. A Quaker is At- torney General of the United States and might have | headed the War Department had he been willing, — | Whatever merit there may be in this point does not in the slightest affect the culpability of Sweet and his | associates, laws there is a shadow of ac If aversion to support of the militia were considered a reason for disqualification, then it should | have appeared in bills of particulars drawn against | each of the accused Assemblymen and should have been presented to the Assembly before a vote was asked, | The fact remains that the Sweet clique drew Manket indictment against a polit up a ‘al group in the As- sembly and ousted them on the basis of that indict- ment. It was an action against a political party, not against culpable individuals, This is the issue which cannot be evaded. Once the indictment was read and the Socialists ex-| cluded, the Sweet clique went to work to build up al case. It is generally conceded that they have failea thus far in spite of party pressure, which demands the strongest points as quickly as possible, Nothing which has come out is sufficient ground for | disfranchising 50,000 electors. | be brought out can 2x Nothing which may , use the bitrary power which the Speaker has used in an ill-judged attempt to pro- | mote his own political aspirations. The only way in whicn Assemblymen can clear themselves of the Sweet taint is by reseating the So- cialists displaced by such irregular procedure. Then, | if BY there is any reason for it, the Assembly may act | against them as individyals and in a regular and orderly manner by charging specific overt acts and disqualifi- cations. Beefsteak or Mistake! “Past prosperity will not enable a public action of the Legislature Kul prosecution seems to lie in} E EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29 1920. nee Saleh: ie AG AMEE tr 8 BP LPDSPLL?LLLLELLLSNL LLL LL LLL LLL LLL ALLL LLL LLL LE LL Cr prnennnneiln A Message From the Dead | By J. H. Cassel Copyright, 1920, ts The Drow Hublishtng Go, (Tie New York Eroning World Ask Dad; He Knows, be abolished, “but liquors seld in To the talitor of ‘The Evening World {stores for 1 . the sam: I have returned to the town after |4s_uny present. 4. of some years, to find nor] i+ so. that Sy ite win ib eat oe ) anked ou only the wine lost; but also i of d Americans can once pudding missin the bill of fare. | more ud of the term and rid I always conside arrowroot pud-|themscives’ forever of the present ding the moat delicious and nourish- |Yo8e 9f tyranny that haw brought us ding the moat Signe ennin fo @ degenerate form of serfdom. ing of desserts Find the man who has the spine ¢ Does any one know why it has been di re for these prin eliminated JACK HORN will walk in on an independe aria Vv. Coolidge of Massachus Jan, 24, a for law and order — vombine the above princip! Keep Witheim Holland. tecord and he will not be embe To the bétor of Hine Leening W by his party, He wili Although Germany is obligated to 4 new “party capable of — free surrender William to the Allies for -\meric +L enlisted e outh . trial, I would suggest that they let Gna ae hal ee UIBIEER IGE A Holland keep and guard William, 45 a year. What h we fought ois not A dangerous man if kept out and what have we won? Wo Hole nabs dane fought tootree pov Wane ie eeeeek OF GOrmany ap, SHOWS us"to be’ slaves, and we have J. O. BRINKERHOFF. won the hatred of the entine wa Dover, N. J. Jan. 26, 1 and a curtaitin of our pers liberties, wiile « ; nt a New Deal. ington wonderin ulility to keep healthy and do its work well, any more than a workingman can keep healthy | and work hard on last year's beefs The + | Subway Sun. A VANISHED DIFFERENCE. EPUBLICANS have been in control of Congress for nearly a year, but it is only now that they | are getting around to protection of the infant dye in- dustry. Even the present Dye bargo Bill would hardly be recognized as “protectio Mark Hanna sense of the word, In spile of this, the orthodox Republican orators ought to take the lead in breaking away from Speaker Sweet and getting back to sound prin ciples that one is Lieut, Cul, Theodore Roose velt. The Evening World suid this the day after | the Socialist members were thrown out, | . oa a | A NATURAL RESULT. i EADER WALTERS in the State Senate and As- be ca semblyman Amos in the Assembly have introduced concurrent resolutions calling for an amendment to the State Constitution which shall provide that ‘when- ever an amendment to the Federal Constitution is proposed by Congress the State Legislature shall sub- mit io the people of the State the question whether the proposed Federal amendment is to be approved. This would amount to, a referendum in New York on all proposed changes in the Federal Constitution. li would make it impossible for a minority lobby to ‘tions of the lack of real issues betwe continue solemnly to deprecaie Wilsonian — tariit | molicies, even though the Republican legislators make | no move io alter the tariff law which was “ruining the | country’s business.” in the good old athe The Evening World on that there ‘or many years [ voted the Demo-/the country ’ sag free speech and t 8, ye tekal rhe toss Murphy and the press, and as cratic ticket, When uephy an extra precaution. take away oun “framed up" Goy. Sulzer and W tights of representative govecnment. him out’ of offic n violation of law rae alisin is unc Hv campant ¢ 1 began voting the He-,!9 his country and the people shovid and precedent, 1 began voting the rise. to our helpt Gaye ent publican ticket by way of prote and® bring to justice agitators lke Now, however, that Boss Sweet-—in| Anderson, Bryan and eutaat Vamatler way—ls daing Just what Boss |Jobnson. It is men ot this snivelll PULAMET eho SPine 4 type who have caused Murphy did, T must stop voling present unrest, who took adv Republican ticket--and pnless the of the boys while they were and we certainly need! What did thes curs do to win’ the war? Bryan p A Ae von) t. How many a new party [shall be compelled to vote the one suet | Liberty bonds did they buy? Bocalist ticket—to recozd My PFO. Githong they aA Uterine Tam only mi earned the contempt and hatred of but 1) aitred of ave’ mrupt, All lberty-loving, red-blooded real ne yj{men, Rather a thousand times thy we have to tolerate men Iie in preference and Johnson, critical dostrines. Berk- to Anderson, with their hypo: w York, Jan. Awitators, Panatic ing Politics on the: Ed Hell" is To the Kditor of The Fv World all that necessary to supply ta 1 1 travelling man, baving as pari that will furnish an upheaval A Ge that is ¢ ree states {rc ginia tha the activitic my territory all States from Virginia | 078) oh oe ACTIVITES: bounded by Arkansas, Ten- |¢ ators and adi Is mat : \ ; : an and thei The tact that the Republicans talk “protection” with-|nessee, West Virginia and Maryland, like, or ini H. ROY ER cut any effort to enact it is one of the clearest indicae| This territory, with the exception of jf Past 14th Street, Brooklyn, any CSUs | ginia, Mexas and Louisiana, has |° 9 1 the two old parties and the crying need for a realignment of po- litical fences, We have no hesiiation in predicting that it the Old Guard are able to maintain their hold on the party \the next platform will solemnly reatfirm tt principles of William McKinley, even thi ness men and legislators know that the six years since 14 have changed the United States trom a debtor nation to a creditor nation and have completely upset tall the economic factors which once w justitication of Republican tariff policy, It is because economic policy is ina stage of transi- e| e) protec urged in whip legislators into ratifying a Federal amendment what was being put oxer in thelg name. to the national re Sat a before ihe people of the Stale were fairly awake to, pr tion that the country needs an economic student ot ical affairs as a leader, Old political shibboleths xame wy wilt i Ne -- i y h the busi- | ronbound Prohibition for years, Vo fonal Artletes t Je could obtaln liquor | to ihe Kditor of The Evening Wenge eens Prohibition — pre While I have mad 4 1 ave read The a thro South, so that the | a. f Lox : " ‘uid be dispensed with and | World for years, 1 believe your sertas liquor could will be 1 of articles of vocational advice, ed Now, with the Bighteenth Amend. | py Max Watson, is one thactinet ment shutting off this suprly: 108 interesting and helplul of ity kina’ if given the opportunity ol vane National | 4 referendum on Prohibi- | have ever seen, tion, Would undoubtedly give a wet| May I not suggest that you pub he big three, New York, . } ty. Th ‘ Ish an article on the field of cham. ennsyivania a 1 Whois, Joined with istry, chemleal engineering of hate, New Jersey, Rhode lan yc aitorn las’ triad ohemistr 1 believe this is a &e, would show ihe eis MUOMISIS) Sipject of interest , a Le 7 men, . Albany is,undoubtedly especially stag to create a and to oversh, tion, Crea Cold Springs, N.Y. Jan, a fare paramount issue Churches Pace Hard the Prohibition que: en eretet vees. Uard | American platform, with the prin- saad : Mai planks: 1. Representative go 1 have noticed the masterpiece jernment and per freedom injcontributed by George McNulty as clearly de- | America for Americ fined in the Constitution, 2. Abolish- ment of the eighteenth amendment, 3. Laws governing the sale of liquor, to the end that (he open saloon will If the churches are the best places ne can pick out to tax, | pity him, In ~ FROM EVENING WORLD READERS _ | One powerful editorial like “Play. » firat place I don't beheve he ever PM. Vase of “blues” there--then marry erequents a church, or be would reals ‘,po girl and settle down, He woulda’t UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (opyrugnt, 1920.) YOU CANNOT STAND STILL, When the ship's propeller stops revolving, the ship dr. with the tide or wind or current. Unless lashed to a dock or trozen in the ice, no ship ever stands Still, Lite is a wind we must breast or a current we must stem.) We must either go forward or back. Going forward is difficult at first. ‘Lime and study Must be spent in learning the dreary commonplaces that are necessary to progress. It is not so very hard to keep abreast of the general procession. But the general proces sion doés not move very fast. Compared to the progress of the man, its speed is about as that of a gla of a river, Your life will amount to little if you do not go a littl faster than the great majority of your companions, And pulling ahead, even a little, means very hard work, But hard work is not injurious, Done intelligently, it is even enjoyable. Once get the habit of hard work, ‘and you will prefer it to easy work. And you will find, further more, that it will bring results, and accomplishing results is about all that is worth doing in this existence, thinking, ambitious compared to that Beware of standing still, It is a sorry, a pathetic busi ness. At first you see your friends, one by one, passing you, Younger inen, men not as well equipped, gain posi tions that are closed to you. Soon comes the da My round, e irksome, when you realiz The job you are that you are ac ty losing holding becomes m You find yourself neglecting-its duties And some morning you will walk into the office and discover that® another man is sitting at your desk. After H that, unless you vre a sevenfold wonder, there is no hope for you. You slip back and back till you are glad of any employment that will keep bread in your mouth. : This is a dismal picture, but it is worth looking at now, If you do not want it to resemble your future, keep going ahead, Keep your mind and body exercised by tak ing on new and more difficult duties, “Don’t be afraid of work. It becomes easier as you get better acquainted with it, Do your resting in your vacation time. You can afford to stand still then, The relief will do you good. But when you ave back in the stream set your propellers churning faster than ever and you will eseape the horror that comes to every man when he discovers too late that he y direction, nen ————_—]———————————r s going in the wrong ize the struggle they have to make be up in the al» then, and in course of both ends meet, And a non-church~ time would be one of the (kinights gf goer is not the best person in the thes NE, a nights with world to consult on such a subject. | should be exhausted, Bote ees As for his other tax suggestio: ‘any “blue” left im that : they are too ridiculous to comment{dryman will buy it fi A orge Ougnt to pay a tax for | shirts. EROO teping out of the “bughous 3 MSI Dunelle: N. ®, 92¢ A CHURCH. elleny: Ne J 24, 1920, OER, z ‘artoonints, £ Phe Evening World A Case of Blanes, I e : Barter Ri na nt , Paner the assistant Fe ee iiy fo aaking for a cure for] #UPerintendent “of the Anti. ee Mon’ Tattle wonder that Y.| 4eaKue complains of the ch rs used by cartoonists to portray Prohibition," them justice. We agree, M. C. A. has them. ‘Dhey tell me he lives on the top floor of @ skyscraper, and on that same Janding scraped, his ghins on the case of “blyes."” Well, if that is the very case, this is the best i can do for him; Let him rent the parsment of a bungalow—he can store He says it does not do It looks too much like 1 human, The head should be | and shor It ought, also, to have camel's hoofs and a monkey's tail MF. W. Now Haven, Conn, Jan, 22, 1920, | — Titta Ruffo’s Tonio a Hit; Two New Operas By Sylrester Rawling. TTA RUEEO it was who last alte night brourht about the three day-looked-for-in-vain “event at the Lexington Theatre, As Tonle in the Chicago Opera oelation’s presentation of " cl" he arouse a crowded house ak thusiasm. The Malian ec A-js0erS Was out in force, stro} handed and lusty of vo! After Mrs Rufto's sir the Prologue torrent broke loose and was not bated for several minutes. Mr, Ruf fo has > glorious voice and is an ac complished artist; but he atandoved himself to the temper of the mos ment and indulged in unwonted:in- artistic exaggerations. All bis asso. lates, without his excuge, rveak his leas, with the resuif that the per- formance? became noisy and common place, Forrest’ Lamont as Canio. Maria Santillan as Nedda, Lodovies Oliviero as Beppo, and Desire Defrere. ts Silvio apleted the Mr Ast of prins Marinuzai ec cipal singers, ducting. “LiHeure Expagnole," a comedy in one book No music n a perlormanc York, preceded the Leone The tale is a racy, piqua: musical by F Maur in New vallo work. trifle after « manner of Boccaccio that bas ite action in a Toledo clockmaker's shop time, the eighteenth century. © old, ar act, ihe the by ve first the vivacious you! that her lovers s he ur that he is out wind- town clocks. A muleteer un- the expectedly drops in and waits to have ing his watch mended. tract him b; She tries to dis- getting him to move big But tw of her gallants have hidden in clocks nd the wife's consternation changes to admiration for the strength of the the time the hus- and returns the muleteer is become clocks up and down stairs. muleteer, and by her latest flame. The comedy might admirably ¢ How m made by M. avestion, tainly well s' id by last effective it avel’s music is a it is comical. and characteris- tic of the composer. The audience al- ways was smiling and often was laughing outMght over the ingenious musical conceits as well as the action. Yvonne Gall, in a brilliant short frock that ‘disclosed dainty ankles and \imble feet, was chic and alluring as Concepcioh, the wife She f charmingly, Alfred enat stunning Ramiro, Desire clockmaker; Eduoard Cotreuil was Don Inigo Gomez, banker, and Ed mond Warnery was Gonzalve, a poet- er, the two lovers, Mr, Hassel- mans conducted. cted as it we ch more Ce grotesque satirical was muleteer Defrere was Torquemada, the the as Chrysantheme,” another to New York, pre the visiting Chicago com pany at the Lexington Theatre yes- terday afternoon, It is a lyric com edy in four acts, a prologue and an epilogue, by Andre Messager, th libretto by Gi Hartmann an! Andre Alexandre, after the story L Pierre Lotl, The music is tun and pleasing without being marke characteristic. In a broad sense, t story is another “Butterfly” tale, lighter vein,’ Only occasionally is poignant, and never is it tragic. The naval man goes b from Japan, leaving behind him onls sobbing little Geisha girl, who heart is not so badly broken that it won't soon be mended again, The opera is oddly and prettily stagen the background a picture frame, the sides flowing Japanese silken cur- tains, m ‘The heroine was impersonated by the little Japanese soprano Tamaki Miura, who wore fetching Japanes costumes and acted charmingly, but was sadlv out of voice, the result of , cold, For that matter, there was ttle to praise in the singing of any f save Hector D franne, who Yves, a sailor, Charlies Fontaine, was the “Pinkerton” of the opera, mu have had a very bad cold, Dorothy Follis as Oyouki, Chrysantheme's sister, too, did not sparkle as to voice. Edmond Warnery, as Mr, Kangourou, a marriage broker, looked and acted —a long way after—like Raymond Hitchcock. Others in the cast were Anna, Corenti, de Valois and Mojica. was a ballet in which Serge Oukrainsky Mile. Ledowa danced attractively amid supporters in brilliant costumes, some beautiful, sore, grotesque, to music that was fetching, Mr Hussel- mans conducted. dame was opera new sénted by is French a the princi was who loise Tone There and and F at the Metropolitan Opera House last night, with Geraldine Farrar as Marguerite, was marked by the return to the fold of Giovanni Martinelli, one of the first victims of the prevailing indisposition, who sang the name part, A large audience en- joyed the performance, | Mme. Peroux Williams, mezzo so- prano, gave a recital at Carnegie Hall yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Coenraad V. Bos at the plano, Her Included a group of compositions by Martin Loeffler. There were two other re- citals also in the afternoon, At the Park Theatre Pauline Watson, a Bos- ton violinist, played to orchestral ac- companiment, and at Aeolian Hall Muri Silba, plunist, was pay ve programme American | v “Ss a