The evening world. Newspaper, February 3, 1920, Page 18

| i a a od / : — Dil é ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily xcept Sunday by the Press Pu 4 y. Nos. G3 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER. Preside: 0 Park Row, J ANGUS SHAW. Treasurer, 63 Park Kow. LITZER, Jr. Secretary. 68 Park Row. MEMAES OF THB ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Anodated Pree FULL SPEED TO A PANIC? “ec 'HAT we need,” says Prof. T. C. Atkinson, the city as well as on the farm. a4 “Instead of agitating for shorter hours and ‘R more pay, it would be much better if every- body in the cities and factories worked hard * for the present high scale of wages.” a share, é At the present moment labor that gets the highest pay does the most loafing. Quality, as well as quan- tity, of product slumps with the standard of work- manship, What prosperity the country ‘boasts is being kept up chiefly by workers who share least in it. Some- thing is bound to give way soon. : Are we to speed recklessly on until the crash comes? Or will hard sense put on the brakes? WORTH WATCHING AND PUSHING. SSEMBLY BILL NO. 227, introduced by Mr. Dimin, is worth watching. ‘We suspect that it will, meet with opposition, for it is a measure to foil , “he rent gougers. i The opposition will be organized, Its advocates are not. : As sumruarized by the Merchants’ Association, the measure provides that— ‘Where the rent or charge for the use and oc- ‘cupation of any or part of any apartment house, tenement house or other building used for dwelling purposes is fixed and agreed upon in the month of May or any time thereafter, such fixed or agreed rental or charge shall be the maximum amount of rent per month to be charged therefor for the consecutive months ensuing until the following month of May, not- withstanding any change in ownership or posses- sion or control, and notwithstanding the pro- visions of any general or special statute to the contrary. An owner or lessee who, directly or indirect- ly, enters into any agreement to evade this law, or collects any rent or charge for euch premises im excess of the amount fixed in the month of May or thereafter, or who participates in any fictitious sale or other device to secure an in- creased rental, is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to $1,000 fine or imprisonment for one year, or both. * ‘The meagure is clearly in the interest of tenants and is aimed straight at the gouger and profiteering “easter.” The fair landlord can set his price in May and stick to it. , The gouger cannot buy a dease at a profit and then put on the screws to force the tenant ' ‘ pay or get out. Change in ownership or posses- sion during the year carries with it the obligation of kgeping down rents to occupying tenants until the fol- jewing (May. This is a frank attempt to equalizesthe bargaining power of tenants and landlords. It aims fo break up the old system of leasing in October when the demand for housing is greatest and change it to May when the tenant may threaten to move to the suburbs, Renters who have been imposed on and who fear further impositions can do no better than to get behind this bill and push it. Organized realty ‘interests mray be expected to fight it tooth and toe. Defeat means money to them. Rent- ers should fight for it just as vigorously through or- ganization and by individual political pressure, It means money saved. ; The Evening World proposes to keep'track of this measure and report its progress (if it progresses) or the reasons for defeat (if it fails). Meantime; the public can get behind and push with letters and personal appeals to Assemblymen and Sena- tors, demanding action. Let the representatives at Albany know that the voters are watching for results and will be satisfied with nothing less. THE NEWER SING SING. \E disappearance Sunday of two convicts serving terms at Sing Sing reminded the public how rare escapes have come to be at this prison from which a few years ago prisoners were reported missing almost weekly. When Thomas Mott Osborne was Warden of Sing Sing he permitted prisoners so much liberty as to chal- lenge the criticism that he let them loose out of sheer eagerness to prove his system would bring them back. We do not mean to belittle that system or its. results, Bven its extremes were no doubt useful in destroying forever the barbarous conditions that prevailed in the older Sing Sing. The reform was worth all the mis- takes made in kringing it about. Nevertheless ihe public cannot but note how quietly and efficienjly thy; prison has been administered of late exclusioly entitied to tho use for republication to Mt or mot otherwise credited in this paper hereto. ‘ What we need, as The Evening World has more | Bi tian once pointed out, is to get rid of the pernicious notion that war left a legacy of high wages and in- crease .of leisure for everybody in a position to grab THE EVENING WORL D, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1920. | without the frequent escapes for which the Osborne regime became notorious. {In prison management, as in most other things, there | ‘is sane middle ground, o— oe FEUDALISM AT ALBANY. PEAKER SWEEFT’S clique considers the votes ‘against military measures in the 1918 Assembly session the strongest evidence ad fuced against the sus | pended Socialists. jin crown cotncils with rank and prestige proportion- | ate to the number of their armed retainers. ever, a direct reversal of all precedent in more modern} | times. | limit military power. ° In 1917 a substantial minority of Congress opposed The majority criticised this attitude, ‘but did not set the precedent of making support a It remained for the Sweet the draft lavy. test of legislative fitness, Support of the military, they affirm, is a test of | who represents the National Grange at, fitness to sit in a legislative body, a view reminiscent | Washington, “is increased production everywhere, 1 | of feudal times in which kings called the barons to sit In the convention which set up the Constitution of | | the United States there wer. !'veiy ifferences of opin- | ion in regard to military affairs. After experience , with military rule the Colonists were chary of armed | Hil Two of the first ten Amendments expressly | clique to set up this truly revolutionary doctrine. In spite of the Sweet “will to power,” his doctrine does not prevail beyond his own reach, A recent poll of the Senate revealed more than a third of the mem- ‘bers who admit their opposition to the universal mil- They do not anticipate expulsion In the House it is predicted that a majority will be opposed and so, according to the itary training ill. for the offense. “Sweet test,” digqualified as legislators. To aggravate the situation even further, the present Assembly is judging the acts of members of a pre- vious Assembly which were not questioned in that Assembly. Since 1918, when the votes in question were cast, the offenders have gone before their con- stituents for judgment on their record and have been returned, When the Sweet gang goes back to the previous session for material for prosecution, it not only denies freedom of opinion to members of the Assembly but it also denies it to the electors of the district. It must not be forgotten that a great majority of those who voted for these Socialists are not members of the Socialist Party, and not amenatile to party dis- cipline, These voters supported four of the five ATER these votes were cast and so expressed ap- proval of their opposition to the military measures. PUNISH THE SPITTER. 'E influenza epidemic brings the usual extra warn- ings against spitting in public places. The Health Department has posted thousands of “don’t spit” placards in the subway and in railway and ferry stations. A Magistrate in the West Side Court announced yesterday a programme of progressive puns ishment for men who violate the law against spitting. Yesterday it was a $2 fine for spitters, to-day it is $3, and the Magistrate promises to add a dolfar a day up to the maximum, when jail sefitences will begin. What makes it harder to deal with this disgusting and dangerous practice in time of epidemic is the fact that in ordinary times the law forbidding it is so little enforced. fine, one year imprisonment, or both. the law against spitting in public places. the Children’s Court as the result istence counting for the dectease. ing are always important factors. morality nile Courts, cases that do not appear in the records, without appeals to outside interest or sentiment and An Evening World reader is right in declaring that “conductors do not try to enforce the notice that is placed in the car$ by the Board of Health.” It is a common thing to see a man repeatedly spit en the floor of a subway train when directly opposite, staring him in the face, is a printed warning that such spitting isa misdemeanor, punishable either by a $500 Subway-guards occasionally interfere with a man who is smoking or carrying a lighted cigar. one ever seen a subway guard admonish a spitter? We should not wait for an epidemic to put force in The habit is a menace to health and an outrage of decency at all times. .Subway and elevated guards, station attendants and all public service employees should join with the police to put a stop to it CHILDREN AND THE LAW. NSTEAD of an anticipated increase in the work of war psy- chology, Justice Hoyt reports for 1919 a highly grati- fying decrease of 358 cases as compared with 1918 i and nearly a thousand as compared with 1917, “919 figures show somewhat fewer cases than the av- erage of the previous four years of the court's ex- ot Many factors must be weighed and balanced in ac- Wages and the cost of liv- Homes in which mothers go out to work are danger spots for juvenile] them out There is a close relationship between the adequacy of family budgejs and the work of the Juve-| But in 1919 the wage and cost of living factors seem to have struck something near a balance. Boy Scout leaders may take credit for a good many These are the boys who did not go wrong but might have if they had not been ted to exert their superabundant energies according to Scout Law instead of gang law. , It is, how. Has any The ———yySES Farm Figuring! - Copyricht, 1990, by the Prem Publishing Co. (Tre New York Byening World.) By J. H. Cassel- GtT By Bre PER WEEK | Final 4 WINDOW" WASHERS CARPENTERS BRICK LAYERS toor PER WEE 44" Rour Wee ‘The Law May Kill. ‘To the Kaito of ‘The Evening World: For a long time I have suffered from valvular disease of the heart My physivian advised me to carry a small flask of brandy for the danger are is always present in such c: am breaking the law to carr The hateful ken away my liberty. take away my life? es. it, Prohibitionists have ta- C: an they also Must I take the chance of serving a year in prison for trying to save my own life? I can, of course, get a prescription to buy brandy, but I cannot carry it around with me. But we can’t pick out the place where a heart attack will hit us. What can I do? Who can help me? A_ SUFFERER, 1920. Ansnalt by Sneezing. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: We are in the midst of an epidemic of influenza and pneumonia, Splendid work has been done to care for the afflicted, but why not try and check this cpidemie instead of letting it wear out? To-day precautions were read to the school children, which is fine, Going to business to-day on a Plat- bush Avenue car T saw a reason why this epidemic is spreading, A middle- aged lady sat at the front of the car, coughing every few minutes, The light was just right so that I could plainly see a funnel-shape spray of saliva (germs undoubtedly) issuing from her mouth, She made no at- tempt to cover her mouth with “a handkerchief. We can refrain from going to public places, but we must ride in the street cars and be exposed to the flu-spreaders going and coming from work, Placards should be placed in each car to the effect that if it is necessary to cough, to cover nose and mouth with a handkerchief, The rais- ing of one’s hand to the mouth is not sufficient, A man attacking another person can be held for assault, and yet clety to-day is being attacked by cold and influe theatres, nd halls, there is nop wid stand for bei ere MUC nce be- and coughing? Many xone to a premature 5 of another one’s re is it not time to put grave from t cough, rds educating the public to ‘s of coughing? The mov- houses and the ¢ help educat people on hi gious 4 cous We are a i have always had an e] of Colds, &c,, af this season of the year, and wil them until the yublic rt in stamping 0, J. EKVALL. 80. ttle American, he Hvening Work! As a constant reader of your paper I note that both Democrats and Ree publicans have kicked against of 150 millions of dollars for Europe asked by President Wilson. Allow me to say that [am also against such a loan or any other loan for ungrate- ful Europe. “America first" is my slogan, but apparently our President has forgotten this slogan, During the sugar shortage millions Brooklyn, Jan. A Selfinh Tw the Halitor of @ loan \ { 1 | | | | To the Eslitor of The Brening World i of pounds of sugar were shipped to Europe because, I suppose, our greedy Manufacturers and profiteers could get more in Europe for their sugar (our money by former loans), until they raised ‘the price in America about 80 to 100 per cent. Let them be reminded that charity begins at home, and to hell with each and every part of Europe until America is {n @ decent condition. I hope that Con- gress can impress our President that praise from America and Americans is much better than praise from European kings and queens who are forever knocking at our door for charity and help. AMERICA FIRST, LAST WAYS, WHETHER WRONG. New York, Feb, 1, 1920. | AND AL- | RIGHT OR The Fin Got You. If you are grouchy, ill at ease And can do naught but cough and sneeze, Don't go, a8 many others do, And tell’ the werld you've “got ‘the But just state what is plain and o=. , You know darn well the "flu" got you. J.D. G. West 115th Street, @eb. 1, 1920, No Limit to Fanaticiam,. ‘6 the Editor of the Brening World In a recent etter to another news- paper, Mrs, Martha M, Allen, a,W. C. T. U. Worker, attacks Health Commis- sioner Copeland for his commendable efforis in rendering available to the physicihns of the city a supply of whiskey with which to combat the ravages of influena, Not content with eliminating whiskey as a bev- erage, it is now sought to stop even its medicinal use! Is there no limit to fanaticism? Samuel O. L. Potter, A. M, M. D., k. C, B,, London, formerly pro- * of the principles and practice dicine, Cooper Medical College, San Francisco, author of Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Ther a volume in universal use physicians and which has receive the indorsement of the Journal of the American Medical Association, has | this to say about alcohol: pally, in stall quantities, taken randy an hipset stOu MA single dose of strong whiskey is p fend thus diapho ing the disturbed balanoy of the UNCOMMON SENSE y John Blake. : (Copyright, 1920.) | : READ NEWSPAPE AND READ THEM CAREFULLY. A knowledge of the history and the literature of the past is necessary. You ought to know Shakespeare, the English poets, some of the English and French novelists. But the history of the past is only valuable for its bear- ing on the present. And only the authors who wrote truths that still live are worth reading. You live not in the past, but in the present. Unless you know what is going on in the world to-day you will be of little use. ; The modern newspaper has the means of searching the world for its important happenings. It brings to you every day the story of history in the making. It told you in detail of the great war, and is now tel- ling you many things about that great struggle, its eauses and consequences which were not to be found out in the day$ when it was raging. Read the newspapers carefully, page by page. They are written and edited for you. Every item is selected by a trained man because it has an interest for you. It tells in daily chapters of human progress, of science, invention, statecraft, government. Read it with attention, thinking as yoy read, and it will enable you to talk ably and convincingly on all impor- tant topics. ' ¢The-student of the newspapers is an eduéated man be- fore-he has studied them long, for they are a printed: uni- versity, at a two-cent daily tuition, and have far broader and more comprehensive courses than any college can pos- sibly have. ; * Do not be a headline reader. Do not skip from page to page, from column to column, so you may glean the news in a general Read your newspaper thoroughly and at- tentively. Read each article to the end, That will consume but littic time, and after a week of such reading you will be amazed at the benefit you haye derived. No man; however rich, could afford to search for him- self the information that the newspaper daily places be- fore his eyes. Business men depend on the newspapers. They of a business necessity than the telegraph or the telephone, They are also a necessity to you, whoever you may be. But unless you read them through, and know what is in them} you get only half the value out of them that you, would otherwise gain . i e more aby gatteme total abuinknes 4. | you have a child you can't have a ical authorities to support ther | noof over your head, But when the lugion it should be obvious|**™¢ child becomes of uge and he . Allen is at son- | 18 needed for his country he is ex- rly | Pected to be strong and healthy Lam the w her re seen ag inspire us of economic if not personal b das} chanic, € ; My rent such will merely use thi telligent | 18 $60 a month and, if 1 want to eat m a Constitutional! l have to go barefooted, What kind rom. wi e14 W. 189th N.Y. Jan. 30, | make both ends meet? 1ts a Hard Row, ° a higher, the population of the United Yo whe Paitor of ‘The Brening Wer utes will go down lower, because What's the matter with the people| what true mother wants to bring eh in Washington? Are they asl dren into this world to see them san" ey see ha erica a uffer? Can't they that American® ay A STRUGGLING WIFE being swindled out of their hard AND MOTHBDR., jearnings by Russian landlords, If New York, Jam 30 . | sulted the adoring Fanny and carried moved|ef an American will my son be f.) | when he the foreign-born chil- AM, | dren all ed up in finery and | watches and sees me struggling on to | perfected the invention, got his p, | Tr the high cost of living goes any The Love Storie. of Great Novels By Albert P. Terhune Covrreh, 2990, Wad ening Worth ne No. 44—Pendennis. | W. M. Thackeray. ' RTHUR PENDE! of an apothecary who died, leaving the boy in care | of a gentle and unworldly mother. ‘There was enough money left to educate Arthur and to start him in any profession he might choose, but by no means enough to support him for Uifa And, in spite of this, at eighteen, he proceeded to fall in love, with an actress—Costigan by name+ fome years his senior. . ‘The girl was good. She was a fool, it is true, but a harmless and docile |fool. Not at all the same sort of foo? that Arthur was, She took him at bis own valuation, as the dashing son of a great family. He was prepared © marry her, at eighteen, and settle | down to a life of luxury, at bis wid- owed mothers expense. Poor Mre. Pendennis was in despair ever her son's asinine infatudtion, Ghe sent post-haste for her worldly oid brother-in-law, Major Pendennis, who wasted no time in explaining to the Costigan family that Arthur was little better than a pauper, and that if he were to marry now his wife ‘would be forced to earn a living for herself and for him, This hint was quite sufficient. The affair was broken off with much sud- denness, and Arthur had the satisfac- tion of posing as a heartbroken man- of-the- world. His mildly damaged heart was caught on the febound by a fluffy and empty-headed bunch of femininity named Blanche Amory. Blanche and Arthur used to write deplorable poetry to each other and played very hard at being hopelessly in love. a But, deneath all her frivolity,” Blanche had too much caution to throw herself away on a penniless youth, when the whole world of eli gible men was waiting to be con- quered. And, after a brief flirtation, this affair took its place alongside the wooing of the Costigan girl, as a bit of ancient history. It was only after he had gained man’s estate and gone out into tne world of work that anothet woman came seriously into Arthur's life. He had fallen dangerously ill, and she nursed him bick to health. She was a girl of the people, Fanny by name, and she was dazzled by Arthur's air of breeding and education, It was due to the man’s innate J cency and gratitude that the flirta- tion went no deepet and wrought uo harg to the trusting girl. AS it was, Mrs. Pendennis swooped down upon her convalescont son; in- By Arthur away fram the peril she iin- agined he had incurred. And that was the end of the affair with Fanny, Long afterward, when life and iis- fortune and work and experience had taught Arthur Pendennis to know his own heart and to realize his thousand failings, he made a strange discov ry. Namely that the one woman in t world for him was his gentle co Laura, whom he had known childhood and who had been Wait patiently for him to find that he was the only love really worth whi Note—The foregvini mereiy new the love wtory of “Pendennis,” and ilixe nota tempt to give any idea of the book's chart aid ereatnems oF w on ks Major WHY THEY CAME -/ TO THE LIBRARY HE New York Public Library a has just issued an interesting little booklet of data showing the reasons why various persons coi sulted the library. An extract fol- lows: “A young clerk in an exporting house came to the fibrary to borrow books about South and Central Amer- ica, He told the librarian afterward that the information he found in these books enabled him to: get the position of head of the exporting d: partment in his firm. “An expert op Oriental rugs cou sults one of the libraries for informu- tion on his specialty. “An instructor of nurses’ in « neighboring hospital required her stu- dents to use the library regulariy, The library arranged a Special cols lection of books on nursing, hygien:, and sanitation, and kept the: speeifed place ready for use. * “A poultryman signed an Ned tion for @ library card in 1912, "0 its wife could get the novels. ‘ais surprised to learn that the library had practical books for his own use Last year he reported that he had hen houses according to specifications found in the library books. He suid “I Nave trebled iy -business.”” “When the Treaty of Versailles was published, people were puzzl: read that among other stipulation. Germany was compelled to restore the skull of the “Sultan 'Okwawa* Nobody knew what this meant unt a reporter from a New York papor came to the Oriéntal Division, ci tral Building, the New York Publ Library, There he was told who tli. Sultan “Okwawa” or Quawa, had ‘been, and how the Germans got hs skull. This information, published in his paper, was copied’ and quoted throughout the Unted States. “An inventor came Bra: Library for technical information about alloys, He was working on an invention of a top for a syphon,. ‘Thy Branch Library applied to the I y e Inter. branch Loan Office, whieh put all tie information in the Circulation De partment at the man's disposal. Hi. ent, and put the device successtu upon the market “The President's secretary 6 Jarge flax and linen corpo to the Periodicals’ Divis Building, consulted the f: odicals, and obtained which ‘enabled him s enlarged his place and rebuilt all his —et