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ee clin, stot by tne i re Fyhntng 3 PE Row, New A CASE FOR CONSIDERATION. Ww ivan ‘brotherhood receive less than $3 a day. proved by Director Hines. In this connection it is well to: recall that on Aug. energy the ‘task of ‘bringing the profiteer to book, making. the stocks, of necessaries available at lowered He said in this letter: _ “It goes without saying that if efforts to bring the cost of living down should fail, after we have had time enough to establish either success or failure, it will, of course, be neces- sary to accept the higher standard of living ‘#6 @ permanent basis of adjustment.” _ , jOn this basis the transportation crisis was postponed. | Whe cost of living has gone up, not, down. ‘The’ public knows the sad plight of the $3-a-day ee ee ee ee "at the same time, in his public explanation to the . country the President said: “The position’ which the Government must tn conscience take against general increases “in wage levels while the present. exceptional , and temporary.ciroumstances prevail will of epurse not preclude the Railroad Administra- tion from ‘giving prompt and careful considera- tion to any claims that may be made by other ‘of employees for readjustment be- Tera to tobe"'proper and to secure impartial Voters Mevtihwte wert, n the Aaery ‘The Strength of the case which Mr, Hines can pre- sent against the threatened strike would seem to de- (ah largely on the.“promptness and care in consid- ” of thie.claims the maintenance men hive made. at it there are 400,000 maintenance employees working Nor less fhart $3°a day, it would seem that there has ae eee ee onl 4 te ete WHAT WOULD LINCOLN HAVE DONE? “Mbraham Lincoln were a New Yorker in this win- ter of heavy snow-fall and blocked traffic, how would'tie’ spend ‘@ business holiday?s)° 7 apa papi ail busily engaged } imtrying to remedy the situation by doing his full share ’. with a snow shovel. Stories of Lincoln’s early life all point to this con- j clusion, He endeared himself to his neighbors by per- forming helpful deeds. He was not afraid of work. His fund sf common sense would have shown him that: this would be the most practical way of meeting t fe emergency, better even than criticising the failure fthe regular snow-removal force, fe hours of direct contact with ihe business end @. snOW shovel will be an appropriate way to ob- ; i : aes JOHN AND BILL AND BOB. upon a time John Jones told Bill Smith that *Bob Brown had said that he (Bob) could lick on ih, Bill denied that Bob could do any such thing. Then naughty John hunted up Bob and told him ; That Bill claimedto be able to lick Bob, Bob replied: “I'll show! him as soon as I get.a chance,” i Actually Bill and Bob were the best of friends, but j + John was in a fair way of sfarting a fight. . All would have gone well with John had it not hap- "pened that John’s father, who was a decent, respecta- _ ble, peaceable, God-fearing man, overheard both. the yarns, Old man Jones collared John, administered a sound thrashing and forced him to Confess his lies to ‘ Bob and Bill, When we read that Senator Jim Reed of Missouri ) said that Britain’s navy could wipe out the United States Navy in thirty-six hours, we recall the case of : a ‘ " pees eee eet ee ne MIN before Jim Reed gets what he well deserves, HYLANESQUE. AYOR HYLAN’S attack on the system of requir- ing special examinations for teachers in New , York City schools is perfectly consistent“with the gen- eral policy of administration, It is an example of Hylanismy and Hylanesque disregard for qualifications in filling offices. the ability of the best graduates of the high and nor- mal schools and of those who. just manage to “pass.” “Mayor ee ougtftn izbe this. apy a ; Ssccyraaomam Fo je a hk Saks THINK the public should withhold judgment on the merits of the threatened strike of the Railroad Maintenance Brotherhood until the facts are Barkér, the head of the organization, claims , that more than 100,000 of the 300,000 members of the ‘This statement should be readily, confirmed or, dis- _ . 25, 1919, when the shopmen threatened to strike, Pres- = idenWiison apzeated to them to delay the strike on the ground that “the Government has taken up with been a neglect of “readjustment believed to be proper.” * John and Bill and Bob and wonder how long it will be| Any teacher knows that there is a wide disparity in| best and to weed out those not fitted for all “six years | of extensive training,” which should, but often does nt, result in proper qualifications, Mayor Hylan does not believe in “experts.” Board of Education does, There’s the rub, But New York does not want its schools to run down in quality as the city administration has under two years of Hylan. Or does it? The CLING TO THE ROOTS. LEAN-CUT definition of the Prohibition issue as it should still present itself to the people and Legislature of an American Commonwealth may be found in what William D. Guthrie said to the Judiciary Committees of the New Jersey Senate and Assembly. Mr. Guthrie, with Elihu Root, is defending personal liberty and State rights against the Eighteenth Amend- ment and the Volstead Act. Mr, Guthrie made the Anti-Saloon League’s general |counsel, Wayne B. Wheeler, admit before the New | Jersey legislative committees : (1) That beverages containing one-half of 1 per cent. of alcohol are not intoxicating. (2) That the definition of intoxicating liquors contained in the act of Congress and backed by the Anti-Saloon League {fs false and, instead of prohibiting beverages that are intoxicating, prohibits those which are non-intoxicating. (3) That it depends upon the dictates of the Anti-Saloon League whether the churches can i use alcoholic liquids for sacramental purposes. Then, leaving Mr. Wheeler writhing under this ex- posure of the essentially Prussian character of the Anti- Saloon League’s attitude toward the liberty of other free-bom Americans, Mr, Guthrie said to the New Jersey legislators: “No legislative body can by a definition make black white or make intoxicating that which is not intoxicating.” “The duty and responsibility of defining what in your opinion constitutes an intoxicating bev- erage is yours. Under the law the authority is yours.” “You have one duty and that is to the peo- ple of the State of New Jersey. Pay no heed to the crack of the whip of the Anti-Saloon League. You'owe no duty to the people of the South and West.” “Your duty will be fulfilled when you have safeguarded the people of New Jersey from the tyranny and oppression of a measure which seeks to place in every household a detective from the Federal Government to interfere with their rights.” “You will never be called upon to perform a higher duty than to decide this question ac- cording to your judgment‘and conscience to the best interest of the people of New Jersey, and your Governor will never be called upon to perform a higher duty than that which he is about to perform in filing a bill in the Su- preme Court of the United States to adjudge the Highteenth Amendment null and void, be- cause it interferes with the just rights of the several States," We quote this much of Mr. Guthrie's address be- cause it is notably clear and consistent in holding Pro- hibition to the issue which the Anti-Saloon League would give anything to obscure, Upon the principle of local self-government and State sovereignty American democracy based its establishment and rested its hopes. That principle was never dealt 4 worse blow than when the Anti-Saloon League took advantage of a na- tional crisis to jam Nation-wide Prohibition into the Federal Constitution by methods it hoped might pass under cover of moral purpose. But the issue of State rights and local self-govern- ment will not down, so easily from the deepest growing roots of its own past. The Republic cannot be cut loose /Amendiment and the triumphant gloating of the Anti- |Saloon League over a prospect of unchecked tyranny, people and Governors of more than one State are now | determined to pierce the moral haze of Prohibition and get back into view the fundamental principle that has so grievously suffered, Each State must think and act for itself. Does New York stand with Gov. Smith in demand- ing that the people of this Commonwealth shall yet have something to say about the Eighteenth Amend- ment? Or does New York meekly bow to the Wheeler dictum that the doctrine of personal liberty and Siate jrights is “ancient and discredited” henceforth in the gets to select the land of the fathers? Me Despite what has happened, despite the Eighteenth hie Aig ROO Ala HS ARANRS RENE SSTT Sek | ‘Peace Should Put a Check ¢ on mycnomscae Spending: The War Is Over; Lighten the Taxpayers’ Load heads snot a From a Real Extate Office. ‘To the Editor of The Brening World: Your editorial, “Worth Watching arid Pushing,” in lust night's issue, is @ gem of purest ray serene and, pardon the frankness, is no more nor no Jess foolish than the bill it advo- cated. That the Merchants’ Association should indorse such a plece of fool- ishness seems almost unbelievable, Barnum & Bailey's and Ringling Brothers’ combined sircuses could be driven through the constitutionality of such a law, and some one in The Evening World office ought to know it, Suppose The Evening World applied this law to itself and thafif the price charged for The Evening World was a cent in May, no matter how much paper and labor increased, it Would be unlawful for The Bvening World to make a proportionate in. crease—-not to epeak of 100 per cent.—until the following May. And suppose the advertising rate was % cents a word in May, it would be unlawful, no matter how much ex- penses increased, to charge 4 cents and give it another boost to 5 cents until the following May. As tenants outnumber landlords ten and maybe fifty to one, and as this is the ratio of friends to enemies that a newspaper will make in ad- vocating such nonsense, the writer can readily get the viewpoint of The World when it says that this is a bill “Worth Watching and Pushing.” May it not be worth even more than that? THOMAS id ALLACE. New York, Fe A Practic To the Editur of the Evening | Assembly Bin No, introduced by Mr. Dimin,as summarized by, The Evening World of Feb, 3, is the most practical curb on profiteering in rents so fur evolved that has come to my attention Such a law, limiting the fixing or naming of rentals to the month of May, makes it impossible for the horde of shoe-string profiteers (who gobble up blocks of houses with a tew thousand capital—real money) to jack up the rents several times during a year ky the lippery process of passing the title around in a circle to each other. No other measure that I have heard of offers such possibilities as this bill; none other is so practical or simple nor could become effective so swiftly—as in most cases other bills are for political effect and are legully impossibile, in fact, brought forward to be killed, As The Evening World says, “It is now up to the people themselves to get behind this Dill,” as you may rest assured the opposition is all organized and ready f for @ killing, Write to your Btate Senator and Assemblyman Carb, ord at | present Albany; let them know you are awake | and watching them. Speak to your} neighbors about this measure that offers so much relief; get them to! write—at once. Organize! If we are | too lazy now to bestir ourselves the Profiteer will not be, rest asgured. Speak and act—write to your rep- resentatives at Albany, get your neighbors interested—but do not for- get interest alone is useless; action is needed. Do not depend on’ the other fellow to write; write yourself; all of | us—and do it now. Many thanks to The Evening World for bringing this Measure to our at- tention. Give it publicity! PURVIS CLAYTON, No, 610 West 1724 Street. We Should Like More Such Letters, ‘To the hilitor of ‘Tho Wreuing World: “Y. M. C. A.” the reading of hu- morous books will not help entirely to chase the blues away. What you need is diversion—I am golng to re- commend a club where I know you will absolutely forget about being blue—4t 1s called the Hall of States, located at No, 238 Madison Avenue, between 87th and 38th Streets, where you will find congenial comradeship. ‘There is a mighty fine reading room, rest room, &c. ere is dancing every evening (except Sunday) be- tween 8 and 11 o'clock. There are thirty States represented, and who knows you may meet some one from your home town. My best wishes to you, ¥. M.C. A. GP. EB New York, Feb. 5. A Fine State of Affairs, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World; Liquor was made to use and not to abuse, It is all right in its place. But now, just on account of a few loggerheads, the whole country has to do without’ it, But Mr, Anderson and his followers should worry, He has won a few medals for his brave act. It was ever thus, The innocent has to suffer for the guilty. A fine how-do-you-do! Nowadays we are told what we can have. A fine state of affairs. Who said we were in w free country? BAY RIDGER, Bay Ridge, Feb, Critictsing cartoon. ‘To the Kilitor of The Evening World, Being a reader of The Evening World for the past twenty years, would like to register a protest on the cartoon by J..H. Cassel, pub- lished in Tho Evening World on Feb, 3. I would suggest that your Mr, sel get facts on a subject before publishing it and not try to mislead the public, He states the wages of a brick- layer 1s $60 per week, which Is decidedly misleading to the pub- lic, It is a t they are, at the time, atriving to get $1.25 per UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Coprright, 1920.) YOUR LEISURE HOURS MAY MAKE YOUR FORTUNE. Like a machine, you only rust while you are idle. Rest is necessary. Idleness is not. Ideas come oftenest in your leisure hours. By making use of these hours, not only for rest and recreation but for fhouaht: you may make them the most valuable part of your ife. This is particularly true of men who are employed upon tasks which require more attention than inventiveness, There is much tedious work to be done in the world, Once the motions are learned there is nothing to do but follow them. Day after day it is the same thing over again, till the mind becomes numb’and the heart sick with sheer weariness. If you have this kind of a job you will have to do most of your thinking in your hours of leisure. It is then that your brain, relieved of the strain of constant attention to a hum- drum job, will be at its best. It.is then that you will have time to read—to think, to consider the future and what you mean to do in it. Even the dullest duties can be done better by a thoughtful man than by an unthinking one. But if you are engaged on—we will say a commonplace bookkeeping job, you will have no time to figure out better ways of working while you are bent over your desk with your pen in your hand. Your attention will be wholly consumed by the labor. When the labor ig-done for the day—when you can look at it from a distance, you will begin to get more light on it. Lucky is the man whose job is a constant incentive to thought. The engineer, the painter, the writer, can think as he works, and his mind grows with each day's task well done. But such places in life are few. Most of us must do the daily grind as cheerfully as we can and when the whistle blows or Sunday morning dawns think how we are going to get a better job, Recreation, exercise, both are necessary. Play is as useful as work, But nowadays every man has more leisure than he needs for play. If he employs it intelligently it may become more important than all his working hours. Be systematic about the use of your leisure. study in it, think in it. Read in it, And it is more than likely that the habit of thought you thus develop will carry you out of the rut to the threshold of fortune. hour, which, if they managed to which, according to my ability at work a full week, would amount to/arithmetic is far short of the $60 $55, not $60, But the man who|per week emblazoned on your edi- torial pase If The Evening World would 1 something to play up in its colum) I would suggest they investigate t ae of material, ick, for makes a full week is an exception rather than a rule. I have been employed on an opera- tion since the beginning of this year that has been paying ot Bie 25, hour rate and to date the $7 fogs ‘for this year have been #102.66,| 1,000 RI jie Dre-wan Ditos, 6 now $30 per No.47 - He irietia fom, By Benjamin Disraeli, HISN the enormously wealthy old Earl of Grandison died, two people were much aston- ished at the contents of his will, Those two were his niece, Katherine Grandison, and his nephew, Ferdinand Armine, Katherine was amazed because the Barl had left her all his great fortune. Armine was dumfounded because the Earl had left him nothing. Yor years Armine had kept his head above the financial waters on the strength of his being the favorite nephew of so rich a man. Thus had he. staved off his creditors and had been able to live in luxury on nothing a year. Now that hig uncle had died and had left him nothing, Armine’s creditors prepared to swoop down. bankruptcy and debtors’ prison staring hiin in the face, Armine set his nimble wits to work. And he discovered a way out of the dilemma. He made violent love to his rich cousin, Katherine. She, not suspecting his mercenary motive, fell in love witli him, and gladly consented to become his wife. News of Armine’s betrothal to so rich a girl was enough to turn his creditors from their purpose and make them fawn on him, He was saved. Then, during Katherine's brief ab- seuce from her home at Bath, he went on @ shooting trip to another part of England. There he chanced to meet an old gentleman named Tempte, and Temple's beautiful daughter, Henri- etta. For the first time in all his worthless and dissolute life, Ferdinand Armine proceeded to fall in loye—hon- estly and ardently in love. At first sight of Henrietta Temple he forgot Katherine and the stark need of his marrying her in order to escape bankruptcy. He forgot every- thing except that he loved Henrietta oe that he longed to make her his e. He proposed to her and she accepted him. For a brief time the two lovers were blissfully happy. Then Armine realized it was his duty to break his engagement to Katherine. And he went to Bath to do so. Qnce there, @id not date let his creditors know was going to marry a poor girl Mead of erich one. Bo he temporised. Meantime, Henrietta heard of Armine’s engagement to Katherine. She was heartbroken at his perfidy. To save her from pining away from [iti i ‘father took her to Italy coed the: wint froma his wlat Yo adh Bahdaid Ms gone, And he could find no trace of her. In dispair ha rushed to Katherine and told her the whole story. Kather- ine not only was generous enough to release the unhappy man from his en- gagement to herself, but to promise to do all in her power to help him find his adored Henrietta. But the search was long. And in the meantime Armine was arrested for debt and was thrown into prison. There he learned that the death of a millionaire relative had made Henvi- etta. Temple the richest woman in England, Also that she was reported engaged to a nobleman, Katherine brought news of Armine'’s imprisonment to Henrietta and told of his frantic search for his lost sweet- heart. Touched by his repentance, Henrietta paid his bills, had him re- leased frown prison, und married him. New York Town. ‘Tis the town of the handsomest women, The home of the bravest men, Where grandeurs rare, beyond com~ pare, Are described by the poet's pen; Where men face danger smiling, . Where women laugh and sigh, Where life is just a plaything, Where “Coppers” smile and die. Where brighter careers are bitghted, Where some have reached heights of fame, Where others are struggling onward, Battling to reach life's alm; ‘Where fate has been kind to many, Where fortune has favored few, Where visions of youth are shattered, In dreams that will never come true, But often in flights of fancy, We picture what might have been, And the golden rays of those oldem days Come sweeping back again; And through the mists of memories dear Come scenes that linger still, | When I swung a yellow nightstick, Just a “Cop” on “Cherry Hil JOUN F. J. FERGUSON, Headqua:ters Division, City Police. New York Newest ‘Notes in | ce ‘To lessen the noise of water falling Into a bath tub an inventor has par- ented an extension tube for faucets, Fields of Scien Mexico has @ tribe of Indians whose language is limited: to about 300 words und who cannot count more than ten. Electrically operated ollers for ma- chinery have been invented that cam be controlled from central switch. boards. The Argentine Government is plan= ning to harness falls of the Parana River for the production of electrig power. What ts eald to be the practical electric motor form dental tool holder aad w four ounces. ke he PS eran Bees Oc TOE STREE ENRNE Tae e .