The evening world. Newspaper, February 12, 1920, Page 20

wr Mord, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Dally Except Sunday by the Preas Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to 62 Patk Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Preside J. Pe guid SHAW, Treasu: 3 Parl . JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr.. Secretary. 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF TR: ASKOCIATED PRERS. The Ansoctoter Prose te exciusively eutitied to the use for repubiteation Of all mews deapeiches credited to It or not otherviee crediied in thie paper (806 also the local news published hervin. WHY Wb. 4? Why not ratify teace Trealy and League of Nations covenant with the one indelible indorsement: Interpreted in ‘xe light of the Con- stitution of the United States. That would cover it. TRY AN ENGINEER. T IS estimated that snow removal will cost taxpay- ets in the neighborhood of $5,000,000. 2. J Daily loss to the city from the slowing down of Fd business amounts to $5,000,000, eS These figures do not cover inconvenience and illness caused by the presence of snow. | isn’t it about time for ‘New York to take the business of snow removal out of the hands of inexperienced political appointees and employ snow-removal en- gineers who will hold over from Administration to Administration, learn from their mistakes and develop 4 technique and machinery for snow removal? Isn’t it time for New York to realize that snow re- moval is an engineering problem? Isn't it time to adopt power-driven mechanical means for disposing of snow instead of relying on hand labor? wi. fn building the Panama Canal and in modern rail- _ road grading engineers have réduced hand labor to a minimum, because they develop machinery to do the work better, quicker and at less expense, here are half a dozen endless apron devices for sie _ provide unfailing mechanical power. -* driven shovel, the flat car which can be unloaded by : the “Lidgerwood,” ase familiar to grading contractors. The’ problems are essentially similar. Modifications would be necessary to adapt railroad grading machinery {o snow removal. In Brooklyn the B, R. T. has been means for snow removal. A politician will not. The fact is that politicians have encouraged hand removal because it provided jobs for “the faithful” when mafly were out of work. Mechanical devices supplanted too many names on the payroll. can do, IS IT CONSPIRACY? ERE is bitter wat between the employing steel erectors and the workmen in the trade. The “open shop” or the “closed shop” is the issue. ‘As usual the public suffers. In New York the Building Trades Council and the * Employers’ Association have arrived at a substantial after industrial war which has repeatedly restricted New York’s building development. © The employers accepted peace i the closed shop, The fron erectors held out for the open shop, imperilling ae The result, admitted by Walter Drew, counsel for ; the open-shop employers, is that the steel companies, themselves committed to the open shop, are favoring E _ open-shop jobs with preference in orders. /— The effect on New York building must be obvious. . The contractor seems to be between the devil and the deep sea. If he operates open shop he cannot get men, If he operetes closed shop he cannot get steel. Meaniime the housing shortage will increase and » tents will continue to mount, The Evening World has always condemned the sym- pathetic strike as an economic weapon, It is wrong &s wrong can be. 3 Here in the steel situation we have an analogous situation which is equally wrong. To strengthen the| open shop in the steel mills the fabricating companies are viriually, if not actually, boycotting the closed- “shop employers. It is carrying over the economic war from one business to another. And New York pays the bill. We suggest that it behooves State and Federal au- thorities to investigate and discover whether there is not a conspiracy in restraint of trade, VEHICULAR TUNNEL REVENUES, LIFFORD M. HOLLAND, chief engineer of the Hudson River vehicular tunnel project, estimates that revenues from the tunnel will pay for it in eleven} years. This is good news if true. Then Mr. tolland prophesies a Wael of $33,- 000,000 in the next nine years, With all respect to Mr. . We doubt that such will be the case. Toll id toll ure going @l over the country un pe and when the tunnel has once paid for itself the chances are that it will be thrown open to the free use of the public or charges made so low as merely to) make the tunnel self-sustaining. Peace Should Put a Check on Government Spending; °}: _ The War Is Over; Lighten the Taxpayers’ etree ak HN EMI, (es ener © Load No country has ever found permanent profit in any TEACH BY EXAMPLE. HE Government Loan Organization of the Second Federal Reserve District sends us a “suggested editorial for Lincoln’s Birthday,” The suggested editorial quotes words in which, it says, “President Abraham Lincoln appealed to the Nation following the Civil War, when the country was confronted with a financial and industrial panic.’”) The words are: “Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with the saving of money.” This is not going to be the Federal Reserve Board’s “suggested editorial,” but ong that the “suggested editorial” suggests. The Federal Reserve Board maintained throughout the war, and still maintains, at no small cost, a staff of experts to teach the people of the United States economy and’ saving. loading wagons with earth, Caterpillar-tread tractors) Who is instructing the Government of the United The power-| States at the present time in these important branches? The people have proved themselves good pupils. They have bought Liberty Bonds, Thrift Stamps and Treasury Savings Certificates. They have backed the Government with their savings and at the same time fairly successful in such experiments. It is inconceiv-| taken upon their shoulders the heaviest load of Federal able that an engineer could not devise mechanical] taxation they have ever carried, Can the Government match them in thrift? Since the cessation of hostilities, has there been a drastic and progressive reduction in Government never were encouraged or tried fairly because they|Spending which would warrant the Government in claiming that its practice is an example and argument ‘The present system costs too much, directly and in-|for the saving it preaches? directly. Give an engineer a chance to show what he) Does the Federal Reserve Board only ask the people to do what departments of the Federal Government are daily doing? Facts and figures do not show it. Federal departrfents are still figuring their estimates on the nine-and-ten-figure’ basis to which war ac- customed the country. It is like pulling teeth to try to reduce Government payrolls, Each bureau is pre- pared to show that the place for econothy is in some other bureau’s programme. No master plan of re- organization and retrenchment is in force, Senator Harding of Ohio warned Brooklyn Repub- licans this week that Governmental extravagance js a T te Kaitor of Te Hrening World: grave present danger and that Federal taxes bid fair) to increase instéad of diminish, cost of living,” the Senator declared, “is in large part] of $500,000,000? For whom is it now Ghargeable to the high cost of government, “It will help mightily to cut out needless gov- ernment. It will speed the restoration to let State and municipality get back to normal func- tions. We have reversed this order and per- verted our system when we make Federal taxes so distressing that local obligations, directly assessed, are a seeming pittance im the cost of activity.” The people have already shown themselves capable} when food, rent and other Teach economy, . That is one of the first and highest virtues, It begins with the saving of money. We suggest that the Federal Reserve Board prepare | minority. 1 would’ like to si \framed copies and hang one in every department and voted dry, it was the. 0 |hureau of the Federal Government, Let Government teach by example, IN A NAUGHTY WORLD. HOSE who prefer to look on the bright side of | my family. life and retain faith in the ultimate goodness of man may take heart from the most recent and dramatic lrevelation of crime in thé city. limitation of the freest. possible intercourse between all its parts. New York and New Jersey will take their profits from the stimulation of trade which will follow. Where the Moncey Gees, Will you or some kind. reader en- lighten me on the following subjects: “The present high Why is the Shipping Board re- ceiving an appropriation this year building ships and what are and what wih’ these ships be used for? Cer- tainly, the present Government car- foes are not even one-third of what they were during the war. Why is the Government holding the thousands of motor-trucks pur- chased during the war, and which are rotting and rusting in the open or poor sheds? It is easy to surmise what influence is preventing their sales, ‘Why {ts so much fuss being made about the Socialist and other radical orgunizations and “reds” deported, ‘ofiteers and the “patriots” at Washington of making good use of the Federal Reserve Board's} can go on doing their sinister busi- Lincoln Day lesson. They can be counted on to keep the lesson all the more steadily by them if they see consistent effort to} men represent? lighten their present tax burdens. ness unmolested? To my mind, the latter are worse than the former. They are despicable criminals at large. Whom do Senators and Congress- G, F. M. Feb. 8 1920, Elizabeth, N. One of Majority. ‘To the Bikttor of ‘The Bening Work! Tam a Constant reader of The Eve- ning World and would like you to publish a reply to one of the so-called y it was ot 87 per cent. of the . of our renegade Cons bea the people elected who did the dirty work. Put this question direct to the people and I will bet dollars to doughnuts your pussyfoot followers won't stand a chance. 1 will stapd alongside of George H. Rover as an- other wouldbe church taxer, 1 like my glass of beer, also a little whiskey, Have never neglected my business or NOT A HYPOCRITE. Rose st., Brooklyn, Feb. 9, 1920. Spier Band, ‘To the Ealtor of The Evening World: In your issue of Feb, 6, Frank J. Fiaincial houses were to have been the victims of | Adams criticises the New York Po- a gigantic robbery involving the “master mind,” the “man higher up,” and a score of “tools” who were to have lived more or less happily ever after on their | music at every appears ill-gotten gains, and its uses. Nee Realy on behalf of this splen- did organization and the gréat pleas- ure that the citjzens derive from Its ‘The band fs a municipal organization which tends to create the highest form of welfare in adding to the morale and All the plans fell to the ground because of the sim-| enthusiasm of the entire police forvs ple, straightforward honesty of one messenger wh Ofland’s mathematical played the 4 ws and exposed them, How far{ yon little candle throws ite beams! 80 @ good deed in a naughty world BS | of 11,000 men. Providing music in war and peace is one of the greatest FROM EVENING WORLD READERS _ | what finer music is heard than when the Police Band files down our ave- nues heading a parade playing Sousa’s and Reeves's marches! New York is proud of her Police Band and hopes their appearance will not be curtailed, but on the contrary, let the citizens have more of this music, The band should be increased to one hundred men and maintained at the highest proficiency by vhe city of New York. What greater pleasure than such music affords? DAVID ROBINSON. No. 154 Nassau Street, Feb, 8, 1920. is there ‘The Day of Dreams. ‘To the Editor of ‘The brening World Autocracy is dead. The world is safe. The new age rooted in the heart of! man, Like towering pine, lifts up its head | to God, A league is made ‘twixt nations and the sky. Intrigue and secret treaty are no more, Diplomacy becomes the shining sun Of people long oppressed by human wer. The night is gone. The day of God is here. So did T dream and with me most of red like eagles high above the guns Firm as the mountain base our con- fidence, High as its radiant peak our hope in man, The morning brings its disillusion- ment, Autocracy of labor and of wealth, With politicians for their playing pawns, Are fighting wordy war while nations die. My dream? and sky, Revealing to my wide awakened sou, Prophetic vision fulfilled to be, “The great Hereafter planted in the Now." C. EB, SCUDDER. Englewood, N. J., Feb. 8 It is the voice of earth Wages of W To the Hliter of The B Your cartoon jow Cleaners, og World arm Figuring” is not correct, in my estimation. Allow me to state that in New York not_a‘single window cleaser working for u boss is paid $18 a week for a 44- hour week. The union wage to-day is $32 a week for a 48-hour week. I will admit that some window clean- ers, being extra speedy men, receive stimulants to our being, I have heard the best bands in the country ane ow Police Band stands in high rani a few dollars more; but I am sure you will find very few getting more than 15 a week. Hf you teke into con- mand $48 @ week for q 44-hour, What more inspiring sight and gideration the chances they take and!end they are worth it, Thorep as . the weather to which they expose themselves, you will admit that the wages paid them to-day in New York are barely sufficient to provide a liv- ing for their fumilies. Where to Find OBSCURE FAMILY POOR | | WiTMOUT j EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES i TO ‘ H PRESIDENT AND THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR — ~ -— ee UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake . (Copyright, 1920.) TRADE IN YOUR BAD HABITS FOR GOOD ONES. Bad habits are sémetimes pleasqnt, but they are always expensive, They cost in time as well as money. And even the mildest of them usually turn out to be a handicap before the end of the journey. Nobody is born with habits. They must be formed. And only considerable use ever establishes them firmly, Once they are established, however, it takes more will power than the average man possesses to break them, even when he discovers that they are ruinous or deadl¢, If men could be caught young enough, it would be easy to teach them to form good habits instead of bad ones. The habit of thrift is as readily acquired as that of prodigality. It is as easy, from the beginning, to be in- dustrious by habit as it is to be idle by habit. If you began life industrious and thrifty. your future “would be assured. ‘ In the early days of New England these habits were taught and practised assiduously. The result was that when the young New Englander took Horace Greeley's advice and went West, or shipped aboard a whaler for foreign ports, he usually amassed a fortune. It is different to-day. Bad habits are acquired in youth and persist in manhood. And this being the case, the best thing for any youth to do is to trade in his bad habits for good ones. It will be hard work at first. Man turns to comfort as plants do to the light. And it is extremely uncomfortable to battle against habits of a lifetime. : It can, however, be done, as the examples of countless men illustrate. Men break themselves of idleness, of shiftlessness, of many other harmful habits—even of gambling, which is the hardest of all habits to uproot. And when they have rid themselves of these handicaps they turn to the good ones they have substituted with afl the zeal of new converts. Try it, if you have any bad habits. Do not content yourself with getting rid of the bad habit. Put a good one in its place. Let them fight it out, throwing your influence to the side of the good habit, and you will finish wiser, stronger and far better able to go isito the big fight which you will be obliged to enter if you expect to win anything worth while in the world, much difference between a wind, cleaner from Chicago and one fr New York as there is between and night, I have cities, and while in the Middle W brought in as much as $15 or worth of work a day. The Chicago window cleaners de- Serra nate cme gt enenees em enneny aeanmefiont om worked in both (| CLEANER, Your Vocation By Max Watson ©’ Coo by The Ps hat York Rvening Workd) On, | Agriculture. | Opportunities for Entering Field—There are so many bi of agriculture that the opportuniti |In each cannot be discussed in detail. A young man who has.the urge to get back to the land must consider many things before making a choice of lo« cation and product. A few of the branches are fruit raising, grain ‘rais- ing, dairying, poultry farming, hog | raising, truck farming and small fruit |” raising. A success can be made in any of these branches providing the | Proper condition of land, market, equipment and labor are edmbined | with good judgment and knowledge. Mile 4 lack of any of these failure is apt to result. Although agriculture is becoming more and more scientific, the hard work cannot be eliminated, A farmer's life is not easy, and otily Ghose who feel a real call to the land and are willing to forego many en- Joyments of city life for the inde- Pendence of a farmer shoukl cone sider it, Some capital, is Always nece: as the best land is of no value per one has the stock and equipment for working it and the money to tide, over the first year. This should be considered before making a farming venture and is especially importan: if one is interested in Government land, Many soldiers are interested in posstbllities of Government aid id and settlement. So fa; has been taken and a soldier. Hes op rights except those relative to time of residence on a homestead which’ have always existed. Generally peaking, there is no Government nd . available worth considering. Jertain irrigation projects are being opened from time to time in which ex-soldiers are given preference, but unless there is further Government aid there will be difficulty tn getting started. If land is owned money can be borrowed from the Federal Land Banks at 5% per cent. interest, In such branches as poultry farm- ing and hog raising a success cannot made without using scientific methods. A young man with no ex- pertence except school training should secure a position as a farmhand be- fore making farming a life venture. Positions as farmhands are always open during the farming season in ali localities. In the Middle West it is Very difficult to get these men. ndid training in agricul- ailable from universities and lay and the value of scientific knowledge so tmportant that no young man should become a farmer without ailing himself of this schooling. xtension cours be taken at home or special courses which need not interfere the farm work. If it is possible regular university ‘se in agricul ture with special training in @he branch to be follo’ d as a life's work should be taken. Every good farmer needs at least a common school .edu- cation and should have some high school, Salary. ‘The wages of a farmhand varies from $25 to $100 a month, according to location. Some of this work is seu sonal and again men are hired on contract for a year. As a class farnm- ers are poorly paid for their labor, a!- though during the past average income has incr; farmers make handsome ; The raisin growers of California re- ceived $40,000,000 for tt crop last season. A prune orchard of forty acres had a $20,000 crop, Again if the season is unfavorable money may be Jost. Type of Young Man Best Suited for Agriculture. First of all a good farmer must be willing to assume responsibilities. The man who is willing to quit work and t his job at five will never be a ssful farmer. He must be a hard worker, have a real love of the out- doors, be resourceful, progressive and willing to find his happiness In what an accomplish of a RR esata ‘al Farm Hand. how to ndte nd main- such as tenance ploug' ing mac! 8 and understand the ¢ and their proper mark. Remarks. 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