The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1920, Page 8

Ct ERA SRR AL RRL SS TTT EAST Te Tara PERE APH eE eH NN SRSA ON PML SE Ne AS HMR RONG oat A Ln AREER RN Ty Ne a ~ ~ Logue st 5 Pen ate ai ia x, anxious to gain credit for what they dared not prevent. Kansas Court of Industrial Relations was|Clear thinking will puncture the pretensions of either and lauded by Gov. Allen of that} group. a recent address before the Chicago Bar As- — n. “The thing done in Kansas,” he declared,’ INTERBOROUGH PROSPECTS. bbe done in the Nation at large.” NLESS statisticians for the 1. R. T. can find flaws | “he gt. The Evening’ World hes ing in the figures of the municipal experts, there soeee ureing 8 Federal High Court for Labor, ha which | seems small reason to expect increased. subway fares. dissatisfied classes of workers could see their claims| 74, Brooklyn Gas case and other similar actions! "pressed and their contests fought out with all the | nave established clearly that the courts will not enforce and all the backing of public opinion that NOW lie Jetter of the contract between public-service cor- | oo — workingman as advantages to be gained) vorations and cities when operating rates will not.pro- aioe ty vide for current operating expenses. Moreover, the : Td worker with a grievance does not always want|coiis in most instances will not take into considera- | Go into a quiet corner where somebody else will ad-| tion excessive or unwise dividends paid in the’ past. - It for him. In many instances he is convinced that If a corporation is operating at an actual loss, the courts | Mpa Tats whee the wang Gleeson the EVE t's wal gate ie it 5 os strike-pr x get hold of him. Pie ss guarantee of dividends is entirely another Give genes sare et “a rey where 1 can watch In the I, R. T. inquiry the city’s figures show that! the fight going on in its behalf, sive it the excitement revenues are increasing more rapidly than expenses | 3 of seeing some of the best brains of the Country bat-| and indicate that 1920 earnings on a 5-cent fare will) | tling in its service, and it will presently be willing 10) 1.056 than cover bare operdtlag ekpendek HA cot | | settle disputes and differences there—without quitting work. It will take to hiring big lawyers, instead of giving fis money to strike promoters and losing wages be- sides. Gov. Allen thinks legislation establishing a Federal Labor Tribunal should make strikes “unnecessary and the shareholders, but chances are that there may be a) moderate supply of the cheaper cuts. This puts the company in a very different position the form of an 8-cent fare, it must come from benefi- Unnecessary, yes. But, save im special fields of public. service, there is danger in attempting to deny ~ men's right to strike. As a potential power that right] j,, should remain. But by providing a new method of adjusting dif- authorities. In view of the generous dividends of the past and ¢ inflated values on which new dividends would} have to be paid, there is no good reason why either legislators or the city authorities should feel particularly | vantages the worker sées in open contest, the probabil- § | | ity of strikes will be progressively reduced. If the I. R. T, were ready to dehydrate its securities | the city might find it advantageous to accept a “cost- 4 vg WATCH IT. of-service” substitute for the present contracts, even} r OV. EDWARDS of New Jersey, who is a very though it entailed a slight increase in fare for the mo-| ae © large thorn in the side of the Anti-Saloon ment, for the sake of a possible decrease in fare when | League, was leading all the other Presidential favorites prices get back to normal. The day before came the news that an “Edwards- for-President Club” has been organized in—of all places—the home State of William J. Bryan, who has declared that the Democratic Party will stumble into an-early grave if it lets its thoughts wander from the onlf'ferthissible kind of grape juice. ; The Prohibition issue is as docile-as a five-foot eel a thi ‘Dithocratic boat—and just about as dead. League of Nations question seems to indicate | that his military training included an intensive course in circumlocution. He uses 303 words and ¢stablishes the point that he is not a “bitter-ender” unless Senator Lodge decides to become one. FIRE CHIEF KENLON’S WARNING. a 1E EVENING WORLD has suggested that snow 4: cleaning should be entrusted to an engineer with THE WAY TO CIVIL WAR. a knowledge of mechanics instead of to a politician SCHURMAN of Cornell is in accord) with an appreciation of the number of jobs it is pos- ~ with the frequently expressed view of The Eve-| sine to create. ning World when he says that the present economic! This suggestion is supported powerfully by Fire| in the United States is due to the attempt of cer-| Chief Kenlon’s statement in regard to the lack of pro: i groups to exploit the American people “for their) tection against a disastrous conflagration which results own exclusive class advantage.” He goes on tO} from a snow so heavy as to impede fire apparatus. Prophesy: Chief Kenlon’s warning has been the theme of sev- cs ene teat. clap. wi be for each of these eral editorial articles on what should be done. The Se reer Soe serey to gare cut te best editorial we have noticed was a picture on the Programme. American Federation of La- bor is aces the field.” ere front page of The Evening World of Thursday. It a priori! te Teciaas swe. gual! see. Has any one seen such efriciency in New York? in traditions and ideals it would be difficult to] streets, this equipment is practically useless at a time when it is most apt to be needed. After hard snows people of the United States may be forced to} we are apt to have cold weather, with a forcing of ~ admit that their two great parties have gone bankrupt] furnaces, and more fires than normal. les and issues. If there were no other reason, New York could not} it they cannot admit that the future promises 2fford not to have efficient power-driven machines for | > nothing but the development of un-American class-|snow removal as an auxiliary™of the fire-fighting consciousness creating political programmes and choos- misc equipment. It might be well to place such machinery | > ing political candidates on diverging lines of economic] under the direction of the Fire Department, where ; ing and greed, there is greater appreciation of what machinery can} could be but one outcome of such a policy.| do than prevails in the Street-Cleaning Department. Itwould end in civil war. ——— THE HABIT OF GOOD READING, (From the Ohio State Journal.) | Efforts to develop the habit of reading good books are being made by the State Department of Education. It is one of the lines of work put under way to interest the public, the present and the prospective teacher in the public schools. It ought to bring large results, be- cause it produces so much of value and gives the reader so much of pleasure. Taere are good books obtainable at a low cost and they contain a wealth of delightful en- tertainment and educational value. So many excellent judges bave compiled lists of books for general read- ing that one need make no mistake in selections. State Superintendent Pearson, who has found time eaca day in bis busy life to read part of a book, says If you see the New York Herald in Tye Sun, __ it's so! _ + SUFFRAGE AND THE PARTIES. . IBMININE politicians in Chicago are squabbling . over which political party is entitled to the credit enfranchising women, His a bootless argument. Either side is right in ‘defiying credit to the opposition party. Neither side is in claiming credit for itself. c tic politicians and Republican politicians ‘were agreed in not wanting a new and unfamiliar ele- pany may not be able to purchase “porterhouse” for | from the Brooklyn gas concern. Court intervention | is improbable. If the 1. R. T, is to obtain “relief” in} impossible.” . cent kindness of the State Legislature or the municipal | 1 EDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 4920." Peace Should Put a Check on Government Spending; The War Is Over; Lighten the Taxpayers’ Load By, J. H. Cassel 1920, — ning Workd.) CHECK GOVERNMENT SPENDING. | Heartiest Approval. To the Mawr of ‘The kvening World I desire to express my heaitiest ap- proval af the policy adopted by The avening Worki regarding ‘The Sin of Spe of army extravagance? Please keep the spotlight of publivity on the War Department. To read your article, a person wonders who are the officials in Washington who want to spend such huge sums on a peace time army. What are the relations be- tween favored contractors and such officials? Then the Subsi partment ts selling to the other Governments millions of such stores for one-third of the value, and yet when we citizens buy such stores we pay full price, plus cost of running stores. The Quartermaster’s Department sald army camps for a fraction of their cost and now want millions of dollars for new construc- tion, I could go on reciting such in- | stances of extravagance. Now, in the name af heaven, have the American people no one in Wash- ington big enough to put patrictiem and love of country above party or poketbook? I am a veterwn of the Spanish War, and my love of country is #econd to none, but I solemnly de- olare if there is not a general house- cleaning in official Washington the people will take mattens into tHeir own hands and do it in no gentle way Such actions are making more Bol- all shevists every day than the A Fireman's Co: 10 the Initor of Ie Hrening Work I would like to know why the two platoon system has not been in- int. | propaganda that Trotzky and Lenine | | could put out in a year. | In conclusion, dear ‘Mr. Paitor, 1} light on the coming army and navy | \the articles and your pauper will be The Crime of Waste. ‘TO the Kiitor of ‘he Evening Works Your paper is certainly far from my | ‘brand of potitics; nevertheless, 1 want |to commend you heartily for starting | Jone of your staff correspondents, Mr. | Martin Green, on a campaign against |the wastefulness of Washington. It | is a crime the way Washington allows | waste in its expenditures, It has a | |muaterial effect wpon high costs. In addition, the effect of the example | that is set by our Government in this |respect is simply beyond belief. | | 1 wish you would try to form a |teague of nowspapens with yourselves | | in this matter—one in each city and |town of this country. I am confident | that you can get up such a stir in this | | matter that you will bring about last- | ing results and receive the gratitude | lof the American people. | As an imptance of Government | | waste right on your own doonstep: | Why ts it that the S. 8, Leviathan has ‘been tied up to a dock in Hoboken for | |monthe? No private business con- | cern could permit that kind of busi- |ness methods and escape bankruptcy. | Keep up your work. Handle than | without gloves, Tdonot care whether | the guilty be Republican or Demo- erat. REX. | New York, Feb, 11, 1920. | still in existence, but with the provision that they work under | | the two platoon system. Is that fair | | to the rest of the men in that “house? | {If they can apply this system to a system {i would suggest you keep your seurch- |* by John Blake. (Copyright, 1920.) YOU CAN ALWAYS BORROW OTHER MEN’S BRAINS. You may not have Shakespeare's mind, but you can You lack, in all probability, the art of the composer, like. The brains of the greatest men of all times are at your disposal. They have put their best into books, into plays, into music, into thought. You, with little effort, may possess yourself of it if you choos . You can see in a landscape all that Corot saw in one, if you trouble yourself to go to a gallery and look at one of his pictures. His inspired brush was wielded that you might see Nature as he saw it and gain a new and a greater idea of its beauty. The work of the giants among mankind is for all time and for all the human race. It is given to few to see as they saw, to feél as they felt, to think as they thought. But they left behind them work which, while you could never reproduce it, will bring you some of the same thrill that the things that inspired it gave them, You will find that you will need most of the brains with which you were endowed in gaining a livelihood and preparing for yourself a comfortable old age. Unless you are one man in a million you will contribute nothing to the wisdom or the enjoyment of posterity, and do little even to brighten the lives of the present generation, But you can in your spare hours think the noble thoughts that have come to men of genius, enjoy the master pieces they have left behind—in short, use the best and the greatest brains of all time merely by borrowing them. It is a wonderful privilege. You are living in a won- derful time. The giants of old raise you above your heads UNCOMMON SENSE | Where to Find Your Vocation By Max Watson \Couyright, 1920, by The Pres Publisht (The New York Evening World.) Librarian. Opportunities for young women to enter this field—At present there is No vocation open to the young women of scholariy’tastes which has a det Promise than that of library work Being non-essential to war produc- tion, the salaries paid in libraries did not keep abreast of advances made in ‘business, with the result that many young women ieft library work for | business positions, This shortage hag caused library salaries to be ma- terially increased and further in- | ereases will be made in the near fu- jture. Every large public dibrary is | Short of help in its staff and anxious ‘o secure young women who have the necessary qualifications. Business or- gunizations who maintain reference Wbraries are coming more and more to realize the value of trained librari- | 4ns and many good positions are thus, javatlable outside of public libraries. If @ girl has only had common school education she may secure 4 gosition as a helper in a library. Many large city Jibraries maintain~ apprentice schools for these girls, but without |further general schooling it is diffi- |eult for them to advance to positions lof great responsibility. ‘These ap Prentice courses usually take from | three months to a yedr. _A bright girl jwith high school training may secure jan assistunt’s position and with |special study become a very goo¢ librarian, capable of holding a posi- | tion as the head of a business library. peg te tial ad | If a young woman has a college train- ferences which preserves most essential ad- A ling it ts advisable for her to take a P be! charitable. | two yeurs' course in a school for |iNbrarians and receive a degree as a libra 9 Required. th school edu a requirement if t entered seriously gh class library schools, such a8 the State school at which the best in the e y, require college tmining to some degree, together with special tion should he field is to be re = 2 ; 7. nguage requirements — Entrance ‘yesterday in a poll conducted by eleven newspapers] But business, not charity, should govern such a deal. inations have to be passed. ee ‘att Institute at Brooklyn conducts im dry lowa. 3 Gen. Wood's reply to Senator Borah on the a very high class library school. German and French are required in the entrance examination at the Pratt Library School, Many States conduct library schools and girls’ colleges often specialize in library | work. One of the best known of these colleges is Northwestern Re- serve University at Cleveland. Most of the best librarian courses are for two years, Salary. A girl who hns not had high school training and enters an apprentice | class receives only a few dollars a | week at the beginning. High school girls who work as department as sistants in large libraries receive from $40 to $50 a month to start. A graduate fram a library school may expect from $90 to $100 a month as an assistant librarian in publie * aries. With private business or- ganizations they may receive from $100 to $150 a month. Many women | who hold responsible positions as private librarians receive from $2,00€ Type of Young Woman Best Suited for This Field. This is work for the intellectual young woman who enjoys books and cultural study. A natural liking for languages is helpful. The work re- < 3 our ¢X-/ estimates, partioularly the army. use it to look on life, simply by getting his plays and reading quires exactness and neatness and a “It farmers and teachers and professional showed a power shovel clearing the streets of Boston) trayagunt national expenditures, FAGe the eisai the cated ecit GAPE to | 3 chara? ; Rood memory. ; i ic] Ct a 7 - ht f » the da oles, ) seo , ; ‘ a be seen ent allciher groups adaet elmiler tacticy = by loading flatcars which could be hauled away by) 1 trast that you wi keep up the ee ene eve ven “Don't let your | You may not be a philosopher, yet the ideas of Darwin, ‘A youhg woman entering a library eee wae t fons, de no Republican or Demo- power. It was comprehensible to any one who could | "°f2'groadway, Feb. 11, 1920, jadmirution. for the. President. stop |} of Huxley or Spencer are yours merely for the asking. works frst in returning taoks to the eretic Party left for any of them to hold up at | you, but give all the facts, Syndicate | proper place and must ome fa- miliar with the Dewey decimal sys- Jew Y 5 4 in fires | To the Baktor of ‘ite Evening Workl: | honored as it has been in the past| 3 yet Mendelssohn, Bach, Beethoven, Grieg, all offer you their tem, under which books are filed. @ multitude of clars-conscious, conflicting | New York has a tremendous investment in fire-)7 te vais of ie sine Wont vizeu [under the leadership of Mr. Joseph | $ best works—you have only to listen for an hour to enjoy } | Ste may speciatize tn some depart- mutually-destructive party groups.” fighting apparatus and stands ready to add to it in any) gag overburdened taxpayer to offer | Pulitzer af revered memory.) | $ work that may have cost them years, miliar with authorities and publica- the thought! Anything more repugnant to] way which will make it more effective, With blocked} you congratulations on your expose} Westwoud, N. J.. Feb, 10, 1920., Go back through the centuries, borrowing where you }| tions in that fleld. At first her work may be rather monotonous and not easy. Remarks. Any one interested in this vocation should secure capies of the publica- tions called Public Libraries, pub- lished by the Library Bureau, or the Library Journal, published by the New York Library. “The Library | Primer,” by John C. Dana, Libra- rian of the Newark [Public Library, veing revised at present by the ary Bureau and will soon be lable, This covers the entire nd is a splendid text for library “Americar Libraries,” by A. stwick of St. Louts is another ble hook Information on sols in various localities may he red from the American Library Association at Chicago. Harry Burke | | (Harry A. Burke: Shot by a Spig |sniper; buried on the desert, God knows where: forgotten—by some.) | Harry's horse ls coing down the street | 'Swathed in a dull Black net from tall 0 ear, boots hang up-side-down in up, And Harry's saddle faces to the raar. | He will not de the Killer any more, | (The Killer has a docile mien to-day: He's wiser than we ever tho't to give him credit for, He seems to know that Harry's gone | away.) He, Harry, loved the new-born grass : ; stalled in Queensboro section of the d ap aera eidanan thet vo : ae aara: Woy injected into the machinery of politics. They | reading is an antidote for @ disagreeable old age. It is Now York Fire Department, | |few, why not al? | HpeFibord HOnnON meee ils en AD Le under | And’ now he will not see the spring did 1 ‘ A a PSS Bad t has been In operation in Man- | 1B 5 : F 8) » is {not permit it until the demand became so insistent} his opinion that work in the schools ought to be s0|hartan, and parts, if not all of| Long Island City, could have done had you relied only on your own intellec- §|1%,¥ill not know the Joy of anything directed that it would provoke investigation of books, lead the boys and girls into intimate touch with the ) that they no longer dared refuse. Brooklyn, vince June 1, 1919, and has | Proven succesaful. I would like to A Cry of Distress. tual equipment, Hever, in future days, as we did then, Then, a) : whe o de y *The political influence which forced submission v1 reside aac lhee hae sey hee Mp ireeap as [know why the members of the Fire tite tino: a the Presi Work | Use the brains alive dreely offered to Ma Avail eve (oe it bihieh Hide Uy aldy, $ , : y pest authors e ons for a lifetime of | Department stationed in Queens Vhat is being done about the awful |} yourselves of them in the fullest measure, and your own 3] Sent by @ tho'tless man on @ useless Anthony amendment was the growing liberal ele-| reading. That teacher who is famillar with good litera- | Should. be ce GREE Mate leod belhchegaee puree : SET ery ue a soca ater bleed TenaeERE DERI That Of (anata cote the thi - a es the system would ori Is it be-| Island? Does anybo¢ A And I came back alone when the thing ment in politics, independent of both old parties, which} ture aud aas an acquaintance with the standard authors, | cause our politicians haven't weight poor taxpayers have to walk tworand|% nature gave you will be a far better brain because of what rTM cites cian . mally made the politicians understand that it would] or some of them, bas an advantage over the teacher | enough with the powars that be, or 4 htt miles to a dentist and back? $ these men have implanted in it, “the rest ar riderlens: Tha te < 4 : lack of men or money or why? y futher, seventy-eight years of | " against either party which dared to stand oui] Who bas missed nae delight. But, while teacaers| “it would be well in passing to re- age, walks to and from work, six Harry's horse Is going down the etreet suffrage. spoie read ty ey roa ae rites Saulboed to teach, | tate an inate of injustice that miles round trip; my. brother and meee ih atin ems DET (MOTEL i Swathed' ina dull black net from tall . reading sou e one oO @ daily occupations of every ho ened In « of our fire houses usiba nd he have to atk } * is perfectly *naturai, now that suffrage is in im-|™#9 4nd woman in the State Tibrariae ane aeaiatin Keg in Quee ome, ok Aue _ +7 ip are yy Bs a, and Bo It to the ferry, and no buses or trol- } stand whate' ta done to us. Can't) Har ty ae Nang up-slde-down in ¥ J “e " 00d books are plentifu e . ansferred f York w un't get half of what I want, on ac- |leys running at all to stores, &c. We! something be done, and in a hurry oe i ; “ ks ave plentiful, There are delightful hours i And Harry's, anddlo th h p 8! sit , j t ‘ and 1 Tarty'a saddle faces to the rear, Prospect, hay bpth sels of politicians are] you will but use tbe opportunities at two platoon sysiem le operating count of the trade fR quarter for «!Gan't_go South and qmut up anew, as |too? For God's ance help as, By Jgacuh Andrew Galahad ‘fa the “AXPAYER, “Gruking * J Sen eaten eee ane een RETR CEIEION 4 i Bae 2,