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poser even for a community accustémed to think in huge numbers, With such an opportunity it is difficult to see why 1S from the Paris press that the people of the| Dr. Butler should turn aside in search of political pref- A inited States hear first of a memorandum in which |erment. Surely he has a task big enough for any ‘President Wilson is understood to serve notice upon|one man, Wise direction of the education of 100,000 "France and Great Britain that, unless its views are] young men and women each year would spell achieve- _ @imsulted in the settlement of the Jugo-Slav problem) ment as enduring as would service in the White House. - ga thre Adriatic, the United States Government can con-| Certainly there is much to be done if Columbia is to Adm itself no further with European affairs. attain such pre-eminence in national and international 2£.Neither text nor purport of this memorandum have education. Such growth pre-supposes a vastly enlarged yet been presented to the public in this country. plant. It emphasizes the blunder in management which ‘At a moment when international relations are in a/ failed to reserve the tract west of the Morningside cam- Highly conipticated and critical state, when the final | pus to the Hudson for future expansion, establishing the position of this Nation as re-} Eventually Columbia must acquire these half dozen the peace treaty and the League of Nations is) blocks which have been improved in expensive fashign. - hanging in the balance, the American people have |The expense will be tremendous. But not until Co- fi first fsand knowledge of theif own foreign policy. |lumbia extends to the Drive, with a sightly vista on ** Small wonder that policy has become the plaything | the river, will it have a setting worthy of the world’s of party politicians manoeuvring for position prepara-| largest university. With such a development the loca- Bory to a Presidential campaign, tion would be unrivalled. When are the people of the United States to get THE KINDEST VIEW. back into touch with their own Government? (os N VAIN the country has studied with sober second thought the facts so far revealed, It finds as yet TWO weeks ago The Evening World commended |no satisfactory excuse for the manner in which the x Assembly Bill No, 227, which would prevent) president has chosen to get tid of his Secretary of Jandlords from raising rents except during the month) 14, 0 ae RE ‘approval received| No one questions the President's absolute right to from readers we feel cerlain that the purpose of this call for the resignation of a Cabinet member whose bill meets general approval as a simple, practical and| views are hopelessly at variance with his own. Gesirable measure for curbing the gouging “‘leaster”| In taking such action, however, a President is usually and all his clan. careful to make plain the cause and ground for the Spremeag ray tee - resarengh dismissal in a way that will nelther offend public sense fore the Commtitice on General Laws next Monday | fairness nor ignore special circumstances of national morning, Feb, 24, in Room 314-A of the Capitol at} need. Albany. Mr. Dimin says: _ Fairness and need were both ignored when the Pres- “As you stated in your editorial, the oppos!- ident based his demand for Mr. Lansing’s resignation tion to this bill will be strongly organized F * on Jty’ interests, ‘The tenants must got on the fact that since illness has ecainied #8 Presidéft together in order to offset such opposition. to the White House members of the Cabinet have met Would it not bo pa o ery bad pee ie without Presidential authorization, Seis wosteey the Assemblymen and Senators , | _ When the President “gives this reason for his action from the various districts may be aati of he seems to forget entirely the effect his physical con- }. their wishes? The only way in whic! can Be oe Pe ve done is to have delegations frot such bodies | “itlon for months past has had upon the public mind as the Mayor's Committee on Rent Profiteering, and upon public business. pean ne a Stee ane. He forgets the difficulty and dismay the country had Ps rig bs * fo surmount when it saw its Ohief Executive stricken “Phere will be some thousands of meetings of one} down in the midst of a most critical time in the Na- + Kind and another in New York City this week. The} tion’s affairs, political and economic, yast majoritysof those attending will be rent-payers in Strong and sufficient as may have been his reasons interest this bill is drawn. It is a dollar nt for no longer wishing Mr, Lansing to act as Secretary cee ve weit tot Sa reiaation: as Of State, there was every reason why a larger attitude are able select delegates to attend this hearing.* Others|Should have prompted the President to go out of his should pass resolutions, draw up petitions for presen- way to commend his Cabinet in general for precisely fation and send copies to Assemblyman Dimin and the thing he singles out as Mr. Lansing’s unpardonable ives. sin. ot gaged way to combat the influence of the For a Cabinet to try to deal with public matters of ‘erganized realty interests. A flood of letters and peti-| Pressing importance during the illness or absence of tions and a liberal delegation of watchers from the the President is not unheard of in the Nation's history. at home are potent arguments with legislators. | There are sound precedents for it, Passage of the Dimin bill will not stop all rent-raising, Even if it be possible that the President only: lately but it will end some of the worst abuses which New learned of these Cabinet conferences which he con- York has suffered in the last two or three years. It is mew Hog hl rang instinct need an a Pst Re i j of suspicion that their purpose was to defy his author- tworth backing with a show of hands, Ay an Infirs his treslige: The interests of the country were not dormant while . “BLOCK PARTY” RELIEF. the President lay ill. R AAYOR HYLAN’S suggestion of “block parties” Other members of his official family besides Mr. to shovel snow is good, Ten days before thej!ansing felt no disloyalty in getting together and Mayor's indorsement The Evening Wofld recom- doing what could be done to help along public business mended this as the only feasible way of getting rid of during the President's enforced absence, the remnant of the previous small snow which the Fresh in mind are the great and never-to-be-forgotten Departmen! of Street Cleaning had been unable to seryices of President Wilson to the Nation and to the handle. With the Mayor, we believe that it is possible world in an era of supreme crisis. To meet that crisis for the block party volunteers to “get a whole lot of he voiced and translated into action the highest of fun out of it.” American ideals. He, more than any other man, lifted Under present conditions there seems to be no other|the expressed purposes of the war to a plane from Way to meet the same problem greatly complicated by| Which they exerted a powerful upward pull on the successive snows of the last ten days, In many/ final settlement. localities a brisk thaw now would mean flooded base-| The Peace Treaty may not be up to the level of the Ments, if nothing worse. The snow remaining is a}President’s high hopes. But it is on a higher level than Menace to health, a source of serious inconvenience |!t would have been had not the President's large de- fo all and a frightful fire hazard, 4 fining of peace principles taken strong hold upon the “Block parties” now seem to be the only way out,|minds of war-weary peoples betore and during the but this condition should be enough to impress on] Peace Conference. every citizen’the fact that New York at present has no| All the greater shock to the country, therefore, have Mequate snow fighting apparatus, that the same con-|been the tone and method adopted by the President in ditions are apt to reappear any winter, and that no|the exercise of his undoubted right to dismiss a mem- steps have been taken to prepare for future snows of | ber of his Cabinet. the same character. If New York gets off now with-| All the greater is the regret of his stanchest admirers out a serious conflagration or an epidemic it is good|2nd supporters for the opportunity thus presented to fortune and nothing else. his enemies to pounce upon a temperamental intoler- Peace Should Put a Check on Government Spending: The War Is Over; Lighten the Taxpayers’ Load | —_____ By J. H. Cassel’ | tori g Every block party—and we hope there will be many will be ready to indorse The Evening World’s sug- festion, “Try an Engineer.” PS to magnify into one of his most pronounced defects. The President has had a very serious sickness, effects of illness are sometimes not so favorable to tolerance, tact and patience as they are to suspicion, hastiness and petulance, THE BIGCEST UNIVERSITY. RESIDENT BUTLER’S prediction that Columbia] It may be that the President is not yet to be counted University will have an annual registration ot]a well man. That would seem to be the most char- 900,000 students within ten years is something of a] itable view, ance or jealousy which they have always been eager | American League; “§, Equality of voting power within the League; "9, The right of the United States to fix its own armaments; “10. The right of the United States to decide what questions affect our honor and vital interests; “11, The rights by powers.” It is claimed by the friends of the League that these rights In the League Covenant. 1s it not for the better that they be expressed and thereby avoid future litigation and misunderstanding? ‘The Evening World brands these rights as “the most obstinate and ob- structive partygpolitics that ever put on the mask o al five sus with their which Favors ‘Temporary Disfranchisemest.) (temporarily) in the State of New ‘Te the Editor of The Drening Worst: Your editorial in The Evening World of Feb, 4, entided “Two Pre-Eminent Reasons” js written with a view to discredit the rea’ issues involved in the two cases cited therein, ‘The reservations put forth by Sena- Lodge, guarantee the nights of the United States, are summed up briefly as fol- lows; The right of the United States to be the sole judge of its withdrawal | from the League of Nations; That we assume no obligation to) preserve the integrity of other states} except with the approval of Congress; “3. That no mandate be taken except with its approval; “4. Our right ‘to decide what questions of domestic jurisdiction; “GS. The exclusive interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine; | “@. Full liberty of action regarding | Shantung; “7. The right of Congress to control representatives recognition three and of atriotism” and almost in the same breath it lauds those leg- \slators that desire to see the United States @ participant in every foreign controversy mandates in foreign territories. ‘The Evening World does not stop here, but it proceeds with the same view to discredit the proceedings at Albany. Much to my surprise the edi no mention that these ended Assemblymen together political ralgned this Government for deport- ling such individuals The man and Alex Berkman. ly The Evening World does not recall, either intentionally or otherwise, thr ot arbitrarily {strenuous opposition \ Loan campaigns. t in common with the pr government in Russia t is ee "60, 000 much electors same Assemblymen to the declaration | of war, the draft law, and the Liberty Still it is mainta hat these Assemblymen have nothing sities of more be are of all the signatory In that event 8 Emma Gold-| 7) Unfortunate- York” than allow such a treacher element to inculcate the seeds of loyalty and treason in a body sentative of the yast majority of el tors. CHARLES M. RUGGIERO. New York, Feb, 8, 1920. ic > The Opera ‘Complaint. To the bittor of Tue bs Work! At present, when everybody is com- pwning so much wbout the very de- ficient telephone service, it might in- terest some of your readers to know | how the feelings run among the few experienced operators that are left in the company, The basis of the trouble is dissatis- faction. Unut a short time ago New York had the best telephone service in the world and most of the credit was due to the efficient telephone operators. During the last year or so the high cost of living compelled a great many intended to are | positions and where they were not | culled to work to the extent of over- taxing their health as they do in the company. These girls are leaving continue to leave, as their faithful service are not appreciated. Girls that have been giving their best for from six to thirteen years are receiving from $18 "to $20 a week, and that since only,a few months ago. These are the girls that have st the strain during war times, ebi- demics, strikes, &c, The only satis- faction they have is to | where they can 0 living. in the such are implied public, but if conditions remain as they are at present we foar the ser- vice Is going to grow worse CATHEDRAL New York, Feb. 10, 1920, The Brickinyer’s Pay. To the Fubtor of The Evening Work In reference to the cartoon in The accept] Evening World Feb, 3, 1920, by Mr. a: Jictlving $60 per Week for forty-four hours, 1 would like to know where he gets his information. In the first place the bricklayer re ceives $1.06 1-4 an hour. Ask any on | belonging to the Master Builders’ As- | 2 sociation of New York City. Here|> adherents @r-| ire a few items which might be of ub! these relf-| “Has the brickla wages in- It has increased just 21 \How are we going to mee with that per cent ngre in- t form of crease? pub rable that ts paid wtranchived by the quarte of the girls to look for better paid | 1, Cassel, showing the bricklayer | jinterest to Mr. J, H. Cassel and the} re war started everything has increased at st 100 per cent. except the subw creased that much? I should say not. the neces- | BE tion. see what it looks like when way—all thes thing done, no matter how. ' $slow, careful work. One do to add built woode rugged as their houses and very far. | We don't want to discourage the | not worth the doin | Progress is som rushing surf, plans are well 1 UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright. 1930.) ER NOT DO IT THAN NOT DO IT RIGHT. Don’t start at one end of a job with your eye on the other. To do anything important one must have a plan, but do not ex- pect to look at the completed plan the day you lay the founda- All slovenly work is harmful. done by people in a fearful hurry to get the thins done and The building that caves in when half completed, the auto- mobile that breaks down at the end of the first thousand mile: the ship whose rivets shear off as soon as she gets in a se are the result of the frantic desire to get the Building anything, from a character to a locomotive, is not need, like the coral insect, to die in order a sixteenth of an inch to the structure he is rearing. But he does need to work carefully, step by step, and to be sure that everything he does is done right. The early colonists, being methodical, conscientious men, houses that will be standing when many of the brick and stone houses of to-day are in heaps of ruins, dentally, in those days they built characters that were as The Declaration of Independence,, the Constitution of the United States and the first laws of this country were made by these nren, and they still endure. It is well to desire to come to an end of our labor, but it is better to look back on labor well done than labor that was | mes not apparent, either in building or \3in government, but if it is well considered it is certain, | In a poem by Arthur Hugh Clough, an Englishman who lived more than fifty years ago, there is this stanza: “For though the tired waves, vainly breaking, i Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back in creeks and inlets, making Comes, silent, flooding in the main,” Do not always expect your work to be as imposing as the: You may not see its results at first, but if id and your work well.don RR i nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnti) And most slovenly work is completed. Inci- which enabled their owners to get your sure e they will by rain hard and he |ten minutes, layer loses much time |through freezing weather, | snow, and fn thi too hot ; also bei head with eeuses too numerous to mention, is compelled tojhave had six good days that the “knock off" at ten minutes after the hour, he does not get paid for those Does Mr. J. H, Cassel jand the public know that the brick- and money rain and summer when it's sent to baa could work outdoors since jan. Can you imagine his pay for the month of January? The bricklayer is the porest paid mechanic in the building trade, when attracted the attention of a rich Quaker, jbut a MAD ‘There, No. 49 — John Halifax, Gentleman. By Dinah Maria Muloch. MIN HALIFAX was a penniless child of the slums in 9 mAgufac- turing city of England; until be named Fletcher, who gave the waif a job and educated him. John also won the heart of Ursula March, daughter of the Mayor of Wis native city. Ursula had the eyes of love that could look beyond the young fellow’s shabby exterior and see the gallant heart and the white soul be- neath. From boyhood, John Halifax had adored Ursula, worshiping her from afar, keenly aware of the fmmeasur- able difference in rank betseen her and himself, and hopeless of bridging the chasm between them. It was Ursula who bridged the chasm, by declaring she loved him and that she was going to marry him. Thus, against the consent of every- bedy concerved the two hecame en- gaged. Ursula’s family were furious at the mesalliance. They cut off Ursulaand #9 vefused to turn over to her thee Jim fortune which was rightfully bers. nF She did not care. She had the man she loved. Nothing else mattered to her. She and John were married and. be- gan their long and happy life journey together. John prospered, his honesty and ability battering down all ob- stacles and winning wealth and re- nown for him. When his own children were grown. he applied to their love affairs the same sane prindples as had governed his romance with Ursula, For example, when his son fel) in love with @ poor and obscure girl, John waited only to assure himself that shv was good and in every way worthy of his son's love and then gave his full consent to the union. On the other hand, young Lord Ravenel, scion of a corrupt family, sought John's daughter, Maud, in marriage. ‘The young people loved each ot Every one expected Jobn to jump at a chance to ally his own eian family with the nobility. But he did nothing of the sort. He forbade the match. He refused to allow Ravenel to marry Maud, until the young nobte- man ‘should have cleared his name of the taint put on it by many unscrupu- lous deeds, and should have learned to make an honest living for himself, yn- backed by family influence. Ravenel hesitated. John Halifax ex- claimed in sudden hot indignation: “Do you realize what you were born to be? Not only a nobleman, put @ gentleman! Not only a gentleman. made in the image of God!" Ravenel emigrated to rs after a long and tedia struggle, he built up a prosper ‘business, by his own unaided and h est efforts. Then, when he retu to claim Maud’s hand in John Halifax gladly gave consent. his daughter's uniting her destfiy with that of a man who had himself so worthy of her love. —————— PRINTING FOR HAINANESE. N enterprising American sionary to the island of nan, South China, bas the problem of teaching the men of his community to read and the spoken dialect. Chinese fath he found, “wanted to teach theif boys to write the way they spe but no one had reduced the Hi ese spoken language to printed After a long period of itinera street preaching and living the Chinese, the missionary fo that the people were willing to le to write and read the colloquial it were made easy.” Since Romane. ized characters were not suitable Chinese brush, paper, male |thought, eyes, or literary traditiong he set about to devise a spect alphabet, after experimenting several years’ with forms selected from the Mandarin and Japan syllabic alphabets. 4 His script forms were approved in February, 1918, the mission at Hoinow, Hainan, but they were not suitable for type or typewriter, #0 he began to work out the proper forms. In New York he found a Chi- nese scholar who had rare ability as calligrapher, and to him he intrusted the task of making the first sketches si ee printed characters, e missionary'’s next problem was to tnd a printer who would take an active interest in his enterprisa He was directed to Douglas C. MceMu: trie, head of the plant that does the printing for Columbia University. Mr. MoMurtrie turned the sketches over to his typographical artist; lange scale drawings of the letters were made, and after these were revised and criticised by Chinese scholars the fetters were cut in steel in reduced size in the engraving department of the plant's own type foundry. ‘The resulting casting room for the the finishe ction of type. The missionary did you figure his annual wage. Go down jto the Internal Revenue Tax Bureau eak}and it will open your eyes, All thas on| the bricklayer wants is justice. r W. D. OF UNION NO, 37. Amsterdam Avenue, Web, 4, 1920, his own typesetting. A somewhat difficult manner of Preaching the gospel—but the mig. sionary is det 1 that his Ha nanese followers read ay w as hear his message.