The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1920, Page 26

— ee te a ONE HIGH FUNCTION OF THE LEAGUE. ig THE tiew statement of Russian policy laid down by the Allied Premiers, one of the most encourag- ing features is the proposal for a thorough investigation vt Russian conditions by an authoritative commission acting under the supervision of the Council of the League of Nations. So many flatly contradictory reports have come from Russia that the fairest-minded thinkers are be- wikdered. Many have simply thrown up their hands amd refuse to consider the problem until something teuty authoritative is available. __ The very fact that the Premiers are unable to agree wow will strengthen the report when it is published. ‘my facts or conclusions upon which a commission Sepresehting various nations can agree will be accepted ‘8 true and will form a rational basis for future cedure im Russian affairs, iilits seems a most desirable field of activity for the League of Nations. It is precisely in line with the theory of the powers; obligations and utility of the or- guuization 23-interpreted by the friends of the League éneia Guch activity should confound the captious and (@res-suspicious critics who have pictured the League #3 a super-state arrogantly ordering out the young men of the constituent mations to do the bidding of the , League Council. If the League were never to do more than to investi- President Taft, forced Mr. Crane's recall after a pre- vious appointment to the same post, the reason given was that the Minister had been indiscreet in expressing too fervently his sympathy with China and so had offended Japanese susceptibilities, Mr. Crane, presumably, will not be particularly barrassing to the Old Guard, who, with tears in their eyes, have denounced the Shantung settlement, have proclaimed love for China and hatred for Japan. It will scarcely seem reasonable to pity China and then refuse to confirm China’s most cordial friend; to excoriate Japan and then manifest acute concern over Japanese approval of America’s diplomatic appoint- ments, SLIPPED FROM THE FOLD. .- From the N.Y. Times, From the N. Y. Times, Jan, 19, 1919. Feb. 26, 1920. The Ban Upon Drink. Temperance in England. “Public opinion puts “What she (Lady strong drink under stat- Astor) stood for was an utory ban in this year intelligent regulation of imo” © @¢ © the liquor traffic and a “Political principles sustained study of all hallowed by long respect the problems involved, and observance survive so that a maximum pre- 0 long as they serve vention of drunkenness their ends; when they can be achieved with a stand opposed to other inimum of interference gate and report on threatening international crises,! sincipies which the peo- a apelate personal it would be well worth the ‘effort. ple are persuaded to re _—iliberties.” It is to be hoped that the way will be cleared for American participation in such an investigation, either formally by ratification of the Peace Treaty or in- formally through courtesy of the League Council. There may be-opposition to such participation by those whose minds are paralyzed by fear. But oppo- sition to spread of truth and enligttenment is scarce worthy of respect, whatever the cause or however ex- alted the source, gard as of higher pres- ent service, the old is discarded, the new dom- inates thought and ac- tion.” © © © “ @ © © go far as a statute may accom- plish moral reform, we have abolished the drink evil and the American People will be the better for it” “It is an episode upon which American opinion may well dwell. Broad regions here have had prohibition put upon them in its most drastic ‘form ‘without their ap- proval. More than most laws, this one requires for its enforcement the consent of the governed. Already abuses of all sorts are flagrant. England is discussing the question in the usual open and reasonable manner. In proportion as it becomes temperate it will do so as a com- munity of grown citt- zens, and whatever de- gree of prohibition it de- crees will be measur. ably enforcible.” A LANDLORD EXTRAORDINARY. N THE ocean of profiteering charges and counter- charges it is pleasant indeed to read of George C. kelly, landlord extraordinary of No. 66 West 106th Street. The tale of his fame rises even above the swish of the “buck” as it is passed from hand to hand like a hot potato, : George Kelly—he may go down in the history of Manhattan as St. George—believes in a gospel of “live and let live” and is willing to work to bring it about.’ He openly scoffs at the “kid-glove landlords” who are toc proud to work in their own buildings. Landlord Kelly deserves good tenants and he seems io have them. While other owners: have been gougirtg, the rent of his apartments has been stationary. So the tenants did the unbelievable and raised their own rent. They know costs have increased. They are willing to reciprocate on a “live and let live” pol- icy. Such a landlord is worthy of his profit. Who said there'is no neighborliness in New York? i there is not already a waiting list for Landlord Kelly’s apartments we imagine there soon will be, now that his tenants have exposed him, ‘The italics are ours. We congratulate the Times upon its gradual recoy- ery frm the sheep-like submissiveness with which it saw the Eighteenth Amendment jammed into the Fed- eral Constitution. Public opinion regarding Nation-wide Prohibition refused to “stay. put” where the Times so confidently placed it thirteen months ago. To-day, on all sides, Governors, Legislatures, po- litical leaders and party conventions are discussing National Prohibition as tine livest of issues and de- manding popular referenda on this tyrannical invasion of personal and State rights. The Times did not lead. But it has listened. DEAF TO THE HINT. OROUGH PRESIDENT HENRY H. CURRAN voiced a fond wish of Manhattan consumers yesterday when, ai the opening of the annual conven- tion of the New York Wholesale Grocers’ Association, he welcomed its members with the hope that their de- liberations might lead to some speedy reduction here- about in the cost of living. The grocers either missed the point or ignored the hint. STAMP THE EGG. H* consumers adequate protection at present against the dealer who makes a practice of re- tailing cold storage eggs at fresh-egg prices? The Evening World’s food expert points they have not. Their President started the proceeding with the} More than three years go John J, Dillon, then Com- cheerful announcement that no considerable decrease | missioner of Foods and Markets in this State, managed, in the price of groceries need be expected for the next with the support of The Evening World, to secure the two years at least. The Secretary of the association enforcement of a regulation which required each indi- took an equally bright view, but warned the grocers cold-storage egg when removed from the origi- tHey must be on their guard lest anything be put over] Nal case to be plainly stamped with the words “cold on them at Albany or Washington. storage.” The public, therefore, can only turn wistfully back This did not suit the butter and egg merchants, Last to officials and experts at Washington and elsewhere, whose kindly habit has been to predict every fortnight er so that food prices are bound to fall “in another month or two.” If all these predictions starting a year and a half back could be collected and printed in a neat pamphlet, they might soothe the consumer’s feelings after he has looked at the current grocer’s bill. But the grocer is only half. Bring on the Butchers’ Convention and let’s hear the worst, out that New York persuaded the Council of Farms and Mar- kets to replace the Dillon regulations with a new set, which provided that the words “cold storage” need be stamped only on the “carton, container or package” in which the eggs ae displayed or soki. How many persons who buy eggs at retail scrutinize the markings on the container? Few, it would appear from the report of Food Ad- ministrator Priebe, who says that more than 100,000 cases of thirty dozen eggs each were sold to New York consumers last November at the highest prices quoted for fresh eggs although eggs actually produced in that month amounted to only 5 per cent. of the total num- ber consumed. A POSER FOR THE OLD GUARD. “ PRESS DESPATCHES indicate that Senators Knox, Lodge, Brandegee, Penrose and the rest of the Old Guard do not look with favor on the appoint-} Stamping the container leaves too much leeway for ment of Charles R. Crane as Minister to China. the profiteer. Knox, then Secretary of State und Get back to the first plan. Stamp the egg. ¢ pleasing to the Japanese. This may prove rather em-| fall the Butter, Cheese and Egg Trade Association of | | oun EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, rEBavAnY 26, ‘1920. From President Wilson’s Message to Congress, Dec. 2, 1919: “I hope that Congress will bring to a conclusion at this session legislation looking to the establishment of a budget system. “That there should be one single authority responsible for the making of all appropriations and that appropriations should be made not independently of each other, hut with ‘ reference to one single comprehensive plan of expenditure properly related to the nation’s income, there can be no doubt. “Another and not less important aspect of the problem is the ascertainment of the economy and efficiency with which the moneys appropriated are exnended. “Under exisitng law the only audit is for the purpose of ascertaining whether expenditures have been lawfully made within the appropriations. “No one is authorized or equipped to ascertain whether the money has been spent wisely, economically and effectively.” Taxpayers Still Carry a War Load: When Will Congress Lighten It? By J. H. Cassel CEM, 1920, ott TO eemee wel Wake Up, Tenants! ‘To the Exlitor of The Drening 3 Last Wednesday the Assembly Committee on Taxation and Re- trenchment, of which I am a mem- ber, held a hearing on Assemblyman Jesse's dill to regulate rents in the cities of the first class. At this meet- ing the realty interests were well rep- resented by officers of their various organiz@tions, but there were no rep- resentatives of tenant organizations present, This meeting was adjourned until Wediesday, March 3, 1920, at 2 P. M., and we will meet in Room 234, Cap- itol, Albany, N. Y., at which time all bills introduced to regulate rents and prevent rent profiteering will be con- sidered. 1 am sending you this communica- tion because your paper has taken more than an active interest in legis- lation to prevent rent profiteering, and in the hope that you will give some publicity to our néxt meeting, so that the Various tenant onganiza- tons will be represented there. At the last meeting the representa- tives of the realty interests were re- quested to submit briefs to the com- mittee containing constructive sug- gestions for preventing rent profiteer- ing and to promote activity jn the building industry, I trust that those representing the tenants will do like- wise, JAMES F, BLY Assembly Chamber, Albany, F 23, 1920. “Ne Longer an Art.” ‘To the Extitor of The Evening World L read with a great deal of pleasure the editorial under the caption of "No Longer an Art” in The Evening World of Feb, 17, It does one's heart good and causes us to bear more lightly the inconveniences of the recent snow drifts and icy pavements to draw the picture of the city kiddies indulging in the health-giving pastime of coast- ing and sliding. FLORENCE AVENUE. Keyport, N. J., Feb. 18, 1920, Approves Evening World Polictes. To the Bditor of The Rrening World: I wish to express to you my thanks for your able editorials on the subject of teachers’ salaries. We humans are prone to resent things our enemies have to say about us, but are often remiss in saying the words “Well done” to our friends, I feel sure with the ald off mendous influence of The he tre- .| Lincoln to have been the most demo- | World the injustice of teachers’ sal- aries will be righted, but whether or no I heartily thank you, I must not forget to commend you also for your effort to relieve the suf- fering of dumb animals, by the edi- torlgls and cartoons published, to re- hat horses driven on the slip- reets of the city shall be sharp- ‘As a man born and brought up in the country I cannot but hope when I see “green” horses brought to the city that their lives may be short, gain I thank you. pees YON. A. WHITNEY. No, 446 Hudson Avenue, West New York, N. J., Feb, 24, 1920, Spirtt of 1920. To the Editor of The Eveaing World Feb, 12 has been a long established Ndliday in the Post Officg Depart- ment of the United States and for more than twenty years has been observed in the New York City Post | Office, Postmaster General Burleson, | to show his scorn for legalized cus- | tom and the wishes of the people of | this Republic, by official order abol- | ishes this holiday anniversary in the | Post Office. We do not know what his express object in the matter can be other than to show how little he cares for the reverence most Americans hold the greatest American that ever born, Not wishing to detract rticle from any other of our dents of this Republic of the d States, we consider Abraham cratic, the most human, the most ideal of any President that has ever presided over the destinies of these Republican United States of America. The Bolshevik spirit of unrest that has obsessed the system of the Post- master General to abolish a long es- tablished custom in the Post Office is so revolutionary that it injures Americanism more than a dozen professed Social Revolutionists have done in these United States. We repudiate such a spirit of un- rest that’ this official attempts to create in our midst, as this United States official has started a feeling of demorulization the like of which has never been known in the Post Office Department. America first, last and all the time is my motto, spirit and desire, but when such edicts appear from the heads of our Departments of Gov- ernment the effect on the newcomers and children of our country show no American ideals or reverence for country, rather serfdom, darkness and destruction, AP. O, CLERK. New York, Feb, 23, 19; UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920.) ‘ BEWARE OF CONTENTMENT. Teachers of the past, paid and fed by rulers, preached the joy of contentment. They urged the poor to be content with their lot. They discouraged ambition in the peasant. They besought the common people to remain as tliey were, and not to aspire to the comfort and the luxuries of the rich. It was an excellent gospel—for the rulers. As long as the bondman was contented, the noble had no fear that the right to plunder would be imperilled. If the peasant could be kept satisfied with a hovel and a pittance there! would be less danger that his sons would nourish a danger- ous desire to prosper. Epictetus, the Greek slave whose teachings were all that his master could wish, had no yearning for independence himself, and could not see why it should be craved by others, He said :— : “If you were born in Persia, you would not endeavor to live in Greece, but to be happy in the place where you were, Why then, if you were born in poverty, do you yearn to be rich, and not rather happy in the condition where you are?” And again:—‘If therefore you acquire a habit of reasoning, you will neither desire riches nor complain of povert Beautiful doctrine, which if faithfully practised would have held back the world for centuries, It is the desire for independence, the desire for better conditions that has brought the human race out of slavery. Great riches do not bring happiness, it is true. But there can be no happiness without a degree of independence, and the man who is contented with who and what he is, will never be independent. The poets and philosophers who preach contentment, practice it very little. It was their discontent with what they were, that made them what they are. . No thoroughly contented person will ever progress, His contentment will tie him to his present condition forever. There can be no such thing as contented poverty, for poverty is horrible, and a breeder of horrors. And as long as it exists, no man, whether he suffers it himself, or beholds others suffering it, has the right to be contented. Do not strive for riches, but strive for independence, And if you find you are getting satisfied with yourself and your condition stop and take your bearings. thing the matter with you, There is some- iWhere to Find Your Vocation By Max Watson. Copsright, 1920, by The Press Publiahing (The New York ening World). su Jia Correspondent—No. 26. Opportunities for Entering This Work—Every business house of any size employs men and women as cor respondents. With houses which do @ large volume of business by mail is becomes a very important part of the work. If a person has had consider- able schooling a position as corre~ spondent may be secured as the first employment, but usually promotions are made from clerical positions @F minor sales positions, The work of @ correspondent quite naturally varies with the character of the business, The following divisions are the mest important generally recognized: 1, Secretarial Correspondent. Thie is practically the same as a private secretary. The work is entirely for one person and the chief duty is to re" lieve an executive of the burden ef correspondence which is not of major importance, A good secretarial cor« respondent must be able to reflect the ideas and policy of his superior. Often secretarial correspondents are employed by women who have mapy~{ social engagements in order to relieve them of caring for all their corre- spondence personally. 2. Claim Correspondent. ‘These posi= tions are usually with retail or wifale- sale houses who ship merchandise, Goods are always being injured im transit or missent and it is necessary | to have the correspondence relative te it handled by some experienced. son, They should know about age claim laws and also about the proper methods of packing gaods for shipment. Hi * 3. Credit Correspondent. These po-' sitions are alao with mercantile houses. The work consists of hamd- ling the correspondence necessary te | establishing the credit ef a customer and the collection of bills owed €or’ merchandise purchased. A knowl edge of credit laws is necessary. The credit correspondent is a very essen‘ tial part of any mercantile business, | He should handle each case as ami individual problem and must shew rare tact and judgment. Ps 4. Sales Correspondent. Thts ts the‘ i id of all correspondence ns, and with a house which largely by mail is very important, ‘This is really a branch of advertising { and salesmanship and should net be! classed with the routine co: ence of business. Many natural qual- ifications are necessary to become good sales correspondent and it le @& position which cannot be handled properly without a complete knowl- edge of the merchandise sold. The less important work of a sales corre- spondent has to do with arranging the follow-up lettere which are sent to a prospect. The main ideas -e~ these letters are usually prepared & the head of the department, 5. General Correspondent. ‘Thies work is a combination of all the; others and the positions are usually’ in smaller business houses who do not have separate departments, This work requires a greater all round knowledge of business and is the best training for higher positions, Schooling.—A great deal of routine correspondence ts handled by young men and women who have only a common school education, A good correspondent should have high: school training. Courses ih English and grammar can ‘be taken at night schools to great advantage by those who lack in general education. Salary.—As a whole these positions are poorly paid. The average pusl-- ness correspondent receives from $27 to $85 a week. A good sales corres- pondent receives from $30 to $60 a week. In large stores there is danger of getting into a rut and staying at a low salary, knowledge of ations.—A English, spelling and letter co: ruc- tion Is the first requirement. Any correspondent must be tactful, re- sourveful, courteous and at the same time firm. Their patience is often tried and personal feeling should be kept out of their work. Remarks.—This is a field which gives excellent experience for higher positions in business, providing ad- vantage 1s taken of the opportunity to learn from experience. A good correspondent can go into business for himself and handte collection, firms on a commission basis. men also specialize in preparing sales letters for business houses. A vy good publication to read for ideas ie System a The Vocation Series N response td the many inquirtes which are being received concern- ing subjects already discussed (n this series, the following jist of occu. pations so far covered, together with” their date of publieation in ‘The - ning World, ig given below: © S¥* 1, Bookkeeper. Dec. 15, 2. Compositor. Dec. 17, 3. Bricklayer. Dee, 23, 4, General Clerk. Dec. 24, 5. Inside Wireman, Deg, 27 Dee. 30, 6. Plumbing. 7. Banking, Jan. 2. 8. Calculating Machine Operate: Jan 9 a jalesman, i Jan. 9. 10. Merchant Marine, Jan. 12, 11. Architecture, Jan, 447 12, Secretarial Work. "Jai 14. Auto Mechanic. . 17, Jan, 24, 15, Forestry. Jan, 29, 16. Chemistry. Jan. 31, 17. Foreign Trade, Feb, 4 18. Toolmaker. Feb, 6,. 19. Agriculture, Feb. 12, 20. Librarian, ‘Feb, 14, 21. Nursing. | Feb. 17, 2, Mechanical Dentistry, a