The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1920, Page 10

| ! iy by 4 4 Sori, : FSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Podusnes Dery except Sunday by the Press Publishing pany, Nos. = 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZEN. Presiden oJ. AXGUS SHAW. PH PULITZER 3, 63 Park Row, ise tae loca! mews published persia, WHERE RAILROAD UNIONS ERR. £ Railroad Bill is not perfect. While it was be- i ing framed The Evening World repeatedly pointed out that the labor provisions were extraneous and better omitted. Nothing in the Congressional ac- tion on the bill seems to have affected this argument. Some of the objections advanced in the memorial of therrailroad workers to the President merit serious con- sideration, though none would seem to warrant a veto which would confuse the return of the roads. If there are mistakes, they can be corrected by amendment One paragrayh of the memorial, however, is most objectionable # it represents the attitude of the rail- road leaders, they can scarce expect a very cordial hear- ing-for their case at the court of public opinion which ultimately decides industrial quarrels, Pardgraph 6, dealing with objections to the pro- posed Labor Board, says: “The bill provides that any decision of the ‘Labor Board affecting increased wages or sal- aries or improved working conditions cannot pecome effective unless such decision is con- curred in by at least one of the public repre- sentatives on said board, thereby conferring upon the representative of the public the arbi- trary power to annul any decision that may be unentmously agreed upon by representatives 2 to tt OF eet otherwien credited tm this peor THE INDISPENSABLE PLANK. S° FAR, no party platform takes the risk of ignor- ing a national need which The Evening World has been urging with facts and figures for weeks past —the need of a check on Government spending. The Democratic platform-makers at Albany took care to put in a Federal economy plank. That plank adopts the words of The Evening World’s plea: Get the country back on a peace basis. Last week the Republican unofficial convention in this State declared for a national budget and for “the reduction of public expenditures” as a “national! necessity.” | Elihu Root put the call for Government thrift “first | on the list:” “It is true that @ political party cannot make individuals thrifty; but a political party can produce the shining and potent example of thrifty and economical government.” | Republican efforts to prove that a Democratic Ad- | ministration is solely responsible for present “throwing | away of the public money” may be discounted as part | of the. officials and employees.” In days gone by the public, observing the operation of many. railroads, decided that thé railroad motto was the famous dictum of a famous railroad operator, “The public be dainned.” Railroads have never recovered from this suspicion, although Federal regulation has robbed the curse of power. I is only fair to warn railroad workers not to arouse public suspicion that the unions have a similar policy. The passage quoted is suggestive Of such sentiment. The public believes it has an interest in settlements equal to that of the owners or workers. It absolutely refuses to be “damned,” and has power to exorcise the curse. \ * BETWEEN WOOL AND WEARER. [* ANOTHER column on this page a friend of The Evening World comments an the disparity in prieés between the fleece of the shorn lamb and the same fleece manufactured into a suit of clothes for the shorn purchaser, \\ Similar sad reflection upon portions of tne ath overhead that accumulates between the clipping of _ the sheep and the shearing of the overcoat buyer is apparent in the recent speech of Milo D, Campbell, # Wool grower, in which he told the Boston City Club: **“T am here to give notice that the wool grow- 6@rs bave learned by sore experience how to M@ganize and how to deal directly with the mills without building fortunes each year for those who neither toil nor spin.” The consuming public, too, is thinking more seri- ously than ever before of organizing for more direct dealing with the mills. If the present curse of high living costs will induce ¢o-opération between consumers and producers and so force out parasitic middlemen, then the experience will be worth the price. “GOTHAM AND GOMORRAH.” ROM his sanclum overlooking Independence Square in Philadelphia, the editor of the Satur- day Evening Post writes both in sorrow and in anger of the’ sins and wickedness of New York, Admitting that New York is the real capital of the Sapeiry, the editor finds it “unfortunate” that “the @iy bo whith America naturally tums for an example in manners, morals and standards of living” sets the styles “and, on the whole, sets them badly.” His con- clusfon is that "i? New York will not set an example for the country, the provinces must try to set one for New ‘York. By boring from without, Gotham might be Americanized and assimilated.” In andfher place he says: «For. the present we rubes from the provinces ‘who. zo to Gotham for to see and to admire must remember that a good dea! of what we see end hear and read is far from admirable and best left behind as we start back to Gomorrah.” (Why Gomorrah? Was it not also destroyed?) By all means let us have a “boring from without.” That has always been the pride and joy of the metrop- olis. It is in a state of continual renewal “from the provinces.” It attracts not only the worst but also the best from other cities, including Philadelphia, “There is, of course,” our critic admits, “a very |, fine and unostentatious New York .nat the visiting and unassimilated Americans Who compose most of the native-born popula- tion rarely because it is not the New York of the streets, the hotels, the caberets, the shops snd the press.” Quile true. New York has a host of volunteer press agents—including the Saturday Evening Post—who do not often invade this less spectacular and more ex- emplary New York, Perhaps the editor has been tak- ing his own fiction too seriously But New York will survive these unkindly criti- cisms, because it is fundamentally sound and because the rest of America will continue to bore its way in, of the usual pre-campaign tactics by which a party sets out to pin responsibility for all extravagance, past and present, on its opponents, Demand for Government retrenchment at this time is something wider and deeper than a parading of party | thrift and virtue. War developed habits of Federal spending for which no party was primarily to blame. Desire to break that habit and call a halt on continuing bureaucratic lavishness overspreads party lines. In the present economic state of the country and the world, an old-time “billion-dollar Congress” would mean burdens comparatively light. War spending has made ten-figure estimates mere items in the stagger- ing totals. Washington contains to-day tens of thousands of | persons who were not there before the war and who would not be there now if the Government were cut- ting down its outlay to the requirements of peace, It is a rare bureau that, once established, will ever confess it can be spared. And there is no central au- { ity to i jat the Federal income shall be wisely istributed it. For a people suffering from currency inflation, high prices and the profiteering of classes who still grab to better the favors they gained during war, continued Government spending on a war scale is an aggravat- ing influence of the worst sort. No one political party need be called in to diagnose the case or prescribe for it. The whole Nation should declare and demand the obvious cure. COMMUNITY SPORT IN THE WEST. newspaper office, the Weekly News Letter of the Department of Agriculture tells briefly of the game bagged in a series of rabbit drives in the Far Northwest. Born and bred New Yorkers can know nothing of this distinctive American sport. Not all transplanted Westerners have had the experience, Picture a bright, cold morning—perhaps it is Lin- coln’s Birthday and a holiday. A light snow covers the ground. Word has gone round that the drive is to he held. Country neighbors and villagers tum out for the fun and to make an end of a pest that injures fruit trees, gardens and crops. The territory to be side, with a smooth open spot in the centre for the round-up. A captain for each side line and a lieutenant for each mile marshal and distribute their forces, men armed with clubs—only the captains have guns—and a host of dogs. The drivers form a hollow square facing the round-up place. When the lines are set the drive is on, Perhaps at first the men may be 100 feet or more apart. Each swings back and forth over his sector of the front. The line advances slowly, the dogs bark- ing, the men shouting greetings, swinging their arms .|and their clubs to keep warm. Every bush and brush- pile is beaten out to make sure that the rabbits are not left behind. At first only an occasional rabbit will be seen scurry- ing in advance of the noisy line, but as the drive pro- ceeds and men draw closer the quarry becomes more evident. “Cotton-tails” seem to grow beneath every bush, only to flit away ahead of the drivers. In ravines and woody tracts it is ditticult to prevent escapes. The line forges on, Finally the men form almost a solid line around a small area and then the slaughter commences. This is the least pleasant but most necessary part, The bag may number several thousand. Then there is a frolic, with lunch provided by wives aml mothers at the school house and a tramp home in laughing, s larking groups before the sun sets. A day in the open, good-natured co-operation with | incighbors in community sport, a long walk cross | country with canine and human friends, That is a good with'bad, and more’ good than bad, att a SD tll lt [eee drive, and good enough spori for any man, TRANGE visitor in an Eastern and ultra urban} driven is, perhaps, a square five or six miles on a} Vy mn a 7 To ouR i | | | | | | CREDITORS —_—_—_ we WILE PAY 60 CENTS ON THE por LAR. From the Democratic Platform Adopted This Week at Albany: “Tax burdens must be reduced immediately and equitably. Rigid economies must be had wherever possibie in governmental ca penditurce. speedily enact laws to readjust the machinery of government to a peace basis.” The Democratic Party in This State Adopts the Slogan THE EVENING WORLD Has Sounded Since February |: Get the Government Back on a Peace Basis; Stop War Spending; Lighten the Taxpayers’ Load What Could Be Sweeter? Caprrieht. 1920, “em Bieling Co, yori.) By J. H. Cassel We demand that Congress shall Where to Find] Your Vocation By Max Watson it, lishing s Row Tork ercsing Werth Om Jewelry.—No. 28. Opportunities for Entering This Trade—Tho jewelry trade may be |divided into the following branchest 1, Mounters— This work includes |the preparation of mountings upom which stones and other ornaments jare set. On high-class jewelry this | work is done almost entirely with |hand tools, It requires considerable skill as well as artistic abiKty. IB |hand work the metals used are gold, |platinum and a limited amount of , silver, 2. Po —The polisher finishes |the mounting #o that it is all eom- plete except for setting the stones, FROM EVENING WORLD READERS — In the Sweet Bye and Bye. To the Kaitor of The Wrening World: ‘The Ouija board said, “The streets ot New.York will be cleaned March 30."" E. GERDES. 406 East 83d Street. Fly Your Colers. ‘To the Diittor of The Erauing World: ‘The writer hag been @ constant reader of The Wvening World for years and, belng 4 travelling man, has bought the paper in most of our cities. Although I have not always agreed with you politically, I can al- ways find some real logical truth in mns. I can't go to sieap until I have found en Evening Worti. Ibave madeadose canvass af a great many business men throughout Cen- tral New York State and have ques- tioned them regarding Prohibition in our country. I am certainly at @ loss to figure how the States ever went dry. The results of my personal can- vass show, without the [east bit of exaggeration, ninety per cent opposed to Prohibition, which has become the religion of a few idiing fanatics. What vecame of those thousands of protests which were sent to Con- gress? Are we still freemen, rightful heirs of a “sweet land of Mberty"? Or have we all Jost our spirit and our righteous indignation against those who would lead ug tanto servitude? I want you to know, Mr. Editor, that you are not alone in these old but ill-treated United States. Will you do your part to compel every man who aspires to an office in the next election to be ALL MAN and fly iss ovlors? Will you please tell me where Tt can find articles written by such men as Washington, Lincoln, Grant, Garfield or Roosevelt in favor of Na- tional Breaiane, oF the “Exodus of American Libert: LYNNDON ANG. Byracuse, Feb. 20, 1920, | Arrowroet for Epicaras, the Editor of The Brening World: We note in The Evening World of Feb. 7 a comment in connection with the articlo written by Capt. Kettle, Bighteenth Avenue, Brooklyn, on Arrowroot Pudding. This | 7 comment reads as follows: Jack Horner's highly recom- mended Arrowroot Pudding seems to have gone the way of our old friends, the Tom and Jerry Twins. f there is a restaurant in New York that serves the pud wish some kind reader would i tac Wiee, eo thet I could go sround and regale myself with a double helping. EPICURUS.” We would be most pleased to be put in touch with “Epicurus” in order that we might have the pleasure of, Presenting “Epicurus” with a liberal sample of our Arrowroot in order that he might have not a double helping but as many helpings as he wished ».ade for himself. If it is pos- sible to give us this information, we will be gr pleased, and we be- Neve that urus” will also be grateful to know that the product is still obtainable, GHAS, MORNINGTAR & CO., LNU. 849 Broadway, Feb, 21, 1920, ‘Times Have Changed. To the Editor of The Brening World: Mayor Hylan, in defending his ad- ministration against charges of in- efficiency in coping with the snow, is quoted as saying: ‘The principal dit- ficulty is the shortage of labor. We cannot get the men,” All thinking and fair-minded zens will heartily agree that tl ot New York never seriously p for the real snow full that com once in a decade. They will not dis pute that the prevailing wages pid to unakilled labor are such that even $5 a day will not attract the nevessary ts cit G when $2 or $3 a day brought w. hands, even from the car~barns times have changed is not the M fault, and we may with Honor, “Any one who criticises the adininistration 13 ob unfair and acting with ulterior motive.’ But when our Mayor tells us on the very same day thut there is no teacher shortage, while tho whole United States knows there is, wo may rightly ask whether the Mayor knows after all that the times ‘have chan, ‘The teacher shortage as the snow hills that only the teacher shorta serious than the sho: of show shovellers. O18 Sol may be counted on in a few days to come to our worthy Mayor's rescue, With his flery breath he will prove much more effective than ten times ten thousand shovels or the new “snow melte The snow-labor shortago is but a mat- ter of days. 8 more Not So the teacher short- are leaving in larger numbers than they are coming in, and the number preparing for teaching is negligible. ‘Teachers cannot be truined over night any more than nursev, lawyer and physicians can be so trained, Le -| ply Carek a UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copyright, 1920.) TACT. Tact is consideration for others, Some people are born tactful, others achicve tactfulness, but nobody ever has tact- fulness thrust upon him, ‘Tact is nearly always a prerequisite for success. It saves men from blundering speeches that hurt other men's feelings. It saves them from saying things which con- vey impressions the speaker little means to convey. It enables a man to understand his fellow men, and to adapt his speech to the thoughts of other men. We know of no business in which it is not an invaluable quality. All men are sensitive; men of capacity have pride. When their pride is wounded, when their sensibilities are hurt, they withdraw themselves into their shells, and re- main there while the disturber is around. ‘The tactful man does not disturb them, He avoids ex- posing religious prejudices—if he is stupid enough to have any. He refrains from asking questions which seem imperti- nent, He does not betray curiosity as to matters that men like to keep to themselves, such as their private business, their incomes, their physical shortcomings. The tactful man knows instinctively that some men like to talk, and with such men he is a good listener. He knows when with men who like to listen just how much to talk without being a bore. He considers dogmas even if he disagrees with them, to air disagrecable truths in order to be honest. If you lack tact, acquire it. and dislikes. and not your own, with other people's beliefs and It is not necessary Study men and their likes Think about their comfort and convenience, Try to help them when they need help, uot intrude your advice on them unless they ask it. In a sentence, be considerate, and you will be tactful. And when you have learned to be tactful, half of your fight will be won. economic M and women will not spend fourteen or fifteen years at school to prepare themselves for a job that will pay them $400 a less to start with than is paid to t ers, We are confronted by a hasic uman instinct—the desire for a de- cent existence, "| down the 3 as the Mayor propones;| We will stand by the Mayor in his remove them ultogether if you will;| battle with Jack Frost, the Snow- jaws will still limit the sup-|man and the labor shortage. But/clothes, This sheep, therefore, pro# since he has ¢alled the labor short- age to bis aid, we must ask him in turn to stand by his guns and to admit that tho same economic law street clean-| which he invokes applies with equal | per suit. foree to the schools. JACOB THEOBALD. 019 West 1434 Street, Feb. 20, 1030, This work is done partly by hand |and partly by machinery. In high- jClass jewelry work @ limited number of women are employed in ¢his branch, 3. Cutters—Although this is a pat of the jewelry trade, as a whole ft |'9 quite distinct in the trade amt | Separately organized. It is the most highly skilled branch of the jewelry |trade. A large percentage of the |dimmond cutters in America are Hol- landers, the original workmen hav+ ing éome to this country from Ame sterdam, which is the centre of the trade in Europe. This is @ trade which is handed down from father to son for generations, and it is al+ most impossible for an outsider 6m break into this trade, 4. Setters—This is aregular branclt of the jewelry trade. The stone eet- ter finishes the mounting and sete the stone. His work is highly skilled, \and requires above all a steady band ig one eyesight. welry trade is well o throughout the country. There ia © regular apprentice system and it is possible for a young man to start as an apprentice in any of the branches mentioned above except cutting. One apprentice is allowed for every ten men working in a shop, providing there are not more than three ap~ prentices in one shop. An apprentice | begins as an assistant to a journey~ man and follows the same branch o! the trade until he receives a journey~ man card. The apprentice period for mounters is from two to three years, for polishers about 18 months end for setters from 3 to 4 years. Schooling—No stipulated amount jof mcbooling is necessary to become }@n apprentive, although a good edu- jcation makes a better workman in |the end. The best way to learn is on the job, and there are no special schools worth considering. Salary—An apprentice generally receives from $8 to $12 a week, He may expect an increase after glx months and is advanced regularly during his entire apprenticeship pe- riod. A first class mounter receives from $50 to $70 a week, a polisher from $40 to $50 a week, and a setter from $70 to $80 a week. A cutter often makes as high as $100 to $125 a week, if he is a bigh class man. Remarks—The centres of the jew eiry manufacturing trade in ‘this country are Providence, R. L, Attle- oro, Mass., Newark, N. J., and New York City. Providence and Attle- boro specialize in the production of cheaper jewelry, which is produced largely by machinery. A large per- centage of girls are employed in this industry. (Newark, N. J. pro@uces almost entirely gold jewelry, con- siderable af which is’ produced on the quantity basis by machines. ‘This machine work is done with dies, which are made by men known as die cutters, Die cutting is highly skilled and well paid, ‘but is not strictly @ branch of the jewelry, | ‘Young men wishing to enter this aS apprentices sbould apply shap. in Shearing Sheep —and Lambs A friend of The Bvening World sends us this Profiteering Exhibit: Ths sheep grew @ fleece weightn seventy ounces, for which its farmer owner was paid at the rate of $ 1-2 cents per ounce, or 50 cents por pound, delivered at the buyer’s stora in Harrison, Me. The best grade of woollen doti, takes ton ounces per yard,of wool for its manufacture. Three and o@ half directly to the local union to ee if there is an apening in any first class yards of wool suffices for a awit of duced enough wool for two suits, this the farmer received $2.3). Faghe toned into clothes by a good tailor, | thts wool became worth $250, or $126 For | It took the sheep one ycar to rates [the fleece, Some overhead! Query: fe the sheep a goth { | J mn: )