The evening world. Newspaper, March 1, 1920, Page 18

‘otished Excep ‘roles ARGU & cm atta secate corer HER, Jr. Becretary. IS is how realty investigators find it: Real estate leaders who have been investigat- ing money conditions which prevent builders from getting reasonable loans discovered that fully $1,000,000,000 which should be devoted in the current housing emefgency to construction in the metropolitan district is held by pools and syndicates operating to corner supplies of food, clothing and other commodities—From The World, Feb. 29, 1920. This is what the Federal Comptroller of the Currency said when he urged bankers to use. their influence to sestrain speculation: For the long run an, assurance of future Dermanent and substantial profit can be had only by reducing present profits to the thinnest reasonable margin and limiting earnings, divi- dends and additions to surplus to the most mod- est figures consistent with safety. This is the way it strikes a tenant: MONDAY—John Doe pinches a few dolla: out of his weekly wage and deposits them in a savings bank, where they are to draw 4 per cent. tnterest. TUESDAY—The bank lends John’s money at 6 per cent., secured by a mortgage on the apart- -ment house in which John is a tenant. WEDNESDAY~The landlord, who could not have bought the property without the aid of John’s money, boosts John’s rent 60 per cent. THURSDAY—John opens his eyes to the fact that his money in the bank, instead of bringing in 4 per cent. is costing him 46 per cent. net. He therefore puts it up to the president of his bank. FRIDAY—The bank adopts a policy of calling in all due mortgages the proceeds of which have been used for profiteering. SATURDAY—The landlord informs John that his rent will not be boosted. SUNDAY—John has a day of rest. His con- fidence in the bank is restored. How does it strike the bank ptesident? VISION BACKED BY CONFIDENCE. PEAKING as an engineer to engineers, Herbert C. Hoover has given a tremendous impetus to the » idea of connecting the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean by 2 canal development of the St. Lawrence ‘Se River which will enable ocean going ships to dock in the centre of our continent, in the heart of our inland popire. It is a colossal undertaking. ‘The scheme has been under consideration for years “without arousing much attention. Engineers and thest North,” but equally dangerous and exciting. ‘There is no altitude limit. Interstellar space is infinite to ordi- tary minds, whatever Prof. Einstein may think of the matter, No man will ever fly so high but that another man will want to fly higher. “No record is secure, TURN THE TIDE. of the railroad brotherhoods that representatives Board for which the Railroad Bill, now law, provides, “I believe,” the President declared, “those provisions are not only appropriate in the inter- est of the public, which, after all, is principally composed of workers and their families, but will be found to be particularly in the interest of railroad employees as a class. “The argument that the public representatives on the Labor Board will be prejudiced against labor, because drawn from classes of society antagonistic to labor, can and ought to be over- come by selecting such public representatives as cannot be charged with any such prejudices.” based on the most dangerous fallacy in present labor reasoning. Each labor group tends to view its own interests as something increasingly separate and distinct from the interests of the community, that to go on increasing wages and shortening work hours in industry after industry, regardless of the effect on total production, can only result in sending prices higher still, thus nullifying all actual benefit from high money wages—that some one is accused of prejudice and denounced by each labor group in turn. In too many instances a labor group to-day sees only two things: (1) The wage increases that war and inflation have brought to adjoining groups. (2) The power it possesses to secure by organized demand as much or more for itself. Primitive economics, this. Worse still, there goes along with it a vague but pervasive notion that the war has made it possible for every one to do less work in- stead of more, shippers have known and approved. The general pub- lic has not known, But because Mr. Hoover is a public character, enjoying universal confidence and respect, the scheme will now be familiar to millions where it has been considered by thousands. Buffalo, Cleveland, > Detroit, Duluth, Chicago and the lesser lake ports -y of the plan was only one of the features address before the Western Society of which showed vision reduced to practical plan alone is so vast that coming from a man it might seem visionary. Mr. Hoover, how- reduces it to essentials, He considers the advan- first, to the farmers, and, second, to the commer- interests of the Upper Mississippi Valley. He views as-a part of our overwhelming transportation prob- ~ lem. As,an engineer, he calculates the difficulties. As a business man, he computes the gains, not only to the section immediately concerned but to all the Nation, ‘because of the effect on the seasonal peak load of the wailways which is felt everywhere. ‘Whether or not Mr. Hoover is elected President, the \Nation needs his service. America needs this trained ‘and experienced broad scale vision of the engineer and ‘business man, supported as it is by public confidence and an established record. Where could it be applied more effectively than from the White House? qj est ‘| FARTHEST UP. AJOR RUDOLPH W. SCHROBDER flew last Friday nearly a mile higher than any man had ever flown, Next day Roland Rohlfs, who holds the record which Major Schroeder broke, announced that he was planning to have another try for an altitude record ? which would surpass Schroeder's performance. af Schroeder himself intends to beat his own record of 36,020 feet. His goal Friday was 40,000 feet, and he i The specious ill distributed prosperity resulting from an inflated currency is looked upon by millions as a kind of huge war legacy, offering a share to every man bold and strong enough to grab for it. Industry and productiveness, as they mean enduring prosperity for the Nation as a whole, are lost sight of in the immediate, excited struggle of special classes to get as much as other classes got in the economic con- fusion produced by world war. This state of things is not peculiar to the United States. France and Great Britain are, with cause, far more perturbed than this country over the low ebb of economic reasoning and the slackening of the “will to work.” In an interview in The World yesterddy Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip deplored the loose, half-way thinking with which the greater part of the American public is meet- ing present economic problems: “The economic education of the people should be provided for in one way or another.” Why not send out ten thousand Minute Men, as The Evening World has suggested, to revive the action of hard, American common sense among the workers of this country? tt would be better than letting the consequences ot inflation, misinterpreted by ignorance and shortsighted- ness, sweep on to inevitable panic, Turn the tide. ICE AND RENT. HIE Mayor's Market Surplus Committee is dividing the “surplus,” the profits from the army food sales, The money very properly is going to semi-charitable commissions for relief’ work among the poor, Thus far the Surplus Committee, headed by Mr, Berols- heimer, has not contributed to “Hizzoner’s” Committee on Rent Profiteering. In this the committee is con- sistent at least. Failure of the appropriation from this surplus, which hopes io reach it next trial. This rivalry recalls the race for the North Pole. One’ expedition after another attained the honor of having! been “Farthest North.” The late Commander Peary finally beat his own record, reached the Pole and at- Aained the goal, the ultimate Farthest North, Since then the sport has languished. The record is unbeatable. The North Pale is no longer an objective. “Farthest up” is a new goal. One aerial explorer after another will try the dangerous game for the honor of achievement. ous airman will surpass Major Schroeder's record, Perhaps Rohlfs or some other adven- | the Mayor pledged and then withdrew, was the cause of the resignation of Nathan Hirsch, a most valuable public service volunteer. Since his resignation the com- mittee work has slumped and rénts have risen, | It would hardly be graceful or consistent to appro- priate now what was denied to Mr. Hirsch and his aides But it is an open question whether $30,000 to the Rent ‘Committee would not have done more good than the $50,000 which has been turned over to the Mayor's Free Ice Committee. Had the Mayor given adequate support to the Rent Profiteering Committee it is quite probable that Free | lee would have been less necessary than it” promises | RESIDENT WILSON refuses to accept the view | of the public are entitled to no place on the Labor | When the railroad unions try to shove the public/ cut of the council room they are making a mistake! Uf some one speaking for the larger public points out | From a statement issued by Adolph Lewisohn and. J. Parke Channing of New York, calling upon all citizens to join a Nation-wide movement to PUT THE GOVERNMENT ON A PEACE BASI “Have we become a $4,000,000,000 country? + “If so, we have passed beyorid the point of affluence and satisfied fecling over our bank balance and ‘must prune and trim just like poor folks.” “Government extravagance, waste and inefficiency in the conduct of its business have become a matter of individual concern.” “One who investigates even superficially the conduct of government business will be thoroughly convinced that we are paying too much, for what we get. of business men of the country know this.” “In former years the citizen paid for wastes and ine ficiencies of Government by an indirect process. Rally to THE EVENING WORLD’S Non-Partisan Slogan: ~ Check Government S pending. Get Federal Finance Back on a Safe Foundation. Food for the Hungry! The Pay of Operators, ‘To the lalitor of The Evening Work! terest your agitation to secure for the telephone subscribers of this city an improvement in the service. You are, of course, awure of the great demand for female help during the recent war and the high wages paid to women in the various indus- tries. At that time, owing to the fact that many of their operators were leaving and finding more lucra- tive employment elsewhere, the offi- cials of the telephone company, be- coming panic-stricken, offered all sorts of proutises to their operators | if they would remain loyal to the company. The war has ended and) what do we find: lst. Within the past few weeks the company has increased the minimum wage of new operators $3 per week. 2nd. Tho expertenced operntots who proved their loyalty have been generously rewarded with the magni- ficient sum of $1 per week inoreaso, In view of this action, can the older and more competent operators be ex pected to give the best that ts in| them when they behold the wages of! newcomers advanced $3 per week, while they receive but $1? : SUBSCRIBER. v phe Evening World on 24 con- tained a special Washington despatch entitled “Three Billion Deficit Sure in | ‘Orgy of Extravagance, "whieh out- | lines the argument against universa, military training on the score of economy. This article contained the following passage: “Inspiration for the War Depart determination to war basis ts | Army ma- which, while ment'y apparent keep the country on furnished by the Reg chine in Washington |not united, ix potent jand backing the Reg |chine are scores of |tions sth as the National y | Leagne, officered and supported by in }fiuential citizens in whose ears the T have been reading with great in-| training for years before we got into| War, and stands for it now after the | Before the war we stood for it use of our belief in the theory of aredness, Now we stand for it of the tration war of the necessity of prepa On the same page above referred to from Lincoln, of ‘Training Soldiers-- . Wood s iin July Were Shot in September, Unused to kifth Is it an orgy of extravagance to try to put our boys in shape to avoid sending them to slaughter like cat tle? ‘This is the sort of “cannon- | feed” the Kaiser counted upon our sending him and many of our people did their best to prove the, Kaiser to be right fundamental! troubl: Was that before the war, when ou: tax budgets were small, we would not so in for the “extravasanes" to give our boys a fair chanc for their lives if the call should ev hilly come As your despatch eoracentis sumes that money is the chief ant.which should govern ‘his subject et us consider that feature for a moment. did the cost of the war “reach to between $25,000,000,000 und $40,000,000,000," as your article redness would have estab- “Machinery which only needed p the power of Congressiona! rity turned on to t it run- ning promptly, efficiently and econom- jeally, Instead of this we had to try to build overnight) they machinery which should have been constructed during the years. Consequently we paid more than double for everything This, add@ to the waste occasioned by inexperience, more thin doubled yur debt and our taxes, and waa the cause—-and the only cause—of the deficit with which your article deals Every now and then there ts 0 theatre or factory fire in which many neople are burned to death heeause the owners of the had ie. nored “prepar people | then wax In ant in their horror | over the tragedy, and In a few days— onget Many of our legislators and people | tonne of war \s ays sounding,” The National Scourity League Is not backing anybody or anything except America, Americans, and American tt stood for universal military ]19 West 44th Street, Feb. 25, 1920, have already forgotten the lessons of the war, | NATIONAL SECURITY LEAGUR, Charles D. Orth, President ly Now he receives an annual bill from the office of Internal Revenue.” Thousands Ouyprright, by ‘The Drew Pvalishtt The New York Evening 1920, wt By Albert Payson Terhun Copyright, 1! . by The Press Pybiishing Co, (The Ni York Bw ning Woria,) 53—THE SCARLET LETTER. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. RTHUR DIMSDALE, pastor of A the Puritan colony's one chureh, had a’ bitterly hard task before him one Sunday morning in the seventeenth century. The town was popuiated by strait- laced folk who had fled from Eng- land because they claimed they had not been allowed t their own way. Coming to chusetts, they had formed a colony of iron-faced men and women, and had permitted no one in their town to worship God in any way but thelrs, They killed and exiled gentle Quakers, They put %% death harm- less and idiotic old women whom they accused of witchcraft, ‘They punished with hideous cruelty the very slightest lapse of morals or of convention or of religious observance, On this particular Gay the Puritan | vibrant with holy joy. All ‘because | they had discovered among them a j young woman, Hester Prynne by | name, who, in a m | swerved from the ment of love and nar- And they had gath {lic square, in pious to witness |her punishment. They had deputed Dimsdale, the young minister, to question Hester as to the identity of her partner in sin, that the man might also be punished. In a steady voice, young Dimsdale asked the unbappy girl if she cared to divu IL the crowd with | curiosity. F % ‘Then, phe was made to stand up ih public View, while across her breast | the scarlet letter, "A", was affixed This badge of shame she was con- | demned to wear, day and night, in the future; as punishment for her own sin and us & hideous warning to other women, Now, though Arthur | voice ‘had remained ste ‘heart was in a hell of torture rhe | himself was the man whose name Hester had so bravely refused to con- | fess. | He and Hester had fallen in love | soon ate s arrival in Amer- [ew n Eng. “husband, Roger Chillingworth ful and puritanical old man, Dimsdale's 7 hie | and whom she | She and Dim in their mutual | loneliness, been attracted frre- | sistibly to each other. And, as usual, it jee the woman alone me Nee sen- enced to pay for their mutual sin, terre ‘hone and at dead of night, Arthur crept forth from his house and stood on the platform where Heste had been made to stand ‘n the gaze of the multitude. He stood there, as though sharing her vigil of shame UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copyright, 1920.) DO YOUR QUARRELLING BY PROXY, The wise business man fights, but he never quarrels, Fighting is short and decisive. Quarrelling is long and wearisome, It saps the nervous vitality, arouses a state of irrita- bility, and keeps a man in a constant ferment. Fight for business, fight for promotion, fight for your rights. But if you discover that a fight is going to be pro- longed into a quarrel, either abandon it or hire somebody else to do it. , When two great merchants, or two railroad magnates, or two great corporation heads get into a dispute that is going to take time and attention, they promptly hire lawyers to do their quarrelling for them.’ Then they go serenely about their business and await the outcome. There are no personal interviews to engender rancor, There are no hot words to kindle temper and leave the mind in a state so unsettled that the health becomes, un- settled along with it. The lawyers, having a purely professional interest in the quarrel, view it as an intellectual battle. They battle with their brains in the court room or over the-legal papers in the case, and exchange anecdotes in a perfectly friendly fashion when they are done. And while they are quarrelling, in a cold, intellectual fashion, the parties to the diypute are saved annoyance that might upset them for weeks, and actually leave them in a sick bed at the end of it. Avoid quarrels whenever you can, Avoid particularly family quarrels, Put up with anything but downright in- justice rather than indulge in one. And, if thnough force of circumstances you are dragged into a quarrel, get somebody else to do the quarrelling, It will leave your time and attention free to attend to your regular business, It will save heart burnings and “many a word at random spoken,” which may leave deep wounds, Your temper is like the temper of a knife. and serious injury results. Arbitrate disputes whenever you ean, If they are past arbitration fight—not physically, but with all your energy and aggressiveness, But never engage in a long drawn out quarrel when you can get somebody else to do it for you, either for nothing as a friend, or for a fee as a lawyer. Lose it once ‘And as he stood, he seemed to feel the scarlet letter burning into his own y after day, night after night, the iusion grew, in his mind, that that horrible letter wag forming itself in the flesh of his chest, in ruken of his sin, He could feel it throb and burn to his very soul. At length he no longer. Risin, morning, in the presence of his aton, he shouted out his con- and tore open the they might see that blazed vestment ‘h col- lapsed and he pitched forward, dying. oe ould stand the strain in the pulpit, one congre fession of guilt, breast of his gown, thi the phantom letter th his ministe s he stood there, his str- March 1, 1920, THE MAMELUKES. On this date in 1811 Mohammed Ali, Pasha of Egypt, ordered the : massacre of the Mamelukes tn | Cairo under circumstances of ex- % treme treachery. To-day the Orient looms large on the horizon, [et us see who these able Mamelukes were who did so much for Cairo, , The rise of the Mamelukes and their mighty Sultans was in 1332 A. D. They were originally Turk- slaves—the word means They had become Mo- hammedan mercenaries in Egypt. They set up and destroyed Sultans ish | $ “slave.” their pleasure. Their were men of enormous ability, at rulers Cairo Sultans mosques, to its N of its beautiful Great Mosque of Sultan n was built by a Mameluke n. Art flourished under their They were despotic but literary and pious men. In 1317 of the owes Tameluke | | $ most [3 The jiu | Sul rule. rulers eypt sank to a provinee urkish Empire and there At strug, Mamelukes and hammed Ali, Pasha of Kgypt, act ing for the Porfe (Turkey), finally | $crushed them in two abo: between the Purks, Mo massacr at the Citadel Saladin, the great Ne Er ttre ee pera nner ce folk were in theiwvelement and were |