The evening world. Newspaper, March 2, 1920, Page 22

ESTABLISHED BY Dally Except Sunday by the Press P hi Company, Nos. 53 to 63 Park Row, New York. JOSEPH PULITZER. 63 Park to the tse for republication U, S. STEEL GETS BY. ‘ f Supreme Court’s dismissal of the suit brought by the Federal Government to dissolve the ‘(United States Steel Corporation leaves that huge or- @amization in the position of a giant’ whose habits, © (wicked and illegal as they may have been before 1911, ate held to have changed sufficiently to keep him out _ of reach of the law. Fo tackle him in his present state and try to resolve him into his original component parts would put too great a strain on surrounding industry and business. y is not given, however, a certificate of immunity freedom of the country. If he oversteps the resumes restrictive and repressive tactics, it is Government to bring suit again to have standing of the why*and wherefore of this additional tax load. * Nation-wide Prohibition cut from the State revenue millions of dollars which must somehow be made good. The Anti-Saloon League has not yet proposed a head tax on its members to make up the deficit it has caused. The Supreme Court has not yet passed judgment on a Constitutional Amendment which takes away per- sonal liberty and State rights and leaves in their place new tax burdens. SPOILING THE FUNERAL. HAT’S ‘happened to the famous Anderson whip? Has the lash grown soft or is the handle in a nutshell, is the Supreme Court’s final the long litigation by which, since 1911, the Government has sought to have the United Steel Corporation recognizéd as a trust and busted ? By a vote of 61 to 52 the once docile New York WHEN? The State of New York is the wealthiest and most populous in the The State of New York has two Senators and forty-three members of the House of Representatives in Congress. What are these forty-five elected Representatives from New York doing to help check Federal war spending and get this country back on a péace basis? When, where and how are they severally and collectively representing New York voters and taxpayers? _THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, MARGH 2, 1920. WHERE? Union. It carries nearly half the load of Federal war taxes. HOW? ; ttt accordingly. . Assembly orders an inquiry into tie political activities is significant that the Supreme Court divided four} of William H. Anderson and the Anti-Saloon League ee one two Justices taking'no part.| in this State, with special reference to the section of Day's po hoa propio bs the law which deals with money spent to promote its violations of the law have con-| !¢gistation. ; and notorious.” The most powerful and arrogant lobby in the legis- corporation cannot but feel that it owes ils bill] lative history of the countty suddenly finds itself called heatth in large agomred as es stage sah to the bar to explain its methods, exigencies er disruptive f rae | iWation of any sort a thing to be avoided. pee lees adr FE abtion caliphs ‘Trust or not, it cannot escape the consciousness that : “seadebvbghi ‘on probatioo—under a surveillance that will not | coming home from the triumphal procession to bury 2 the vanquished and settle themselves for a comfortable | reign of tyranny, trouble breaks loose. | \ The Assembly’ is only doing what aroused popular | sentiment is causing other Legislatures to do. | The funeral of personal liberty in the United States | is being spoiled by a too lively corpse, | Is there a connection between Jersey's 3.50 beer bill and a raise in tube fares? Do the tube officials believe it is worth 6 cents more each day to live in a somewhat moist area? MASTER OR SLAVE? BNOR IBANEZ denies the ‘treat-em-cough” views attributed to him in The Times last Sun- day. Certainly such denial is in accord with the gen- sound constructive advice. It is a funda- fabor peace which is only beginning to be at its true value by a few of the most en- employers. eral tenor of his work, ‘Most industrial concerns now realize that a “public-| But whatever the explanation of the, unauthorized fe-demmet” policy fs not only poor morality but also| news story the question has been raised and has re- i. business. Not so many have yet realized that} ceived new impetus as a perennial subject of discus- Fun my business as 1 damn please” is a companion} sion, Although the views mistakenly attributed to of industrial folly. 2 a + | the Spanish novelist have been assailed, they will find | _ Publicity“and instruction are gradually winning the defenders, both masculine and feminine, | Consuming public to a fairer treatment of fair-dealing} Whether “a woman wants a master not a slave” | _ | Business. Publicity and instruction will gain fair treat-} is 4 perfectly good question, which may be answered _ | tment from labor. : _ [some day—and may not. The whole history of the ‘The best possible basis for the information which} human race might be viewed as an unsuccessful effort Cleveland Labor Relations Committee recom-| {9 find a reply. ends is to be found in the books of the employing concern. Workmen are familiar with the product. hey can understand simple statements of material ‘costs, labor cosis and overhead in their own lines bet- than in any other. The most complicated eco- | Whether a woman wants a master or a slave de- pends very much on the woman—and on the man. | Some couples seem to have evolved a very practical | working compromise in which the partnership idea prevails. Other women have contrived to eliminate | the man and insist that they get along satisfactorily. | “Treating them rough” may work in some ca " ible if it is “put in the bank so that wel tn ofners it wrecks the matrimonial craft. It would | N be able to pay you next year, bad.” Only the employer who is dealing fairly with his p and the public can afford to instruct his work- and open his books to them. But there are such If every fair employer would adopt this then the unfair employers would be exposed. Publicity and instruction are the best weapons avail- + ‘able for the destruction of unfair competition and the insurance of co-operation with employees. | “The public be pleased” and “Come help me run , our business” are companion policies. a general rule. Read the police court news if you are inclined to the “treat-’em-rough” philosophy. Not infrequently cave men come to grief. This is Thrift Week. | The Government urges parents and school teachers to explain to children what an easy thing it is to learn the saving habit by means of Thrift Stamps, Maybe afterward the children might put the gaving theory in simple words that even a Vederal bureau could grasp, THE STATE INCOME TAX LAW. IE United States Supreme Court holds the New York State Income Tax Law unconstitutional in so far as it denies to citizens of other States ex- PORTER in a downtown hotel has found the emptions wrich it grants to citizens of New York. A work so profitable that he is now able to take The argument that residents of the State, who are] over the operation of an uptown hostelry, which he allowed exemptions of $1,000 and $2,000, are taxed proposes to manage in the time when his regular job on their incomes from all sources, whereas non-resi-| Joes not engage his attention. dents are taxed only on the portion of their income] The travelling public will in all probability remem- derived from sources in this State, failed to justify, in| ber this news item for a few days, and porters in other eyes of the court, the discriminative character of] hotels will receive fewer tips. However, such a deal section of the law. does not necessarily require large capital, Although The decision takes nobody by surprise. The Legis-]t involves a quarter of a million dollars, the payments lature at Albany has already before it a measure de-|extend over a period of fifteen years. The porter- _ ‘signed to change the provisions of the law which are} proprietor undoubtedly expects to clear the rental now declared unconstitutional, Non-resident taxpay-| from profits. The initial payment to bind the bargain ers have been granted an additional thirty days be-|need not be large. “yond March 15 in which to file their returns. What seems more evident is that the porter in ques- ' Resident taxpayers should take note that there is} tion was thrifty and saved enough to make the initial nothing in the Supreme Court decision which relieves] payment. Very possibly his thrift was induced by ex- A PORTER-PROPRIETOR. even if business] i. 4 hardy novelist who would attempt to lay down) * Pershing's Coattalls, ‘To the Batitor of ‘The Krening World; I think it about time Congress started something more serious than discussion of Gen. Pershing’s coat- tails. I find no rule or law or amend- ment whereby Congress should dis- cuss styles fer men at home or abroad. Of course, we admit we have good Congress and all that, but —there's @ limit to everything, Reformers should not start until they are sure they are perfect them- selves, R. BK Stop Br ‘To the Fatitor of The Evening V As you have done so much good | through your valuable paper, I ap- peal to you to please do al! in your} power to stop such brutal men front treating their horses as 1 read in your paper last evening. Such an apology of & man should be given a dose of his own medicine. Where are the societies for the prevention of such cruelty to animals? There is plenty of law, but WHPRE is the justice? Will you kindly see that something is done to protect the ever faithful, patient horse, ‘Very respectfully, PAULINE 8. KIMBALL, Feb, 26, 1920. Staten Island The Dimin Bill. To tho Rikor wf The Breniag World Dear Sir: I have been reading your editorials and comments of your readers on the Dimin measure ze- ported to the Assembly at Albany to- day, a8 a check on landlords’ greed. Just where will it be a benefit to the rent payer? Do not the landlords know of this bill and are they not raising rents with reckless disregard of all reagon, in order to cover over this period? Instead of a smali raise now and another one in the fall, they are putting on the screws and doub- ing their increase, In the apartment jouse wherein I have my home rents have been raised four times in a little over a year and we are des- perate, looking for a means of relief; but this Dimin bill is not the means, in our estimation. Will some of your readers kindly point out to me just where the passage of this measure would curb the landowners and be an advantage to the tenant? Thanking you for publishing this. gE. MASON. tax on or befbre the 15th day of this month,| tion while serving the travelling public. doors of opportunity are not bolted. ‘a reliable key to open the lock, urday Evening Post under the edi- torial caption “Gotham and Gomor- the editorial in question gives so dis- torted a picture metropolitan lite that it leaves thi stunned with the revelation mall minds are 90 Capa ? great evil. The picture ot New York City as a dumping ground for urope's froth and Kurope's dirt, as a city of fren- zied spendingand crooked finance, of shoddy people, breeders of radical- ism and breeders of reaction, is a key to the state of mind on the part of a great numbx ¢ the country’s popu- lation, the state of mind which evolved Prohibition, blue laws, cen- sorship, witch-hunting and ail the paraphernalia of Mrs. Grundy's in- Sect exterminator campaign. New York requires no defense trom the attacks of those who do not know her and do not seem capable of un- derstanding her. She may have slums; her city administration may not be ideal; she may devote what appears to be an unseemly acreage to amusements; she may have liked to sip beer and wine; she may have been the breeding ground of “con games” and gold brick stunts; sho may suffer from the vice of restless- ness and may want to pull stakes each Oct. 1 for a new hunting ground; she may even be lacking in perfect manners and perfect speech, so busy is she in creating, creating, creating for those who are so wrapped up in thelr superficial, provincial pettifog- ging affairs that they haven't time to add their bit to progress. She may seam @o amazingly wonderful to the stranger from the “country” that she makes ‘him lose his hold on his pock- etbook and leave her with a big head and a sore conscience. But her culture, with its leavening of am Old World flavor; her mighty, awesome efforts, her boundless am- ditions, atone for these sinful faults, Wall Street may contain its quota of sharks, but Wall Street is the founda- tion rock upon which the big business of the Nation rests, Fifth Avenue may have its gilt and its jewels of paste, but Fifth Avenue adds its touch of color, of scintillating silks, rich furs and flashing jewels to the drab tone of the humdrum everyday world. Park Row may shrick boyishly over each new sensation, but Park Row has its men of weight, its sturdy, for- wgrd-looking men with the Nation's good forever foremost in their minds, Hester Street may be foul with dirt and shabbiness, it may seem an open, Feb, 26, 1910, 311 E. 1634 “Gotham and Gomorrab.” ‘To the Kititor of The Dvening World: Tt ie hardly possible to answer the attack on New York City which apy pears in this week's imue of the Ue Tuh" in anything like a calm mood; |+ running sore to those of tender sus- coptibilitios, but the race that peoplés Hester Street has produced Baruchs Strauses and eee and Orasteins, Goldwyns UNC OMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copyright, 1920.) F HAVE SOMETHING WORTH SELLING—AND SELL IT. Whether you are taking orders for threshing machines or life insurance, or drawing a salary of ten dollars a week, you are a salesman, In the first instance you are selling sgmebody else's product. In the last you are selling your own, / You will sell threshing machines or life insurance faster if you know something about them and believe jn them. You will sell your own services for a h@rer price if you believe in yourself. If the merchandise you offer is not worth the price you ask for it, you can’t be sincere in your efforts to dispose of it. And if you do not absolutely KNOW that your services are worth more than you are getting for them, you will never be able to get more. All salesmanship that is confidence. a worth anything is based on You will find it hard work to convince people of any- thing you do not believe yourself. Before you make any effort to raise your own salary, be sure that it ought to be raised. Compare yourself with other people doing the same work for the mme wages. ive as you can, you will have an argument, believe in you, of work, ‘ If they are better than you are at the job, don’t ask for a raise until you have made yourself better than they are. Your hands or your brains are the commodity you have to dispose of. Make them just as efficient, just as product- Discover and eliminate the faults that keep them from doing their best. Work, study, practice—bring yourself up to a higher point of usefulness every day. *: Then when you begin to talk about getting more money Believe in yourself thoroughly and other people will But remember that you cannot sincerely believe in your- self unless you are convinced that you can really produce more than the other men who are doing the same kind een Zukors, Hammersteins and Shuberts, New York strives mightily each day to send forth the Nation's goods across the sea, to receive from other 8 cargoes of foreign goods, to lubric: the business of the nation with the oi| of finance, to amuse the Nation with its cheap plays and its splendid plays, its buriesques and its grand operas, to elevate the Nation with its museums and its galleries, isa Liprestes and its hundreds of to clothe the Nation in ite silks and sating, its cotton and wools, New York, so marvelously complex, so deeply living and so broadly e| thinking, so difficult to understand, when understanding inust come from some shallow, envious, nervously dis- posed editor from Philadelphia— which, I take it, is what the Saturday Eveaing Post meant by Gomorra! F, LEVEN: Ne, 469 Fitth Avenue, Feb, 27, 1920, |are highly desirable, | business schools Where to Find| Your Vocation By Max Watson. baat A Stenography. Opportunities for entering this field—The demahg for stenographers to-day is greater than the supply. Hundreds of girls are being gradu- ated every year and find positions waiting for them, and yet every bust- ness man will agree that good ste- nographers are as rare as pearls. Consideration should be given before accepting a position tu other features than the salary. All sienographic ex- perience is by no means of equal value, In commercial work there is danger of the routine of business let- ters limiting the experience to a very narrow field. Many business meu are sadly lacking in a knowledge of English, and their letters do not stimulate a girl to improve her abil- ity. The best stenographic positions are with a high class business house which maintains a stenographic de- partmcat where the girls take dicta tton from a number of men, or asa private stenographer for some well educated man who has a wide cor- respondence. Many girls cons: that because they are able to to letter containing sterotyped business phrases they are good stenogra- phers. If a girl wishes ultimately to to become a private secretary she should select her positions for thei: educational ne us well as from a@ financial standpoint Schooling—A lack in general cdu cation is the great wilt of mos stenographers. A grammar schoo! education followed by a short course in stenography taken in a commercial school is not sufficient training un- less the girl is willing to do outside reading and study. Some ge high school courses in English position, history and ma’ The {ull b school cgurse followed by a course in a high-class commercial school gives a good background for the bet- ter positions. The usual length of a stenographic course jn a commer cial school is from five to six months for day school and fifteen to eiglteen for night school. The cpst is about $85, including books. A commercial high school course, which gives ex- cellent training, is usually three years. Salary.—A beginner in large cities generally receives from $12 to $16 @ week. After a year’s experience po- sitions pay from $16 to $20. A first- class stenograpner receives from $22 to $30 a week. jalifications—A good stenographer shotid be able to transcribe 40 words a minute and take dictation at the rate of 100 wordsa minute. A knowl- edge of the rules of grammar and punctuation aye necessary, together with the ability to spell. Many peo- ple never learn to spell and this fault often causes a stenographer to be a failure, A large vocabulary, whieh can be best acquired through good reading and association with educat- ed people is most important. A girl should also have some knowledge of commercial law, commercial arith- metic and systems of keeping busi- ness records. Whatever system of shorthand is used it ghould be mas- tered and written as exactly as long hand wonld be written. A girl who has a system of her own will not be employed by many of the best firme. She must write notes that others can read. Mere speed in taking notes and typing is not as important as accuracy and neatness. Other than education and special training a good stenographer must have good man- ners, tact, ambition and, above all, sense, Which means intelli- gence. These qualificattons are more important for ultimate success as a secretary than technical ability and will do more toward commanding « high salary. : Remarks—The use of dictating ma- | chines is Becoming more ‘prevaient and many first class stenographers make little use of their shorthand. The stenotype machine is being used extenstvely for taking notes and seems especially adapted for takine notes of speeches where speed is re ‘There are many first clase in all cities for training stenographers. The public commercial high schools give a better al) round training if the time can be takan for it. Special evening courses are also offered by the public schools. Positions can fe secured through newspapers or from the schools where training has ‘been received. ———.—__ Out in Kansas, The biggest woodpile in Kan- sas.is in the old Western League Baseball Park, says the Hutchine son (Kan.) Gazette. Harry H. Taylor, City Fuel Administrator, says it is the biggest pile of fuel ever sawed and chopped from Western Kansas trees, It is eati- mated that there are between 800 and 900 cords of wood in the pile. Hutchinson people buy the wood and burn it with coal, and make the coal last longer. see England's Sea School. It was reeently announced in Parliament by the British Ship- ping Controller that 1,040 youny men had been trained or there being trained at the Gravesend quired. Sea School during the year end- ing Sept. 30, 1919. Since Sep- tember 150 have gone to ses whose average training was thir. teen weeks, and 190 were on Dee. J} under training, . a | )¢