The evening world. Newspaper, March 11, 1920, Page 26

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daly sons Rey by tho Press Publishing Company, Nos. 5 3 Ps Now York. RALPH PonTEr t, 63 Park Row, ‘AN HAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, GosEPA PULITZER Ire Secretary. 68 Park Tow. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, {The Aseoctsted Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication Rews Goapetches credited to it or mot otherwise credited in this paper iso the local mews published herein. PREVENT MISUNDERSTANDING. BMAND for a six-hour day is one of the seem- ingly unreasonable and uneconomic features in the announced programme of the anthracite miners. Six hours, the public feels, 1s too short a work @ay. The mere proposal breeds discontent and oppo- sition, When farmers and office workers, clerks and trades workers put in from 8 to 12 hours, they feel that six hours is not enough. ; Actually the six-hour day in coal mining is not ‘what is sounds. In order to get pay for six hours measured at the place where the miner commences ~ to cut coal, he may have to put in eight or more “yours from’ the time he reports at the mine until he Only last week a coal operator opposed a six-hour _! Gry on the ground that the granting of the demand “would cause unrest in other industries where the | eight-hour day now prevails.” | Actually, he admitted, there was little difference in time which the worker must be on duty. At the time the worker takes in reaching his is simply not reported. and operators are about to enter into new contracts, Whether the “six-hour day” will be ac- . cepted is a question. In any case it would seem wise revise the language of the contracts so as not to leave the danger of “unrest” caused by a misunder- the time which miners actually put in. ‘The so-called “bank to bank” day which is reck- the time the miner reports at the mine he is ready to leave would aid the public in forming a fair estimate of the miner’s job. there any reason why this should not be adopted basis of pay calculation whether the day be eight hours or more? The mere simplification and stand- ardizatio( of terminology would help the public to form that fair judgment which appears increasingly important in adjustment of industrial relations. ANDERSON FOR GOVERNOR. HE EVENING WORLD has done ils best to persuade William H. Anderson to run for Governor of New York, Mt begins to look as if pleadings had not been in ain. The Prohibition Boss has not yel said he would ac- cept a nomination. But he is making a personal ap- peal to the people of this Commonwealth on a plat- Jorm unique in political history. » His platform has only three planks: Bullyiny and Blackguardism. Only three, but they are thick ones. Boom Anderson and the new parly. Vote under the emblem: The Rack, the Thumb- screws and the Black Cap. ir s Bigotry, ONLY TWO TO GO. UFFRAGE trembled in the balance in West Vir- ginia, Senator Jesse A. Bloch, after speeding across the continent, turned the scale in dramatic fashion. It may well be that his single vote will be desisive in enfranchising millions of women in the coming campaign. However, as Senator Bloch is fair enough to admit, the real credit lies with the Suffrage Senators who were on the job and prevented adjournment until the Bloch vote arrived. West Virginia is tne thirty-fourth State. more ratifications are required, Washington seems certain to ratify soon, Will the Republican Governors of Connecticut and Vermont have the hardihood to stand out against popular demand? With only two fo go, the pressure is well nigh overwhelming. Only two ON THE FRONT LINE. ‘Whether it was a champagne glass or a plate that Prince Joachim threw is immaterial, The fact remains that a Hohenzollern finally par- ticipated in active hostilities, THE GREAT HAM DECISION, BCISION in the Big Ham case makes Robert H. Mainzer something of a local hero, He met ‘and beat a profiteer, The speed of the decision indicates the temper of the populace in regard to profiteering. It may well jserve as a warning to other gougers, The jury were “consumers and it did not take them long to decide against an unreasonable boost in price. Besides being a hero, Mr. Mainzer enjoyed other thenefits from his stand against gouging. To show their approval, three different producers sent hams fe the banker, probably because his case served to ‘reveal the tremendous spread in price between the porker and the platter, a sore subject with farmers, } An attorney volunteered his services for -the good of the cause. All in all Mr. Mainzer came out very well, Perhaps his example will stimulate further active ppposition to profiteering. If so, we warn the opposers not to expect free gifts from producers gent the basis of their protest be Phe farmer Is the Producer wi}o would dis- THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1920, 7 ; issue more bonds.” “War taxes in peace time amount to oppression. New York Taxpayers Carry Nearly Fifty Per Cent. of Federal Tax Burdens United States Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey says: play this fellow feeling for the consumer. Protest the price of an overcoat or suit of clothes and Wil- ‘liam M. Wood of the American Woolen Company will not ship an overcoat as a mark of appreciation. WHICH IS IT TO BE? | F organized industry, comprising all manufacturers, were to announce that on a certain date the prices of all their products would be lowered 25 per cent., the resull would go a long way toward starting a reduction of the cost of living. ‘This is the suggestion of General Manager J. Philip Bird of the National Association of Manufacturers. Mr. Bird would not reduce wages, But by a gen- eral and consistent cutting of prices he would take away the chief argument by which labor justifies its present demands for repeated wage increases, In the interest of both employers and employed he would forestall the day when “the public will turn against the manufacturers” and, by its refusal to buy, topple over the dizzy spiral up which wages and prices are now pushing each other, Will organized industry listen? The question all along has been whether sufficiently Jarge and influential sections of industry would’ open their eyes and take concerted action in time to avert the crash. ~ Somebody ON the coach must put on the brakes, No power from outer space will do it. The trouble has been that no individual or group of individuals has had the courage to take the initia- tive. The producer or manutacturer casts his eyes over the country, becomes alarmed at the pace and says that prices must come down, Then he goes back to his own desk, reads his trade journals, finds that everybody else is raising instead of lowering prices— and ends by raising his own, In the same way labor groups look no further than} other neighbor groups to the right or left who are} demanding and getting successive pay raises. All presently join in the grab. Higher wages cause higher prices, which are im- mediately seized upon as justification for still higher wages, No one stops {o reason that the y is no better if its purchasing power steadily diminishes, tells himself that the excitement of soaring wages al tended by soaring prices is on a par with the exhil- aration of lifting oneself by one’s own boot straps. No one cries out that from, the point of view of per- manent, prosperity, well grounded and diffused, the whole thing is a dangerous fools’ paradise. That is what it is, however. And it was started, as the recent report of the Allied Supreme Council “on economic conditions of the world” points out, by the effect of sudden war demands on certain indus- tries and wage scales, plus an inflation of currency which has encouraged extravagant spending by giv- ing the illusion of an increase ef real wealth, The United States is not the only country now cursed with this illusion, But the people of the United States have a reputation for being clear-sighted enough to see-stone walls in time to avoid breaking their heads. Was and prices are alternately boosting each other to heights at which the country cannot possibly maintain them. The only way to get the situation in hand is for influential groups of producers and wage-earners to take deliberate, concerted action along price-cutting, wage-restricting lines like those recommended to the National Manufacturers’ Association, Is it to be that, or panic? STOP, LOOK, AND SNIFF. A CROWD in a busy down town street has been blocking the sidewalk the last’ few moons, watching the latest in front window cookery. The rotisserie chefs and the deft-fingered, white- coated flippers of “cakes” are eclipsed by the latest novelty, the doughnut kettle, ‘The public stops, looks, and sniffs. Not a few buy. Some one invented a machine that puts the dough- and drops them into the melted land with aston- ishing speed and absence of effort, The operator merely turns the crank, Of course any machine in operation will draw a crowd, Perhaps that accounts for it, something else, A sentimental interest attaches to the doughnut. It is reminiscent of grandmothers, light and airy kitchens, wood-fire cook-stoves, vacations on the farm, The doughnut is a part of American tradition along with pumpkin ple, turkey, and cranberry sauce, ited with a good cup of coffee it has com- forted an aching heart and empty, stomach, Perhaps there is No one! There is no dispute about the necessity for lowering taxes.” Mi “We are confronted with a budget of $5,000,000,000 for Government expenditures. Obviously we cannot raise that sum from the people unless we increase taxes ‘or “Right at hand we have the obvious initial tax lowering project, which is to take the Government out of the shipping business.” “There appears to be no doubt that we can put $1,000,000,000 at least back into the funds of the Government by that step, and it is the duty of Congress to do it.” Both United States nators from New Jersey are urging constructive legislation to reduce vernment spending and lighten the taxpayers’ load. What About Senators William M; Calder and James W. Wadsworth Jr. of New York? + Shoestring Speculation ! By J. H. Cassel wie (ive New York B ber of bar was shown. officials w it would the applau To the In reading “Would a Bonus Be One?” it struck me that your paper has always found fault of some kind with any benefit for soldiers, se went ampaigns. nt on ow to Peace” every day oft time am like! one. schooling. ing against American, paper, ‘Tow feet. good for you people to put a in your paper, but first put the former soldiers on a peace footing. I have been working since from the service as a laborer because lam unable any longer to Work in a factory as a machine hand, due to my nervous condition, and if 1 take to look for another job I to go begging before I land Let Whe your When this was shown the hous ed hissing and yelling even w people did when the n the Me Needs a Bonus, Editor of The Evening World editorial entitled 1am a veteran of the World War; rved thirteen months overseas and through a good many It is not a matter of is going to cost later on but matter of getting in the nu ree cheers Leas Popular Than the Kaiser. To the kiitor of The Evening World: While attending a picture show re- cently a picture showed Major Dal- rymple and his men destroying a num- Kulser's picture Iron fied him were pictured Jounty that New York does not want any hibition thrust upon hi it has been done. y. Edwards and the other men of h HARRY 8. CRAWFORD JR. 84 William St., March 8, 1920. mi back It is all very well and headline A bonus independent to look for a position, even if I had to take some kind of Please refrain from work- and be With no thanks to your R. F. “Back 1 was discharged would bonus, Let ‘em cuss! a human being need an exhaust or safety valve as well as an engine? 1 don't mean for people to take God's ‘Em Cass! Balitor of The Evening World: Why not? make an Formerty 59th Rogiment, Doesn't name in vain every or any time they Are angry, But a g00d, “Damal” is such @ relleft lesome Would me “Darn!” or “Oh, Sugar!" relieve any red-blooded human half as much? If a mun or a woman hasn't a temper some sort he or she might as well ome answer me, My answer is a man to use his d cilss and then. fo: 1 anything better to: valve about it than it is for him: to ra around al) day with a grouch, allow- ing that old smouldering volcano to keop him miserable and make ever) one he comes in contact with at hom or in business wish he were some- where else?" Isnt it better to cuss for a few minutes and then grin, than to ts his smothered spite and vindictive- ness out upon his wife, servants or workingmen and clerks, as the case may be? A man who can't cuss has no ear for music! And no sense of humor! GRACE INDELICATO, No. 137 West Fifteenth Street, March 8, 1920, An Unusnal Query. To the Baitor of The Evening World I would appreciate it if you would answer the following in your columns, As you are, no doubt, aware, Mr. Pigg is investigating retailers, and it becomes essential to know the follow- ing: I buy an article wholesale for $17.50 and mark it to retail for $25. ‘This particular article proves to be @ very good value and a very good seller. I reorder this article several times, “1 #0 in to the m turer a few weeks later and he has a hundred or so of this article, and either because I have done a large business with him, or that he desires to clean up, or has bought the materials which comprise this article very creap, he offers me the article at $8.50 each, ‘This happens very often, If I buy this article at $8.50, accord- ing to Mr, F I could only ask about $14.50, whereas I have the same article in stock at $25, which is a very good value at this price. In other words, I must reduce the $3 com- modity to $14.50, and possibly run a sale at what may be the beginning of @ season. It may be better not to buy the article at the reduced price. Then my competitor would purchase ond 3 retail them Romatity for $10, use he knows I have the same Ien't this « joke? Why, is Mr, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copyright 1920.) ONLY THE RICH CAN AFFORD TO LOOK POOR. Clothes do not make the man but they advertise him. If they are good clothes he is well advertised. If they are sloppy clothes qhe is badly advertised. If you are*rich you can afford to neglect your personal appearance, If you are poor you cannot. Clothes are as much a part of man’s business equip- ment as the square and triangle are a part of the equip- ment of the draughtsman, An equitable income tax would make an allowance for a man’s clothes on the ground that they were a business adjunct as well as a protection, Any sensible man out of a job will put up the best pos- sible appearance before he hunts employment. It takes a keen judge of character to go very far be- yond clothes when he is hiring help. If a man is poorly dressed the prospective employer jumps at the conclusion that he can’t be much good or he would be better clad. If he is well dressed the natural infe rence is that in past employment the applicant had been’ worth enough to enable him to buy good clothes There is no fee) of cultivating advanced fashions or freak styles. The flashy dresser is as badly off, from the job-hunting viewpoint, as the man whose trousers bag at the knees, But good clothes, well cared for, give an air of com- petence to any man, and are of vast service to him in im- pressing others, They are worth making a considerable sacrifice to get. And once a position is secured, well cut, well fitting clothes still help their wearer to earn a good salary, For almost every employee has in the course of business to deal with outsiders, and the outsider falls under the spell of clothes as quickly as anybody. The effect of clothes on a man’s own arse is also highly important, so much so in fact that we shall deal with de in it in anather article which will soon appear in this space. Pigg starting with thé retailer? Why ;I admire your frankness above that not‘with the souree, such as the Amer- ican Woolen Company, whose history of any other periodical, SIMON, paper) T would appreciate your i New York, March 8, 1920, I am a great admirer for the great you beg the nerve to publish (the pnly | est “Fighting For Reta paper. ‘Your Vocation By Max Watson. | | ora 1920, Publishing (ihe New World). ty, the, Prone ork Evening Cinematographer. | Opportunities for Entering Field. The cinematographer or cambra man is the product of the motion ture industry and, with the dev ment of this industry in comm and educational fields, 8 many new activities. Most of pho first cinematographers were recruited from the ranks of the commercialand press photographers, since a training in still photography is excellent prep- aration. If a young man wants the thorough training which a first clase camera man should have he should begin work in the laboratory as @ washer or a film winder, From this work he should assist in the print- ing room and then have experience in developing when he learns the va- rious chemicals used in the baths and the time required for different @x« fied to become an as- sistant camera man. In this capacity his duties are to look after the equtp- ment, keep the mage loade@t with film, attend to ni lighting and help tt man generally. The assistant ‘ds. ally takes the second camera when sets are taken which cannot be cated, such as dangerous stunts. Im time ‘he is allowed to take urtim portant scenes and then becomesia This process six months to a few » opportunities: open. ‘0 secure a position Qs an assis ‘4 man wie this preliminary experience, g00d camera man must under! tap every process through which the git passes from the time it is taken watil the printing of the positives. There Are a number of schools where tes field can be studied, but a young man ill find it advisaae who is inter been organized as a union and most mbers two. main and Los ‘ (regular camera man. inay take from Schooling. a0 At least a grammar school edaga- tion is E Young men who | have hac vhool training “wall find it very much to their advanm . in securing good positions, | doubtful especial éourses offered are desirable. Salary. A ng man who begins aba | laboratory h r may expect fféin ae to $20 a week to atart An as- sistant came: n receives from $35 \to $75 a we da good camera |man from $1 me |of the best recei a8 high as $460 a week, If a man owns an outfit and does free | . comm al or news elves from $35 to $5 @ steady, 80 Se figures cannot be taken on is ar round basis, Qualifications. Other than having the Ea | ntioned above, a camera man lover of the outdoors and hay eye for beauty. The value of Bs pictures depends upon his ability pick his locations. “He must be alse to sualize the results on the sci of us lighting effects and h to arrange artificial lights to get desired effect. ‘This requires a t artistic sense that cannot well be aé- quired, THe must know perfectly the mechanism of his camera so as 40 keep it in order, understand how prevent static clectricity from 5 ing the film and know the pi lenses, shutters and irises to use fo bring out the pictures to the best ag- vantage, tt Remarks. It is impossible to foretell the velopments of motion pictures in if. dustry and the added opportuni it will bring for the camera man, Ms an example. Many salesmen nm carry films which display their probe uct instead of samples, and fact are using picture: iP workmen. ‘The Ne require camera mi in all large cities in the same _ ity as correspondents of newspapers A complete outfit costs from $600 go $3,000, depending upon the make camera used. ‘The principal mal are Bell and Howell, Pathe, Wil Gillon, Universal, Debrie and M SERVANTS. Faithful servants have never their just dues in fiction, nor 1 life. Two’ people only wil stand by you in your sore need—your butler and your dog. Your reed man won't. In the crash of prominent family in New “Yor City some years ago, when all for4 sook," the coachman, with hig cheeks wet, came and offered his bankbook to his lady, and the butler drew out all his savings from the bank. But while we adhere to the faith- ful servant, it were wisdom to beware the “usual” servant Never lose your temper with your servant On this date, in 1797, two dis charged servants of the Ladi Buckinghamshire, Stuart Luttrell, went in high dudgeon the police and informed them their Ladyships were playing taro) Mayfair kicked up a fitss, ladies would have been off to jail had they not been of title, They were heayily fi Beware of the “usual” And don't anger them.