The evening world. Newspaper, March 12, 1920, Page 30

er MH PULITZER, J. ANGUS SHAW, JOBEPK PULITZER, Ir., Secretary. MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRESS. Associated Press ts exclusively entitled to the us for reyubilention Geapatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper iso the local news published herein, PROSECUTE CLUETT, PEABODY & CO. HITE collars are the hall-mark of the “New Poor.” White collars are making the “New Poor” gven Of all the revelations of profiteering which The World has made, none, we think, will cause) “more indignation and resentment than yesterday's ex- | | pose of the intolerable greed of Cluett, Peabody & Co, i Prices of white linen collars have advanced from * 42% cents to 30 cents, The quality has been debased. + Profits have risen from $1,871,000 in 1918 to $5,- * 153,000 in 1919. | If Attorney General Palmer cannot find material for " the prosecution of profiteering in such figures, he can | find it nowhere. ; The Attorney General has proclaimed his friendly feeling for Organized Labor. Here is his opportunity © to court favor with the “White-Collar Class” as well. | Get after Cluett, Peabody & Co.! ag White collars are more than a symbol. ig | becoming @ yoke, They are ' MORE LIGHT ON THE LEAGUE.: ERBLY as a commentary on the false fears which \ political opponents of the League of Nations tmve fostered, it is worth while to quote from Lord bert Cecil’s reply to an inquiry by the President of the Norwegian Storthing: “I have no doubt that your reading of Article VIII. of the treaty (dealing with armament) is right. Undoubtedly it was never meant to put on any member of the League the burdens and duty to keep up military forces.” ‘This is evidence of the spirit in which the actual op- eration of the League is undertaken. is no less a ‘commentary on Article X., under which the bugaboo , taisers have pictured a super-general of a super-state calling for heavy quotas of troops from members. Certainly the League cannot hope to call for an -army from a nation which has none. SHAMELESS. CA USE fereign demand for by-products of milk has fallen off, the Sheffiald Farms Company, milk distributer, tssues the following notice: “Alt dairymen are urged not to increase their production of milk and if possible to decrease il.” In other words, the Sheffield Farms Company brazenly takes steps to cut down the supply of fluid milk lest increased quantities coming to this cily should tend to force down the prices the company now imposes on the consumer, In the milk business the law of supply and demand ts permitted to work only when it maintains or in- creases the profits of the distributer. The moment it threatens o benefit the consumer, the law of supply and demand is lied up in a bundle and kicked under the safe. This shameless action of the Sheffield Farms Com- pany should further open the eyes'of the public in this city and State to the kind of deal it is getting from corporations that have a controlling grip oa the milk ca * industry in New York. 7 No help need be looked for from milk distributers : @ whose first policy is to defeat the natural workings ¢ of economic law. 3 Law on the statute books is the only kind that wilt j curb their greed. WHY NOT IN OPEN COURT? INDINGS of the President’s committee to investi- gate coal mining conditions and wages are not satisfactory to the miners. Renewed danger of a strike _is reperted. ' _ Henry M. Robinson, as representative of the public, was able to agree with Rembrandt Peale, representing the operator’, on a majority report which meets a part | of the demands of the miners. John P, While, repre- ‘senting the miners, did not agree. dence before the public, there will be little sympathy with a miners’ strike now. It will savor of greed and . a disposition to question the findings of the umpire, to, demand more than is fair. The investigation was conducted in secret. The decision of Mr. Robinson alone determined the + finding. ‘ } H compared with adjudication of industrial disputes. 4 Unless the miners can bring extremely strong evi- | Secrecy is the fundamental failing in arbitration as. duced to an unbelievable extent. The bought and paid for, ‘three parties get the verdict before they get the evi- the work means that babies will die. dence. Operators have not had an opportunity to convince the public and the mings that good economics and a fair chance. The way lies through the pocketbooks “sound business principles govern present wage and of New Yorkers. Who will strike down the pleading | issue more of Industry? The inyestigation just completed might have been made in public. It was not. : Trouble over the verdict-will be an added argument | for experimenting, in the next great industrial dispute, with a public contest in open court. THE OTHER CAUSE. A ac is no graver present problem for the people of this city than the rent problem, Day by day it becomes more acute. Profiteering among landlords is rampant and shame- less. But rent profiteering would céase to-morrow— even without the deterrent action of new laws—if we could remove or modify two underlying causes. One of these causes is the unprecedented slackening of building enterprise due to war and the high cost of labor. The other is the increased demand, backed by newly acquired spending power of people who are determined at any cost to live where they prefer to live in New York City. These two causes combine as they never before combined to produce and multiply the rent profiteer. The first has been exhaustively discussed. The second is rarely mentioned. The fact remains that the increased numbers of per- sons who are ready to pay any price for housing in New York—and it often happens that nothing will satisfy them but to live in a certain section of New York—are directly responsible for a large part of the preposterous boosting of rents, Without them the rent “wae Wanine “War taxes in peace time amount fo o Pas ste Wor United States Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey says: pression. There is no dispute about the necessit; “We are bo Stge with a budget of $0 000,000,000 for Government expenditures, Obviously we cannot raise that sum from, the people unless we increase taxes or for lowering taxes.” “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 Senators from New Jersey are urging constructive legislation to reduce Government spending and lighten the taxpayers’ load. Taking the Cream! nt RE Baltigo, ork Breuing Work.) eer Seen emmaeeenter yi wee profiteer could not make even scarcity of houses serve his greed. With the present shortage of housing, the man who has to live in New York at a price he can afford owes the worst of his troubles to those in various classes who, having derived unwonted, unlooked-for benefits from war and inflation, are prepared to live in New York at any price they have at present in their pockets, When a grasping landlord doubles the rent, we too often see only him and his dismayed tenant. We do) not see the line of persons who are ready to move in| and pay the doubled rent—thanks to that illusion of | prosperity by which inflation has started the present rush of extravagant spending. It is with rents as with Commodity prices. The reck- lessness with which certain classes are living up to their increased incomes encourages and emboldens the profi- teer, Most of all is this true in this city, where height- ened spending power always concentrates with greatest force. as A limited part of the population scatters its war favors and keeps up high prices, while the bulk of the Nation toils on and wonders how long it can last. We need every law that will protect the tenant against the profiteering landlord. * But we need most of all a return of sanity among classes who are wasting a specious prosperity in ways that stimulate profiteering in rents as well as in prices of other necessities, And we need a return to faith in an honest day’s work at fair wages and the best workmanship the worker can put into the product. ‘That’s a kind of faith that will help start building and bring down rents. GIVE THE BABIES THEIR CHANCE. EPORTS from all over the country indicate a ris- ing birth rate this year, In New York sixteen babies are being born for every fifteen a year ago. : These figures come at an opportune time. The Ma- ternity Centre Association and the Henry Street Settle- ment, which supervises the work of the Visiting Nnrses, are engaged in raising funds to continue the work, The more babies the more need for maternity care. After all, a baby had far better never ‘be born than Yet the fundamental fact remains that the public! to die in infancy from neglect or ignorance. The birth _ has no first-hand information on which to base its rate is less important than the difference between the births and deaths. | Given scientific care of mothers and babies before and after the child is born, the death rate can be re- Babies’ lives can be Lack of the money to carry on | This has been demonstrated time and again. No ‘The miners have not had their day in court to pre- charity to-day is able to prove more conclusively the sent their side of the case in an open and convincing results of its work than the organized maternity | workers, Baby fingers yet unborn are reaching for help and Plenty of Heads td Hit. ‘To the Kditor of The Brening World: It certainly isn't the fatst of your Paper if profiteering is not checked, and I can’t help feeling gratified by the fact that at any rate one journal knows where to look tor the main of- fenders. However, you can hardly go astray. From factory to department store every head you may hit is guilty of profiteering. Never has morality among our manufacturers and distributers been 80 low, so greedy and grasping as now. ‘That sme condition extends to every trade, and among the property owning class it has reached the depth of criminality. ‘The delicatessen, grocer and bakery shops vie with the clothing, shoe and jewelry stores as to who can rob in the most judicious and thorough manner and yet pass as honest people. “It is all fair and square busin said my butcher, whose wife acqu a new $400 Hudson seal coat, high cost of lving.” “We must live and let live,” said my landlord, when he raised my rent from $28 to $55, and at the same time gave me Notice to move on May 1 “Yos,"" said the merchant tailor whom 'I paid $28 for my last suit in 1918, “the very cheapest I can make for you is $60, because you are an old customer.” He bought a $900 auto- mobile second hand and spent $200 for repairs and painting, Wherever you go to buy necessi- ties a profiteer is waiting for you, and the man who furnishes our very last necessity, the funeral, is one of the very worst specimens, But the clerk, the salesman, the teacher, the bookkeper and the thou- sand and one classes of employees must think themselves lucky if they get wages enough to worry along with their families and keep roofs over their heads. O TEPMPORA, O MORES, Brooklyn, March 9, 1920. Anti-Saloon and: Anti-Dry. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: this | hands? Who will condemn babies to death instead of | im F It would be bard to find a bigger ass than EB. J. A. has made of himself. I would advise him not to read The Evening World; then he would not {get irritated, for constant irritation te dad ore ewoet dispoai- tion, He evidently does not know the meaning of personal liberty, for in! Russia they are taking away every vestige of it, not giving it, as he as- serts. The great mass of the people | did not want Prohibition; they were Rot consulted, but they did want the suloons to gv. 3. Beverly Road, March 10, 1 Alienints Wirst. \ To the Editor of The Evening Warld | ‘The New York Assembly is soon to | make an investigation of Mr. Ander- son and his methods, Would it not be a good plan to have a preliminary examination by a board of alienists? | Something seems to be wrong with his head. A TERTOTALER, Solidity in Americanism, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Nothing has appeared in any news- paper since the official announce- ment of the armistice that has given me such general satisfaction as have the letters written to The Evening World ‘by the foreign-born Ameri- cans. I have made reading nightly. N tion could be min ing the hand of every writer of these al proclamations, The publication these letters will leave “footprints on the sands of time” that will do much to encourage contentment with tho, laws, and with the people of this land of ours—this haven of oppor- tunity that is open to the oppressed and the ambitious of all nations, ‘The Americanism expressed in these let- ters has, no doubt, already done much to cause deep reflection in the minds of thousands of foreign and native- born readers. The indorsements of America andsits institutions have, be- yond doubt, caused many a man who was “thinking red’ alone to change his thoughts to the whole three col- ors of America’s emblem, ‘These let- ters—each a prize letter in itselt— should keep on bearing fruit. ‘They will, It would seem to me that their very writing might serve as a foundation for the greatest spread of American- ism among the foreign-born that could be possibly launched. I suggest that an,“All-American” love feast be held at some early date at Madison Square Garden, and that platform honors be wiven these writers and their families, Let a rowing patriotic at of clasp- programme pregede an organization ting. Let the letter-writers be 2 ee el UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (opyriyut, 1920.) FORGET THE CLOCK IN WORKING HOURS. A little -boy who was in his first term in school was asked by his parents what he did after he went to sclivol in the morning. “Oh,” he said, ‘I wait for it to get out.” We needn't go into the matter of the dull teacher who made school dull for this child. We simply take his story as the text for this article. For perhaps seventy-five per cent. of offiee employees are more busily engaged in waiting to get out than in doing their work. Time passes slowly for the man or woman who works with one eye on the clock, Time always passes slowly when it is not made interesting by close attention to the job on hand. And if the job on hand is not made interesting, it is of no value, for only those people grow who know how to get interested in what they are doing. People learn more, develop faster, and broaden more rapidly in business hours than at any other time. Outside reading, outside work, self-education outside is useful and helpful, but it is in working at the job, thinking about it, devising ways and means to do more work, that men make the real race for success. Whatever your business, there is something of interest about it. There is absolutely nothing that is done, in this world that cannot be done better, Of two street sweepers, one will be the more efficient, and will in time be better paid. Work plas thought aly counts, If you work to get the work over—with your mind out: side the office,—you can be sure that in ten or twenty years you will still be watching that dragging hour-hand, Lose yourself in your job, and you will forget the clock. And until you forget the clock opportunity will forget you, and better made charter members of the ongan-the good of the faithful foreign-born who stands iby his adopted colors, In ization, Organize for SOLIDITY— foreign-born solidity—in American- ism. Let these writers be the organ- jaers, the officers, the speakers, What | a glorious foundation! The ranks would swell amazingly and immedi- ately. ‘We have too many near-American and near-Bolsheviki organizations for the good of our country and for j 4 union there is strength. and their families as members? would surely for greatest possible good, A Have { a second to my motion? New York, March 10, 1920, ‘ EDWARD M. ROBDRTS. New York Taxpayers Carry Nearly Fifty Per Cent. of Federal Tax Burdens RRA AAA AAA ALAA AAPA AAAAAADAAG © So, why not have this organization of 100 per cent. Americans with only the foreign-born It prove an organization What About Senators William M. Calder and James W. Wadsworth J r. of New York? TheLove tories of Great Novels — By — Albert Payson Terhuné ‘ sos by The Press No. 56—CALLED BACK, By Hugh Conway. ILBERT, a romantic young Eing- lishman, lost his sight as the result of a mishap, and faged the possibility of going throught fhe rest of his days stone blind, So he did all in his power to traim himself for his future life of dadk- ness. For example, he enabled himself to take an evening walk through the London streets by counting his foots steps and remembering the nuwper of paces and of turnings need: the distance he had chosen for pia stroll. In this way, he had no trouble in going out alone, taking a long Mall. and returning ip safety to his hone, But one night as he was turning ‘ack from his ramble he was jostled iby passersby and lost his predlss sense of direction. He asked do obliging wayfarer to guide him to the corner of the street on which he lived. The wayfarer mistook the name of the street, and left Gilbert onjphe corner of another thoroughfare vet some distance ‘from his destinaten Gilbert, believing he was on™ the right street, counted his paces as usual, and at last stopped in front lot fa house. Climbing the stops, ny himself in with his latehkey;"> door's lock being of ah old-fashipned pattern common to many Logdpn houses of the period. ay way toward the rear room onJthe first floor, he heard angry véiées, speaking in a foreign lang#ieire. Then came the sound of a blow‘éind of a groan and a heavily falling body. A woman screamed loudly, in horrbr, ‘Then, unseen hands dragged Gil- bert forward. Lo felt himself in- spected keenly and heard some one whisper that he was blind. A cloth wus pressed over his nostrils. When he came to himself he, tying in the street and a polican was taking him in charge for drgnk- jenness. Nor could all his effort en- able him to locate the house thawhad been the scone of his midnighttad- wenture. ’ A year or so later an ‘operdtion was performed which restored Gil- bert’s sight. He went on the cdénti- nent for a brief tour to celebraté his recovery. ‘There, at a hotel! he chanced to meet a gloriously jHlalian named Cenert, and with! t ters companion, jtul~ [ian who © Gilbert f Vauline a younger » asked! her Ss surprise, e match on condition should occur at onee Pauline Were marriea, Not until after the ceremony did Gils |bert discover that his bride's mind |was a blank, Her memory had gone She had the intelligence only of @ Little child By dint of many inquiries Gilbert learned she id lost her mind as | the It of shock, and that the Itragedy hud occurred in London, Bit by bit he gleaned information thas jtook him to a deserted house in thas city, He and Pauline entered the house hand jn hand. The contact with her ind caused Gilbert to behold @ tteles pathic vision enacted in front of him, as gceing enacted the drama his blindness had withheld from him om his former chance visit to the house He saw Macarj stab to death Paule inc's brother, Anthony, before Cenert could interfer He’ saw Pauline swoon at the sight. Me saw himselé Jurth inte the room. This second shock ine's vanished mind | Through her Gilbert cari's quarrel with her |murder and of Cenert' of the ter, Pauline's heart also awoke amd gave itself wholly and gladly to the mam urried her, who had German Artificlal Wool, According to T'Erportateur Relge,there is considcrable inter- est in Germany in a patent re cently taken out on a process for the manufacture of artificial wool, In principle the process consists of compressing wool scraps whitch cannot be otherwise utilized— shreds, ends, short fibers, wash- ing wastes, ¢—and soaking them in a viscous solution of cellulose or one of its compounds with a small percentage of glues the product thus obtained is cut into thin sheets and strips, which can be treated after the manner of paper yarn, The Germane claim that the yarn thus obtain possesses all the properties real wool, 7 i To his amazument, as he groped-Als , | titul woman, Pauline Mareh, who = iin with her uncle, an elderly ) ] \ 4 1 ———