The evening world. Newspaper, March 13, 1920, Page 10

te ee 2 Gi tte eee PULITZER. Beamiy by the Press ene i Clayton laws. Francisco, the “mest of his o ® ce Fee “ a them at a big profit. ‘That is the rub. A PATH T@POPULARITY. TTORNEY GENERAL PALMER promises the country that his failure in the Steel Trust case i not prevent other prosecutions under the Sherman this is a part of his campaign for the nomination ttorney General is not making unities, Vigorous prosecution 'the profiteers in sugar, leather, wool, cotton, linen, | ‘would be a truly popular activity. ett, Peabody & Co. is a bright and shining mark The Evening World has set up for the Attorney ; ‘ | to shoot at. If he is looking for votes, there Nave more voters who wear the white-collar yoke than | age interested in the price of domestic steel rails. Whe 30-Cent Yoke is no joke, Mr. Palmer. THE WORST TYPE. 5 OBERT EF. DOWLING of the City Investing |, Company, a large real estate concern, has some sting thoughts on real estate profiteering. Sn — rk Row, New ¥. He | in the current. be led astray by rainbow-chasers, Of course, we all know in our minds just ‘who the profiteers are, but we can’t name - them because it is hard to prove. They are that class of real estate dealers who"buy rentable houses and apartments for the sole purpose of running the rents up and then disposing of A dealer invests $10,000 in an ty on a building paying fair return on a $50,000 er propert ks they mi be made. ER _ obe fear of law. ch Mr. Dowling describes. and unjustified, a a i ek aac von nae deeniiee inatamEp A NEW DEPARTURE. ‘ A LOCAL union ifBrooklyn has resorted to the ge of the injunction to restrain its own district fficers from calling a strike which the local considers am This is, indeed, a novel variation in “government by ) elnjunction.” It is comparable to the restraining order 3° which permits minority stockholders to protect their It is a most encouraging symptom of the steooler and more considered judgment which is again eemaking itself felt in labor circles, ,,, Looking back, it seems that the Seattle strike ‘marked the high tide in labor radicalism in the United States. Since then theedrift has been in the other ; Ole Hanson did not break the Seattle strike, The © Rood sense of the more moderate union member did. on ‘2 ped in the Nation,-extremists “boring from d gained temporary control of the unions.| That hole can only be filled by one means: more conservative members had been too] Hardy 100 per cent, work. He jacks up rents until the income would cate a valuation of $100,000. Then he sells the “at a bargain” for as much more than $50,000 possible, He pockets the difference andlooks for in which rents are not so high as he “Knowing in our minds” who the profiteers are is |S genet helpful. Proving it in court, with a penalty at- ‘The gougers do not care for public opinion. They no shame. The only effective influence would New York needs a law to prevent the speculation In many instances it d be a simple matter to prove in court the precise which Mr. Dowling condemns. Almibst any restriction in time or amount of rent jamises would serve to put a brake on the speculator. TWO KELLYS. HAT is a proper allowance for the living ex- penses of a fifteen-year-old boy? Robert J. Kelly needs $625 a month, his mother be- Cohalan is in doubt and defers to a 4 feene J. Kelly is the grandson of Eugene Kelly, "4 {be millionaire banker, who died in 1894. “At is quite true that living costs have advanced since he “thirties” of the last century, when Bugene Kelly d in America, but an obituary of this remarkable can banker published’ at the time of his death “gffords an interesting comparison with the question ‘ aoe 0 now perplexes the court. When Eugene Kelly of County Tyrone landed in he is said to have been possessed of “a village pl education, sixteen shillings and the clothing he ” He was twenty-six years of age and went to fk in a dry-goods store at a weekly wage of $8. " He later set up in business for himself in Kentucky, in 1850 he followed the trail of the “Forty-niners” California and in the rough-and-ready life of the _*ffontier founded the fortune which made him one of “Phe outstanding self-made men of America, an inspira- ‘ ambitious Irish lads intent on seeking their se MMhe allowance which Mrs. Kelly asks to provide and amusements for Robert is larger than the ther’s monthly salary when fhe was twenty-six old. The monthly allowance for Robert's ” and governess is nearly as much as his ther earned in his first year in America. Which is better for a boy, the experiences of Grand- ugene or Grandson Robert? one of the assurances required: That laboring men engaged in THE busy helping to win the war to pay much attention to union politics, The vocal drift was all toward ex- | tremism. Many of the extremists gained office” We | heard much of “Plumb plans,” general strikes, &c. Then came the Seattle strike to waken the inactive, Since that time the drift has been the other way. | Extremists already in control of coal and steel con- trived to carry on and cause inconvenience. But the resignation of Foster after his strike failed was a chip It has taken time to eliminate radical officers, but the manifestations of extremism have be- come progressively less violent. The more conserva- tive elements are getting back in power. The extremists make a thunderous noise. The mod- erates have the votes. This is the way in which the | recent vote against “direct action” in England must be interpreted. The same applies here. This is not to say that far-reaching demands will not be made. Some will be wise and some unwise, some just and some unjustifiable; but it is safe to as- /sume that, given time and fair treatment, the Ameri- can unionists will show good judgment and refuse to 100 PER CENT. WORK. ISCUSSING his plan to call together labor lead- ers, builders and financiers with a view to start- ing a building programme that shall bring relief to 'rent-oppressed New Work, Mayor Hylan mentioned as the building trades shall agree to a fixed wage for d stated period—say one year or eighteen months—and that in that period they will agree to do 100 per cent. work, Need of such assurance is not imaginary, One of the reasons for present discouragement of building enterprise is the lowered quantity and quality of work with which contractors are forced to reckon. Not only is it impossible to foresee how many times wages must be raised before a given job is finished, but there is no guarantee as to the standard of work- manship that will go into it. In more than one case of late buiklings have been so wretchedly put’together that banks have refused to loan money on the value such structures were supposed to represent. Real estate men have advised personal friends to postpone private plans for building or repairs until more conscientious workmanship can be counted on. A contractor in this city is authority for the figures in the following comparison: In 1914 a bricklayer’s wages were $5.70 per day, and he laid between 1,700 and'2,000 bricks. In 1920 a bricklayer gets $10 a day and lays from 700 to 800 bricks. What encouragement is there here for capital to enter new building ventures, when it is also uncertain how many days a’ week, at present wages, a bricklayer will choose to work? But it is not jp,the building trades alone that these conditions prevail. From all sides are heard complaints that high prices afid high wages are not resulting in more and better products, but the contrary. In every direction we come up against the pernicious notion that the war has somehow made it possible for everybody to produce less and We Paid more without altering the prospects of prosperity. There is a vague theory that the new regime of more leisure and higher pay can come from a fairer division of profits. Where are the profits coming from if the total of production steadily diminishes and there become fewer and fewer people whose purchasing pace with prices? Power can keep What good will $10 or $15 or $20 a day be to the bricklayer, when the very stagnation to which his own demands and lessened production have contributed re- sults in such a shortage of housing that half his high wages must go for rent? Elementary truths, if you like. sums in their pay envelopes, Money is only a counter, When general prosperity, things that are wealth. Whether it is the Npuses, clothing and food that peo- ple must ‘have or the automobiles, silks and jewelry that people would like to have, there is no way to keep the prices of these things within reach save by produc- ing them in ever-increasing quantities, Supply, not demand, is what brings down prices. And supply can only be kept up by work that aims to produce as much, not as little, as it can, They are truths which millions of people have lost sight of during and since the war in the excitement of fingering the larger there is more of it in circulation, as at present, wages and_prices both’ rise. Some people are more favored than others by the circumstances which produce the change, and upon their enlarged spending power is built the illusion of Currency cannot create wealth. It cannot make up for one week’s slackening in the production of the Least of all can it cover the terrible hole four years of war have made in the wealth of the world. EVENING wonad, PLATFORM: Bigotry, Bullying, Blackguardism. FOR GOVERNOR: _— FROM EVENING WORLD READERS A Poison Pen Man. ‘To the Dattor of Toe Evening World: As a Roman Catholic, I, emphatic- ally protest against the dirty mud slinging tactics used by that so-called reformer, W. H. Anderson, His open letter accusing Catholics of indis- criminately opposing Prohibition, of working against law and order, and of attempting to nullify the High- teenth Amendment is the handiwork of a dirty cur who, with a poisonous pen, seeks to interject religion into the Prohibition question. The Catholic Church has for nineteen centuries stood the assaults of religious bigots and stands y a strong a monu- is to ite founder, Christ, ag it will stand in centuries to come when W. H. Anderson, the rest of his fanatical crowd and Prohibition are as deqd as the iret inhabitant of this giobe. W. H. Anderson had petter beware lest he arouses the ire of millions of Cath- olics in these United States, who are as willing to fight and face death for thetr religion as they are to fight and (face death for their country | ‘clauses in their leases that practically | made it obligatory for tenants to Move in the event of the birth of a child. No doubt Mr. Engel and others Will be interested in knowing that State Senator Jeremiah Twomey, | representing the Greenpoint district | in Albany, recently introduced a bill | which, If passed, will mean a slam at | the landlords who refuse to rent flats | to people with children. ‘The bill would provide that refusal to rent an apartment to a family with chile dren under fourteen years of age Shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $100, and further provid- lease shal contain any clause that voids it by reason of the | birth of a child. That ought to fix! them! WALTER E. MEINZER. | 38 Onkdand St., Brooklyn, March 11, | ‘The Larger Iaeue. To the Editar of The Evening World; Your editorial in reply to Mr. Wat- gon is certainly to tke point. Many | would naturally oppose the Socialists. THOMAS FOLEY. New York, May 12, 1920. “Another Wallop’ Anderson, ‘To the wDiitor of The Oprentng Wort It has always been the policy of the fanatic to fan the flame of ignorant bigotry, as the conduct of Anderson shows when he attacked the Catholic Church or some Catholics, The Catholic Church is the noblest institution in ihe world. It yields to none tn its heroic martyrs, mission- aries and priests, who fearlesly face death, whether at the hand of the savage or the blast of pestilence. It yields to none in what it has done for the cause of ion or in the sac- rifices it has made to enlighten and guide aright the rising generation. On their past they can iook back with honest pride, with no rancor for ‘wrongs recetved, claiming only equal rights and enxtous to do all for the Greatest, best and noblest interest of our glorious ntry. How long will it remain or free with im- pedimante beading leagues or anti leagues as the man be} signs, “Yours for Another beer A CATHOLIC, New York, March 12, 1920, Babies in Apartments, ‘To the Biitor of The Evening World : But high-handed reactionaries like Czar Sweet force them to take sides with the “ousted” Assemblymen, as The World hag done so valiantly for the past sixty’ days. Not that The World has become imbued with the tenets of Govialiam, but that of a larger cause, and one that every one should enthuse over, You show @ spirit of fair play, This Government is representative, ostensibly at least. The New York Legislature appears to have tittle else than the ostentation, ald contents itself with flim-flamming the public. ( If the Legislature has nothing to do excapt to make martyrs of the Social- iste and thereby create more Social- ists, the Speaker could just gs easily have proclaimed that there was just one evil—viz. ithe five “Wistoyal” As- semblymen—and in order to forestall these five traitors from taking their seats he could have disbanded the As- sembly 60 that members could have gone back home, saved the taxpayers’ money and so squelched the Red Ter- ror in #ts inception. The. Legislature should do something for the Americah people ¢ awide from questioning the mo- tives of other Aesemblymen who were also hago by Amorican citizens, wae continue UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920.) cada PAY ATTENTION AND YOU WON’T FORGET. A young woman whose experience is common to thou- sands of beginners in business writes: “How can I correct a very bad fault, which is forgetfulness? For instance, if I am told to do @ cer- tain thing and something new comes up, the instrauc- tion which I was told to carry out first is forgotten, and often I think about it whan it is too late.” The difficulty with this young woman is not forget- fulness, but inattention, Nothing that does not make a fairly strong impression on the mind will be retained by it. A new matter comes up and writes a new fmpreéssion on the brain, blotting out the feeble impression of the thing that preceded it. You can cure yourself of forgetfulness by thinking, and thinking hard, as you receive instructions. As soon as they are received, plan how to carry them out. Dwell on them in your mind. Consider them in all their details. Often it will help you to write them down, The mere act f writing them will assist you in fixing them in your mind, The brain never absorbs any information on the in- stant. If it did, education, instead of being slow and pain- ful, would be easy and pleasant. And it would not be neces- sary to drill children in the multiplication table. The brain that remembers is the brain that really hears and sees. It is not satisfied with a first impression. It makes for itself a second and a better impression, and one that will last. It may cheer this young woman to know that memory is a very tricky and treacherous faculty, and seldom to be trusted implicitly. The biggest men of business usually keep pads on their desk on which to write engagements, or subjects they mean to take up later. This leaves their minds free for real thought about the business of the day. Your memory must be trained as you would train a child, Help it at first with written memoranda, which you must keep where you can readily refer to them, Think and think hard while you are receiving instruc- tions, Repeat the words to yourself, More important still, begin to plan how you will carry the instructions out. The planning will make the instructions sink in, and you will find your memory improving as each day passes, Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Oa, (The New York Bvening Work) Sea Chanties in Fiction - ~~ ‘ The chief delight of good sea-gotng mates and skippers is to sit beneath the cabin lamp arf dissect a popular Magazine sea story, sentence by een- tence, ‘finding every weakness amd flaw in the narrative. They find many, too, for apparently a lange per- centage of the writers of the hardy annuaj sea story have confined ¢heir nautical adventures to an Iron Steamboat trip to Coney Island, Donn Byrne, however, in “The Strangers Banquet,” gives us some sea chanties that have the deep water ring, and ; have all been sung beyond the Ove fathom curve. One has a pertinent sadness at the present moment: “Oh, whisky killed my sister Sua, bi Whisky, Johnny. And whisky killed the old peta Whisky for my Johnny. Whisky’s gone, what i Ido? . i vce Johnny. » Whisky’s gone and I'l; g0,, ton, | oe alike for my Johnny.” i eee Many Vanities --- “A woman's Meal of a photographie * beauty,” says Gotthelf Pach, New York photographer since Civil Was days, in the March American Mages zine. “A man’s ideal is individuality, If a woman's hand or foot is a trifla too large for symmetry it must be placed in the background, or shaded so the whole figure will express sym- metry and grace. More retouching has to be done later. “Don't smooth out those wrinkiea* a@ man will say of his picture. ‘It toom took me.fifty years to get them.’ “Which attitude indicates the greater vanity? Well, a man as a rule wants to be taken as he is; we may be justi. fied, therefore, in assuming that he t= pretty well satisfied with himself. A woman, on the other hand, wants her picture to conform to some ideal.’ I leave you to decide.” ae A Man “Analyzes” Woman --- Edmund—“You Ocnow very well | what I mean »« 4» selling your femininity.” Emmeline (angrily)—“Selling?” Edmund—"For flowers, theatre tickets, suppers, dinners . . . no... I don't blame woman ta general . - . she has done what she was forced to do. a race § of tricksters and traders... who want us to give you the privie leges of the weak and the rights of the strong. .., The woman who was frankly a clinging vine was far more honest... . She thanked God if the man who bought her was decent to her. Emmeline — “Decent? You've never been decent to us.» Now you magnificent men want to play | fair, as you call it, for the first time in history. And you wonder why women can’t chuck up at once the experience of ages. ... We've still got to fight every inch of the way. With the only weapons that your superior strength has not been able to wrench from us. Trickery and sex? What taught us to use them? . . . Now we make you compete for us, when we're lucky enough to be attractive to you.” Who are the speakers? They are Em and Ak, the woman slave and her master in the prehistoric opening scene of “The Craft of the Tortoise” by Algernon Tassin, but by the time Act 4 and the above scene are reached they have become reincarm nate as Emmeline Archer and Ed~ mund Atkinson, The play traces the development of woman through the ages, and attempts to prove that woman's inherent guile was devel oped to combat man's inherent bra- tality. That is about all there ts te the volume, It is good reading and amusing. It proves nothing. s 9-6 The Old-Fashione@ Thriller --« Witt the motion picture industry roducing mile upon mile of celtnotd thrillers, one would suppose that the Public demand for this material might be sated. But while the mow tion picture has killed the spoken melodrama, and “Chinatown Charlie” no longer walks the boards, the mar- ket for the melodramatic and color- ful novel seems brisk and enduring. Such a novel is Harold McGrath's recent contribution, phoon.” Thrills are, here aplenty, They called her “The Yellow Ty- phoon,” this strangely beautiful woman of the Orient, (his inter- national plotter known in every port from Hongkong to Manila. Of out- ward innocence and demure charm, she had wrecked the lives of many men. The story concerns one of her victims, a young officer of the navy, who during the war period is in- trusted with important despatches to carry from Manila to Washington, “The Yellow Typhoon,” agent of a foreign Government, plots to steal “the papers.” She féllows lim in a mad chase across the Pacific, and finally secures “the papers” in, a Pullman car en route through the Rockies. But it all turns out nicely in the end, and although Mathison, the hero, is somewhat of a dub, and although “Phe Yellow Typhoon" is a most impossible feminine person whe never existed outside of a vivid tm- agination, the story is a pleasant and interesting one. And, anyway, the book is very well bound in attractive bin Mand gold. Poe “The Yellow 'Tys ee