The evening world. Newspaper, March 17, 1920, Page 26

PSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. lished Daily Except Sunday by the Press Pobiishing , ine Company, Non. 88.10 88 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULATWER, President, 63 Park Rew, |". ANGUS BIEAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. SOSEPH PULITEBR, Jr, Secretary, 68 Park Row,\ , MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, ‘The Associated Press te exclusively entitled to the use for news mo the “i ‘Bews published bereta. THE SHOEMAKER TURNS. T ZABERN in December, 1913, a Prussian Junker brutally sabred a lame civilian shoe- maker, Imperial support of the army attitude of ap- proval caused intense indignatién.” But in the end the army had rather the best of the argument. The Prus- sympathy of the army, including the Crown Prince. i The injured shoemaer got small satisfaction in court. : The echoes of the incident reverberated until drowned is in the crash of World War. Be Even after Zabern' the Junker officers were the ; cocks of the walk. Civiliaris, whether lame shoe- ‘makers or healthy farmers, were wise {to scuttle to cover when an officer approached. The apparent failure of last week's Junker counter- revolution is, perhaps, the most encouraging symptom which Germany has shown since Zabern, The shoe- *maker struck back and pushed the Junker into the gutter, Ebert, the saddler, countered the Junker sabre stroke with the tradesman’s awl and the awl prevailed. Germany has a long path to travel before it can regain the trust of other nations. But the triumph of ) the awl over the sabre is a step in the right direction. “SOAP” IN THE CAMPAIGN. VORY SOAP and the Wood Presidential boom have an intimate relationship. Col. Procter, who popu- larized 99 and 44-100ths as a symbol of purity, is the General's chief aide-de<camp. This coincidence makes apropos a story of the cam- paign of 1880, in which “soap” figured prominently. Senator Johnson, who charges that Gen. Wood’s sources,” might well recall this bit of polifical history. Chester A. Arthur, Vice President-elect, attended a banquet in honor of S. W. Dorsey in New York City. The following is from a report of his speech at the dinner: ‘ Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It had always been put down in the book as a State that might be carried by close and careful and perfect organization, and a great deal of—(here the speaker paused a mo- ment while somebody interjected “soap.” Laugh- ter.] I see the reporters are here and, there- fore, I will simply say that everybody showed & great deal of interest in the occasion and dis- tributed’ tracts and political documents all through country. [Laughter.} The gent in New York who stood at the back of the National Committee responded so liberally to the demands of thé committee that Mr. Dorsey, with his matchless skill, cool head and wonderful courage, was able to save not merely Indiana, and through it the State of New York, but the Nation. | Some years later Mr. Dorsey admitted lavish use | of money in the purchase of Indiana, The waggish ‘interjection in the Arthur speech became current po- litical slang for the use of “wealth and power and finan- cial resources’ in political campaigns. Political morality has risen to a higher level than in 1880. The country would like to know more in regarti to the Johnson ‘charges. If the soap man is using “soap” to “save the Na- tion” for his protege, it will be no recommendation next November. | Commissioner Hirshfield undoubtedly would be more reconciled to conditions in Bronx Park if Director Hornaday had shown more enthu- siasm in collecting Tigers. COOKS RANK WITH PROFESSORS. HAT rare flower, the perfect domestic servant, is T coming into her own in theory as well as in fact. Perhaps the theory is merely the recognition of the fact. In witness whereof we find that Immigration Com- missioner Uhi has investigated the status of the in- coming domestic servant and finds that she is free from contract labor prohibitions because she is listed in the category which includes “actors, artists, lecturers, 9 theologians and persons belonging to any learned pro- i tession.” So be it. We have long suspected as much, The servant girl has not only come into her own, but if she insists she has power to take over almost anything which her employer may possess or acquire. She has become wise and learned beyond her generation, Rut seriously, the fact that servants may come to America under contract suggests an entirely reason- able method of recruiting labor that is in great de- and. Housewives’ leagues might easily send an emissary abroad to hire maids and cooks among the ambitious young women of the war-stricken countries who might be willing to work for a definite period to #epay money advanced for passage, and who other- wise could not come. There is no doubt that many girls who feel that they have small opportunity to marry and set up a home in Europe would be glad to come to America at reasonable pay, learn American ways in American homes, and eventually marry. Europe has a clear surplus of able-bodied young maids and widows who cannot hope for good fortune or husbands at home. America certainly has a place for domestics. With : safeguards over such contracts there seems every reason to favor such an importation, repabiieation Groaned to tt or not otherwise credited in thie paper .sian lieutenant was imprisoned, but he had the hearty | backers have “wealth and power and financial re-| ‘in the act of Congress and backed by the Anti-Saloon THE CHANGE. Y election of a hare majority of Congress, the Volstead Act can be s9 modified as to allow the legal sale of beer and wines containing what- ever percentage of alcohol Congress may define as *non-intoxicating. This statement is not brewers’ propaganda, It was made yesterday by no less an authority than the Rev. Dr, Scanlon, General Secretary of the Presby- |terian Board of Temperance and one of the committee of nineteen that framed the Prohibition Amendment. Dr. Scanlon’s admission discloses no truth hitherto concealed. He intended it as a warning to Prohibi- { | tionists that their triumpi is not yet secure, i But ‘the fact that a leader of the Prohibition forces is driven to emphasize this part of the truth as a means ‘of putting new zeal into his followers is significant proof that the Prohibitionists themselves recognize the | change in the popular attitude toward the Prohibition Oo ; sue. ' { | That attitude, in an ever increasing number of com-| | munities, is no longer bewildered or apathetic. It is) !no longer shamefaced. It no longer fears to associate | itself by implication with the saloon and the lawless \ policies of the liquor interests, Because a limited experience suggested to them no way of accomplishing a much needed clean-up of the} ‘saloon other than by giving the Anti-Saloon League a free hand, millions of Americans remained doubtful | | but silent while their legislators were bullied into carry- lie out the orders of a power-seeking body of fanatics. These Americans, however, neither foresaw sanctioned the extremes to which Prohibition tyranny ‘stretched its programme. When they awoke to what ‘was happening it was too late, Even the Eighteenth Amendment itself was not the worst blow to American love of liberty and fair play. The final outrage of honesty and common sense came with the passage of the Volstead Act in which | Congress, at the bidding of the Anti-Saloon League, | set up an utterly dishonest definition of intoxicating liquors. Last month the Anti-Saloon League's general coun- sel, Wayne B, Wheeler, at a hearing before a Judiciary Conwnittee of the New Jersey Senate and Assembly, was forced to admit: That beverages containing one-half of one per cent. of alcohol are not intoxicating; That the definition of intoxicating liquors contained nor | League is false and, instead df prohibiting beverages that are intoxicating, prohibit sthose which are non- intoxicating. ; Against ‘the dishonesty of the Volstead Act, the Legislature of New Jersey protested by the most posi- tive method at its command. A movement for legi lation permitting the sale of beer ex wines is daily gathering strength in New York. No wonder Dr. Scanlon warns Prohibitionists that enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment depends upon “the election of a bare majority of Congress.” Apart from tests of the validity of the amendment itself, the lying nature of its present enforcement is already getting on the national nerves, The country does not want the saloons back. But more and more Americans—voting Americans —are becoming disgusted with Congressmen who Jump wine and beer with distilled liquors and who take all definitions ready-made from Anti-Saloon Leagt@e autocrats, WHY NOT BE HONEST? PPOSITION to a Pure Shoe bill is silly or worse. Aky one who can read knows that substitutes for leather are used in making shoes. Some finms manufacturing substitutes have spent thousands of dollars in advertising their wares as better and more durable than leather, Honest shoe dealers have nothing to fear and much to gain from such a law. Dishonest dealers and manu- facturers deserve no consideration, An opponent of legislation which seeks to prevent deception, dishonesty and fraud in business transac- tions lays himself open to suspicion, ROMANCE AND CRIME, (From the Toledo Blade.) Our romantic attitude toward crime is responsible to a large extent for our failure to curb the lawless and more effectively prevent vice from attracting followers, We like our crime served interestingly. We are pleased to endow our highwaymen and. bigamists with heroic qualities. We like to think that our thieves are superhuman in they cleverness and that our murder- ers are such impeccable cut-throats that admiration Is due their very villainy. A bungled robbery or a clumsy murder wearies us. Wholesale thievery or marriage excites us, a killing that is cunningly atrocious en- thuses us and we call them superburglars, Bluebeards and modern Borglas. Common as is the tendency to eXaggerate the roman- tleism of crime it is astounding to discover that the same weakness is displayed in official circles, where the tracking and punishment of evildoers ought to be pursued with business-like common sense. A New York Grand Jury has been in session many weeks in- vestigating municipal affairs and during that time those in charge have given out statements that the fury was on the track of an “overshadowing crime” and was about to unmask and confound q “master trickster,” Such whimsical pursuit of an illusion is laughable, If New York is in the grip of a “master trickster” he is clever enough t@ avoid any snares spread for him by a Grand Jury so palpably lightheaded, abt «€ THE EVENING WORLD, WED { | } | | | NESDAY, MAROH 17, 1920.! Committee on FOREIGN REL ations 2 ‘Coprrigtit, 1020, bw The Brews Pnibliduing Co, The Now York Evening World.) wernt Ra SOR ‘The Yoke No Joke, ‘To the Extitor af ‘Tne Kveving World Bully for you! Your edit tided “A Path to Popularity tainly to the point chased a‘ it no joke, relieve a Yesterday | pur- and found Your editorial helped to enunoent against Messrs. Cluett, Peabody & Co. Why not advovate a return to the wearing of stocks which our wives, sisters or sWeetheurts could make for us?, If a sufficient number of men would tak: Up this © which can be iaundered at home, tty Peabody & Co., as well as the laundry gougers, might see the folly of vheir ways and mend them, Keep up the sloga| 2DWARD MACKAY, + J., March 13, 1920. Coytesvitile, A Collar Strike? To the Ealitar of The Bening World My sincere congratulations on your splendid editorials in The fvening World of March 12. Each and every one of them cover the I situa- tions in such a forceful manner! ~Referring particularly to Cluett, Peabody & Co. whose product | deteriorated and the price more than doubled, if our “public” officials can- not, or will not, do anything to rem- edy conditions. that The y campaign against the use of white rs, Sueh 4s you carried on when 8) 1d et al went on a rampage not long ago. I am quite sure that a boycott’ of that Kind should receive a hearty welcome and warm support Keep up the good work until we get some of the rats cornered! HDWARD J. WARD. reet, Brooklyn, March No. 12, -_ 446 40th 1920. To the Editor 0 Possibiy the suit a night let boys to telegrams Philadelphia, ¢ Presidenti Union jper taking the uilty of words night letters” too literally, and did nat mean to obtain pretenses ‘for sending “t “any more than it means few millions of dollars’ pen- r violating the United St pH. BERKE money under The Collar Trast, ‘To the Haitor of The Kvaning Werjd In my opinion your editorial! about the collar “trust” hits the nail righ upon the head, and foretbly, You have the right idea, Just stick to it and I'M \bet that in time the public will begin to awaken, It is shameful that any pne should have to complain about the price of this, that and the other thin! Our poon profiteers most surely do understand ‘the needs of the common Attorney | March 18, | | People. They are dothg their “best” 8 to an unbelievable extent a it So conclusively that they ning to ibelieve that the is very inconsiderate of them you imagine the amount of sympathy 1 have fe hounded, pouncing | jand needful enilemen of vast ue} mulating profits? We ure getting so | astomed to the many shameless ctions of these gentlemen that Iam beginning to believe that we would be | insulted should they discontinue their everyday vulturing, What caused, that uncalied-for era of extreme profiteering? Who is re sponsible for thelr preposterous ac- tions? Who should suffer for the un- told hardships that the many sel P| | sands of poor people are undergoing? ' ‘Me above questions can be easily | answered by any normal person of | average intellect and understanding. | Many people have offered advice upon that subject. They realize the ne- cessity of doing samething to preyent | an inevitable thunder, yet they persist in offering ‘uncertain advice. My | honest opinion is that were the! elected officials to employ that power, } given to them by the various laws of | city, State and country, effectively and unquestioned, then that day | would soon appear when no ‘person | would be able to take undue advan- | tage over another financially without | being held personally responsible for [his act But until that day ‘knows? BENJAMIN BAUMAN {1129 ‘Tint Bronx, March 16. ar | n Ave. © ‘Three Policy Platform, | To the Raitor of ‘The Evening World | It is with great interest that 1 |read your wonderful boosts given to Anderson, 1 think them excellent, I'm re a man like him would make a ne example as a Governor of New York State, I wonder if he ever ops to think | for @ moment what the e think | Jor him. Mis three-policy platform | would ainly down him in a tea- spoonful of whiskey Wishing him success, I am | , Brooklyn, March 13 © Vietory Hn ne Editor of Thi With a v reason for the pro- ment purposes may your medium the ed from the penditure Hall in Ne t posed for imp nquire throfgh 1 benefit to be der $15,000,000 for a Victory York City? ervice man, T have Although an ex- jtated the outlay of $%,000,000,000 bolus to the A. E. F., because U feel that this is not the time to increase the taxation }burden by additional bond issue: | Every slight tax increase is an in S| tion to the Association of Land- n additional $5 or $10 to the rent question, If we can afford to dedica block in the heart of New with $15,000,000 to boot for such pur- poses a8 tournaments, festivals, pub: lie functions, &c,, 1s it not } time thaf some influential body demand an | accounting of all idle property, bovh | city-owned and otherwise, and devel- lop an idea to erect dwellings | thereon? At the present rent levels, New York City could realize enough from the profits on an‘ investment this kind to materially influence | ro UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920.) MAKE YOUR PLAN AND STICK TO IT, You would think very little of a general who led his troops into action without any plan of campaign. You would have small respect for a builder who began the erection of any sort of structure without any. plans to guide him. Yet you, if you are like more than 75 per Gent. of young men and women, begin your lives—to you the most import ant lives in the world—without any plan whatever, You begin with some kind of a job—anything that will pay a living wage. If you don’t do well in it, you shift to something else that pays better. Of what you will be doing next year or the year after, you have only the vaguest idea. Even and women definitely educated for definite professions, after they have taken their courses, drift from one situation to another, feeling that they are dging all that can be expected it they stick to the calling for which they have been trained. Consequently about seventy-five per cent. of young men and women never attain apy especial success, and those that reach real success are astonishingly few. You will make no steady progress, unless you make it according to plan. i Your plan may need revision as you go along. It prob- ably will, But it is more likely that you will have to broaden than to restrict it. Make it in the beginning as comprehensive as you can. Pick out some particular place that is worth getting, and plan to get it. You may fail in your attempt the first few times, but keep at it—follow your plan, and, barring a calamity, you will succeed. The plan is the important thing. toward carrying it out, life. é Success is a great and a complicated structure, composed of many materials. You will never be able to build it un less you know where the materials are to come from, how to get them, and how to assemble them when you do get them, To do that you MUST have a plan, and Bend all your energies Make it the dominant thing in your you must stick to it. | Ph nnn annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnne te the high cost of living, which after) and is now such a sick mau, let him all is the fundameneal duty of oui} resign, and put a real blooded Ameri- Federal and State Governments, and|ican there, for instance, Senator which would tend far more to uilevi-| Johnson, who is regular Teddy ate the present day problems of both| Roosevelt the ex-service men and th who did not} He would the millfons have that opportunity Europe owes us in interest on our Victory Halls may be all right to} money, instea, so generously giv- exhibit to visiting ‘del sand a} ing it to th | small bonus may earn | commendation, but and stabi ers No, >t ‘of press a just what actual | for benefit will we New York-| put that money away with Item One. Secondly, instead of proposing a bill $4,500,500 to enforce prohibition, H.R. UPRIGHT, | Third—All who have money to Street, Bronx. throw away in donations to the Anti- | Saloon League and upkeep of Mr. Anderson's wardrobe should be taxed 179th Proposal for a’ Bonus, To the Biitor of The Evuning World much as they give for that pur- ever until last evening have I) pose ' n editorial artic The Eve-| Fourth-—Instead of wasting so much ning World so interesting and yet 80| throe>pourtherat whos I ee ee eo stupid. I have ideas on the subject: | them “Would a Bonus Be One?” With these returns, and a $1 tax idea of getting the money to-|on each of the $6,000,000 you speak of, r to give a soldier a bonus is|it would end the soldier bonus talk le enough without burdening you| forever. H. P. R. or any Of the other 96,000,000, Ex-service man wounded in France, As Mr, Wilson bas served faithfully New York, March 8, 1920, No. 60-—-THE WOMAN IN WHITE. By Wilkie Collins. As young Walter Hartright was) walking along a lonely toad near: London he was spoken to by a beau~ tiful but strange looking woman, clad all in white. He learned she was, one Anne Catherick, & tunatic, who jhad just escaped from an asylum. Boon afterward Walter went to Limmeridge House, the mansion of Frederick Fairlie. Hartright Ded been summoned thither to give draw-_ jing lessons to Laura Fairlie and | Marian Halcombe, his employer's two nieces. At sight of Laura the néw 4) ‘ | teacher stared in open-eyed wonder. |For the girl was the living image of the woman in white he had met on the London road. ‘The resemblance was not accidental, for the two girls were related to each other, though neither of them knew it. Walter wasted little time in falling in love with beautiful Laura. And he was able to make her return his af- fection, But that was all the good it did either of them. For Laura's family had already be-. trothed her to a crooked-souled and impecunious nobleman, Sir Percival |Glyde, And, forced into the match, Laura married Percival, thus becom- |ing Lady Glyde, and going to live at | the rambling old Glyde estate. Now a clause in the marriage settle- ment arranged that Percival should Inherit the ‘bulk of his wife's great fortune in the event of his outliving her. He was hard up, and he was not jin love with bis unloving young wite, (whose heart was still true to Walter | | Hartright. So, by the aid of a fellow scoundrel, ! Percival laid plans to inherit Laura's wealth, He lacked the courage to | ; kill her, And presently they thought of a safer plan. | “Hearing that Anne Catherick was dying in the insane asylum and re- | calling Anne's strange resemblance to Laura, they had Laura kid: land thrust into the asylum. they brought Anne to the Glyde house. There, in a few days, Anne died. Bhe was buried as Lady Glyde. Andy Percival laid claim to bis dead wife's fortune. | Marian Halcombe, Laura's cousin, was at first the only person with the wit to suspect that a fraud had been committed, With = Walter's* hetp, | Marian set to work on the case, She and Walter found where Laura was hidden, and rescued the luckless bride from the asylum. But Percival did not live to be pun- jished by the outraged law for thie crime. He perished in a fire before ‘he could be arrested | His death left Laura and Walter free to folow at last the dictates of thelr own hearts and to marry each other et FIGURES IN PHYSICS. If the energy that's wasted by the | wagging lower jaws Of the Senators and Congressmen | who formulate our tats Could be every bit collected And entirely redirected, | It would move the Sphinz and Pyra- | mids 4,000,000 miles a year. |1t would Uist the Rocky Mountains | nearly 700 feet Lvery 2 hours, It changed to heat It would melt the Arctic Ocean, Or would keep in constant motion All the locomotive engines in the . Western Hemisphere, it could be. | | | » | if this energy that's wasted could be transformed into light. It would do away with darkness and’ there never would be night; And with night eliminated We would not be aggravated By a daylight-saving statute that some gay old night-owl planned. Therefore, Scientist, get busy; let up on the ghosts a while; Gather up this wasted energy and put it in a pile. Industry will be your debtor, And—what will be vastly better— Congress will be doing something for the people of the land. RIDLEY WILLS. aia are AMERICA __ TRADE NOTES Aviation in Peru. Competition has been aroused in Peru by promoters of aviation of various nationalities, states Trade Commissioner Jackson, On Jan. 28. 1919, the President of Peru published a deerce create ing @ school of military aviation in Peru, and shortly afterwards negotiations were entered mto for the purchase of twelve French planes, which arrived in Lima a month ago. Representatives of voth Eng- lish and American companies are in that city at the present time, and the purchase of two American planes has alvecy been made by the employces of the Empresas Electricas Asoct- adas, who scem to have taken the initiative in promoting acre nautics, \