The evening world. Newspaper, March 18, 1920, Page 26

at mesa Te san ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ed Dally Except Sunday by the Press Pubiishing Cempany, Nos. 54 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PuLaTar . 08 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, gostin PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THR ARSOCLATRD PRESS, Assorreien Pres la exclusively entitled to the use for republication RW) Genpenenee credited wo it or ot otherwise eredited to thie paper Male tv love! wrws publiehed herein. THE LOTON HORTON POLICY. ET projits tor 1918 totalling $774,000, or 5114 per cent.,are credited to the Shejsield Farms Company of this city by the Federal Fair Price Commissioner. ’ This is the milk distributing corporation which notice urging Jarmers to cul down milk pro- This is the concern that believes the law of supply en and demand exists Jor the distributer and must be sus- pended when it threatens to benejit the consumer by — bringing down the retail price of milk. t This is the company whose President asserts that ~ ¢onsumers in this city would not know what to do with i larger quantities of milk at lower prices. In another column on this page The Evening World 3 pints a letter which shows what one New York house- | wife thinks of this Loton Horton theory that more milk than is now supplied to the 5,500,000 people oy Greater New York would go to waste. Whal this housewife knows from her experience is what a hundred thousand other housewives know from theirs. The Horton polich regulates the supply of milk with ‘one sole aim—to keep up the price. Diamonds are doled out to the market on the same i ple. The process is called “‘oalorization’:. It respects "the economic law of supply and demand just as —— respects democracy. For yielding the milk distributers 5114 profits the Lotort Horton plan works well. What do the farmer and the consumer think of it? : Couldn't they get together and do better for each other? No more brazen outrage of economic justice has been known in New York than the deliberate attempt ‘of the Sheffield Farms Company to keep the consumer from finding out there can be such a thing as cheaper per cent, a The Loton Horton policy has passed the limit of insolence. The time has come to grapple with it and down it. WHILE THOUSANDS STARVE. NTIL in its own good time the Senate confirms the appointment of Bainbridge Colby, ‘this Nation is without a Secretary of State. It is indeed a __ sad commentary on the virtual breakdown of Congres- _ sional Government. - Persons wishing to travel abroad will be inconven- ienced by inability to get passports. Business will be hampered by salesmen who must remain at home and | wait for Congress to act. But it seems probable that | the delay will mean nothing more serious than a loss) of money and tempers. In another matter dilatory tactics will have a more | serious effect After a long delay the House passed ~ the bill authorizing the sale of soft wheat flour to fam-| ine-stricken areas in Europe, which must be supplied ey until the next harvest if the people are not to starve. | _ Only twelve votes were registered against the bill in) the House. There is no reason to expect dispropor- tionate opposition in the Senate. Jim Reed will prob- ably oppose. * ‘Time is the essence of the value of this bill, Star- vation relief delayed does not help the person who has starved to death. Will “Senatorial dignity” unbend, or will the Sen- atofs wait until it is too late? “DENOMINATIONAL SUICIDE.” ARTICIPATION in the Interchurch World Move- ment would tend to “denominational suicide,” Dr, John Roach Straton of the Calvary Baptist In spite of this, the assembly strongly indorsed the movement, Many good churchmen, whether Baptists or of other persuasions, hope that Dr. Straton is right. At the same time, they will indorse the action of the Bapfist pastors, If Dr. Straton is correct, then there is all the More reason for the action. No man can estimate the spiritual harm which denominationalism has done to the Christian churches ef America. It has been a hardy and confirmed sinner. Nothing has ever seemed to kill it, If there is a pos-| ibility that suicide will end it, then by all means| suicide, EE et eee etl ment will abolish denominationalism immediately. ‘There does seem to be evidence that it is weakening denominational prejudice, paving the way for a com- ination of spiritual forces in co-operation rather than in rivalry. TAXIS AND PROFITS. HEN The Evening World succeeded in forcing ¥Y a reduction*in taxi fares in New York the drivers were resentful. bi inereased to such an extent that profits are larger. ; are doing more business ‘than ever before. Lo. is complaint in regard to fares, m Parif tells. r tale, walle The Poe , Na Foal > Church warned a group of Baptist pastors Tuesday. | Mt is too much to hope that the Interchurch Move-| vt at Parisians retaliated by a refusal to patronize. taxi drivers are petitioning for a return to the old rate. They realize that a small profit on constant business jis more profitable than large profits and long idle periods, There is a suggestion here for New York taxi drivers. There is also a suggestion for the consuming public. | A boycott of merchandise in which profiteering is evi- dent is apt to lead to a modification of profits. BILLS TO LIMIT RENTS. | Boars amet at Albany do not mean to incur the blame of ignoring the present rent crisis in New York—a crisis against which The Evening World uttered the first warning in a series of editorials two years ago. No less than nine rent bills were approved yesterday by the Joint Legislative Committee on Housing. All nine were promptly introduced in both Houses of the Legislature and preparations made to speed their prog- ress under special rules, One of these bills would make it impossible for a landlord to dispossess a tenant unless the landlord can prove that the rent has not been boosted above the figure paid during the preceding month and that it has not been raised more than 20 per cent. over the amount paid up to one year prior to the date of the pro- ceedings, Another bill would permit an appeal to the court to decide whether a given rent is just and reasonable. Another provides that all verbal ledses shall terminate Oct. 1 unless a definite time is specified. Yet another would make it impossible for a landlord to dispossess a tenant on the ground that the latter is objectionable unless the fact that he is objectionable can be estab- | lished in court. | The first impression of all these measures is bound | to be that there is a good deal of shooting in an effort to hit the mark. They should be taken in the aggregate, however, as | a necessary first step in attacking a situation which is rapitly becoming more serious and which calls loudly for positive action of some sort to prevent Wore suffering. = Out of these nine bills and the discussion they wil | evoke ought to come in the end a more compact and co-ordinated programme for dealing with rent prob- lems. Granted the surest way to lower rents is to encour- age building. Granted legislation must proceed cau- tiously lest ii nullify the effects of the natural remedy by an overdos: of an emergency one. Nevertheless, the time has come to find out whether ALL capital will be scared away from building enter- prise unless SOME capital is left opportunity to ex- tort, by unscrupulous methods, inordinate returns. A 20 per cent. raise of rent over last year’s figures wouki seem fairly to cover the reasonable increases in | costs, running expenses, &c., that a landlord can this year allege. In some cases 100 per cent. is much closer Ito present demands. Will nobody want to be aslandiord unless some land- lords can be protiteei That is the question that must be answered, The | quickest way to get an answer is to make rent-raising over a certain percentage in a stated time illegal. One of the bills introduced at Albany practically establishes court supervision over rents until 1922. That ought to be long enough to show whether dol- [lars can stili be found to buiid houses, even though | tents are limited by something besides greed. Capital Is only character, and thas been char- | acter that was the basis of credit of ‘the United Kingdom.—Lord Leverhulme. | It is rather difficult to agree with such a | statement when we note that some of the most | conseienceless profiteers are considering stock dividend based on extremely high earnings. issues \ SUCCESS IS “GOOD TIME.” l esTMOYS, you can have a good time in life, or you can have success in life, but you cannot have both,” said Charles M, Schwab to undergraduates at Princeton University. Mr. Schwab's gospel of work is good. No doubt : ab meant well in differentiating between a vod time” and “success,” but he was most unfortu- {natedn his phrasing. | 1 would be vastly nearer the truth had Mr. Schwab said that no man could be rated a success unless he} were having a good time, The two go together. Suc. \cess is not success if it is bought at the price of un- happiness, Zs | Fortunately there are just as many varieties of } “good times” as there are varieties of “success,” Mr. Schwab's own Ife history is the proof of the crror of his statement. Mr, Schwab is a conspicuous success, Ami we have no question that he has had a good time in making a success of himself. He has }entered into life with intense application, He has lost several fortunes and has always come up smiling and ready to,go out after another. Hard work has not de- | prived him of the magnetic personality that draws men. He is a hard worker but not a grind. He has time for men along by giving them good advice, Mr. Schwab is having a good time now more magey than he can hove to spend, but he is still in. busi time, a time than he could have in any other way, 4 Now| Since fares were reduced the demand for taxis has! laugh, for friendliness, for an effort to help young} He has. paper | neighborhood, yet I must forego the |rived just to enable THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MARCH 18; 192 Tp teh a So Far and No Farther! x22 | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS _ The Demand for Milk. To the Editor of T ning The statement made by Loton Hor- ton, Presiden: Company, that the public would not buy milk if the price was reduced is not true. Milk was selling around this sec- tion for 10 cents @ quart at the gro- cers, When a dairy at the corner of nity Avenue and 158th Street sold | it at 8 cents a quart all the people | flocked their for thetr supply. 1 heard the man say that he never sold as much milk as lately when he lowered the price. In omer to make milk go around | he would sell only one quart to a customer and the people pleaded for more, but he would not give them the supply they needed. ‘This goes to show that what Horton says is a lie and he 4, only trying to work his little scheme to keep his milk up at the present high prices like the rest of the profiteers. Now that milk amount could be and 10 cents they A HOUSEWIFE WHO KNOWS WHAT SHB OS ‘TALKING ABOUT. Caldwell Avenue, Bronx March 16, 1920. ! orld: | is 12 cents, any gotten, but at 8 cut the supply. What the Workers Think, | Vo the Editor of The Evening World Having finished shedding tears (of the crocodile variety) after gated the heartrending plaint of a formed drunkard” in to-ntght’s Evening World 1 hasten to assure him that he has indeed performed wonders since his reformation. What [ he has squeezed into his life in the short time since prohibition is sim- ply marvellous, He admits that it has set the workingman thinking. Truly we all admit that, but if half of what the workingman is thinking were to appear in print it would make rather spicy reading and cause the goody goody element, composing the Soci- Cty of Minding Other People’s Busi- ness, to throw up their hands in hor- ror. 1 have been a moderate drinker ail my lif and drank whatever and whenever I ploased, never committed murder, ‘been arrested or been guilty of stealing my neighbor's goods; never had to have a law passed to remind me that I wanted a raise, new suit of clothes, had a wife and family or wanted to live in a better jeasure I de- dyed in the to reform. I must imbibe that mach-destroying bev- erage called “near beer”; must sneak a drink of sight-destroying wood al- cohol for which I must pay three times a reasonable price that a drunkard may look his fellow-men in the face, pay his debts and get a bank account. Ye.zods! Can this be the san untry that refused to pay King ¢ a tax on tea? PETRHR JOHNSON. Ridgewood, N. J., Marah 16, 1920. ¢ Might. simple and ‘harmless woo! “rummy” | However, 1 am assuming it to be the | this nature of the Sheffield Farms | ‘ latter, as I have often heard cases of used as an argument gainst drinking, and, in my opinion, t is @ very weak argument. In the first place, we will admit everything this man says to be true. | Yet we must admit that his case be- longs to the great minority. For every drunkard or reformed drankard I venture to say there are thousands of moderate drinkers, Why should the man who takes one or two drinks a day, and who has taken this amount for years, be deprived of this simply because one man, who is, for some constitutional reason, unable to drink moderately, bas become a drunkard? 1 don't believe the majority of peo- ple have any sympathy for drunkards or people who drink to excess. On the contrary, mostly every one I have ever known is opposed to it, It is cases like this man's that have re- sulted in depriving thousands of méderate drinkers of the opportunity of taking a glass of beer whenever they cared for it. In closing [ take this opportunity of expressing my approval of the atti- tude taken by The Evening World on the Prohibition amendment. With the help of your paper and such men fact that the regulation of intoxjcat- ing liquor is a right exclusively wit in the police power inherent in all State governments, which right was never surrendered to the Federal Government. JOHN O'BRIEN. Northport, N. Y, Shert and to the Po! ‘To the Editor of The Evening World In your paper of to-day you pub- lished a short piece by John Blake, called “Uncommon Sense.” Would it be permissible to have this reprinted in large type suitable for framing? We think it especially good for our office use, being very similar in sub- stance to the "Message to Garcia,” published some year: go, but shorter and very much to t point, J. PALMER-QUINBY, Superinten- t of Preventorium for Children, ‘armingdale, N, J., March 10, 1920, c Labi Ss To the Bditor of The Evening Work 1 am deeply interested in “Uncom- mon Sense” written by duhn Blake. I had quite a collection of them, but unfortunately someone entered my, room and they were thrown in the’ waste basket. I am very anxious to secure copies of “Boost Your Job” and also the difference between “Pride and Arrogance,” (LSS) M. B. B, 31 Ww. March 16, 1920. 82d St., A Veteran's Question. To the Editor of The Brening World Is there a Post of the American Legion whose membership is com- posed of ex-cavalrymen, entirely or partly? MEXICAN BORDER, Signalti Other Planets, To the balitor of ‘The Brening Workt: Astronomers, scientists and others UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copyright, 1920.) YOUR CAPITAL IS UNDER YOL: HAT. If you are drawing a thousand dollars a year you are getting interest on $25,000. Twenty-five thousand ‘dollars, therefore, is your capital. Every dollar that you add to your yearly income means that your capital is increased by twenty-five dollars. Double your salary and you double your capital. Quad- ruple your thousand dollars a year and you can consider yourself worth one hundred thousand dollars, which is a tidy fortune. The capital that you carry under your hat you do not need to risk in speculation. It is immune from bank burglars and stock jugglers, It is yours as long as you keep your health and retain your earning capacity. Always consider your brains as your capital. ‘Take the same care of them that the banker takes of his funds and those intrusted to hif Bad habits, sloth, shiftlessness impair your capital. does ill-health. Avoid all of them if you can, Keep your body in good physical condition, for if it is not your brain will not be able to earn the interest that it ought to. Get rid of bad habits. down. Add to your capital as regularly as you can. Add not only to your earning power, but to the reserve of money that all men ought to establish as soon as possible. When the capital that is under your hat and the capital that you have invested in good securities are both working for you, you will be beyond the reach of want and on your way to prosperity and independence, But remember that both kinds of capital must be cared for and safeguarded or they will shrink instead of expand. Make them grow while the growing is good. Capital of one kind or another is the only insurance against the miseries of poverty and old age. So All of them cut your capital Benn No person has come forward, area ee ee ever, with an explanation as to ft we will know for a positive fact that any of these ex, ents have or have not succeeded, and accomplished | Us) whereby a projectile 'could be and haus been detached from their planet, and who have not only done this, but have been successful in guiding ‘it to its destination? CURIOUS. Bayonne, N. J., March 16, 1920, the purpose for which they were in- tended. Are we positively convinced that the meteors (so called by us) which To the Editor of The Evening World: | fe have struck our earth, been discov- ered, and recovered ‘by us, were not intended as signals from another planet to us? Would we be able to interpret the meaning contained if a message Was intended? Are all me- teors unearthed by us of the same metallurgical composition as that one on exhibition in the Museum of Natural History, New York City? If so, would it not be reasonable to sup; pose that all of them came from the same source, maybe the same planet, and perhaps were intended for the same purpose, a signal? We have been unable thus far to advance any definite reasoning along this line, ex- cept to surmise scientifically as_to their natural meteoric formation, We have obtained their chemical analy- have ideas or theories published from To the Fait 9 Evening World: A letter which appeared in your recently signed “Reformed Drunkard” attracted my attention. 1 do not know whether this is simply because that is his way of having a good i statement of this unfortunate man's case or whether it fs intended to be an argumem in favor of time to tline for the public to read as how it would be possible to reach | fguer planets with light ray: sound ' ves, and even by a self pt ctile containing « human sis, but that is positively all, Is it possible and not at all im- probable that other planets are ine habited by superhuman beings have discovered us and who hav; vised some means (as yet unkno’ A claims that a man born in thi United States of foreign parentage is not a citizen (when he reaches twen- ty-one years of age) if his parents do ‘Where to Find I Your Vocation | By Max Watson | raoren: 1020, by Te Prem Panfing Om | Mie New Yerw doremne Word) Insurance. | Opportunities for Entering This Field. 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An insurance company has many departments, all of which have executive positions open to those who are promoted from the ranks, The most important of these other than the sales department are the auditing, law, treasury, real estate, inspection, | medical, controller, bookkeeping, pre- mfum, commission, actuary, claims, policy loans, policy issues, and filing and mailing. , Men who become insurance sales- |men generally fall under one of the {following groups: 1, Beginning as an office boy or @ minor clerk in the sales department, After learning the routine of a main office, transferred to a branch office or agency offic a cashier or office man, Learning selling methods from | the local sales manager and salesmen, |finally becoming an outside salesman. 2. Men who have had sales experi~ ence jn other lines and become insur~ ance salesmen without any long train ing period. 3. 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Insurance companies are glad to furniph literature to men interested'te selling and are anxious to secure tha right men at all times. ‘They are not interested in men who cannot make a success and eventually give their en- tire time to this'work. College trained jena or men who have had special raining, such as given by th % negte Institut, are preferred ie TOMS AVERY In the national roll of accounts for elzing St. Stephen's, Westminster, Edward If, on this date in 1350 or- not take out citizenship papers, B| ned that the wages for artists claims that he is a cttizen if hig|8hould be from 5d per day to one Parents do not take out citizenship | shilling, except for a certain Jobn Ree lab, + FB. RUEGER, | Banaby, whose wages should be two Avenue, Brooklyn, March 15, 19 biel You Are @ Citizen, ‘To the Editor of The Drening World; I_was born in Long Island City, N. ¥. When I was at the age of six years my mother took me “over to the other side, Stayed over there until I was seventeen years old, when I came back to the United States, I have been told thai I am not a citizen of the United States, having forfeited my rights to citizenship on account of staying over there too many years, Ad, Brooklyn, Maroh baal 1920. Shillings a day. Bricklayers in 1920 are demandipg $10 a day. But it must be remem- bered that artists always have te- ved meagre wages for their output, They have been content to veceive it, for they did not work for They had thelr reward in t What did Beethoven * uf ¢ for a Sth, C minor, Symphony? "What por ridge had John Keats?” asks “Byron seorntully. Said Carlyle: “Either ypu will pay me the sum that wor bay the world or I will Gi i GIVE work and become agents as a side A very accommodations, Men attending this _——