The evening world. Newspaper, March 24, 1920, Page 22

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company. Nos. 53 to 63 Park Row. New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Tow, J. ANG! HAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. ZER, Jt.. Secretary. 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Amoctaied Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repubtiontion ESTERDAY’S clash between tenants and land- fords at the hearing on the anti-rent profitéering, hills at Albany showed the crux of the situation to be as The Evening Wor}d had described it. Realty interests as a class frown on the rent Profiteers, but oppose legislation designed to curb them, on the ground that such legislation would frighten away from building enterprise, Judge William M. K. Olcott, representing conserva- realty clients, agrees that “something should be Be for the poor tenants of the tenements to protect 7 from their grasping landlords,” but thinks rich : nants need no protection from their rich landlords. > lo other words, it will be discouraging to land | asa whole if some landlords are not left free. to 3! that come to be the accepted attitude of capital ?: building? Will private initiative only provide housing on con- er that no general law stall undertake to say what tes fair profit? DAYLIGHT SAVING. N™ YORK is the one State in which a single city has a clear majority of population. If the Legislature compromises on local option in time then the city should stick to Daylight Saving on » fhe principle of the greatest good to the greatest ‘mamiber. ey te ofner communities. If other cities follow the ex- farmers may find that the return to “sun time” not all the advantages they anticipated. @he fight for Daylight Saving is not over. Even maw the Massachusetts Legislature is considering a * State Daylight Saving law which would put consider- @fe pressure on Rhode Island and Commecticut. the agricultural Middle West where the senti- Daylight Saving is strongest there is of favorable State action, In the urban) is. entirely practical compromise would result from Sate Daylight Saving laws in all the belt now using Eastern Standard time., This would not cause local anywhere. It would result in a two-hour along the line of time changing where a one- ‘hour change is already an accepted fact. __ DELAWARE’S RECORD. BLAWARE’S history as regards the Constitution and the Amendments is unusual and strikingly irregular. "Delaware was the first State ratify the Constitu- » It refused to ratify the three Amendments proposed in the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, and did ‘pot reconsider its! action until 1901, when the Legisla- tufe accepted them. The Amendments, of course, had | been in effect for a generation, Delaware rafified the Income Tax Amendment, but | the’Seventeenth Amendment, providing for direct elec- of Senators, did not meet with the approval of the Legislature. ware was the ninth Eighteenth Amendment. The record is hardly such as will help to forecast ‘the fate of the Nineteenth Amendment. State to ratify the ioe PRICES UP AND DOWN. ‘ INDEX figures of wholesale prices prepared by the ; “© United States Bureau of Labor Statistics are both discouraging and encouraging. Disoouraging because, taken as a whole, they con- finue to rise. Compared with the 1913 hase of 100, the figure for January, 1920, was 248 and for Feb- nary 249. Discouraging because lumber and building materials Mounted from 268 to 300 in the month. And this with a Nation-wide need for housing. on rising, those who believe that labor should further increase its wage demands, are, after all, on a well- ; profiteers are given full play with the prices of neces- és no reason why the city in which the ma-| ities? What if labor does demand more and more ‘There oy five should inconvenience itself for the minority] pay for less and less work? | ip the country. By being as stubborn and unyielding athe rural element the city may set a good example] put sure, business, railroads laying off their crews, while bread- | lines formed and lengthened, lodging houses filled and { does Mr. Gompers. The report frankly recognizes the desirability of collective bargaining, which Judge Gary rejects, Had the proposed scheme been in operation at the time of the recent steel strike, it seems highly probable that the Federal officials would have acted in the ca- pacity of inquirers for the. public rather than as arbi- trators or adjusters. The division of opinion between the workers and the employers was very sharp, and arbitration would have been improbable. Thorough inquiry would have resulted in condemna- tion of both Organizer Foster and Judge Gary. Facts ‘brought to public notice after the strike was under way were thoroughly discreditable to both sides of the dispute. The principal virtue of the Industrial Commission plan seems to lie in its definite promise of publicity and direction of public opinion. If both employers and employees were certain that a public judgment of the merits of the case would fol- low the outbreak of industrial warfare, each would be inclined toward a larger measure of moderation and mutual tolerance in the preliminary skirmishes. Neither side would want to go before a board of inquiry with such a record of stiff-necked intolerance as each side had in the steel strike. THE OTHER WAY. HOSE who fight against legiglation to curb rent profiteers, those who hold that prices must keep travelled economic path, There IS another solution for the present problems forced upon the country by a mounting cost of living. What if rents are boosted without limit? ‘What it tite New York Evening Worid,) By J. H. Cassel Sooner or later will come that other solution—grim It came in 1907, with closing factories, paralyzed | he unemployed grew to an army of 2,000,000. It came in 1893, with 15,000 bankruptcies and sus- pensions involving a loss of $570,000,000 and forcing 3,000,000 workers into idleness. It came in 1873, in the midst of an era of inflated currency, excessive railroad building and reckless land speculation, and caused collapse and failure to haunt American industry and business for four years. One mysterious touch to credit puts this harsh solu- tion to work, Confidence suddenly falters and shrinks. Extravagance shudders and hides its head. Spending ceases, Enterprise and expansion put up their shutters. Capital seeks its vaults. The whole structure of sup- posed prosperity comes down with a crash. Fear and want take charge. Nor are the warnings manifest save to the wise. Describing the state of the country just before the panic of 1873, the historian James Ford Rhodes says: “Prosperity was written all over the face of things, Manufacturers were busy, work- men in demand, streets and shops were crowded.” 9 “Prices of commodities were high, demand pretty good; everybody seemed to be making money and nobody suspected for a moment that * he was living in a fool's paradise.” Few suspect it now when, after the most destructive war in the history of the world, they act on the theory that production can be slackened and wages and prices | indefinitely increased. The country is close to half a century older than it was in 1873. Its safeguards against panic are far surer and more developed. But can even the finest banking system a modern nation has yet evolved save the people of the United States from the consequences of treating a post-war inflation of their national currency as if it were assur- ance of perpetual prosperity based on soaring prices, rising wages and boosted rents—with production a negligible factor in the background? Intelligence and self-restraint may avert disaster, but But encouraging because wholesale prices of farm) they are not essential to the discovery or rediscovery > pedducts dropped from 246 to 237. Encouraging be- cause foods dropped from 253 to 244, ‘Wholesale prices are not retail prices. Some dealers Who were prompt to alter prices on a rising market may lag somewhat on a falling market. But eventually | b> the decrease will make itself felt in the housewife’s ides. Without a decrease in food prices, it were bootless to hope for other decreases. Food prices are an important part of living costs. If they decrease, there is better @hance that other prices will follow in the near future. TREADING MIDDLE GROUND. UEL GOMPERS'S opposition to the report of the President's Industrial Commission will serve commend rather than to condemn the document. Mr. Gompers approved unreservedly there would ve been reason to believe that it was one-sided and " | Food costs are the best barometer of living costs. of economic truths. There is the other way of finding out that stone walls are harder than heads, CARPENTIER ARRIVES. ADAME GEORGES CARPENTIER is enjoying a unique honeymoon, It is doubtfGl whether any boxing champion ever embarked on just such a voyage as the French idol who landed here yesterday in search of the Golden Fleece of the sporting world. impressions seem to have been all in Carpen- tier’s favor, and his newly-acquired wife was not the least factor in the creation of this impression. For a professional pugilist, Carpentier seems to be | professional “pugs.” considering the report, one should remember that’ r rather an unusual and admirable type, worthy of the respect and liking of American sportsmen, His desire that his bride should share in his welcome is a pleasant contrast to the “watch-me” posing of many of the Carpentier’s decoration for valor in the war will commend him to many a lover of the ring, and will Ga che ot equomueed ad psan demmlad yemillaw: of a following when he meets Dempsey. FROM EVENING WORLD READERS _ Those 16,000 Irees. ‘TO the Daitor of ‘The Hreaing World: An Associated Press despatch from Amerongen, Holland, dated March 15 and published in The Evening World of that date, states the Kaiser had completed sawing bis 16,000th tree on the previous ‘Tuesday, To @ casual reader this may mean nothing, but when you come to figure that Wilhelm has only been sixteen months at Amerongen or other places in Holland this gives him an average of 1,000 trees per month or from twenty-nine to thirty-one trees a day. Now Willy was no joke as a King, for it took five years to throw bim out, but as a wood sawer he has a sawmill beaten, for he ot..y saws wood in his spare time; then falls out for a walk up and down his garden when he hears news of an uprising in Ger- many. ‘ If he spent eight hours a day at this work and was paid union wages at so much a cord, he could support the Hohenzollern family in spite of the high cost of ving and buy a Ford for every Little Hohenzollem and pay the President's salary with his in- come tax. Why allow Holland to monopolize such a wood cutter? Brine him over here and put him to work, and if he lives to be as old as John Shell he can pay off Germany’s war debt. I would suggest a walking delegate of the Wood Cutters’ Union be sent to find out the size of thowe 16,000 trees, and if they are of any size get the Shade Tree Department to stop him or he Will leave Holland treeless. Please investigate and see if there wasn't some mistake about the 16,000. R J. WALKER, Passaic, N. J, March 21, 1920. White Collar Celibates. ‘To the Exiitor of Tho Evening World From: A Member of the White Col- lar Brigade. Subject: White Marrying. In reference to above subject, I'll gay they're not Though it’s twenty-nine years since my eyes first opened, I'm not married as yet. Tried hard enough, but can- not blame the gir! they learn that I belon Collar Brigade. Porhaps I should have been con- tent with a French girl, An old say; ng, “opportunity knocks but once,” but I failed to take advantage of it in sunny (7) France. It I were convinced that present conditions would continue indefinitely, I would certainty learn a trade, But they won't. The “White Collar” will again come into its own. Have pa- tience, boys, and after we are once again financially on our feet, we can then “pop the question,” providing we are not too od. Allow me, Mr. Editor, to tender my hearty thanks upon your editorial comment on Cluett, Peabody & Co. ‘’ MEMBER OF THE WHITE COLLAR BRIGADE, Brooklyn, March 22, 1920, Collar Men Not je for Governor, ‘Breaing World: ‘Thy name is Ander- Can because ‘they protested against his attempts to stir up religious hatred and bigotry, are the same papers that have for years published columns of publicity bunk handed out by the boss lobbyist. Now that these papers are telling the truth about Mr. Anderson and his gang of self-constituted reformers and up- lifters, he discovers that they are the agents of the rum power. It is a pity that some of the papers that now denounce Anderson as a ruffian did not discover sooner the kind of a man he is, and the disreput- able character of his methods. WHIDDEN GRAHAM. New York, March 20, 1920, The assertion is made frequently that the present advance in rentals is perfectly normai, and that after many years of losses, landlords are coming into their own. This explan- ation would be very plausible if there was even a semblance of truth in it. There certainly were many people who sustained great losses in previous years, same ag there were many peo- ple who lost their money in Wall Street. They had their properties foreclosed and lost their equities, A good many of the present profi- teers bought the very bargains then offered, and the more profit they are able to pocket now, the more they want. . The average profiteering hog never knows when it has enough. But there is another class of profi- teers, such as the writer came in contact with in Borough Park, Brooklyn. ‘There were several hundred poorly built small brick dwellings, belonging to the Realty Trust, which for years were looked upon as undesirable and rented at from $25 to $32. They could be bought, from 1910 up to 1919, at less than $4,300. Profiteering speculators stepped in the last six months, bought and sold and resold these dwellings again and again, meanwhile advancing rents with each change of ownership. “Pay or get out.” To-day rents figure about $60 or $85, up a full 100 per cent., while tampo- rary owners want as much as $7,500 for them, * O, B. SERVER. New York, March 21, 1920. Grateful Appreciation, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Through your columns I would like to thank an anonymous mother who sent me a boxful of children’s clothes, which had evidently been laid away in camphor for a long. time. This, in response to an article printed in .your paper several days ago, in which I appealed, in behalf of Mrs. Thomas F, Walsh, for cast-off clothing and old materials of afl de- scriptions to be sent to mo at No. 1425 Broadway. For the past two years Mrs, Walsh has practically turned her entire mansion in Wash- ington, D. C., over to converting these into comiortable and handsome garments for the half-naked children of Europe. Ke UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copyright, 1920.) THINK AHEAD. , When Hindenburg and Ludendorff were thinking about the Western Front and the possibility of breaking through it, the Allied Generals were thinking about landing two or three million troops in France. If the Germans had thought ahead, instead of in the present, they would have given up the fight before they did. They would have seen that it was not possible for Germany to stand up against the invasion of American soldiers, backed by American resources. Thinking ahead always wins. If you know what you intend to do to-morrow or next week or next year you will make preparations for doing it. Without such preparatigns achievement will be impossible. : The man in an office, who wants to be the manager, goes carefully to work to prepare himself for the job. He will never be the manager if he dosn't. Naturally he must do his own work, and do it well the while. But thinking ahead will enable him to lay a founda- tion on which he can build. Thrift is an excellent example of thinking ahead. It is not a quality possessed alone by human beings. It is instinc- tive in the squirrel and the bee and the ant and many other creatures, But it is absolutely necessary to any man or woman for whom a fortune has not been made by some over-productive ancestor, Thinking ahead built all the great industries of Europe and America. It has won most of the wars that have been fought—all the wars that advanced civilization. It has made the Anglo-Saxon peoples the most progres- sive on the earth. It has made the greatness of all the world’s distinguished statesmen, Living in the present is going out of fashion, Live, at least with your best thought in the future. If you are ahead of your time, your time will catch up, and reward you for your leadership: aie 62.—F RANKENSTBIN, by hts Now Yee Senne Mary Shelley. F Frankenstein, a young wise! scholar, had dabbled in the oosgit! and in all forms of chemistry, . | Out of his learning he believed te! could create a living creature whieh! should be immortal and should be. aped like a man and have the’ power to think and to talk. (He @id{ not realize he could not give to emohi @ creature a soul, without which ail: the rest would be useless.) an He shaped the monster out of flea” and other materials he found im the’ dissecting rooms. It was a giant land! bore only a rough likeness to @ Bae man body. But Frankenstein made: it live, and he was vastly prowd of' his own cleverness. 4 ‘The Monster, at first, was slavishlty ' devoted to Frankenstein. But, noting’ that the man regarded it with loath- ing, the Monster’s devotion changed to hate. When at last Frankenstetn refused to make another creature es: a mate for the Monster the latter's ' hatred for its creator increased to éhe | point of deathless revenge. The revenge's earliest form was fhe | ntific The Sheep Killer. To the Baitor of The Ewing World To the ordinary voter, who never had @ chance to be more than a mere onlooker in the fight (or rather sur- render) which hastened Prohibition upon the country, it bas been ex- tremely amusing to read the frantic outbursts of Supt. Anderson concern- ing the proposal to investigate him and his league, It suggests the pic- ture of a sheep-killing dog which has been used to prowling over a section of country with perfect safety, and then at last puts his foot into a trap. set Prohibition. unseen, and gives to The autocratic of mbassador the » task of dete al liberty nonsenge from the State Many old silk stockings and “grown-up” gowns and caves of all varieties have been gratefully re- ceived by me for this work in the last week, but 2 ehpariad baby, whom haps of a mother was to overlook her at last he feels a trap snap over his propriate is the quotation! In the foot. Is it any wonder he yelps? case of Macbeth it was ihe loss des- In all the work of the Anti-Saloon perate defiance of ‘an noxious League the human imagination hi conapicus part. When- was at hand. REGINALD FIFE. Deer ther ‘wanted tacts, sta New York, March 20, 1920, if sai own feelings in wishing to keep them |sci propoganda or any other so that gume little French or Belgian | material that enters into a harangue or Roumanian child may not be|they drew heavily upon their imagina- cold—are received in the same beau- tions. So now when Anderson wants tiful spirit in which they are sent. I) to assign a cause for the investiga- should like the mother to know that. planation of the trap in . ALICE NIELSEN. | r is cau Wg aS 1425 Broadway, March 20, 1 {Ypon his nagination and ts able to — declare that it iy the result of ammany-Barnes combination to up- “Thus does imagina- tion body forth the forms of things airy’ nothing- ness a local habitation and a name.” Kaiser suid to ,the United States; ill stand no nonsense from Amer- Anderson too is an autocrat— autocrat who has taken upon him- th mining what in + and he would have it known that he will stand no His yelping rends the air, We all| Anderson defies the Assembly in the know what a familiar and safe stamp- | words of Macbeth: “Lay on, Mac- ing ground the Capitol at Albany has |duff, and dammed be he who first ‘always been for Anderson, And now!cries hold, enough!” How very ap- tyrant who realized that his finish n iering of Frankenstein's closest | friend, Henry Clerval. But the climdx was reached whee ° Frankenstein fell in love with = gem- tle and sweet girl named Hlizabeth Frankenstein and Elizabeth were married, This was the chance fer which the Monster had waited, The bridegroom, going to the room where his girl-wife had been sitting, found her murdered body on the floor. | Frankenstein knew at once who bad slain Elizabeth. And he realized that the creature he himself bad made . was the cause of her death and that of Clerval. Mad with fury, Frankenstein vowed | to'track the Monster down and to &il! it. Across the world he followed it, al- ways just too far vehind to overtake it, Up to the frozeu North the Men- ster fled, in malicious glee And Frankenstein tracked it far into the Arctic snows. There Frankenstein fef i from fatigue and exposure. Dying, he was found by a Polar explorer named Walton, to whom he told his misera- ble story. When the tale was told Frankes- stein died, his pursuit having failed and his life having been wrecked, As he lay dead the Monster stole back to his body and stared long end sorrowfully down into the lifeless face of its creator. Then it vanished among the Arctic icebergs. SERIES I ‘ MY RENTS BEEN RAISED. I have always loved adventure And have ever been unruly; In my youth my father’s censure Fell upon me, not unduly. I remember very clearly How, ere I could walk unaided, I had stolen very nearly Twenty hens from roosts I raided, As I grew, I grew more vicious; Something in my cerebellum Made me frightfully ambitious To steal articles and sell em, When I reached the age of twenty | I absconded from the village, Seeking out the city’s plenty As a broader field for pillage. Now I'm doing honest labor, Not because my conscience bolted, Nor because J love my neighbor, But because my mind revolted At the thought of being rated With the profiteering membere Of the cordially hated Ourse thete Clan of landlords. embers! i RIDLEY WILLS. , ————_ ‘ Rebduildjgg a Steamship. o According to Ernest Windle, ¥ writing in the Santa Catatine Islander, the 8. 8. Avalon, whieh ~ will run this season between Santa Catalina Island in the Pa cific Ocean and the California mainiand, was chopped in two and then put together again és bringing her from the Great Lakes to salt water. The vessel, built for the Great Lakes rune, ' was too long to get through the locks of the St. Lawrence. Shipwrights cut her off fore and aft, brought her down to the sea, and then rebuilt the chopped off \ portions. . Malling to Paraguay. American manufacturers ane requested not to send commer cial catalogues and other publ cations to Paraguay by pareets post, since the American com * sulate in Asuncion is required to pay a heavy tax on each package 3 thus received. Moreover, com ~ siderable time is involved in ef- fecting the withdrawal of such parcels from the Post Office, Consul Bach suggests, therefore, that all publications be sent ae ordinary or registered mail,