The evening world. Newspaper, March 26, 1920, Page 34

+ ay eer ARCH 26, 19 She eseNiin Wiorid. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZMR: [Podiianer Dary Except Sunday by the Prose Publishing Comr-ny, Nos. 53 to 63 Park Row, New York, RALPH PULITZER, President. 63 Park Tow. (J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 65 Park Row. JOREPH PULITZER, Jr.. Secretary. 63 Park Row, | MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Phe Associated Press ie exclusively entitled to the use for republication All news despatches eredited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper iso the local news published herein. THE FIRST STEP. ROM The Evening World, May 18, 1918: Rent is a formidable item in the average family budget. Even less than in the case of food is there excuse for an enlightened community to leave rent-paying workers at the mercy either of profiteering property owners or of speculative middlemen who are the most shamelessly grasp- ing of the landlord tribe. From The Evening World, May 31, 1918: In England, France, Germany, Belgium and New Zealand, Governments have in the last decade or two decided that private realty oper- ators are held to safer standards when they are given a competitor in the shape of the State itself. Progressive American communities will begin in their turn to doubt the fitness of private land- lords and private realty speculators to perform all the public has a right to expect in the matter of providing homes and fixing rents. From the report of the Reconstruction Commission Housing Conditions accompanying Gov. Smith's, “gmessage to the Legislature, March 26, 1920. Recom- mendations: That a law be enacted providing for the ap pointment of local housing boards in communi- ties having a population of over 10,000 * * * and for the appointment of a central State hous ing agency for co-ordinating local effort. Development of a means for using State credits to apply to housing at low rates of in- | terest without loss to the State. | This Commonwealth has begun to study the first The course is not uncharted. w=. A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE. | ya, RTHODOX Stand-Pat Republicans will be in-| ©) clined to rub their eyes in amazement over the| report that the International Harvester Company is helping its employees to purchase clothing in England ata price of $18 a suit. ~The interests now combined in the International Harvester Company, it will be remembered, were long) teneficiaries of the Protective Tariff. They believed absolutely in the protection of the American working- man from the competition of underpaid foreign labor. They believed in so much “protection” that they were) sometimes able to sell their products abroad for less than they did here at home, which caused more or less indignation among American farmers, who couldn't understand why this should be. Yet in the year 1920 A. D. this corporation is “help ing to take the bread out of the mouths of American workingmen” by encouraging purchases in England. | Times change. Just now it is notable as another example of the ever-recurring question, “Who is a profiteer?” . The farmer says the Harvester Company. The Harvester Company accuses the garment work- ‘rs and manufacturers, The garment workers cite the high cost of living and blame the farmers. Seriously, the transaction is a rather distinct warning to clothing profiteers. The’ Woolen Trust will never be able to make a profit on the cloth which English workmen wove. American garment workers cannot collect big wages for garments their hands have not fashioned. Manufacturers and dealers cannot collect a profit on goods they do not sell. This $250,000 deal is only one of many indications that the American public has almost reached its limit of endurance in clothing prices. It is a warning that it is time for textile manufacturers and merchants to trim their sails and be satisfied with a small profit that will help to hold the business. | THIS GOVERNOR A PUZZLE. OV. HOLCOMB of Connecticut, it would seem, is a rare specimen, a man in political life whose ambition is completely satisfied, who has no desire for further preferment. + What else will explain his stiff-necked and stubb@mn | refusal to call a special session of the Legislature to} ratify the Suffrage Amendment? What else will ex-} plain his defiance of the convention of leaders of party? What else explains his readiness to antagonize | those who will eventually be able to vote for or against him? Connecticut may take the honorable position of the thirty-sixth arti deciding State to ratify. Gov. Hol- comb has the opportunity to gain the credit of making this possibie. It cannot be a matter of principle, of opposition to Suffrage. His act will not prevent Woman Suffrage. At most he can only delay it until after the next national election. In so doing he will gain nothing except the cordial dislike and opposition of women not only in Connecticut but in the Nation, Just how effective this dislike may be is evident in the experience of Senator Wadsworth, whose less stubborn opposition is apt to cost him the office he occupies. REPORTERS IN HEAVEN. IZONNER THE MAYOR anticipates a Heavenly L home when he dies. We know this, because e says he expects to find reporters even there. And in spite of the fac that he is reported to have | nomic drama now working to a climax all over the) | being accelerated by the packers with a view to | “assisting” the natural workings of the law of supply consigned “that bunch” at the City Hall to the other place on numerous and sundry occasions. Doubtless he will find reporters. Hizonner has a way with him that seems naturally to attract the re porters, And there are reporters in Heaven, Perhaps not the “good” reporters with a “nose for news’ who infest the City Hall. But reporters of a sort will be there. For example, Patience Worth and the whole crowd of those who send their copy via the Ouija board, and manage to transmit reports more garbled and conflicting than those of which the Mayor complains at times. | “PASSED ALONG.” IRMINGHAM, Ala., March 25.—Journeymen plumbers of the Birmingham district have served notice that, effective April 1, they will demand $12 a day, with double pay for overtime, Sundays and holidays. The demand, master plumbers say, will be met, and the addi- tional cost passed along to the builder and householder. | | The above brief local item in yesterday's news from | 3 ) the South perfectly epitomizes in eight lines the eco-| United States. “Demands met and passed along.” The phrase has come to signify the whole precarious | process by which the country is trying to persuade | itself that rising wages, rising prices and hectic spend- ing can sorhehow be combined to make prosperity. News of the same day disclosed’ that the campaign to induce the public to buy cheaper cuts of meat is and demand in a manner that must result in a net ‘ncrease of all meat prices. More shameless examples were added to the long lists of rent profiteering cases in this city. Meanwhile, in Chicago union carpenters were refus- ing to set up portable houses to relieve a housing crisis | on the ground that the houses in question were not | made by union labor in Chicago. Plumbers, meat-profiteers, rent-boosters—what are they more than conspicuous examples among a hun- dred other classes now busy either increasing their own| demands or passing demands made on them along to some one else? No one stops to think that the increasing demands for which he is responsible will surely come back to him in the shape of other demands which he must meet. The carpenter never reflects that the harder or more costly he makes it to build houses the more certainly will his own rent keep on going up. “Passed along” is the fitting password for a fool’s paradise of unrestrained grabbing and greed. War wages, war profits and inflation of the currency | _ FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | ‘To the Extttor ot ' Overloading! Pearse By +e H. Cassel ve ng Co, Cle New York Erening Worl.) Fe Naming Names. o Brening Word So you'd like to know who the rent started it. How will it stop? no bigger than a man’s hand: of a bank—a failure in some industry. skies, rush blindly on to that turning. in my life.” Oo F serious financial difficulties. tion is that he join a union, brated the sawing of his 16,000th tre after suck must have been ‘‘scabbing” on the Cor A WAY OUT FOR WILHELM RMER Emperor Wilhelm is reported to be in If so, our sugges: | The cost of living will fall fast enough then, is a swift annihilator of profiteering—but it operates with ruthless weapons of hunger and want, It is unbelievable that level-headed Americans will Do liberty and bad headgear go tugether? If he is poor accomplishment, it is his own fault. Dutch Perhaps not, until the appearance of some little cloud A rumor—the collapse Then suddenly confidence will shiver and shrink, spending will stop, prices will come tumbling down, factories will go on half-time and millions of workers | will lose their jobs and be left gazing into darkened Pa Our interesting contemporary the Par Hast of Tokio prints a picture of the crowd in front of iho Japanese House of Parliament on the oceasion of the recent démonstration in favor of equal suffrage which reminds us of Welling ton’s remark on viewing the first British as- sembly chosen under the popular system: “I never saw so many shocking bad hats Only recently it was reported that he had “cele- WoL sawyers’ union and cutting piece rates as well as wood, | idering the time Wilhelm has been in Holland, | boosters are, would you? Well, I can tell you one firm, Pease & Elliman, To-day I was told by them they would have the renting of this house and that rents would be DOUBLED. I am now paying $12 a month for six rooms on third floor, only two of which can be used at.any hour of the day without electric light’ I have been asked by Pease & Elliman and Nassait & Lansing to buy an apart- ment in this house, being assured the rents in three years would pay for same &nd give me an apartment free. Now here are two profiteers. What jare you going to do-about it? nic VICTIM. March 18, 192 ‘Teansit In Philadelphia. ‘To the FAitor of The Evening World: I have read with interest the edi- torial in your issue of March 20. The editorial seems to proceed upon the assumption that if a five-cent fare 1s suificient in one city it should lbe in all cities, regardless of varying |conditions which obtain in different cities, One sentence in the editorial Jin question reads as follows: “in Philadelphia the company, whose motto is ‘Give the people such service that they will like to | ride,’ reports a prosperous year at a 5-cent fare.” All the facts in relation to the situation in Philadelphia are fully understood in the traction fleld gen- erally. The explanation of these is not at all mysterious, and bas been the subject of official survey, May We presume upon your patience suf- ficiently to quote a few paragraphs from official proceedings and docu- ments which the case, showing how conditions in different cities the fare problem one Which must be settled, each olty for itself? rhe Director ot ity in Philadelphia, William ‘Twining, sald in & report to the city govern ment, dated Novemb “The chief or bear upon He ‘Gi ade that the ‘Transit, Com- if the report of his sawing accomplishments is cc wrrect, | his average monthly cut has been something more | than 1,000 trees. Allowing twenty-five working days a month, this is forty trees a day, ten for breakfast, | ten for lunch and twenty for a good square meal after the day's toil. If Count Bentinck gets as much from his other workers, he is doing far better than American farmers were able to in the days when casual workers were | mere “tramps” and expected to work for meals, Cer- tainly no I. W, W. would ever do so much for any price, let alone for his board. Emperor Wilhelm ought to unionize himself and restrict Output if he is in financial difficulties., 1 \ a Philadelphia Rap pany can still operate its system And maintain a 5 per cent, divi- dend on a five-cent fare is due to local conditions which do not favor other cities with which the fure may be compared, | have repeatedly pointed out that there is a fixed and definite relation- ship between the fare and the service which it can support and the question of management as between different cities can af- fect that relationship only to @ very limited extent, “Chief among the local condi- tions in favor of the company has been the city's delay in complet- ing its high speed system and the almost complete lack of develop- ment of the sur system during the lost eight years. It has noilber extended the eurtace » system to keep up with the de- velopment of the city nor has it been burdened with either the completion, duplication of, service or fixed charges which result from the operation of both sur- face and high speed systems in the same territory—a condition which exists in all other large cities of this country, New York, Brooklyn, Boston and Chicago.” Secondly, it is interesting to note that Philadelphia Rapid ‘Transit peo- ple themselves frankly admit that the Philadelphia situation proves nothing as to other cities, On September 28, P. J. Joyce, representing President Mitten, testi- fled before the Federal Electric Rail- way commission in the city of Wash- ington, After explaining in detail the “Philadelphia Plan,” to which you al- lude in your editorial, Mr. Joyce was questioned by the Commissioners, He told the Commission about the-trans- fer system in Philadelphia which comprises the three-cent “exchange” charge from some lines in Phila- delphia to others, “In 1918," said Mr, Twining, “43,791,710 passengers paid 8 cents to complete their ride, The three-cent exchange,” he added, “brought in about $1,600,000 a year, something more than the company’s entire surplus.” “Pittsburgh has so many diffi- culties in the matter of grades and topography, the location of its rivers and population and the long unre- munerative hauls, that there is no comparison and where we are sailing along pretty close on the wind on five cents, Pittsburgh would not be able to get along wt all on a five-cent fare.” Mr, Sweet then asked: “You would not claim, then, that all cities are as liberal as Philadelphia and could fix a plan and reach a sat- isfactory result on a five-cent fare?” “No,” said the witness, Mr, Sweet: “You think the solution in many cities is an increased fare?" Mr. Joyce: “Increased revenue, cer- tainly.” FRANK HEDLEY, Pres. & Gen. Mer. I, R, T. 165 Broadway, March 23, 1920. Not ¥ ‘To the Pautor Will you biished as a Rook, The Evening World kindly let me know whether “Love's Gamble," written May Christ is for sale as a book? CARMELA TEDESCO, New York, March 23, 1920. “Swat the Dry.” To the Huitor of te Hrening World: It is with deap gratification that 1 note your consistent stand against the Prohibition Amendment, Most every day there appears in one or more of the daily papers a letter of protest. However, of what avail are these protests? It is quite plain to me that both the Democrats and Republicans are going to, if possuble, evade the issue by |some agreement, and the people thereby will be deprived of an op- portunity of expressing themselves at the proper time and place, and that is on Election Day. 1 have heard quite a number of j people express themselves that thoy would vole for wet candidates, irre- . WIGHER WAGES i % hit UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920.) LEARN WHAT NOT TO DO. The successful story writer spends as much time think- ing what to leave out as what to put in his stories. All good work is based on doing and leaving undone. And there is always more to leave undone than there is to do. The dreary narrator who tells of every incident in an experience he has had makes intolerably dull a story which, had enough been left out of it, might have been vastly en- tertaining. Most of us know tiresome people with minute memories which hold as tenaciously the unimportant things as the im- portant things. And those of us who know them avoid them as we would avoid the plague. A pilot who was guiding a vessel up a narrow, rock- bound channel was congratulated, when he docked the boat, on his skill. “It must be pretty hard to learn where all the rocks in that channel are,” said the admiring passenger. “I don’t know where all the rocks are. id the pilot. “Then how in the world do you keep off them?” “Easy enough. I know where the deep water is.” Locating the deep water was all the pilot needed to do. There were thousands of rocks beyond and behind the chan- nel, but they didn’t worry him. If he knew the deep water he could keep the vessel in it and guide his ship safely to port. The sculptor sees in a block of marble a statue, His work is not adding to the stone, but subtracting from it what does not belong there. When he has taken away enough his statue is finished. Learn to leave out, intelligently. Learn not to do the unnecessary things, not to add the unnecessary work. Sim- plicity is the essence of all great work. And your work will never be either great or simple unless you study carefully the difficult art of omission. race ee er tte tee a of Great Novels -—- By —— Albert Payson Terhune 10, by ‘The Prem Hablishing Co, Copyriagit, 1 (The New York Evening World), No. 63—-THE RED COCKADE, By Stanley J. Weyman, HE French Revolution was at its" bloody climax. The nobles had | oppressed the country for con- (turies. Now the people had risén against them. The nobles were forced to flee for their lives, Those that were caught | Were guillotined, ‘The castles of the absentees were burned to the ground. One aristocrat who did not run away was the young Vicomte of Saux. | He believed in the rights of man and jin a republican government and tn \ali else that the revolution stood for | As a result, he was looked on with {suspicion by the people and was jecorned and hated by his former friends among the nobility, | The first result of bis repuviicun | way of thinking was that his engage- ment to Denise, de St, Alais was {broken off by that lovely young avis- \tocrat's family, Now Saux and Denise were deeply and unshakably in love with each other, And the breaking of the en-*) Bag nt Was @ staggering blow to them both, To add to the sting at Saux's he Mme. de St. Alais betrothed 1 {happy daughter to an aristocrat still held to the old beliefs, Word came to ux that the infuri- ated peasants were about to set fire to the castle of St. Alais and slaughter | its inmates. He hurried to the castle, but arrived too late to prevent the mob from setting it ablaze. Yet Saux arrived in time to save Denise from death in the flames and to rescue her family as well, In his brief interview with the girl in that moment of peril he discovered she still loved him and was true to him, in spite of her mother’s efforts ; to part the sweethea | From then on Saux set himself td guard Denise and her family from harm at the hands of the mob, Again and again he was of great service to them. Yet throughout Mme. de St Alais snubbed him and refused to listen to any talk of a renewal of his engagement with Denise, At last, ho.ever, as she lay dying, the mother saw that her daughter must be left without a defender or @ friend in all France unless she should withdraw her opposition to Saux's sult. And she relented, joining the hands of the lovers and bidding them be happy. Then, carrying Denise far away into the quiet country, where the din of the Revolution reached their cars only as a faint echo, Saux set out to make her forget, in his love, the hor- rors she had been through. In her bridegroom's love she was comforted for her mother's (death and for the jownfall of the o! me shovhad been bora ee eee | News Flashes | | From Around | | | Flying Casualties, Revised figures from the War Department show that there were but 583 casualties among American aviators in Europe during the war. Of this number 491 were among aviators with the A, EB. F. and the remainder among aviators on duty with the British, French ‘and Italian armies. The casualties are clas sifted as follows: Killed in com- bat, 208; prisoners, 145; wounded in action, 132; killed in action, 41; missing in action, 29; injured in action, 25; interned, 3. see Big Game Herds Increase. : Big game animals are increas. ing on the four big game reser- vations under control of the United States Department of* Agriculture. The report of the Chief of the Bureau of Biologt-! «© cal Survey shows a total of 36& Dison, 274 elk, 54 antelope, and 21 deer, an increase in each species over the number reported last year, The number of visitors to the big game reséerva- tions is also growing, says the report. Exportation of Musk, In normal years exportation of musk from China averages in value upwards of $875,000. The spective of party affiliations. 1 won- der how many people will join with me and pledge themselves to “Swat the Dry" on Nov. 2, 1920, irrespective of party, creed or color? c. H. Low. Forty-second Street Building, Mareh generous public. these men, Onl Police Department met his death at t) from newspaper reports I learned hi family was in want. being sought to create a fund to care for the families of five brave men who recently lost their lives in a Brooklyn fire. The purpose, I think is just, but why is such a fund necessary? Why public enarity? I think that it is a shame to ask members of the Fire and Police De- partments to risk their lives knowing in the end that their loved ones are likely to be in want and subjects of public generosity, 1 have contributed remarried or dies, If she died and le to educate them. I firmly believe that of New York would see a different se of men, who by heir interest in th work would me than repay their ployers (the citizens). It would s! the members of both departments th, the citizens are willing to stand b i them when the time comes that this be my small mite to the fund and think] 1 re quest letter be put every one ought do the same. lished, 0 that the readers’ of yot Is it not possible that a large sum | P who appreciate t rts of t protectors of th their views, an homes may ot money can be appropriated by thy eH so doing jcity’s law makers and the interest from this be used to create trust awaken the officials who funds for the families of these brave | means of making proper and just jw men who sacrifice their lives. ‘This | provements. JOHN FLETCHER. would do away with requests om the| Brooklyn, March 23, 1920, I think it is due last month a member of the hands of some unknown person, and I later read that his family was to receive something in handling about $00,000 jihe Reighbuilood of $90 per month.) tacls annually. Police his, to me, is not just, as the cost of a 46 1) the Kulitor of The Krening World living to-day requires more money I notice in one of the New York|than has been allotted to this man's German Cotton Market. evening papers that subscriptions are{family. Hs wife should receive the In a review of the Bielefeld man's full salary until she has either any children the money should be used if this were done in both departments the citizens Pt European war and disturbed in- ternal conditions in China have interfered with this trade, The musk is collectéd principally on the Tibetan-Chinese _ frontter, The city of Tachienlu is credited with ie is flax and linen market the Rhein isch-Westfalische Zeitung says that the weaving mills cannot undertake operation on a large scale for lack of cotton and linen yarns. Cotton in particular és almost wholly lacking as it has to be imported, and a revivat of the Bielefeld industry is ».| possible without cotton. ir] impossible to compete | world markets with cloth "| paper warn which was) manu factured during the latter years of the trav. although its quality has been tmproved considerably, ft Dy im t te the of in n-