The evening world. Newspaper, April 1, 1920, Page 26

Wicrid. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. by the Proas Publishiog Park Row, New York. PU PULITZER, President. 63 Park Row, }. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, H PULITZER, Jr., Secretary. i Asveiated Pres ts exclusively entities to the ase for republication fh Rowe der ateher credited to it oF wot otherwise credited fm this paper | so Uke ima) mews published herein. RENT RELIEF. IHE bills to check rent profiteering passed the State which one vote was cast. the Governor signs them to-day. was a special reason why a certain class of 14. Evening World pointed out that reason yester- leases which éxpire Oct. 1 next contain 4 of their intentigns as to renewal. ree such tenants to sign new leases, calling for rent | Mdvances as high as 100 per cent., before the 25 per limit provided in the rent bills becomes the law. a Attorney Sammis of the Joint Legislative Commit- tee advised The Evening World by wire yesterday that tenants to-day need notify the landlord or agent of their intention to renew the lease. nced not sign, since the passage of the rent fs mikes excessive rent increases subject to re- view by the couris, and in such cases present tenants y be granted a stay not to exceed twelve months. © Question: What about that “printer's blunder,” Miscoveres\ last Monday night, which had prevented the z f bills from being duly filed in the Senate and so * delayed passage of the bills in the few remaining days “April 42 ta as the long arm of coincidence linked in a land- Res-arm? Who was the printer? inquiry is ‘in order. 7 E i THE REAL VERDICT. FUHE verdict is in. The five Socialists have been expellec Assembly at Albany is a.“rump.” 5 50,000 voters may properly raise the cry of tation witliout representation” which stirred Ameri- i is in 1776, verdict is in—burt is it? in New York~the short-sighted and mistaken cunning of one man misplaced in a position pwer conceived that he could mount to higher te by an appeal to mob passion. is the verdict in? other States there are ambit tunities similar to Thaddeus Sweet's, fas attempted to duplicate his feat. They realized t Sweet misjudged and overreached himself. They fectly interpreted the popular verdict waich was re- d. immediately after the trial began, and which ily will prevail. et did not win. He lost his cause, Sweet has ed his chances for the Governorship, He stands 1S ed even though by exercise of autocratic power he contrived to “save ‘nis face.” ! verdict this morning was not the true verdict. people’s verdict is against Thaddeus Sweet. -y must learn by mistakes, then Thaddeus great teacher. ee isa ‘THE CITY'S RAGGED PAVEMENTS. COUNTRY districts early April is recognized as A “road-drag time.” Rural -road overseers are expected to put in full i with as large crews as are available. Road drags kept moving to repair the ravages of winter frost | moisture. ‘s p in a few spring weeks than in all the rest of ease year. =» What is the city doing? “Under ordinary conditions work on pavements may | spread over a longer period without serious incon- This year, however, there seems to be particular, for extra work. | PWM its unprecedented accumulation of ice on pave: | sea Ferhaps it is the cumulative effect of a degree New York's streets were never in worse con- “Wes unmi d be increased. Delay not only means discom- “of meglect 4 THE PUBLIC'S RIGHT. SHICAGO firemen threatened yesterday to join the strike of other ciiy employees unless in. of pay in the Fire Devartment are assured, week to go on strike if the new wage scale d for firemen is not grantéd within thirty days, entitled to fair pay. should be prompt and thorough. | ‘ But divided allegiance cannot be tolerated among *Senate yesterday by votes which were unami-) yunj¢ employees upon whom rests responsibility for save in the case of the Ottinger bill repeal, | public protection, That is as certain now as it was at the time of the ‘The Assembly approved them just before midnight | Boston police strike, As The Evening World said The meaning of such threats is serious. The strike of the Boston police last September was a blow to principles and guarantees upon which public security depends. A firemen’s strike in a big city would be an equally formidable menace to public safety. Firemen, like any other class of public servants, are Consideration of their claims then: If American civic principles are to endure, the com- pelling argument for higher reward must remain, ords were desperately anxious to secure postpone-| waereyer public service is involved, not force but of the final vote on these bills until after to-day, | faithfulness, HIGH AND DRY? F the Republican Party were to line up behind Herbert Hoover on a Hoover-built platform, it requiring tenants to give notice om or before} woud take a high-power, double-barreled microscope to detect the difference between a Republican and a the past few days landlords have been trying to! memocrat. Republican Party leaders are confronted by a dis- quieting dilemma: Is it to be a machine-picked candidate for whom ens of thousands of voters hitherto enrolled as Re- Publigans will care nothing, or is it to be a popular candidate who is sure of a big Republican vote but on whom the Republican machine has no real grip? So wavering have party lines become, that profes- sional politicians of both parties are in a position where, instead of dictating, they must listen with un- wonted diligence to what the'rank and file of the voters are saying. | * The situation is one that might easily develop into the spectacle of two skeleton machines—one Repub- lican, the other Democratic—left high and dry on the side hills, while the flesh, and blood of both parties t roop up the valley under an independent banner— | with Hoover at their head, ABSENTEE CONGRESSMEN. | "THE EVENING WORLD correspondent counted the number of absentees in Congress the other day when an important appropriation bill was under i preset and voting may pass legislation. consideration, More than a fourth, 114, were ‘absent. The circumstance was not unusual. More than one tant bill has peep, passed by @ tinority, a very “minority. » Under the files, a majority of those It is un- nécessary even to have a majority of the membership present unless some member is so rude and inconsid- érate as to demand it, inubachavien with What the voters have been forgetting is that Con- Not one] £tessmen are the hired men of the different districts. They are sent to Washington with a definite job to attend to. Suppose a business were so conducted that em- Ployees could excuse each other from work, but that the pay checks would go along just the same. Then suppose the employees got together and by informal a greement decided that one-quarter might as well be absent each working day. What would happen to the business? It would probably be about as profitless and as wasteful as is our National Government, such working conditions for a labor force. No labor union would have the nerve to demand If one did, employers would rise up in horror and proclaim that a condition of “Bolshevism” prevailed, that the work- ers were organized in a “Soviet.” But where is the difference ? When a quarter of the labor supply of Congress lays off on full pay every day isn’t it about time that the employers (the voters) said what a business em- ployer would say? ) Porhaps it is because of thy severity of the winter | T! Isn't it about time to serve notice on the Congres- sional Soviet to cut out the sabotage, get on the job | Rural districts frequently pay more for repair and, am! tend to the work they are paid to do? THE ELOPEMENT SEASON. VBN the traveller just returned from arrived, Daily columns of the newspapers reveal the fact. | he annual elopement season is on full blast. women are losing sleep and—far f unavoidable neglect in war years, Whatever the Solar. Within the past week, even a casual reader of the news columns can scarce have failed to noteat least On many asphalted streets an automobile passenger half a dozen stories of runaway marriages among the ded of the “Witching Waves" at Coney Island, “Younger set’ akably a time when paving-repair crews Sttying their lessons. Easter vacations offer a tempting opportunity for fort Pow but increasing repair expense with every day Other harum-scarum couples to stage touching little family reconciliation scenes—after the fact. Indeed, it is unnecessary to read the newspapers. A walk in the city parks or a ride on a bus is convine- | had their bonus reinstated ing testimony to the turning of the young man's fancy. sunny Florida and unaccustomed to the brisk breezes jot the North need have no question that spring ha: Those in charge of the exclusive schools for young worse—losing who are supposed to be industriously There is fine mental exercise and High Cost of White Collars. Ko the baitor af ‘Ie Wrening World I have noticed with satisfaction your comments on stiff collars, and, while you have presented the case admirably, I have a suggestion to make which would surely startle the innocent “yoke” wearers. The suggestion is this: Devote large a space as is practicable, that it will not be missed, and, large type, give the figures as to what it will cost a person to put on 4 white collar each day. The cost of the collar is 35 cents, and the cost to lawnder is 5 cents. A collar will crack after six, launderings. It will, therefore, be seen that| every time a man puts on a white! stiff collar he pays 105-6 cents. This puts the facts in a new light, which is, to my mind, very startling. D. H. KEYBS, Winter Hill, March 30, 1920, le Featt | ¢ Kirowing World: | You publish in your paper the state-| ment that John Moir of Belfast has been appointed a member of the Or der of the British Empire for drivin 11,209 rivets in nine hours, ‘This | would reflect upon the riveters of the | United States. Allow me to say that \the man was never born who could drive 11,209 rivets in nine hours. as 80 in “FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | | What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words.in a couple of hundred? much in few words. Take time to be brief. @ lot of satisfaction in trying to say have spent most of their lives doing conscientious work for the Govern- ment are reduced ta starvation wages. March 29, 1 M. V. A. Joy of Daylight Saving. ‘To the aitoe uf The Breuing World: Being a good American citizen, I wish to protest the un-American ac- tion on the part of the State Senate | that repealed Daylight Saving. Tt is} useless to discuss here the benefits | of daylight saving, and I for one be- lieve that if these same Senators were to get up gome fine morning at 6 o'clock instead of 9, they might get) the spirit of it, Can't you coax one or two to get up an hour eariler to get them to enjoy it? Then perhaps we all might be able to get our work done and get home and enjoy a frolic. ‘The Republicans certainly ought to play the ostrich act and hide their | heads after such action. Most far-| mers do not care whether they have a clock or not. They get up and do their work by the sun, then finish and rest. So why take this same privilege away from the rest of us? I hope you will push daylight sav- ing for us all. A READER. Time Changed Too Soon, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: What benefit is derived from Day- Nght Saving? —| Who Lived in En 'English King Old New York William IV. Lived in Hanover Square in 1782, and Wash- ington Hoped to Take Him Prisoner—Dubbed His Of- ficers “Old Women.” | ITH the visits of King Albert W of Belgium and Albert Wd- ward, Prince of Wales, dur- ing the past winter New Yorkers have learned just what good fellows some Kings and Princes are. Few, how- ever, know the story of the bluff and hearty King William IV. of Eing- land, who, as Prince William Henry, lived in New York City in 1782 when Gen, Washington with the Contin- ental Army was encamped across the Hudson. The city was the headquar- ters of the British Army and the gay centre of the Tory society Ufe of what England still called “the rebel colonies.” Williaft had a most merry winter in New York, we gather (rom an ep- ning article by Kdmund Lester the New York Public His home was in rson in Bulletin. « mansion on Hanover Square, and ry balls and parties were given in hhe honor by the ambitious Tory mothers of the city. He skated on the. old Collect. Pond and gometimes rode horseback out throug the country roads toward Yorkville and Harlem, ihways accompanied by a strong eg- cort of the danger of bis being captured by the rebels. | Planned His Capture. This wa n. Washin becu tse a very real danger, for ton had approved of 4 irefu) plan prepared by Col. Ogden of the First Jersey Regiment to cap- jture the Prince and bring him into | Washington's camp. In Spark's | Washington Writings (vill, 226) nay be secn a letter whieh the Generai {wrote on the subject in which he stipulated tHat the Prince, if eap- tured, must be treated as a prisoner | of war of high rank and that no in- j die 1 bim A Prince's Opinions. William Henry was a Prince of most decided opinions, ‘Soon after his visit to New York he entered the naval service of his country, studying seamanship and navigation of the vessels of the English Navy. He had a great love of the sea, and was in fact known as “The Sailor King.” In addition to his navigd- tion studies he learned a great deal UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920.) YOUR PROBLEMS ARE THE SAME AS ADAM'S. Progress is largely a matter of personal comfort. We are thousands of years ahead of the Greeks in means of locomotion and communication. We are very little ahead of them in character. Do not think your fundamental problems are any differ- ent from those of Adam. Life itself is no more complex than it was in the days of Eden. ‘Temptation is just as prevalent; evil is just as universal. Simplify your problems and they will be easier to solve. Though you are surrounded by machines that add and multiply, by instruments that send your voice thousands of miles through the air, though you can outstrip the eagle in a long distance race through the clouds, you are still a human being, with all a human being’s limitations. The Ten Commandments fit the present needs of the human race as well as they did when they were handed down from Sinai It is just as necessary to be honest, to be decent, to abstain from covetousness and from violence as it was in the days of Moses. Make yourself a moral code, and abide by it. Be square with yourself and you will be square in all your dealings. Learn to recognize temptation, and you will be able to avoid it. Your opportunities are greater than those of your many-time-great-grandfathers, but your difficulties are the same as theirs. When you think out your future, forget the complica- tions of civilization, Remember that you have one thing to The shady benches and the rear bus seats were all) hoping to stir up those in Washing- occupied last evening, Not even apariment rents terrify optimistic youth— Leule the Cily Firemen's Union voted (hig and, anyhow, the Legislature ia golng to flax that F "clock in the F 4 ; | pe © when the K CSD Ek lt ch oe must set up at ‘ o'clock tn Ni do—to lead a clean, industrioys life. P nknife when the King evidently there are 640 minutes, 32,400 seconds, | Morning, Just when the sun was be- ° a that. and vou Will be able tolook the worldl in the 7|Suenmed lim mind. Divided by 11,000 would allow less t ginning to come up, and of course ry | ¢ . ri Then, with the death of his elder three seconds to each rivet driven,|did not need a light. At night my face, And if you put your very best efforts into everything erotuaeiclentibe Ti Lawan walled $1 This is impossible for any man, or| People get home about 5.15. That!% you do you will help the world, even if only a little, in its A PE UEP AFLP pig machine run by man, to accomplish. {Means thay my dinner is over by 61% Yea ] peor ea es Goa panel the command of his ship to take the Any rivet that is driven in fess than | clon. and it is eal LEhi—becom~ ollsome progress 6d u |throne of England. His blunt, ct f actual time he ghter each ening. sque is, bh speech of Citisen encnni Of AtLuN jms 00 wel I would like to know ts | 2 Sw mnnnnnnnnnnnmnnnnnnnnnmnnmmnnans: |brusdie Ways, his speceh of author that rate of speed a man can drive ange the time when we il i Mina aan ee ———— | ity of the quarterdeck somewhat over- about 2,000 fair rivets. are nae hoatpnimng ie fag Ca) one downed I would prefer to vote for| teacher drawing $2,400 a year is paid | WOClmed the court, When be first Let me hear from some crack ship iy ed A ange Mr. William Hohenzollern as a candi- | at the rate of $15 a day or affixed My title as King to state time from April to September, when |riveters and let them confine them: | ee utd be inconve minneeds date for President, Wor five hours a day th. n= | papers that were given him he said lselves to facts: How 1 y driven, |" } pa : vay Give me liberty or giv death, ion would be $ an hour. The hn cues DrUNauan: : : | Why does the Government make a ‘y 5 with eas usquene his tp a how many condemned and how many | ;, PATRICK HENRY ! Jon a perfect i . ReG ray |law, and then have it repeated, am. j h duran bad pen you have given me!” men In each gung. AAS Lae repealed again? What is the use of pag ea , ie ” No. 73 Cliff Street, Rosebunk, 8. 1,| ¢ i But Many Do Resign, i @ tite of “The Sailor King? was + i. ‘voting for a thing, and if it doesn't ‘ Relvianel | 6 March 30, 1920. | Nuit uome people, Note on it again and | 7 th Faltar of The Brening Work! | teachers receive an even t |scon won . ppt * Sid pail - itation for an-| Pe? hour of labor~not bs : . qncenetetencion la Gevermmont Pay| melt, oF until It In satistuctory to Apropos of the agitatio fh ling children their AL « | Friend of the United States. 4 the few? You derive nothing when|other increase in salary for schol | "hth 1 ' fi Bh tis ious ivesiag Wend: ¢ é Purtherm orth Willlany IV. did everything in his casio you tamper with natare. The war i#| teachers, will The Evening World or]and dangerous work we Few people know that last year the| over, and we are tired of saving—for di aw power trengthen the friendship $100 salaries of clerks in’ certain | wnat? A. B.D, |#ny one else be kind enough to show/a pension. why, I hve with the new nation, the United S branches of the Department of Jus-| New York, March 30, 1920. " {me a better paid or more congenial | Mets fathom. | Xo. Peavactundeeitaciseenee eens all Government employees a bonus of | To the Miitor at Me Exeaing World hipnda for $10 4 day je a piker tn Ast Ane preps On one oceusion, n a speech at $240 a year. | Have closely followed your articles | Comparison. ; PA Papell eas dinner with the i They reduced our salarie:, they ead, | In all the propaganda for another yome Oo a din t American Minister, ; af get Prone! tad ud.) on Prohibition and must congratulate | crease, issued by the teachers, they to grab way he suid that it had always been a mat Honus ia cut off and we aro on the |The Pvening World on the fairminded | only mention tho | mifimum | or YL Lele ter of serious regret with him that he : y, whic ° ditorkls p m4 entrance salary—no mention is ev r $90 monthly salary, which is utterly | editorkus published. ‘nade of the teachers drawing they will had not been born a free and inde impossible Bt present living prices. T for one have decided to vote | or $3,400; we never hear of ths has e ‘ pendent American cilizer egy Post Office employees, Who are hereafter a straight Socialist ballot—| fer annum class, and not a Wo oft ers drawing fiom $2 iw ani vari |under a different department, have and 1 would feel justified in voting | ever said of husband and wife both| to $2,700 resigned. Not even wo considers AMINGtOR) “the” greatent | Judge K. M. Landis spoke at even 6 Gee peliok abauia Guch | teaching and drawing in the neigh | pa laries. comparable ‘ nan that ever lived. a" andis spoke ‘ ~ organized. Surely these| porhved af 5,000 good American dol- on this fly en os = | mass meeting in Chicago last week, parties or their representatives can't Tey ad f | such rich returns for 160 daya’ ' misrepresent the yotera any more uring on 160 days a year endance, tive hours a day. pat Mave a Drink! tan who are in a position to bolp us. than our present elected officers. | is slightly in excess of actual school! when sick indisposed, with a pen Ne York City consumed His speech has been sent to all Con-| have voted the straight Republican | days, and deducting no days for sica-| ion throw No, editor, teachers Renan ain greasinen | ticket since becoming of voting a or indisposition, for which ald not resign, not even when they | 1.000.000 gallons of water @ In Washington new clerks are now | seven years but until the des- | teacher also receives regular compen-|murry; they may die, but never re- duy in 1919, and 495,600,000 gab Suge. | delng started at salaries of $126 per|picable Anderson is ousted and hts | sation, and giving a teacher six hours mostn 2nd Un While the ciathe Wao) boling Giaue of fatunned tune ies day inniend of ave we Aad of bluff and straightfordward sea ‘talk whieh often In later years em- sed his courtiers and gallants }at Windsor, 4 Among the rare papers of the New York Public Library is a British naval list, a “List of the Flag Officers His Majesty's Fleet—January 1, 1785." It was the personal property of the Prince and, doubtless, to aid his memory in the days when he would be King, the young officer an- notated the volume, which he kept in his cabin oy the Pegasus. Will- iam Henry's opinions of his fellow officers were decided. After the printed name of His Grace the Duke of Bolton, Admiral of the White, there is a word written in the young Prince's scrawled handwriting that Jlooks suspiciously like “mad.” The | Right Hon. George Lord Viscount Mount ecumbe, Admiral of the White and a power in the navy and Admiralty, is concisely termed “damned miser." The list for 1783 shows that he considered Hugh Pigot and that he referred to Commander James Mackenzie as | “old Daddy.” Perhaps the term was Jone of affection : Called Officer “Old Woman.” | Some were br Jan.” “cheating,” —points that the Prince did not forget in later years. There is much pointed |slang of the sea in the volume, others, | terms that the royal pen evidently, | got from the barracks and the of- | ficers’ In one place the word has been carefully cut out with a of mess tone on 1010,