The evening world. Newspaper, April 6, 1920, Page 22

I b ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 3 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITWER, President, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Becreterv. Park Row, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ‘The Amociated Preas ta exctusively entitled to the use for republication (Of All news despatches credited te it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also (he local news published herein. PREDICATING FROM PRIMARIES. T APPBARS to be a two to one lead for Hiram 4 johnson on the Republican side of the Michigan Presidential preference primaries, with Wood, Low- den and Hoover following in the onder named. On the Democratic side, Herbert Hoover and Gov. ‘Bdwards of New Jersey are crowding each otner for first place, while McAdoo, Bryan and Palmer straggle in some lengths behind. Politicians of each party will scrutinize the figures and predicate from the results with the wisdom of their kind. What does the Michigan primary vote really show? Republicans and Democrats admit that bad weather kept many voters—particularly women voters—at home, The vote was even smaller than expected. The few thousands or hundreds of votes credited to an individual candidate in the primaries are ridicu- lously disproportionate to the pretentious claims based thereon by political leaders, In’ Michigan as elsewhere, votes cast in the prima- ties ‘are still in the main votes that dutifully come forth at the bidding of the local machines, A primary is chiefly a measure of the relative efliciency of opposing organizations to date, It gives the managers of one organization a chance to gauge the effect of what they have been doing as compared with the accomplishment of other camps. ” ‘The great body of the popular vote, nowever, still fails to tum up at the primaries. It has never yet used them as they were meant to be used. It still remains X — the biggest unknown quantity in the equation. PLAIN TRUTHS FOR DR. STRATON. 6s UR women,” the Rev. Dr, John R. Straton of Calvary Baptist Church is quoted as saying, “have become a cigarette-smoking, half-clothed, loose- lived lot.” We have no idea as to whose women he refers. It women. If so, and until he explains it satisfactorily, thousands of men with mothers, wives, sisters and church should not spare him from being pilloried as a public scold and scandalmonger. he read to his congregation on Sunday evening, al- though it is evident that, for the sake of sensationalism, he grossly exaggerated the conditions that prevail. There can be no excuse for the sentiments expressed in the Monday morning elaboration of the theme as expressed in the sentence quoted. No one has a right to talk about “our women.” Words such as this minister of the Gospel used are “fighting words,” whether they come from the pulpit or the street corner. The Doctor of Divinity degree confers no immunity from the consequences of such a flagrant example of public slander. There is unquestionably good reason for the disin- fection of some of the plague spots in New York’s underworld, Public opinion will support a general clean-up. But a pastor does not help the cause by letting his speech run loose in a way that promises quickest returns in self-advertising. Dr. Sraton in making such general and unfounded statements has seriously offended. Apology and re- traction is the least that should be expected of him. He has insulted the great majority of women, who have not become a “cigarette-smoking, half dressed, loose-lived lot.” In making such a statement he dishonors the cloth he wears and arouses opposition to the very cause he professes to espouse. THE BRICKLAYERS BACK. OMPROMISE settlement of the three-month strike of the bricklayers under the arbitration award of Mayor Hylan is one of the most encouraging developments in the housing situation. Bricklaying is one of the key industries in building. Without the bricklayer the other trades are hampered and delayed. Full credit is due to the Mayor, to the employers and to the employees for any settlement which will permit the building programme to go ahead. The pity is that the same solution could not have been reached three months ago, so that building could now be under way. Stabilization of wages in the other building trades is already promised for the period of a year. The next thing to work for is a stabilizing agreement for ma- terials. The disturbing factor in the planning of hous- ing relief has not been the high cost of labor and ma- terials, but rather the uncertainty as to how much higher the costs might go. The Council of the Building Trades has entered into an agreement that should prevent strikes for the year. The bricklayers are now under similar agree- ment. It is now in order for building material supply firms to do their part by offering to supply materials vances, but not against a decline. from the Sherman and Clayton laws. | provide legitimate reason against building. ing already insufficient to the demand. A CRITICAL TIME. bonus is designed to benefit? than the pay of the average worker. everybody. spending. Congress, declared yesterday: “We must not increase our floating debt or we shall invite disaster. We must not issue bonds if we desire to keep on a specie basis and avoid a panic. We must keep our total expenditure for the fiscal year that begins June 30 next well within our income. If we do not we are inviting Treasury conditions which will bring Nation-wide disaster.” of prosperity. prices. It is not a question of national gratitude. than it has given or can ever give. large majority of the war veterans themselves, and naturally, without a crash. against defeating its own purpose. bg might pervert that purpose to incalculable harm. “SPOOFING” THE EDITOR. which the Times printed last Sunday. May Day parade last year was a serious blow. chief. Mr. Varney says: His (Palmer's) intervention was unnecessary. They were already cadavers. A few months would have seen them blinked out automatically ~—killed by their own dissensions. He finds that the brief tempestuous adventure of Communism in America is a proof of the vitality of our institutions, All the babbling of these millennial dreamers has not shaken the working class of America. All the star dust of Bolshevism has been unseen, Communism came, arrogant from Europe, seeking to entrance America, Now it returns to Europe again, balked and deported. And America is still a democracy; her people still walk in the ways of Lincoln, entered, viction that Mr. Varney succeeded admirably uscript. there is really no need for it. at Albany, { ata price “pegged” for the season against possible ad- An agreement not to RAISE prices has little to fear The Rent Profiteering Bills are not so severe as to Finally, it seems in order that the self-respecting real estate interests should publicly expose any speculating, gouging interests which may attempt to discourage building in order to realize fabulous returns on build- There are ugly rumors that strong influences are being exerted to perpetuate the shortage of homes. H OW is the proposed bonus for war veterans to be} j provided without creating new burdens which | will have to be carried in part by the very men the} Inflation of currency and credit has not yet ceased to show its effect in price advances and wage increases, In general, the cost of living is still going up faster New spending power has not yet tired of the novelty of extravagance, Prosperity has not yet got its feet on solid ground. At the present time the slightest increase in taxation is certain to be almost instantly transposed into in- creased living costs which will quickly be feli by A heavy bond issue can only intensify conditions which are helping to prolong a period of abnormally high prices favored by reckless private and public Representative Mondell, Republican House leader in Service men are as interested as anybody else. in hastening the day when falling prices will begin to make present incomes something more than the illusion They could better afford to postpone their bonus than to receive it under circumstances which will con- spire to take it away from them by further lifting It is not a question of acknowledging the debt to sounds very much like a general charge against all! ihose who fought and to whom the country owes more ) It is a question whether, at this time, such a bonus sweethearts very properly will resent his statements. | can be ‘paid without putting a heavier load on the The fact that Dr. Straton wears the cloth of the} classes who are bound to carry most—including a The moment is a critical one—if the cost of living There may be good reason for such a Sermom aS} is to take the long-awaited turn and come down safely Until, Congress itself sees the danger and sets the example of prudence in other Federal expenditure, the much-discussed bonus for soldiers cannot be guaranteed Vote-seeking party leaders in a reckless Congress AROLD LORD VARNEY, former member ‘and officer of the 1. W. W., who recently con- tributed an analysis of the organization to The Sunday World, has written a similar article on Communism, Mr. Varney traces the rise and fall of the little band of Trotzky followers. He finds that the failure of the The death of the movement resulted from doctri- naire disagreements in Chicago last fall. The movement was broken and on the wane before Attorney General Palmer ever stepped into the limelight as deporter-in- Mr. Varney, who knows the extremisis of America very much more intimately than do the editors of the Times, gives credit forthe failure to the people the extremists hoped to victimize, the American “prole- tariat,” who were too intelligent to be fooled. The Ole Hansons, the Speaker Sweets, the Lusks, the Palmers and Woods, whose actions the editors of the Times indorse, are left out in the cold when the credit is Somehow it is rather difficult to escape the con- “spoofing” the editor to whom he submitted his man- Repression may be entirely justifiable if one happens to glory in repression for its own sake, but We trust that the Times editors will read this article with care and then apply its lesson to the Sweet issue LD, TUESDAY, APRIL 6 1920 | ed! Copreeht,, 1920, by the Teen ieh bg € (The New York Precing Work) ¢ that gives you hundred? There is fine to say much in the worth of a mental exercise few words. The Tree Club in Brooklyn, ‘To the Kiditor of The Evening Wark: Many of the children who frequent ‘Tree Club, admits them as members. The mem- take them to the museum, they are sold and the proceeds de- ot trees in our city streets, Within been purchased and planted by the Tree Club of the Children's Museum, which the Children's Museum is help- ing Brooklyn and Brooklyn children. Club and help get trees for Columbia Place. He will find many things the museum that a Boy Scout. MRS Brooklyn, April 2, D. C. SEITZ. 1920. s Mistreated bat ‘To the Bilitor of The Evening Work’ I write in reply to a “Dangers of Tail Twisting.” The writer, or any the same idea in mind, nonsense. Does he think for a mo- ha for, second think of British forces or C fight against the L never! Ridiculous ‘This fighting will be a busi enlisting in the adian forces. tc Ne ited States, ne is not and never "88 proposition or ¢ us, whenever they ever they can use us. CARL JOHNSEN, formerly U Brooklyn, April 2, 1920. want us, wher 8.N Atming the Young To the Filitor of The Bvening World: Permit me to make a few correc tions in the data submitted by Mr Richard Cushing to your p this date, School teachers never re sign, says he—among other things. In the first place, statistics, which, by the way, are authentic, sh in the United States 148,000 teach have resigned in the last three Mr. Cushing emphasizes the that a teacher gets $2,700 per annur jen. 8. But $2,700 represents thirteen years’ teaching experience and — sixtecr years’ preparation in school, high school and college, to the uninitiated, I've done manua labor (was in the army two and half years, which means of that __FROM EVENING WORLD READE What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one Take time to be brief. the Children's Museum belong to the The payment of 10 cents bers collect tinfoil, newspapers, &c., where voted to the purchase and planting the last few years 3,000 trees have This is only one of many ways in I hope your young correspondent, Edwin Paynter, will join the Tree t | amg will ‘help him as|‘hey perform, letter on one else with is talking ment that (I'll venture to say) 5 per cent. of the real American boys who ought for, or who tried to fight the United States would for a i vofee | Some real men in office with prin- auseton of how much they receive 9} Gijiey like Gov. Edwards of New Jer- ¢ sey. As far as England's navy deine | 8X) 1. pronipition ta on the ne bigger than ours, that may be true | ve eRe man an IA on tne ae but dynamite has been found in sma! | OF this’ country, j packages, Did Prohibition improve the con- T admit we ex-soldiera, marines | ations of the country? Certainly and sailors have not been treated | not, Why take the liberty of drink fairly, but we are here, every one of or ol that I also suggest each pring the » | “Independent Bare should en- bring along many :on- rs] verts possible, Such a movemen would be useless a larg ° act for teaching A B C's—pretty soft, eh? And teaching A B C's sounds easy diggin trenches and chopping stuinps a part ) and I've taught, and thousand words in a couple of und a lot of satisfaction in trying |from the point of view of “easy | berths,” give me lubor. ‘Teaching in- ‘volves’ a mental and nervous strain, | manual labor a muscular one. Ask your doctor, Mr, Cushing, which is nore strenuous, And another thing—do you kno old chap, that high school teache teaching specialties, which involves special training and money outlay to qualify, are getting $1,050 per annum $87.50 per month, Try to live on that, Mr. Bricklayer! The raise which Mr. Cushing men- tions that the “generous” Board of Education gave the teachers last year raised the pay: about ts a day. Compare that with the raise in the cost of living and then “root your darndest,” Mr. Cushing, for the new Lockwood-Donshue bill, which, if passed, will give the teachers a liv- ing commensurate with the duties Py Teaching forty “young ideas to shoot” y is service, and if the public wants these Ideas to shoot in the right directions, the minds be- hind the youth of this country must be properly remunerated. N. De Witt Clinton School April 2." Hopes to V. To the Editor of The E I have held my p long enough | on the subject of Prohibition. My religion is Jewish. We are allowed to drink e during our holidays. Is this fair to the Gentiles? Certainly not. nanded wine for our holi- the Gentiles not the righ me privilege for Christ- yw Year's? y do wish we would get mas and I sincer away from the majority of the peopl on account of a few who abuse It? T am anxiously waiting to see this question brought to a vote by all the people. I hope that will be on next election. A READER OF THE WORLD. . the Motion. 1 the Kaitor af he Rvening World I hereby second the motion made by party signing himself “One of Them." without MH J. LINDe lyn, April 3, 1920, rollment, 482 State St Movies, ng World: atchmMaking, and a little of the his- but while at the My business is 1 believe 1 k actors light natehes on their thum Now, what 1 want to know is, where such L rs} i >| Clue cr ew, ip: pager” ates me UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, YOUR BRAIN AND IT WILL GROW. US. 1920.) Any physical director can tell you how to increase your chest expansion and 5 Mus shrink. A broken limb, our biceps. sles grow when they work. When they don’t work encased in a plaster cast, will wither to half its girth in a few weeks. To keep your muscles normal you must use them every day. Regular exercise, w ich every one has to take to get through the day’s work, will neither increase nor reduce the muscles. crease them even perceptibl, than the average amount of exercise; you must take more you must in fact take more exercise than you really need. This is just as true of the body as it is of the brain. The ordinary brain work that you do day by day will keep your brain about where it is now. not much. It will grow a little, but To increase its power to any considerable extent you must increase the amount of work you give it. And to de- velop it so that it will become a really good brain you y tA must give it more work than Correspondence school memory cours it needs for ordinary growth. Ss, mental exer- cises of all kinds are useful if they really set brains to work. Anything that gets the extend itself—-means growth It is possible of course possible to overwork the mus brain into harness—makes it to overwork the mind as it is les. But there is so little danger that the average man will overwork his mind that it is hardly worth while warning him against it. Reading, thinking, working out mathematical problems, all help the brain to develop. flows to When it is at work the blood Its functions are exercised to their utmost, and its growth is steady and healthy. Keep your brain at work, Give it more to do than you have been giving it. about a quarter of it. If you are like most people you use You will never use it all, but use at least half of it, and you will get far more pleasure out of life, to say nothing of ma POPPE L LP PP LPP PLP PLP PIPPI PPL EIS PILL ILL LDL BS ing a far better living, matches as these were manufactured at that period. Movie stars should study the history of the m New York, April 2, 1920. Otherwise Satisfied. ‘To the Ealitor of The Evening World: When you uphold and foster anti- Prohibition I do not agree with you. Neither do I believe in, Mr. Anderson's slanderous remarks concerning the Catholie Church, From what I have seen of whiskey during my time I think the world and particularly this country would be better off without it, The coming generation will never know the curse (it is not a drink) that it was to fools. As soon as the saloon is banished the churches and night soo ls are frequented by those who used to line up at the bi I do agree with you In your expo- sure of the profiteers particularly , Peabody & Co., who have charged very stiff prices for stiff col- lars, The letter from their attorneys showed that the truth hurt, If it were not that you upbold anti- Prohibition I would say you were liv- Aper told you to do “fight all dema I must say that I admire your statt of writers, John Blake, Max Watson Albert Payson Terhune, Sophie Irene Loeb, Martin Green and Bide Dudley. Mr. Dudley's comical sayings are as funny as the comic drawings and help us to laugh in these distressful times. Av K, 10 West 934 Street, March 23, 1920. Comparatively Kind. To the Halitor of ‘The Evening World: The Evening World by its articles on rent extortion has rendered mag- nificent service to millions of people. It is the oniy newspaper that has published detalis regarding the Dis- trict of Columbia Rents Act, pass-d by Congress last year, Compared to that act, the New York State Legis- lature has been extromely kind to the rent profiteers by allowing them | practically per cent. on top of their profiteering prior to a year ago. . JON 1987 Washington Avenuy Mara, s. up to what the founder of your | Bogues and be drastically independ-| en Treasures for. ened New York’s Public | Book Shelves Corr Rin New YOR traning Woe Columbus a Nature Faker-.- When Christopher Columbus sailed back across the Western sea to Spain, and told of the New World that hé- ‘had found, the scientists, astronomers, Philosophers and students of Europe shook their heads sadly, muttering the Middle Age equivalent of “Nature + Faker.” . It couldn't be possible. The world, | was flat, and they knew it. Prancy tius Justinianug was one of the. | doubters, and he published his doubia‘ in his “Paradoxa,” a rare quarto ot 61 pages, that was printed in Aprr 1530 at Tridinum. “The book has re«, cently been acquired by the New York Public Library. wt “You are greatly mistaken in b< lieving that Spanish sailors saw the, Antarctic Pole,” writes Justinianua, “For if so they must needs have dis- covered a region scorched by the heat of the sun and uncultivated. . . Mire, 80 great is the noise of the wii lo world in tts rapid revolution, that (ie ears of men are unable to endure it. No one except Adam and Eve, as tie sncred writings record, was ever in, the earthly paradise which # | sert to be under the equinoctial c!icle, {It is a fabulous statement to say tht, jmen walk in a position which is ig reverse of ours.’ eee Use of The Library--- e Relatively few persons understimf ¥ the use of the vast bibliographical collections of the New York Pubic | Library at Fifth Avenue and iad | street. ‘The first step is to con © alphabetical card index systern 0: (uo third floor. Here you select. your book, and write on a call slip the, number of the book, the name aid) authors name, together with your, jown namé and address, These slivs.- are taken at the desk, and sent oJ |once by pneumatic tube to the b. j stack. The reader, meanwhile, i9 |siven a card with a number on ‘ts | You pass through the corridor to jlarge inner reading room and take your place on a seat from which yous jean see the electrically lighted indi-§ {eator. When your book has found and is ready for you at th desk the number on your cand | flashed on the red screen and you cw |at the desk for the book. | A particular advantage of fhis: lt | brary is the large reading room whe: ‘you can get reference books dir | from the shelves, without ans }formaNty or signing for th | Just enter the room, select war sve |and read it there. | 7 8 Types of People--- An officer of the library sui jeently that a list of the names « | persons who drew books froir ne |library would sound like an ats | trom “Who's Who in America.” | tors, scientists, inventors, prof publicists—all work and study s' by side in the large reading roon There are all types here Ma V | Students from the numerous sche jAnd colleges of the city find the fle {invaluable Young , business mug ; learn more about their own pusines ‘and professions, The Library Bulletin tells of ay ay i | tor, for example, who wished con | Maps for the cross-continent « |race and found them in th | Division, Central Buliding. | Some of the stage scenery uv | by Nina Tarasova, singer of It sian folk songs, was Painted! | herself from material which s ; found in works on old Russian a in the Slavonic Division, Ceni Building. Authors who were studyir | write articles on such subjects as | the history of Trinity Chu: | | | been New York; the art of the ily nated manuscript, and the Ju sonian period in American his | came to the Manuscript Divisi | Central Building, for their ma- terial. | A lady trom Gothenburg, Sweden, was greatly pleased 1» apens from tor | Centra} Buliding, A FYfth Avenue departinent store, in which has long beon | maintained a collection of books from the Extension Division, telus phoned to the library a request for pictures and descriptions of women's costumes worn in 1897, Future orders and relations with | @ profitable customer depended upon their furnishing an ex'ra replica of the costumes worn ‘n that year, Old files of faghion magazines gave the information oe . What People Read--- 7 ‘The annual report of the Mprarpy shows some intercsting things about our chanyng taste in literatures 0 ‘There has been a most surprising ii in the demand for history, use of books glassified as history other® than American formed 9.40%, of the’ total number called for. In 1917 i, rose to 10.010/,, and in 1918 to 1) Last year it dropped to 8.8707, facta aro that during the war was @ popula, temand for infor tion about the warring, nations , ., furthermore, many authine Wome thom ‘writing war stories and wewing on jomctal investigations, a