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nie ee. | fairly drawn he should have caused the introduction of a bill providing a schedule of ‘salaries which he »could approve. ‘YRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1920 se a ST | Hina Peace by Resolution! 2th: By J. H. Cassel bri Mission a OF the Library The Public Library Aids For- ¢ign Born to Study American Ideals, While Still Offering Them Thousands of Volumes in Many.Tongues. |66 A, MEIRICANIZATION® {9 new “A PULITZER. by the yess Publishing ————— 63 Park Row, Wew York. U | ae APPRAISE YOUR CONGRESSMAN. en EMER OF THE 4s80CLATED PRESS, PEAKING generally, most members of the present ea ee hte Te ty acces enauea t's are| > Congress ought to be defeated and retired. i bd 5 dl eecodhmowed Speaking generally, this country would be better off , VICE AND THE POLICE. with a complete new set of national legislators. HE regular Grand Jury has indicted Police In-| © This generalization applies without regard to party A. spector Dominick Henry on charges of negtect| and with few exceptions as td individuals. _ of Wuty in failing to suppress disorderly houses in his) The present Congress, Senate and. House, had a ~~ district. ‘ than| Bead Bey The same Grand Jury has brought indictments ae or ee ga bl a eee barging them with Q ies 2:7 Le Ala Nara ti Little has been accomplished and much of that tittle p The Grand Jury last month indicted a Demnity| has been wrong. ‘ ~ Police Commissioner on charges which gravely reflect] Partisanship is in part responsible. | upon the attitude of a certain element in high official) Lack of individual ability was never more con- ‘police circles toward vice. pleases. - Out of all this may come tangible evidence to tis faite be tation that dark sone wherein. vice and the| More parlicularly the present Congress © | police are in a vontact that breeds corruption. because it did not grasp the Let in meaning of all 7 ‘At the same time, it seems more than probable that | that is implied by “representation. New York is in for another of those anti-vice crusades| The members have failed to see that, whether for in the course of which various persons vie with one] good or fll, our Government at Washington has be- Sei 6 @ word but in practise it has been carried out for imany years by the Public Libraries. ;Naturaily the first step in reach- , ing the foreigner is to give him books *|in his mother tongue, and so to en- courage his desire for study, In the branch libraries of New York City there are collections of books in foreign tongues that aggregate 106,473 volumes, according to Edwin W. Gaillard, writing in the Branch Library News. The total circulation of these books amounted in 1918 to 455,108 volumes, Probably the largest collection of Bohemian books anywhere in the World outside of Bohemia wilh be | found at the Webster Street branch A large collection of Chinese books ; 48 featured at the Chatham Square } branch, i anothér in’ digging up and disclosing the city's mani-| come a NATIONAL Government, They have failed Fe a * Seshis~ Wi Dania Beets ion ry fold depravities. Al tatives, as directors of the eee son Flemish, French, Greek (modern), If the result is merely to scatter vice and drive it nol he gee ssa Ania. Ps hy Mebrow, Hungarian, alan, Nore: to new expediénts of semi-secrecy, the effect upon the » Roumant ussian, Ruthenian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Yiddish, There are newspapers from all over the world, all the leading French, English, German, Spanish and Italian papers, although war conditions have prevented many of the Russian and Austrian publications reaching here, In selecting these foreign language books an effort is made to. get books which will give the foreign-born reader an understanding of Ameri- can history, civics and customs, it~ ty or more copies of each of the pub- lications of the Lmmigrant Publication Society have been purchased, among them such books as Fowler's “How te Obtain Citizenship.” This book i published in English, Italian, French, Yiddish and German, Through evening schoolg and by, independent study the immigrants comes to learn English, and from this point on there are many books which will further guide bim in’ his studies for citizenship, Alissa Franc’s “Use Your Own Government” is such Ameriedns:" by Peter Roberta: More = ‘ : Advanced toxts are Protessor Chases ee eyes ze ; Pollties” and J.T. Younes: “Net nators could-see nothing more important than oppor-| is no longer “pasy.” ; Cee Aen age” r "| American Government and Its Work” American Gover: yand its Work.” to play party politics and balk the President? Sectionalism has broken down because in the long In order to ald the encourage Most of the members of Congress continue to rep- eth a vie SM cs resent districts or States, They regard their constit- | When shall we have a sane, practical, exhaustive | uents as a distinct unit, not as a part of the whole, _} study of this problem that will recognize thé strength] The failure is most evident on the ‘business side of # the argument for segregating and controlling vice, the Government. The effects reach into every part ‘instead of teaving it to make its surreptitious bargains) o¢ our national life. 4 ie sell ued ‘ ubard: Time was when a representative might represent his district or his State and earn re-election. By log-rolling 1 WHAT CAN WE SAY? and “dickers” he might contrive to’ gain local improve- RENCH troops are occupying tht Frankfort section | ments, favors, jobs and advantages for his home folks i rey ey peimihe Tek Tench Government | sn though he might not be helpful in the larger affairs Pulting aside pretense and facing the facts as they | f Sovernment. ates are, what can the United States Government say to This sort of representation implied sectionalism. But the French Government about a situation which has | sectional advantage was what the people wanted. Gov- ‘@me about in large measure the United States emment revenue was “easy come and easy go.” The Senate kicked the Peace Treaty into the middle of next | most satisfactory representative was the one who could nobody-knows-when and left the League of Nations a direct the “go.” spineless butt for German sneers? * What can the United States Government say about Federal finance has changed, The revenue that comes from incomes, excess profits and luxury taxes ‘ict adherence to peace terms in which United States, ay ie | brary assistants speaking foreign tan- What can the United States Government say about | run it is a losing proposition. guages have been placed in many li- raries. Sy the purposes of the war when the United States Senate Congress has vaguely realized a little of this. The Rules for the use of the Mbraries has chosen to repudiate them? ; A ey a have also been printed in several for- 4 most offensive items of the “pork barrel” have been vign languages, | , “About all that can ly be transmitted from ad bak (Co hd act OS Se cpthere,, 8,80 excellent “Mothers | | Washington to Pais at the monitnt are thetets eliminated, ongress) Fas, not leamned Jauthink hes aa with a membership entirely of foreigs "and splot: for the United States Sot, nationally | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS Eee cee cer oh t Voters are coming to realize that they are stockholders os ate I | U N C S SE young men and women of foratgn 2 rs is, o it! or parentage, and thi j Me: FIGHT IT OUT. in a great business, with 500-odd directors sitting in What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one By John Blake many ciner clubs, organizations oF d . agsoclations of various kinds which | JPY HE railroaders’ strike now spreading through the | Washington. They begin to see that a bad investment | if eee you the worth of @ thousand words in a couple of (Copyetent, 1920.) ; eet at the branch libraries, whose / y “ | N tN TRE. members are of foreign birth or _ 4. West reveals the seriousness of the split in the] in the dredging of Mud Creek in Arkansas will be re- There te Jie monic! eneroite, en6 6 lot of satisjaction tw trying | Pi ngiacigd HAS ot Ag ibid hp abigs ves the {| bareniare.. in'adalton ts organises sans of oraz tbe. feted in Brooklyn's Income tax rate, and that a] soy mach mf words one tine 0b re waite cae, Maw, prick Nex porting, sins Sisk 9 Sento Recent ree * Y . —_—_— ce od 2 The strikers who are disobeying the direct orders of | Jamaica Bay project for the benefit of Brooklyn real ee re there is the Judge who sometimes listens to reason. poten en tharos oo megan ‘'the Railroad Brotherhood heads represent a labor ele- The. Rvei World He business office. The only solution 1s BY Wao eae ena to teach the principles of American cit - LP ncin estate interests will be partly paid for in Bingville, the | 7% the miitor of The Kvening World: an increase of wages. Pull saves nine-tenths of the minor lawbreakers. It 3 | izenship. that has become more and more impatient with Now that the laws curbing rent}, As usual, the Lockwood-Donohue is employed everywhere, too often with success. i . i ropolis on Mud Creek. The income t bill provides the greatest benefit for pies 3 ? Swhat it regards as the slowness and conservatism of | ™¢topolis on haere de © tax Serves aS a) profiteering are on the Statute Books| tne Deople higher up. ‘Those already | The minute the average man is caught in a little of- A Prehistoric Fable. labor leadershi quarterly reminder. 4 feel, as a member of the Assembly |recelying the larger salaries will be fense he busies himself with his friends who are friends When Abdab, prehistoric King, P- : helping to frame this legislation, that | granted the larger increases. I$ of tho friends of.those in high places, And sf he or bis Had tried for years and years in vain * The issue begins to be clearly defined : If voters were electing directors of a business cor-|‘The Evening Worid should receive signincene Peery near etpety friends are influential enough, and the offense is not too $|7% mle Ua Stee ore’ mare # t eart! = > C is reign. F On the one hand we have insurgent railroad workers | poration they would not in many cases elect the men | pressed tonent ianehe “city oF New lower paid teachers. Those who bave|} serious, he usually goes scot free. For each distillery he'd close. or protesting against “the dilatory tactics of the national they have been electing. Palen and advocacy, cc this iomsin- [Sam and have Deen drawing the ee ere A ey a strong enough to protect you if $11 for every barroom he'd face officers brotherhoods” sf ~|higher salaries arc not leaving for you violate the laws of nature. Ignorance of them is no Ten thousand bootlegs took its pluce, fi ksi and seeking to form a new They would not re-elect men who squander the assets, | 9% G14 much to strengthen and up-| other flelds. Older people are not bas eke ee ! Until beneath his weight of woes organization which shall be the “real organization” measures in charge and made easter |‘Urning to business after teaching Th ist fits th ‘ ieaualwne 1 He was the saddest of his race, 7 play favorites among the foremen, pad the payroll and| the task bofore us. several years; they are in the school | he punishment fits the crime, and it is always exacted. ‘when it comes to enforcing demands. \ ain I wish'to thank you for your help] #Ystem for good. ieseur younetr. _ Nature’s laws are fixed and irrevocable. At night his dreams would intertreave f ‘On the other hand we have railroad men who stand | VY unnecessary assessments on owners, in thig oe a N, sess, [22d would-be teachers are fast Abuse your stomach with too much drink or too much WORT Tee Sie Rae Ce ciaue® by their Brotherhood officers and insist that Brother-| Because the record of the present Congress is so bad, Member of N. Y. Assembly. Bhaneiee, (hele Saute. ts necessity! ¢ f00d and you will be promptly sentenced to indigestion, Each in fan independent key; hood members must carry out their contracts, it behooves the voter in this vear of 1920 to exercise} A!bany April_6, 1920, at dictates ‘a higher wage, give the $ You will get a more severe sentence for a second offense. 3| Until at fast his ming gave yay. ) A hy dened e day Which is t te? i ‘ i tres te vere, greatest increase to those already $§ And death itself will be the penalty for continued viola- He ertevel caske of tam to be 1 dominate particular care in electing his representative directors. | ro the xaitor of ‘The Evening World: Grawing Dig salarieg, who don't in" 1) tions, . eb ab on Comnete labelled “roe.” The element of organized labor that believes labor! Because the record is so umbusinesslike, the burden of} 1 was greatly interested in a let-| (inte Increase down below would at- | Overstrain your eyes and you will be speedily sen- }} And prehistoric tevends say ' y can advance without violating its pledges and breaking | proof is on the representative seeking re-election, ter which appeared in last Sunday's| tract youth and young blood ar “|g tenced to wear clumsy and inconvenient glasses. Con- ee wae Dis One cates decree. its word, or the element that holds all respect for pledge} ‘There is a new scale of isal j By Hie lel ees ee Wayne B. whevler/*¥Wwhy burden an already overtaxed|$ tinue to overstrain them and the penalty is blindness—the $| For weeks old topers drank their sil re is a new scale of appraisal imposed by the in-| generai counsel of the Anti-Saioon| Why Bumen, te coseniy, iventren|$ snost terrible that can be visited upon you And sies the Gleew.af taniien. or promise to be dilatory and old-fogyish? come tax law. Representatives are on the defensive, | League. it was his usual interpreta-| provides such unnecessary raises for : Mie 4 4 ; While youngsters missed the joyous The sooner the question is fought out t ttl t “| tion of the law as to what alcoholic} those already well paid, if not too _ Nature is just, She makes her laws for mien to keep. thrill q s ut fo a settlement | They should be forced to prove that they have meas-| (tents constitute an intoxicant, &c. | well? It is easy to keep them, Any person of intelligence knows Of circumventing Prohibition. the better. The present railroad strike in the West] ured up to the new and changed tests. They should| put what really interested me was|,,Many 9, teacher, signed the petl-|$ what they are. a : Willa 9 oer tie tease ence looks like a promising battlefield, 'be forced to prove their fitness affirmatively, his advice in closing his letter. a Rot becauso they thought it fair, but Hat ones they are broken ie pull will are No ex- For now sith Tiauor free as air i 5 ‘ ji ho really wish to de-, because it seemed the only chance to|$ cuses will be accepted. And there never is a chai ‘Twas passed unnoticed everywhere; * There is, however, one lesson for both sides to] The'test should be on the basis of national service | $828, “Wnt? Yeightecnth “Amondment! receive a living wage. Let the Mayor hi lity will P hile the in t will rn te that $1 | .d'so a fellow with @ fap on ponder. bi R Th ati i have but one honorable method left, be exonerated for once. M,C. the: guilty will escape while the innocent will suffer. Became a sight exceeding rare. * and business sense. e representative of a district open to them, and that is to elect a} New York, April 4, 1920. Inasmuch as breaking Nature’s laws is punishable by Organized labor can never hope to destroy the com-| js a misrepresentative. Congress to resubmit and Legisla; ‘The Cost of Cocos. lifelong suffering and death, it is worth while to abide by 3|,,,, a nates he alnind petitive principle—either within or without the union,| The test should be “What have you done for the | UTS qatene TPO hE Piano To te Raker ote Drei Wels them. . a eygreer, soe're told to let alone, « ue “WW. ” Y iserab:; failed in every] 1m your paper of Apri 101 Moreover, most of us aspire i | U. S.?” and not “What have you done for us? oomaritbas “Grives for money since/letter signed “Reader of Evening To treat our stomachs os our own, x TEACHERS’ SALARIES, the Fighteenth Amendinent has been | World," headed “Pzofiteering in Co- - -— WILLIS B. HAWKINS. + ey ne me a es,’ saddled on a clean-living, Lp “BUY | coa.” they were allowed during 1919, when, of the United States Sugar Equaliza- ’ AYOR HYLAN is, in the main, right in the line SPEED ITS FINISH. ing, arms-bearing oltixenry they 4°0! “Does he mean that if you buy an|the Government control fixed the] tion Board. Oxford Abolishe: « of opposition) he takes to th now perfectly willing to cut Mg S-ounce tin of best cocoa at 20 ceats, | price at which sugar was sold. We hear continually of investiga-| 2*!OF cS pposition he takes to the passage of the ASSAGE of the Peace Resolution by the House is| throats, Of the, legislators who did the dealer or fobber gets a fabulous |” "On top of thls toll charge by the|tions and the fact that we have suf: Study of G 5 a Lockwood-Donohue Teachers’ Pay Bill. | s Fi Rgeediuisis yy sue Se IS| thelr dirty work in an effort to re! Dront? If so, 1 want to know where. | refiner, the speculator adds a fancy|ficient laws to prevent profiteering, tudy o reek ; r mn ? ay | scheduled for this evening, store thelr graft, and are now open!y |" We know good cocoa can be bought | profit for himself, with the result that/but there has not been a single in- HE recent abolition of compul~ 4 His analysis of the vomparatively small increases | 3 ., | advising the votora to beat them at/i, quantities at 15 1-2 cents in ware-|the general public and legitimate|stance of any constructive action : rip repel ° “| Two weeks ago the leaders did not expect that it] the coming election. They are mun-| house, Does he consider the cost of|manufacturers are placed at the|under such laws to prevent profiteer- sory Greek at Oxford has been offered to the lower paid teachers is correct, as The ould go to the Senate before April 42. The Hi ning practically true to form and bit) trucking, packing, risk of credit, &c.?| me 1 speculators. ing, * the subject of much comment Evening World points out to-day | would go to the Senate before April 12. le House | ing the hand that fed them, If he does, I consider his statement 5 ators as @ rule have} If the present speculative element! pro and con In the English-speaking evening World points out to-day in a more extended | has gained two legislative days in considering it ins] Can our Concreasmen ignore this! raise, as the manufacturer, jobber or/no common interest in the sugar|that has taken a hand in the sugar| > but perhaps th e analysis. i ‘ any longer? It means certain politi-| retailer only gets fair profit out of|business when it is normal, but are|businoss, in which they have no inter.| Press but perhaps the most inter+ ye be | stead of running behind as usual, cal death at the coming election. | {hse sales. simply in it now for what ‘they can] est other than for the big profits that| esting opinion of all comes from M. However, the Mayor is, in a measure, at fault 1 # ly k hen i ss the Si Amputate that Prohibition Amend-|""Gongider the number of cartages|ouge, and usually are of the class/are in” sight, were forced out by a| Venizelos, the distinguished Premiet 4 ; Pt ware eaven only knows when it may pass the Senate. | ment from the Constitution, Have it|perore the product reaches the con- |of fly-by-night exporters, of which alcombination on the part of legitimate| or Greece, who is himself a schole, A year ago he opposed a salary increase bill on the| Speed of the House may be accounted for on the dead, buried and forgetten by next) sumer, the labor cost of packing, cost | great many have sprung up during|sugur Interests, the writer believes a| Of OT¥e according. to th eetigee r ii ati ce ‘i poy love’ + ting, labels, wooden cases and dis-|the war. Breat would be quickly accom. | © 5 ce ground that the increased taxation necessary would| ground that the leaders well know the futility of the JAS, B. REYNOLDS, county. H. JEWELL. | since the Government has relin-|Dlished toward bringing the price of| Morning Chronicle, , be passed on in the form of rents, an objection which | farce. A Presidential veto will kill the resolution just Rast THth Street, April 7, 1920, 6ig/ 10mm Street Brooklyn, “Aprit| guished ita control for contracting granulated sugar down {to a more| “1 aim not at all surprised at the js without merit in view F + € 6 39m. DAO MS ee cot aninoa tarand| Te Tt . decision,” he said. “It was quite nat+ % poli Ae sane of the scandalous under-| as dead after two weeks of talk as after two months of “Tolling” The Public. dene eel ouner, reduere purchass the public will pay 86 cane Poe ee ural and inevitable, Nor am I in the Payment of thousands of teachers. talk. May I be allowed to express an | To the Editor of The Evening World: ing raw sugars, with the result that lated sugar this summer, bi Finest grein ctor he ssi increase nla fas ink ia | th ther refiners had been ork, Apri ; The necessity for ine reased Salaries for teachers is} We commend the example of the House to the oni naib pe ; tar uence te ee Geantat Taine to Keep the price of granu- , | country will not suffer as a result. So evident that any pay bill, whatever its defects, is] Senate. S$ hi hedule and head of It. oe he Lockwood-| 1 t 2, with reference to the big|lated sugar down to a point consis- Greece and © ntinople, don’t see what good there can bo tn ; ley ly “'S, I8| Senate, Set a short schedule and run ahead of Donohue bill ts passed I shall re-|D% ate ‘that are being reaped by|tent with the relinquishment of Gov. | T'h¢ filtor of The Evening toring Greek upon people who don't “certain of sybstantial support. If the Republicans are determined to pass some sort |celve a substantial increase, for) speculators in the sugar market ernment control, they have been| !f there is any nation to which the! want to learn it. It rather doos harm Mayor, Hylan’s predicament is th sul +s Par “ ‘i gach s which I should be duly thankful. | vale ‘acquainted with the situa. |forced to meet these speculative bids| World owes its gratitude it is the to Greek study.” Asked what ho an+ ByOr. Trylans pi is the result of his} of resolution, Democratic opposition should be con-| Mayor Hylan 1s fighting that bill, and! tic, would say that a good part of|for raw sugar, and in turn are com-| Hellenic nation, For more than ticipated would be the effect of. the _ Previous attitude, and the opposition it aroused. fined t ti talk |for that reason alone, in the eyes of the present condition can be placed|pelled to charge the public and|twenty-eight centuries Greece hag, Oxford decision in the future, Ven " i, \ fined to votes, not talk. |many teachers, is little short of a on the shoulders of certain refiners, |™manufacturer more for thelr granu-|\ oo 1.6 champion of Justic lip, | 2¢l0s ald: “I should imagine that the In attempting to block increases in teachers’ pay Put all responsibility for delay on the Republican’ villain, I must confess, however, | who have been encouraging and help. |lated product. en the champion of justice and lib- | study of Greek wiht become less ex for the sake of a false economy showing, the M. 3 Aaa jthat I can easily understand his ing speculators by “tolling” raw| We now sea the result of the|erty of the world. tensive and more intensive A y ig, the Mayor | majority, viewpoint, ond 1 Dellove he te right.” ‘sugare which such speculators have | strenuous objection on the part of the prnains Crees Get hare. Ganatanths knowledge ft Cryo wit bebomegthe i ere is great cry the d wd. The refiners who hi iviana repre@entatives in he bd where privilege of e intellectual a yi ba In coming elections what the Republicans have NOT pout classes without teachers, while been doing thi vase | (ou enton es Ene lsenine feature, was {twas for a thousand years and more racy, but It will bo a more’ thors ust : tat the Lockwood bi s| done wilfgount more that whit they have. [Basen Taschen INE Meni Sty percent Busted Saas tiene Waits" eT of He Romerny | Eereaeen tn nae bie Tn lh - e ‘ Ns ao VR ARBOR SUPE ar vanes a ean me eT -