The evening world. Newspaper, April 12, 1920, Page 16

: BSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing » Company, Nos. 53 to 63 Park Row, New Yor! ITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 62 Park Row. ITZER, Jr.. Secretary. Park Row. ssmcaiea Pre sberdy satied o tr we Wt Cl "Seapets ereSicd Ne wah ecburwion creed to tie OOH? the loon! vows published Bereta f SONORA'S SECESSION. 66 PA sdeeghiekd the new Government is backed \ by the people” is an interesting sentence from the report of The: World’s special correspondent at Nogales, Sonora. He refers to the newly organized “Republic of Sonora.” Mexican revolutions and revolutionists have become and trying story to the United States. Most Ihave been caused by the personal ambitions men or groups of men, All too frequently appeared that exploiters of Mexico have been interested in weakenirtg the centralized Federal Government “backed by the people” would preferable to what has been. Signs of anything true political consciousness of a self-determining in any section of Mexico will be studied with interest in the United States, political intelligence improve in a series of buffer states along the border simplify matters for Uncle Sam, gage ff [ BUILDER OR WRECKER? ESTERNERS are playing an important part in the Presidential race for the first time. Johnson and Hoover, both Californians, are in the .. Spot light as leadfhg contenders. pa OF thé Hoover Republicans not a few would wel- ome Johnson as second choice. Many Johnson sup- | porters feel that Hoover is much preferable to any candidate other. than Johnson, : In the matural course of events the two men are certain to will = 't ‘aut into each other’s support. Many voters waver between the two. ~ The situation is rather surprising in view of the marked differences between the two men. “, One they have in common: Neither favors the machine. An. analysis of their radically differing campaign methods may poit some useful lessons and clarify the situation for many: who are in doubt. Johnson's speeches are “full of fireworks.” In this of Theodore at sg But an- free from the rsonalit: appears that hdoas cra mi WHAT COMPENSATION? AYMOND B, FOSDICK, until recently Under General of the League of Nations, re- ‘tums to this country with the assurance that “only @ne who has been in Europe can realize the deptin and of the feeling against us. are regarded as a’race of ‘quitters’ and “We left Europe in the lurch in the middle after imposing on her our rules ‘We threw the league out of satisfy a miserable political the way Burope looks at it.” To-day, aloof, isolated, distrusted—forced to make plans for the “biggest navy” and a formidable arma- ment to prepare for the very conditions which we went to war with the professed aim of making hence- ‘Yorth impossible! For what we have lost can Senator Lodge point to gone iota of compensation? A NEW GRIP ON GRADUATES. “TDRINCETON UNIVERSITY tas embarked on a new effort in educational service that promises “well. , Other schools, we imagine, will be quick to follow ‘the Princeton example. It has long been recognized and deplored that college met rapidly lose touch with the intellectual life of their ‘ownl school. They may keep up on athletics, may re- . turn to renew acquaintance at class days, may con- tribute to endowment funds, but business divorces them from participation in the intellectual advances made by their Alma Mater. Princeton has set out to remedy this. Twice a month it proposes to publish a representative lecture 4s a pamphlet which will ~ endeavor to carry to the alumni body, as far as poesible, the most interesting and striking prod- wets of the living thought of Princeton of to-day, Only such lectures will be selected as em- body new ideas or the result of recent research Deets foam ast having direct relationship with current events or problems of high present interest. The first pamphlet reports a lecture by Edward Grant Conklin on the question “Has Human Evolu- tion Come to an End?” It includes a biographical sketch of Prof. Conklin and a short list of books for collateral reading. Excellent typography and arrangement of subject matter attract the eye and invite attention. Convenient form makes it possible for the busy man fo fold the pamphlet and stuff it into his pocket, where it will be available when he has a few minutes of spare time. Evidently the hope is to interest the college graduate and to lead him to keep up with the latest develop- ments in lines of general culture. Princeton is endeav- oring to “follow through” and keep the love of learn- ing active among her graduates. “Princeton Lectures,” as the series is called, prom- ises to be a welcome visitor among Princeton alumni, “THERE IS NO STRIKE.” Ww he was trying to find a train to take him from Philadelphia to New York last Saturday Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federa- tion of Labor, said to newspaper reporters: “Remember, there is no strike. Congress has prohibited strikes on the railroads, but of course there is no law to prevent individuals from quitting their jobs if they choose to do 80.” Mr. Gompers is too intelligent a man to have thought he was uttering only a sarcasm. “There is no strike.” Nobody knows better than'Mr. Gompers that the present leadership of organized labor might as well step down and out unless it can be proved that this new walk out of railroad workers is in no true union sense a strike. It makes no difference whether it is members of the American Federation of Labor or of the Railroad Broth- erhoods who are directly concerned in the present trouble. The fortunes of all organized labor depend upon the issue. If it proves easy to overturn and replace leadership in one branch of unionized labor, the same thing will be tried in other branches wherever and whenever rad- THR EVEN icalism and young blood tire of “slow progress.” If the process continues, the hard won power and prestige of organized labor are doomed, How can there be collective bargaining if union lead- ership can claim no stability? What will contracts with organized labor amount to if organized labor is to pass under new dictators as often as a fresh faction feels strong enough to take charge? What public sympathy or support will back unions that are at the mercy of their own minorities? If labor union leaders must admit they have no last- ing influence over union members, how can they pre- tend to speak or bargain for the latter? This is no era of tyrannous capital and downtrodden labor without help or hope. It is no period of famine wages and starving families. Never has labor been better paid, exerted greater power or commanded fuller consideration for its claims. Into. the case of the 40,000 outlaw railroad em- ployees who are now refusing to work neither want nor suffering enters. So far as they even profess to know what they are after, their dissatisfaction appears to be with inequal- ities in wage advances and with the. slowness of their present brotherhood officials in getting them all there is to be got while others are getting it. That they have other means of urging their demands, that a Labor Board is even now being formed to help them to a fair adjustment of their claims, weighs with them no more than the fact that they are defying their union officers and menacing the Nation’s industry. They are out to test their power—at whatever cost to their fellow Americans. For its own safety the country must recognize the challenge and demand a settlement of the issue, For the future of organized labor in the United States the railroad brotherhoods must treat outlaws as outlaws, They must adopt and stick to Mr. Gompers’s state- ment, not as a'sarcasm but as a slogan: “There is no strike.” The much esteemed Evening Post observes concerning the Stutz corner that’ the law and the Stock Exchange “drew the line at dealing with marked cards,” Since when? NO EXCUSE FOR FOOD GOUGING. EW YORK has reason to be thankful that the “Flying Squad” is in the city at this particular time. Profiteers never had a more plausible alibi than the present strike affords. That they recognized this the rising market of Sat- urday clearly showed. | Every assurance of ample food supplies has been | given. No cause for panic exists. If food prices are boosted the facts should be re- | ported to the profiteer hunters in the Federal Building. ‘hesitate before taking illegitimate profits, Mr. Riley promises active prosecution should the ‘ainst @ WORLD, Mo DAY, APRIL 1 It! x ssel 4 ; y J. H. Ca By Edna Lyall. Sigismund Zalusky was a young Polish merchant, attractive, indus- trious and of fine character. He came to live in the sleepy Eng- lish town of Muddleton, There he won immediate popularity, except with a few people. who did not care for foreigners. And, almost at once, he met Gertrude Morley, the prettiest girl in Muddleton, He and Gertrude fel] in love witt each other, and Zalusky cut out sev- eral local swains, the curate among them, by winning her heart and her promise to be his wife. Then trouble set in. And all be« cause people forgot to apply to them- selves the old proverb: “Of thine unspoken words thou art master, but thy spoken word is master of thee!” It began when Mrs. O'Reilly chanced to say at a tea party that Russians and Poles in England were generally Nihilists, Her friend, Lena Houghton, misunderstood her; and told the curate that Zalusky was @ Nihilist. The curate repeated the story with slight variations. And his hearers in turn repeated it; each adding a little jeomething to the slander. Presently tho neighborhved gossip had twisted the report into a states ment that Zalusky was not only # Nihilist but an atheist and a liber- tine; and that he had taken part in @n unsuccessful attempt to uasassiu- ate the Czar of Russia. This was the version of the tule | Which reached the ears of Gertrude's uncle. ‘The uncle was horrified at these charges uguinst the man lie dear niece was guing to marry. He felt the accusations must either ve proved or disproved; and that Ge:- trude’s happiness depended on ie full truth being known. So, instead of giving Zalusky « chance to clear the blameless name }which local gossip bud so false |smirched, the uncle wrote a long Iri- |ter to friends in Petrograd (this, of |course, was many years before ths war), telling that Zalusky was ra- mored to be an arch-Nihilist and The letter requested an inve tigation of the young man's charac- ter and a probing of the charges, No further harm might have been done if this silly letter had mt chanced to fall into the hands of the Russian secret police. Always on the lookout for conspire acies, the police believed that at last What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of @ thousand words in a couple of hundrea? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying | Their presence in the city will cause many retailers to) Anxious to Eco ‘Te the Editor of The Brening W: I read Mr. Sibley’s 1 r in The Evening World with great interest and would like to be enlightened on a few points. How can we give the retailers the “absent treatment,” as Mr. Sibley ad- vises? Only recently I had to pay $12 for a pair of everyday shoes which I found it very necessary to have, I waited until after Haster for a simple little party dress, hoping I could get it cheaper, but I had to pay the large price of $50. It is the same with hats, coats and other articles of clothing. How Mr. Sibley can get a pair of shoes for $5 and wear them three years Is more than I can see, Mother gets all my clothes for me and she is a good shopper, but the prices go higher every day. I am seventeen years old and a stenographer. It is true I am earning a nice salary, but goodness knows It is hard to get along with. I have to pay at least 50 cents for lunch to get anything to eat. Yes, people could do without candy, but It is not so easy to go without fruit. I sometimes pay 6 and 7 cents for an apple that is not worth more than 2 cents at the most. I do not think Mr, Sibley’s plan a very good one unless people are will- ing to starve and go barefoot to de- feat the profiteers. I shall be very grateful if some kind reader can tell me how to cut down expenses. BROOKLYN GIRL. Brooklyn, N. Y., April 8. “It Ie to Law ‘To the Balitor of The Evening We I notice C. W. F, of Suffern, N. Y. claims that in 1960 people will laugh over the daylight saving scheme of 1920, How can any human being be so dense and live, He goes on to say that the Lorl placed the sun in the firmament to measure time and (to make the silly story short) man with his brain “spoiled the whole party.” that the Lord gave us the sun to make the most of instead of sleeping while jit shines? He gave us light so that we could see while we worked. There- fore the sane thing for every one to do is to sleep while it is dark and be up and out when the sun is shining. I suppose C, W. F, thinks we ought to walk or swim in preference to tak- \ing @ train or boat because the Lord didn’t create such things. It was only the work of man’s “foolish br: If some one had set C. W. F's clock |ahead unknown to him he would probably never know the difference, 3 of day'ight saving, LES FOLKS, and yet he “Tt is to aug! Bronx, April 8 In P Service, ‘To the Editor of The Exening World need arise, People in general are complaining Isn't it sad? Does C. W. F. realize| to say much in few words, Take time to be brief. Department, and there are several reasons, of which I will explain just a few. | One of them is the fact that men who have proven their efficiency by making 95 per cent. in examinations (compulsory) or more and have been in the service anywhere from fifteen to twenty years are paid at the rate of 65 cents per hour and are abso- lutely necessary to the business, while there are boys in short trousers and high sqhool students, ex-bartenders, truck drivers and a thousand different representatives of other trades who are doing part time work and receiv- ing more pay (at the rate of 60 cents per hour) than the older, more expe- rienced men. Besides this the men working on a tour of eight hours are compelled to work overtime to the tune of two or three hours at the large pay of 55 cents, and since these part timers get 60 cents the older men do not wish to work the overtime, and if a man pleads illness in order to be excused he is compelled to furnish a certifi- cate from a physician, which, of course, he cannot afford. Therefore he must work the overtime. If this letter be published I sin- cerely hope that you will not allow it to be examined by anv postal ofi- cials, for if you do my position, which I have held for fourteen years, would ibe lost to me in a few days, as they would recognize my penmanship and this would be considered telling the real truth, something not allowed. A POSTAL CLERK. New York, April 8 Who Laughs Last. ‘To the Editor of The Evening Wor I note that C. W. F. finds cause for mirthful exuberance in referring to the attempt of saving an hour by pushing the clock hands forward. His parallel of placing the figure 2 over a dollar bill and it still re-, mains $1 is very poor and inconsist- | ent, to say the least. For if he would only look into the matter he would know that we are not trying to make twenty-five hours where only twenty- | four exist. The original intention was to save “daylight.” And this purpose I for Jone can say has been nicely achieved iif my present illustration counts for anything, Iam writing this with the aid of Old Sol's rays at a time when ‘under previous circumstances the {electric bulb would have had to suf- ‘fice. As C. W. F. says, “It is to jlaugh,” but it’s the last lgugh that's | best. M.A. G. | New York, April 8. | “Erroneous Impressions.” | to the Editor of The Evening World; | In the Sunday World I read a letter from Mayor Hylan, relating to teachers’ salaries, He complains that |New York City will have to pay 68 | per cent. of the teachers’ salaries of ‘the State. He himself is to blame for | > UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copyright, 1920.) PUT YOUR FAULTS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE. Faults, however small, are germs of troubls, Trouble is what every human being is doing his best to avoid. It is a word of elastic meaning, but it always implies unhappi- ness, whether mere inconvenience or life-~wrecking tragedy. We are accustomed to pay little attention to our own faults, it being easier and more interesting to observe and condemn the faults in other people. Moreover, we are so constituted that our faults seem small to us. We look at them with the lens reversed. As a consequence, they do not bother us much until they get us into difficulties. By that time they have usually become habits, and it takes something very like a surgical operation to get rid of them. The bacteriologist hunting for the organisms that make all the trouble in our bodies employs the microscope. Minute germs that the unassisted eye cannot see be- come under the microscope very formidable. Studying their composition and noting their manner of attacking the human system, the physician can usually find means to con- trol or get rid of them. x Before the days of the microscope many plagues that now are practically extinct ravaged the nations and slew hundreds of thousands of people. Use the test of the bacteriologist mentally. Put your faults under a microscope, Study them and find out how to get rid of them. Little faults like laziness and procrastination looked at through the glass of imagination will become very for- midable. You will see just what they are doing to you now, just what they will do to you in the future if you permit them to grow. And by using this same mental microscope on your- self you will discover faults that you did not suspect you had, but which in time are bound to become great and troublesome. Magnify all your faults that you may study them the better. It will prove interesting mental exercise, and will result in getting rid of many mental habits that, neglected, will soon make short work of all your dreams and aspira- tions, they had identified a very dangerous Nihilist. And, accordingly, they set their traps for poor innocent Zal- usky; entirely on the strength of what'they had read in the letter, The next time Zalusky visited Pet- rograd on one of his usual business trips, he was seized and thrown into a dungeon. There he was left until solitude and hardships killed him. Are We Half Edu- | cated? DWARD L. THORNDIKE tells in Harper's Magazine of a test in which a score of supposediy well-educated men and women wee asked to which figure the distanue from Petrograd to Vladivostok wis nearest—400 miles, 1,400 miles, 4,00) miles, 14,000 miles. Eight did not ane! swer at all. Two answered 400 miles; two gave other wrong answers, Thee were asked whether the product of atb and a—b was at—2ab+b?, at—ba, 2a—ab+b%, or a (ab), Two an- swered correctly. Eleven did not an- swer at all. Seven gave wrong an- swers, They were asked whether the two words in each of these pairs meant nearly the same or nearly the opposite: Since—before; bankrupt— solvent; incumbent—obligatory; suc- cinct—concise. Only half had the four correct, and seven made actual errors. These were Jeading business and professional men and their wives. "The readers of this magazine prob- ably represent the top 1 or 2 per cent. of our population in respect to educe- tion, but if they will spend two min- utes on these four tasks: Add .07, 7.94 and 1.6; ad % subi t 1.892010 from 7.040201; subtract 4-5 from 9-10, they will show only about half success, One in four of them wil! not know whether the Ten Com- mandments are called the decagon or the decalogue or the decament or tle decemvirate; or whether light traveis in jagged, straight or wavy lines. “A man need not be ashamed to confess ignorance of such matters, perhaps. One can live happily and usefully not knowing whether Viad'- vostok ts a city, @ Bolshevik General or a college fraternity. For a man to} be half educated in the sense that only a part of him is educated is & relatively innocent defect, provided the man is himself aware of It. When an uneducated part of him needs edu cation he can be aware of the fact and | raising the salaries of New York City eleven years, and for the benefit of teachers was put before him he those not in the profession let me say vetoed it; and since then the teachers have gone to Albany when seeking justfte, A number of present salaries were mentioned and compared with what they would be if the Lockwood-Dono- hue bill passes. The lowest present salary mentioned for teachers from Kindergarten to 6B was $1,180, This would lead the general public to be- lieve that there are no teachers re- ceiving less than that, For the in- formation of these people I wish to say that there are thousands of hard- working beginners receiving $98; and this Is only since Jan. 1, 1920; be- fore that the initial salary was still less. ‘The idea was to give a $35 increase per annum, But we have successfully fought that and now, beginning with June 1, 1920, a beginner will receive the munificent salary of $1,005 with | about the service in the Pout Office tals, for whom some Lime ago & bid fox am increment of HO euch your for y that the increase is liable to be with- held if the teacher's work ts not con- sidered perfectly satisfactory by her supervisors, Another writer, Richard Cushing, seems to think the city Is giving un a pension. Personally I um paying 6.65 per cent. of my salary into the pension fund, which haw been figured out by actuaries, so thut {t In entirely self-supporting, Again one of your corrompondants compares us to letter carriers. With all due respect to these valued workers, let me point out that after grammar — shor roduation a teacher has had ¢ win t years of study und per years waiting for an appoint few years ago) T hope you will print tiie te « up a fow erroneous linpremions APACHE Brvoklya, Ayr & nw, provide for it.” The Channel Tunnel, In order to expedite a dect sion respecting the construction of @ tunnel under the English Channel, a deputation of the Channel Tunnet Committee of the House of Commons recently called upon the Prime Minis ter, His attention was called to the fact that no serious engi neering difficulties were antict pated; that the time necessary | for completion would be five years, and the total cost would be $155,728,000, or double the pre-war estimate, There was said to be great enthusiasm for the ‘home im stance, o