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<iq parade fhniabaferann : ‘a. marked copy of its issue of to-day to Attorney (General Palmex, : We desire to call Mr. Palmer's attention to some- Uy he will find printed on another page—an inter- > wiew with) Mr. Howard E. Figg, special assistant to _ the Attomey General in charge of profiteering it fo particular we wish Mr. Palmer to cote two Q—Can you point to one notable case of the conviction of a profiteer? A—I cannot at the moment recall euch a case. Q—Can you point to one where the work of your department has lowered the cost of living nm any one commodity? A—No, I cannot do that. ‘Wilt this suggest anything to Mr. Palmer? if Mr, Figg cannot get convictions, why is he not | displaced by a man who can and will? Why not substitute a man who will not stoop to purchase golf shoes at “four dollars” or even seven | dollars when tae price to other buyers ts nine dollars? ‘There are plenty of attorneys who could get re- , ‘sults if given a free and. New York attorneys are) * volunteering their services in profiteering casés. Why | get employ one? _ The question fs serious enough to command Mr. Palmrer’s personal attention, even though it may in terfere with his political fence building. _ Get on the job, Mr, Attorney General. i se Z ee arses se Le > seep cminees ~<a j the investigation. to be subsiding to a ripple. hoods themselves. Toad managers. men with common interests and aims, without disciplining the outlaws. arms will not do. PUBLIC-UTILITY TRUCKING. | ACED by an emergency in which rapid unloading i Of every possible car of foodstuff is essential, a | “commie of merctans has made plans to use moto "trucks exclusively and avoid the congestion in the "freight terminals caused by horse-drawn vehicles, Representing Brooklyn merchants, J. A. Fahnestock 5300. one ee eter ai : “The idea behind the motor-car service, if ‘we can get it into operation, is this: that food cars may be unloaded more quickly and the : railroads have no excuse about a shortage of ‘~~ ears. There is no immediate ‘danger of food . shortage. But there is grave danger of thou- sands of tons of food going to ‘waste in freight programme? (i work against orders? the “One Big Union.” —— yards if the cars cannot be unloaded speedily.” ¥ motor trucks are more desirable now, why not always? * } now, why not every day? i If the horse is wasteful to<lay, was he not equally "© wasteful last week? 4 -\ If the motor-driven vehicle will result in greater efficiency in our immensely expensive terminal yards, would it not be better and cheaper to rule out the RSA AENIM CR TI. mete —— . work better and quicker it will vindicate the opinion a? of engineers that the horse is doomed in the freight- |” terminal station. of intra-city freight distribution. A fleet of motor venient to the car door for loading. While one body at the rough labor of loading. freight stations mmch more rapidly than with horse- drawn vehicles and a smaller building suffices. Something fike this system must be developed in New York City. Eventually it is bighly probable that _ outgoing freight will not be delivered to the terminal ' by the shipper, but will be picked up at its source by .. a public-utility tracking organization. ‘Likewise, in- coming freight will not be received at the ternfinal, but at the business place of the receiver. : ee NOT WORTH THE PRICE. By “yn partisan Congressmen investigating the con- 3 : struction of.camps and cantonments discover dis- | One partisan Congressman, on the sume basis of i fact, concludes that the system adopted was in every \| way admirable and commendable, : . ot state what the expense of the investigation may tmve been. Whatever it may have cost, the taxpayer _ ‘and what does the public get for its money? Rather tess than nothing, a further opportunity for fighting “the battle of Washington” over 2gain. Because the finding A. guects pacts, a5 At-Con- Pech “ ’ The sub-committee in publishing the finding does | the conflict leaves them stronger, Upon the proof they give of their ability to deal | with insurrection of the sort that has seized upon the I for trucks will prevent the spoilage of foods railroad workers depend many highly important things Seed Ly ell in the ecohomic future of organized labor—a large part of the argument for collective bargaining, for instance. BRING “L” SAFETY UP TO DATE, is surprising that the injuries resulling from the T 4 l Ninth Avenue Elevated wreck yesterday morning horse than to extend the terminals at a staggering Cost? | were not more serious and more numerous. : This attempt to eliminate congestion in the freight} Not a few visitors to the metropolis still regard the yards is worth watching. If motor trucks will do the} «4» with sceptical glances. It hardly seems possible that the cars balancing up above the crowded traffic of the street can be safe. , To the native the “L” is an old story. He hardly Cincinnati is experimenting with a scientific system | thinks of it except when the roar of the train drowns out his voice. record in carrying passengers. of other motormen, trains if the human element errs? lord in the city is bent on moving. own use, ; quent possibility of gouging. | Which is punishable, ; A disgrentied and evicted gressional investigations into the conduct of the wat ‘ have proved to be, the public disregards the findings. If Congress actuglly wants an investigation it would | |) do well to employ engineers and accountants, who have | 4 professional reputation to maintain and men in pub-| {lic life who are not so interested in politics that they jare willing to distort the truth for political ends, Such a commission might be worth the expense of | _ MUCH DEPENDS ON IT. | HE “strike”’—which no loyal member of a rail-| toad brotherhood can afford for one moment to récognize'as a strike—is weakening where it started. The wave may still be a wave in the East. In the Middle West, where it first got under way, it seems! With switchmen and trainmen returning to work at points where the walkout was earliest and heaviest, | with the brotherhoods getting ready to suspend union | tules and permit loyal union railroad workers to step! into emergency jobs wherever the need is greatest, | there is strong hope that the situation will soon be controlled, as it ought to be controlled, by the brother- It has been made sufficiently clear why the last thing | brotherhood officials can afford'to admit is that the men who quit work constitute an organized body of railroad workers entitled to recognition from the rail- “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” That is as true for organized labor as for any other body of But further than this it is difficult to see how the| railroad brotherhoods can maintain their authority To treat present rebellion as merely an attack of spring fever and receive the rebelS back with open Brotherhood leadership will be exposed to further assaults from restless elements eager to test their strength unless it makes an example of brotherhood | members who have deliberately disobeyed orders, What would happen to a union railroad worker who refused to strike when a strike was the union For the good of the brotherhood can there be dis- crimination in favor of men who collectively quit Loss and suffering have been thrust upon the public | with the usual indifference by these outlaw seekers of But in this case the public is watchi:, with special interest to see whether the existing and accredited unions will adopt every means of demonstrating that trucks is in use, The truck bodies are removable and} The safety factor scarcely crosses his mind, for the »-may be swung cleat of the chassis and: deposited con-| etevated railroads have a long and generally honorable is being loaded another body is lifted on the truck} Certainty it is far safer to ride in subway or elevated and delivered. The expensive motors are kept work-| than to ride in an automobile or walk. ing. The skilled driver neither waits for nor works} Yesterday's wreck appears to have been due to the failure of the human part of the machine, The imme- As a result the freight is moved in and out of the | diate result should be increased vigilance on the part How far off is the day when the elevated will be fitted with automatic mechanical controls that will stop | fo ie Baitor of The Brening World; PERJURY IS PUNISHABLE. UDGING from reports of rent cases in the Justice Courts, it would appear that almost every land- One of the most frequent pleas in eviction proceed- ings is that the landlord desires his properf) for his No doubt some of these pleas are honest and truth- ful, but the frequency of what seems to be the land- lord’s most effective plea indicates the possibility that some laridlords are using it to ‘hide actual purpose. By moving from one property to another a landlord |would leave the vacated premises under no estab- lished rate of rental for April, 1919—with the conse- i Dd dpc gic h dig Maton tenant may feel inclined "ey 7. Pa castes: ‘H. Cassel F What kind of letter do you find that gives you the worth of a ti hundred? to say much tn few words, On an nd. To the Edivor of ‘The Ievening Warld Kindly publish a few remarks in answer to the letter of our illustrious “dry” friend, Walter W, Carr. Is there anything the matter with Mr. Carr, that he should suggest av island on which to put the so-called “booze hounds” so that they can be isolated and “drink themselves to death?” Maybe our loving friend Mr. Carr has corns or is affiicted with an insatiable appetite for lollypops; or, then again, he may be a bosom friend of Anderson. If Mr. Carr has corns I would suggest taking him, and al! others who may have corns and crowding them all in a dark cell sé they can trample on each other's pet tootsies; or, if he has the lollypop appetite, put him in a room with nothing but loilypops to eat. I am sure he would enjoy himself. Perhaps, Mr. Carr, “world Prohtbi- tion will eventually be a fact.” regia and Florida and Texas have had a ban on liquor for a long time, but { have seen more drunks there than in the good old city, New York. Your sympathy is not wanted by the so-called spineless creatures who | letter, i We are not and never did look for trouble, but if it came there were always enough men to depend upon. A man when he ts called to war does not go for his health and money, but to defend or fight for the rights of his country, ‘Most every man in this country will go to fight for the few doliars less than the British Army is paid rather than be a traitor. Vv, Cc, New York, April 7, 1920. Penny Graft. ‘To the Eititor of The Evening World: ‘Dhe letter by “I, Been Done” hit the nail on the head. Who are the owners of the stot ma- chines on subway and elevated sta- tion platforms? These machines should be abolished and throwa in the junk pile. For two months I have been mak- ing a@ collection of names and ad- dresses of persons I have seen cheated by the slot ‘You need to put about nine pen- nies in a slot machine to get a stink of gum. Considering the thousands of per- sons who ride in the subway daily turned, the added profit must amount to keep watchamd inform the court of any fraud Which | () thousands of Ley eave been. practised. f. ‘Whose inachings are they? Who are getters? The ROM EVENING WORLD READERS | Phere is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. and fail to get gum or a penny re-| most readable? Isn't it the one * | ‘housind words in a couple of greatest thievery kuown to Lie public Wager that if I stood on a subway platform for an hour I could collect nag Ss and addresses of twenty-five Been Done" had the right idea Wake up, all ye penny losers. JACK SMITH 2825 West 22d Strect, Coney Island, 4 il 7, 20, Barbara Fri ‘To the Editor of The kyening World: In your editorial of April 7 you! have Barbara Frietchie running sec- e's Fame, (Copy trust and suspicion. oyd to Susan B, Anthony in the race | for a place in the Hall of Fame, 1 Burbara Frietchie Post, American Legion, objects to your decision. The pevple of Maryland also object. Bar- bara Frietehie will always run first in the combination race for God and Our Country. There has never been a time in the history of the country when it was more necessary to keep alive the spirit of Barbara Frietchie than now. . | “It may interest you to know that Park Commissioner Francis Gallatin will have the Park Forester, Mr. Cap- lan, plant two ‘trees in Central Park, ac locations to be decided upon by the Department—one to the cow Barbara ag Frietchie and one to see not do without. thelr booze, ‘Mr, | chivalry of Stonewall Jackson. One eae evanes tear often inquires of one's self, did chiv- | get his booze any time and any place #!ty die with the Great Southern he knows the ropes. F_8. 8. General or ts It only asleep? peockivg, Ney, April & After Oct. 1 Barbara Frictchic Post will have a home at No, 3 West When the camen {86th Street, at which place an effort will be made to inject the spirit of “ix-Member A. E. F." should be! Barbara Frietchie into every man, | woman and child in the neighbor- | ashamed to write such a ridiculous! hood |JULIA WOODRUFF WHBELOCK. 80 Madison Ave., April 8th. [EMitor’s note; the editorial in ques- tion merely speculated on the number of persons who would recognize the name. The editor—chivalrously per- haps—placed the two women ahead of all the men. Service In Fine, ‘To the Raltor of Tho Fventng World: | ‘Talk about discovering—I got Chris Columbus looking like a sap. This is richer than finding an empty flat. I discovered a little telephone opera- | tor who gets for me my numbers the very first time without delay, and be- Heve me, she is there with the sym- | phonic warble, She gets my vote if she runs in my district. If all the operators are like one on the Rector {Exchange Board, all I ean ask the | service complainers is, “How do you become 80?" Enjoyed Every Line. ‘To tho Baltor of The Brening World: I to wish to join K J. Bin oon: gretulating Miss Muay Christie for er most wonderful novel, “Love's Gamble.” I enjoyed every line, and ‘hope soon to see another, BAR, ‘Tarrytown, N, Y. Hl The Bonus and the Ballot, ‘Fe he Lititor of The Broming Wortd: I was surprised to read in this eve~ mmacttines ace the ming’s World the knock which Martin name in pest ware and in this recent bh opportunity. | than by a good one. “Gi a man’s acquaintances a low idea than they ought to bave. Such things are to be avoided, therefore, as you would Keep your reputation clean, avoid a plague. character. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. GET A REPUTATION AND YOU WILL LIVE UP TO IT, Character, the moralists tell u tation is what people think we are. {3 stress on character than on reputation. Reputation, of course, ought to be backed by character, But reputation is what you will be judged by, and if you haven't a good one you will not get very far. A man lives by his reputation. his position in life is made by what people think he is. He may be as pure as the driv reputation of being a crook le will be regarded with dis- He may be far from perfect, but if he has a reputa- tion for honesty and ability he will be respected and given There are few cases in this world of men who have better reputations than they deserve. more discerning than you suspect. tle things, and little things are accurate gauges of character. Furthermore, the man who acquires a good reputation, even if it is by accident, is likely to live up to it. pleasure he gets out of being well thought of is such that he hesitates to indulge his predisposition to petty meannesses, And presently he becomes incapable of such meannesses, and his character begins to square with his reputation. It is easier to come undeservedly by a bad reputation a dog a bad name and hang him,” is as true to-day as it was the day it was first spoken. Bad company, foolish talk, bad habits, all tend to give A bad name is hard to live down, |% ful at the start, pick your friends wisely and keep away |% from the things that men associate with idleness and vice, | § your reputation will become your strongest asset. Annee nee ne nen eA AN AAAAAAAARAANA ARAN ARAM) 1928.) is what we are. Repu- This seems to put more Whatever he may be, en snow,-but if he has the Your neighbors are They judge you by lit- The idea of him—often a lower Back it with But if you are care- Green gave tho soldiers’ bonus. listed May, 1917, leaving a wife and baby son six months old. I did my bit in France and was gassed at St. Mihlel Sept. 15, 1918, only one of the thousands of ¢ vice men who are’ very much | disgusted with the way we are being treated. ‘To make matters worse, I ain employed in the Post Office by our generous Government as a clerk at 40 cents an hour. The stay-at-homes are losing fat jobs in the shipyards and are coming into the Post Office as temporary clerks at 60 cents an hour. I have been unable to buy an over- coat this winter, being just about able to exist. ‘ If the soldiers’ bonus doesn’t go through just watch the Socialist vote this coming election, LR New York, April 8, 1920. America Is Sate, ‘Te the Paditer of The Breuning World; When I read “Mistreated but | Loyai’s” letter of Aprit 6 I fet that I cannot pass it by without a word of praise. He is the kind of red blooded Amer- team that gave America its glorious Ien-) war, that made foreign nations re- spect and fear this Nation, Ah! you are a true son of the Stars and Stripes, and we real Americas take off our hats to you and your kind. And if, as we believe, there are at least 95 per cent. of the retired service mea professing the same emotions—Amer- lea is safe! AMERICAN. Brooklyn, April 6, 1920, The Cont of Cocoa, ‘To the Matitor of The Prening Worl: I have read with interest a letter from one of your readers in reference to profiteering in cocoa. He states that cocoa of the finest quality can he had for 13 and 16 cents a pound, I would be very pleased if he would let me know the name of the manufac- turer who offers at this price. For his information, I received a turers in the Bust. Often taking into consideration the cost of tins, labor, etc., you will notice that 38 cents is not yielding a profit su¢h as your TURNING THE PAGES — BY — Otis Peabody Swift Conrip. $020 PP vedlne Ward). = °° Golf a la King--- ; Habibulla Khan, late Amir of Af- ghanistan, was an enthusiastic golfer, albelt he made some royal improvements upon the game as It 19 known here. A. C. Jewett,’ writing in Asia for April, tells of the orig.nality of the royal sportsman. ‘, Habibulla had links built for him- self at both Kabul und Jellabad. One day when he lost the ball in the neighborhood of some store sheds he sent a regiment of soldiers and had the sheds torn down in the hunt for the missing ball. Inasmuch es he played against members of hig court, the King always won. Sometimes would drive off and then ride afte! the ball in his rickshaw. Once, when playing against the Crown Prince, the King’s bail lodged behind some camel grass. He asked a Scotch engineer present whether the rules admitted moving the bail to @ more favorable position for a drive and when told that they did not an- nounced: “We will make it a rule that when @ ball falls behind a bunch of camel grass it can be moved out.” . ; eo. The Reading Public-- The mystery of who writes all the books is perhaps only equalled by the mystery of who buys them. Jo- seph Conrad’s latest novel, “The Arrow of Gold,” has run upward of 40,000 copies and John Drinkwater's “Abraham Lincoln" has sold 43,000 copies. Kipling’s “The Yeurs Be- tween” has run to 20,000, while Chris+ topher Morley’s ‘Kathieen,” which has only been out a few days, hay already exhausted 10,000 copies. A few years ago the first edition of a Gene Stratton Porter novel ran in excess of 100,000 copies, he Mother of Lincoln --- “There was in Nancy Hanks @ Great depth and height and breadth of the woman element which by nature attracted and fired the brains of men with whom she came in_geft= tact . . . this girl in a’ peach- blow homespun . . . with che flame of life in her eyes. ‘Thus Maria ‘Thompson Daviess in her latest novel “The Matrix,” de- | scribes the girl who was to be wife of ‘Thomas Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln. Persons who glorify the mob and the mass have always loudly cited Lincoln as conclusive proof that back- ground and heredity have ho relation to a man's greatness. They point to the poverty of his youth, the lowly position of his family. Fact proves them wrong. and the mother of Out of nothing, nothing comes. Nature dors not build greatness except upon a sure foundation, and the foundation of Abraham Lincoln's greatness was the firm, steadfast character of Nancy | Hanks, the stanch daughter of @ pioneer American family, a woman whose ideals and greatness of soul were carried on by her son. “The Matrix” is a story that every American should read. It is a charoy ingly told love story that will please and delight you, yet it is also a mos | enlightening gtimpse into history, it facts ail based on careful study and investigation. | . ‘Two Years Ago To-Day “April 13: Rough Sea. Transports hit in fog. Club for the seasicis formed. Kraft turns yellow—gets « cabin ‘berth, Klein, Hyman and Finkelstein also charter members. Blau fails to reach the rail in time Everybody promenades on the second class deck, Boat drjll at 11. Parry Gallagher sights a’ porpoise, Sey geant O'Leary checks up equippme™ Boat drill at 3, Transports hidden at night (no tail lights even). No smok- ing on deck. Manser gets to his buni by climbing over ‘Bill’ Sherman. April 13, 1918: Co, A 308th In- fantry were three days out of fax, aboard the Laplahd, ‘The clustered convoy felt its way through the fog of the off shore banks, swirling mist wraiths hiding the cruiser convoy Si Louis ahead, and the vast gray bu of the ill-fated Justicia on the bow. ‘All lights and the smoking lamp o at twilight, red battle lanterns glim- mering down the long corridors, the victrola playing “All Bound ‘Round With the Mason Dixon Line” in ‘thw crew space, and the throb of the driv - ing engines vibrating through the wet noisy darkness, Four days more and they would be east of 30, in the war zone. A other week, and they would lift rain swept headlands of the Iri | coast. Three months more and they would be in the line at Ker Avor on the Lorraine front— Fini la guerre. But when the day's one, and the boss has taken and coat and the “Down” ec} , you'll find a crowd in eve v office that will drift together to talc | over old times—“two years ago day.” ‘They will find many. things that they remember in “History gf Co. A of The Lost Battalion,” 1% pl, Joseph P, Demaree, who was 1 the way from Upton to the Vir - Arch on Fifth Avenue, The vol- is published by George U. Har- yy. Inc, of No, 109 Lafayette Sirect, w York. ace 8 ~ Statistics of Thrift--- “Let us take the statistics dealing with the average American citizen. We will take 100 men at the age of twenty-five. In ten years we find that five have died, jten have become of independent means, ten are in good circumstances, forty have moderate resources and thirty-five have not im- proved at all. “At sixty-five dhere have been thirty-six deaths, Of those remaining one is very rich, four are wealthy One of those, who lost everything be- fore he reached the age of forty-five. has regained his hold and become wealthy. Six are self-supporting, with no other resources, anil fifty-three are dependent upon cl ity, Not altogether pubtic ut the kind indulgence ren and relatives” of children us 8. W. Straus in ‘| of the Thrift Movement yen a traces the financial history of a given group. Statistics, correctiv analyzed are more potent than many sermons, Jand this book will make every . | stop for @ moment, considering 1) reader speaks of. COCOA POWDER. Brooklyn, April 9, 1920,