The evening world. Newspaper, April 16, 1920, Page 30

Pyramiding of this sort has already passed all bearing. THE DIFFERENTIAL OF DISCOMFORT. HY ts a Public Service Commission? If it has any control over rapid transit af- fairs, why does it not protect the straphangers and require seats for passengers when equipment permits? The question rises in connection with the cancella- To remedy congestion which had grown so serious to it that the full] as to be unprofitable as well as intolerable, the Inter- tion is lost on no| borough was forced to add more trains to West Side Subway service. targaining will collapse like Now it develops that Second and Third Avenue gets to the steering| Elevated service Is to suffer, If any general shift of north and south traffic had followed the change, the cancellation of East Side Ele- vated trains might be reasonable. js} Such is not the case, Traffic on both lines is in- creasing. Fewer cars on the Elevated mean more passengers per car, more straphangers, more crowd- ing. There is no 96th Street “bottle neck” on the east side, The Interborough can provide more seats if it is forced to do so. The simple fact is that the Interborough finds it he more profitable to pack the passengers than to provide *Hf Congress cared for anything except votes, the seats. There is more money in “humanity on the 1d ightened | 000f” cattle-car style, Adequate Gistaes ‘sori for the|, The Interborough will not provide seats if it is able id have been provided. ‘The red tape| ‘© 2VOld doing so. It wants the profit whioh the public ’ pays for in discomfort. sentanging corpersation ge lig Sasa veg|__. What interests New York is whether the Public Ser - But Congress doesn oa , legisla ae vice Commission intends to permit the Interborough yey aye nay: tag Aci to get away with this “public-be-damned” policy, Exclusion of the Regulars from bonus benefits is PALMER OFF ey ‘perfectly natural from a political view. THE 5 “Few Regular Arm: fa vote, bony Ae States which oO” Washington correspondent has repeatedly en- =, 4 : deavored to call to the attention of Attorney oe them to cee ick theen served longett fn sao on The Evening World disclosures of is immaterial % jeering. and that many of eT pace i ra Mr, Palmer is still busy with other matters, toa be ‘tn promt Just now he is passionately pursuing publicity and popularity by directing the prosecution of outlaw strike leaders, Mr. Palmer wants to be popular. He wants to be President, But Mr, Palmer seems to be suffering from an acute attack of political astigmatism. He is overlooking his strategic advantage as a potential champion of, the public against Profiteers. His chief profiteer-hunter, Mr. Figg, admits himself perfectly clear in the recent proposals for Regular Army men from bonus benefits. Solicitude of Congress were comparable to real sympathy and concern of the civilian the Lane Reclamation Plans would not 3 | 2 z fact also. explains the reluctance of Congress a pay scale to officers of the army and navy will enable them to remain in service. they are civilians and Uncle Sam has lost the ‘investment in their education, then Congress- opinions, “should worry.” s z ve i If Regulars a a ee ‘THE EVENING WORLD Beware of the Tra; _FROM EVENING WORLD READERS that gives you the worth of a hundred? To the Editor of The Brening World: I have been reading carefully your articles on profiteering and was great- ly impressed by the article in last evening’s édition, wherein your re- to be a failure, [fMFéfihing Mr. Figg, Mr. Palmer's Gott don’t count. judgment errs, Other assistants have proved their ‘ IN NOIS. competence in prosecuting labor leaders. The Attorney General should bolster up his weak spot and swat the primaries illustrate the sad tangle in which} profiteer, —E 5 porter interviews Mr, Figg of the Department of Justice. and was de- lighted at the tenacity and peraisténcy of your reporter. It is such persis- tency that may conrpel the prosecu- What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one thousand words in @ couple of There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. The Figg interview. | tion work done by the army during the war, In the editorial above mentioned the peciypaenie was made pie if he in- vestigation was made engineers and seoduntante with Teputations and standing and who were not swayed by political bias it might be of some value, I wish to say that such an investi- gation was made by a Board of Re- view appointed by the Secretary of War, consisting of two eminent en- we of the Treaty of Peace has been left. stands for anything the Old Guard wir ie lee an eR Se ey | price-boosters, As a means of winning popularity, nothing could compare. with a personally conducted proscription of tion of some of the big profiteers. gineers and a President of the Ameri- Fee root ik mniad the wames of | Can Institute of Accountants, all of some of these profiteers and will not] Whom served without compensation. purohase al articles produced ‘by| The political affiliations ee bar them and tt'the prices of commodities! gentlemen were never asked by ie Other candidates would swap their best boots to be] are to.be regulated by supply and de- | Secretary of War, and turned out a ae ee The World. He had been with the paper twenty-nine years. He was a man, however, of whom one spoke in terms more significant than those of mere length of service. “Bob” Deery, he was, to all men in the office, and in that designation lay testimony to a good fellowship which kept en- gaging company with an honest enthusiasm for his dafly work. Not alone The World with which he held ; j i & #f vote did not reflect an unorganized that overcame the inertia of his fail- represented the strength of the thor- pro-German Thompson Republican anti-English Hearst jingoism, in it all, the very considerable Republican ele- place, but the world at large suffers loss in his favoring 4 real League of Nations and adoption] Passns ®way- . a living Treaty of Peace had no rallying point. The Johnson vote represents the anti-league strength. AS A STARTER. fT 5. F a eae a in en ae, SB i z Weed and Lowden votes have no particular mean- Neither Wood nor Lowden has taken a clear ‘unequivocal position. IT CAN'T BE MADE TOO PLAIN. ‘© put a tax of one-half of 1 per cent. on all sales as a means of raising the proposed $1,000,000,000 bonus for ex-service men would be to a further boost to prices, declares Dr. Meeker, Government price expert. , “It would simply increase the cost of operation of all dealers. The consumer would pay far ~-mere than one-half of 1 per cent. The denier |. ‘would add chough to the price of each article $ to make doubly sure of getting the tax back.” That has been The Evening World’s contention from Y the time the new Labor Board gets to work on the present outlaw railroad strike, the strike itself may have crumbled to dust. Nevertheless, this walkout of railway workers has developed plenty of material that the Labor Board can advantageously preserve and use. The Transportation Act which created the board gave it no little power to aid publicity. There has never been a railroad strike like the pres- ent for furnishing a kind of news that strikers find unexpected and amazing, . Usually the strikers have supplied the action, while the public cowered. This time the public started some- thing for its own protection and soon found itself the dominant figure of the strike, This is against all labor notions of what a strike should be, It is a mew aspect of the strike which labor must examine and ponder. ‘The 4 the money is to be raised at all, it should be ention never again to "Arrow" rand collar, no” shirt or a John Ward shoe. My individual action will not seriously affect the demand, but if a sufficient number of people feel as I do the products of these profiteering corporations will be a drug on the market and their prices will surely come down, E. H. P. New York, April 14 Deliver or Get Out. To the Kditor of The Brening World; I was intensely interested in the interview with Mr. Figg. If condl- tions in our government departments are as bad as that would indicate, then those departments and the men in them are useless, so far as the public they serve is concerned. The large salaries they are drawing are thrown away. I feel that the work your paper is trying to do for the common people should 4 backed up by them and given all the assistance possible in order to encourage others all over the country ¢o follow your example. 1 wish that this letter could be the means of starting a chain of letters from coast to coast asking each per- son to do all he can to expose firms of all kinds who have hoarded stocks of any kind of goods or who are in- sisting that their customers hold up or boost prices. Also let us expose all these Govern- ment employees who are not deliver- ing the right kind of goods to the people and place employees there under the same conditions as a pri- vate corporation. Make them deliver the goods or get out. J. W. West 15th Street, April 14, 1920, ‘The BE To the Editor of I have been much interested in a news item in The New York World of Gov. who won dele; 1 ” publ in|after their appointment that they Lowden, the delegates, came out at} in Mr. Palmer's. helt own (ands te bring down the| were all wnree,Republicane, | This pric 1 It i these | Board made a thorough inv whatever that may be. ROBERT H. DEERY. they produce, jing. Construction. work ‘dane by the | 3 Johi whose " ORT See 4 I am sure your readers are watch-| army and particularly of the Senator Johnson, mame did not appear on the OBERT H, DEMRY, who died yesterday ing your Taudadie efforts and you fre Construction Division of the ariny, . » ballot, is a “bitter-ender.” Chicago proved its right morning at his home in Brooklyn, was a entitled to all the credit for any| which was the organization i to the tite member of the Quarter Century Assotaton of | fuernmental action 10 bring pres | hs camms on Part and ais their files were put at the disposal of the Congressional Committee but, I believe, were never used by them. The findings of this Board were that graft and dishonesty were less in this work than in an ordinary commercial enterprise; that the per- centage contract for emergency work was an exceedingly good contract drawn up by the best legal and en- gineering brains in this country; that owing to the unknown features and | haste with which this work was done, it was impossible to take bids and let the work in the usual way: that the contractors’ fees on these na- tional army cantonments, about which there has been #0 much talk, averaged 2.7 per cent. of their cost. In general, while there was extrav- agance and waste, it was justified by the speed required to prepare these facilities for the acceptance of the draft troops. At the time the Board made Its report to the Secretary of War the sixteen National Army cantonments and the sixteen National Guard camps had cost the Government in round figures §200,000,000, The war was costing the Government some- where between thirty and forty mil- fon dollars a day. If the completion of these camps for the receipt of troops in three months made it pos- sible to send troops overseas with the speed that was attained, shortened the war by one week, it justified the cost of these cantonments and camps. I understsand that this report has not been published by the War De- partment owing to lack of funds. I belleve, however, It may ‘be sean and studied by any one who is interested in the matter, ‘T. H. PIERSON, 63 Wall Street, April 14, 1920, Barbara Frietchie Fam ‘Tp the Editor of The Prening World: So they are talking of electing Bar- bara Frietchie in the Hall of Fame, About two years ago the New York Herald printed @ picture of Herman the Hall of Some method that does not add indefinitely] The Labor Board will do well to collect the facts| Semterday and imam eaitorial in The V ‘ori of last wi = ore ng wich is already the gravest problem 90 bees Gis senky fie sly eayfication, matt the reportof the Sen maeerener’. wees UNCOMMON SENSE | By John Blake (Copyright, 1920.) YOUR MIND IS AN OPEN SHOP. Prejudice, in this life, does as much mischief as crime. It is at the bottom of about half our troubles. It takes all manner of forms and afflicts all manner of people. And always it is a force for evil. Your mind ought to be an open shop. Reject no that come to it. Accept them as they come, for it is by that you will succeed. You can soon tell if they are good ideas or bad. If they are good ideas they will serve you. If they are bad ideas they will make you serve them, Put the good ones to work, and reject the bad altogether. But never reject any because of your prejudices. Never, because you do not like a man’s race, or his religion, or the color of hishair, or the fact thet he has an impedi- ment in his speech, refuse to listen to him if he has any- thing to tell you. And never reject any idea because it does not happen to square with your preconceived notions. ideas ideas You may have held to such notions throughout your lifetime. You may have inherited them from your father. But till you have put them to the test, do not contend that they are infallible. 4 When a new idea comes along, try it out. over. Apply it to your method of living. To the people of the fifteenth century the idea that the world was round was idiotic. To them and their an- cestors the world was’ flat. They had taken that for granted. But gradually they were forced to accept Colum- bus’s theory. Had they been free from prejudices they would have accepted it when it was first suggested, tested it, and the progress of the world would have been just that much ahead. Half of the harmful reaction of to-day comes from prejudice. Few men with new ideas ever get them accepted till they have advanced them for many years. Meanwhile the world and the people that dwell in it are losers. Shake off all forms of prejudice. Make your mind an open shop, where the new idea is welcome till it proves useless. You will develop much faster, and incidentally you will be a far more valuable citizen. Dane, Think it Frietchie of Irvington, N. J., and gave us an item of the patriotic heroism of his great grandaunt. In fact, Mr, Frietchie’s enlistment in the United States Marine Corps was directly traceable to the incident (?), immor- talized by Whittier and said to have been told him by Mrs, Southworth, the novelist Mrs, Barbara Hauer Frietchie, widow of John Casper Frietchie, died at Fredericksburg Dec. 18, 1862, aged ninety-six. An obituary published at the time of her death speaks of her coming as a child to the town, of her recalling the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. It also refers to her standing in the doorway of her home and waving the Stars and Stripes in welcoming the deliverers of her city. No mention is made in this obituary of the incident Whittier poetises upon. Living directly across the way from the Frietchie home was a Unionist, Mr, Engelbrecht, who later became as Whittier refers to, And Hon, Samuel Taylor, a prominent jurist of Maryland and a member of Jackson's staff, who was there, says no such event took place. Even members of the Frietchie family agree that the story has no foundation in fact, how- ever pleasing a romance it is. W.N. P. D. West 128th Street, April 14, 1920, Atlantis Found in 1492, To the Editor of 'The Brening World: I read with much interest the arti- cle on “The Lost Continent of Atlan- tis.” ‘This, and numerous others about | Atlantis, only serve to fix more firmly in my mind the idea that the continent, supposed by the ancients to exist beyond the Pillars of lercu- les, was found by Columbus in 1492, Columbus, instead of discovering a new route to India, found Atlantis instead, Were not ‘the Aztecs, the | Incas, Toltecs Mighly cultured in| thelr way? CONSTANT READER. Ridgefield Park, April 14, 1920, Mayor of Frederick, Md, and who says that he saw Lee's army when it passed bat ne euch incident occurred ae NO. 72—GOOD-BY, SWEET- HEART! By Rhoda Broughton. Lenore Herrick was a beautiful 4 and wilful and badly spolled English girt, She was travelling with her elder sister in Brittany whon she met Paul Le Mesurier, a red-bearded and fi- jery-teapered and strong-willed man, eighteen years older than herself. ‘Though younger and more attrac} tive men were in love with her, 6! lost her heart instantly and com- pletely and forever to this cranky, red-hajred Englishman. , Paul and Lenore became engaged. But—though he loved her insanely— Paul was honest enough to tell her in advance that her life would be miserable with a man of his temper. |.Lenore laughed at such an idea, and would not heed the warning. Back to England they came. There, almost at once, Paul's furious and causeless jealousy began to show it- self, He sulked or stormed if Le- nore so much as looked at any other man. She stood this, mildly enough, un- til Paut forbade her to have any further acquaintaxce with Charles Scrope, a: good-looking and manly young chap who was hopelessly in love with her. Lenore had never Gcrope. But she saw no reason for insulting him just because Paul chanced to want her to, And she refused. There was a mad quarrel between Paul and herself. At its end Paul went away, vowing never to see he encouraged again, And she knew him well enough to be certain he would keep bis word Her heart was broken, But she strove gallantly to put her bad te pered lover out of her memory. A: she allowed herself to become gagged to Charles Scrope. But on the very day set for her wedding with Scrope, she realized she could not marry him, and that she ‘eduld never hope to drive Paul Le Mesurier’s, image from her heart. She explained this to Scrope, who aceppted..gently her dismissal, and masked bis own grief in an effort to make Lenore happier. But all the sorrow and strain of the past few months began to take toll on the girl's constitution. She had never been ‘strong, Now sho pined away. As she lay dying, she longed to see Paul once more. -.nd Scrope went in search of the absentce ‘When he learned that Lenore was dying, all Paul's olden love for her came e back. He rusted ‘to her only to find she had died a few minutes before his arrival. the American version of this ending to Baking by Electricity in Switzerland, HE following article recently ap- peared in L'Exportateur Suisse, a journal devoted to commerce and trade both at home and abroad: “The extraordinary rise in thi prices of food caused by the war hi considerably furthered baking by electricity, although a great many electric bake ovens existed in Nor- way, Sweden and Switzerland beforu the outbreak of hostilities. Tho cheapness of coal at that time was not conducive to the bakeries taking up electric baking, in spite of the fact that in those countries which possess water power baking by electric! of considerable economic importance as the employment of electric ovens permits the ultilization of the sup fluous electric energy which usua!! cannot be made use of during th» night. The night energy can be suy plied by hydroelectric power stations at such cheap rates as to make the use of electric ovens more economical than those heated by coal or steam. “But even in such cases where the introduction of electric ovens docs not lead directly to a reduction in the cos’. of fuel they are frequently preferred to other sorts, owing to the other lu portant advantages they poss: The principal advantages are great liness and convenience in workin, the elimination of high charges for delivering coal and carting away ashes, reduction in labor costs, elim nation of expenses for chimney bulld ing, the small space occupied, &c. In AY the case of the confectionery business yo particularly, where shops are gene: #™” ally located in the best parts of the town, ground space is a very expen sive item. Quite apart from tho elim- ination of the chimney, electric ovens with two, three or four compartments take up but little room. An eleetric oven with capacity for 240 loaves takes up only 3.2 square metres (34.5 square feet), Whereas an ordinary baker's oven for the same quantity requires 11.8 square metres (127 square feet) ‘This is an important factor in regard to hotels that make their own bread and pastry. “Another great advantage of elec- tric bake ovens is the facility with which the temperature can be regu- lated. ‘The top and bottom heat can be separately switched on or off, or adjusted as to intensity, a thing which is Impoasible with ordinary ovens. By switching the current into different heating parts, various degrees of heat up to twenty degrees may be at- tained. In this way special kinds of pastry may be more easily baked. Further, the operation of an electric oven is very hygienic, as there is no smoke or soot, and very little heat » capes, so that the bakers are not 1i- convenienced by high temperaiuri The switching off of the electric cur ithe eight may be dono i