The evening world. Newspaper, April 23, 1920, Page 30

| Daily | Company, Nos. 53 S 3 | J, ANGUS BITAW, T JOSEPH PULITZER. Jr. MEMARK UF THR AsOUCIATED PRERS. | fie asenennied ree im cnciuarrety entitled 10 We ate for repunitearion [all gees Geepatehes credited tu it of wot otherwise credited tm this paint | nt the Ica news yodiiened perein, PLAIN PERJURY. : IESTIFYING under oath in the trial of Col. 3 Augustus Drum Porter, one set of witnesses asserted that the defendant was in one of the rooms Of a disorderly house the evening of Nov. 12. ‘Testifying under oat, another set of witnesses maintained unqualifiedly that the defendant was at home. Oe No more glaring contradiction could be imagined. . ) y= It seems obvious that somebody lied, ~ Oe iA lie under oath is perjury, one of the major | crimes which strikes hard at the very foundations of our system of justice. Entirely apart from the failure of one jury to bring in a verdict, it behooves the Court and the District Attorney to discover the truth and punish » the perjurers. | Bither one set of witnesses or the other’ should | be punished—and severely, Justice must protect its own integrity. If no perjuty took place then there must have “been a case of mistaken identity, No other sup- ; position could satisfactorily explain the testimony. ; The Court owes it to itself and to the public to uncover the real facts and so maintain confidence *) in the law. er + ea AFRAID OF THE OVERALLS. t ARKET operators, ordinarily glib in explain- 1 ing Wall Street price movements, are at a "| Joss to account for the slump which developed | Wednesday and continued yesterday. j H The Japanese crisis is mentioned as,a contributing { factor. Other reasons are suggested. {But no one mentions Overalls, In truth, Overalls are so completely disassoci- fated with the beaten track of the financially expert | mind that vhis is not surprising. Overalls have not | been accustomed to mix with sterling exchange, | discount: rates, crop reports and other Stock Ex- -Ghange standards. © Bven though it refuses—through fear, perhaps— wy fo acknowledge it, Wall Street is reacting to Over- Fails. Perhaps it is what psychologists term “sub- i conscious action.” ‘| Overalls, starting as a fad, quickly developed into "| @ popular movement that spread like wildfire. The Blue Denim flag was a rallying point for “all the suppressed resentment against the H. C. of L. Overalls are making thrift a sporting proposition d eminently respectable. Response to the Overalls movement is a typi¢ally i way of serving notice on the profiteers their day is done, that therg is do longer a PUmarket,” that the “buyers” have, taken it and intend to have their say. psychology of a rising market, the endeavor buy before the rise, was one of the factors that | d boost prices. The psychology of the falling ts Market Wil have a similar effect once it is started. The k Exchange has heard the news, It is commencing to realize that profiteering profits may /mot long endure. They are scurrying to cover. + It is significant that'two of the leaders in the de- }cline were the Endicqjt-Johnson Shoe Company and the American Wool&y Company, whose swollen 3 profit sheets were exposed by The Evening World ‘in its series of reports on profiteering, {t is to be hoped that the reaction will not be too ‘¥severe. Yet, in ultimate effects, a return to more ‘pearly normal prices and profits cannot be anything “ | but desirable. a THE EXCEPTIONAL PARADE. ; FFICERS of the Fifth Avenue Association ex- plain that it is their regular eustom to pro- e cpa against parades because they disarrange busi- fess, It is only the exceptional parade which they } do not protest. Granted. ‘The fact remains that the Overalls Parade is one a particular parade the association could least afford | to protest. 4 It should have been the exception. © Rightly or wrongly, the paraders are certain to Fremember the Fifth Avenue Association’s attitude. Rightly or wrongly, they will discount the dam- age to business from the parade itself and will in- terpret the protest as opposition to the movement for which the parade stands, a } ' 4 t t \ t A DELIBERATE FAKE. 4 FE ARLY in the month the Chicago Evening Amer- { ican printed a story to the effect that Chi- ¢ago workingmen were in the habit of riding to : work in taxis, It appeared to prove its case with a Photograph of workmen, garbed in overalls and « tarrying tools, alighting from a taxi to go to work Stoo - Ona large consiriction job. | This yarn got on the press wires and was widely circulated in this and other cities, The reaction, among “white collar wearers,” for is obvious. ‘ and Finance of this city investigated. It obtained an authoritative statement from the owner uf the building at which the taxi riders were Tepuited to be working, why said: “There was a staff reporter ut the Ameri- can roaming around Tor news. He saw owo workmen approaching the Adibassadur job, and at the same Ume an empty taxicab drove up. On a sudden impulse he hailed the taxt- cab and asked the workmen to step on the running-buard, which they did, aod he touk the picture and then wrote up (the article,” Doubtless many of the accounts of the extrava- gance of suddenly prosperuus workers are true. But it is likewise probable that many are either false or overdrawn. Such an exposure of deliber- ate and vicious faking may serve to induce desirable skepticism. Commerce and Finance comments : “Hearst poses as the arch-triend of the ‘masses,’ He should rid himself of an editor who throws stones at his own readers.” ‘ ‘ WHAT IS THEIR PLEA ? IVE THOUSAND striking railroad workers in the “outlaw” class voted yesterday not to go back to work until they have definite assurance of wage increases, The railroad managers have not moved from their ultimatum that men who did not return to work by noon last Sunday would forfeit their sen- jority rights and run the risk of being refused on the score of unfitness. The brotherhoods could not force “outlaws” back to their jobs, Meanwhile, the railroads are hiring new men to fill the places of the persistent strikers, So far as the 5,000 are concerned, the issue is settled, That it should be so is in all ways for the best. These 5,000 railroad workers have a right to re- main idle. They have a right to organize themselves if they can. So long as they use peaceful and law- ful means, they have a right to persuade others to quit work. It would be a good-thing, however, even now, to get the point of view of these 5,000 plainly ‘and fairly presented to the railroad unions, the railroad managers and the public, The new Railroad Labor Board, established under the Esch-Cummins act, has already set to work to consider new wage adjustments. There is no reason to believe that the board will not deal fairly with wage demands or that its recommendations will not be accepted and carried out, Did the 5,000 refuse to go back to work because they distrust the Labor Board? [f so, on what grounds do they distrust it? Are they unable to wait the length of time it may take the Labor Board to secure them increased wages? If so, what are the facts as to their present actual needs and how are they meeting those needs in idleness? Have they special grievances against the estab- lished railroad brotherhoods? If so, what are those grievances and to what extent are they beyond remedy? To this day the “outlaw” strikers have given no coherent account of themselves ,or their purpose in striking. Now that they are, by their own choice, excluded from the processes by which men who go back to work have every hope of obtaining better wages and working conditions, perhaps the “outlaws” will draw together and formulate some sort of plea for their attitude, If what they want is justice, from whom woujd they accept a definition of justice? The new Labor Board may be only an experi- ment, but it is an experiment that sane American labor is not refusing to try. On the other hand, much can be learned from a study of those who tum their backs on it. What is the plea of the 5,000? THE GRAB THAT FAILED. EPEAT of the Jenks Fare Grab measures is a distinct victory for good government, a triumph of light over darkness, Win or lose, the Jenks bills were not considered on their merits. An effort was made to slip them through without giving the public a chance to un- derstand or to be heard, Defeat is even more a reflection on the methods used than on the bills themselves. It was a lesson to the traction interests to play fair in the future, No one can deny that the principle of the flexible fare has many features to recommend it—most of which were not present in the Jenks bills, If the traction interests hope for favorable action in the next Legislatuye, now is the time for them to dratt their bill for introduction. Now is the time to commence educating the people in the principles of the flexible fares. The crucial points of a “service at cost’ franchise are “rate of return” and “valuation.” These are proper subjects for bargaining between municipali- ties and traction companies. The Jenks bill was vicious principally because it attempted to “freeze in” arbitrary valuations which could not stand the test of open negotiation, | are ysed by some of the | use them now, and when I call them A Pi Ba a eS o [FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | Whut wiua uf letter do you pnd most reaaublef Lsn't i tue vite that gives you the worth of @ thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mentai exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words, Take time to be brief. eS An Un-American Idea. ‘To the Editor of Toe Erening World: One hundred per cent. American- ism, sure as the sun sets, means— Justice, fair play and a square deal for all alike, friend or foe. That being #0, what person will dare stand.up and say that the Eigh- teenth Amendment (Prohibition) is built an the 100 per cent, American lines? The meaning of that amend- ment is revenge—just plain revenge, and not justice, fair play and a square deal for all alike, and I defy any one to contradict m FREDERIC G. New York, April “A Pablte To the Bator of The Evening Work: The editorial you published/in your grace,” calling attention to the toilets in the subway and elevated stations, was very true—too true to be pleas- ing to @ person who has any pride in his city. I hold no retainer from the Inter- borough, but I would like to know how you expect these places to be kept in a decent condition when they “cattle” who “cattle,” I feel like apologizing to cattle when I meet them. Way is it necessary for some people to be so unspeakably filthy in their personal habits? If the Interborongh would have their porters spend as much time disinfecting a certain number of thetr passengers as they do their toilets now, [ am sure you would have no further cause for complaint along these lines. E. A. H, Jr. Wall Street, April 20, 1920, A Boy's Sp: To the Editor of The ne Money. Workd With reference to the letter written “Anxious to Be Fair," printed ise the writer is giving his . especially that in my opinion he son a splendid allowai on the salary he is making. Tam a young man of nineteen and my parents are not very well to do I make $22 a week, out of which I give my parents $16 and keep the rest Here ts my budget for the week Jame (3 dayw) $20 Canin coors. A Cardare ¢0 grening collage’ {lab un Sanday ‘Spending ‘Mone; As can be readily seen, [ am saving $1 every week. During the past two years I have bought $150 Liberty Bonds (part with my bonus), and am well satisfied My parents put away $5 every week which I cannot touch until twenty- one, and I now have ov bank, A BOY OF N White Coa To the Editor of The As the people finally seem to have found a way to reduce the H. C. L., I would like to give some analogous advice to my fellow druggist | It would not be appropriate for a druggist to attend to his business in paper last Saturday, “A Public Dis-| wood overalls, 80 why not go back to our old’ style and wear long white coats as we used to do? They pro- tect our suits and are becoming to our profession. ‘They are the most suitable ‘thing we could wear In attending to our business. THEO. SIMON. Bayside, April 20, 1920. Need 1 Not Oratory. To the Editor of The Krening@World: I notice among your editoriais of yesterday your comments upon Miss lisabeth Marbury’s declaration that “any fifteen-year-old boy” could sur- pass Gen. Wood in oratory. If this is so, it is most satisfactory. We don't ‘want a man of fine phrases and meaningless words for our next President. We want action, which we are likely to get from Gen. The country has ‘been sufficiently humiliated by mischievous oratory and inaction, and we welcome Gen. Wood as a strong man of deeds, free from self-conceit and having practical ideas of what this country needs, to- gether with the ability to carry them out. REVOLUTIONARY DESCENDANT [Editor's Note.—Miss Marbury's re- marks quoted-in the editorial in ques- tion did not mention Gen, Wood's oratory, but rather his lack of con- structive ideas. Miss Marbury asked her hearers to “analyze” Gen, Wood's remarks “with intelligence.”) Stick to the Overalls, To the Editor of The Erening World You have written editorials on the overall movement and given much and prominent space to this “high clothing| price protest,” but you have sald/ nothing as to how the movement should bo carried on. May I suggest/ therefore that you impress upon your Teaders the im- portance of wearing overalls to save their regular olothes until such time 1s “real” clothes come down to a rea- sonable price? If people do not keep this thought in mind and carry it out the mosement will be a ludicrous failure and will merely serve to fatten the increased profits of many profiteering manufac- turers and dealers in denim, If the wearing of overalls and khaki is only temporary and not carried on until the desired end is attained cloth- ing profiteers will “rub it in” harder than ever. ‘The American public is in- clined to do things In spurts. ls J. M. New York, April 22, 1920. ‘The Housewlfe’s Glee. Yo the Kalitor o€ The Brening World Penny-slotters are complaining that they insert their coins for gum and get—stung! Pardon a few thousand of us while we give Way to mirth at their predicament. ‘The few who have not had an ex- perience similar to my own may not enjoy the joke, For tyese I will elucidate, Habitual patrons of the slot ma- chine sooner or later grow weary of their bovine quids, or it may be that the “chaw" in it gives oui, When this point is reached they nonchai- antly disoard the germ-ladea wad, in- —_ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) EMULATE, BUT DON’T IMITATE. School girls are fond of making copies of drawings by C. D. Gibson. Their fond parents see the copies, which often look very much like Gibson's pictures. And they im- mediately fancy that their daughters have genius! But the imitative faculty is no more like genius than the plaster of Paris figure is like the human being from whom it was modelled. Anybody who can write can copy one of Shelley's poems. Nobody but Shelley could write one. Imitation is necessary up to a certain stage of your life. You learned to speak, to eat, to walk, by imitating your parents, ’ But you cannot learn to think by imitating them. That you must do in your own way. There are more than a bfllion and a half people in this world. All but a very few million are imitators. And all but a very few million would be utterly unprogressive were it not for their thinking fellow beings. Any youhg man with square shoulders, a set of large teeth and a scraggly mustache can look like Theodore Roosevelt. But there is no youth now living who can think as Roosevelt thought, or astonish his fellow citizens as often as he did. Even the actor, whose business is imitation, has to put personality and originality into his work, or he does not succeed. You will never get beyond mediocrity unless you think for yourself. one is an original thinker. Look at the men you read about every day— Marconi—Edison—Kipling—Barrie — Clemenceau. Every Not one of them is in the least like any other man whg ever lived. All of them stopped imitating long ago—as soon as they discovered that only by original thinking could they get anywhere. The world does not desire nor intend to stand still. It is looking for new idcas, new thoughts, which will help it to progress. Imitation is merely a working over of the old thoughts. There is no market for it. Emulate great men, There is a market for originality. Emulation means effort to stand out as they stood out by real achievement. It does not mean slavish imitation of their methods. Oe enennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnmnnmennrnnt different ag to its ultimate landing|my route through the room can be ace, Along I come, wearing a pair of high-costa-living shoes, The gum and the sole of my shoe unite, I scuff until fellow pedestrians have the impression that I am becoming accustomed to a new wooden leg. Finding no favorable result from this effort I withdraw to the curb and en- deavor to ecratch off the objection- able gob from its tenacious grip. It @ as inseparable as a Bolshevist and his whiskers. , Repeated efforts succeed only in spreading the sticky mass over more sole surface, Dragging each succes- sive step from its sticking place, in a limping manner I at length reach home, Here I am obliged to make m: way over the rug we are tenderly tr: ing to keep respectable until we can afford another. Ah, the gluey substance c now to withdraw— bere @ little and th mmentes t en masse, but @ little, =r readily traced without the aid of a Sherlock or a bloodhound. Discarding my shoes, the real work commences, Hot water, cold water, a knife, a hair pin—oh, that I had the nose of that nonchalant gum-thrower that I might rub it also op the dis- figuring places! Is it surprising that as 1 work in bended knee posture Iam filled with righteous indignation, or to express i more frankly, that I am plain mad through and through! Gum may have its valuable uses. The cow seems to find his quid an aid to contemplative reflection, or it may serve as a gag to one that is too blatant But, ye gods! When will the penny- slotter have cow sense enough to get out in a field to discard his quid? Meanwhile his bitterness toward the machine's graft affords us revengeful MRS. J. W. 8. 69th St, New York, April 20, How Queensland 5 Is Solving the Housing Problem Landlord Allowed Only 8%: Net on His Investment-- State Builds Houses for, Workers and Loans Money to Others for Homes, OW the State of Queensland, Australia, is meeting the housing situation was told to- day by Premier Edward G. Theodore, who is on a short visit to America to’ arrange for the export of building » materials and also to acquire a more. intimate knowledge of the iron and steel situation as it affects the hous- ing problem in America. ‘ Premier Theodore stopped into the’ Mayor's Committee on Rent Profit- cering, in the Municipal Building, where he was the guest of Arthur J. W. Hilly, Chairman of the commit- tee. Tho Australian statesman man- ifested keen interest in the proceed- ings, which involved rent disputes and alleged breaches of leases and other renting cantracts. “How have you met the housing situation in Queensland?” asked ag Evening World reporter, and Prem- ier Theodore gave this explanation: “We have in Queensland what we call the Fair Rents Act. It was passed several months ago by our law makers, who represent a con- stituency of about 700,000 persons ‘There was no opposition to the legis- lation, because, in the first place, it was propounded by the people who were the victims of merciless land~ lords who were exacting twice as much rent as they were entitled to. , “Dhe act provided for a Fair Rent Tribunal, presided over by either # Police Couft Judge ofa District Court Judge, and it is provided expresely in our new law that a landlord cannot increase the rent of his tenants more than enough to return 8 per cent. net on his investment.” Premier Theodore explained that: there has been a dearth of houses since the war. He said that Queens- land lost 58,000 artisans in the war hence the scarcity of houses, coupled with the shortage of building mates rials. The Government, however, contemplating putting up steel ani iron mills to produce its own building materials, he said. On the latter subject, Premier Th odore explained that Queensland hi also solved the construction end of i own housing problem’ by passing leg. islation which enables the Govern ment to engage in the business of building houses for the workers. By “workers” the speaker explained the legislation was enacted to benefit those whose annual income is not more than £200 ($1,000) a year. For those earning more than £200 a year, the Government, he said, advancd the loan but does no building. “In the towns where the one exists,” Premier Theodore related, “th houses are being built now, and when finished they will be let to the work- ers on a time purchasing plan, the Government to hold the title, of course, until the house is completely paid for, within twenty-five years. The Gov- ernment gets 5 per cent. interest on the capital invested, and the worker advances only £5 ($25) in every £100 ($500), “For instance, the average dwelling of five rooms, kitchen and bath, a frame house, with electric light, running water, &c., costs £600 ($3,000), #0 you see in that event the worker would Tbave to put up only £30 ($160). The worker pays weekly about 20 shillings ($5) toward the liquidation of his debt to the Government. Out of those twen- ty shillings a sinking fund is pro- vided for fire and life insurance, so that in the event of the death of the |worker before the expiration of twen- ty-five years the Government, by rea- son of its insurance plas, cau give over to the worker's widow a honse free and clear in lieu of life insur- ance. The insurance is about 10 pence (20 cents) per week. “Then, again, if a worker changes his mind, or if he should move out of our State, he may have his interest in the house transferred only with the ap- proval of the Workers’ Dwellings Board.” For those more fortunate than the “workers,” a building loan plan by the Government has been in vogue ‘for several years past, Premier Theo- dore said. “It ts like this,” he ex- plained: “The Government advances te a man £600 ($2,600) at 5 per cent. for twenty, years with which to build a house costing £620 ($3,100), The man in that event furnishes only £120 ($600) of his own money, Almost every family in Queensland lives in a one family house, detached, with garden and garage space there- abouts. This, Premier Theodore said,; was a factor much in favor in deals: ing with the housing problem in Australia. + aes No Tipping Here, When I first arrived in Venice I noticed large printed an- nouncements in my hotel and in the * restaurants, “Vietate la Mancie,” and on inquiry I found this meant “Tips Forbidden,” that all over Venice tipping has been abolished, says a writer in the London Daily Mail. The same rule applies more or less in other Italian cities, but in none, 80 far as I have seen, $0 completely and actually as in Venice. The notices there vary, Some say that tips are “abso- lutely” forbidden, others “rig. orously” or “severely” forbidden, or “prohibited;” others explain more fully that after Aug. 1 tips | are “abolished,”