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Ex! Nos. 5: President, @3\ Park F_ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row. PULITZER, Jr., Secretary. 63 Park Row, ¥ ae x KEEP 'EM DEAD. IL. the closing minute of thé Legislature the Fare Grab Bills are to lie on the table ing a favorable moment when the Traction ts and Speaker Sweet believe there is oppor- ity to slip them through. Shange of only a few votes would result tn a re- of the verdict. Purchase of those few votes mild be good business for the Traction interests. fortunate that legislation requires an atysolute jority and not merely the majority of a quorum, we might fear that a convenient number gislators would absent themselves, | Fortunately, the vote Thursday lined up the oppo- Meals on three distinct roll calls. Eleventh hour “con- ons” would require considerable explanation. fslstors woukl, have difficulty in proving that Traction lobbyists had failed to “see” them—ag ly McCue expressed it. “Thesburden of proof will rest on any one of the en opponents who switches. es Amundsen in safe—and another great story ot Arctic daring and discovery is op its way te ‘@ waiting world. r TWO DIFFERENT STORIES. HEN a New York gas corporation faces con- sSumers and the courts, it shows a pitiful “Of ravaged earnings and contiscated profits, to the Whiquitous 80-Cent Gas Law. ee But when it tupns to: prospective purchasers of he: of its new bond issues—what a difference! ~~ Listen to President Cortelyou of the Consolidated Gas Company. Mr. Cortelyo® is offering bonds: _ “The figures thus far available indicate net earnings of the system in 1919, after operat- _ ing expenses, taxes, &c. (including $3,058,609 for renewal and replacement reserve),' of $13,643,549, or an amount over twice the an nval interest on the funded and other debt of the system with the public, including that: on the $25,000,000 7 per cent. convertible and the dividends paid to minority stock of subsidiaries. - “The large equity over and above the $25,- 00,000 five-year secured 7 per cent. convert- {ble gold bonds is represented by the $100,- _ 000,000 common capital stock outstanding, on which regular dividends have been paid for thirty-five years, the present rate being 7 per “cent. per annum.” ‘ ett, as been the same way with the Interborough " Rapid Transit Company. i When that corporation asks for increased fares 0 ts'orly bankruptcy and ruin ahead under five-cent rate, | Yet rot two years ago, when President, Shonts Bs fering a $33,000,000 issue of three-year con- » vertible 7 per cent. gold Interborough notes, he pre- “dict an Interborough total net income “increasing 17,480,000 in 1922, as compared with $11,520,- 900 required for estimated interest and sinking fund harges payable out of income in 1919,” and added: ~ “This estimate of earnings is based on a - G-eont fare.” ' n it be a question of a five-cent fare or of nt gas, the case for the public ought to include presentation of corporation finances as they when corporations are out to sell bonds. The lean years and the “poor mouth” shuld *not hthe only exhibits in court when a public service poration seeks to raise rates. of One month more in jail will balance the three | Year sentence imposed upon Caillaux, former | Premier of France, convicted of “commerce and _ 601 dence with the enem:; _ A heavier penalty is his forfeiture of thi ‘Tight io vote or hold public office, ; Caillaux escapes the more serious charge of ‘treason. Frenebmen will draw a breath of relief that > the Caillaux case no longer holds over France its dark menace of “revelations, ORFHAN’S DAY AT THE CIRCUS. O-DAY and to-morrow are days of anticipa a tion, \ ’ Monday is the time of realization, ‘Monday is “Orphan's Day” dt the circus. ) More fortunate orphans who have seen the circus fave been singing its praises for the last two weeks, ssace it has been known that pumper business id not be permitted to interfere with the annual at. The youngsters who never have attended ie big Madison Square Garden entertainment have inted the days until there is only “to-morrow and then the next day.” ) Orphan's Day {s one of the finest traditions of circus. The managers of the big show deserve the credit they get. So, too, do the performers. ns are never funnier than they are for the audi- muence that doesn't pay to see the show. Orphan's Day hetps explain the universal and tn- easing popularity of the olscus as an American In- lution, If the men behind the circyS business did at have the fundainental kind-heartedaess and hu- to feel for she little ones to whom so’ much ng ae | | aes aah WILSON’S refusal Press ie exclusively entitled to the ws for republication | ‘Geapatchrs credited to it or mot otherwise credited im this paper fecal news published herein. \ ! the “outlaw” strikers is justified... The rejection was based on the fact that the” men were not at work and, having failed to appeal first to arbitration, | had no claim on the Labor Board. The President’s decision reinforces the position of the Labor Board, But there is danger that these decisions may be misinterpreted, It cannot be made too plain that the “outlaws” are denied a hearing because they quit work and not because they are insurgents. The Railroad Labor Board (and other stmilar or- ganizations which may be set up in other industries) cannot hope to meet the needs of the community if they are to be used permanently to establish the brotherhoods or other existing unions as the soie INSURGENT RIGHTS. to intercede with the Railroad Labor Board on behalt of possible medium of gollective bargaining. There is atways the pcostbility that- existing organizations and officers may cease to be fairly representative of the membership, “‘Boss rule” and manipulated elections in unions.are not unheard of, A means of appeal must be left open, if the “outlaws,” instead of striking, had organ- ized an insurgent union with a demonstrable mem- bership and had lived up to the contracls under which they were working, then the officers and representatives of the insurgent union would have had a proper claim to a hearing before the Labor Board in the negotiation of a new scale, no matter how radical. If we are to hope for industrial peace, the right to minority representation and a hearing must not | be denied, whether the minority be more radical or * more conservative than the organization as a whole. A case in poipt: Wednesday The Evening World published a let- ter from a member of the Cutters’ Union protest- ing the unwise demands of the leaders of the exisi- It is conceivable that other men of similar conservative opinion might care to jein | him in an insurgent union opposed to the present ing organization. | regime of extremists. The minority must have a right to be heard, out —granted that right before such a tribunal as the Railroad Labor Board, on which the public is repre- senled—both the regular and the insurgent unionists must expect to abide by the decision rendered. The Railroad Labor Board is frankly an experi- ment looking toward industrial peace and justice Such an organization, white it regognizes collective bargaining, does, in a measure, altcr the relation- ship between the bargainers. Once the bargain is arrived at—after a hearing all parties interested, includimg the public and mi- norities of employers and *employees—the resulting contract partakes more of the nature of an award by a court, binding all parties to fulfil the eontract. The “outlaw” railngad men ceased to be a party at interest when they violated the existing contract. But this does not imply that in the future railroad workers who are similarly dissatisfied with working conditions may-not form an insurgent organization and— remaining al work—have a voice in the ne- gotiation of the next contract or the settlement of the next dispute. The theory underlying the creation of the. Rail- road Board, which the brotherhoods have accepted, and which the “outlaws” are now anxious to ac- cept, is that in public utility service the right to strike is a Jast resort, not a first resort, as the “outlaws” recently made it. THEATRE TICKETS CAN WAIT. HE EVENING WORLD refuses to beeome ex- cited at the present time over rumors that the price of theatre tickets may be advanced to $5. Demand for the lighter kinds of theatrical amuse- ment in New York is just now unprecedented. Backed by high spending power, this demand. is more than ever made up of the pleasure-seeking ele- ment in the city’s huge and constantly replenished quota of visitors, If theatre managers are dazzled by present pros- perity into the belief that they can double the price of tickets next season, let them try it out. If demand for a certain sort of theatrical enter- tainment continues so much greater than the supply, the managers may find it possible to fill their thea- tres at even $10 a seat. If not, be sure the time will come when they will be only too glad to welcome New York theatre- goers back to New York theatres at present prices or less. The truth {s, the kind of theatre-going to wh the reported price raising applies is nine-tenths luxury. Just now the high cost of the necessities of life is too profoundly serious a matter to leave time for worry about the rising cost of luxurigs. The public has only recently got down to grips with real problams like boosted rents and the soar- ing price of clothing, The Eyening World means to ‘stick to. these problems ang let theatre tickets wait. win “ URDAY, ot RR lg, By J. H. Cassel “Any NEW Clothes?” hundred? From an Ex-Re; To the Editor of The Bvening World; Your editorial ‘Regulars Don't Vote,” hits the nail on the head. If a bonus bill is passéd the regulars should benefit ‘by it also, Many of the pre-war regulars are on reserve at present and they all vote. The following are.a few questions the committee should be asked: Who followed Gen, Pershing into Mexico? ~ Who trained the selected men? What were the first cight divisions Pmade up of? Who did the dirty work on the bor- der? Who“was the backbone of the army during the war? if regulars are excluded ¢rom any bonus ‘bills there will. be much dis- content. The army cannot afford to lose the few regulars who dre in service at present. If you went to any military, p@t right now you could easily jlok out the real regulars. by their actions, dress and military bear- ing. SeRGKANT MAJOR REGULAR ARMY RPSPRVE. New York, April 20, 1920, The Fight ft Economy, ‘'e the Editor of The Evening World; d quite earce with Mr. Frank Me- Guire’s idea of wearing overalls. It certainty would make any one look like a piker if he alone wore this outfit, but to ask for the State's co- operation would be expecting too much. My. suggestion would be to have ‘The Evening World take this noble stand and form some organization for the wearing of overalls and old clothing, ‘This idea to be made universal in New York City only and with the offering of a uniform button would || FROM EVENING WORED READERS _| _—— WAGE wenw v7 cider UO Yuu ANG Nivel feuuubiCT Len't be tue Une that gives you the worth of @ thousund words in @ couple of ~There is fine mental exercise and a lot 0) satisfaction in trying to aay snuch in few words. Take time to be brief. secure members overwhelmingly. Another good idea I noticed in your womlerful paper was the article referring to hunches; if taken by some strong organization it would certainly show surprising results. The only satisfactory answer would be for The Evening World to grip this matter mnd fight these profiteers as_ heretofore. Wake up, New Yorkers! : A BEE SEE 20. Brookly To the Editor of The Mr. A. de G. and those who agree with him are miftaken as to the rea- son why women cross their legs in the subway. ‘The real reason is vanity It appeans that no woman with a new pair of allk stockings and high neeted shoes can resist the impulse to exhibit them to the best advantage, And it is not done for man’s benefit oither, A woman takes greater pleas- ure in exciting the envy of her own sex in the matter of dress than, in striving for the admiration of men, for most mon are indifferent as re. gards women's dress and care iy fore face or Agure, of the style or quality of the raiment. If A, J. G. will observe the passen- Bers closely he will notice that the eyes of all the women are riveted on the lady with the crossed legs, who pretends to be unaware of the atten- tion, but really is Inwardly gloating over the “hit” she is making, You never see a woman with shabby shoes or stockings cross her legs in the subway. Modesty is relative and the shameless exhibitions in the sub- way, at the beaches and in the ball- rooms prove that as between the sexes womeg have the least regard for mod- esty. The modest, unpainted woman 1s @ rarjty nowadays, which undoubt- edly accounts for the disinolination of self-respecting young men to marry while the present craze for cabarets, somine and Cuban heels prevails. | BRONXITE. | | New York, April 20, 1920. Enconraxe Potash Indastry. To the Edytor of The Evening World: I have noted with great interest the communication addressed you by Mr. | S. Gould and published in your col- | umns on the subject of Germany's | monopoly of potash. | During the war the United States | Food Adminjstrator, in urging greater | food production, informed us that Ger- | many in an area smaller than the State of Texas raised five times as many potatoes asthe entire United States. That accomplishment, it de- velops, was possible only through in- tensive German methods of farming, and the secret of that intensive farm- ing is potagh. .* If it is true that dur food produc- tion is in reality perilously short, Mr. Gould is right in calling attention to| the danger of overlooking the devel- opment of American sources of this great essential to agriculture, and every effort should be made to en- courage the potash industry in this country. If potash is the secret of more ‘and cheaper food the United States Gov- ernment should take a hand in its de- velopment and protection. Most cet- tamly we ought not to be left de- pendent on Germany or any other foreign country if we have natural potash resouréeg with which to de- fend ourselves. R. HALL. 26 Greentvich Avenue, April 20, 1920, Practical” Charity. To the Editor of The Evening World: Some days ago a man I know wrote to a prominent and wealthy philan- thropist of this city, stating that he was in very straitened circumstances at present owing to the concern for which he had been tnanager for some years going into the hands of a re- celver. He asked this philanthropist to loan him $300 on his note at 60 days, saying that he could give him @ UNCOMMON SENSE 14 By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.» ‘BIG MEN SELDOM POSE. Pose is pretending to be something that you are not. It is always transparent, usually offensive. Once in a long time a really important man poses. But nine hundred and ninety-nine posers out of a thousand are cheap counterfeits. It is often said that simple men are not always great, but great men are always simple. . Certainly great men are nearly dlways natural. There was no pose, no affectation, about Washington, Lincoln or Benjamin Franklin, the great French soldier, or Lloyd George, the statesman, There is none about Foch, great British The man who poses is so busy with his posing that he can give no attention to things that are really important. If you are occupied with important ideas you will not pose. You will be so full of them, and so eager to impress other people with them, that you will have to be natural. Only the conceited pose, and conceit is the worst enemy of attainment, for the conceited mam believes that he has attained everything that is attainable. Keep pose out of your personality. ° x If you find that you are cultivating affectations of manner or speech, get rid of- them, If you find yourself using cant phrases which sound erndite, edit them out of your conversation, Whistle , the great painter, could afford to pose. But his pose, which gave rise to many stories about him, was always disagreeable. The beginner in life will do,well to be forthright and straightforward, to talk, simply and behave naturally, If he tries to cultivate a pose it will deceive nobody but himself, And it will get him a reputation for eccentric- ity and vanity that he will find very hard to live down. On nent” association (charitable) which would undoubtedly ‘be glad to make him the joan, This was done and he was re- quested by this so-called charitable lodn association to procure two in- dorsers for kis note, each worth trom $20,000 to $35,000, ‘and they would then make the loan, I write to ask you why this asso- clation shoyld be called ;‘charitable"? Any bank would be glad to make a foan for this or a much larger amount on $40,000 to $70,000 security, and yet they do not include the word “char- table” in their title. Bear in mind that this man who applied for a loan of $300 was not a second story man or a hobo, but an apright business man temporarily in need of this small amount. Charity, vharity, what sins are committed in thy name! L. PERCY JONBS. 32 East 82d Street, April Z1, 1920, Jim To the Editor of The E I read with disgust an’ 4 on the second page, second column, of Tho Evening World of April 14 en- titled “Jim Crow Cars Upheld.” I think that this piece of legisiation the highest possible references as to his character and ,business reputa- tion, He further assured this phi- lanthropist that he would meet the mata reper he ived ted e reply ‘he rece! reques: ye to apply to a certain free is the worst that I have ever hea =the most unpatriotic and the mozt disgraceful'to go down upon the rece ords of a country, a world power, so respected and 80 lauded as ours, What a precedent it establishes! For seven months and a half inthe ‘ i | mere color difference of my | sufficient, to counteract front line trenches in Franea I fought & most stern fight, for the most part under the most unfavorable condi- tions. I was a volunteer. I ‘fought for DEMOCRACY. When J returned and started for a visit to Virginia’) found on changing in the District of Columbia for a Southern train on the Richmond, Frederick and Potomac Railroad, even though the railroads were under Government administra- tion and I had on the uniform cf my Government—the test suit that 7 have ever worn—that I was not free to. take the first vacant seat that I might come to but was ushered back to some particular passenger car, smaller than’the rest and not near so clean, marked COLORED. This was a terrible blow. It stunned me. Oh, why did they do it to me when my heart was filled to overflowing with the satisfaction that I had done well my little part’of a great and noble job? Oh, Now did they feel that the skin was the respect due the uniform of the United States Army? The date of this was Fob, 28, 1919, * Sometimes now I think of thot dark day. It chills me. 1 wonder what kind of spirit we are promoting in the colored American—13,000,000 of them, I am told—when we encourage such practices as I have described. AN EX-SOLDIER. New York, April 20, 1920, TURNING THE PAGE —_—BsY— Otis Peabody Swift Comme Ree Ye Wrsog Word) Daniel in the Lion’s Den --- Darius the Mede was a king and @ wonder, _ His eye was proud, and his voice was thunder. ° He kept bad lions in a monstrous den, He fed the lions wp on Christian men. ‘Thus roared the lions :— “We want Daniel, Daniel, Daniel, We want Daniel, Daniel, Daniel, errrrrerercerrertr” GTVETVLUV CETTE CTT Cre Fom “The Daniel Jazz." To our mind “the New Poetry” and Vachel Lindsay are identical. Be® yond Vachel Lindsay there is no “new” poetry. The belief is strength-, ened by reading “Others for 1919" an | anthology of “the New Verse,” edi- ~ ted by Alfred Kreymborg. The above selection is taken from Lindsay's vivaciously jazzed account of Daniel in The Lion's den. ; “Students,” an analysis of a school class by Haniel Long is the other good thing in the nicely bound bive and gold volume. eee Czar vf the Pick and Shovel--- “It 1s not that wages are el- ways right—generally they are net right, But the economic fact te inescapable that if a wage is raised without @ corresponding imerease in efficiency of production so that the wage cin be absorbed end net pussed on to the public, only a temporary raise has been granted, for invariably the increased cost will find its reflection in @ higher i cost of living.” “Commen i these lines—one to hang over the grand piano in his drawing reom and another for his limousine. . An Ibanez Story--- in the Muja Desnuda,” under. the title “Woman Triumphant,"chas. just - into a second f proclaimed ‘“Dhe the Apocalypse” of the war will rs . . me ‘Transatlantic Seaplanes - - « “In daylight the handling of a big seaplane in rough ajr is reasonably easy, but this night, with the wir very rough, it was trying work. About 00.03 'G. M. T. (Greenwich mean time) the moon was dead ahead, Dlood-red behind banks of clouds. ‘This was a menace, for it made our compasses and inclinometers almost impossible to read. While passing No. 3 Destroyer we sighted two steam- ers Dritiiantly lighted. At one time, near No. 6 Destroyer, because our running lights were not lit, we were nearly run down by the N.C. 1. We / warned her off with a pocket Mash- light, Her own lights showed up brilliantly. “Conditions got better as the moon rose. About 4.00 GM. T. we were cruising about 400 feet above the clouds. Looking down, 1. frequently noted our shadow chasing madly over the hills and hotlows below, and saw that the shadow was surrounded by a rainbow, forming’ a ‘complete ring fust touching the tips of the shadow othe wings. ‘The moonlight rainbor was wak. I had heard of this ph nomena in daylight, but had not ex- pected to find it by moonlight. “During the night we had pick up the segrohlights of the destroyer! ahd the brilliant burst of their greem- ish white star shells above th Now we could see the sky on our port beam becoming steadily brigh and about 6.00 G. (M. T. it was day light.” ‘The lines are from the log of th NC-3, written by Commander H, C. Richardson in “The Triumph of the NC's," in which with Lieut. Com- mander Read and Commander West ervelt he tells 6f the story of the trans-Atlantic flight. The twilight of that day would find Read at the Azores, the battle almost won and Richardson lost in the tossing sweep, of a broken sea, while the wi waited news of the missing NC is a thrilling story of great achie ment, and is a valuable contribution to our rapidly growing literature of ayiation. saa . A History of the We “A Short History of the Greut War, Dealing Particularly With Its Milt. tary and Diplomatic Aspects and the Part Played in it by the United States” is the title of an authorite tive and well-balanced story of war by William L. McPherson. book is a Putnam ipubtication. 8 8 A Garden Is a Lovesome Thing - - - ‘There are fenv, indeed, who co not own 4 garden, | It may be only a flower on a city window ledge, it may be the park garden where tulip bud are pushing up through the warm moist loam, and the willows tips are > turning yellow and the maples red along the winding trails, or it may be a garden of to-morrow, the diram garden we shal] some day own. ‘That ig the most wonderful garden of them all, a shut garden with a high brick wall that lets the world go by beyond its seclusion, a garden of fir s| red tile walks, of arbors where ¢ and roses climb together, of grecn lawns where white violets and star flowers come up thropugh the grasses and one can see the footsteps cf windwalk in rippling patterns. There will be a run dial there, with straight red cardinal flowers and the yellow lady slipper, and closed gen- tians climbing up to the bronged dial And there wil be a bird bath set low among rock ferns and maide.) hoir, I: will be a most wonderful p! that garden of to-morrow. “& garden is a lovesome thing and many gardeners since Sir Thomas Browne have found it so, Among them is Gainer Teall, editor of Art and Life, who just put lished Little Go Round,” the practical year in his own garde: to quote the sul-title, “muen joy was found, experience gained, and profit spiritual as well as mundane derived without loss of ‘prestige in 2 peruon. Selahborheag r, ~ ‘The book will delight every oy, « 4 |