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not a sultable language for opera is of long stand- ing. The present season may not have settled it. Nevertheless it is significant that so experienced and able an opera manager as Mr, Gatti-Cassazza, after eleven years study of New York opera aud- iences, is ready to offer them grand opera in Eng- lish no less than fifteen times in a season with per- | Aareciated Prem te exdustvety entities to the am for repubtioation| fect confidence that artistic standards need not suffer Genre ches retited tm thie varet | is, ereby. This city is fortumate in having in Mr. Gatti- Casazza a producer of opera who is broad-minded enough not to oppose, but, on the contrary, to en- courage every serious and sincere effort to make grand opera at home in that one of the chief mod- ern languages that has produced least of it. Coprright, 1990, by ‘The rem Plubliring Oo, + Tithe New York Evening Work), ag Od ought to start something in the Attorney Gen- q Mr. Palmer may possibly fisten to words from the Senate Chamber even though he disre- bee gards other warnings. NY profiteer who judges the “overalls move- ment” by the failure of the overalls parade Saturday will make a most serious mistake. and not jeers met the marchers all along The spectators on the curb were with marchers in spirit—éf not in demin. overalls idea persists, In cities less metro- than New York the overalls are more in but nowhere is the idea more firmly fixed 7 Organization of any parade in New York entails vast amount of hard work. No sihgle person or rroup of persons had the incentive to organize an “Let George do it” was the attitude the sympa- ers took. But so long as that sympathy re- ults in even passive refusal to buy clothing at ex- bitant rates “George” will have effective aid. “Why buy overalls,” one advertiser asks, “when , p are ready to sell good clothes cheap?” | ° That is the answet to the overalls movement. ‘That is what the overalls advocates set out to- 80 The effects will become increasingly dent as those who did not march exert the pres- e of their sympathy. vA Se mplish __ SWEET CONTRADICTS HIMSELF. Speaker Sweet's “swan song” to the Legistature, a prelude to his campaign for the Gubernatorial omination, he said: - “There never was a moment during the period the Gocialist organization was on trial before the Judiciary Committee that the coun- pel for the five defendants did not fail to make _ it clear that. his cliente were endeavoring by so-called peaceful means to obtain the over- throw of our present government.” “Peaceful means” and “overthrow” are in them- es a contradiction. Speaker Sweet can not or will not recognize this. . = “Peaceful means” implies alteration rather than Overthrow—evolution, not revolution. Gov. Smith attempted by peaceful means and en peated recommendation to get action on his pro- so gra of reconstructing the executive power of __ the State... Say Was this an example of “overthrowing?” BE ff so, why did not Speaker Sweet move for im- © Peachment? “Overthrow” and “alter” are not synonymous. PEK they are, this Government has been overthrown times without number. “Overthrow” more nearly describes what hap- Bepened when Speaker Sweet denied representation "pe to 50,000 voters in a by no means peaceful manner. ag yy a — ae ee = NEW YORK’S PROGRESSIVE OPERA. OR the first time in twenty-three weeks Monday is night finds the Metropolitan Opera House _ dark,’ and New York's thirty-fifth season of grand opera on the big stage that backs up against Sev- | enth Avenue between 39th and 40th Streets is a | thing of the past. New York has now nearly six months of opera, | During the present season there have been in all _ 456 performances. of thirty-five different operas, four them new to New York, two of them given here for the first time on any stage, and one of them ‘composed by an American. The Metropolitan Opera season of 1919-1920 » ill not be remembered, however, so much for its woveltics as for the sustained, all-round excellence “sqwith which older favorites have been presented and or the rather notable fact that fifteen performances have been given in which the language sung was Bod _ The 0 whether English Js or is Po 2/3 . A GRIMY PAGE. HB’ 1920 Legislature slinks out of Albany with little, to its credit but the worst smudge ever left on the State’s legislative record, The only helpful measures this Legislature passed ft passed because it dared not ignore the pressure’ of public demand behind them. That applies to the Rent Bills made necessary by an unprecedented housing crisis attended by in- tolerable profiteering on the part of landlords. It applies to the Lockwood-Donohue bill which, despite defects, will imcrease teachers’ salaries and thereby help to maintain standards of public school teaching recognized as a paramount public need. * It applies even to the Walker-Gillett 2.75 beer bill, which was a clumsy, eleventh-hour response to public demand that the State of New York shall not submit to ‘Anti-Galoon League dictation in en- forcing the Eighteenth Amendment. Where this Legistature was left to itself, or where ft thought it could risk defiance of a pubfic opinion not fully aroused, it gave shameless play to politics and partisanship. The first care of the Republican majority was to set its heel on the neck of Gov, Smith's reconstruc- tion programme. This is a critical period for the world, for the Na- tion and for this Commonwealth. Reconstructive economy is a pressing need ¢hat far outweighs all minor issues between political factions. Yet because it was a Democratic Governor who proposed to create an executive budget and consol- idate the 179 existing administrative departments in the State Government into nineteen, the Republican majority in the 1920 Legislature kicked aside all such proposals and decreed that the people of New York shall wait for reconstructive legislation until such time as the Republican Party can see its way to hogging the credit. So it was with other welfare measures, like the .Minimum Wage and Eight Hour Day for Women bill, the bill giving cities and counties a larger de- gree of home rule and the proposal to put a State commission in control. of the production, transpor- tation, distribution and price of milk. These and other. like measures had nothing to do with politics but everything to do with public wel- fare. * The Republican majority would have none of them. And in the place of public welfare legislation, what? Weeks of costly persecution and probing to de- stroy the principle of representative government and bring disgrace upon the State! A preposterous and hypocritical crusade tp oust Socialist members from the Legislature and sup- press the Socialist Party in New York, in order that a Republican Speaker of the Assembly might climb on horseback and pose as the arch-champion of Americanism! Sweet and the Lusk bills—instead of the honest legislation in the public interest to which the people of the State, were entitled! It is a disgusting record, in which partisanship and political ambition ran riot at a time when the Empire State ought to have been setting a high example in the kind of constructive, non-partisan law-making the post-war period calls for. The 1920 session of the New York Legislature just ended was nothing short of a base and scan- dalous betrayal of the New York electorate. That electorate will show itself supine indéed if it does not call some of the betrayers to account. IS IT SO SURE? ROM Tangier Island in Chesapeake Bay comes an amazing story. A seventeen-year-old boy was shot by a police- man while trying to escape arrest for violating a local ordinance which makes it a punishable offense for anybody to be seen in the street on Sunday un- less he is on his way to or from church. An antiquated law and a backward community, will be the general comment. But is the spirit behind such law on the wane or on the increase at the present time in the United States? a , Would anybody assett now as confidently as he would have asserted ten years ago that the Federal Constitution itself is proof against a church-going What kina vo) vetier do you jn that gives you the worth ofa hundredr by to say much tn few words. Take t ‘The Barehead Brigade. To the Editor of The Evening World: Now that the straw hat season will soon be at hand straw hats will be $5 and upward. Why not form the bare- headed brigade? I have not worn a hat in the sum- mer for years. I see men in the sub- way carrying them,*and when it rains they put the hats under their coats to save them from being ruined. So why not go bareheaded and be comfortable, ‘Accept my sincere congratulation for the good work ‘The Evening Worla aud staff are doing. Keep it up and we will have all the profiteers where we want them. J. W. SINCLAIR. New York, April 23, 1920 Hock the New Suit. To the Editor of The bvening World; In answer to E, A. W.'g letter cap- I would suggest he pawn his new epring suit and top coat and with the proceeds buy a suit of overalls and he would have some change left to jingle in his overalls pocket and ould not be broke as he is now. ha V. MULLER. New York, April 23, 1920. Proposes White Collar Union. To the Editor of The Evening World; J. H. Bishop's letter seems to hit the point all right, but he forgets the {office men, otherwise known as the white collar clerks: I have yet to |see an office man who is getting @ salary that he is satisfied with, What seems to be the matter with the office men of to-day? It is about the that they formed an organisa- tion of some kind, Can you imagine | what would happen if all the book- other office Keepers, bill clerks, « | workers went on stri | Wake up, you white collar men. You who have gone through the ex- |pense of a business education. You who are not getting half as much |perhaps, as the street cleaners, hod carriers, and other occupations that }don't require brains. Any man can be a hod carrier, elevator operator, &c., but—any man cannot be a book- |keeper, entry clerk, &c. Let's forin \an organization through the ever- ready and helping “column of The | Evening World. Come on, now; let's hear from you. Don't be proud be- | cause you wear @ collar and tie. WAYNE. Yorkville, April 23, 1920, Tt Beat tiself. To the Editor of The Pvening World; After reading the you by Charles A | those self-robbing slot machines, 1 j wish to say that after baving the sane experience of “being dune,” 1 had the pleasure a few weeks ago of meeting up with a real sclf-rob- Ding slot machine, When I put a FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | | There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying | | tioned “A Difficulty”: | most readabiet lsn't & ihe une thousand words in a couple of ime to be brief. had the “trouble” of pocketing forty- seven pieces of gum and chocolate. Believe me, I wag better plcascd to beat this game than if some one were to hand me a ten-dollar note. GUS SHULTZ. Ridgewood, April 23, 1920 Suit and Cloak Wages. To the Editor of The Evening World; In answer to J. H. Bishop's letter I would like to make one fact ciear-— thay 1s that the cloak and suit oper- ators on ladies’ wear are not over- paid. During all these years of profiteer- | ing the increase of labor cost on a lady's garment was one dollar, and | | in Some cases even less. Even if labor cost had increased th:se-fold they still would not be overpaid. The majority of operatives are out of work six months of every | year. | Why gon't the people consider this tact? BP. CONSTAN, New York, April 23, 1920, ‘The Tipping Evil. ‘To the Editor of Tae Evening World: In The Evening World of April 80 appeared an article by Miss Mar- guerite Dean on “Carry Your Lunch to Work and Save Money and Tips.” I presume that Miss Dean is in society that she doesn't co: that waiters and waitresses are work- ers. No doubt Miss Dean didn’t) mean to hurt the workers in these establishments, but her article does, | and I believe that Miss Dean should write an article on how to abolish the tipping system in these so-called small restaurants and lunch rooms and let these workers get a fair wage and proper conditions, as Miss Dean must understand that when other} worke: enjoying themselves these | workers are on the job and all of these workers work long hours, hustling all day long. And what is the average| wage that they receive? From $6 to $12 per week and about $100 worth of | abuse. In order that they may be, able to make both ends meet they! must look for that tip or charity. | Why shouldn't these workers re- celve a salary, as"other workers do, {nstead of having the public pay their! salary? I would advise Miss Dean to) tudy the restaurant and lunch room walters and waitresses and then write ‘on how to abolish tips. Meee 8. FREY, Brooklyn, April 23, 1920. Heme Tattoring. To the Editor of The Breaing World : Your editorials from time to time about the H. L., and exposing profiters, together with the article on the first page of yesterday's Evening World about the demand of the cloth- ing cutters, prompts me to make the following comment. ‘This so-called “overall movement” may be a step in the right direction, but I'am afraid it is only temporary, and cannot extend vory far, In the Beehives are examples of labor. And bees, while they are their homes, fellows is beautifully carried fields. gathered ,together, the stupid better than the lazy bee. than stupidity and sloth, The man whose brain can to us all. old way. him up as a pattern to youth, the world on its upward way. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by Jobn Diake.) THE BEE IS BUSY BUT NOT PROGRESSIVE. In the hive it is mediocrity that rules. ligent bee who knows how to find the most honey fares no better than the dull bee who comes home with half a load. industry, have made absolutely no progress since they hung their combs in the caves where our hairy. ancestors made The theory that no man ought to rise higher than his All day the workers, dull and able, go forth into the And at the end of the summer, when the honey is eat as the bright bee, the industrious bee fares not a whit We are better off, to-day than our forefathers were be- cause intelligence and industry has reaped greater rewards If our lives were modelled on that of the bee it is pos- ‘sible that we all might be fed and clothed, but we would be clothed with the skins of animals and fed with their flesh. Sowing, ploughing, reaping—not even the most primi- tive methods of existence would be known to us. : And should any theory of life based on the same re- ward for all intelligence be set up among us, progress would ‘ oo _—— the wrong kind of organized The intel- marvels of organization and out in the beehive. bee has exactly as much to instantly cease, as it ceased millions of years ago in the, cave where the first honeycomb was suspended. find a new machine to do our work, who can find a new food for us to eat, who can find newer and better clothing for us to wear, does a vast service And for that service we owe him a greater re- ward than we owe the man who does the old things in the Admire the bee's industry, if you will, but never hold Industry is better than idle- ness, but industry without progress would never have started taken seriously by everybody. Third, should the movement. become univer- sal, the clothing profiteers would probably bring pressure enough on the overall manufacturers to make the supply insufficient, and the prices unreasonably high. I would like to suggest that thi problem be solved in a different man- ner, We ail remember how, two or three years ago, the majority of the women in this country, rich and poor, old and young, were knitting sweaters and socks for the soldiers. t s they can and are willing to work along that line when need be, ‘The season is now rapidly proaching when we ail will be longi. for Ught clothes anyway. Nearly every family has a sewing machine. | A number of concerns are furnishing | paper patterns for every imaginable {kind of garment that women wear. | Let them extend their activities and furnish patterns and directions how to use them, for garments suitable to men's wear. ‘ Have our wives, mothers, sweet- hearts or daughters make wp some penny in the slot out came chree pieces, Believe me, I kept at that machine and within a few ininutes and. at the expense of five ceata I first place, overa!ls are not suitable for general evs lay wear of the ordinary man. nd, their new use is more or less of @ fad, and ts not clothes of sensible design similar to palm beach suits, with sufficient pockets, and made of such material as they may fee) like getting, and Tyam ap- | kind Ld Sure that We can get along this sum- mer without another suit. Our women rhave brains, and most of them have energy and ingenuity. Let thera take pride in finishing the garinent prop- | erly. Those who have patience will bring out individuality by alight changes, which will add convenience and comfort, Let it be remembered, that not very long ago, the average American e clothes for her boys, but she actually epun the yarn and wove the goods the clothes were made from. I believe that if a movement of this were backed by the bring some of the prof. iteers to their senses. Nearly every family has a sewing machine. It wii) be no great hardship on our women- folk to each make a suit of clothes or two of light summer goods. The ractice they get by doing so will per- aps, when autumn comes, enable them to take up heavier goods and u- facturers or dealers, insist on gettin, more than their legitimate share of nner ,|and miserable, | restored order; By Hall Caine. ‘Thorkell Mylaea, deemster of the Isle of Man, had @ p: and ador« able daughter, Mona, ‘and & #00, Ewan, who became a clergyman. The deemster’s brother, Gilchrist, Bishop of the Isle of Man, had am only von, Dan—as wild and reckless ané mischief-loving as is the averag@ storybook minister's son. } Dan, from childhood, had wor« shipped lovely Mona. As he and she grew to maturity their early love ripened into something stronger and more beautiful. Ewen and Dan were chims. But the older and wiser people of the |) island used to shake their head: the mad pranks of their Bishop's dis- solute son, As ‘the years went on this wildness of Dan's increased rath- er than toned down. His love for Mona and his friendshtp for Ewan were the only good impulses in his wayward life. At last he and Ewan quarreled. Mona alone stood by him. But by this time her family had decided that @ match between herself and the young profligate was out of the ques- tion. Dan insisted, refusing to give up his hopes of marrying Mona, Ewan and he quarreled afresh on this swb- Ject. The quarre! culminated in @ mortal combat between the two former chums. And Hwan was killed, Dan was horrorstricken at his owm murderdus deed. He saw now that Be. and Mona were forever lost to cach other, since she could not marry the slayer of her brother. His wildness and ungovernable temper had wrecked his life, even as the good folk of the island had long prophesied. The wretched man went at once to* the authorities and confessed h crime. He was tried, and was sen- tenced to a fate far worse than death. This was his doom: He was turned loose on a desolate corner of the island, there to live among wild animals, never to speak to any human being again. The islanders were forbidden to speak to him, to look at him or to give him any aid. Dan thus was cut off from humanity as much as though he had been a ghost Years passed. Dan lived on, alone. on his end of the island, the man and reckless spirit dying within his heart Therl a pestilence swept the Isle of Man. It killed scores of the islanders. The rest of the people were too terrified to nurse the sick. In= to this scene of tragedy walked Dum Mylrea. He tgok charge of the situation; nursed many of the sick back to health; and stanped out the plague. o The islanders in gratitude, revoke ed his yentence and made him deem- ster. But they were ivo late. Dan was stricken by the pestilence from which he had saved so many others; and in @ few days he was dead. — |News Flashes From Around | |The World Scouts May Ald Tree Census. A tree census in every State at the same time the 1920 popula- tion count is made is advocate by officials of the American For-* estry Association, The census of trees to deter- mine the extent of American fur- ests, Doth in the country and, in towns and cities, may be begun. “Block-by-block” listing, in- cluding the size and variety of the tree, may be done by Boy Scouts and children, under su pervision of civic leaders. Plant. ing of memorial trees, it is he- lieved, will swell the figures by many thousands, Planters will register new trees with the association, which wilt also keep the “census” recorde taken by children and scouts. so. 6 Farms for Soldiers, The veterans of New South Wales are putting into practicut effect a scheme of “farms for sol- diers” that may offer us some hints. Eleven men have cleared and planted in tree nurseries some 180 acres of land. Only one-quarter of the cost waa taken by the Government. oe 8-6 Inoculation in Army, Preventive inoculation against* typhoid kept the big army in this country and abroad practically free from that disease which, during the Civil War and the Spanish-American War, was a tere rible scourge. But for this pro- phylaxis the death rate doubtiess would have been the same as that in the Federal Army of 1861.2, On that basis there would have been £60,000 cases and 62,694 deaths, If the rate that odtained during the Spanish-American our earnings. Ly G. NTLSON,’ Hoboken, April 23. War had been experienced the cases would have been 291,637 and the deaths 30,916,