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f » “NEVER AGAIN.” OV. SMITH must be in a quandary. * : Gee He must make early decisions on a moun- * tain of bills, important and unimportant, good, bad ‘and indifferent, passed in the closing hours of the “Keebrviig It ts a tremendous task, but an even ‘iote important decision will remain. » Shall, he call a special session? *That question is a poser. Judging merely by what the regular session failed Sees But in 4’ special session the State ‘will be served rs alas hnbesipttent dred whch tas been , dawdling and playing politics since early in January. ee Can anything better be expected from a Legis- Deomaceet itself incompetent, if not si Sasha Sci capt pred ue sth TR the cost to the taxpayers, would a special session be VE Ge, worth the added expense? / Hip. / These are questions which the Governor must . face and answer. He must weigh the consequences. pe He must decide and discharge an onerous duty. : “Every oi is, in a measure, responsible, New © York voters did not give the proper attention to the ~_. problems of the Governor, with inept use of the hes They are at fault. i Some editors and many voters adopt a “Thank 1 fa» God, it’s over” attitude, which is anything but com- ‘®*” Far better would be a solemn vow, “Never again. i Hereafter I shall support men who will be creditable representatives.” ie: No other Governor should ever again be forced 0 face. the samme sort of difficult problems that now = eontront Gov. Smith. eee ©” A DOUBTFUL GUIDE. OUR Justices of the United States Supreme Court hand down’ a decision which requires re ils Reading Company to dissolve itself into its con- stituent parts, separating railroad operating elements from the'coal and iron business, i Court’ Justices declare the Read- Ing’ Company to be “a flagrant violation -nvef the anti-tnist laws of the country” and point to at seem: convincing facts: “AN three of the Reading companies had the « eame officers and directors and it was under » heir euthority that the mines were worked andthe railway operated, and they exercised that authority in the one case in precisely tha ‘ame character as in the other, as officials of »the ‘holding company.” « 5 “The manner in which the stock of the thro» » wae held resulted, and was intended to resu!t, "Ain the abdication of all ihdependent corporate . etion by both’ the railway company and the . geal company.” Yet three Supreme Court Justices, Chief Justice : and two others take no part in it. | Wherein has the country .gained clear help or lent for applying the: anti-trust laws with confidence to parallel corporate conditions? including THE CAVE-MAN CANDIDATE. Taming of the Shrew” meh had been, specu- Tating on the cave-man tactics of handling women. Some of our most profound thinkers have specu- lated and written on’ the subject. Some—Blasco Ibanez, for examiple—have recanted after the ladies ~ had coe revolt. The modern novelist and the movie scenario carpenter find this.a most fertile ‘al field. © Who will do as much for politics? Mas any one exploited the possibilities of this field? And if not, why not? Here in the year 1920 some political student has p @, wonderful opportunity for personal observations ‘nt onthe eave-man inethod of grabbing for a nomina- Bin ° +B" Consider the case of Hiram Johnson and the Re- publican Party. Consider the virtue of the “treat- “em-rough” system of which Hiram is the principal living exponent. Consider the joy with which the |» Republican Party seems to be welcoming his treat- rf ment, Previous to 1912 Hiram had been a quarrelsome spouse, In 1942 he was guilty of desertion, In 9916 he was accused of both bigamy and wife-beat- ‘Wing. Tn 1949 it was his word which was law in the © Senaiorial bome, » In 1920 he is carrying things with a high His record is strenuous and rarely j His eee and gruff manner seems to be get ting results, The G.-O. P, at least is not suing for ‘divorce or. separation, Matte evel gets as (or # the door of the Chi- | eal aed lg me " selection of representatives., They complicated the, Waite, dissent. from. this decision, « ONG before William Shakespeare wrote “The , hundred and make any impression.” Hiram is the Cave-Man Candidate. THE MENACING MIDDLE. 7. 2 was plain, straight-from-the-shoulder talk Senator Capper of Kansas gave the United States Senate on the subject of profiteers. It was the kind of talk Congress ought to hear, the kind the country is’ thankful to hear, the kind that needs to be megaphoned into the ear of At- torney General Palmer. Concrete proofs of profiteering are cold facts and figures taken direct from the profit. sheets: of big corporations like the American Hide and Leather Company, the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, the Standard Milling Company, the Manhattan Shirt Company and Cluett, Peabody & Co. The Evening World-tas been printing these fig- ures. , Senator Capper has now put them into the! Senate record. There'are laws against profiteering on the Federal Statute books, There is‘an Attorney General whose sworn duty it is to enforce those laws, . When will this Attorney General corinect with the facts and prosecute the profit-grabbers ? For an even larger reason than its benefit to the consumer in the check it would put on price-boost- ing, such prosecution is of vital import to the country, The worst of the ‘profiteering that has been going on in the United Stgtes strikes two ways: _ On the one hand, it squeezes the cénsumer with an ever rising cost of living: On the other, it starves the producer by giving him less and less return for his product. From the middie ground, where it is boldest and most prevalent, profiteering not only lays intolerable toll on consumption but gets a strangle grip on that primary production without which the industry of the Nation carmot survive. Take the case of the farmer who produces the basic’ necessity—*food. In an earlier speech, deliv- ered last month, Senator Capper put before the Senate the following facts’: Last July hogs brought a high price of $23.10 on the Kansas City market. By No- vember they had slumped to $15.53. Yestor- day the top price of hogs in Kansas City was $14.60. In August last the high price of cattle on the Kansag City market was $18.90. Yestefday they were down to $12. Tn the price paid the farmer fur two of his most important products the high cost of liv- ing, it will be seen, has been reduced respec- tively 35 per cent. and §0 per cent. But that’ ESTES, dawn bores a PR LPI ne WEE Ween ee CE nnn ICEL SPs tas kena ——w RIT were aoe seme ntintad & or) An fot oe OOO TENE nee we sme ote ee NE Oe ce ee (oN Oe Rem OO OA NOR ON Re pn er enw OO em nen ee EARS Oe is the only way in which the reduction has been manifest. There has been no corre- sponding reduction in the cost of setting the breakfast table. In the mean time the cost of the farmer’s clothing, shoes, furniture, sugar, implements, lumber and everything he buys has increased from 100 to 300 per cent, As a role, he is paying higher prices now than he paid six months ago, . ‘That, Is one reason why the farmer is dis- contented. He feels, and correctly, I think, that somebody is making him the goat. Of course, the net result of all this Is that farm- ern are getting out of 8 cattle and hog business. Senator Capper warns the country that “the young men of the farms are not fouls,” that “you cannot hand them a further supply of inflated at- mosphere about the beauties of farm life and then ask them to produce hogs at a loss of $5 or $6 a ) that gives you the worth of a t hundred? To the Kaitor of Toe Brenina World: whether they charge half a dollar or one dollar for a huircut, aud by means of which, if my fellow readers of The World will follow suit, will make it necessary for only the crippled and infirm to visit the so-called tonsorial artists and “master barbers.” Several weeks ago 1 purchased a clipper and ‘barber's scissors at a three-ball shop for $2.75. Every Sat- urday afternoon I wiggle the-machine up brother's neck and the sides; every other Saturday I wield the shears across the top. Result: Two dollars a week saved betwepn us, and the barbers beaten. “Unless substantial rewards are given for farm work a food shortage is inevitable—and it will not be long in coming.” Here, then, is the danger: Unrestrained profiteering in the middle is eating away both ends. Es At one end the consumer suffers. At the other, fundamental and essential production is being un- dermined. The remedy? Quick march against the marauding centre, where profiteers are thickest. And when pinochle night coures around the apparatus goes along, and the boys get a free haircut. The enjoyment derived from the first operation recompenses for pos- sible mishap, or mis-cu' a further resort to this treatment repays (many times over) the original | of two seventy-fiv Brooklyn, April Grimy Window Panes. | To the Editor of Tho Evening World Touching on and appertaining to your editorial in regard to the filthy condition of the comfort stations in the “L" and Subway and EB. A. H.'5 letter blaming it on the “cattle.” 1 would like to ask if the “cattle” are responsible for the he s in the “L" and Subwhy “can't dirty giass dy Notify the Board ARMY AND NAVY PAY." SCHEDULE of increased pay for the army and navy, applicable to both enlisted men and officers, has,been agreed on by House and Senate conferees. | Lt should pass. Congress has need to save money. measure of real economy. There are now 3,406 vacancies in the commis- sioned ranks of the army. Because it is underpaid, the army has only two-thirds as many officers as Congress considers necessary, Conditions ‘are growing worse, occur daily. , So long as we must have an army, it is cheaper to pay enough to keep good men in the army than to go to the expense of training new officers. The education of an officer costs $25,000, it has been estimated. Even so much as a thousand-dollar raise for every year a man serves would be cheaper than resignations—and vastly more creditable to the country. The United States Army and Navy thust never .irains, looking through It. of Health, New York, April 2, 1 More Safety Guards. To the Editor of Tho Bvening World Will you please, for the sake of al! that 1s good, take up the fight for sag@ty precautions on the Canal Stree Station of the B. R. T, line? I am sure that if nothing is done in this mutter there will be many other poor unfortunate victims like Miss Jennie Goldstein. No one can be strong enough to avoid being pushed in front of or This is a Resignations people, in a mad rush to er think of phe misery they can inflict on those Who happen to be nearest the tracks, And we can hardly blame them. But then, we harsh .in our eri pany, which at present is busily ¢} gaged up in Albany. While their lawyers are fighting for them up there others will defend them in New York City, However, ‘disregarding the rumor that the young lady probably threw herself in front of the train, emaneting, no doubt, from some one Here's a plan to beat the barbers, | filthy condition of | 4 What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one housand words in a@ couple of There is fine mental ecercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. others, my brother saw Miss Goldstein pushed from the platform, I, for one, am surprised that there were not a greater number of accidents until now, It seems to me quite an easy mat- ter to put up some railings along the platform edge, with openings to allow passengers to enter and leave the trains. By indicating at *some point along the station the proper place for the motorman to bring the train to a stop, provision would thereby. be made for placing the train in position. This ts a very serious matter that spend be given the severest atten- tion, t I fee! confident that you will 6 this matter up in the proper Sp factory end has been reached. 8. J. COHEN. Py? same Street, Brooklyn, April Crossed Legs Comfortable. To the Eitor of The Bvening World: Iam a woman and I cross my legs in the subway! As for doing it to attract the attention of men the idea 8 ridiculous, ; If men only knew the loathing which T and the average woman have for the kind of man who only thinks of women’s ankles it would take the conceit out of him and all other men Who think women live and dress for man alone, As for vanity being the reason I swant to ask if it would be possible for all the Women who cross their legs in the subway to have new silk stockings and shoes? Of course not. Therefore it is not necessary to give ore reasons why this theory is ous. I will te Mr. A. J. G. and e why the average woman . It’s the same reason 4 man does it. It’s comfortable and the only comfortable thing about a seat in the sub and as it is comfort- able it easily becomes a habit, A ML. B New Ybrk, April 24, 1920 “Am Unvwilll To tho Eaitor of The Eyening World; It hurts my pride as an American to witness the seditious remarks of one Julius Fridel, “An Unwilling Trainer.” I haye had military tratn- ing for three years and can truth- fully say that my time was profitably spent and my officers were all clean- cut, first-rate Americans, Fridel, your father, as I might in- fer from your apparent alien ap- pellation, left some European autoc- in order to escape years of mil- subjection, and if you haven't the gumption (o spend one and a half hours of your valuable time to learn to protect your mother, sister, sweet- heart and the country whose protec- tion your father sought, you are not fit to be called a man. Have you the spirit of those Americans who walked hundreds of miles td @ recruiting sta- tion and then gave their lives that become exclusively a career for sons of rich men, That way lle the worst evils of militarism, connected ‘with the coMpany, let me say that this is directly contrary to nb the true facts of the case. Like men: you may live? From your allusion to the use of prema ‘by your of- ficers, 1 think better wear ‘rit and never give up until a satis- | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake \(Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) a r. NEVER TRUST THE TROUBLE DODGER. ~ When you hear a man say that he makes it his business to keep out of trouble—look out for him. Trouble is part of life—a large part of most lives. Somebody has got to get into it. The man who is sary getting out is merely leaving his share to other peo- ple. It is trouble to study—to work, even to play, if you play It is trouble to do anything worth doing. Nothing of, any importance can be accomplished with- out it. If you had to live with a mean man it would either be necessary to thrash him or do what he told you to do. If you did what he told you to do he would keep on finding other unpleasant things for you to do, If you thrashed him you could do things your own way, for a while at least. And the confidence you got out of thrashing him would help you to thrash the next bully you. met. Learn to thrash trouble when you meet it. Other troubles will follow in-due course, but they would follow anyway, and the fact that you have thrashed one trouble will help you with the new troubles as fast as they arrive. By and by you will get so used to thrashing them that you will enjoy it and be sorry if troubles do not turn up every day. It is not our pleasures but our troubles that make us. The youth whose father's money enables him to loaf dies a loafer unless he decides to be something else. If he decides to be something else he takes his troubles as they come, like other people. And his troubles develop him until he ,becomes a useful citizen. Pity the lad who is taught to do nothing and made ashamed of work. He will be able to dodge trouble for a while, but along toward the end of his career he will realize that a life of useless idleness is-worse than all the troubles he would have had to face if it had been necessary for him to make his own way. well. Ohne skirts, for we don't want the like of you in denims. * Your comparison of Gens, Wood and Pershing with a crack-brained, mentally - bankrapt, —_ intellectually- starved, atheistic, ‘anarchistic, bar- barian ‘lunatic like Trotsky makes you eligible for a complimentary for a one-way excursion on the 8. 6, Buford. JAMES MONTGOMERY CLARK rectify the mistake. (Editor's Note: The letter in ‘was verified before publication. Uniforms for Gougers. To the Editor of The Brening World: with the people? 1 am quite @ consistent reader of your paper, and in the past have always abided by your decisions. But the other day when I read on your front page the letter from a clothing clothes? clothes three and four years old. would not dream of discarding thing fit to wear. have worn three seasons and expect to wear as long as it will last. cutter it changed my opinion of your fairness to the worker. ‘To begin with, I am not interested in any way with the clothing industry, put that letter you edited did not smell of any alliance with the workmen. 1 am willing to bet my fast dollar that one of our favorite manufacturing profiteers who are always very patri- otic when the almighty dollar is in view sent that letter in so as to place . People must eat. earth. It ery it js the rent crime. forms and we all ow what kind. you have always played fair with the working class, you should investigate that letter signed “An American” and H. BERNSTEIN. juestion What in the world is the matter Why this overalls craze? Why should the country iook lke @ prison, everyone wearing one uniform? What is the matter wiih old 1 DAeDADY 6m Weaiek Green x ea T have a fall sul I rd the FOOD that is causing ail the misery. ‘This food speculation 4s the greatest crime on is responsible for all the isms; and if I may add another mis- The food and rent thieves should wear uni- Now Tork, Apett 14 i388 epaana L On Buffalo Skin Museum Relic Pictographic Method Used in Primitive Calendar Kept by Western Dakot as— Now in Museum of Natu- ral History. ‘ ANIYETU yawapl, wowupil— that is American Indianese,, the Sioux dialect. It means} “winter count writing’—the Indian fi} method of keeping a calendar. The Oglala Sioux (Dakota) Indians ex- ploited “art calendars” before -our 3 present New Year's productions were in existence. They represented éach i year by a pictograph, or picture, lab~ elled with a descriptive motto. The picture and name were generally sug- * ~~ | gested by some important winter event, whence the name “winter count writing.” These pictographs, drawn on buf- falo skins, were kept in serial order, the keeper trusting his memory to recall the details of the events sug- gested by the pictures go identify- ing the various years. In other’ words,each year had a name, instead of a mere number, and in the offi-: * cial calendar this namo was illus- trated by a-picture. A Dakota born in 1853 would say that! his birth © occurred in “the year of the deep enow,” or if in 1889, “in the year of the moon's eclipse.” If one asked him how many years ago the event took place, he would count back by enumerating the successive yea# names. ‘The American Museum of Natural History is fortunate in having been able to obtain one of these chronicles complete and parts of two others, The full account is that kept by “Short-Man," a Sioux (Dakota), “Short-Man” made the drawings now in the museum from the originals in his possession. The Indian inscrip- tions were copied, translated and dated by Dr. J. R. Walker. A 117- year record, in the keeping of “Iron- Crow,” is reproduced in part, and exhibited together with a,portion of Jron-Crow’s original manuscript, But the most important Dakota, chronicle” is that of “Battiste Good,” which cov- ‘ers 218 years of Dakota Indian his- tory. It is interesting to follow these old Indian records—to trace the history of * the Dakota by his own account of hunting parties, tribal wars and mas= sacres, the coming of the white men, dealings with traders, occasional out- breaks, gradual submission to the stronger power of the white man’ government and civilization, and the development of the Iidian’s relations with the United Stafes, with his con- sequent interest in United States pol- _ j ites, The names of some of the years are for us merely amusing— | others are very significant, A few ‘chosen at Fandom from the three | /| | chronicles in the American Museum | will give a fair idea of the old Sioux ” calendar: ; 1771-18—Spent Yhe winter tn no par tidular place winter. 1779-80—Small-; rece used them up winter. 1780-1 1—gmall-pox used them up | again winter. (Apparently the ped had a slang of their own.) t 1791-92—Saw a white woman winter. 1197—Beaver-small come winter. 1199—First firearms to iasue win: 1803—Horse-foot iron they say, brought home winter. (This com- memorates the first horse-shoe scen 4 the Indians. It was on a stolen ;~/ jorse. 1808—Beaver-small burned up { ter. (These two-year names tll i conically enough, the story of a white * trader called Little-Beaver. 1821-22—Star passed with loud )/ noise winter. Much whiskey winter and used up the Omaha winter. (Evi. || dently a lively year for the Ogiala. || ‘Wood house first made wine | \ (Refers to the first cabin built \ | {f ne é ter. ‘by ‘the Indians.) , 4 1841—Drunk fight kil winter, (Again the Indian, though sparing of i words, tells a dramatic tale.) -, 1845—Erupt them. (Refers to a ' measles epidemic.) i 1849—Cramping stiff with winter. (Many cases of convulsions.) | eer. scab them winter (@mall- ’ x.) Patb1—Iasue great winter. (Refers to a great gift from the United States.) jeter write men thirty killed win- ‘*lg76—Beggars seven bring-home kill-them. (The Indian I. W. W. was dealt with in no half measu: ! 1885—Consider—grandfather mur- der—them not law for makes, (You | couldn't just guess that one.” You'd have to know that it referred to the law passed ky the President, forbid- ding. murder. ‘tars 3 treaty. (Treaty with a ‘general of ‘the United Statem™* Army.) 1892—Ground ,walk soldiers make them. (That's nother sticker, It re- » fers to the enlistment of Indians in | the United States Infantry.) | 1899—First fence make. | 1902—Great-grandfather the killed winter. (This records the assassina- tion of President McKinley.) 199%—Oglala the tron road and kills them. (The failroad kills the | Ogiala.) Gone Are the Days. (Spectator ad. October 13, 191%) At the Commons To-Day. 8 ey F BianereOel 132. Salmon Turkey” Hash Roast Prime Ribs of Beef Philadelphia Cutlet Sai Po! 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