The evening world. Newspaper, May 6, 1920, Page 26

Biorid. ABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Daly Except Sunday by.the Press Publishing | Gampany, Nos. 53 to 63 Park Row. New York. LALPH P' yours MITZER, Jr., Secretar. ‘MEMBER OF THE ASHOCIATED PRESS, Asociated Press is exciusively entitled (0 the use for republication J ibewe deersiches credited to {t or not otherwise oredited in this paper ‘tise ‘the local news published nerein, » ITS PLACE. HATEVER happens to the Knox peace reso- lution in the United States Senate, it de- permanent place in the archives of * tion ’ Years herice statesmen will study it as an historic ample of the depths to which party spirit can esce d in dealing with a transcendent issue. peace of the world was in the balance. A treaty, ready and ratified by the other great ons, waited only the approval of the United Yet because a Democratic President represented is Nation ‘in the negotiation of that treaty, Repub- nship would have none of it. all else failed the United States was to be put the position of demandirtg full treaty benefits accepting treaty obligations, in order that might bear an unmistakably Republican (ag, Let history write it truthfully in the record, A FAIR QUESTION. HLLIAM M. WOOD, President of the Ameri- _ an Woolen Company, i§ able to demon- that:his present average profit on the material v into a suit of men’s clothes is 75 cents. "ast February Mr. Wood addressed the National sociation of He said: You will be a it surprised, 1 think, when * I tell you that for the last year for which our agcounts have been made up, the American Woolen Company has paid to the Govern- ‘ment in taxes an amount more than twice the ‘amount of the nominal profit left remaining to the company—more than five times the amount of dividends paid to our investors. b nt of the taxes paid to the Government. + if. profits amount to 75 cents per suit, and if Feder taxes are twice as large, has the Govern- sent been getting $1.50 per suit? “Hf so, what part of this sum is “excess profits ahs Bye | is so far a comparatively peaceful one. | effort to build an affirmative platform which would satisfy his “radical” supporters would eliminate either Hiram or the supporters. A CHANGE IN MEXICO? HE sending of a division of destroyers from the Atlantic Fleet, now at this port, to Mexican waters is no more capital for trouble-brewers and chronic war-with-Mexico propagandists than is the fact that the scout cruiser Salem and the destroye: McCawley were earlier ordered to Mazatlan and Topolobampo on the Pacific Coast, while the Sacra? mento is already at Tampico, That a new revolution is under way in Mexico | and that Americans in that country are entitled to protection against possible contingencies is all that the despatch of American war vessels signifies. There is a particular reason why. present troubles | ‘south of the Rio Grande should be viewed by the people of the United States with sanity and calm and why the annexationists and professional Mex: ophobes should find scant encouragement. “In the first place, this latest Mexican revolution While the rebels are making a strong show of force where they deem it necessary, reports indicate that they forbid looting, protect foreigners and promise safety’ to all | who remain neutral. In the second place, the revolutionary leaders are apparently men of much more liberal mind in thelr attitude toward the United States than has hereto- fore been the rule in Mexican militarist circles. It is too early to “place” the revolution with con- fidence,, But if it turns out that Obregon, Calles, dé la Huerta and Gonzales are ready to make one of the revolutionary issues “against Carranza his policy toward the United States, “then the present movement in Mexico may prove to be the most advantageous yet for botfi countries. Carranza has been inveterately sullen, hostile and cantankerous in his dealings with Washington. He has tried to rally about him elements convinced that th® United States never has had and never will have any but the most sinister designs on Mexico. x? What part must be charged to other Federal In 1919 the profits of the American Woolen Com- y were $15,500,000, compared with 1915 profits F $5,161,000, almosi exactly three times as great. © Hicthe 1919 profits on a suit were 75 cents, were | the 1915 profits 25 cents? “Af so, does not the addition of So cents to the Woolen Trust profit amount actually to an addition this 50 cents plus $1.50 to the pre-war profit of hewt 25 cents included in the initial cost of suit making a total of $2.25, which the public ys now, instead of the 25 cents,or thereabout, it in915? fein lics the essential iniquity of rome tides. They do not stop. This $2 Increase in . for clothing as it comes from,the weaver onlysone step in a geometrical progression that i yeverwhelms the final buyer. _ f deductions and inferences are necessarily | on the facts as the manufacturer states them. Are, however, a reflection of what the public is forced to think in the absence of complete figures. _ The public knows that it is charged an unmerciful ‘Price for clothing, and that the American Woolen ny, which is an important link in the chain ‘Producer to consumer, is reaping tripled atta Th public is willing to accept Mr. Wood's state- ‘that his firm makes a profit of 75 cents a sult, “without many more facts it cannot judge this is fair or not. It cannot accept Mr. god's prejudiced opinion on that point. ‘Mr. Wood shows evidence of a desire to be a bblic-spjrited citizen. The brand of “profiteer” “irkshim. He can doa real public service by helping + The Evening World in its search for the profiteers. Full analysis of ‘the situation might reveal the cess profits tax as the biggest Senegambian in the oodpile. _ The public is willing to pay taxes, but not a profit | taxes, THE JOHNSON MENACE. 4 ‘OME political observers fear that the Johnson 7 strength is a manifestation of “radicalism,” ch may crop out in a bolt from the Republican and f-zmation of a new party. ‘They fear the Johnson followers may bolt, even gh Hiram decides that once is enough and ds by the old gang in spite of rough treatment, | Trained observers of the real “Old Guard"— Peniose, for instance—will be less pessi- ‘They have counted the Teutonic and Hi- votes backing Johnson. These elements lly are not “radicals.” These elements will ctly satisfied with “Old Guard Republican- as applied to the League of Nations. Phe “Old ” real trouble will be found keeping the of the Johnson support ‘in The Carranza regime lias not only been an ob- stacle in the way of a better understanding of the United States in Mexico, but, worse still, has: been a positive help to interests in the United States whose chief idea has. been to force this Government into interference in Mexican affairs. , The best thing that could happen to Mexico would be a revolution that put in power a Mexican Government pledged to friendly, openshanded rela- tions with’ the United States—a Government that wouid do ils eniighiened best io break down Mexi- can distrust of American motives. It is too soon to say that the present anti-Car- ranza movement is all in this salutary direction. But the more it canbe turned and kept in that direction before, the ‘coming July elections to be held under the Mexican: Constitution the better the qutlook for Méxleo. " $ The last’ place awhich discouragement of such a promised change in Mexican policy should come is from the United States, THE MAYOR'S HOUSING COMMITTEE. bs appointing his Housing Conference Com- mittee the Mayor did not select doctors, sex- tons of cemeteries, marine captains, farmers, pugi- lists, theologians, book agents and chauffeurs to tackle the problem of providing homes for homeless New Yorkers, On the contrary he very sensibly chose bankers, ‘labor leaders, building material manufacturers, archi- tects and transportation managers. Each of these men knows one of the many angles of the housing problem. Each is an expert in his own line, can contribute expert advice to the group, and can lend a hand in the co-operative activity which must be brought about if New York is to overcome the housing shortage. é For this good judgment the Mayor deserves credit. It is an example of the common sense policy of putting a job in the hands of men who know how to do it and who need not learn at the expense of the taxpayer while on the job. “MOTHERS’ DAY” IS COMING. ON'T forget that Sunday, May 9, is “Mothers? Day.” The fact that “Mothers? Day” is so. generally ob- served is one of the most creditable manifestations of the indefinable thing called “Americanism.” If all the mothers of New Yorkers were with théir children, or if all New Yorkers were with their mothers, the day would be a happy one. But, of course, that cannot be, The next best thing is the bond set up by a letter. Write to mother in time for her to receive it on Saturday, and remind her where your thoughts will turn on Sunday. The most gifted cannot express the debt they owe, in words or even in deeds, but any one can ‘try. And mothers, somehow, have a faculty of un- Js, Booscmalelt adie ee ‘THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1920 that gives you the worth of a hundred? Hope Springs Eternal. To the B eor of The Brening World Coming ug*town this P, M. on the Third Avenue elevated logqal express my attention was attracted to a notice of the “Elevated Express,” pasted up in the car, saying that there would be an important an- nouncement next Thursday. Being of @ curious disposition, though no& be- lieving in or having a ouija board, I have been compelled to guess what the announcement will be, and I am ready to bet $1 to a doughnut (1) that {t will not be a statement that tne Interborough is satisfied with a five cent fare or (2) will give.six tickets for a quarter, It may be that they have decided to wash the dirty win- dows of their cars go that passengers may be able to see the blug sky, or to clean the filthy, foul smefling, dis- ease breeding comfort stations at the different stopping places on the L and subways. Hope I am right. BRONX, New York, May 3, 1920. “The Driving Boss.” To the Exidtor of The Kvening World John Blake refers to a driving boss. Only recently I attended a lecture, th subject being about the “Driving Boss." The lecturer claimed that the driving bose makes the bigger :me- cess. In all probability he is right, and for that matter so is John Blake ‘The employer wil) not drive vou unless he thinks that you are capanle of doing the work. Still, at the same time, does he realize that he is only killing the chances of one who mignt prove to be a valuable man? Docs he realize the strain and sufferin, that he is putting that person under No human being can bear nagging or having some one-crowing over him al! the time, unless that person is ab- solutely stupid, ‘The result is that the nagging be- ini rritate the employee. He re- ents treatment. He gets the im- pression that the boss does not trust him. He gets grouchy. He makes himself disagreeable, He gets dis- gusted with his job and wants to leave whether he has good prospects or not. He feels he must get away from the boss who hounds him, I have beeti in the same prédica- ment myself and I de not care to ex- perience it again, HYMAN LEVINE. No. 1495 Bryant Avenue, Bronx, May 4, 1920. High Cost of Launching, To the Editor of The Evening World Your corresponéept, “A Victim,” is right about profiteering lunch-rooms, ‘These places, if they have any trade at’ all, are small gold mines. Have you noticed how they are springing up ail over town? It is the enormous profits that are causing it. If you reproach a proprietor for his gr: he. seaures you he (has to. char CS Prices because of “th Zyerhead.” “You know he isa line eas. rey Prove it hecause bs re r What kind of a letter du you find most readable? Isn't it the one thousand words in a couple of There ig fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in jouw w eget Take time to be brief. in the cheaper restaurants, 1 don't know of anywhere you are charged | than 10 cents for an egg. Y can't get an egg in most of them for that, and yet I understand these rob- bers buy their eggs for less than 50 cents a dozen, I have to pay Jat the rate of $1.40 a dozen for the three boiled eggs I get every> day, and have to pay extra for the toast. They get about the same propor- tion on practically everything else | they sell, I have been in a great many of them and I have not known one to reduce the price of anything in the last year or more, They | charge just as much now for eggs | as they did when eggs were selling around $1 a dozen. They keep boosting the price of everything little by little or make the portions} smaller. | Think of their nerve in changing | 15 cents for fruit saiad—a few) pieces of banana, orange, pineapple, | ete, with a ttle sugar, that sed | to sell for 5 cents and would be profiy- | | able at that now. Rice puddin) all the old standbys that u 5 cents—are now 10 ¢ cheapest places, cally ‘nothing you can get 1 days in a cheap lunch-room for 5 cents except a cup of coffee. They maike 100 per cent, profit even or crullers, Soak them again! ANOTHER VICTIM. Collar Prices. To the Editor of The Evening World: I caine across an article in The Eve ning World, in which you tell the public of your “exposure” of Cluett, Peabody & Co., and Arrow Co In this anticle you lead the r to the impression that the retailer can at the present wholesale price seli collars at 2lc. or 26c. This impression is erroneous, and any retailer selling collars at 2lc, or each is actually losing en you figure the expense ng a retail establishment. hy, we retailers are paying $2.40 per dozen, or 20c. each, for collars and I feel safe in saying that it costs the average merchant about 25 per cent. to do business, These are the true facts, and I hope you will publish this to enlighten the pre To the Editor of The It is useless to talk about the dreadful results of intoxteation, as we} al] have seen and heard of them often enough. We know how pitiful an intoxicated person is. it is disgusting. Barly Taesday morning an observ- ant motorman on a Canarsie train, just as he Was about to pull out from the Chambers Street Station, saw the ly of a drunken man sprawled Many times The motorman blew his whistle repeated), it the Bit ha, ne restsied bad e ri sloep!" M +s UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) GRIT IS THE BEST SUBSTITUTE FOR LUCK. Nobo&y but an idiot denies the existence of luck. Two boys start out with equal equipment. One of them happens to find a job tpat fits him‘and makes good, ‘The other finds the weong job and has to start all over again. Andrew Carnegie was immensely lucky in the indus- trial conditions that existed in his young manhood. If he had come a generation earlier or later his vast fortune would not have been possible. Farmers who had lands in Texas and Oklahoma were certainly lucky in the fact that oil deposits happened to be under them. — If you are lucky, be your luck. creditable to you. If you are not lucky, don’t worry. There is a substi- tute for luck that is far better than the real thing. That substitute is grit. e James J. Hill used to be a railroad laborer. Grit made him a railroad builder, and President of one of the greatest railroad systems. . Theodore Roosevelt was a pale, sickly boy, with no prospects of eithef health or happiness. His grit determined him to oyercome his weakness, and he went West and did so. He had to give up the comforts of a luxurious home, but he didn’t worry about that, Later on as a rich man’s son he was handicapped by the temptations hat beset every youth in his snrpoyendings. The. temptations made most of them worthless. Grit took Roosevelt through them-all and finally made him President. Grit means determination. It is a quality that will always win something. Even when coupled with a mediocre brain it will carry its possessor further than the man without it can go with the help of a keener intellect, Don't disparage luck. All of us would like to have it, It is helpful. BUT IT ISN'T NECESSARY. Grit is far better worth having. grateful and make the most of Ha PP PIPL PPP PP POL OPEL LID PL LLL ELL LPLL PPL LLSPL PDL ELLLPPLDDDLS It is a gift of chance, and not in the least dis- ' “Oh, Henry!” | ,A Bibulous Farce ‘|| By CHARLES DARNTON Taken os “an antidote for the Bighteenth Amendment,” according to programme, Bide Dudley's farce, “Oh, Henry!” uncorked last night at ‘the Fulton Theatre, is calculated to {fil thirsty souls with envy. Long Beach was a dry waste when Charles Hoyt wrote “A Temperance Town,” but now—oh, Hank! | A home on the sands tha: wore swept by the first high tide of prices before the war is the scene of Souse party quite remarkable in these days. ‘The Stranger whi lurches into the place after the head of the bouse has loft i: in anger makes himself imperfeqtly at home }and quickly brings the new butler under his alcohglic influence. Mb- jtaken for a millionaire who bas caped from a santtarium, ‘The Ste ser is treated most I!berally by’ We jwife and daughter of the household in the hope of a $5,000 reward. He ranges about in pajamas, scares a maid out of her master’s room, and enjoys a generally hilarious time ui til he is identified by Mrs, Carson's sister from Kansas City aa her hus- band The Ginniest scene iy reached when the visiting bride, a professional re former, lays a firm hand on the help- less butler and compels him to take the prohibition oath. But his face brightens when he pledges himself to abstdin from dAnking intoxicating hquor “unless ordered by the doctor.” This done, the woman cries, “God bless prohibition!” In response the butler gurgl jod Bess the medical profession!” “Oh, Henry!” proved to be a biby lous farce with a strain of youthfi romance running through it, thanks (o Jennie Carson and Harley West, wio drank from each other's lips, ‘as .it were. At times the pace was a bit slow, but the more exhilarating mo- ments, with their timely touches of humor, were productive of consider- able laughter, Dallas Welford, with his amazing trick of growing red in the face ot will, was gorgeously amusing as the butler. Spencer Charters labored un der the burden of a continuogs jag us * ‘The Stranger,and to make it more irk- some he did not carry it “like’a gen- tieman.” Clay Carroll, a vision of blonde loveliness as Jennie, acted charmingly. Florence Carretie gay. a gogd imitation ot May Vokes as tI servfnt, but it was marred by unnec essary | profanity. Roland Hogae layed the young charmingly, also the piano as he s “Dawgone You" to Miss C se beauty wus truly intoxicating. bombast: a ‘|Two Americans rat i* Win Laurels ag Classic Dance. © | By Sylvester Rawling. i HERE came upon the stage at IT Aeolian Hall yesterday after- nooh, practically without her- | alding, Ula Sharon, a young American dancer from Kansas City, who made jus sit up and take notice. She danced to.compositions by Raciman- inoff, Massenet, Percy Grainger, Had- ley, Drigo and Saint-Saens in the ap- proved Russian manner but with im- proved American interpretation. Such a charming little Twinkletoes, to ber= row Miss Farrar’s vivid characteriza- tion of Genee, hasn't been seen for a long time, Youth, beauty, grace, litheness, all are Miss Sharon's; which must be added an uncommon intelligence and an eloqeunce of ex~ | pression that finds outlet in every | poise, every gyration, to the extremity of her finger tips. All of which leads to the reflection, why go to Russia or anywhere else for dance interpreters of the conceptions of composers when we have such superb talent at home? | Miss Sharon danced to music nished by the Duo-Art piano. was assisted by the Mendeissoin Quartet and KE. Robert Schmitz, pianist, Her programie, therefor, became inordinately long. We could well have foregone Schumann's “Cur- naval,” which ‘held ys in waiting for a poetic delineation of Saint-Saens's “The Swan," that takes rank with the best. Accident of course it was thut brought to notice on the same day an other American dancer, Margure Severn, who appeared on the pro. gramme of the Polish concert festival at Carnegie Hall last night. Miss Severn is another type of dancer. She breathes of the Orient, with exhala- tions from the Arabian Nights, exotic, to fure she as if it was, the funniest thing that appened. ever uabmre not for the sharp eyes of this motorman, t 3 y Of ime wretch would ha’ been cut preces. BARNETT WARSHAW. Dprooklyn, May 3, 1920. three apartment houses. re not absolutely necessary, The tenants Approves th Bxtitor of The Brening “We have been hearing a great deal about landlords. They are supposed to be robbers, profiteers, anything you want to 1 them, Just think (hat for thelr fow dollars they must endure the curses of all the tenants and the tenants’ friends, Did you ever think of what the munity says about him? Where would he be if these remarks came true? A friend of mine is agent for three Now theré enants apartment Houses. The } | against the agent, he can get, jail for it, be sentenced this week. ing day and also installed. the house is unsanitary. the cellar? to keep it ¢ ery time the first of the mont approaches, they tell Mim to wait until the fifth and seventh and som ‘the tenth. If the Interest of a is not paid the day it would the house ? agent gots 180 0 to if it were not the tenants? unto you" is the Golden How often is this Rule, lect rents and make all repairs for Consequent- ly he refuses to do any repairs that One y the grate in the furnace broke. immediately brought down a health inspector because the nouse wag not 68 degrees warm, The grate was to be delivered the follow- Because of his refusal to make re- pairs, the Department of Health says A house is unsanitary when it is unfit to tive in, but is it a landlord's fault if the tenant purposely dumps all the gar- bage through the dumb waiter into ‘Phe janitor tries his best n, but when the tenants do not appreciate it what can we do? is a double charge The Judge says He is to| Li And who brought this charge up against him Do unto others as you would have others do ra cara sensuous. While Miss Sharon depic virginal purity and Occidental cold- ness, Miss Severn with masques on her face and with voluptuous undu- lations of the body, Lrvokes an at- mosphere highty spiced and heavily perfumed, making languorous uppea! to the senses. Where is the manager that shall combine the two in joint recital that cannot fajl to make irre- sistible appeal? At the Pol oncert Tamara’ Lu- bimova, plat vision of a Greek goddess ju ped out of a fri Played; “Adeline Vosari, lyric prano,' sang, and Halina Bru interpreted graphically and gface- fully Polish folk songs. Besides there were contributions to the programme by Scipione Guidi, violinist; John Duke and Harold Yates, accompan- ists at the piano, and the National Symphony Orchestra, under the lead= jy ership of Mr. Bodangky. The lateer played Wagner's “Siegfried Idyll” “Rakoczy” march and the Na- nthems of Poland and Ame ica. There was a bevy of attractive girls selling pfogrammes and bo quets, and the centre box was occu- ied by Prince Lubormiraki, the first Beiah, Mineior es Ameri. the of the legation. vn Smell