The evening world. Newspaper, May 7, 1920, Page 38

Lo wh ORLD, FRIDAY, MA TO RIS SE AT 3 chemist’ problem is to regulate the combination. | Continual progress is being, made. Conytlaie, 1920, : Modern scientists have a tremendous advantage ! E a Res ta Sta By J. H. Cassel . | of the alchemists. They know for what they are searching. They know something of the quantit . . wrk ) of the elements which they must bring together . \ make possible the formation of the desired product, ) ‘ The discoverer of synthetic sugar from sawdust ! reports that his success was the result of an accident, ‘ Ms although he had been experimenting for some time : i in hopes of finding the combination. The valuabie -. ® STATEMENT from the Merchants’ Assgciation point here is that he understood the problem and sets forth that “the business interests of New | had provided the proper proportions of material on York City challenged organized labor as represented Which chance might operate, by the Truckmen’$ Union.” The “challenge” was issued by'a committee of | RICHMOND'S TRACTION CRISIS. . offiials representing commercial organizations of the GTATEN ISLAND'S trofley troubles have now State, city and boroughs. pte Seah « , each age that must inevitably lead to A “challenge” recalls the era of the duet. Just as dlagnoaa tithe am greet ald i gsortaed ginny rene ire gaged With the sanction of the Public Service Commis- i + Naclbdbon ied ean ne wn ent of | Sion the Richmond Light and Railroad Company is iy oe sn - = ode vpsilivel in spirit charging an 8-cent fare on its resumed trolley service, fh which gamete seems to have acted is hanily Backed by Mayor Hylan, Corporation Counsel in keeping with current thought and practice, O'Brien has: begtin proceedings on the city’s behalf ‘The proposals of the committee are rather frankly #0 prevent the operation of ie on the com- an abandonment of any attempt at negotiation, | PAany s lines at more than the maximum 5-cent rate {They threaten a vigorous effort,to break the union. — in its isacsoa . aaa Unfortunately the tendency in labor organizations oe led AREAL a ald tl reatens to Ets Yok the tore extreme clements to become most | Seek an injunction restraining the city from running : ky as buses parallel to the trolley lines. active and so cltct extremist leadeis. Public Service Commissioner Nixon. points to the | it lements tend to In parallel per parsed Se paramount necessity “of preventing the complete direct comme ions ! demoralization of a public service.” At present the situation in regard to trucking in No. 79—THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAR, ——* By Robert Louis Stevensem, | James Durie and hie : fellow who was not likely te the love of any romantic womem worshipped Alison in silenca, ing ho had no chance agains) handsome and unprincipled brother, ' Before James and Alison marry, all Scotland was ferment over the rebellion of Stuart ("Bonnie Prince against stolid old King George aa the young Prince's effort to ectee: British throne, Thousands of flocked to Prince Charlie's bes p> Among them was James : young Master of Ballantrae. - being soberer and leas loving, remained loyal to George. . The rebellion was Prince and his surviving fled for safety to Fri ; ‘ Durie along with the rest. “\ New York City seems to be Sort of a ragged edge The Mayor points to the city’s obligation “to keep James was an exile from home y the traction interests from the backs of the people.” Country and trom the love of ' of the general transportation system of the country. ba lake la edly iolned Sees wie anna ns ae . | The city is afflicted with a “betwixt and between” ie 8 Geen, sone ‘Alinon grieved hetahety ee j tes in mi The Staten Island traction muddle presents in her lost lover. But as time went |, Organization which, in a measure, duplicates in min’ miniature, so to speak, the traction problem that she ‘wes: iaddced) fos’ faromy "* ature the larger problem which now confronts the . peak, 1} problem to marry Henry, whom she did j - looms on-a larger scale for most of Greater New Jove at all. ‘ * Railroad Labor Board. York: Yet a8 the years went on and ¢ |The service performed by’the truckmen is essen- fi ce mat : ee Ve arene | fially an extension of fhe railroad workers’ service. js permission to raise fares to be granted a traction Pralitiog, Ab4 Gs care tee Kia ; y ‘ ‘: tompany, regardless of its financial record, in order the wild fervor of her girlhood i fn ational affairs few would consider it either des to assure continuance of an_ indispens; bl blic peng Rendle o \ sitable or possible to break down the practice of col- daring Indispensable public and sbiding, een ! ining. Most students of the problem ? . : And he proceeded ‘te make life i _Weetive barga - ane Or should an attempt be made to force the trac- able for every one. At last he , ‘admit the predominant interest of the public. ‘ 7 \ ‘ ed openly that Alison etill loved ion between tion company to continue its service even on a rate Henry resented this insult, TBs + Inthe present dispute the alleged collusion e i . : h tegthens donaht @ ded, Oak ; ing: contractors and the truckmen argues for basis which it professes to find ruinous? Seaphees Mtonent © cae honor ted truck i H dead. i } the adoption, of the proposal to make trucking either , tao Programme does the public stand to But he aid not die. A band of "an extension of railroad service or an independent ; 'S¢ 1a f : smaurlera carried hips away re f A It will be a good thing all around to have the Years later he returned to * | pubtic uliljty subject to public regulation of rates lesion esened cuit OA Stated Island Ries te Mate al eee hd working, conditions. These Richmond traction comy jes—th is all bend antiwrite ict t New Loam Constructive plans for such a solution would be | ; byieba Oh A | ere Is also be Ad ite fen tn New i th ing “the the starving Midland now eager to turn its wheels bot was diverted from his plan | more creditable to the committee representing “the Maid CO AHS coRk facacisde aikenyssent euch wrecking their lives by his new « bupiness: interests of New York City? than a | oot es of capitalization and subsidiary allh eset eer mhthen oe 4 e | “challenge” such as it issued Wednesday, which | P PUES DF capiallzaton and supsidlary all with a group of fellow adventurers. 4 I fot of | ance as do the larger transit corporations of Brook- His companions plotted to kill po enrcies with it: the possibility of nocking.a lot of , lyn and Manhattan. It ought to be possible to get James foiled them by the help of | new nicks and dents in the already ragged edge of adequate and ittuminatin sp of thet fi : ¥ ERASED ae Be celta PEE ee ‘ Rtdt oleuseinl exe canner {the transportation and industrial situation. aed i ing grasp of their finances in - : this taaion of the Masters ; a comparatively short time. ‘Then the servant buried him, } Public Service Commissioner Nixon stands for UNCOMMO IN S ENSE was exhumed. The supposedly 4 i i is man opened jis eyes for an | _ NOT AS A PRECEDENT. oy that it is better to here cars running at and glared at (he tan who tad “ana HE action of a local business concern in offer- Mave LFIylen Holds that he: elty shiould tnekt What kine of a letter ae ves pn ets readable? Isn’t it the one ¢ By John Blake Be rah co int Geno Then i sh: its profits with the underpaid ‘ ic city Should insist that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of (Copyright, 1990, by Joba Biake,) i. The shock of this sight was i ing tos are, ss “PECHS abe Tpakl | upon the carrying out of the 5-cent-fare clause in hundred? * YOUR HANDS ARE ONLY MACHINES. Bee eral dona Veatde bis | teachers in the vicinity of its plant is highly com- | every traction franchise until the end—whatever it REG: Gee ORE Cee cune One ICL Of satielaction, tn, Sramne ie Taborer who thinks hh ks only with his hands $ |S™*¥® ; mendable—for one time only. has to be. to say much in few words, Take time to be brief. ae i a oe 10 ig) zine vat s only with hi j . es i¢ man who works wi as brain, These $100 gifts will help in the present emer- There is strong argument fox the Mayor's view, | He sees a man at a desk giving orders and drawing | gency. Other teachers will envy the good fortune | ‘The m, f ' aie ; “Melt the Solid South.” jsreatly diminisced, so that it would) $ big pay, News Flashes 1 e Mayor might find it stronger still if the public |» ie mmor ot Toe Brening Worl: |not be dificult without resorting to : ; ; \ of the Greenpoint teachers. were quite certain he is not using i 1 think ‘The Evening World de- [extraordinary taxation to meet them | If he could work with his brain, he says, he would go \ |, But such action must not set a precedent faeler to nate weg NOt using it to push ahead | sco commendation for its editoriat ad sul have enough to pay interest | ¥ to bed far less,weary and get much more out of life. From Around. ae Bi cata ere TNE furkiareatal element | aster to a point where municipal ownership may | of inst Saturday under the caption reduce the indebtedness cerns of But the laborer does work with his,brain, There is no Th Ww I d i ur pul yal seem the one solution, “Melt the Solld Sauth.” | |a substantial part of it every year. work so menial, so simple, that it is not done by the brain. e or } fm our American democracy. Their public character If the clash of the two opposing policies carries citing hioaebath ie tos Pathite (are lattice ite ee The hand is merely the machine which is operated by the . must be maintained at public expense. the Staten Island traction case straight to the courts, | ‘te, Democratic and the Republican jo Ah soe Cia brain and does the work that the brain finds for it to do. Oldest Drawings in the Wert, | Teachers must never expect to look to any one ae i MTP) | patie: WRENS Stameaeee JCbCE: | Seeking te) o Ualan: If there is an intelligent brain behind the hand it is The oldest drawings in the | so much the better. tance—it has been a stumbling ‘The Kevening World F ; ; Neate sae ; : except the public for financial rewards. Nothing's. more urgently. heeded | in the progress of the Nation. ‘The| ‘The letters reganling the White Landice If Spee is . ley brain behind it, it accomplishes world are believed to have deem | : esen’ inate a Southern Re- | ¢y ‘ ‘ | Education must nog be subsidized. “giana ie gently needed in the present Droposal (0 Norra aout ie, tho | Collar Union ware most welcome, but at little and earns little for its owner, made abgut 25,000 years ago by | H traction situation than a thorough judicial, authorita- Phly constructive idea advanced in| there are bundreds of others who But, in any event, it is the brain, not the hand, that prehistoric man in the caves of | In the present instance the reward is as unexpected | tive review of marshalled facts, this campaign. ; | read my letter also and are afraid to makes the man what he is. the Pyrenees Mountains, says a | \ as it will be welcome. It. comes at an emergency aL haem, 8a Lge of ane comma tes te front for tear they might The kighly skilled craftsman is able to draw high pay toriter in Boys’ LAfe. Some of | A period when public support has lagged behind the PAYING PRICE OF CONCELT kans and probably the mom inAliens : Tha is Just why wo caninor organs Bal bseanye of He henge but because his brain gives the these .pictures show remarkable ., a . jal iT umania, e} Ze. Ye have a lot of men who are hands jntelligent directions, he ; =} cost of living. The gift can but shame the publi: (rom the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.) prominent Southerngf and a fearless) afraid to commit themselves.” took Najenecyculd deny teak (he erilatvene the acuimtarers (ll concen cot coe al * is . es @ canvass 8 offic - s S 2 ~*~ j Officials who obstructed salary raises, Once upon a time there was a man who said tha’ Pees Pear ine position of Vice | who were dissatisfied, and there were|% brain workers, yet they use their hands on their tasks as well advanced at this period. | ') For once such an offer should receive the appreci- | ‘conceit was at the bottom of every extravagance. He vena, LINCOLN SCHUSTER. eecuig: forey saree vat ped peg! much as does the hodcarrier or the plumber’s helper. From the reliés of this period it | { } ation of the public as well as the teachers, but such knew Senne tia human nature, How many New York, May 6, 1920. came ‘to signing their names to a , pee ware cannet be ainiied ite brain workers aod ts belteved that these men had d | b 1 men would pay lor a necktie if it did not look petition, they gil had some excuse, nand workers, e are a rain workers, no matter what ligion of some kind, that they | ~, offers must not e 8 habit. Teachers mast not if i¢ cost that amount? Indeed, is it not ft ine ‘Te Fay « Bo Bome were Harried, some werk is the difference in our methods of work : pas fo us dead, were a : » be subjecied to the ible temptation of tis 4 One Of the 11, the Editor of The Brening Wortd afraid the boss might get an ear- rk, ir rT ; i su possible mptation of expecting |, practices of trade to say thatan article looks as if it Tf a soldier's service bonus agere-| ful, &c. If the laborer learns to make his hands skilfal, to by chiefs and made instruments s » , such rewards, with the inevitable danger that money | cost much more than the quoted price? And those gating about §2,000,000,000 should be| Now I have had an interview with) $ find better things for them to do, he will rise. And when of flint. Beamples of their paint-\| thus received might come to be regarded as pay- | factory giris tm Connecticut who are reported to be | decided upon and te groposition of 8 eer can got about fifteen or|$% he begins to rise he risés to a place where he is able to use ng and sculpture have deen | ment for services rendered to interests other than | buying $900 fur coats on the instalment pian while |Jeciat f'think it would be a great| twenty men together (each man to|-$ his hand to hold a fountain pen instead of a wheelbarrow. found, As man goes about the | P, the public's. earning $15 @ week—would they care for such a |inistake to lagpone @ retronchiye addi- e ea ee he wit phan’ - But he rises because of his brain and flot because of corth analyzing and dissecting | j | , frivolous garment if the only place they had to wear Hone) war tax oactiye war tax to the| organization in a few ile g park his hands, every odfect « great amount of | % it ‘was an asylam for the blind? taxes collected h tho last three years! 1 vo aay 4, 2920, Never feel above hand labor unless you want to feel sctentific information ts being | SYNTHETIC SEEKERS. The millionaire dees not generally build a yacht | would result in tho practical rum of & : s above William Shakgspeare, who used his hands to write $| gathered which will some day en-!\ 4 : with two funnels because ho loves the ocean or be- |5 ased OY attontduat ag ees Denke his plays, and Praxiteles, who used his hands to hew out his able him to solve this great mye. ! fgglinetngs aii the present. price of sugar, the | cause he knows anything about marine machinery, jwhen it is most important to have as ON e cee-columan editorial’ in: The| }-sculpturcs, a d tory ‘of his exrly “I By report that a young scientist has discovered a | He does it Because he wants otticrs to ee what lars a 2reniy. way to” pring about | Evening “World of May 4, entitled | } a he builder : helper te & hand laborse but hots a brat ee a | process to make sugar from sawdust reads like the swell he Is, It may be that he is seasick every time |jower price: and at the samé time | “New AO RE scoketuliding w Rr er t ; bike may ie rain worker, but unless you New Sugar Mills in Negros. tha | finding/of the philosopher's stone whidh the alch he goes on board his costly. toy, Rate eee arrangements of} and dock gxtension. are a hand laborer you will not amount to much. Five modern sugar mille are |! , the p Hah the alche- | A philosopher of the type of the first one quoted |ooArorutions and business men have| "At thif moment New York ought Our hands are only machines, responsive to the com- projected in Negros, P. 1., with a| mists believed would turn lead into gold. sums up the situation in these words: “I conclude |been based on the ruling taxation, | tw Nave Wh mands of the brain, The sooner we understand that the total capacity of 5,000 tons of ;! | © This follows hard on the announcement that an- | that dissatisfaction ts a common human ailment and [Plvidends have heen, Por improve. | jected In gny port of el sooner will we stop talking foolishly about distinctions, that cane daily, Ten mills with a {i ~ + other scientist has discovered a way of making | that I might as woll be happy with what I have as to |ments and other nur ; MOT eee asl tor tn eee ik oe spare yar wasn is responsible for half the hatred and capacity of 3,000 tons of cane \! paper from the abundant growth of bamboo wood be Lp bl xh bhi I can't afford.” If there were age ed line in competition for world com- FAHOOR' In The Word. af daily are already if operation in Hi more who would take such a stand there would be |profita. The cost of living has ad- | merce. : pi tape as ; shan dh pn this district. The movement for!) | in the tropics. eevee “Where is. the start?” ; ¥ AT t less complaint about the high cost of living. vanced and the value of the doll ‘ . installing better equipment ané'! { A * ¥ 4 ¥ eed | Do you not know that early in 1918 als, ehouses, industrial plants, | World will advii 6 3 | Another discovery for which many earnest seekers But, alas for the rarity of common sense under the |deoreated: (If It cannot be Memneet | ye construction of a urge modern |We, in’ connection therewith. “| ity ealumma, that ‘we care and eek | organization in eugar centrale is. | * are searching is a commercially practical substitute | sun, the multitude has been on a long hike down the Bonus, if granted, be paid to the| steamship dock, in the vicinity of} po you not know. that before the|been for two years energeticall, likely to continue until i 4 'y Pl 5 ioe Idiers in the shape of non-neg»- | § Richmond Borough, was| city was obligated for a penny, not] prosecuting the progran 4 id j |) for gasoline as a source of power in internal com. | broad road of extravagance. Thousands of Americans |¢X)S0}(ers In the siove oF Mom | fin up in order to afford addi: [one but twelve piers which it Is pro- | You advocated only syeaterday’ nics | sugar district. capable of | \ bustion engines. have been, and far too may still are, dissipating their |twenty yea aring interest at the al ac REMRAGANERS {3r urgently | posed to construct, were lease | tie nt New York ought to have| ing’ a@ central is supplied with) i si ae savings in extravagant purchases it to pl rate of 5 p t. per annum, 5 per ye , self-sustaining basis? under way"), and that in the spirit of ls. he general rate | There are a hundred other similar problems that | conceit, And it is a blind : ies hick an shat [eont.-of the principal to be paid oft] "Here was a Igeality, Where piers) bo you not know that the contracis, Your editorial you will lend your prpeik mn ie He th centrats | differ widely but tially simil pr - lecalvea jevery year, so that in twenty years}over 1,000 fect long with « natural | eo» these piers have been let and| earnest and valued co-operation and of payment made by the seem to er ly are essentially similar. no one foolish victims of extravagance them- the bonds would be 1K uiaetad. ae aopth Cee t mAs a af water work is under way for thes construc- | Support in {ta succonetul prosecution? | to the farmers for thetr cane 4° | @ bo} 4 se a! on of the greate ck fi ye~ JRRAY HULBE: 55 ' _ They involve the synthesis of hydrogen, oxygen, Sere ME ere ee tee atone to Pay ® $8 lex sokdiers now in caph, much of it] upon u tract of waterfront, substan- | Nee Over undertaken by this OF any MURRAY HULBERT, | 55 per cent. of the value of the » carbon and nitrogen in varying proportions and rey hy y hey ws noifhaap as ve prkigeh J ae wuss free Pecos aA teenie ik eau teat iio lenge the tee eenately | nuniclpality at an approximate cost : - sugar ye Sage ituti a » which act has fore im to break }wisely, oF, 7 saeanired ‘i on, | tO the city of $25,000,000? Help Armenta. The La Cartota Sugar ,combinations, the substitution of one for another, into the Miouey he should have saved, he does not !m- meer clk, WI See ave Pee era Be oe Maan comeiban writs etna, At the same time we, have been | T M Haitor of Ihe lvening Word Ogcidental, Negros, PT hoot + arid ‘the rearrangement of the elements in the | press the.clerk’,who sells {t to bim or the friends who |would et out of the proposed iasue | locations in the Port and at the same | Working during the past two years on] May we record our plea that the U.! granted yb ¥ ing 1 ‘© |mentioned above, These b&ing non: | time the first opportunity afforded at- | plans to modernize the North River|s, Government make immediate e.| 27@"fed Porm |” material. see him wearing it, On the contrary, he has injured |Teciinbie bonds or notes, they would | self in the history of the city to-ef-| wateriront and to make other subd-| forty to help relieve the suffering ar. | i# Capital from $750,000 to $1, Site Ms 2 wonderland inthe border of chemistry | ‘vert protection tram neonation to hom-necoesiieny [sansicn Livery haan” "| with" all the railrnds entering” the [an adatfonad invcatment go the cng |meniane, and waset them in extab-/ £000, ae fo aes Some wp My ’ divert production from necessities to non-necessities, stamitnin is nots ears ot New York direct, except two|ot approximately $25,000,000, I use| lishing’ thelr independence as a na-|* the amownt of $1,760,000, mab | he, helped to keep up prices; he has fostered thi word “investment” pavigeaiy be. tion, ing @ total of avotadte mediate consequences of the war havg| (New York, Now Haven & Hartford potential capital from passed away and normal tate, Rail: use these improvements road and the Long Island Rail will be accommodated