The evening world. Newspaper, May 8, 1920, Page 10

‘x ‘the pre-Convention conference of Demo- cratic delegates at Albany, former Justice Samuel Seabury delivered straight into the ear of Charlés F. “Murphy words that must have revived for the Tam- many Boss 2 vivid and painful memory of eight years ago. It began on a June evening in Baltimorg—1912. | "The convention band had been playing the “dreamy strains of “The Rosiry” and ‘the,““Medita- _. tion” from “Thais,” when William Jennings Bryan eierose in a crowded convention hall and in one of the -Simost excoriating speeches “ever heard in a political ba gathering told the bitter truth about Mr. Murphy me mh agin gations’ from the South. i © quizz the rival ed “and Mr. Murphy's pocket delegation from New York. It was a thunderbolt. The echoes of it never ceased reverberating at Bal- until Woodrow Wilson received the 990 votes it gave him the Democratic nomination for Presi- d and Charles F. Murphy weat back to New fork the worst defeated and discredited boss that shuttk out of a National Convention. ‘The country has not forgotten. Neither, we think, has Mr. Murphy. rraudhe + ANDERSON, THE UNSELFISH. [NCLINING 4 more acquiescent ear to Anli- “=” Saloon League pleadings that he run as an independent candidate for the United States Senate on an ‘anything-to-beat-Wadsworth plat- form, Prohibition Boss Anderson declares: “I prefer my present job lo any political office, and I should not for a moment seriously entertain ary proposition which inooloed even the remotest di ibility of election.” This will raise the hopes of thousands of New ‘ York voter! who are eager to see this Anti-Raloon League head a candidate for any office in this com- monwealth, from Governor to constable. On his own showing, however, Anderson ought to be content with nothing less than the Republi- ‘can nomination for Governor. The result. in that case should be supremely satisfying. A PURIFICATION COMMITTEE. Cee BORAH seems in deadly earnest in his effort to investigate the “contesting delz- s e Oo To get the facts he proposes that the investi- “gators sit at Chicago during the convention and delegates and managers of the spot before the deed is consummated. Such a committee as Borah recommends would © virtually be a referee on the Committee of Cre- dentials of the Convention. Had such a committee been iii existence ip 1912 the political history of the United States might very possibly have run in very different ls, 2 . Such a committee? if it had the confidence of the public, could ‘rave quashed many of the cries of “burglary.” It might even have affected the actjor: ‘of the steam-roller. There might have heen,no Buil Moose bolt and the Old Guard: might have been swept out of power in the Republican Party onthe strength of the real progressive sentiment then in the ascendant. As matters stand, however, it is a serious ques- tion whether any committee which is apt to be chosen will have either the will or ‘the power to purify the perennial Southern delegate scandal in the Republican ranks. - Public confidence in such a committee will not be increased if it is selected in the normal manner— that. is, through appointment of a sub-committee by the Cuairman of the Committee on Privileges and Elections. The Chairman of this committee is Sen- ator Dillingham of Vermont, oné of the stanch and dependable musketeers of the Old Guard. een eateries “THE SECOND LINE.” 667™THE second line of defense” is the way in which a committee of New Jersey edu- cators describes the army of schpol teachers in an enlistment appeal to New Jersey high school grad uates. [ It is ap apt and truthful statement. A vigorous campaign for normal school students is now’ in order. For the last year the need for emphasis in schoo: | affairs was to secure salaries which would reward the teachers and the trained teachers in the ranks | _of this army of democracy that fights in the school house. That battle has been won in New York State Teacher salaries now are generally adequate, as the Tesult of educating the public to the need, Now the empllasis should go to enlisting new teachers. With the new salary schedule, teathing has again become a desirable field of endeavor with a future. Now that the public has’ been educated, _ there is every reason to expect that teachers’ salaries will continue to be attractive. No young man or woman should enter the teach- looking no further than the salary. ‘is fortunate that those he er Big =" interested in ‘education néed no tonget hesitate be- cause teaching involves too severe a financial sactifice. \ CONDITION, NOT THEORY. HE EVENING WORLD holds no brief for the truckmen who have been refusing to move goods handled by non-union stevedores and freight- handlers. Their tactics have been unjustifiable and merit severe public condemnation. This is not an instance where the sympathetic boycott is justifiable, if it ever is. But William Fellowes Morgan and his associates are making @ serious mistake in the tactics of their opposition, Such action as they propose would merit and receive public approval after they had made sincere and liberal-minded efforts to settle the dispute amicably and by negotiatién. Whatever their intention, their announcements have been phrased so unfortunately and in such truculent tone that they are interpreted as an open- ing gun in a campaign against union labor in New York. The replies of the truckmen are no less truculent, and the scene appears to be set for a fight unless some moderating influence makes itself felt. Of all times this would seem about the least de- sirable to stir up industrial strife.» If the com- mercial bodies wish to do the maximum of harm io the public, now is an excellent time for labor- baiting. \ New York's principal need at the moment is building. “A generally satisfactory settlement has been negotiated with the building trade workers. _ Do Mr. Morgan and his associates imagine for an instant that the builders will not refuse to erect ma- terial hauled by non-unign truckmen who appear to be bearing the first thrust of an anti-union campaign. Mr. Morgan’s organization is facing a condition, not a theory. By taking the offensive instead of exercising moderation and working for conciliation,’ he prejudices his appeal. The public is no more in favor of “outlaw” capi- tal than “outlaw” labor. Let us have peace on the basis of mutual under- standing. If there must be war, let it be after arbi- tration has failed. , ALSO WHEELBARROWS. RESIDENT LA GUARDIA of the Board of Aldermen has come to bat with the scintillat- ing suggestion that the Staten Island transit muddle be further complicated by the use of any municipal vehicles available, He mentions patrol wagons, ambulances and hose carts as suitable substitutes for trolleys and buses. By all means!’ Why not? : A steam-roller would be able to haul A, heavily loaded train of dump-wagons from one end Of the island to the other in the course of a few days. It might be possible to place steam shovels ai strategic points to load passengers, Mounted policemen might speed to the ferries carrVing passengers in front and behind, If nacessary, Manhattan might even dispense with its ash and garbage collection carts and let Staten Islanders ride to work in them. , If this were the general reaction from the La Guardia “soft-boiled shirt,” The Evening World would have to retract all comment on the “30-Cent, Yoke.” It would be economical.at double the price. REFUSED—WITH THANKS. ME. DESCHANEL has refused the otier of the extra special millinery creation de- signed for ‘ner by the artists of America’s whoiesale hat trade, French men milliners vote, and in a democracy those elevated to high position must consider the ysensitive feelings of the voting populace. ; Mme. Deschanel€ refusal was most formal and most courteous—but it was a refusal, Not even the ten paradise fins—“c@unt ’em, ien,” as the sideshow barker is wont to remark--could prevail over the influence wielded by the outraged milliners of France. » The jealousy of the creative artist is traditional, France” always ‘nas assumed superiority, French milliners have been the teachers. Their present jealousy is a tribute to American competition. The pupil has. become a master-workman, a rival to be feared. LIVING IN HOTELS, (From the Milwaukee Journal.) Ten years from now everybody will be living in hotels, predicted the American Hotel Men's Associa- tion the other day. They were reasoning of course that the present movement would go on indefinitely. But it won't, They forgot the old proverb, “When the tale of the bricks grows too long, then Moses comes.” F We shoulda't be so hardy as to say that people won't be either living im hotels or all out in the country with little places of their own where they «Work in summer from dawn until! dusk--and don't much mind it because they enjoy what they eat so much, But the people who make started to live in hotels yet they will lay aside every other “problem” and con- centrate on getting home again. A great many people who think they muat have all the country haven't may not get over the idea. But there are still a good many millions who haven't adopted that way of think- ing. And, one might add, they are the onés whose children inherit the land. Hotels as perfected in America are migh@® fine institutions, And one of their best qualities is that “they make men and women sp amasingly glad and sapere whe Sher et bape i s te rhe Bren Ethan ing. Co, (The Now York Evening World) Soon after they start, | | kinds of service at the other end of an electric button | New YORK DELEGATES An , Fs Coca Billboards! | World: | vated cars, structural | strength is sacrificed te ‘get light. | Why, then, is the I, R. T., in its Of course, accumulated dirt has made ‘the windows almost opaque but | they were Intended to be windows, | not billboards, ‘When the corners get loose dnd the posters flap around the resemblance | of the car to the “eight horses” kind ; in France is remarkable, \ Lately the cars look like ruins, but on such does wy flourish. (This last is a joke.) OSCAR. New York, May 7, 1920, The White Collar Remedy.” To the Bditor 4f The Brecing World ‘Was greatly interested in letter from Wayne anent the “white collar class.” As a fellow member let, me| say that I have little sympathy for their bemoaning their fate. If Wayne will peruse the “situations wanted” columns of the morning papers and| see the insignificant salaries eom@ of our specialty trained members are willing to, work for, Isbelieve he will share my opinion. Accountants, N. ¥. U. graduates, with from 5 to 10 years’ experience, willing to work for $1800 per annum, and yet they cry to Heaven about working cheap. They make them- selves cheap. I would become a laboret rather than work for a salary less than t think [am worth, ‘The remedy for the white colar man is not to work at his profession unless he gets a real salary. No business can succeed without him, Let him have the cour- age of his convictions and not be so shamefully servile the minute he enters an employer's office, 4 3. W, West 129th Street, May 7, 1920. Woke Up the Office. | To the Béitor of The Brening World I read Mr, Wayne's article on @ White Collar Uni6n and 1 heartily agree with him, 1 would advise the readers of this column to send in some suggestions as to how we can arrange a meeting. Then a commit- | tee could be picked to interview the American Federation of Labor, «If we can show them we mean business, the | rest will be easy, Believe me, Wayne, you woke up some of our office help. Keep it up. Good work - TEN UPTOWN CLERKS. Castion Against Pickpockets. | To the Editor of The Evening World: | Permit me, through the People's |} Column, to caution patrons of the elevated against pickpockets and jewelry and hat snatchers.. Many people fall prey to these wretches, t What kine of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one tha: gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental ewercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to suy much in few words. Take time to be brief. —s {tions on the Second Avenue line after |8 P.M. Saturdays. Hardly a train in Propaganda for increased fares, al- | either direction escapes the scoun- lowed to cover: four entire panes in! drels, i ‘ each car with posters? Jewelry’ and hat snatchers' will sengers leaving and entering trains| and resort to all sorts of tactics to ply their trade. I wish the police authorities would investigate condi- soon be doing business through open- car windows. ‘These crooks reach through an open window, grab’ what- ever thev can and hurry to the street. Usually before the victim realizes! what has happened the train is again,| in_ motion, WwW. et New York, Ma The H.C. ‘To the Exiitor of The Brening Work! I noticed in last week's Evening | World the (protest) ad. from the | Sweet-Orr Company about the over- all moyement., They felt very bad about it and went on to tell us how it would harm the men that MUST have overalls, dnd that even now the supply was not plentiful. They did not explain why we must pay $4 for | the overalls that were 75 cents before the war, It does not require much brains to see that.this is a prear- | ranged excuse to“boost their overalls still higher. - In exposing (he large profiteer concerns why leave them out? Because they give ‘you a full page ad? [ hope not M. SHERMAN, Local 51, Brotherhood of Vainters. The Regular Aska. | To the Editor of The Evening World Will some of our bright and intel- Jectual Senators and Congressmen let us all knpw why a poor ex-army or navy regular is not entitled to this proposed bonus that is in their hands? What did we. all do? FD, An Ex-Army Man Mount St. Mary's Service. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World I have read with much interest Judge Morgan J. O'Brien's recent let- ter in the newspapers in which he re- fers to the regrettable, fact that Catholic. educatignal instflutions are neglected by those to whom they have a right to look for support. Judge Brien’s reference to Mount St Mary's College is particularly appr: priate: because of the fact that it wi just 100 years ago that there first a peared at Mount St. Mary's an Iri lad, seeking employment where he might acquire learning. In the spring of 1820 John Hughes was employed at the college as a gardener, hie com- pensation being board, lodging and instruction, Seven years later he was ordained a priest. In another ten years he was referred to as the “Boanerges of the American Church." Whatever Archbishop Hughes was he never failed to say that he owed who would not hesitate even to re Me poor shop girl of her wages. Wes P it 5 With John Hugh college was hn McCloskey, who was born on a in what UNCOMMON SENSE : By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE, NEXT HURDLE. Pride in past achievement gives you confidence. | But you can easily have too much of it. Life is a good deal like a hurdle race. The next hurdle doesn't look so high when you have takensthree or four like it. But it is the next Purdie, not the last one, that you must think about. However gracefully you cleared the last one, your problem is getting over the one just ahead. ‘Take advantage of all the confidence you chn get out of what you have done. But always remember that it is what is still to be done that is going to count. Napoleon irritated his boasting Generals by answering their stories of battles won with the query, “And what did you de the next day?” : It is hard not to be able to bask in the light of past accomplishments, Pleasant it is to sit back after doing something difficult and’admire ourselves for doing it. «But life is like a moving sidewalk. You have got to keep up with it or get off. And we are all born with an in- stinct that prompts us powerfully not to get off. Keep your eye on the next hurdle. That is the hurdle that is of vital interest.to you. It is the one on which you must concentrate all your courage and all your energies. For if you don’t get over it you are out of the race and all the hurdles you have taken before have gone for nothing. If. you have hud a little success, make it a big success. Put the hurdle up a little higher. If you have done one job well, find a tougher job and do that better. That is what makes progress, and progress is necessary to the prosperity and happiness of every human being just as it is necessary to the prosperity and happiness of the whole human race. There will be plenty of hurdles to take. But when you have taken one make ready for another. For success is just one hurdle after angther, and the man who takes them as they come is the man who wins out. ——=| Louts iat Lord Fisher likes America, In fact he seems delighted py all things Amer jean, according to a passage from his ‘volume, “Memories and Records.” He says: “My very friends are Americans. I was Admire in North America, an@ “ saw ‘American Beauties’ at Bermuda. Those American roses and Americat women are equal! Without question ‘they are the best dancers in the world! My only son married an Amer-can lady (which rejoiced me). . . . I. had such a time in America when I went over to the Wedding! I never can forget the hospitality so bound: less and so sincere! 1 really might have spent/three years in America (#0 I caloulated) in paying visits earm- q estly desired. The reporters (twenty five of them) asked me when I left what I thought of their country. (f tried to dodge them, but found them ail in my cabin when I went on board!) I‘summed it all up in the one word I greatly admire—'Hustle!’ and I got an adhesive label in America which 1 also loved! Great plack block letters on a crimson ground—RUSH. You stick ic on a@ letter or the back of & slow fool.” oe The Books of Stevei “Shakespeare has served me best,” said Robert Louis Stevenson. “Few living friends have had on me an in- uence so strong for good as Hamlet or Rosalind. The last character, al< | ready well beloved in the reading, I had the good fortune to see, I must think, in an impressionable hour, played by Mra, Scott Siddons, Nothi fas ever’ more moved, more delighted more refreshed me; nor has the in- fluence quite passed away. Kent's brief speech over the dying Lear had | @ great effect upon my mind, and was the burden of my reflection’ for long. “Perhaps my dearest and friend outside of Shakespeare te d’Artagan, the elder d’Artagan of the Vicomte de Bragelonne. - ) | 4] | | | i ‘a ej | book that breathes of every beautifat and valuable emotion. “A book which has a great inftu- ence on me is the ‘Essays of Mon- taigne.’ The next book, in order of time, was the New Testament, and in particular the Gospel according to St. Matthew. I believe that it would startle and move any one if they made an effort and read it freshly as a book, not droningly and duly as a part of the Bible.” Such are the books that are ranked | first by this true artist of the writ- |ten word. Ofher works that follow jin the essay are Whitman's “Leaves of Grass,” Herbert Spencer's writ- lings, Lew.s's “Goeth Life,” the Meditation of Marcus Aurelius, Wadsworth, Thoreau, Hazlitt and Mitford's “Tales of Old Japan.” John William Rogers jr. has gath- ered together ail that Stevenson has \said in his essaye and papers on the art of writing and collected them in |a volume, “Learning to Write—Sug- gestions and Counsel From Robert Stevenson.” The book, pub- lished-by .Scribners, is interesting both to the writer who would study ‘the art of a master of his medium, and also to the many who love and value Stevenson-as a friend in let- | tems. ° o s76 | Kipling and Frank Stockton--- | Kipling, like the re:t of us, has puz- | zted over the riddle of “The Lady of The Tiger,” Frank Sfockton’s teasing unfinished story. Once the two | writers met at a London ciub, and ‘ockton announced that he was pian- ning a trip to India shortly. “Fine!” said Kipling, “and the firet thing that I am going to do will be to lure you into taking a trip in. the | jungle with me, Then I shall hav you seized and bound by our trysty | wallahs. ‘Then we'll lay you on | back, and have one of ou largest ele- phants come and poise his ample fore- | foot right over your forehead. And il say in my most insinuating tones, tome, Frank, which was it, ‘The Lady or The Tiger?'—Now, what would you do then? “Oh, that’s easy,” said Stockton, “F should tell you @ lie. . The Story of Labor--- “Organized Labor in American Hise tory,” by Frank Tracy Carlton, is amt | Appleton dook which fills a real need for a short history of Américan labor, Flapper Philosophy - - - » A. pot-boller by a twenty-four-yeare old and heretofore unheard of novel ist Is “This Side of Paradise,” or “A Story of Flappers for Philosophers," by F. Scott Fitzgerald, recently pubs lished by Seribners. The novel is a singularly frank and unabashed avowel of the laws gov- erning the inner life of a young American between the ages of five and twenty-four. In the course of ;300 or more pages the parabola of |introspection on which the egotistie |Amory Blaine: is launched early im |life curves through all the mented |phases familiar to readers of Euro- ‘pean fiction and ends rather abruptly \in the sort of courageous agnosticisax |employed so effectively by Welle, Not that we would suggest that the writer was unduly influenced. It in fact, the first time an Ame: of his generation has done it at alb And beneath all the foreign influe ences there is a new note, a genially lyn, As a boy young. McCloskey | Mary's. And it was the same Bishor crossed the East River in a skiff of; Bayley who, dating his [®tter Aug. $7, Sunday mornings that he might.at- | 1855, wrote to the President of Mount tend services in the church at the|St. Mary's: "The bearer, Master corner of Barclay and Chureh Streets, now known as St. Peter's, which was then the only Catholic Church in this | section. It was Cardinal McCloskey who made possible the great growth of Catholicism in New York City ‘And so Judge O'Brien is right when | he says that New York is largely in| the debt of Mount St. Mary's, It was | that splendid cotlege which sent here | the Rev, Charles Constantine Pise, who was assigned to St. Peter's and who was the first Catholic Chaplain of Congress, One of the first and most active Bishops of New York was Bishop John Dubois, who founded Mount St. Mary's. ‘The first Bishop of Brooklyn was John Loughlin, who, in 1884, ap- peared at Mount St. Mary's with his entire fortune—$200—in his pocket. That sum was sufficient to see him through the long years of study be- fore he was ordained. James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bish- p of Newark, was @ son of Mount St... with a good deal of confidence. If should turn out a good priest one these days, so much the betger,” enteen of New York, the successor of Hugi by Mount St. Mary's was John over Certainly this splendid school, pioneer Catholic institution, must because of lack of support. J G7 Liberty Street, May 6, 1920, Michael Corrigan, is a good boy and I believe very gttentive to his books; I therefore recommend him to you The boy thus modestly intraduced to the mountain college wore for sev- rs the archiepiscopa! mitre and McCloskey, and was succeeded in turn by the lamented Cerdinal Farley. Among others given to New York Farge, famous as a colorist the world I might continue far beyond the limits of your space or patience nam- | ing men who, coming from the moun- tain. college, have honored New York. this be permitted to stagger in its efforts pear R P. DAY. egotistical attitude toward “flappers,” for instance, which seems to be “the fundameptal Amory.” Amory*had a rather pleakant youtt in the West, perhaps unfortunately influenced by a mother who gave him a strong trend toward the super= man and succeeded hérself in figure ing as an American “grande dame,' He responded idealistically to his ene vironment, enough, at least, to enjey a moment of genuine rapture im * hearing Georgie Cohan sing “Yoo're a Wonderful Girl.” But the discov~ ery of the flapper, the attempt to analyze and catalogue her, stole this complacency and uw, Philoso-~* phy. The attempt to bimseté to\the American industrial machine proved another stunning blow, he of hes La “From Serbia to Jugoslavia,” tee: Gordon Gordon Smith, with a preface by Dr. Slavea Grositeh, ie a war oon respondent's dramatic’ story: of part that Serbia played in the wars It has just been published by Pute not