The evening world. Newspaper, May 13, 1920, Page 26

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Dally t Sunday by the Press Publishing 7 won 88. to 03 Park Row, New Turk. Anevtiated Prose te exctustvely entitled to the use for repubtiontion pete Grapatones credited ty 11 or not otnerwise credited tn this paper Palme the tecal sens published beretn. “IT’S UP TO MR. PALMER. HAT will Attorney Generat Palmer do about it? it is a question which will interest a public the salaries of the Department of Justice who, following the line of The Evening d's charges, discovered that only one-quarter’s fits of the American Woolen Company amount- > $19,000,000, or almost 100 per vent, of the mon stock capitalization of the cancern. ‘heir own figures damn the big profiteers. Everiing World has already exposed the can Woolen Company and other of the most ring offenders by simple interpretation of their | figures, When the Attorney Genéral investi- he: finds that official figures are even more © ‘What will he do about it? “The public was not deeply interested or sympa- fhetic when the Lever Law enforcers arrested a haberdasher and he countered by com- suicide, public is deeply interested in what the Attor- General proposes to do to the big offenders iach as the American Woolen Company, Cluett, Peabody Se Co., Standard Oil and the like. Unless Attorney General Palmer gets action on ie of the big profiteers the people who are paying Is salary will wonder more than ever waether his “anti-Red” activities are only a herring drawn oss the trail to divert attention from his inactivity osecuting the gougers. ns—100,000,000 of them—are watching ‘Attorney General. They want action. They int the Lever Law enforced. aE bey "ng MONEY WON'T BUY IT. 1 BREAK {he Solid South has been the peren- __ nial dream of Republican political managers. ; year” appeared to be rather a better But as usual, political tactics seem to have made an occurrence doubtful. intra-party row between Hitchcock and Pen- can only serve to make the South even less charges that money is being spent to round ‘delegates Woo are not representatives but mere Jn the game can only serve to disgust and ite intelligent Southern voters. \ will not buy a breach in Southern Democ- acy. The sooner the Republican managers realize § the better the chance of making a successful ‘Fair representation on, the basis of voting support Mould net only improve party morals but would furnish 2n inducement to active organization. "At present there is no inducement. The fewer te the fewer to divide the spoils, ee CHILD WELFARE WINS. YORK’S child welfare programme has stood the test of experience. tis was the reason for the extension of the work legislative mandate. oth efficiency and economy resulted from the of leaving ohildren with their mothers, ding money to maintain real homes instead of fe miscalled “homes” in State institutions, m a cold and practical standpoint it has been nstrated that a mother can spend the money } Stale appropriates more economically than paid gents. The State buys more child care for less by paying the mothers. important, the children .get the benefit of er love which no amount of money can buy th an institution. a eae ne arr ab Ye: TOO MANY NOW. $ THE RESULT of the 1920 census the country is threatened with an increase in the mem- | r hip of the House of Representatives. ee No apology is necessary for the use of the word PMthreatened.” The recent record of the House with its shift of responsibility to the Senate indicates learly the menace from a further increase in mem- en a ce te oe a ss ae ad dt ae EE ‘ “One of the most serious practical objections to a eduction in the number of House Committees in he interest of economy and efficiency is the com- of the leaders that even now there are not committees to go round and give all mem- an opportunity. The more members the more mmittees needed. fo judge by the past, a larger House means loss ficiency, a loss in the quality of membershi slowing down of business, an increase in ‘of 4 few leaders at the expense of the gen- | increase in the expense of government, through sal- aries of Representatives, The effort to hold membership stationary while population increases has proved unavailing because population does not increase at a uniform rate in all States, and no State is willing to sacrifice repre~ sentation. To put it more accurately, no Congressman ™ willing to see the cornpetition for his job increased by the elimitmation of a number of jobs. A wise pledge for both political parties would be that no State should have increased representation nd that Slales overrepresented on the basis “of the new census should have their representation cut down, NOT HARNESSED. N YESTERDAY’S session of the Socialist Na- tional Convention a representative of the metal workers denounced the’ American Federation of Labor: “The A. F. L. 1s to be blamed for many of the failures of the Socialist Party The Fed- eration is at the mercy of the employers. You are making a huge mistake in continu- ally talking of 100 per cent, Americanism. What you should taik about is 100 per cent. Socialism, which {s international, Talking 100 per cent. Americanism is doing us more harm than good. The aims of the A. F. L. are not those of Socialism.” This is the most reassuring truth the American Federation of Labor can hear about itself. To lend point to the Socialist speaker's remarks regarding internationalism as opposed to 100 per cent. Americanism, came an announcement the same day from the New York Store Fixtures Manu- facturers’ Association that nearly 3,000 “interna- tionalist” carpenters had decided to resign from the so-called International Union and join the American Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, an organiza- tion whose members make sound American citizen- ship their aim and the carrying out of their contracts a principle, The American public cannot be too often reminded that ALL union labor in the United States is neither socialistic nor ready to let itself be used by organizers whose ultimate purpose is to advance the Socialist cause in this country. Radicalism among unionized workers is making the most noise. Not as conspicuous but just as real are the reac- tions of level-headed unionists from a leadership that sooner or later betrays its contempt for institu- tions which the vast majority of Americans are not yet ready to abandon, In many instances the radical impulse has put momentum into organized labor programmes and made for quicker gains, It is not easy for workers to appraise justly a leadership that wins, or seems to win, them benefits to which they are entitled, and then proceeds to use its prestige to further purposes that only gradu- ally reveal themselves as yevolutionary and anti- American, i The most serious of present industrial problems arise not from the honest effort of labor to better its condition, but from the insidious activities of those who exploit labor and its organized forces to serve internationalist plans in which sweeping changes in the government and industrial system of tie United States figure as mere incidents, Wherever intelligent American workers discern the danger and refuse to fight for their rights under leaders who are secretly fighting for revolution, a greater victory is gained than could be won by a hundred court injunctions and decrees. Every such victory should be applauded. The cause of organized labor in the United States is harnessed to no International-Socialist chariot. WHILE THE CONSUMER WAITS, N THE reliable “Business World” column of the Times a local knit goods manufacturer is quoted as defining “co-operation” between the manufacturer and retailer in lowering living costs, After observing the price concessions which buy- ers demand, the manufacturer has come to the con- clusion that from his standpoint “co-operation is skinning yourself alive so that the consumer can get the benefit and the retailer his normal mark-up.” This definition will afford the consolation of com- pany in misery to other manufacturers similarly placed. But wait until the woeful talé of the retailer comes in. He is beginning to say that customers will not buy unless he sacrifices all his profit, The consumer is “sitting pretty,” as the dough- boys put it. The prospect is less distasteful every day. He is not wearing overalls, but he is wailing for lower prices. The fact that he is waiting is helping to pull p down, and results in these doleful wails ness Column.” Psychology is double acting. In a buyer's market the buyer has as strong an influence as the seller in ices in the “Busi- hundred? Publicity the Best Remedy. ‘To the Editor of ‘The Byening World: I wish to express my appreciation to you as well as to the publishers of The Evening World for the kind interest you are taking in the welfare of the general public. A few more papers of your kind are needed to suppress 4 g00d deal of the profiteering which 1s going on. In tho matter of the American Woolen Company, which you are ham- mering at, I hope you will do as much g00d a8 you have done with the New York Telephone Company. There 1s one More company which you ought to take in hand, and that is the Standard Oil Company. They declared a divi- dend and a few days later they raised the price of gas from 28 cents to 41 cents and 82 cents per gallon, Pub- lleity on such profiteering corpora- tions is worth a good deal more than any Investigations which we have from thine to time with no results. Keep up the good work. N. EILBSCHUL, President of the Night and Day Press. Not Paid for Courte ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: “Another Victim" complains of the profiteering going on at the cheaper restaurants near and around Newe- paper Row. { have been experiencing, besides paying higher prices at those places, the rather discourteous ser vice of the always new faces of those who serve you. But they are being 60 poorly paid that being courteous to ustomers js something not in their sontract, I suppose, However, 1 agree with “Another Victim.” Prof- iweering goes on and to such an cx- tent that it {s surprising people stand for it, They have cut down the quan \ty and increased the prices, eo there you are. STILL ANOTHER VICTIM. “Hospital To the Editor of The Er “Hospital hospitality” Is the basest of all forms of charity that exists at the present day. No discouragement \s more pronounced than that received luring sickness, Poor people cannot afford to be treated at home by a physictan for a length of time, so that when one in these circumstances Is afflicted he is forced to go to the hospital, This is unpleasant for the pati but, strange to say, it ts much more un- pleasant for-the hospital attendants —at least so it seems, ‘Their frowns make it manifest that they are giv- ing charity to the patient, 7s What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of @ thousand words in a couple of There ts fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to suy much in few words. Take time to be brief. the Babtes’ Hospital. One mother, who had given her child in at the hospital to undergo an operation, Phoned three days In succession to find out how her child was. Each day she received the answer, “He is doing the same,” from the telephone, girl. On the fourth da¥ she phoned, | and, after receiving the usual answer, asked if she could see the house, physician. The telaphone girl was furious at this degree of “Iimpert!- nence” by a charity patient's parent, | and threatened to report the mother | to the doctors. My! , asn't that an awful thing to happen to the mother! After this threat she throw down the Fecelver and cut the anxious mother off. I am sure that donors to the char- ity hospitals do not expect employees to exhibit such treatment to patients and others, Some day we may reach a stage in civilization when people will know how to treat charity pa~ tients. CHARLNS E. SCHUMAN. No. 8 West 111th Street, May 10. i} ‘The Subway Tongue. To the Editor of Tee Evening World: For many years I have read your editorials with great interest, Allow @ perfect stranger to “hand it to you" on the one of last evening on “The Subway Conscience Fund." It was worthy of note, and justly humorous, May I just add one more to it? Why not drop whatever you may suggest into the fund box, for learning a new language fast coming into vogue. Most of the guards, in announcing the coming statidn, call out what sounds like Volapuk, Esquimau and Swedish combined, Unless one is used to travelling on the Scenic Underground Railway, the contribution might help in teaching this new language. FRANCOLS CHHMIN-DE-FER. New York, May 11, 1920, Sidetracked Carn. To the Fditor of The Evening World. I noticed in your letters from the people's column the other diy a let- ter-from a@ railroad official, blaming the lack of railroad coal cars for the high cost of coal. ‘Allow mo to Inform the people, through your paper, that there are at least 300 or 400 empty coal cars stretched out on the Manhattan Beach spur of the Long Island Railroad, bordering the Brighton Beach tine ‘These empty cars have been side- tracked here for the past three or four months, While the railroads have been UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Biaks.) DON’T TRY TO MAKE AN IMPRESSION. Look at half a dozen men in a gathering. Some of them are listening. Some of them are talking. Some ate being impressed by the others, The rest are seeking to make an impression themselves. . Look them over, and decide which impresses YOU the most—those who are seeking to make an impression or those who are not. r If you are competent, cay ible, thoughtful, you will have no difficulty in making a good impression. If you are not, all your efforts to do so will go for nothing. The man who is consciously seeking to make a good impression invariably makes a bad one. His very effort to display good qualities, constantly ex- erted, keeps him sc busy that he has no time to acquire any good qualities to display. Making an impression is very important. As others think we are, so are we, as far as our fortunes and pros- pect of advancement is concerned. But when we are conscious of ourselves we will be con- scious of nothing else. And there is no growth in that. Self-confidence is a valuable quality, but it must have something behind it. Self-confidence without capability is merely empty van- ity, which is the most transparent quality a man can possess. What you learn in this world you must learn through study of men and books, and through observation of men and things. And you will have to do a great deal of studying and a great deal of observation if you are going to rise above the average, for you will have many active and industrious competitors. Wait to make your impression until the impression you can make is worth making. Wait till you know something definitely and well before you begin to talk about it. Wait till you feel that you can really enlighten a com- pany before you show off. Often a man who says little makes a better impression than he actually deserves—for the world is afraid of the talker. Be that as it may, the impression you make will depend not on your desire to make it, but upon your ability to make it. And do not attempt to make it till you are sure of the ability. are food for thought. I refer particu- larly to the one headed “Keep Out of the Human Junk Shop I am not a “radical” but only one tlon of soclety, while its most useful members constantly produce and slave away, and always in fear of the distressing ‘possibility of their wages of the “white collar” men you often chmoring for cars. refer to in your editorials, Would appreciate your placing this] In the article under “Uncommon information before the proper authori. | Sense” that I refer to, John Blake does en thig cannot be said to hold first place as the greatest evil in “hospital hospitality." It is abso- lutely Impossible to, obtain any In- formation Whatever once the patient is in the hospital. This not only ex- hibits the utter disregard for charity Allow me to give a specific instance, There is only one day a week that Blake parents may visit thelr children q ties and before the them what over on them. Flatbush, May 12, 1920, patients, bul causes worry at home. | Te the Bditor of Tae Evening World: ‘The articles in your pal public to show] not tell us why useful members of s ruliroads are putting} the human race should live constant ly in fear of the “wolf at the door?” Does he consider the “assistant bookkeeper” he refers to such au: less creature as’ to deserve to have lhis “comfort reduced to nothing?” How about the parasites who seem r by John}to have no cares but Palm Beach, inder the heading “Uncommon | society, &c.? They seem to be ta and some] taken care of in the present ¥. ROBERT G. ALLEN. “Feed For Thoug' being reduced 90 per cent. and com- fort to nothing. ‘This makes one think what an tn- humane basis todern society bas, Can such a society breed a but enmity toward our fellow beings in our mad competition and race to get ahead? In such a society the young are wasting thelr energy ch ing Mammon, lest they descend into the human junk shop. Is it not an indictment of a social order which makes possible the reie- of man to the 44 thing | like a Pays a Tribute 4 to Workers in War In Camp and Field the Knights of Columbus Sec- _ Fetaries Fought to Hold the Morale of Troops, a Battle That Won Hope and Cheer With Cigarettes and Movie Reels as Its Weapons. NE of the first sights that greeted the homebound troop- ers as they came up the Nar- rows and into the Port of New York were the uniforms of the “Casays,” the Knights of Columbus workers who went down the Bay on seagoing tugs to bring candy, chocolate, cigar- ettes and chewing gum to the return- ing men, - And the “Caseys” always got « cheer, for the men knew the uniform, and what it stood for in service to the soldiers in barracks and camp, in ‘the line and with the fighting fleets. Now Maurice Francis Egan and John B. J. Kennedy have just pub- shed “The Knights of Columbus in Peace and War,” the first official work to deal with the history of the organization, It is a full, authorita- tive and complete record, but in addi- tion to this it is also the thrilling story of @ great work well done. In Two Volumes. ‘The history is in two volumes, the first containing the text of the story of the Knights, with 34 pages of ro- togravure illustrations of the subject matter of the various chapters; the second volume contains the names of approximately 100,000 members of tho Knights of Columbus who served in the American and Canadian Allied Armies during the war. This volume also contains a selection of the thou- sands of letters of commendation re- ceived by the Knights from all ranks in the service. It is interesting to note that the ~ first man killed in the war, Lieut, Wm. Fitzsimmons of Kansas City, and the last man killed in the war, Chap, Wm. Devitt of Holyoke, Mass, were members of the K. of C., and the first man to receive the’ Dis- tinguished Service Cross was Lieut. William Meyering, member of Mc- Hale Council, K. of C,, Chicago, The book opens with two human interest chapters entitled “Big Fist- fuls of Friendship” after the caption given to an editorial in Qu'est-ce- que-c'est, a doughboy paper of the A. E. F., praising highly the K. of C. for their robust service to the men of all denominations, In these chapters anecdotes will be found illustrating the character of the personnel and the ways and means by which that personnel did its work at the front and jin the camps at home. The | chapters conclude with a quers as to the type of organization that could, at 80 short notice, emerge into general public focus and accomplish such remarkable results as attended the K. of C. war relief work, Throngh German Territory. Perhaps there can be no better iI- lustration of the courage and daring of the Knights than the story of John E. McHennet, a secretary hail- ing from New York City. He was | making a hurried tour in his capacity | as district supervisor through the St. Menehould fighting zone. This was jin the period of the war when open | fighting was the order of business, and the enemy were retreating hur- riedly, driven on by American artil- lery. McBennet, tn his eagerness to get some particular job done, missed his route and ran about in his K. of C. auto seeking to find the highway again. Suddenly he saw before him German troops, and realized that he had penetrated German territory. Furthermore the Americans were lay- ing down a barrage, » McBennet may have felt a tine nervous as he drove his auto back toward the Atserican line, When he arrived the artillery officer congrat- 4 him, ou'd better thank God that He gave you a fine day,” he said, “The | sun shone on your K-C insignia even | at the distance;, otherwise my battery would have wiped your car off the map.” Whenever there was fighting the K-C men were with the troops, And they have earned the cheers that the returning men gave them so freely. Phas La ha i The Housing Problem in the Canaries. T vie Artenara troglodytes in- vited me into their dwellings, with which man and nature had punctured their mountain side, over 4,000 feet above the sea, says Charles Wellington Furlong in Harpers, Some were walled-Up mountain clefts; others were modifications of naturai caves, or poastbly very old Gufanche ones. Many were rectangular in floor plan, but depending somewhat on the original shape of the cave, Ceilings followed even more closely the crigi- of spring water, an oll lamp, a jar of flowers, a simple picture or two, a few chairs, a chest, and a bed were the appurtenances, Wall-hewn niches took the place of shelves. Often in these hung @ cross or crucifix, while beside it candles burned—the family shrine, Under clean, homespun cov- erlets, beds bulged large and goft, ensconced in an aperture hewn into the rock at the rear, its floor half a foot above that of the cave room. ‘There was no dampness; in fact, these caves were a “temperamental” blessing—in summer, cool retreats * from the heat, having a temperature of about 18 degrees centigrade; in winter, warm and comfortable, rang ing from 10 degrees to 18 degreos cen- tigrade. My little courters and two girle scampered ahead to where some small swinging doors covered a cay: opening. The children opened them. I stepped from brilliant sunlight into | the semi-darkness of @ rough-hewn chapel, An antique brass lamp hun); golden pendant against ¢! mysterious, grim walls beyond. seats graced the sandy floor ripple: by fect, save & @uaint, woodscarved chair behind an altar equally quaint soat had been dug into one beside It a confessional had been crudely sculptured in relief from the solid rock. It Was a primitive looking old Sard Pecan bling