The evening world. Newspaper, May 17, 1920, Page 20

| na i ee De ae ‘The Ansociated Press te exctesivety entitied to the emp far regediication ait nese auapeutiee qeatiod to tt or pot cthamise ereaiies tn thle Doom sin tae teal oe MAKE MACHINES SLAVE. , gethay the Inter-Racial Couseil compiled figures indicating a shorlage of 4,000,000 unskilled laborers in the United States. The Council suggests a relaxation of immigra- tion restrictions ag the best method of meeting the emergency But another course of action is also open. Increased mechanization of industry would de- crease the shortage by eliminating some of the need for unskilled labor. Here is a task for the engineer instead of the Taw- maker, America has gone far—much farther than any other country—in its use of machinery to supplant unskilled labor. In this field lies its greatest indus- trial strength. ‘The higher standard of living which prevails here rests on the machine. We have gone far, but the end is not yet. engineer has an ever-increasing opportunity, The steel business is, perhaps, the most striking example of mechanization. Power-driven machin- ery controlled by skilled and semi-skilled workers now does much of the work in the steel industries which unskilled labor once did. The machines do The . eit better and more cheaply and with less danger to i" ! ‘ human life. Production has increased much more rapidly than vfhe number of men employed. The proportion of | skilled to unskilled laborers has increased enormously. %. This development has been forced by the in- «creased cost and difficulty. of hiring unskilled labor, It became more profitable to install expensive ma- chinery than to continue to pay unskilled labor. Similar opportunities exist in other fields of pro- duction. Herein lies at least one encouraging feature Of the shortage of unskilled labor. It puts & premium ‘on the invention of machines to serve as the slaves of industry—a slavery which Plato believed nec- essary in a republic. WHERE TWO BITS ARE AN INSULT. QNUS proposals seem to go from bad to worse, The idea of differentiating between the soldier who served abroad and those who served at home is absolutely opposed to the theory of “adjusted oom- pensation” on which the bonus bill has been urged ‘by the service organizations, ~ The soldier who put in his time on this side of the Atlantic is just as much behind in the possible savings he would have made had he been’a shipyard worker as the veterans of the A, E. F, it the bonus is to be paid for “services rendered,” a twenty-five cent differential is scarcely less than an insult to the men who took the risk of the firing line. It is only fair to admit that for the most part it is the politicians and not the service men who are anxious to draw such distinctions, AN APPEAL TO FAIRNESS. OSTAL employees all over the Nation are fol- lowing the precedent set by New York scftool teachers. They have set out to educate the public in regard to their need for a fair wage. Ii is a wise procedure, because their case is just. Success of the teachers confirms the fair attitude which the public may be expected to show, if postal workers can only educate the public to the real facts in the case, then popular opinion will demand an adequate reward for public service. Postal workers, never overpaid, are in sad plight. Postal salaries have lagged while living costs have mounted. Like-teachers and the army and navy, the postal workers are specialized workers whose training is of small value in other fields. Unionization and collective bargaining power is denied them, The only way they can meet living costs is by a lowered standard of living or by resign- ing, leaving the service for which they are trained and starting life anew. The public conscience should forbid the first. Public economy and the public need for skilled ser- » vice by trained workers argues against the second, 4 ANOTHER RED WAVE, EYOND the Southem horizon a red wave is gathering. As yet only the pale reflections are to be Seen in this chilly Northern latitude, Yet this red influence is irresistible, Steadily ad- vancing, it will sweep the country, All will bow down and acknowledge its power. From the southern extremity of Florida, the tri- angular tip of Texas, and sunny Southern California the red wave rises. As the weeks pass a daily ad- vance may be noted. Northward and eastward the ‘trimson wavelets make their way until they unite in a broad irregular front, sweeping on and on, ever diminished and ever renewed, reaching the northern “extremities of the Nation and then receding again | to the south, Mitchell Palmer—or any one else—may well stop, | > Sates sute ter. For 'tis the strawberry to which we give high praise as an all-conquering “red.” / The strawberry’s red is of the very spirit of the kindly. sun, the essence of the dew, the product of the choicest chemical processes: of Nature’s lab- oratory. ; . ‘No deportation for this “red.” Rather a place of glory on—and in—that most delectable concoc- tion of pastry and cream, the strawberry shortcake, O%, man! The red wave is coming. We weloome it. From Florida, Georgia, Carolina and Virginia: it comes sweeping on, ever more delicious as shipping dis-. tances decrease. \ The strawberry season can never come ¢arly enough or last long“ enough to satisfy the lover of this’ most American of summer fruits, AS REPUBLICANS RATE IT. : HE Knox peace resolution passed by the Senate | last Saturday contains two direct references | to a possible treaty between the United States and Germany. In each reference care is taken to omit any men- | tion of the President of the United States as a nec essary part of the treaty-making power. In one case, the phrasing of the resolution runs: “until such time as the German Government has, by treaty with the United States, ratifi- cation whereof is to be made by and with the advice and consent of the Senete, made sult- able provisions,” etc, , In the other, the wording is: - “antil the German Government has given fur- ther undertakings and made provisions by treaty, to be ratified by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,” etc, Defining the duties and powers of the President, the Constitution of the United States (Art. Il., Sec. 2) says: “He'shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make trea- Se aS. The intent of the Knox resolution in laying stress on the ten words of the Constitution that define the Senate’s part of the treaty-making function, while, pointedly ignoring the four words that establish the power of thé President, is nothing short of childish, In the paltriness of motive revealed, it goes along with Senator Knox’s preposterous assertion that he accepted the, Lodge amendment striking out the re- quest to the President to negotiate a new treaty be- cause he “did not want to rub it in on the Pres- dent.” At moments iter they are off guard, the Repub- lican treaty-wreckers give themselves away shock- ingly. Their high pretense of protecting Senatorial pre- rogative crumbles to nothing. They would: have the country believe that they have been upholding the dignity and responsibility | of the Senate against tle encroachment of the Exec- utive. Rubbish! What they have been doing is, in reality, to ex- ploit the Senatorial prerogative principle in order to make it possible for a Republican majority in the Senate to “rub it in” on a Democratic President during the early months of a Presidential campaign. Senator Knox's hypocritical remark about not wanting to “rub it in on the President” would not deceive a schoolboy. It was only calculated to set anti-Wilsonites chuckling in secret over how much they have “rubbed it in.” : ; The authority and dignity of the Senate! How much should we be hearing from Messrs. Knox, Lodge et al. about the threatened prestige of the Senate if a Republican President had helped to _ negotiate the Versailles Treaty and launch the League of Nations, and if Republican leaders had seen their way clear to hogging the whole credit for the iden- tical international policies and proposals which they now deem it their partisan duty to find ‘pemictous? Not one of tliese treaty-wreckers would dare to come before the country and assert that he wants no safeguards for world peace that are going to cost the United States anything. Yet they dare to hold up the one ready and avall- able programme for reducing the probability of war, and they expect their fellow Americans to look on them as patriots instead of denouncing them as be- trayers of national honor, “Do you imagaine,” Senator Underwood asked the Senate, “the American people are so blind as to be fooled by this (Knox) resolution? They know where'rests the responsibility for prolonging the war, for failure to restore peace, and no measure such as | this will delude them.” How long will they endure with patience present Repubiican rating of their intelligence? SHIP BY TRUCK. Digg aril of a breakdown in rail transporta- tion can scarce fail to make “Ship by Truck” week more of an event than its sponsors planned. Organized displays of trucks will be unnecessary. Every truck should be kept working to help out the railways. Records of accomplishment will be more convincing than parades and demonstrations, “Ship by Truck” started as an advertising slogan. Many merchants and business men are finding that there is no alternative. It has become a case of ship by truck or not at all, Took, tisten—ynd tiste. And particularly the tat- ’ | : . \ h ft if Bg ; | mente, | ‘ ‘ rE : | the man of her choice, Ramona eloped 1; A , | church. bert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1 ‘The Proms Dutdisting tte New York Drentee Wert) s No. 83—RAMONA, by Helen | Hunt Jackson. | “Ramona was a gloriously beautiful | halfbreed, the child ot a Sootelt | gather and an Indian mother. | She was born in Bouthern Californa: a was brought up as the adopted daughter of rich old Senora Moreno, |a randhman's widow, |",'There were peace and plenty ant |Nappiness and scenic beauty on the |rambling old Moreno ranch. It was 4g | the early days of California’s develop~ | ment under the new white race, and | the country was still as pastoral and : : j 4 calm as in the time of Fray Junipero | po and his mission-builiing exploits. 5 Ramona was brought up with aif the advantages which could have been : lavished on any white girl. ‘Senora! } ¥ . | Moreno had great plans for the lovely : | halt- ‘breed’s future, and had her edu- \cated and taught many accomplish + For years all went smoothly. Then Ramona fell in love with Alessandro a noble young Californian Indian whd ‘was seeking to uplift himself and hiv race, ‘ Alessandro adored the beantifdt girl, The two became engaged. Ra« mona's Indian blood was too strong for the half European heredity and for Senora Moreno’s years of careful teaching, #he elected to marry rhid man of het mother’s peeple and if necessary to turn her back on clvilt4 zation for Alessandro’s sake. Senora Moreno was furious, Post tively she forbade the match, That |was all the good it did. | _ Forbidden by her guardian to marry with him and they were made fus- | band and wife at the nearest mission But, almost at once, trouble set tn, Ramona and Alessandro were ut~ J terly devoted to each other, And they lasked nothing better than to be to+ | gether and to make their own way in the world. Both werp olever and jindustrious. Their ho “e and thelr’ career, were wisely planned out. Yet, except for their mutual love, | their whole future existence was one | of misery. ‘To begin with, they went to live ia Alesxandro's village. Soon the white uettlers greedily seized the villace and the rich farm lands that sur- rounded it and drove away the In- dian owners, ‘At every turn the greed and cruelty of the white men robbed Ramona _ and her husband of their scant pos- sessions and of all chance to make & | living in the land of their birth. |. Proud and heartbroken at his own fate and that of his people, Alessandro at last went mad through ill treat~ ment, His inability to provide for his adored wife made his madness take a desperate turn, And in a futile at~ tempt to enforce. ‘his lost rights against the white men he lost his life, Indian ss is Call ole sate, Ie te ts Salt FROM EVENING WORLD READERS What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand ‘words ‘in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental erercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake) STUDY LIVE BRAINS; NOT DEAD ONES. A distinguished phy leagues to study. He hoped that by dissecting it, examining its convo- lutions and its development, they might shed some light on the greatest of mysteries, which is the mechanies of thought. It is barely possible that a trifle may be added to human knowledge as a result of the study of this brain. But it will be very, little. All the probing into its mass that can be done, can not tobe manied and ian has left his brain to his col- News Flashes From Around |The World| Gold Dye From Chimney Soot, ‘ An exhidition is being held * } Favors Fair Play. To the Editor of The Evening World: Far be it from me to try to belittle the sacred wisdom that has been be- stowed upon our Congressmen by the Almighty. However, in at least one partioulur they fuil—that 1s, in adequately providing for the postal pared with other boroughs, in fairly | good condition and evenly graded. He howls about the crowded con- ditions. Let him take a Castleton Avenue car in the morning and then | talk about crowded conditions. It is his type here on Staten Island that makes Staten Island get it in the neck every time—garbage | plant, transportation difficulties, &c. | service, Unless this provision is| Qn! If we only had ew &c-) $ tell the anatomists how it stored up its knowledge, or how this week in London by the | made ‘one of the most important] backbone cover te sarvifce a Iie! $ the remarkable habit of.thought was developed in it. Knoz Guild of Design and ~ © functions of our Government, will go comfort and demand better conditions | And to the layman the most marvellous brain in the Crafts, which the Times de from the city. 1 want to put in a good word for the buses. The trolley car is sup- posed to run on a schedule, which it seldom does, Therefore it is impos- sible to get to a certain boat if one figures acording to the trolley sched- ule, Where the trolley car takes three-quarters of an hour to reach the boat from a certain point, the bus takes only 10 minutes, or 15 minutes at the most, No matter how to the dogs. Let us see why clerks resign. To become “one of the boys,” one must pass a civil service examination. Then he is heralded into the service with a bonus of two to four hours of overtime each day, He is compelled to study each day in order to learn the schemes of rep- aration, and must report Sunday when ordered in. Two-thirds of the clerks work nights, thus depriving themselves of social privileges, bad the buses are, they will always To compensate them for their sac- | be better than the srolley®: rifices, they receive 42 cents per A KIVIAT. | scribes as “a demonstration of the beautiful results produced , by ordinary methods of dyeing.” Some woollen stuffs woven by members of the guild with ° primitive apparatus have becn dyed with privet, bracken, gorse and other well-known plants, and even with soot from the chimney, the last producing world, studied’ after death, will mean nothing. You can, however, learn a great deal from the study of live brains. | Observe any distinguished man in action; learn of his habits, of his methods of work. And if you are a close student you will soon find out how the mass inside his skull is being built day by day into a machine for thought that will carry its owner far above his fellows. The brain of a dead Darwin profits the student noth- ing. The brain of a live Edison or Marconi, or James M. hour! Staten Island, ar 13, 1920. @ beautiful old-gold tint. There A temporary clerk has none of the eR inate Barrie or Lloyd George will teach him much. are also some fine specimens of: ’ regoing obligations to fuifill and re- tnforcement Fails. ‘ ' if Selves 80 orale er Po "| re tuo Eajter of The Tventng World: For in the methods of these men is a large part of their leather work, pottery and jew- lerk, myself, but Bird 8. secret. Their brains have been built by certain systems of I'm @ temporary I read with interest Mr. elry. I believe “justice should be done | Coler's indictment of the enforcement | $ intellectual effort, built of course upon strong natural talent. eee where Justice FA ROSENBERG, [of the Prohibition Act, which ne 1f you would emulate them, find out what they read, British Care of the Blind. A bill has been introduced in the British Parliament concern- ing the care and training of blind persons. It propides that it shall be the duty of every lo- touches from the viewpoint of health and sanity. May I draw attention to \t from two other angles—namely the | fimancial and domestic Before prohibition used to spend about liquor, After the act hecame law, he and HOW THEY READ IT. Find out who their associates are, and how they de- rive benefit from them. You can study dead brains in the same way. But you must study them through biography and not in the dissect- No. 985 DeKalb Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. jay 13, 1920. while Collar Protest. To the Mlitor of The Drening World; \ I have read a great deal in this do- my inesband 20 a month on partment regarding the propos?d|spent hardly any at all, not appar- in: om. 5 “White Collar Union,” and I think it |ently being ablo to get tt (what eve-| NB MOM pea ee the eat : cal authority to make sufficient about time that the more intelligen: |MINKS of peace and happiness!) But All that we have learned of the brain as a machine and suitable provision for the portion of the White Collar Men be these Jaat two months the sum has amounts to extremely little, technical training, employment v4 called upon to prevent such a disas- ne heey: itt pate uy t0 But we have learned a vast deal of how brains are built, and maintenance of every dling *** ter. whining letters written by |ep008 that with a bunch of “good! $ and in that learning is most of the progress of the world. person over 16 years of age h aie 4 i é fellows” and whiskey a drink.” ri ‘ these so-called men are sickenlnk it. [He cannot afford it and as a conse- | oa wnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnmnnanninnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnys | within tts furisdiction LA Fh yeaa pe het wome javence we have to do without clothes | toa nash nate eee and squirm and req “4 and shoes and, eri what is worse, cat 0 live, vard and ; Electrification of Belgian Rafltways. fed-blooded man step Shore Rbad embankment, We listened) just as the Germans in Belgium put into our savin vind them together so as to give them |" 4. dded to th the daily terror of | 4 a 0 is the or of | to a naval of! r tell us how he was; them forward, to shield this nefarious The first experiement in the the strength, confidence and power|, jaging fiend coming home at neh iow: id ¢ t ght | helping finance builders by getting|scheme to ge permanent possession i 4 which they apparel yan need, These lty smash up things, instead of the | money deposited in a local bank, We people's public playground, electrification of Belgian rail meg speak of unionism as the oniy | really decent good-natured man that| were” warned that evicted tenants| war is over and we want our| ‘v8 @ Project which has been , solution to the problem of finune! success. Did any one ever see si | manifestation of utter helplessne: | Let one of these men go to his su perior in the office and ask him how he got to be where he Is, His answer will be: Endeavor, study, industry, work—it all means the same, You have to do more than demand higher wages in order to earn them even if the employers ure foolish enough to consent to a raise, F.C. K NewYork, May my husband, sober, is, The present brand of firewater seems to tu the quietest of men into irresponsible and dangerous maniacs. - For the sake of thé wives and fam. ilies, 4% well as for the sake of the misguided men who are ruining their health and the happiness of those dear to them, can the act not really ve enforced? IN VINO VERITAS, Brooklyn, May 13, 1920, Shore the city $5,000,000, is dedicated to park purposes and should not be otherwise oecupled u minute longer than is nec- Brownsville might bo housed and {t was intimated that the mmissioner did not want the property returned because he had no money just now to improve it, ‘Tho ladies too were not overlooked in this skilful propaganda. Ba certs and glittering gold lu brilliant dances helped t | while forget the sombre si shut off their view of | Riviera. Road drive back. It has cost under discussion for some time. will be made on te important line from Brussela to Antwerp. A commisston appointed by the Ministry of Ratiwaye has al- ready approved specifications for the rolling. stock, and or- ders for the new material will soon be placed. Direct hgh essary, These crude wooden barracks are as muclr out of place on Brook- -|lyn’s Shore Road drive as they would be on New York's Riverside Drive. We trust these propagandists will conform thelr preferences to Secre- tary Daniels’ decision, and not make thelr, inevitable departure disagree- able by further criticism and attacks Shore Road Barracks, jing World ut now the purty is 6 thn rough! Q : ai eee se eer ated Bay Bidge on thé Americanism and patriotism of| tension Current will be weed, Id foist the Shore Road ant their park back é ure to 11 to “get | the Pee ple ot Pay Bdge, =e See: with the thirdrait system, ex- ks permanently on the peopl t from behind their Chinese velcomed them most heurtily, by my Staten Island friend: who | Brooklyn have tuken a new tack, 1 realize what a boon the burracks| treated them most courteously, and cept in station and yards, where titles himself “Victim” and proteats| heard “ad nauseam" ow many thuu- | i et that some of them would wear| overhead tranemission’ will be against the buses. sands of dollars would be lost if t Ws oafay on our beaut employed, It ig probable that mentions tha danger of the bus’ tip: ud rivera the first trips under the new man pol CHAMBER oy COM system will not be mada until , maddest of all, Slice workoy Io pul Losw hi automobile con- dire vu! atvuction Quy feuds ase, as Com erful know the eud of 1991, MERCH, pe ! . weeruay ¥ RULWT, President. 1 *