The evening world. Newspaper, May 18, 1920, Page 26

A Word, ESTABLISHLD BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing pany, Nos. 53 to 63 Park Row, New Yurk. . mete PULITZER, . ANGUS SHAW, @OSEPH PULITZER, Jr. a cas. MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRESS. ne Press \s exclusively entitled t the wee for republication Geapatches credited to tt or not otherwise credited im this paper fhe local news published herein, Bw er ~ SUSPENDED SENTENCE. SASE of the State vs. William Bauer, heard in Brooklyn County Court yesterday morning, epitome of the troubles that affect the Nation. William Bauer, insurance collector, couldn't live atid support his family on the $21-a-week salary ie earned in his pleasant, easy job. He “retained” $700 of the money he collected. / Wi the eyes of the law he was a criminal, although may be willing to make some allowances of the low pay he received in proportion the’ responsibility involved. William Bauer came to a right about face. e knew he was “in wrong.” ¥So he quit his “white-collar job.” He ceased to ‘one of the “New Poor” and hunted a job as a wages served to support his family. He bd money. When he was arrested he was able }return the money he had “retained.” ‘The court suspended sentence. Nation is one great crowd of William Bauers, to keep up appeararices without much hard fk. This Nation is running behind, It is retain- "some of the production inherited from previous tions and which it is morally bound to pass on. is high time for all the William Bauers to right ‘ be it face. It is time to get to work and produce : bre, consume less and save some. As a nation we are out on suspended sentence to- day. If we fail to follow William Bauer and make the sentence. will be imposed and served. No | Sedge can suspend it indefinitely. 7), {Business men and workers may call the penalty _ a“panic” or “hard times,” but it will be a punish- _ mient none the less: It is time to don longshoreman’s togs and roll up es and WORK. ecieripinemiemen nara WHOSE FAULT ? > EPUBLICAN leaders charge that most of the civilian “Army of Washington” remains on ro if be osterent is not precisely new. The Eve- World published statistics more definite than _ the Republican propagandists now, cite in the hope _ @f inducing Congress to cut off the appropriations on which this army depends for existence and get country back on a peave basis. ‘Congress failed to pract!sxe cconomy. ‘Had these Republican charges been advanced a ago and had they been followed with a rigid f) of approprictions the civilian army which as: carrving on the war eighteen months after the “armistice would have demobilized. Advanced now they si of hypocrisy. ; Republican majority in Congress have been as thoughtful of the friends and relatives of eh “The “Army of Washington” should have been d d and Congress should have forced the demobilization. It is regrettable that the Repub- Tican charges are true, but they are as much a con- ession as 2n attack. LEVI P. MORTON. ~ COME yeats ago The World sent a reporter on a quick trip to Ellerslie, Rhinecliff-on-the-Hud- to interview Levi P. Morton on an important ce of political news. J It was just 9.30 P, M. when the reporter stood on t. Morton’s front porch and rang the bell. “Mr, has been in bed. an hour,” said the footman. #hod at what time in the morning does Mr. Morton ~Degin to receive?” “He usually gets up at 6 o'clock. always downstairs by 6.30, You could see him a ty time after that.” The reporter was on hand at Me “Fo'clock the next morning. Mr. Morton had been | - upan hour and was at his desk writing letters. F Old-fashioned habits of like character took this of a Vermont country minister through a long | e&reer in business, finance and politics with distin- ed success. They prolonged his years in com- and mellow retirement to the! ripe number f ninety-six. : ~ Mr. Morton was old-fashioned in his precepts also. | it on one occasion to give some message to ‘young Americans of this generation, he found noth- ing lengthier or more striking than two words: “Be honest.” ) “yOld-fashioned too in his appraisal of progress: *"What,” somebody once asked him, “has im- be ed you most as a public event or development : fe good in the history of the United States during pour Jong experience?” answer was: 1 have seen, wars and territorial acquisi- and scientific marvels, the one thing that just occurs to me as being the most prominent of was the time that Cyrus Field completed the tic cable, It was then possible for the Presi- dent of the United States to have almost immediate mmunication with the Queen of England. That ‘loomed up big in my memory, and | know of , ch has impressed me more,” haga ta pao which reduced the | employees distance between the United States and Europe to nothing and marked international understanding ‘and co-operation for the next great step in human ad- vancement! What do Senators Lodge and Knox say to. that? Levi P. Morton was one of the most eminent Re- Publicans of his day. Measured by certain standards now conspicuous in the party, he must indeed be reckoned an old- timer. GET AT THE WHOLE TRUTH. PPARENTLY the coyntry is finally coming to face the facts that it was prone to ignore when white-collared commuters “broke” the outlaw strike on a few passenger trains, It becomes increasingly evident that the outlaw strike was only a more violent symptom of a deep and thorough-going discontent and dissatisfaction that runs through the ranks of the railroad workers, a discontent which is all the more dangerous be- cause it is of slow growth. If the railroads are short of labor, there are only two explanations. One is a “silent strike.” The other is that railroad men are leaving their jobs to go into other and more advantageous lines of work. This feeling is in no way lessened by the very general misunderstanding of the wages paid to rail- road operatives. Railroad workers generally are be- lieved to be “aristocrats of labor’ as the result of the Adamson bill, the findings of the Lane wage com- mission, &c. A broad survey of the whole field of railroad labor presents a very different picture. Many of the workers—particularly those outside the brother- hoods—are ‘not and never have been rolling in luxury. Another source of dissatisfaction lies in the hope deferred since last’ August of a readjustment in wages. ; In assessing blame for the present transportation crisis, it must be admitted that the men have exer- cised a considerable measure of patience and for- bearance with public officials and officers of the railroads, who have staved off consideration of wage adjustments for nine months, The employers—the public for most of the period—have something to answer for. Now that the muddle has been passed along to the Interstate Commerce Commission it is to be hoped that the public will get more light on actual conditions of wages and employment, If the union leaders are secretly encouraging a “silent strike” or a “strike on the job,” the’ public ought to kne v. If there have been an unusual number of bona fide resignations to go into other work, the public ought to know. Inasmuch as the railroad managers) have “passed the buck” and confessed their inability to meet the situation, the public must know a great deal more than it now does. The traffic tie-up is clear evidence of the enor- mous potential power which railroad labor holds. There is. no use in adopting an ostrich-like attitude toward this fact. If the railroad workers are using this power un- fairly, nothing except an informed public opinion can overcome it. The primary duty of the Interstate Commerce Commission seems to be to educate the public in the real issues and the actual facts involved, Representative Pou of North Carolina charges that Republican leaders in Congress have en- tered into @ conspiracy to discredit President ilson, Must be some mistake. Hasn't Senator Knox just shown how he consented to the mutilation of a perfect Republican peace resolution in order “not to rub it in on the President’? . BARBERS SHOULD THINK TWICE. WO months ago, when the first rumors of the barber strike were circulated, The Evening World expressed the opinion that an increase in Prices would result in so great a decrease in patron- age that barbers would be unable to keep busy. General tendencies since only confirm the opinion, The public’s unwillingness to spend at inflated prices is manifest. This accounts for the “special sales” of merchandise now so common. One dollar or 75-cent haircuts and 25-cent shaves will not be popular. Such a scale will induce home shaving and hair-cutting. This will mean fewer jobs for barbers. It is unnecessary to enter into the dispute between the barbers and employers. Looking at it from the public's angle, it seems probable that the barber trade is now collecting as large a total return as it ever will, If the price goes up the demand will de- crease and a considerable number of workmen will be hunting jobs in other lines of work, On the whole, this might not be a matter of seri- ous regret. But it is something both employers and consider in settling the dispute. nee SO tm oe tie WO nian | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1920. What ktnd 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 finé mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. ra Too. The Editor W To the Editor of The Brening World Please answer: these questions through your paper. {| Why does the Government allow the Standard Oil and all other profi- teers to rob me? The policeman on the corner pm- tects me from thieves and gunmen. Why does not the U. 8. District At- torney protect me from the big thieves, “the profiteers!" Is there any U, 8. District Attor- ney in the U. S. A. who is on the job? If there is one I would like to know his mame and the district that be patrols. E. SERGIO, Brooklyn, May 17, 1920. and cry—it was such a shock. Clean Subway Stations. ‘To the Editor of The Evening W tion, The broken crockery and glass. Ask Hiram, ‘Te the Editor of The Evening World: A claims Hiram Johnson supported Woodrow Wilson in the Presidential election of 1916. B claims Hiram John- son supported Mr. Hughes. Which Is right?) A CONSTANT READER. Platform, but slipped on the heavy coat mud. ‘The Nurse's Side. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Allow me to take issue with Charles, &, Schuman on his article “Hospital! Hospitality.” A complete report of each patient {8 written out each morning and night before the nurs goes off duty, and after being submit- ted to the house physician and super- intendent of nurses for perusal is given to the telephone operator for the information of patients’ families. Two telephone operators answcr in- quiries about patients during the en- re twenty-four hours of each day. specially on the day shift she is con- stantly referring to the official report and sending ®ut messages. If exch patient had five calls per j}day -rlous cases have up to thirty) in # hospita) of 300 beds, ant e: call was for the house physician, what attention could the patients receive? ‘Any impertinence on the part of the employees and attendants should be reported to the superintendent, in which the result would be 1 are satisfactory than in writing to a newspape ditor, About the frowns on charity pa- tients: Unless the patient volunte the Information no one except tie clerk in the office knows whether or not the patient is in on charity, In each ward patients pay, what the can, and if they are unable to pay anything no one is the wiser, Moreover, ward patients receive much more attention than room pa- tients, beaause the nurses are right on hand and can see the condition of each patient at a glance. Always remember, Mr, Schuman, that hospital attendants, the mort poorly paid workers in the world, are the hardest and most consctontious workers, and the objects of most fault finding. The work ig in two shifts of twelve hours each, and goes on every day in the year. Internes, or house doctors, receive mo compensation whatever for an average course of twenty month oir ey'l parene work three years fo to r mon’ Greduate nurses recelva éroua ted erly or if this would not have happened as ercised all due caution, The B. eeldents than this happen. the necessa: the U. 8. Let's use it, clean A ions, N. J. May 15, 1920. To the Eaitor of “ke Evening World: was short of men taking the liberty "The facts are as follows: a load. were sent here for the They ca not a single load do they assist. they stand. So there uh plays a charg: picker nd the dump. keeps the dump team are there just the same, ever Owns the horses must When horses gets restless and tired stand- ng the man in charge of the dump drives thom around the streets while driver: sits, sleeps in shanty or The man in has no work to do as the rag- trimmed ‘There is also a checker and some preewe 20 prbey are, Prolene there for two three days, ye men ani Who- | of reids ave 6] One omly bas to Fead the Royal $100 per month—mostly $60. Orderlies, maids and assistants receive $10 to $20 per month. And when a patient So much as says “Thank you" ] have known nurses to go out in the hall TRAINED NURSE. Lust Saturday afternoon | was go- ing down the steps on the uptown side of the B. R. T. Canal Street Sta- landing half-way down was covered with the mud slime and water of weeks and the whole place was littered with jagged pieces of I carefully stepped from the tron grated steps to the smooth concrete the slime and muck which covered it gnd fell heavily, a piece of glass penetrated and other clothing that I was wearing, injuring ry arm severely. My coat was ruined by the Had this station been cleaned prop- landing had been equipped with drains or gratings, this ex- R. T. should take warning and remedy conditions at this station 1 others immediately before worse If t had witnesses, the B. R. T would not get off so easily. The force of public opinion is the greatest tn Demand H. HARRIMAN GRIMM. 104 Domaine Avenue, Jersey City, Having seen in your paper that the Street Cleaning Commissioner said he and horses\I am through your colunms to inform him where he can find a man and team of horses em- ed by the Department that have been standing doing nothin: for the past five weeks over here in Brooklyn There 1s un ash dump on 71st Street between 10th and 1th Avenues, Brooklyn. The streets here during March were in bad condition and hard on horses to pull So after spring opened and streets got into fair condition a man and team attached to a kind of a sulky purpose helping @ horse that would get stuck here five weeks ago but of the wee ee, . i fi ? By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) THE PAST IS PASSED. Unless you can correct the mistakes of yesterday, don’t think about them, The average “post-mortem” is not only useless, but dangerous. Worrying over what is done, and can’t be helped, uses up more nerves than all the hard work in the world. If you lost a game because you played it badly, make Pulling the other to pieces to find out how you lost it will only add to your grief. The politician, who has been beaten in a campaign But it never gets him your plans to win the next one. invariably holds a “post-mortem.” anything. You are bound to lose now and then. be good for nothing. But don’t fuss over trieved. If you are the worrying sort, and insist on lying awake nights in mental anguish, devote your mental anguish to to- morrow, not to yesterday, Thinking about how you might have done this dif- ferently or that more effectively only protracts your worry. That was why you lost. your defeat you learn not to make that same mistake again, You made a mistake. you are far better off for having made it. The poet Whittier was right about ‘what might have been.” Dissecting “‘what might have been’ ation. Think abdut what will be. in the hereafter, %" Aen ug tee" wn ty UNCOMMON SENSE : If you won right along you weuld soon become so conceited that you would your failures, They can’t be re- is only useless: vex- Devote your energies to that, and there will be many fewer “what might have beens” Irving Collection Now Exhibited At the Library Manuscripts and Books of : Author of “Rip Van Win- kle”and “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” May, Be Seen by Public.” ASHINGTON IRVING ts ¢s~« sentially the writer of New York. Whttman, Poe and Bryant all lived here at some period of their lives, but none set his mark as firmly ‘on the city as did the author of Bun~ nyside, whose beautiful vin | home js still a landmark of Irvington- | on-Hudson, and whose legends of the ‘tower Hudson Valley have become {almost true folklore. Fi | ‘Thus it ts of inteest to note \the Washington ‘ving collection of | the late Isaac N. Seligman has | Deen placed on exhibit in the New) \York Public Library. The collection,” which includes manuscripts, books, drawings and engravings relating to the life of Washington Irving, was” |presented to Mrs. Seligman during the life of the col’ ctor, but has now | been loaned to the dibrary for an in- © definite period. Shows Original Sketches. George S. Hellman, writing in the Library Bulletin, tells of the work now exhibited, The eleven cases, in Room 112, near the main entrance of the library, now contain the treasures which their former owner tock such pleasure in showing to frinuds at his Irvington home. In the | first case are the manuscript journals ‘describing Irving’s tour in France, Italy and Sicily in 1804-1805, There are two other such journals of trav- els relating to this first visit to Europe, and these three, together with a fourth in the possession of Mr, W. A. White, are unpublished manu- scripts that may soon be imrued in book form by the Grolier Club, Irv- ing drew on these journals in writ- ing letters home, and for the most Part they constitute a hitherto un- known record pf his earliest adven- tures and experiences in European countries and may be regarded as his first extensive undertaking as a bes of letters, <4 po a/ A notebook, mainly concerning {London and ‘Paris, with varlous ma, “original drawings by Irving himself, including a sketch of himself shav- jing, belongs to the year 1805-1803. Irving at one time seriously consid- ered making art his career, and many of his journals of travel are inter- spersed with pencil and pen-and-ink ) Sketches. ‘Thus he is of a class with authors like Thackeray, Kipling, Stevenson, Dickens and Victor Lugo, who had a talent for drawing; and this is evident in the journal of his tour through Wales, with its many sketches of scenery and castles, “A Tour ef the Prairies.” ' Five other journals are shown in case 4, These belong to the Ameri- can period, after his return to bis native country, which he had not seen for seventeen years, Four of them describe adventures among the Amer, ican Indians and are the basis of his 1 |yolurre entitled “A Tour of the Prairies.” The fifth is a journal of | 1842, beginning with his departure from New York to undertake his duties as Minister to Spain. In the same case are an English note- book of the year 1829 and a volume recording Irving’s disbursements as Secretary of Legation at London in 1830. This secretaryship was Irv- ing’s first diplomatic office. Here, {too, is ‘ie original manuscript of Irving’s translation of Sahagun's | “Conquest of Mexica.” How Irving (1838-1839) gave up his ambition to wiite the history of Mex- ica on learning that Prescott was en- ‘gaged in a similar work 1s recorded \in every life of Irving; how greatly his courtesy was appreciated by Pres- cott is made evident by another man- script in this collection wherein | Prescott refers to Irving’s unselfish- ness, at the same time furnishing \ Irving with material for his “Life of Washington.” American Writings. In Case 8 are manuscripts of books ‘having to do with Irving’s writings on American lands and customs | “Astoria,” “Communipaw” (the first ‘essay in “The Book of the Hudson"), {“Phe Tour of the Prairies,” “Wol- fert'y Roost and Other Stories,” are here shown in initial or final manu- script form, ‘These books were widely read, Irving having become a great favorite with his countrymen, who had quite forgotten the criti- cisms that some of their number so unjustifiably directed against Irving for having remained away from America during the greater part of his early manhood. It was now rec- ognized that he, more than any other If from long, strong pull to keep a team there five weeks doing nothing. their audacity, TAXPAYER. The way Brooklyn, May 17. ‘ Appreciated when Bri je Navy. To the Exiitor of The Bvening World: pire were des: ‘The latest glaring headlines in all this evening’s newspapers certainly sive one a beautiful, “fed-up" feeling. 1 am referring to the latest rub against the British Admiralty by President Wilson, in which he charges them with “lack of audacity” and utter demoralization” owing to the U boat activity. Let us hope that this sort of “notes” is taken by the public with the necessary pinch of salt, Of course, the anti-British press soon make use of this sort of thing and carry the slur from the Admi- raity to the Royal Navy itself. As one who has done four and a half years with the British Army and Royal Air Force jn France I feel tt my place to say a few words in defense of this glorious but most modest of the three services, When they are ac- cused of lack of audacity one only 8 to look at their brilliant and undy- ing World War record, Just a few: Ostend and Zcebrugge and the sink- ing of the old Vindictive. Was au- dacity wanting here? Jutland, Falk. land Islands, Dardanelles and dozens are aiso given taken across on Royal Navy. came back on back to Canada. patient amateur." some day we U Navy. murr navy in the World War, ‘too numerous to mention. |, Davy's Uist of V. C. awards to get an idea of | the transport ments were carried out can only be | one knows 00,000 troops of the British E tched to all he various battlefronts during the war. | 1 Remember the Dover Patrol. en iis that nearly 80 per cent. of the United States troops were | Club edition of George William Cur- marine ships and protec And any dier will tell you how many of ‘them British ships: cially if he had to wait about ten months after the armistice to get Yet President Wilson accuses them of all these things, there is something in Standard’s idea of his being an “im- But it took him a long time to “get that way,” to use a New York expression, can get Beatty and he will tell us how many boats were sunk by One still bows his head and rs, “Thank God, we've got a May we w all these years live to see the day when the British Navy will get the credit it deserves for its glorious part ARTHUR G. J, WHITEHOUSE, |had brought Burope to regard with respect that American _ literature which Europeans had previously ne- glected or despised; and the letter here shown, signed by many promi- nent New Yorkers (1832), inviting r in his honor, to- spapers of the tme proceedings at- this nquet, is but one of the many indi- ony ‘of American pride in Irving. The last case contains the Grolier arrange- how | recording the itish mercan i tis’ “Washington Irving;” memorial ed volumes and books of study on Irving. with manuscripts and rare prints and jdocuments. Here also aré privately | printed letters from Irving, and the sermons preached in Christ Churcl, Tarrytown, on Irving's death and published by request of the vestry The wails of the exhibition room are covered by twenty-one frames, | containing eighty-four portraits of iIrving, from early manhood to late |lite, reproduced from paintings and drawings by various American and European artists. Painters and en. gravers, magazine editors of England and of America, of France, Germany Italy and Spain—all were eager io present the kindly lineaments of this lovable man, who, now that almost a century and a half has passed by since his birth, is still regarded by two continents as one of the most delightful of men of letters, and who, the eat gity of N. = m dor ait time ts mass chariabag -espe- Why? Perhaps the London Weil, perhaps round old the Royal “stuck it out’? [tir laa ne oe rere ee