The evening world. Newspaper, May 21, 1920, Page 34

BUY LIBERTY BARGAINS. fused to buy. era Adin: bd mila lad to join in the boycott of cers. “oA Fo hap cred bo fenaly be wold BRUPT ending of the strike of the milk drivers leaves the public mystified as to why took 4 Di con ‘of Attorney General Palmer in the Georgia convention by a Smith-Watson coali- Is hailed generally by violent tiaters of the Wil- son Administration as 2 rebuff to the President and ‘4 repudiation of the League of Nations. ‘The contest in Georgia was scarcely so simple as ‘these critics assume. Hoke {mith and Tom Watson are local charac- Each has a large personal following, and no how undesirable they may have proved ives, it must be admitted that Mitchell Palmer is not much of an improvement. _ Geongia voters had small chance to exercise dis- ‘citmination, so the vote was split. Palmer polled a plurality. A more acceptable candidate might well havé won a majority over Such popular demagogues as Smith and ‘Watson. tural Georgia the Palmer “Red” would naturally fail to frighten. : mecessary to pass judgment on the meaning } of the Georgia primary, it would be fairer and more say that the Administration was weak retains a Mitchell Palmer whose reac- tendencies clash with the broader outlines liberalism. general body of Democratic voters Mitchell Palmer is better illustrated in the Pennsylvania primaries in which the son,” whose name appeared on the ballot, @ handful more votes than Mr, McAdoo, pame had to be written in. SAM'S OTHER ARMY. ANCE of increased pay to the army and is now law. y bill is retroactive to Jan. 1 and will be until June, 1922. ‘adjustment will give the Nation to get its bearing and determine a gen- ill afford to spend the money. less afford to lose the services men who would be forced to resign un- financial pressure. another “army equally deserving treatment and a pay scale to help meet living The civilian employees of the Postal Service even worse plight than the army and navy, ‘@ larger proportion of the personnel is force and will then be forced to pay the higher wage for unskilled and untrained workers. The postal pay ralse should pass both as a matter of final economy and also as an evidence of gov- ernmental good faith and fairness, WHERE WAS PREVENTION? F THE Federal Reserve Board can cut off bank loans to profiteers and speculators now, why couldn’t it have done as much a year ago? If pyramiding of prices can be checked by resolute action of the banking interests, why wasn’t such ac- tion taken tong since to PREVENT the piling up of the colossal burden under which the greater part of the country has staggered? The end of the war found the United States in a unique position among nations. In October, 1919, the United States was Europe’s ‘creditor to the extent of $9,646,419,494. The re- sources of the national banks in the United States amounted to $21,615,000,000, A large percentage of the gold of the world had accumulated in our vaults, Our prosperity was unimpaired. Was there any sound reason why a country In this condition should be rent and racked by an orgy of greed and exploitation? Was there any reason why speculation should have ‘had free rein to turn 'so favorable a situation to its own special profit? ‘Where were the banks and the Federal banking system at 4 time when they were most needed to foresee and forestall what happened? The truth is, they were themselves drawn into the current, They aided the speculators. They loaned money to those who straightway used it in shameless schemes of profiteering, They gave credit to mer- chants whose one idea was to hold their stocks for record prices, They enabled food speculators to hoard vast stores of foodstuffs until the market was “right.” They advanced money freely on ware- house certificates without asking for what purpose the goods were held. All these things were done—and the Federal Re- serve banks by rediscounting added to the pyramid- ing and inflation. The process went on and on unlil the pace became too hot. If the Federal Reserve Board now shows a change of heart and policy, it is because it has recognized of late that the game can go no further, ThePtimit has been reached, because the larger Public will no longer buy at prices set by the new spending power of a few war-favored classes, The speculative rush has brought up hard and fast against the economic barrier of the greater num- ber and its average income, Therefore, the Federal Reserve Board hastens to do now what it ought to have done many months ago. The American people, in their highly advan- tageous position as a nation, need not have suffered all they have suffered from post-war profiteering if the banks had begun to scrutinize loans and regulate them with a firm hand BEFORE the profiteering impulse got beyond control, The net earnings of the Federal.Reserve banks in 1918 were at the rate of 72.6 per cent. on an aggre- gate average paid-in capital of $76,342,000. Net earnings for 1919 rose to 129 per cent.—rep- resenting profits which the Federal Reserve banks were not required to earn and for which there was no occasion. F These profits furnish further evidence of how the Federal Reserve Board was swept away in a current it should have checked, DRY ERA FINE—FOR BRAZIL. N ONE place, at least, the Bighteenth Amendment is heartily approved. Brazil undoubtedly favors National Prohibition— for the United States, This is a reasonable conclusion to draw from figures compiled by the National City Bank. Brazil is the principal producer of coffee, and the Statistical sharps report that the United States is now paying three times as much money for a half more than the pre-Prohibition quantity of coffee consumed, Brazil is gelting most of this $1,000,000-a-day, payment for coffee. Before Prohibition the United States consumed approximately a billion pounds of coffee annually. Now it is consuming at the rate of a billion and a half pounds. The price when beer was a competing drink was less than 10 cents a pound. Now it is nearly 23 cents a pound. EVEN ay fie ING WORLD, FRIDAY rai FROM EVENING WORLD READERS What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn’s it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in @ couple of hundred? There ts fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words, Take time to be brief. — Hiram Waited in Vain. ‘To the Eatitor of The Brening Wortd: As a matter of long distance observation [ have concluded that Hiram Johneon ali through 1916 stood ready to support the candidate who ‘could show spocial fitness to be President as between Woodrow Wil- son and Charles E. Hughes. He waited for Charles E, Hughes until there was no sense in waiting, and thus re-enforced the Progressive point of ded an ve now Satoged and gathering popular suppor’ a GEORGE W. LIPPERT, New York, May 19, 1920. Where Ie Justice? ‘To "be Puitor of The Brening Workd : A man who kills one wife is elec- trocuted, but to kill nine wives, as did Bluebeard Watson, carries only a life oewhere, is the fustioe? Sige CONSTANT READER. Hospita: Care. "To the Riiter of The Drening Wortd ; I did not have the pleasure of read- ing Charles E. Shuman’s letter on “Hospital Hospi ." but I noticed “Pratned perge'a letter, Of course boosts the hospi Seoon keeper boost his place of em- ployment. ving spent several weeks as & tree patient in a public ward, my wife also having spent several months in a “ward,” we could wrile a book on the inhumanity rampant iu these wards that is practised by nurses, internes and orderlies, I shall sum it all up in a few words. If I had a@ pet dog and it was sick I should not send it to a hospital for human beings. I'd shoot.it, As for myself I'd rather be dead home than alive in a public ward of a hospital. ‘Take that, Miss Trained Nurve, and read it to your superiors. Next to a prison the most abhorrent place w me is @ charitable institution, Com- ing from a victim my words should have equal it ich rita those who sed the victims, shat JULIUS REICH. 121 Vermilyea Avenue, New York. Picking the Picker, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: I quite agree with “M. A.” on those heartless brutes who pick the feathers of live chickens. Let us sug- gest a cure for this chicken picker, Instead of going to the barber to get shaved he should let some one take him and pull the beard off his face hair by hair. After he expe- rienced this pain Iam sure he would be more merciful to the chickens, ETTA GRAY. ‘Center Moriches, L- I., May 17, 1920, Animals Forgotten. To the Watitor of The Brening World: 1 bave just read the letter signed “Helen King.” This good lady tells The Evening World that there certainly is a law inst cruelty to animals. Does Miss King kn also laws nt block in the city? Washington is strong on making laws, but slow on the enforcement of same. Let Miss King go to Lincoln Square and jook at the drinking fountain which bears the 8. P. C, A. coat-of- arms. This is how I found it on Tuesday, May 11: No water at all turned on, The drinking places for horses was full of filthy matter. The places at the sides meant for dogs and smal animals are filled with cement. It is time the Hamane Society did its. duty and also time the Church started to preach a little kindness and leave its nose out of the work- ingman’s beer glass. KENNETH GORDON 429 West 2ist Street, Indorses Postal Raise. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: I wish to express my sympathy with the postal employees in their fight for increased wages. I have considerable dealings with postal em- ployees in my daily business afafirs and it seems a pity that #o fine a body of men should not be paid a liv- ing scale of wages for the work they perform. ‘These men work all hours of night and day and perform their dutics | under hardships the public never stops to realize. Their officials, from | my understandings with these men, ' are nothing more than slave drivers, and the majority of them should be under lock and key instead of mingling with the public, One look at any one of the men in the postal service is sufficient to sat- isfy me that it cértainiy must be a hardship to these men to undergo this daily routine that they ‘do. I think that @ few more dollars to these men would help, and\I hope as a daily reader of your paper you will try to help these men in their fight for an increase in salary. A DAILY READER, 260 Broadway, May 18, 1920. “The Navy Took Them Over.” "To the Bititor of The Drening World: In The Evening World of May 18 I chanced to read:a letter signed by Ar- thur G. J. Whitehouse, Lavingtton, N. J. This letter is to correct a statement as regards the number or rather the percentage of American troops trans- ported to either France, England or aay, during the recent’ World War. Either Mr. Whitehouse is very much misinformed or else he has been read- ing some statement by an Engtish na- val officer or some statement written by the English press. Here are some facts and figures: The number of United States troops in France on Nov. 11, 1918, was approxi- mately 2,000,000. ‘The U. 8. transport Leviathan was capable of carrying 10,000 men each trip and some trips whe carried as high as 15,000. ie ship made at least ten trips to France and Eng- Jand, That would be 100,000 men that ‘that fe STABLES, May 15, 1920. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Coprright, 1990, by John Bike.) SAVE YOUR HEALTH FOR FUTURE USE. Your most productive years ought to be those after forty. You will know more then than you do now. More im- portant still, other people will know that you know more, You can do better work, make more money, achieve greater reputation after your mental faculties are fully de- veloped. And they seldom are fully developed till a man passes his fortieth year. A HEALTHY man of forty or more has an excellent chance in the world. An unhealthy man has no chance at all. Medical specialists get his money if he has any. The fear of dying keeps him from success if he has not already attained it. The men who are doing the big things in the world are the HEALTHY men who have passed twa score years. The world pays little attention to men of broken health, They will never be winners, and the world is interested only in winners. ‘ It is too late to mend broken health at forty. You may patch up the old machine so that it will function fairly well, but it will never have the same old energy. The time to build health for middie age is in youth. And the way to do it is to follow the simple rules that any physician will lay down. Take plenty of exercise, as much of it as possible in the fresh air. This does not mean to ntglect your business for golf or tennis. Either of these taken in moderation is good. Taken in exeess they check mental development. You will find that out in ten minutes spent on a country club porch with a crowd of men who are averaddicted to outdoor sports, The clam digger gets lots of outdoor exercise, but he stays a clam digger through life. Add intelligent diet to your exercise. Eat less than you have been eating—particularly less meat, Drink little or nothing. Confine your smoking to a cigar after meals. Bathe every morning. That will help to keep colds away. And the result of every cold will return to plague you after forty. By taking care of your health now you will have a re- serve stock after forty. And that is the time you will be able to use it to the most profitable advantage. trips across. Our average was 2,000 each trip, which would make 16,000 men which our ship landed safely. Each time we went across there was never less than eleven ships in the convoy, and out of the eleven shipy there was only one or two others that carried as small a complement as we did. I and quite a few others on nu- merous occasions would figure out the number of men that were in the con- voy that we were in. ere is a list of just one of the con- yoys of which I happened to be a mem~- President Grant, 5,000; George Washington, 6,000; Rhyn 4,000; Matotka, 4,000; President Lin- coln (one trip), 5,000; Covington (one alb, 6,000; Wilhelm~ land. The figures herein I mentio: @ part accounted for almost 25 were and convoys were protected escort duty to ou: ina, 2,000; Lenape, | France, accompanied our de- 2,000; & total of 42,000| stroyers, IR each trip. I was 2 each, Ph. 1, U. & M ‘Vor of thie sine, phus the Leviathan’s 100,000 rt makes 436,000, I could mention Posto other American ships that made in- numerable trips to France and pea: mn in the convoys of which my ship waa per cent. not to mention the other convoys of which the above ships part. Mr. Whitehouse states that our ships by the Royal Navy. There is another point in which he is all wrong. I do not say that the Royal Navy did not do any ir but transports, 1| proud can say this much, that on all the trips} ment “di that I made J only saw one English | eome comfort to know,” it adds,” that destroyer come out from the coast of| at any rate the profit Time Said “Every Class of People Is Too Eager for Quick Profit to Be Willing to Enjoy the Prosperity That Comes From Taking the Legitimate Profit From the Ma ture Product.” ' By Stanley Mitchell. Corre Now Torr Sraiog Wonks IGHT years ago, before any one dreamed we would have 4@ workd war on which to blame our troubles, James Wilspn of Iowa, then Secretary of Agriculture in President Taft's Cabinet, predicted the present era of high prices and profiteering and gave me his expla- nation for it Mr. Wilson was on his way back to Washington after a short visit in Chicago, I jumped on his train and rode a couple of stations on the chance I could get a “story” from. him, on just what topic I did not know. “I have a story, but no one will lis- ten to it,” Mr. Wilson said. “It ise story about the calves the stock men are slaughtering for veal. They get & high price for the veal, but they will not have any beet to sell later on. “People all over the country an do- ing the same thing. Merchants taw- yers, politicians, laboring men, iank- the veal of the present. are too eager for a big, aoik prone te be enjoy the that tion, disarrang: make ‘still higher prices, which will create even more discontent. “Greedy men who will control Necessities of life are available demand extortionate profits” (the word profiteer had not been coined in 1912) “and this will add to the con- fusion. “This will not stop until we as @ nation stop killing our calves and be- gin to raise beef again. There will be pessimists who will say the calves have all been killed by that time, but IT am an old man and I think there ‘will be a few found for @ fresh start.” U. S. S. Richmond’s Brave Record. To the Rditor af The Brening Word: I saw in your edition of the Ith inst. an account of the burning of the U. 8. 8S, Richmond at Eastport, Me, to obtain the metal that remained in her hull. ‘The Richmond was taunched at the Navy Yard at Norfolk, Va, in Janu- ary, 1860, I was a boy, fourteen years of age, at that timé and was present at the launching, and as I saw het glide into the water ehe looked 80° Deautiful to me that I fell in love with her, and determined then and there to join her, ‘The Richmond was the first wooden ship that gave battle to an ironclad. In October, 1861, she was attacked by the ironclad ram Manassas and five other armed vessels of the Confed- erates at the head of the paases lead- ing from the Mississippi River, and dofeated the ram and prevented the five armed vessels from getting out of the river, and several blockade running eteamers aleo. In the following November she was im @ battle at Fla., and to anchor in front of Rea, The Richmond was in ‘battle from 10 o'clock A. M. until 7 o'clock P, M. ‘When Admiral Farragut formed his fleet he selected the Richmond to be his right-hand ship, next to the Hart- ford, his flagship, and had the Rich- mond with him in ‘patties. SE a 85 coming generations. I further understand. that her log from the time of her launching (1860) been lost, The and was under fire more freq than any other wooden vessel in the I do hope that there are men and ‘women in our country whose patri- otic feelings will induce Congress to save the Hartford, Admirals \p, from the @ad fate of the CHAS. H. SHEPHERD, D. D. 8., Signal Boy of the United States Sloop of War Richmond. No. 115 West 8ist Street, New York City. The Price of Peace. HE total cost of the Britisn Dele- gation to the Peace Conference amounted to £503,368 for ten months, says the Halifax Morning Chronicle, The delegation numbered 524, The cost of hiring accommoda- tion and providing food and service came to £293,584, or nearly £560 a head. Thus, each of the delegation cost on the average, including typ- ists, messengers, and so on, £56 a month, or £18 @ week. This for board and panne galy, and exchi- Go the thing well.” “It is 8 F diture went to an es pi i * 4 wre <P Ls