The evening world. Newspaper, June 3, 1920, Page 26

‘ABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Daily Bxcept Gunday by the Press Publishing Nos. 53 to 63 Park Row, New York. President, / SHAW, Treamy PUL rer, Jr. Bocretary. ‘ GOV. ALLEN’S BIAS. , MUNSEY’S morning newspaper of com- : plicated name cites with approval a para- graph by Henry J. Allen as evidence that “there an be no doubt of the solidity of Henry J. Allen's ) Mr. Allen says: “The question of the hour is as to whether this Government shall be regulated by all the people ‘Under the safeguard of constitutional law or ‘whether it shall be regulated by the hard-and- Ls fast unioniem driven forward by radical and un- bs American labor leaders.” ‘ i ‘| Here» is quite enough to explain Organized La- * Bor’s opposition to Mr. Allen and his industrial by 4 i court plans. "This sentence reveals Mr. Allen's 'mental bias and _ the angle from which he is attacking the problem. ~~ Gov. Allen shows a lack of appreciation of the _ real’ industrial problem when by implication he_ if brands all leaders of unionism as “radical and un- ” if 5 of the questions of the hour is the contest "> between constructive American leaders and the rad- feals in the union ranks. Those too blind or too prejudiced to see this are working more in the interests of the radicals than they are against the interests of the industrial states- “men in the union ranks. Moreover, the advocacy of the labor court idea "by the unidn haters is a source of embarrassment to +» the real friends of labor who are endeavoring to _ Strengthen sentiment in favor of a High Court of Andustry, acceptable both to employers and em- “plloyees, and backed by the invincible power of pub- lic opinion instead of by the force of the State. There is the danger that the Allen idea and the ‘Wilson idea of judicial determination of industrial disputes may become confused in the minds of the 's It's @ sorry pass when the only thing left . between the Republican Party and loss of vir- ‘tue is Boles Penrose, JAIL THE PROFITEERS. 'N the case of the first profiteer convicted under the Lever Law in New York City, the fine’ assessed _yesterday was $1,000. Testimony indicated that the profit to the “in the illegal transaction was $2,000. The lenience of the vourt is almost incompre- As a warning to other profiteers such a _ fine is of negligible value. + For those who do not value a good name and honorable business reputation, a fine amounting to only a fraction of the profits will not be a deter- erent from further profiteering. _, The conscienceless profiteer would; reason in this wise: * “Take all I can get. Then iy the Government happens ta jind out I will split the projit and be ahead anyway. In all probability I will not get caught and then I'll have the nice fat profits all to myself. . I'll take all I can get.” The Lever Law provides for jail sentences as well fines. Atlanta is the proper place for convicted profiteers. —- DEMAGOGICALLY VAGUE. @ ENATOR JOHNSON continues to tell what he y intends to do when he becomes President. ‘ One of the subjects on which he is most earnest _ “ts the High Cost of Living. \ firm \ _ It is a serious subject, and worthy of earnest con- ‘sideration, but it needs to be considered as a thing , of specific parts, not as a smooth and easily disposed of whole. : * Senator Johnson is quite certain that the League of Nations and the High Cost of Living will be the ; 4 -two leading issues in the campaign. Very likely he 2 ie Sides is sitting to discuss the League «ef Nations in detail and the H, C- of L. in general. ~ But wouldn’t it be more satisfactory to the voters be would discuss the League in general gpd the C of L. in detail? Just what does Mr. Johnson propose to do to lower living costs? What specific changes would fe make? What laws are needed? What system ‘ef taxation does he propose? How about the tariff that helps the Woollen Trustepile up profits? _. Thus far the California Senator has been dema- BETTER SETTLE IT NOW, ; N APPROPRIATION BILL which includes a measure of relief for underpaid postal work- ‘ers is before Congress. Probably it will pass. _ Even a small increase ranging from 10 to 20 per cent. in most classes will be welcome, lit seems, however, that postal workers are due “to duplidate the experience of the New York teach- fs, who asked for fair treatment and got only a i the first year and were forced either to » active agitation for the ade- A pr aacane senond, ¥ demoralized, that skilled workers will be forced into other lines of work. ‘ Before another session of Congress public opin-- ion will be sufficiently aroused to force the passage of the pay scale which justice would now dictate. Congress had far better settle the matter now with something approaching justice to all concerned. A FULL. DEFENSE. EVERSING the decisions of lower Federal Courts, the United States Supreme Court decrees that this city may intervene and defend the interest of its citizens against the attempt of the Consolidated Gas Company to have the 80-cent gas rate declared confiscatory. ; The importance of this decision to the gas-con- suming public may be measured by the strenuous- ness of the efforts that have been made to keep the city out of court. Corporation Counsel O’Brien will now have the opportunity, for which he has stoutly contended, to present the public’s side of the case, backed by every available fact, figure and argument to show ‘that the 80-cent rate continues to be high enough to play a reasonable rate of return on investment. When the Consolidated Gas Company is offer- ing bonds for sale, its story, as The Evening World has pointed out, is utterly unlike the sad one it tells in court when it seeks to advance the rates it charges consumers, When he is selling bonds, President Cortelyou of the Consolidated Gas Company is all confidence and cheer: “The figures thus far available indicate net earnings of the system in 1919, after operating expenses, taxes, &c. (including $3,058,609 for re- newal and replacement reserve), of $13,643,549, or an amount over twice the annual interest on the funded and other debts of the system with the public, including that jon the $25,000,000 7 per cent, convertible bondé and the dividends paid to minority stock of subsidiaries. “The large equity over and above the $25,000,- 000 five-year secured 7 per cent. convertible bonds is represented by the $100,000,000 common capital stock outstanding, on which regular div- idends have been paid for thirty-five years, the present rate being 7 per cent. per annum.” Not a bad record, viewed in this light. Is it otherwise than fair that the City of New York should be able to make certain some of the same light is available when the Consolidated Gas Company makes its “poor mouth” in court? It is not a question of the Consolidated Gas Com- pany alone. Upward of half a dozen other gas corporations are eager to see the 80-Cent Gas Law thrown into the discard—which would mean in each case higher gas rates for some thousands and tens of thousands of gas consumers in various sections of Greater New York. The 80-Cent Gas Law was passed fourteen years ago for the people’s protection. The United States Supreme Court rules that when it is proposed to withdraw that protection the people of New-York are entitled to a full defense. ITS CHOICEST FRUIT? HIS city is to beat its own world record for luxurious apartment houses with a new $6,000,000 Park Avenue structure guaranteed to surpass anything yet achieved in the way of gilt- edge lodging for millionaires. °] Something to be proud of. But will it wholly compensate for the backward- ness of New York in encouraging provision of more and better lodgings for its millions who are many degrees removed from the millionaire class? There might be something to boast of also in the largest number of comfortable, sanitary homes at low rents to be found jn any great city. Is New York’s study of the housing problem to bear its choicest fruit in the erection of ,the costliest and most gorgeous apartment house that ever of- fered thousand-dollar-a-week . lodging to the wealthy? WHERE LEEWAY LOSES. RITERS for daily newspapers may sometimes envy their brethren of the periodicals who have more leeway in the matter of time for prepar- ing articles. However, there are “compensations, For example, in the current issue of Collier's, Lowell Mellett makes some interesting prognostica- tions in regard to the Republican Presidential race, He divides the Republican candidates’ into two classes, those who believe that the man should seek the office and those who believe that the dignity of the office is such that no man should seek it, that . the office should seek the man. In the first class he, lists Wood, Johnson, Harding and Poindexter. Lowden, Coofidge, Allen and Sproul are his ex- amples of the second class. Here appears the disadvantage of writing some time in advance of publication. How could Mr. Mellett guess that his judgment of Gov. Lowdén would be so musty before the public read his words? How could he guess that Goy, Lowden was so insistent ‘onthe office seeking him that he was will- ing to let it seek not only him but some 414,000 pf his perfectly good dollars? u : Without a doubt some of the writers who have all the time in the world sometimes have too much to say much in a few words. Take Johnson In ©: ia, 1 ‘To the Bditor of The Evening World: | As a resident of California I am not surprised that the people of other States should misunderstand the po- Utieal’ conditions here so far as they | affected the late primary in this) State. Johnson's friends in this State have been working directly and indi- rectly for several years to get him) pominated fpr the Presidency: Every- thing that Johnson as Governor and United States Senator could do to that end was done. Every newspaper that cou be corralled was corralled. Every news- paper of any size in San Francisco was used to boost the Johnson yote. In ‘the whole State there was only one large dally paper working for Hoover, and that one was in Los An- geles County, one of the two most populous counties, and that county gave Hoover a majority of 1,600. The Johnson boosters were ve! active for months previous to the primary, while the Hoover men were only working in a quiet way for a few weeks. It is well known here that more than 100,000 Republigans in this State would not vote for Johnson for President and that more than 60,- 000 Democrats would yote for Hoover, E. T. Stockton, Cal., May 27, 1920. From @ Johnson Supporter. To the Bitar of The Evectng World: Your stupid and prejudicial attack upon Hiram Johnson smacks of the rankest sort of wanton lying about public men that has ever been at- tempted by a bigoted partisan, If you were not so hypocritical you would soon find out that Johnson be- leves in principles that the majority of the thinking and progresive Ameri- cans believe in, yet you have the au- dacity not only to question his mo- tives but his sincerity. Whatever Hiram Johnson has done during his brief public career he has done to benefit the mass of the people. Whatever he has said tt was to show the right from the wrong path for the mass of the people to take, and neither reactionaries, corrupt politicians, nor prostituted newspapers, all of them puppets of the profiteering moneyed interest, will impede the progress of Hiram Johnson in becoming the’ next President of the United States, Yours tor Hiram Johnson, HBPRMAN ARNOFF. New York, June 1, 1920, White Collar Freemen, To the Baitor of The Evening World: ‘Angwering one Ralph Reid in re- ‘gard to organizing the office workers, I would say he {s right, It ts utterly impossible to organize any set of brain workers, as they have too much brain to work under the padrone or union system, All he says about the fy | they may be or seem. What «iad of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives pou the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ts fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying time to be brief. hands with a union delegate before his shop's crew. Office workers also know that | unionism is impossible among them because brains count, which would not exist if they were unionized As they are now unorganized, they cannot be sold out by crooked union | officials and have no dues to pav to be stolen by dishonest union officers. They are free and white and can work where they please without being dictated to by a union, They zet their vacation each year and get paid work or play, sick or well. | EBEN HOGAN, ex-Union Man. | New York, June 1, 1920, Approves Evening World Pol ‘To the Editor of The Brening World: The more I read The Evening World the more I like it and the more respect 1 have for its teachings and advice. It calls a spade a spade. Never seems to shrink where the people's interests are concerned, no matter how small I have absolutely no desire to be- ttle all the other evening news- papers that I read; but when I want to read an editorial that has a “punch” to it, one that has the safe, sane and sound ring to it, and “as plain as the nose on your face” explanation as to how the profiteers and the cheap! gougers are unserupulously putting it over on the people, I read The Eve- ning World. Then again, I read The Eventng | World because it puts the harpoon into the body of crookedness so deeply that it makes the gang that deals in this commodity sit up and take notice | and in many instances plead for | meroy, All of which is sure in the interésts of justice, fair play and square deal. That's why I read The Evening World, because I favor the same principles at all times. I mean every word that I have writ, ten and I am only sorry that I can- not express myself in stronger lan- guage than I have to say a few good words for a “good people's papor’— The Evening World. More power to it, 1s the feast I can wish it, FREDERIC G. W. SIGRIST, Hotel Sinclair, May 28, 1920, The Specul To the Editor of The Evening World: The countfy has been and is going through a carnival of high prices due to hoarding of foods How is the hoarding effected? “By means of bank loans. The bank movement now on foot to force the speculators to throw the goods on the market shows the great power of the banks’ to do two things: Open the game and end it Without the aid of bank loans the hoarding of foodstuffs would not be delight of some over the misfortune their co-workers may be true, but possible, for the steady pressure of oO put them in producer borrow at a bank on the warehouse receipts. the purchase price, but on the mar- ket value, which is fixed in the ex- changes controlled by the speculators, ‘The speculator employs the money thus borrowed in buying more eggs, butter, until borrowing and succeeded in carrying & pyramid of eggs, &c., out of ail fuir proportion to his own capital. In other words, his dealings are on a m: somewhat similar to a’ Wall purchase of stock: lator supplies 10 per cent, and a baak supplies the other 90. Just “amell a mouse. assuring. realize it hi end the sp The sufficlenuly and seeing the handwrt ing of public unheaval on the wall, (products to find a market would over- whelm speculators, A. with Sah Tae oF ak ape ve Rab ama Pave. are engaged in throwing a “tub to a whale.” AEN Ale AEM HH OTA AR 6 UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Coperight, 1920, by John Blake.) *"" “GETTING OVER THE BUNKERS. “Difficulties,” said Epictetus, “are things that show what men are.” Nothing that can be done easily is worth doing. Without bunkers, the little artificial barriers to the progress of the ball, golf would be a dull and an uninterest- ing game. The bunkers supply the difficulties. .The difficulties supply the interest. And the fact that several million people prefer golf to any other form of employment shows that there is plenty of interest. Golf is a good physical exercise and good mental exer- cise. It is especially good mental exercise, for it teaches the player the importance of mastering difficulties. Once ‘he learns to get his ball over the bunkers and clear of the traps he has smooth going. And the bunkers and traps are just about as numerous in golf as they are in life, and just about as troublesome. Training and education for your life work is not for the - purpose of helping you over the easy places. Its purpose is to enable you to master the difficulties. ' Concentrate on the difficulties, and the rest will be easy. Ning-tenths of your progress will be made with little Gouble, provided you know how to get through the other tenth, The difficulties are there. They cannot be evaded. No pilot, however skilful, can calm the the waves subside. He must learn to navigate in spite of wind or waves. Once he fearns that, the plain sailing will take care of itself, Begin your work by expecting difficulties and how to meet them, Get your ball over the bunkers. fairgreen will be pleasant going. This isn’t a hard or a cruel world. But through it successfully unless you learn at th. cool head in combating its troubles and e your efforts dn overcoming them, They must be. got over. tempest or bid learning and the you will not get e start to keep a oncentrating all a warehouse, cargo, or is only a small pay the price, and only another camouflage? Government control may be undesirable, but pinching and want undesirable. wealth in the earth, oil, coal, &c. The loan is based not on &e., borrowing on them he has reached his Mmit of the skies? St , where the specu- stand between producer sumer, now the banke begin to The outlook is not America has waked up to do something to 's' reign of terro! haying profits pays? New York, June 1, 192 ‘Try the ¥. M. G A, Ee To the Baitor of The Brening World ; enders, Query: Will acti as "Sled Lig tS ty | iootansye the parts ye? orn ea the announcemen virtuous Intention to let the ‘sppoue lator go—hook, line, bob and sinker— part of the gume of or operation 60 are The almost entirely in private ownerehip, Is there any better reason for that than the ownership of the air we breathe and the rain that comes from Is there any good reason for the existence of the robber barons who and con- who check the flaw of the goods, and beat the producer in what he géts and the consumer in what he S. R. Dz Please advise me whether there is any school where young man can} what he meant, ‘ and how to run a x The Love Storie of Great Novels ena Tories | Albert Payson Terhune | TTAt ee rn in No. 89—THE WETHERELL AFFAIR, by J.W. De Forest. | Edward Wetherell was fond of a | food time. In the eyes of his strict | old uncle, Judge Jabez Wetherell, the young man was a scapegrace. But there was plenty of good in Edward. He merely lacked some great exper!- ence to bring it out, On the way back from a tour of Europe, the youth met Nestoria Ber- nard, a girl of great charm and in- no¢ence. And at once the two were tremendously attracted toward each other, Nestoria was on her way to visit | at Judge Wetherell’s home. And she did not look forward with fenr to the old Judge's sternly puritanic ways jane and Edward were deeply in love by the time they regched the Weth- erell mansion, And there, ‘Edward | promptly found trouble awatting him. The Judge was very rich. Edward was his nearest of kin and his natural heir, But the old ‘fellow dis- @pproved so strongly of Edward's wildness that there was danger he , Might change his will and leave his | fortune elsewhere, One night, late, Judge Wetherel! sat rewriting his will, Ab he sat | there, he was murdered, and the will was stolen, Thus, his wealth descended directly to Edward—the only person, pre- sumably, who profited by hjs death and who could have been harmed by the murdered man’s continued life. Nestoria, on the night of the kill- ing, had had a fleeting glimpse of the murderer, She was certain she rec- | ognized him to be Edward, To keep from testifying against | the man she loved, as well as to get | as far away from him as possible, Nestoria’ fled to New York and there hid herself so carefully that all at- |tempts to find her failed. | In the dark days of suspicion and | of heartbreak that tollowed Nes- toria’s flight, a great change came over Edward Wetherll, Under the , strain, his character steadied and strengthened. He set himself to work to clear his name of any taint of guilt and to find his lost sweetheart. } "At last the crime of kifling Judge Jabez Wetherell was fastened upon a foreign adventurer—one Count P’ oski—who bore a startling rese blance to Bdward. By the proving of the real mur- derer’s guilt, Edward'a; name was triumphantly cleared. Next came the renewed search for \Nestoria Bernard. For a long time this quest was fruitless, But, after many weeks, he was so fortunate as to hit upon a clue. Following this up, he dis- covered Nestoria, . * ' Overjoyed at his innocence, she gladly consented to reward his dreary waiting by marrying hij —— Ten-Minute Studies - of New York City Government. [OOPUTtE ee Fort reine Wonk) By Willis Brooks Hawkins. Ths is the third article of axertes defining the duties of the adminis- trative and legislative officers and boards of the New York City Government. The President of the Board of Aldermen. HIS official, besides presiding over the Board of Aldermen, ts | an important member of the | Board of Estimate and Apportion- ment, having, "ke the Mayor and the Comptroller, three votes in a total of sixteen, and having a staff of his own for the independent investiga- | tion of all matters upon which’ he is required to vote, Also he is a mem- ‘ber of the Sinking Fund Commission and of the Armory Board, During the Mayor's illness or ab- ‘sence from the city the President of the Board of Aldermen betomes Act- | ing Mayor, and in case of vacancy in that office he acts as Mayor until the | end of the year in which the Mayor's successor is elected. A vacancy in the office of President of the Board | of Aldermen is filled for the unex- | pired portion of the term by a ma- | jority vote of all members of the | board, but the person so elected must | be of the same political party as his | predecessor. : | "rhe President of the Board of Al- | dermen ‘is elected by the city at | large for four years, the present term | expiring Dec. 31, 1921. His salary ts | $7,600 a year. ‘The present incumbent [is Fiorello H. La Guardia, a Repub- ‘ican, of No. 29 Charles’ Street. He | was’ elected to fill the unexpired term of Alfred E. Smith, who re- signed to become Governor of the State. President La Guardia's office is in the east wing of the City Hall His immediate staff consists of .°.1- erick Oppikofer, assistant to the Pros- ident; Frank K. Bowers, examiner; William O'Connor, Legislative Sy re- tary, and Charlotte Delafleld, See- retary to the President, Pans abe a SIMPLY , OVERWHELMED HIM. P one of the big’ London hotels px there is a page boy who in his spare moments 1s much given to the study of the best English literature! ‘ A few days ago he pald his wages with a small fine deducted for | some breach of regulations. Indig- nant, the. boy, said to the manager: “Sit, if you should ever find It within the scope of your jurisdictiion to levy an assessment on my wage for some trivial act alleged to have been committed by myself at some inop- portune moment in the stress of one's avocation I would suggest that you refrain from exercising that be roga- tive, The failure to do so, would of necessity force me to tender my res. ignation.” The manager, tottering, reached a chair and in gasps asked the boy “In other words; if you fine me chuck the job!” said the Meh ie ye hcl eee