The evening world. Newspaper, June 10, 1920, Page 26

Geasbany, Nos, 3 to 3 Park 2 PULITZER, President ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, PULITZER, Jr., Sec! . THE RIGHT TO STRIKE. N advocating industrial planks for party plat- forms spokesmen of employers and employees will go too far, will be actuated by partisan bias and by selfish considerations, | Mr. Gontpers insists on the right to strike. Em- ployers urge restrictions and prohibitions, | fn either case, ground for criticism lies in the failure of ihe advocates to qualify their words. ~ }, Each takes an extreme position. There is a middle ground which each seeks to avoid. The test of slavery is the denial of the wltimate a) right to strike, not “legislation which compels the "wage earners to submit their grievances to courts” _,\Whidh Mr, Gompers opposes. ~“t’ ‘Without denying the ultimate right to strike it Should be possible to impose an obligation to delay “* the Strike until such time as the Government shall gol ‘The sullimate tight to quit work after other *~-nameans have failed insures the worker against serf- ae. fom, The obligation to delay the strike until the ‘Sy pause has been heard and the facts investigated and , Made public protects the public. ; fe} Punishments which the industrial court may’ im- = should not be directed against striking, but 2 her against the calling of strikes as a first and hasty resort before the merits of the case have been 2° tnvestigated, ™) Here is the middle ground which the spokesmen t . “of two of the interested parties avoid, : ‘ «. In this middle ground is found the next step in a8 the progressive evolution of labor relations, . This 88-45 the angle which the spokesmen of the third party, Be, the public, must bring into perspective. ‘ae: ‘ ——————EE linia: : THE DUEL. dAys NEW YORK bank recently demonstrated the 28. efficacy of a new defense against bank ani robbers, ‘A swindler attempted to run out of the bank. Be- sm fore he reached the door an officer of the bank 2 pressed a button and a metal door swung into place, be cutting off all egress from the bank, The fugitive pe Was stopped. Had he been an armed hold-up he ees Would havé been trapped. He could not have es- *° caped by shootine his way out. € “\" Officers of other banks will be, interested woooln the device as a safeguard against hold-ups. So, sh too, will efterprising members of the stick-up gangs, “who prefer to know the odds against them and the “difficulties to be overcome, * Keen brains were needed to perfect the system. __ Keen brains will immediately set to work to con- ®* found the new protective device, In the course of pe time a counter attack will be developed and tried mp wout. “}> Safeguarding valuables causes a continuous duel ve of wits, The unbreakable strong box is unbreak- *ewable only until it is broken, Banks and burglars sap Wage a contest similar to that between gunmakers and armor plate manufacturers, First one then the ‘other wins for a time, only to lose the advantage Aster, “ive WHY NOT LONG AGO? »-CQETTLEMENT of the industrial disputes which ®°) have resulted in the transportation tangles on ~ | .Neéw York's water front seems more promising than ' «Set any previous time. Cam. AN opinion by Attorney General Palmer holds ue. that the Adamson law applies to the privately owned equipment used by the Erie in distributing freight *** gn fhe harbor. Here was the genesis of a considerable share of the recent trouble. The striking lightermen were “reinforced by allied workers. The tangle has ex- tended until it has come perilously close to precipi- tating a general industrial war in the city. If this opinion leads to industrial peave, well and Sone oo er, good, . But in the mean time it is only natural to inquire ~ ‘why so simple a remedy was not invoked long ago, «<- why the opinion was so long delayed. es! _ 1's it merely another example of the Attorney sini General fomenting disorder in order that he can ng point with fear to the bloody color of the red flag- boda Ve THE TRUTH NOT IN HIM. 20k apogee it was necessary for Senator Lodge ; ’. to refer to the tariff as a sop to the Be Gt. Republican orthodox who would have been unable «ito recognize his effort as a Republican keynote ‘without a reiteration of the protective principle, Complete omission of the tariff would have been too sudden a revelation to the work- &&. men “protected against the pauper labor of Europe.” Q o Senator Lodge contented himself by saying: | “Matiy vital economic measures and espe- Oy Free Trader of Socialistic prociivities in the White House, To accomplish such measures we must have, as we intend to have, a Repub- Nean President tn sympathy with a Republican House and Senate,” "Twas not ever thus, The Senate has not always refrained from the gestures of tariff-making, even when faced with vertain defeat of the measure. In 1887, for example, a Republican Senate passed a tariff measure as a reply to the Democratic Mills bill which followed the recommendations of Presi- dent Cleveland, There was no possible chance that the bill would become law. It did serve, however, to define the Republican position on the tariff for the campaign of 1888, in which the tariff was the dominant issue, It also served as the foundation for the McKinley bill of 1890, The Senate could have done as much this ses- sion. Boies Penrose, veteran keeper of the sacred calf of protection, was Chairman of the Committee on Finance, He could have caused the introduction of protective tariff legislation had he been so minded. But neither Senator Penrose nor Senator Lodge is so foolish as to believe in increased protection. He does not commit the party. If he had, the pluto- cratic Blackstone Hotel conference would have reg- istered a speedy veto, Conditions have changed. Senator Lodge was talking clap-trap and he knew it. WHOSE CONVENTION ? 4 Bars number of delegates gathered in Chicago to nominate a Republican candidate for Presi- dent is 982, : Only eighteen less than one thousand in a body which is—theoretically, at least—representative, and which must by parliamentary methods perform a highly responsible task of selection supposed to rep- resent the preponderant judgment and wishes of some millions of voters, No deliberative assembly in the world approaches in size a national party convention in the United States. The total present membership of the House of Representatives is 433. The British House of Com- mons has seats for only 400. The French Chamber of Deputies numbers about 600. For working pur- poses, these totals are never present at any one sitting, Nine hundred and eighty-two delegates are as- sembled at Chicago and 982 votes will be cast on the more important questions submitted fo the con- vention, . “In all legislative assemblies,” noted Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist, “the greater the number comprising them may be, the fewer will be the men who will in fact direct their proceedings.” “The larger the number, the greater will be the proportion of members of limited informa- tion and weak capacities, Now it is precisely on characters of this description that the elo- quence and address of the few are known to act with all their force. “In the ancient republics, where the whole body of the people assembled in person, a single orator or an artful statesman was gen- erally seen to rule with as complete a sway as if a sceptre had been placed in his single hand. “On the same principle, the more multitu- dinous a representative assembly may be ren- “dered, the more it will partake of the infirm- ities incident to collective meetings of the peo- ple. Ignorance will be the dupe of.cunning and passion the slave of sophistry and declamation. “The people can, never err more than in supposing that by multiplying their repre- sentatives beyond a certain limit they strengthen the barrier against the government of a few.” Hamilton no more foresaw party conVentions as we know them than ‘he foresaw the decline of ora- tory and the era of the telegraph, the telephone and the perfected political boss. , » But he uttered a principle and a warning that he would be the first to turn back to were-he to see a 1920 Republican Convention composed of: 982 delegates not one of whom is discussed save as a vote that some potent person or other can “control’’ and “deliver,” while the biggest directing force of the whole assembly sits at the end of a long-distance telephone wire in an invalid’s chair in Philadelphia, Theories aside, whose convention is it? AT THE BEGINNING OF A PERFECT DAY, ' (From Life.) (The scene is laid in the office of the Attorney General.) / ‘The great man enters, “Has my usual prediction that prices are about to come down been prepared?” “It has,” replied the hired drudge. “Have you sent out a notice to the newspapers that an uprising of Reds is likely to occur some time be- fore high noon to-morrow?" ‘ “It ts done.” “Have you prepared my semi-weekly announcement that we expect to get after the profiteers in due course of time and annoy them greatly?” “I have.” “Then hand me my bag and I'll take a turn around the golf links in order to keep myself in condition for the frightful strain J am under.” _ THE EV ENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 14 By J. H. Cassel . 1920, by The ‘Press Publishing Co, Corrie. Net York, Brening. World) UNCOMMON SENSE © By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) YOU CAN’T DIGEST A STONE, Since the beginning of time men have wasted millions of years of energy in trying to solve the unknowable. The mysteries of life and death, the puzzle of space, these things are beyond the grasp of the human mind. Let them alone. There is abundant knowledge that can be learned, useful knowledge that will help you with your career. Study that kind of knowledge. your mind can digest. Take it in abundance. to get it. But do not torture your mind with problems that are beyond your reach, A’ scientist searching for trath determines as soon as What hind of letter ado you find most readable? Isn’t it the une that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much ina few words. Take time to be brief. with him, because it is to our own 4d- To the Editor of Tho Evening Wort vantage to do so, We do not believe Here is a little advice to a Harlem | that the farmer is in need of charity, Reader, who should be ashamed to | DUt we do believe that the city man must wake up to the fact that he is) admit being witout employment for! dependent on the farmer for the things two months, if he is willing to tackle | he eats, and be willing to do his share anything that pays a living wage. |in making agriculture worth while and Tf he will tackle the advertising | attractive. pages of The Morning World and 18| The movement has been under way physically fit to tackle the laborers’ | for one month, afd we have aroused a column he p-o-s-1-t-i-v-e-l-y can get | great deal of interest throughout west- his living wage, just as I get min€/ern New York. Perhaps the greatest every working day of 8 hours by di8-/yalue of this campaign is that It is c.rding white collars and creased | giving the farmer courage to face the trousers for overalls and cap. future. Yours very truly, Construction laborers are in great WARNER BATES, Take mental food that Work hara he can in what direction he can make progress. And his researches follow in these directions. H Where he sees a stone wall set up agginst him, he turns aside. There is no use trying to travel any further in that way. There is plenty of work to do that can be done. And that is the work that occupies the investigator's mind. The average man will need all his brains and all his energy in studying things that can be found out. We do not mean things that are already known, If you stopped with these, the world would forever remain in its present ignorance, which is vast compared with what it will know in the future. But where ‘life comes from, why it flickers for a brief space and dies, and what is beyond the stars is something that, until we receive hitherto unheard of light, we shall never know. Waste no time on these problems." They are as vain as the efforts of the alchemists to turn base metals to gold, which occupied brains that might have been better used on learning more useful things. Learn first the limitations of the subject that you study. That will dispose of much puzzle and ‘worry, and enable you to go ahead and give it the time and thought that may add to the world’s store of wisdom, and will certainly add to your own, demand, earning as much a8 $7 Per) Secretary Wholesale Merchants and day. ‘This ‘clerical nousensical talk Sianuraceavers of Bittle. makes me more tired than wheeling |, concrete all day. BIILY McCANN. 106th Street, June 8, 1920. Roosevelt W: To the Editor of The Evening Who was President of the United States at the time of the big anthra- cite coal strike? I think it was in 1902. My friend says Roosevelt was not in the chair, I say he was. L. B. She Can Not. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: : Can an American born woman vote if her husband is not a citizen of the United States? J. R. M. New York, June 8, 1920. New York, June 8, 1920. ‘The Proper Caper. To the Editor of ‘The Evening World: Your article on “Cloth and Pota- toes,” hits the mark, The American Woolen Company is not publicly known as the “Arbiter Elegantarum,” and while in certain localities Dame Fashion has decreed that cloth shall be “cleaned, pared and cooked,” yet she may set forth that cloth wrapped around you as @ shawl or poncho is now done will be the proper caper. ‘A couple of yards of woolen a few years ago Wrapped around the shoul- ders made a professional gentleman of the old school ver: tinguished,” and I would advocate the revival of this “wearing app " the coming winter to reduce the high clost of overcoats. AJAX. New York, June 8, 191 Optio ‘To the Bulitor of The Bvening World: Where a” name ending in “s” Is ubed possessively, is it incorrect to add an “s” after the apostrophe, such ag Jones's coat, or is it opcepaly Make Hoover Pr To the Editor of The Evening Worl I do not know why the Democratic Party has dropped Hoover, He is the only man that the Democrats have any chance of electing. T would like you to take a poll and see just how ‘many Democrats waat Mr, Hoover to run. I believe the majority of voters are opposed to voting for a politician of either party. Why should we be asked to vote for a rotten politician who in turn ap- points other rotten politicians to of- fice? Why not ask Mr. Hoover to name the men that he would like asoclated with him, then let the honest news- papers give him a fair boost and tho voters will elect them all, Mr. Hoover would need no campaign fund if he should run on both tickets, L, L, GLOVER. Long Island, June Renny that he can forget and forgive? It is easy to unload your prejudice— temporarily; but your brain still pos- sesses that little episode which curred years gone by, and that lives with you until death. My compliments to Mr. Blake, for his articles are true to real life. New York, N. Y. NAT 8. of “get-the-beat” seaters and others who stampeded the dock, We were amazed and astonished to see the boat pull out, leaving us jammod and suffocating on the dock to wait. Time went on toward midnight. Meanwhile many fainted from ex- haustion and were carried away. The Grand Republic, which had al- ready made one trip up the Hudgon, came to our rescue at 1 A. M. on onday morning, ahd it was who I would like to bring the following] of miraculous that many mite nae incident to the attention of your! killed trying to board it. The result i a lot of sick and injured people 'y, May 50, we made the trip ning from what might have 8. 8, Mandalay to the Atlan-| been a “perfect day,” at 9.20 A. M. ghlands enjoyably and without} Now I ask you if it is fair that the be Be ae Mandalay should have taken on 60 The evening being falr and with| many passengers on her 8 o'clock trip the prospect of a bright, full, moon-] from New York as to prevent accom. light night, we decided’ to wait be-| modating those she had agreed to fore returning until the take back at 9.45. In other words, which was acheduled to can it be called anything else but $:45—a reasonable hour, ‘The boat greed that she entleavored to make hove-to at the appointed time, and four trips instead of three as sched- discharged a number of her passen- uled? 198 E. 8, ‘Then followed the usual xush 9th Street, Long Island City, \ + ‘To the Editor of The Krening World: I have read_Mr. John Blake's ar- entitled “Unload Your Preju- a We have read with interest the ar- ticles in The Evening World directing attention to the scarcity of farm labor and other factors that are bound to bring about a le@sened production of foodstufty this year. It may Interest you to know that this association is undertaking a gery practical campaign tg help in this situation, We are recognizing the fact that the reason the farmer 1s discour- se he gets go little appre~ ciation. We are endeavoring to piant in the minds of city people a true con- ception of what the farmer is up against and to give the farmer the|peen subjected to always linger in assurance that we of the city are go-|the mind; and I can say that even ing to work with him in the future, though I have long ago eliminated a Please note that we do not take the! certain prejudice, yet when the mem- attitude that we want to help the farm- ory of those wrongs returns, as it er—our idea is that we want to work. often dopa, how can)ono truthfully say gers. I have been reading his articles continually, never missing one. More than a half dozen of his articles ap- plied to me in such @ manner that I often wondered whether any one has been telling Mr.-Blake about my experiences. In this article Mr. Blake endeavors to teach us to forget and forgive. ‘This article fits in with my case pre- cisely. t is true, prejudice will bring trouble; yet if one does make n effort to eliminate prejudice, it cannot be closed out of one’s life en- tirely. ‘The wrongs that one has Sanday Outing. ‘To the Rditor of The Ewening World: last trip, leave at U. S. Supplies . » Three-Fourths of World’s Radium Most Precious Metal Comes From Middle West —A Nickel’s Weight Would Buy 10,000 Tons of Rails. Marguerite Mooers Marshall. 1] Copyright, 1920, ‘The Proms Publishing Oo, tiwe Row ork ‘Erenine World.) J ‘AT do you know about the ) production of the most valu- [9 able substance in the worlf? } No, it’s not coal, diamonds—not even | potatoes, It's radium. ot ae One gram of radium—ebout a this) bleful—is worth $120,000. ¢ It takes 500 tons of ore to produce the one gram. ‘ Five grams of radium weigh 9§p- Proximatsly the same as a five-cent plece, With steel rails selling at about 60 ® ton, radium the weight of ane nickel carfare 1s therefore equal tn money value to.more than 10,000 tons of rails. 4 America supplies three-fourths nf 0 the radium produced in the worl thig country has produced over / grams of the 110 grams now in exigt- ence, Europe's radium-bearing oreis now practically exhausted, but not America’s. { Of America’s crop of 70 grams, the Standard Chemical Company, whith obtained the first radium made America, has produced since 1912 over $7 grams. It is from an offic} of this company that the genggal procedure for making commergialiy available the marvelous mineral gas ‘een obtained for Evening World readers, r ¥ :“The United States ore’ depoi from which radium is obtained.” agy: this official, “are mostly small 4nd scattered, in a desolate section of Southwestern Colorado and South- astern Utah, where the trails .140 and fall 2,000 feet to a mile and whe there is no vegetation. The ore 19 found in narrow seams in tho ground, and much of it has tesbe blasted. After being roughly sorted, it is packed in 100-pound sacks and transported by the company's 200 pack mules to a concentration plant. “There about 600 tons of rough ore 1s reduced to 125 tons of what is known as “mill-concentrated ore.” Back into 100 pound sacks this goes, and is shipped by wagon train and motor trucks over mountain roads sixty-five miles to the nearest rail- way, Then the ore travels 5,500 miles further to the reduction plant of t company at Canonsburg, just outside Pittsburgh. “It takas 1,606 tons of coal chemicals to reduce each 125 tons of ore to a ‘concentrate’ weighing half a ton. ‘This concentrate goes to the research laboratories of the company in Pittsburgh. By what is known.as fractional crystallization, all the Jn- |gredients of this half a ton of con- radium salt, between 90 and 9% per cent, pure. There !s usually om hand from three to four grams of the pre- cious substance, in the final stage of » recovery and packing for shipment’ te the doctors of the company and a sul stantial increase of monthly produdi tion has been ordered, since th mand has been greater than thg ketable supply. Thus the mountain brings forth fy magnificent mouse—the tiny pinch q substance which 1s equal in value ) & the annual income on some $4,000,09 i ————— | ty | centrates are washed away, uftil there remains only about a gram of (J Yankee ‘‘Ads”’ Puzzle Germans - i Makes Them Long for/a Furlough to the i U.S. A. | BRMANS marvel at Ameridan magazines, especially at the advertisements. A writer in Berlin paper tells of feasting his eg on the pictures of food in @ pop American weekly. “Who has to advertise ham in’ $r. der to get rid of it in Germany?" facetiously asks. “But the unf; tunate American who has a ham sell must first buy, for a dreadful of money, a whole page in a ma zine and, at another terrible pr} hire an artist to paint a picture his ham.” ‘The writer rhapsodizes over picture, however, He tells‘ readers what the hani looked lik “A cross section. White layem® fat. Salmon pink flesh, with str oo. ‘of fat like the rays of the sun.” @.| It amazed him to find that, fi dition to the picture, the own the ham “finally has to sing) praises in sweet words. ° “How we pity,” he exclaims, [bo American who possesses a ham!"A0 Turning over the pages, the wri came upon an advertisement of ra ber soles, Evidently he thought they were used for the purpose thé Germaps make of their “sole-sparers,’ “Don't imagine,” he goes on, “thas these American sole-sparers are the kind we have in Germany, made of Not a bit of it, They are made of rubber!” * ‘An idea of how scarce and dtar rubber ig in Germany may be gath~ ered from the writer's statement tha “the cost of these Amer! ~ sparers, computed in our vali would be as great as that of a trip in a ratlway train from Berlitt to Hamburg, with one day in @ hetel besides. Uae Pes: SBGBUKAR EE a Transmission Lines, 9 According to Commercial At. tache James F, Abbott, Tokyg, the proposed extension gf hydroelectric projects in Japan will involve the duilding of about 1,000 mtles of high t sion transmission lines wit! the next two years, the \ of which will probably de | . i the steel-tower type,