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ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. PPoriarca Dany Excent Sunday by the Prose Pubitahing ‘Company, Nos. 53 to 63 ik Row, New Yor! RALPH PULITZER, President, 62 Park Row, ' 1 'SsaNaus sta oosgrn W, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. PULITZER. Jr. Secretary. 63 Park Row. — THE MICHAELS STERN CASE. USTICE RODENBECK of the State ‘Supreme Court has decided that the Michaels Stern firm Rochester is entitled to a permanent injunction and ef damages in its’suit against the Amalgamated Cloth- ‘Ing Workers. ©* In the course of the long trial and hearing Justice >4 Tuled out several of the charges which the employing concern made against the union, The proceedings have had the earmarks of thorough-going fairness. The opposing parties were represented by able counsel and the various issues were threshed out 2 nt length. All these factors give additional weight to the final @@ecision against the union, The decision is highly | important. No other industrial cause since the Dan- Dury hatters’ case has had more important bearings. Because of its importance it seems certain that the bd will be appealed to the United States * Supreme Court for final opinion on the points which © Justice Rodenbeck decided. eo, Few will take exception to Justice Rodenbeck’s insistence that intimidation, force and violence have no place in lawful labor union activities and should «= be ponished. . _ The decision raises other issues on which men may ~” have honest differences of opinion, For instance, the ~ question of whether an otherwise lawful labor union may become a monopoly within the meaning of the law is a matter on which only the Supremé Court can give a finally conclusive answer. . And underlying all the other features of the case «© 4s the question of the use of the injunction in labor ey disputes, which is not only a legal question but also ~ @ political question of the first magnitude. Justice Rodenbeck deserves credit for his effort to # bring out all the facts before making decision. This = Will help the United States Supreme Court in its * Gonsideration of the case and will make the final - decision more convincing and conclusive than would — gp otherwise be possible. abe ietel a WHY NOT EARLIER ? ‘ BPUBLICAN LEADER MONDELL. is opti- mistic on the future of the tax problem. © “We shall enter the new session of Congress in ® December and the new Congress in March,” he omy; “with the way opened for a substantial re- ‘duvtion of the tax burdens.” Such words make pleasant reading, but the dates ae Biven follow Election Day when the Republicans @ Profess to expect a victory, What Leader Mondell fails to explain in convine- * ing fashion is the fiscal record for the last fifteen ~ months during which his party has been in control © OF Congress, In this period Congress cpntrived to pass a a law with a provision which the President -jawetoed and which thé House repassed after elimi- ‘mating the objectionable feature, but on which the * failed to act before adjournment. Repré- *Sentative Mondell cannot excuse the delay which re- sulted if the failure of passage. The bill mighi y Pasily have been perfected early in the session and Sayed from death in the closing hours. _ % Neither can Representative Mondell explain satis- a ad y the failure to effect any taxation refonn. _ |) « &@ From a Republican startpoint it was natural ‘to ___seject the recommendations of the Administration. . “But in the fifteen months of control the Repub- - failed to enact any substitute tegislation. ‘They did not make any. effort to prove the Presi- wrong by advocating any other system of orm which the President refused. Under the circumstances, can his forecast be con- sidered as anything more than an election promise? T* if relief is so easy after election, why has he not made at least an effort to provide it before election? Detroit's phenomenal population gain fn the - » past decade is due to a humber of reasons, but the average American will think of one in par ‘tleular, Rival cities that challenge the census figures may be expected to inquire how many of the census blanks were filled in with the name “Lizzie.” ‘The qualities of the fiivver are so nearly human that it would not be surprising if the census man counted them as a part of the 993,739 in the city, STILL IN A BACKWATER. VIRGINIA jury has brought in a verdict in the aa case of Charles Connerton, constable of Tan- _ Bégier Island, that strange backwater of American “life in’which a local ordinance forbade a resident to efit on his front porch on Sunday and in which the F constant shot a boy who violated that law. * The jury found the constable “guilty of unlawful ; > shooting,”’ but the defense so manoeuvred the case “that the question of the blue law ordinance was not brought into court. The ordinance, therefore, stands. Residents of Tangier resented the publicity re- - sulting from the strange infideni, which injerested all over the United States. Tangerians were, rrremneneeran ; T whether the islanders will ever be able to get back to quite so complete an isolation as prevailed before the constable and the Sabbath desecrator disagreed. Seeds of liberality have filtered in. Tangerians have travelled to the mainland tor the trial, The young people are apt to make it harder tnd harder to enforce the old ordinance. Tangier will drop out of the public eye as a “nine- day wonder.” It is doubtful whether the United States will ever again be so foreign to Tangier as it has been, THE TEST. OES the Democratic Party mean to muddle its great chance or does it mean to measure up to it? OO se: sat ee Bs, Democrats will go into convention at San Fran- cisco next week while the ears of the country are still ringing with the call of a Democratic.President for a platform that will “permit the people to decide be- tween the vague and amtbiguous declaration by the Republicans and a positive and definite expression of opinion by the Democratic Party.” Positive and definite, After a century and a quarter will the great party of Jefferson confess itself too changed, ‘too habit-bound, too cautious to revive its old-time courage and di- rectness in defining fssues and fighting for them? Are we to havesat San Frarfeisco only more of the evasion, equivocation and propitiatory bargaining with party factions which disgusted the country at Chicago? : Will Democratic leaders and delegates think they have done their duty if they adopt a platform which outstraddles the Republican platform and choose a candidate by the same boss-ridden methods? In recent years the two great political parties in the United States have laid themselves open to the charge that each dodges new principles and issues, while differences between them on older questions become less and less distinguishable, Neither party, it has been said, will tackle a new national problem and propose a definite’ solution, ‘if it can avoid doing so, The alleged tendency has been for the two chief parties to become mere political organizations, barren of real principles or enthusiasms, living on theit tra- ditions, fighting each other only as Ins and Outs, seeking issues solely for the purpose of discrediting each other, and managed by leaders who use the loyalty of party voters to back them in recurrent struggles for party power and patronage. We have stated, the charge in its extreme form. There has been enough truth in it to claim the atten- tion of all thoughtful Americans. Here is a chance for the Democratic Party to prove that one party at least has not lost the capacity for strong initiative, courage and plain statement of its aims, ' Here is a chance for the Democratic Party to put forth a platform which shail electrify the country by its force and directness. Here is a chance for the 1920 Democratic Conven- tion to go down in history as the convention that revitalized the Democratic Party with new life, mean- ing and principle. A When they went to war the American people themselves created a purpose and an idea, To that purpose and idea Woodrow Wilson has been unswervingly faithful. ; Can Americans of any party, least of all the Dem- ocratic Party, go back on him now? Will they belie his assertion that a majority of the people of the United States wish “to fulfil their honest obligations to the rest of the world and to themselves” ? The time has come for one party or the other to put aside pussyfooting formulae and appeal with plain words to the sincerity and good faith of Ameri- can voters, 4 To the Democratic Party and to its delegates who will gather next week in San Francisco, this conven- tion is more than an opportunity, It is a test. TOO SERIOUS FOR “SPORT.” OMPTROLLER CRAIG announces opposition to the plan under which employees of the city libraries, Hunter College, the Aquarium and the Zoological Garden would share in the pay raise pro- vided by the special bond issue authorized by the Legislature. f He points out that these public servants went to the Legislature to present their special needs, “took a sporting chance, and lost.” “ Does it not occur to the Comptroller that decent maintenance for the specialized groups of workers ought not ‘to be the subject of a “sporting chance’? For them the question. is serious. From the city these workers deserve justice, not a gamble. Moreover, it is highly probable that they lost their “sporting chance” for one of two reasons: Their numbers may be too few to exercise great political power, More likely the legislators assumed that in providing for a general increase they were at the same time disposing of all the minor bills HE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1920.’ Copyright, 7 By J. H. Cassel Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1920, by The Drea Publishing Oo. NO. 96—ABBE CONSTANTIN, By Ludovic Halevy. | Mrs, Scott, a young American mil- lionaire, bought the old French castle |of Longueval and went there to. live. | With her was her younger sister, Bet- tina Percival. pal Old Abbe Constantin, the village Priest, had feared titat the new comers might not be willing to help in the care of the parish poor and in other | works of mercy that the priest loved. | But, epecdily, he found them notionly willing but eager to do all in their power for the church and for the poor. {The abbe became a frequent ‘and honored guest at the castle. Through Abbe Constantin the. sis- ters mot Jean Reynaud, son of the village physician, and a sort of god- json to the abbe, who liked and re- spected the gallant young fellow, Jean was clever and honest. But he was poor, and he had no pros- pects in life. Therefore, when he pro- | ceeded to fall desperately in loveswith jlest the girl regard Jean as a mere fortune hunter, But Bettina thought jotherwise, Shetsaid to Mrs, Seott: | “He is ths very first man I ever met whose eyes did not seem to ery lout the words: ‘How py 1 should |be to wed that little lady's, big” for- | tune!" ‘ As a matter of fact, Jean aid fot jwant Bettina’s money. Judeed he j hated it. Because it seemed ta bim 1s barrier between them. As a-yemni- less young army officer ho felt she “had no right to confess his love for so rich a girl. And he ate out his deart in silence. Bettina, too, had found herself more and more in love with the strangely reticent youth, and sbe waited in vain for him to ask hér to be his wife. Unable tu endure the sight of Bee tina any longer and to realiso dhe be bis, Jean dovided to exchange into another regim to the neighborhood castle, As he was explaining thts ta the unhappy old priest Betta came into the room. Paying no attention at all to Jean, she walked uptoAbbe ConStantin and exciaimed: “Lam rich. I value my weettited® the good I can accomplish withéte & could never leave nian who would regard my fortune «us Ido, I have found him. And he fovea me. He hides his love from me, but he loves me, none the less. You do, ly What kind of letter do you fin that gives you the worth of a thous id most readable? Isn't it the one. and words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfuction in trying to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. The Dry “Majority.” To the Editor of The Fvening World , Mr: H, B. Moloney's challenge to The Evening World to prove that the ma- Jority are againgt Prohibition is typi- cal of the dishonest hypocrisy of the Prohibitionists, Where have Prohibition forces init!- ated or supported action to determine the will of the people? Has it been the, “wet” or the “dry” who has appealed to the justice of a referendum? When such Yeferendum movements have been started have not Prohibition lead- ers exerted themselves to the utmost to prevent such referendums taking ace? : Pisvhen one of these appeals showed that the people of a ratifying State op- ‘osed the Eighteenth Amendment, was ta “wet” or “dry” who instituted proceedings to prove that the people had nothing to say? Can any honest man truthfully answer these questions and then honorably, as a Prohibitionist, “denouncing the Eigh- ment as un-American reme Court declared it * 1 have admired The mended upon teenth Are! after the Su Constitutional : evening World's stand even tn. those things in which I have no aympathy oF ent with The Evening \ feat admire the forceful and unin= timidated manner in which It pres sts More strength fo you. ts views. & 9 ‘ ‘prooklyn, June 17, 1920, awed. Someghing In The! E paid of The Prening 2 ant of, “white-collar ily indi-|}man outside of a gas compa challenge any “wet” organ, oF . si mpany { vidual to prove “that a majority ff | working with a pick gets $6'to $7 per pose Prohibition.” a mnany of the|4ay. Until very recently the gas While Feat of The Evening World, |company did not pay their men any pe the Prohibition question I agree jovertime, but paid overtime With fuily and think the paper Is tobe com- 1 time off. Infantry (formerly the 107th, 27th Di- yision), or any regiment, and you will find that the largest percentage of} them were, up to the time they were called to the colors, “office men,” You know their history during, the war. They did not give the Boches the im- pression that they were at all “pink: fingered” or “lily-liverdd” and God knows they were not. If G an example of “unionism” then for God's sake, fellow office workers, let's continue working and giving’ our loyal support to the boss who is cloth- ing and feeding ‘us, “WHITE-COLLAR MAN.” New York, June 18. From a Gans Worker. ° To the Paitor of The Evening World The letter wf the Standard fitter, {is correct. The gas man is under- paid. The top pay for the all-around gas man 1s $5.75 per day, And there are only a few at this price., A This don't pay. rent. BRANCH PILTBS, We Live in a “Moneyarchy.” Permit me to place before your readers a few facts which I believe they may not be acquainted with, Mi, ‘Harding, the Republican nom- inee for the Presidency, was nomin- ated by delegates controlled by the Standard Oil Co. of Ohio, and it was arranged to hoodwink the public into the idea that elther Ger. Wood or 1 know plenty men” who, have reached the top ad as‘they have not done it with pul, they thst have had something in 8. (i Vheve would G. W. Schoperhausi get off if the office worker were en- firely done away with? Who would manage our banks, railroads and Governments? the G. W, 8, type I suppose, ‘The proposition ts too ab- surd to be even considered by any level headed person be he of the “white-collar” variety or otherwise, Many of the tools and machin w day are the result bf “Read work” on the part of some former worker, For a number of years I have been an office worker dnd tn spite of ell G. W. 8. says, I am here to say that faithful service has its reward. Of course have our employer's inter- eat at t, He is the one that is giving Us our bread and butter, and 4s long as we get @ square deal, any employer is entitled to the verv best that we can give him. My boss is paying me every cent J get, and I work for him, not the union, Now G. W. 8, In reply to your re- mark regarding the office man, I quote your oWM words, “the pink-fingered, poverty stricken, capitalist-mindod, hand-to-mouth, iis G. W. S,, but Pa: Ow call some evening on the cy Europe, which he makes his living we office | Lowden were the prospective candidates, the ‘Standard’s satellites had it all arranged to put the dark horse, Senator Harding, in their place, Any one acquainted with the situa- tion in Ohio knows that the Standard owns the State of Ohio, body and soul, just as much as the Peansyl- vanta R. R. controls the political and econom: situation of Pennsylvania. a y child whe has attained the ge of reason in either of these [places knows) these facts, but like thelr elders they seem to consider they should bg subservient to the wishes of the Octopus, instead of to the laws of their respective States. while D | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) YOU DON'T PLANT AN OAK IN A CELLAR. ‘ Men with the power to grow must go where the grow- ing is good. Abraham Lincoln ‘would never have made history in the little Illinois town of his youth. Benjamin Franklin found that the atmosphere of Bos- ton was not congenial to his development, He went to Phila- delphia and grew. i 7 Most of the yearning of the farmer's boy for city life is the yearning to expand. Some men succeed in little towns, but they are exceptions. As a rule men with ideas need big communities. You can lean just ten times as much fronf ten men as you can from one man, You can’t learn ,a million times as much in New York as you can in a community of six people, be- cause you will never meet more than a few hundred people. But you can learn a great deal more. 9 : The old: proverb about the rolling stone and the moss isn’t a good one. You want to gather something besides moss as you go through this world—intelligence, culture, mental power. You will stand a better chance of gathering it if you look about and see wha else is in the world besides yourself and what they are doing. A cellar is a bad place to plant an oak-tree, It may grow, but it will be stunted and sickly. Get it out in the open air where it has room and it will fulfill the destiny Nature intended for it. If you have anything big in you, get out in the world where it can grow. Give’ it the sun and air of human as- sociation, It may well be that you could make more money by sticking around the old home town, trading horses and buying chattel mortgages. qi But there are thousands of small town rich men who die every year without giving the world a single job. Aim as high as you can. You may fail, but if you do you will not be lonesome, There will be plenty of people to talk your failure over with you and to tell you how they made worse ones, If you succeed, so much the better. If the stuff is in you it will come out. But it will have to have room, Get off the main street in the village, and see the world. It is a good world, and well worth seeing. And before you have seen much of it you will know whether you are des- tined to help it along or not. You certainlly can never help it along if you live and die on the same lot that your an- cestors bought from the Indians with a string of red beads. Why not an independent party to stand up for the ideals and Gonsti- tution of the United States and not be a pawn in the hands of the cor- porations, , Our deceased friend and Ex-Presi- dent, Theodore Roosevelt, saved us in hig time and there is no doubt that we have his equal ready and willing to represent the rank and file of our voters. 1 would be glad to hear your views expressed through your instructive columns, also those of your readers There is no reason why intelligent voters should put up with the treat- ment of the delegates chosen to give a square deal to the people and who. are simply pawns for Rockefeller, Penrose, &o. 1s a na complain of royalty in ey are openly Tales by a a the titled or royal blood of Europe; whereas w Republic mitted to coin, the word. A can save this country from the con- trol of these giants of industry, ‘To the Editor of The Even! dock strikers are going to tie up the port of New York, I ask if it fs not about time that the people had some- thit people would are suppoked to have a} that nd in reality are ruled by rehy,” if I may be per~ had _ been truckmen? toac! drive a motor truck if there are a f others who are not afraid to go o with me, and who will not ict t In| union bluff New York any more. handled by And, to bring this stri “Mon An independent candidate ‘now very short time it will be too late “HONEST GOVERNMENT.” ly i Fast 75th Street, June 18, 1920 Brooklyn, June 16, 1920, “From John and Me.” To the éitor of The Brening Work’ Kindly say which is correct, After reading all this talk that the “Regards from Jobn and me.” ‘Thanking you, to say? " ome Ww! would the wayens do if the New York June 14 1920, vue’ refuse to buy goods union se, Tam willing to get out and FRED ROHE. “Regards from John and I,” or THOMPSON, don’t you, Jean?” she added, turning to the bewildered young man. “Yes,” stamimered Jean, “yes, Tdo.* “I knew it,” exclaimed Bettina, “put I wanted you to say St. And now I want the Abbe ta telb you to marry ime.” ‘ “Marry her, Jean,” oo priest. “It is After ‘that there was nothing for Jean Reynaud to do but to follow the dictates of his heart and of his sweet. heart and of his father confessor, “You have often told me, F: said Bettina, to the happy old “that Jean is like a son of you Well, now you'll have two chidrea instead ‘of one.” lest, own, Government. | by Tho Prost Publishing Co, York Evening World.) By Willis Brooks Hawkins, Oupyright, 1920, (The Now This is the eighth article af a series defining the duties of 4 * adniinistrative and legistative afe AY breed | ficers and boards of the New York City Government. ’ DEPARTMENT OF FINANGEy Bureau of City Revenue. HBPRR are eight bure Department of Fin. | scription of the duties’ of each of these bureaus will clearly indigate the work performed by the depart- ment. The bureau for the collection of clty revenue has jurisdiction city property acquired in condemna- tion proceedings or by purghase for ptrect openings and for various city departments, This bureau also collects rentals j accruing on old nts of land under > & of ‘the ne over unul it is put to its In the interim! the for and cdilects 1s from any such property, and afterward, upon the authorigation of the Sinking Fund Commission, su- pervises the public sale of buildings thereon, by seitled bids, to the highy est_ bidder. water, interest |mortgages & |city property, the inter issued for the building | gjnal rapid transit sub: nts provided for a by principal on en urchasergg of the redemp- onds at maturity bys pald for at public sale. as ity real 1 car license fees in return sor the privileges granted to them under their granchises. Such fees and pers centages are c¢ d by this bureau, which also collects the established by th and Apr privileges conduits fc pneumatic tunnels bridges ike ew put | e his Mt for many S subway vaults, pipes ey streets, px anent) cfn- Moynahan is the Collector ‘ot y Revenue in charge of this pu- reau His offide Is on the third floor (south) of the Munic Building, The duties of the other bureaus of the Department of Finance will be defined in following articles of this ‘ | ( | Bettina, the old priest was troubled * have always wanted to marry-sonmé . A de-*