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ARREN G. HARDING'S Senatorial record has been sent out by the Campaign Committee of the A. F, of L. in the form of a list of bills in which unionists had particular interest, together with action which Senator Harding took when he The information is presented without com- committee recommends that this record be at every meeting of local unions and central bodies until Election Day, and says: “We have been advised that this has been a very effective and in- method of publicity.” . ‘When the Democrats nominate it is probable that ea similar record will be compiled and circulated for . { reading at the same meetings. : © In this “effective and instructive method of pub- . licity” organized labor seems to have scored a clean beat on other organizations, But labor has no copyright on the method. It fs equally available to any and all organizations hav- ing general or special interests in any election. Lodges, churches, clubs, improvement societies, associations may make good use of the system. It __ 4s truly non-partisan and in the interest of good government. Repeated readings of simple, straightforward | statements of all available facts in the public record {of all candidates could hardly be improved on as 4}, a method of instructing and informing voters to 4 make intelligent use of the ballot, ST. PAUL, June 23—Of all the Repre- it sentatives in Congress from Minnesota who ‘were candidates for renomination at the primary lection on Monday, only one went eas down to defeat. He is A. J. Volstead, Rep- resentative from the Seventh District, who sponsored the Prohibition Enforcement § Lew which bears his name. He appears to be beaten by a large majority. ‘What's this? Is !t possible that one-half of 1 per cent. Mberty 1s not so overwhelmingly popular in the U. 6, A. as clajmed? .. MR. TAFT’S UNLUCKY GOOD HABIT. ocr slatpcenry tie mliaaegpllle ; Edgar Park wrote his clever essay on “The Bad Results of Good Habits” he had in mind the 4) “special case of our only living ex-President, “\. “Time and the course of events alone appear to f justify an individual application of this titular re- flection. To Mr. Taft there evidently is native what In most men would be the good habit of taking the better i and broader view of affairs; of “putting the best ‘| « face” on matters of immediate concern and, pos- ; sibly, of uncertain issue. And more than once or hg { _ twice uncomfortable consequences have followed the ' | enossing of his kindly custom with the demands of * a party preferring, for platform purposes, jugglery to clear judgments. x {At this moment Mr. Taft is in the position of |” thaving allowed the light of his mind so to shine upon “|| the treaty plank adopted at Chicago as to reveal | what an ansious and compromising leadership does “not care to submit to illumination, ‘| In his act of interpretation the former Executive is true to his own course and convictions concerning the League of Nations, He is inspired by a real de- i sire to have his party show itself as honest as himself. ae But in the face of his fair intent the opposition | scoffs and his own side scolds. Even the candi- |. date’s own organ of Marion, O., opinion takes an ) editorial hot shot at what it plainly regards as an | santrusion upon the privileges of compromise. ‘Mr. Taft has invited this visitation of wrath from his party colleagues. : 4 He shows too plainly that he learned nothing from + the Rooseveltian rebuke of 1912 about the perils of } an un-Republican way of being right, There is every reason to believe that to the end of his political days he will continue to accumulate ) the bad results of the good habit of taking the 4 larger, more hazardous view of party enterprise. t ils Dr. Butler of Columbia is not like the Oxford don whose. motto was: “Never regret, never retract, never apologize.” An A SOUND AMERICAN WAY. od AST week the members of a Brooklyn congrega- tion undertook to beat the high cost of paint- “ing the church edifice by doing the job themselves. Many hands made the task short. Before sun- : { down the job was done. In the evening, mothers, « sisters and wives spread a dinner for the willing workers, ; : On Sunday the congregation noted with approval “the results of their handiwork. Somehow the feeling comes that the improved appearance of the church was one of the least of the benefits from the Saturday afternoon “painting bee” staged by the Grace Reforrfied Church. Unless the Grace Reformed Church was vastly different from most city churches the services were more or less formal affairs in which the congregation i+) participated in their Sunday best and with Sunday | wmanners. Perhaps ihe pastor knew, the names of | sary. most of the regular attendants, but the congrega- tion did not know each other as well as was desirable. After a day of amateur church decoration it is more than probable that neighbors in painting were calling each other by their first names and explain- ing how that paint spot in John’s hair was the re- sult of Bill's inaccuracy with a brush. Bil! and Jobn and Mrs. Bill and Mrs. John will never be able to be “standoffish” when either remembers that funny smear of paint on Bill's nose, In -pioneer America, “house-raisings,” “church sociables,” “barn dances” and the like were an Im- portant part of the national life. And a worth-while and democratic influence they proved to be. They helped weld America into a Nation. New York City is too immense for every one to take part in any one enterprise, but the more small communal enterprises are undertaken by groups with similar interests, the better for New York. WHERE IS THE POWER? Po. BRYCE says an eminent American told him twelve years ago that the two great parties in the United States—Republican and Demo- cratic—were like two bottles: “Each bore a label denoting the kind of liquor it contained, but each was empty.” We doubt if either platform or candidate put forth by the’ 1920 Republican National Convention at Chicago has gone far to persuade Lord Bryce that his American informant’s twelve-year-old esti- mate is out of date. On the other hand, there is the possibility that when the Democratic Party convenes at San Fran- cisco next week some stirring realization of its op- portunity, some quickening impulse worthy of its past, may start a new and vibrant chapter in party history. z We wonder if professional politicians are capable of seeing how many American voters of both parties are just now ready and eager for such a chapter. Party organization and party leadership are neces- But without a freshening of party principles and party convictions, without party initiative to raise new issues and fight for them, party organization and party leadership become the mere functioning of well-oiled machinery, mobilizing party votes for periodical contests over party power and patronage. Experts who work the machinery are the first to lose sight of the need of more than the machinery. If left to themselves, after preliminary wranglings, they plane all platform planks to a meaningless smoothness. They eliminate edges that offend any faction. They select a candidate who fits into party plans and purposes, Issues are valuable to them only as they discredit opponents, Once their own quarrels are patched, up, plenty of smoothing, plenty of oil, plenty of well-roundéd phrases that pass for principles, are all they ask for a campaign. They rely on the party loyalty of voters to do the rest, Thesg were the type of party experts who ran the Chicago Convention. The results are before the country. What party managers forget is that a time comes when the hum of party machinery, the beating of party tom-toms and the usual denunciation of all the other party has done no longer satisfy a growing number of voters who demand something substan- tial, constructive, inspiring—something that drives straight into current questions instead of circling them. To many intelligent observers of: party politics in the United States it seems that such a time HAS come, At the ‘present moment the country faces the largest international issue that has ever challenged the progressive instinct—to say nothing of the honor and good faith—of the American people. Domestic problems also, of far-reaching recon- structive importance, are waiting to be solved, There is enough of the “old American” left in millions of voters to responil at such a. moment with old-time enthusiasm to an appeal from a party that dared to declare for downright, straightaway poli- cies—clean-worded, definite and bold. Americans used to admire that kind of party, courage and rally to it. ‘Where is the power that will put some of it into the Democratic delegates who meet next week in San Francisco? BACCALAUREATE, (As condensed from many Commencement sermons.) Step forth and meet the world, young sir, And take your turn at making stir, While those of us who went before Hold wide ajar the open door Beneath whose portals brook and river part, Yet where you too nfust take your start. Onward and upward may you go As Fate shall will it—fast or slow; And as you climb, be a donater To what was once your Alma Mater! DON ©. SEITZ. oA yo he Truth! Zen aAt ZaEC AVS Fyovk® THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1920, FoR FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | yo TELL THE TRUTH, IT DOESN, TER MUCH WHO 15 PRESIDENy B WE ARE Going ro ; Pp wis POWERS, —_—_ What kind of 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 fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. Take Sm ‘To tie Editor BDrening World: The growing disquiet over New York's shipping problem is no surprise to me. I am not @ native New Yorker, so I can look at the question both as @ disinterested outsider, unblinded by any ideas of false, and in this case harmful loyalty, and as an adopted New Yorker whose work has always been closely connected with trafic, Remember the coal famine of a year or two ago? Would that have been possible had Now York possessed mod- ern facilities for handling the traffic? ‘The coal was there—solid trainloads of it lying in the Jersey yards, and barge after barge attempted the trip through the ice, only to be forced back or sunk. Whatever may be my own opnion, this is not a discussion of the pro- posed Jersey tunnel, but this much I ‘will say—construe it as you like. Any city, large or small, that puts all its eggs in one basket by allowing its very existence to depend on any one lone method of transportaton is going to regret it, sooner of later, To be absolutely independent and secure from all the inconveniences that wo have had to endure these past few years New York should have at least three sure SORDEBARE. links with the mainland, Keep the slow, costly, cum~ bersome lighterage stem, but ar- range for direct, al 1 freight ser- vice to and fr the Jersey shore, either by bridge or by tube, and most important of all for times of emergency give us motor truck connections with the New Jersey freight yards, connec- tions independent of ferries, harbor strikes and everything else. Problem; Will New York realize her position in time, or will she slumber peacefully on, secure in the smug self- satisfaction engendered by her vast population and wealth, until some en- terprising young upstart has diverted all her traffic to an Brooklyn, N. ¥., June 22. A “Pink Finger” Reply. To the Editor of The Brening World: Aside from being & masterpiece of abuse, bombast and empty sarcasm, G. W. Schopenhauer’s ill-tempered torrent of near profanity is, of little rest to either faction. We impe- ows office slaves have derived considerable amusement from his re- freshingly frank and outapoken opin- fons. How an eruption like that looks when viewed from the other side of the fence we know not. If I remember correctly, the gen- eral attitude of the “White Collar’ letter was the fair and impartial viewpoint of a man who has worked and associated with both the advo- cates of manual effort and the de- spised white collar brigade. And yet at the first hint that there fs a nor- mal, sane-minded man outside the A F. of L.—crash—BANG—somebody starts going round and round in Short and eulphurous circles, fairly prying the roof loose round the edges up-to-date port? ET. 1 h his uproar! wie wanse of humor is an invaluable time to be brief. asset at any time, but especially to the innocent bystander when one faction unconsciously plays directly into the hands of the other. And as for us of the pink fingers, the anaemic bank rolls and the white- washed innards, one and all we thank G, W. for the best laugh we've enjoyed in a long time. “PINK-FINGERS.” 17 Battery Place, June 19, 1920. Growing Impatient. To the Kaitor of The Brening World: Is the Railroad Wage Board still in existence or have they gone on their vacation with Congress? RAILROADERS. Jamaica, June 22. Single Taxers. ‘To the Eattor of The Brening World: In connection with your editorial entitled “Panacea Groups,” in which you mention the coming convention of the Committee of Forty-eight, it may interest your army of readers to know that the following plank will be offered for adoption by the delegates: “We demand the abolition of all ttaxes now levied on wages, sal- aries, food, clothing, buildings, machinery and all other products of labor and that all revenue for Federal, State and municipal needs be obtained by taxing the entire yearly rent of land.” HORGE LLOYD. Brooklyn, N. ¥., June 21, 1920. “Commencement” is Beginning. To the Kxtiitor of The Brening World: “An Everyday Reader” asks why we use “commencement” when we mean a “finishing” and “bride” when we mean “wife?” The dictionary meaning of “com- mencement” is a “beginning.” Grad- uation implies the completion of a course of study. If we take the mean- ing implied in ‘both these words, “commencement” would mean the end of a course of study and the be. ginning of a new task. As we know, graduation means, to most college men, the beginning of their struggle in the business or the professional world. It is the beginning or “com- mencement” of their success or fall- ure, ‘The term ‘‘bride” {9 applied to a woman only on her marriage day. If he means that woman is called a ‘pride” a week or two after she has been married, I think it is a mistaken use of the word, In such a cass, the woman should be called a “wife,” not a bride.” JOS. R. Jamaica, June 20, 1920, ‘The Security L To the Editor of Brening We I take this opportunity to yoice my appreciation of the splendid work the National Security League is do- ing, and I am sure all true Ameri- cans will agree with me in this esti- mation. I heard a few of their speakers the other night, and there I found again > bossing yourself for a while. will leave the job to you. on you. else’s employ. do it better. .- UNCOMMON SENSE . By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) LEARN TO BOSS YOURSELF. If you don’t like the way your’ boss bosses you, try abe — = ~ aposeGias Te Ly soe You won't find it an easy job. But you can learn to do it, and when you have learned it you won't need so much bossing by the boss. The men who are bossed most need it most. convince an employer that you can boss yourself, and he It is disagreeable work, telling men constantly how to do this and that. only does it when he feels that he has to. Drive yourself, and nobody will drive you. most out of yourself, and nobody will need to keep his eye Once Any rational man Get the Getting the most out of yourself doesn’t mean working till you are dog tired, or wearing yourself out in somebody It does mean doing your particular work as well as you can, which is the only possible way you will ever learn to The man who gets along is the man who can be trusted. And you can’t be trusted till you have learned to take charge of your own efforts and see that they are properly directed. Nearly all men crave power and authority. But few are fit to be entrusted with either. Certainly you will never be able to boss other men un- til you have first learned to boss yourself. big salaries, but they must know how to be their own bosses as well as the bosses of others. If when left all alone you do not quit till the day's work is done and well done; if you do the thing to be done as well as you would do it if another man’s eye were on you, you have the makings of an executive. Learn to boss yourself intelligently and firmly. Get the same kind of work out of yourself that you would ex- pect from a man in your employ. That kind of ability will speedily be recognized. And when it is recognized it will be rewarded. Executives earn CR 5 had ‘been forgotten during these strenuous times. ‘Americans, let us carry on the work they are doing by practising this patriotism in our daily living. Let us hold aloft the torch of Lib- erty, defying all who seek to destroy those ideals for which America stands, and for which her many sons bled and died. ° Let us keep in our hearts and minds those noble words of Abraham Lincoln, when he said, “This Govern- ment of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” JOHN DORN. 532 Hast Mth Street, June 21, 1920, Unpardonable Lawlessness. To the Editor of The Brening World: We Americans are most often of the type of people who are incensed at the atrocities of individuals—other than ourselves. Such especially Is the case when we read in the morning paper at the breakfast table that a negro had caused physical torture the “Spirit of our Forefathers,” the loyal Americanism which prevailed during the war, and which I feared and anguish to a white woman, But we forget, however, to comment too justly upon the actions of our own whites who in disregard and deroga- tion of law and order take the cudgel of justice into their own hands and lynch negroes mercilessly. The latest example of our disre- spect was manifested by the people of Duluth, when \t took a cordon of soldiers to drive the mob of lynchers from-the streets. Such action upon cur part 1s unpardonable. In a coun- try like ours, with a literate popula- tiofi of over 96 per cent. it is most barbaric and uncivilized for sych riots to take place. ‘We talk about the English in In- dia and Africa, Why not turn to our own troubles in our own country and attempt to remedy the conditions existing here? e There must be a remedy some- where and it lies with each and every individual in this free country of ours. Men whose fathers fought in the Civil War to free the negro from chattel slavery ought not to nfurder them in cold blood now—even If they did commit some erime—be it petty or heinous. We have laws sufficient to deal with criminals of any und all types. ~ PAUL L, ROSS, Now York, June 21, 1920, ' hoe yds (War away y>|\the dreamy Bibbs for whom business The Love Storie of Great Now. a) Albert Payson Terhune O. 8. v7 Tyenains On! No. 91—THE TURMOIL, by Booth Tarkington. Bibbs Sheridan was the dreamy an@ unpractical and poetic son of James Sheridan, biggest financier and manu- facturer in all his rackety and smoky, home city. Mary Vertrees was the daintily high-bred daughter of a once-great family in the Sheridan neighborhood. She alone in all that new-rich hustl- ing social set had the brains to look beyond young Bibbs's ec and laziness, and to ste amounted to something. Bibbe’s father, in disgust at his son's idleness and lack of ambition, decided to cure the youth by a course of hard . And he set Bibbs to work at Pa pared) of the . impor- tant depa: of his big factory. Bibbs hated his job, Mary’ was the onfy friend who could appreciate his feelings ‘n the matter. She encour- aged him and she gave him the cour- age to stick to the work and to try to excel at it, “All day I'll send miy thoughts to you,” she promised, “You must re- member that a friend stands beside omg Still, Bibbs got no pleasure out of his toll and did not excel in it, Then, by chance he heard that the Vertrees family was on the verge of financial ruin, He heard also a rotten rumor to the effect that Mary had tried to win Bibbs in order to recoup the fo. tunes of her family, He wi straight to Mary and told her what he had heard, en he hunted up his sister who had started the rumor, “I disproved what you said of Misa Vertrees,” he announced. her to marry me and she refused.” Next, Bibbs threw himself, heart and soul, into the mysteries of fi~ nance. His father was delighted with the young fellow's new spasm of in- |dustry and with the sudden aptitude | Bibbs was showing for financial matters. Bibbs presently grew to understand something of his father’s greatness and of the mighty paternal love which underlay the old man'g~ fierce impatience with his son's Taz ness. The turmoil of business life took on a new meaning to the former dreamer. He developed @ positive gentus for business, and saved his father from loss after loss. But it was all as Dead | Sea Fruit to Bibbs, since Mary was apparently lost to him and had f bidden him. to call on her. At lagt | found @ chance for a word with her. “Why won't you let me see you?* he pleaded. “I've been like a man chained in a cave. You can't mi it was because—you care?” fe And Mary did care. Relieved of her fear, that he had proposed to her through pity, she let her heart speak. And Bibbs Sheridan at last had won that’ “yp the aptitude shown for high finance by, jhad always been sealed book. thy of place among Booth Tarking< — ton's best works.) Ten-Minute Studies of New York City Government. By Willis Brooks Hawkins. This ts the ninth article of @ series defining the duties of the ad- ministrative and legislative officers and boards of the New York City Government. DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, Tax Collection Bureau. HIS bureau of the Department of Finance collects taxes oh real and personal estate, special franchises and real estate of corpora- tions, as well as on shares of local banks. Arrears for water rents and meter settings are transferred from the Water Register to the Receiver of Taxes (the head of this bureau) for collection. The tax rolls containing all the foregoing charges, except per- sonal property taxes, ard kept by. the Receiver from May i to the last day of the following February, when all real estate taxes, water rents and charges for meter settings remain- ing unpald are committed to the Bureau for the Collection of Assess- ments and Arrears. Personal taxes remaining unpaid on the 15th of August following the Re- ceiver's receipt of the rolls may be placed in the hands of a City Mar- shal for collection by distress and sale of goods and chattels, with in- terest at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum. Personal assessments which prove to be uncollectible may be cancelled by the Receiver of Taxes when he is directed to do so by the Board of Estimate acting upon the advice ‘of the. Corporation Counsel, ‘Taxes so cancelled are no longer car ried a8 an asset of the city, Edward C, Hecht is the Receiver of i Taxes. His office is on the second t floor (north side) of the Municipal ¢ \ |) Building. Deputies for the other bor. # oughs are: Bronx, Edward H. Healy, ‘ at Tremont and Arthur Avenues;| Brooklyn, Frank H. Norton, at No. 503 Fulton Street; Queens, Anthony, Moors, at No. 6 Court Square, Long Island City; Richmond, John De Mors gan, at Borough Hall, Bt. George, ee Cause for Worry. TLLIAMS and Wilkins were partners and it was the cus« tom for their wives, who were great friends, to call occasionally upon their husbands at their office, One day Williams, after their depare ture, showed signs of anxiety, “What's the trouble?” asked Wil. king, observing his partner. “Just see how it rains!” exclaimed Williams, “I feel very anxious about my wife. She's gone out without an umbrella, and your wife has none, either.” “Oh, that's all right. They'll take shelter in some shop.” “Precisely,” said Williams. “That's | sine, why I'm worried.”"—-Harper’s Maga- ~