The evening world. Newspaper, July 2, 1920, Page 22

sy pon put id Women Should Enter Politics for Love of Public Service ‘who Is suffering from a complete breakdown due to overwork and concentration. You had better be careful.’” Six months before the day of adjournment, ‘with the Christmas recess impending, the Republican Senators had it, on the word of their own mean- spirited spy, that the President had “been ill for hk THE TOLL-TAKERS. “yT was announced yesterday that Mr. Armin W. Riley, special agent of the Department of Justice n the campaign against ptofiteers, had written to \cting Public Service Commissioner Barrett asking information regarding alleged excessive profits ow being taken by wholesale and retail coal dealers. ; In the case of coal, as with other commodities, what mystifies the consumer is the number of per- “fons who manage to attach themselves—each with | biis special commission or profit—to the process of "Wbringing a necessary article from the source of its Bt to the man who ultimately pays for and consumes it. Middlemen multiply in an era of rising prices. Not only do the usual producers and handlers of food and other necessities find an excuse for boost- their prices, but there comes into existence a line of brokers, speculators, commis- men, agents and the like who never seem to oe the commodity in which they deal but who __ interpose tliemselves between producer and con- ‘sumer solely in order to take their toll at every possible point as the commodity journeys from the ~ former to the latter. “The present era of profiteering and record prices | has brought out a formidable army of these toll- . Whether it is coal or food, the number of distinct =and proressively increasing—prices quoted on a article at succeeding stages in what is com- Doty called its distribution is amazing. Some of this progressive addition to price is, of ‘course, for actual services rendered. * But many a dollar i added here and there for What appears to be nothing but the particular profit > of somebody who has put up a toll-gate on the line of movement ani persuaded other agents of distrl- ‘bution to co-operate with him in getting still more Bi out of the consumer. 4 It would be interesting to know how many "agencies are at present maintained, and .expensively “maintained, in this city and elsewhere for the sole pose of extracting profit from distributive proc- ss to which they contribute not one helpful or sary part. ‘{Whis is the parasitic variety of profiteer. ‘The Department of Justice will perform a useful service by pushing its Investigations wher- they throw light on his methods, * WELCOME AND REMINDER. ILCOME home to Dr, Copeland! - , We hope his “business vacation” in Eu- _ trope was both pleasant and profitable and that he is _ better prepared than ever to serve the people of New York in his work. © For one particular reason The Evening World is | glad to have him back. Shortly before he left, The Evening World ‘Pointed out the disgraceful conditions of the comfort ‘Stations at subway and elevated stations, for failure to clean up and keep clean, The threat ~ had some immediate effect, but while the Commis- 3 has been away his subordinates have relaxed weather intensifies the nuisance. will be good to have Dr, Copeland on the job will come down heavy and hard and as fre- ly as is necessary on those responsible. Mayor’s clean-up campaign has not pro- as far as Dr, Copeland's had before he left. _ Here's hoping that Dr. Copeland will begin where het eft off and let the Interborough hear from head- o ; . DELIBERATE AND INDELIBLE. ry JR neighbor the Tribune chides Chairman Cum- ~/ mings because he reminded the country that the Congress was in session for months while the re ent lay in the White House struggling with a fying illness and at times close to the point of ” Tribune says: ¢ “Neither Congress nor the country ever knew that the President was desperately ill. ‘They were left ignorant of his condition.” the Tribune forgets what it might well wish ) forget. It forgets that six months to a day be- Congress adjourned it sent a “prying commit- ‘into the sickroom to see what it could see. of the two members of that committee was A. B. Fall. Following the indecent expedi- Senator from New Mexico, in a public in- r with newspaper correspondents, said: “The President appeared to me to be in a8 good mental condition any t who has been {il for ten weeks.” of his departure from.the sickroom, Sen- said: the door Dr, Grayson inquired after my and I told him I had been working of late and getting but little. sleep, Ds, ‘ile Bsa foe ten weeks,” breakdown due to overwork and concentration.” The Tribune forgets, Senators «did not. ing reproach that the Congress “failed to pays resolution of generous import or extend one ki inquiry as to the health of the President.” generous import.” THE PLATFORM. mittee to the debate, draft, main issues. the cleanest cut statements yet presented of the Administration’s stand on the Treaty and the League Covenant, Those who search for concession will find the only semblance of it in the phrase: But we do not oppose the acceptance of any reservations making clearer or more specific the obligations of the United States to the League associates. This concedes only the kind of interpretative reser- vation which the President has never refused to accept. ‘ The plank also contains the significant reminder: The President repeatedly has declared, and this Convention reaffirms, that all our duties and Obligations, as a member of the League, must be fulfilled in strict conformity with the Con- stitution of the United States, embodied in which is the fundamental requirement of declaratory action by the Congress béfore this Nation may become a participant in any war. This completely knocks the ground from under Republican pretense that the President's view of this Nation’s obligations to the League of Nations ignores the constitutionally established powers of Congress. Again: . The Democratic Party favors the League of Nation as the surest, if not the only, prac- ticable means of maintaining the permanent peace of the world and terminating the in- sufferable burden of great military and naval establishments, “The surest, if not the only practicable means.” That fact is the one that has been oftenest and most inexcusably suppressed in the specious at- tacks of partisan treaty wreckers who have not one constructive substitute to offer for what they would destroy. Incisive also is the plank on tax revision: We condemn the failure of the present Con- gress to respond to the oft-repeated demand of the President and the Secretaries of tie Treasury to revise the existing tax laws, ‘The Republican Congress persistently failed, through sheer political cowardice, to make a single move toward a readjustment of tax laws which it denounced, before the last election and was afraid to revise before the next election. That ts a charge to which there can be no Re- publican defense. The facts are patent, The Democratic plank continues: We advocate tax reform and @ searching Ye- vision of the war revenue acts to fit peace con- ditions, so that the wealth of the Nation may not be withdrawn from productive enterprise and diverted to wasteful or non-productive expenditure. We demand prompt action by the next Con- gress for a complete survey of existing taxes and their modifications and simplification, with a view to secure greater equity and justice in tax burdens, and improvement in administration. A first reading of the Democratic platform that went. no further than these two planks would find reassuring contrast to the vague bombast evolved at Chicago. Moreover, this Democratic platform is being shaped in strenuous democratic debate—not in the boss-permeated seclusion out of which Republican campaign doctrine was distilled. AND THE BAND HELPED. T San Francisco, as at Chicago, the critics in the press box give high praise to the feminine orators, Seconding speeches by women were bright, forceful and to the point, What the speak- ers say “got across” with the audience, But Is it surprising that women should’ make notably effective efforts? These speeches are the first of their kind. The speakers are enjoying a new experience. They are pioneers’ and feel the ro- mance of pioneering. None are jaded convention- goers who have been forced to realize how little ~meaning there is in most of the convention¢num- | ius ee due ‘ Senator Fall reported that the President's physi- cian said his patient was “suffering from a complete They gave good ground for Chairman Cummings’s scath- one indly The Tribune forgets, but the country will not fail to appraise the true party animus behind the delib- erate omission of at least a formal “resolution of 4 HE platform reported by the Resolutions Com- Dentocratic Convention {s subject to amendment in what may prove extended It is possible to comment only on the submitted Apart from the omission of a plank dealing with Prohibition, the platform in its reported form fulfils the hope of clear, straightforward handling of the The plank on the League of Nations is one of What kind of letter do you jind most readabler Isn't it she one that givds you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction Take time to be brief. to say much in a few words. in trying “Am Idle § To the Editor of The Evening : Why is it that, in motor accidents, when the victim is merely killed, the helpless and altogether innocent driver of the juggernaut is invariably exonerated (the dead party of the first part always being found guilty), whereas, when his frightened prey ja maimed or only slightly injured, the driver is put to some little trouble and expense. It would seem that the average speed maniac has concluded, after much forethought and cogitation, that the safest, cheapest and easiest way out of the dilemma is to make a “killing” at once, as dead men tell no tales, which very likely accounts for the ferocious devil-may-care, get-in- my-way-at-your-pertl cast of cou! tenance that so many of them have acquired. ’ ‘This, of course, is merely an idle surmise, but I leave the solution of these daily, exonerated killings to persons endowed with more mental astuteness. ELHANOR L. WARNER. New York, July 1, 1! Co-operative Bull To the Baitor of The Drening World: In this age of co-operative tenden- cies, why don't the tradesmen get to- gether and build their own houses? They could buy their own plots, and with an occasional hour's work it wouldn't take long to build snug lit- tle homes for each other, ‘The public consists of two great di- visions, brain workers and hand-work- ers, all more or less so, all more or less capitalist and laborer combined, Co-operation is the great cure-ail. Workmen, get together! WILLIAM REID. Loring Place, Bronx, July 1, 1920. The Thitty Wars, To the Editor of The Rvening Worl In The Evening World you publish an article, “Thirty wars going on and league fails to restore peace.” For Heaven's sake, where is this league you are constantly prating about? Outside of The Evening World no- body is dreaming of or cares to have anything to do with it, These thirty wars will be fought to their finish, thus causing a further tremendous shortage of men, who In time, after the cessation of wars through ex- haustion, will be replaced by men from the only nation on the face of the earth who will have them to give —the U. 8. A. Is it, perhaps with your usual fore- sight, on this account you are look- ing way ahead, and that It will be the United States, and we only, who will need it? Sometime @go your paper pub- lished the result of a poll it had taken of a regiment just back, and, if I re- member rightly, the vote was 4 to 1 against. Surely these men who had been through hades ought to know. Talk to any of them, Yorkville has a goodly number, ‘They all have the same anawer, The league !s not liv- ing which could tell any nation in any sort of u dispute that the was wrong even if the fact was the en result they would go at It anyway, and in the long run causing the rest of them to take sides. Condensed, their opinions are all the same. A League of Nations 1s jthe cocksurest producer of another world war. If you have any doubts on this score get the opinion of your readers who have been fed on it 60 long they look at it to-day as they would an ordinary advertisement, but of something they will never want. There is just one thing bothering your citizenry to-day. That ts that utterly un-American Eighteenth Amendment. If persisted in any longer {t will wreck your Nation, for they surely will scatter to every cor- ner of the globe. TRUE BLUE. Not Interested, ‘To the Dilitor of The Evening World: I am glad others are tired of having such gruesome news as the Elwell murder occupying so much valuable space. The Bluebeard affair had no more than finished when the Elwell case comes along. Why not use the space for educational purposes? Who, pray tell me, is interested in ‘The Pink Pajama Girl?" ‘Also, why all the valuable time of detectives spent in hunting Elwell's slayer? The majority of us lve a hard working, honest and decent life and at our demise our relatives will have to pay for a small notice to be in- serted in the paper, The Government and law take so much valuable money, time nd trouble for such affairs, but should a woman be left with small children to support she goes to charity, not the Government, for help. Am glad suf- frage is here. I believe honest efforts will be given a fairer chance, TLOCKAWAY PARK, Efictency of Brain and Brawn, To the Exlitor of The Drening World; I am extremely sorry that my “Why Despise a Collar” letter waa so misunderstood. Nothing was farther from my mind than the reopening of the old, futile, and to me unutterably boresome argument of unions, pro and con, (As a matter of fact, I did not once use the word.) There are arguments AND arguments. Some are debatable, others are—well, there is @ tremendous uproar for a tme, and it sounds as if wonders were be- ing accomplished and then the con- fusion dies down, the dust and feathers gradually settle, by degrees the sulphurous taint in the atmos- phere !s dissipated and we see the wild-eyed, disheveled combatants exactly where they started—NO- WHERE! ’ In my mind, the question is not what “button” you wear. And, what ig more, I refuse to lose my temper because @ man has the idea that he can be a REAL man without any “button” at all, If he has the qual- {ties essential to individual success, whether he be a coal passer or a bank clerk, he needs fo union support to ke his way in the world, ‘hy own personal peason for leaving poenranensnaiectemn eaten MED Tero AGAINST WILSON UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake ‘ (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) DON’T MAKE A PET OF YOURSELF. If your mother made a pet of you, as some foolish mothers do, you can’t help it. If she still tries to make a pet of you, now you are grown, you will have to let it go at that. But don’t make a pet of yourself. Don’t consider yourself before you consider other people. Don’t fear that you are going to be mistreated; that nobody will give you a chance; that you are always getting the worst of it in life. You will be mistreated from time to time. make up your mind to that. Often you will be used unfairly, You will see men who are not as competent as you are put over your head. This is not a perfect world. Nobody ever escapes injustice in it. You can But what of it? Haven't thousands of other men met with the same injustices and conquered them? Haven't all sorts of nren, without half your chance, got themselves out of gutters and become men of affairs? These men didn’t pet themselves. They didn’t worry every time they felt ill, or feel outraged every time some- body spoke to them harshly. They buckled down to life as they found it, and beat it. Anybody who is worth his salt can do the same thing— provided he has got a brain and has learned how to use it. Self-pity and self-petting, however, will never do you any good and are bound to do you a great deal of harm. Get out of the habit if you have it, Take an even break with the men in the same game. Don’t expect better treatment than they get. Don't whine if you happen to get worse treatment. You hate to see other men petted. You hate to see other men who are continually taking better care of them- selves than’ they take of their wives and families, Don’t be that kind of a man, If you pet yourself you will have a monopoly of that sort of petting; and it will not be a profitable monapoly. wi : A Not for Vanity, Says Lady Astor. ’ Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright, 1920, by Tho Prewe Publishing Oy (The Now York Brening World.) * 'O represent the human point of view—that is the mission whic, Lady Astor, tho first and only woman member of the British Pare lament, sees for women in politica, Because of her remarkable political experience, and Because she was borm an American, women in this coune try, about to. attain their political majority, should be especially inter= ested in a recent interview with her, summing up what she thinks women ean and should accomplish in politly cal life. ‘ “With the best intentions in the world,” declares Lady Astor, “I dg not see how the average man can compare with a woman of sense and experience In gecing things from the human side, and this ts specially the case with the average member of Parliament”—I am sure Lady Astor would agree it is also “speciay the caso” with the average Congressman or Senator—“because all his training and preoccupations concern them- selves with material facts and fig- ures, so he thinks in statistics 1 stead of working our social problems out in terms of men, women and children, “The care of the blind, the adoptior of children, maternity and infan' welfare, labor conditions for women, divorce, education, food __ prices, health and sanitation, housing, hos- pitals, illegitimacy, income tax -hard- ships, poor law reform, social purity, tuberculosis, and unemployment — these are not necessarily women's questions, of course, but they are human problems where women are very deeply concerned, “Men cannot do women's work as as well as their own, We have had centuries of sex legislation. What we want nowadays are lawmakers who will respect the interests of the whole community, and here, i am convinced, women will do splendid service bee cause of thelr genuine response to the whole range and force of human suf- fering. At least they will not be ashamed, as men sometimes are, of their enthusiasms for humanity, “Much that has never been suM- ciently recognized has been dono f women by men in Parliament—this cannot be too often admitted—but this does not dim one’s eyes to the fact that’ public life needs the strong: Idealism of women, as well as their pecullar way of uniting the ideal with the practica}, Women may and must influence thelr sons and husbands aud realize the vote as a personal sponsibility to be exercised as con- science dictates. “The voice of women," Lady Astor continued, “will go far, I think, to set~ te that vexed question, the double standard of morality, and a great deal cf the groundwork*lies in the sphere of home education. We must see as mothers that we demand from our {boys the same standard of morals we expect from our girls.” | Lady Astor was asked about the need of more womeh M. P.'s by J. Py Collins, Who obtained this interview for the Boston Evening Transcript. “No one realizes this need better than I,” she said. “But if women en- ter public |ife in any numbers, as they must do and goon, they must do so for love of public service and not as ja road to prominence or a concession to personal vanity. They will find it ja hard iife and discover there is a great deal to learn, especially in in- | Vestigating facts without impatience jand without intolerance. What I am |continually saying to other women is, Don't take up politics from the standpoint of a career, for this is go- |ing to be more and more of a tempta- |tlon and emphatically one to avoid. We only want women who will really help, but we want them more than I can say Finally, as the mother of lx, Lady Astor makes a special for chil- | dren, -she is re- \ferring to the regulation of the drink {traffic—‘as in so many others, experi- ence shows that the quickest way to | the facts, and often to reform as well, is through real thought for the chil- dren. There certainly seems every jreason why in times when necessities jare none too plentiful we should see |that the sugar which ought to go to he children is not squandered on fancy eatables and luxuries of trade, “The war which has orphaned so many children has given them a voice Jat last in a kindof way, and while the future of the nation and the race is uppermost in people's minds tt ought to be kept there until we suc- ceed in securing for the next genera- tion the full and proper means of health and nourishment.” Blot abial “That’sa Fact” By Albert P. Southwick. In_ 1776, that memorable resolution, the Declaration of Independence, was passed in Congress without one dis- senting vote on this day, but it was not proclaimed until ‘the Fourth, and hence the latter day is celebray . the field of manual labor 1s this: No healthy young man with any mind at all need worry about the present, but how about that same man twenty-five or thirty years from now? What then? I could step out right now and manhandle freight all day without the slightest {ll effects, but twenty~ five years from now I COULDN'T, and my living expenses will be much greater then than they are now. Say what you like, argue all you please, but remember this: Physical efficiency, after a certain period, be- gins to diminish; mental efficiency Constantly increases, reaching its maximum at just that time in a man’s life when he has most need of a sure, le Incom®, comfortabl pone Last Sunday, June 27, my and I again visited the in one house. such abominable gouging? mirable paper were goin, such cases as What happened? How about th that violators, IT suppose I sound like a chr “kicker,” but, believe me, sir, [ a At Coney I ‘To the Baitor of The Brening World; Allow me to make a kick against the Coney Island bathhouse “Barons.” Sunday morning, June 20, a friend and myself decided to go to Coney] put up with it? for a swim. Arriving there at 9 A. M., red-blooded Ameri have above. n's blood bol; to F, 8, SHBRWOOD, waywere Charged 60 cents each (hava June 28, 1920, pe es + 4 J : ' 4 ing our own sults and towels) for) separate houses, which is reasonable. friend bathhouse, and, having our own sults and towels again, were charged $1 each and both | Do you not.think it an outrage that the American public must stand for Some time ago I read in your ad-| the authorities to make arrests where this were practised, police, who were go- | ing to stop baliplaying on the beuch? If I were a deputy I could have had Coney Island Police Court filled with , not, but {t sure makes a law abiding, put up with such as the Can nothing be done, and must we ae On this day Gen. Washington ar- rived at Cambridge, M in 1778, just fifteen days after the Rattle of Bunker Hill, and took command of the American Army of 14,500 men, In 1642, this day, occurred the death lot Mary de Medicis, the Queen- jmother, who was the promoter of the massacre of St, Bartholomew, In 1853, on July 2, Capt, Ingraham lot the U. 8. sloop of war St. Louis, at Smyrna, hearing of a design to convey the Austrian refugee, Martin Koszta, to Trieste, demanded the sur- render of the fugitive and trained his guns on the Austrian brig, A compro. mise was effected by delivering Koszta to the safekeeping of the French Consul, eo. New York City has an acreage, tn parks, of 1,12, or @ population’ of about 6,880 to every acre of p'ay- ground, ' The first elevated road put n operation in New York Cit rom Battery Place, through wich Street and Ninth Avenue to Street, operated by cable, on July | tent 4 m to OR |