The evening world. Newspaper, July 16, 1920, Page 14

a - @he ebay extort, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ny [Povitnea Dall: Sunday by the Press Publ! os Gecapter tea, te te a hk Row, New York. PRIVATE OPERATION ON TRIAL. GQ RIOUS charges that shippers have been ham- ~~ pering car movement by bribing railroad em- ployces have been brought to the attention of the ‘interstate Commerce Commission, It is alleged that yardmen have been paid to. favor firms In the supply and switching of cars. > The result is easy to imagine. When a whole train ts delayed in order to give preference to one car, it means that the other cars are not giving full service, | Such charges may be hard to prove, but railroad officials should certainly be aware of such conditions and shoud supply a remedy by Intelligent super- vision and the shifting of suspected yard crews. } Commercial clubs and Chambers of Commerce should investigate and bring pressure to bear on shippers who seek special privileges. ‘The car shortage Is not great in comparison with the total business of the railroads. The trouble” comes from a relatively small surplus which con- gests shipping yards and platforms and slows down the whole movement. If the yard crews have been selling favored treatment on a wide scale, this fact alone would account for most of the present serious congestion. Lax supervision under Government control may have been responsible for the beginnings of bribery of yard crews. But the railroads have been in pri- vate hands for more than four’ months. It is high time that the benefits of private supervision should show. Presidents, superintendents, divisional and tenmi- nal supervisors should tighten their discipline, Public management was on trial-during the war. ft was not highly successful. Private management is no less on trial now. If the railroads cannot demonstrate superiority, the Public will soon forget {ts war lessons, THE BREAK OF THE GAME. ee Ce a te the defeat of the Resolute in the first of the races for the America’s Cup. ; , Builders of the defender took the chances of light onstruction for speed. They stand or fall on the not only of their construction, but also of judgment, } For all that, Americans thave no reason to feel “cast down, Quite the reverse. Resolute’s showing ry was all that could be hoped for. + ‘Craft for craft and crew for crew, the performance “of the defender was admirable. Until the halyards | broke the Resolute was winning on an even basis \ and without regard to the time handicap, ) Barring the unforeseen, the backers of Resolute thave as much reason for confidence now as they did | yesterday morning. In light winds, at least, Resolute | Bppeared to have @ decided advantage over the challenger. , it was like Sir Thomas to offer to il the race ‘@pver. His sportsmanship needs no further proof. ‘ But 2 race ts a race, America may feel fortunate ») that the damage was not more serious. } To-morrow America expects to even the score, Brom Long Island to Alaska and return is a { tong, tong way. Americans get a rough and | ready measure of the size of their country when it is announced that the aerial grasshoppers who measure distance in 300-mile hops expect to take more than six weeks for the trip. Even this ar rangement allows for a great short cut over Canadian territory. THE LAWYER NOMINEE. 6677" OO MANY LAWYERS” has been an oft re- peated criticism of American government. ‘Farming and industrial groups, in particular, have been prone to voice this complaint. | ‘Yet in a year, when both old parties turned down fawyer candidates and nominated newspaper owners, the Farmer-Labor Party seemed most partial to La Follette, Prank P. Waish and Dudley Fleld Malone were most discussed as possibilities, Ail three are lawyers. ‘The dark horse nominee, Parley Parker Christen- sen, is a practising attorney of Salt Lake City, Gov. Frazier of North Dakota was the only farmer mentioned. He polled few votes. Uniess Eugene Debs may be classed as a laborer, there was no distinctly Labor candidate. It & to marvel, not to understand. ‘Those who visit the City Hall seeking relief from the Mayor’s Rent Profiteering Committee will view with interest the mobilization of ma- chinery for construction of the new Court House, ‘They scarcely can fait to consider the number of . homes that this equipment will NOT build this summer, HAVE A PERSONAL STAKE. UL America is interested in the Cup races. It is international competition on a large scale, All America is interested, but those most inter- », ested ase the sportsmen who have an individual stake In the Resolute, whose money has made it possible for the defender to compete. An even bigger International contest is coming. In the Olympic games all America will compete with all the world, Given a fair ‘chance, Americans can win. No other nation has more or better athletes. But America bids fair to be crippled through lack of funds to pay the way of the full number of ath- letes which the rules allow. =, | A fund of $200,000 is needed to defray the ex- penses of teams, including a full supply of substt- tutes. In athletics, as one baseball manager has re- marked, “a team is as good as Its substitutes,” To-day the interest in the Olympic games is not so Intense as it will be when the contests are under way. By that time it will be an honor to be wear- Ing the gold button that signifies a contribution of $5 or more to the Olympic fund. Now Is the time to get the button, The commit- tee needs the money and must have it soon if Amer- ica is to be represented by full teams. Now is the time to acquire a money interest in the success of the Olympic athletes. When the games commence will be too late. The office of the Olympic Committee fs at No. 290 Broadway. Send a check to back America’s efforts. LABOR AND PLATFORMS.. FTER comparing the Republican and Demo- cratic platforms, the American Federation of Labor Committee, headed by Samuel Gompers, summarizes its findings as follows: » It is but fair to say that the Democratic platform marks a measure of progress not found in the platform of the Republican Party. In relation to labor’s proposals, the planks written into the Democratie platform more nearly approximate the desired declara- tions of human rights than do the planks found in the Republican platform, If both platforms were condensed to a fraction of their present length, such a report would be un- necessary. The differences in the “measures of progress” would be apparent. From the standpoint of Organized Labor, two sentences typify the attitudes of the parties. The Republican platform ‘says: ‘We recognize the juitice of collective bar- gaining as a means of promoting good will, establishing closer and more harmonious re- lations between employers and employees and realizing the true end of industrial justice, The Democrats wrote: Each (Labor and Capital) has the inde- feasible right or organization, of collective bargaining and of speaking through repre- sentatives of their own choosing. The Republican stand is vague. The Democratic is clear. Judge Gary could indorse the first and then choose the spokesmen with whom he would bargain. “Representatives of their own choosing” is a cardi- mal point with Labor. It was the crucial point on which the First Industrial Conference split, The Democratic principle is in accord with the best in- formed public opinion, which supports Labor's in- sistence on this right. Labor's report on the platforms will wield great influence in the campaign. It is an analysis of prin- ciples, not of personalities. But when the voting workingman prepares to cast his ballot he will be unable to eliminate the personal equation. ‘When election time draws near the voter cannot fail to recall the prophecy of Senator Harding’s campaign manager, “Some fifteen men—will sit down In seclusion—I will present the name of Sena- tor Harding—and—they will put him over.” It was a sinister forecast that proved only too true. Labor cannot forget it—nor should any other intelligent voter. “Some fifteen men” who “put Harding over” were not the sort of men to whom Labor could pre- sent a just case with any confidence of gaining a fair hearing, Republican Party organs generally applaud Candidate Harding's acceptance of the League of Nation: campaign issue, In so doing they take good care to avoid the issue by launching into the glories of Republicanism, past and present, SETTLE THIS QUESTION, OROUGH PRESIDENT CURRAN and Alder- manic President La Guardia differ absolutely on the power of the city to construct homes on vacant lots owned by the city. They agree, however, that the situation is menac- ing and should be met by energetic measures. If, or when, the Legislature meets it should have authoritative information as to the present powers of the city. Settlement of the question might help Goy, Smith decide on the need for a special session, Advice of the Corporation Counsel and the At- torney General should be invoked to indicate whether Mr. Curran or Mr. La Guardia is correct. If necessary, a friendly court action, should be brought. New York may not find it expedient to embark on a programme of municipal housing, but knowl- curb the rapacity of rent profiteers + » a | edge that the city has power to do so would tend to | Getting Nowhere! won a te: sbiishing Co, Brening World), Hn Rd | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS — What kind of letter do you pnd most readabie? Isn't tt the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ts fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. _— A Question of Control, ‘To the Editor of The Brening World: Allow me to answer H. Potter in; regard to having his car under con- trol at all times. Either he ts driving @ wheelbarrow or a one-lung motor | or he would not be able to make euch | an assertion. There is no one driving @ car who is ready to meet every) emergency, so the fallacy of his letter | or theory is plain to be seen, Many! drivers are exonerated not through | money, as some of the women drivers, but because of the sheer dumbness of | the victim, Do not think for a min-) ute the writer is one of those mile- minute men, Far from it. Rather a cautious and ticketless chauffeur of nine years. TED PRIOR. New York, July 13. Drivers and Joy Walkera. ‘To the Fat tor of The Evening World: In answer to “A Chauffeurs Advice About Stopping Speeding,” I think Mr, Potter's views are sound concern- ing the drivers, yet I cannot agree with him entirely. T have been driving cars for elghteen years, holding twelve licenses in tha State of New York and six in Europe. I have had one accident—not serious, thanks to good brakes—when a man deliberately stepped in front of my machine through lack of common sense on his part. The officer on duty in the vicinity saw the accident and laid the entire blame upon the man injured, Conditions differ considerably in New York compared to some large cities of Kurope, I would suggest that if any person !s injured by an auto- mobile on a regular crossing the en- tire blame should be laid to the driver. On the other hand, any one who is injured in the space between crossings should eliminate the driver from all responsibility. I think it would be well to punish thoughtless pedestrians, as well as drivers, if, after educating both, either violates the law. I cannot for the life of me under- stand how a pedestrian who for the moment {s absent-minded enough to step off the sidewalk to cut across the street to save a few steps to the reg- ular crossing should expect @ driver to be guardian or nurse over his per- gon. WILLIAM A. BARRETT, New York, July 12. Plenty of Shooeblacks. | To the Editor of The Evening World Your eleven-year-old writer in writ- ing about New York City complains about there being no shoeblacks, as Horatio Alger has eaid. If your writer will visit Nassau and Wall Streets some duy about noon he will. aes enough of them to give him a hun- dred shines in twonty minutes, Incl- dentally, he will nee also a nuinber of cops thereabouta, BK. K, New York, July 19 Three Exceptions, 9 the HAltor of The Evening Wort; ‘in his letter of July 6 Claude Wal- ter Cullen stated that “with few exceptions, and exceptions prove the rule, the general verdict of our re- turning soldiers who actually fought 1s that while they never would care to go through ‘that hell again’ they would gladly fight Mugiand.” He claimed that the foregoing statement | Was not guesswork but the resu!i of research work. Some research work, I'll tell the world! Snap out of it, Claude, We volunteered and fought through the whole of the St. Mihiel and Argonne scraps and know many of our “buddies” who, like ourselves, would not hesitate to go through it again for our Uncle Sam. There is Irish blood in our veins, but the only Irish we admire are the real ones who, instead of staying home to conspire with the Germans and stab England in the back, went out and bravely fought and died with the British Tommies against the foes of civiliza- tion, JOSPPH A, CUNNINGHAM, GEORGE 8. CUNNINGHAM, WILLIAM A. CUNNINGHAM. 193 Schaeffer Av-, Brookiyn, July 18, ‘The 20 Per Cent. Grab, ‘To the Kaitor of The Prening World Please accépt the compliments of a steady reader for your article In to- day's edition, headed “Highly Paid City Officials Get the Big Salary Raises Under 20 Per Cent. Plan,” It certainly ts a very truthful article, The employee receiving $3,500 or more a year surely gets a fair increase, but what about the $1,200 or $1,500 a year man whose Increase amounts to a measly $240 or $300 to meet a 120 per cent. increase in ‘the cost of living? The competitive employees always receive the emall salaries, while the exempt men receive the lange salarie: And still the various civil service societies and reform societies hire lawyer after lawyer to fight “veter- ans’ preference,” while flagrant vio- lations of the so-called merit system go unnoticed, What city employees need is one live organization and not one headed by an “exempt employee,” one whose increase under the 20 per cent. plan will amount to $1,600. X-CITY EMPLOYER. Now York, July 10, 1920. “lever of a Sort.” To the Filier of The Evening Worlt: A bit of British propaganda that the late William Dean Howells might call “clever of & 80) appeared in your iasue of July 12 over the signature M, A. Snaed, It was in reply to @ iet~ tel from Claude Walter Cullen, pub- shed in The Evening World, and which, because {t told of anti-Tritish | focllng among American soldiors, | wumulated Mr, Snaed to Mterary ac- | tivity in defense of blessed Albion Mr. Bhaed God-blessed Mr, Cullen clover #tuff--becmuse he Judged him to be Lrish by bie name, not barring ‘ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) SPEAK O UT. Mistakes, or rather misunderstandings, are responsible for many of the world’s troubles and most poignant sorrows. Many a lifelong friendship one party to it misunderstood has been broken because the motives of the other. Wives have been separated from husbands and promising business or professional careers have been wrecked by mis- understandings. If a person for whom you have a real affection does something which hurts you, do not mope and grieve about it. It is equally foolish to tell him bluntly to go his own way If you cannot take his loyalty to you on Learn the motiv and you go yours. faith, use your tongue. Very probably what seemed to y injure you was an act prompted advancement or future happiaes know the motives behind the act it will have an entirely different aspect. There may be such a thing average person is not endéwed wi us to express our thoughts and to learn the thoughts of others. No one will know you feel wronged unless you say so. they do not know your attitude they will not feel any need for explanations that will clear the whole situation, Ibsen is generally regarded as one of the greatest pes- Almost invariably the characters in simists in literature. his plays meet with disaster befe almost invariably the disaster is knowledged or a misunderstanding of an act. often is in not speaking out abou needle that much of the trouble and di from failure to understand and m Don’t lose friends and busin are touchy. what lay behind the act you objec self and others miserable over it. y come between the characters. But the lesson behind Ibsen’s apparent pessimism Is If you think. you have been wronged, find ‘out s behind his act, ‘ou a deliberate attempt to solely by interest in your ss, or perhaps when you as mind-reading, but the th it. Language was given If ore the final curtain, But due to a mistake not ac- The mistake ut some shadow which has saster in this world come eet the issue squarely, ess associates because you t to before you make your- even the Claude Walter, I make, jn)in matters genealogical and ethnological, | ness that England could lay this cou d seeks to cover especially as applied to. nomenclature, | try pretension to no greater knowledge than might properly be claimed by the average man, Yet I should say offhand that Snaed has a Gaelic tang, and that, though it may now be re- garded as bally British, it had tt origin in Bonnie Scotland. This brings to mind a couple of pithy and_perti- his nent sentences» which Dr. Samuel) Johnson wrote, let us hope without malice; “Much may be done with a Scotchman if he be caught young” and “The brightest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the highroad that leads to England.” Mr, Snaed wrote that “It ts regret- table that Irishmen of his (Cullén's) calibro secking ‘the pursult of happ!- noss’ in this country would be glad to neo it laid waste tf his wonderful Ireland only regained her freedom," ing them Irish nnn 5 which he indicates his cocksure. waste Mr, Sn tracks by pro. eting himself int the shadow of a great name by quot- ing the late Theodore Roosevelt as saying that “a man whose ha another country is greater than his love for America” is not a good Amer- jean. As regards Mr. Snaed, might it not also be said that “a man whose love for another country 1s than his affection for America is not a good American?” Theodore Roosevelt claimea several nationallties for his ancestors, among It is to be hoped that after “life's fitful fever’ he sleeps too well to be disturbed by any revamp- red fo’ of his verbal strenuosities. Mr, Snaed likens Irish agitators tn this country to the Russian radicals that were deported, Now, +I ask, n19 |not the propagandists of ‘a powerful| 1843, aged 88. > | greater Farmers Produce Only What They Need By Sophie Irene / ogb. FTER discussions with practical farmers in various counties of this State some startling tacts concerning food confront the city dweller and consumer at large—facts that might be said tobe nothing short of alarming. Just where these growing condi- tions will lead is a matter of grave concern. It is not diffioult to deter- mine that food shortage and higher prices must come when you stop to think of some of the following items: In five counties—namely, Putnam, Dutchess, Albany, Montgomery and Oneida—the average age of the farmer is over fifty years. There are practically no young mea ‘working on the farms—only old men and boys, the former in the majority, Men between sixty and seventy and boys between fourteen and seventeem, are the main workers in the flelds. The farmer is getting tired with the weight of the work and he fs grad- ually reducing his production. Nos only this, but he is only producing the foods that require the least work. As John Penny of Paterson, N. Yo eixty-six years of age, stated: “The day is notfar distant when the average farmer will limit his produc- tion practically to his own use. To say nothing of the inability to secure farm help, the price he gets for hia products does not pay him sufficient to warrant his producing. “There are too many commissioners and middlemen who take their toll first from the farmer and then all along down the line to the consumen “In return, we've got to pay ali the middlemen’s profits on the produce we must buy. “For example, tf ave go to buy meat we have to pay an enormous price for it; if we go to sell meat we get #0 little for it that It does not pay us to produce it. ‘Therefore why not pro- duce only what we need ourselves? “Not only this, but we are made te pay such ridiculous prices for the provisions which we must have and which we ove heretofore not pro= a ourselves. For example, this morning I pala 30 cents a pound for sugar. “Everything we go to buy constant~ ly grows in price, so that we are nar- rowing down to selling as little as possible and buying as little as we can, If this continues it will resuive itself into a question of self-presers vation, which is the first law of nature, producing practically only what we need ourselves.” The labor conditions were well put by Mr. Penny's neighbor, D. Nichols, also of Paterson, { found him in the field hammering at a wagon that had broken dowa while he was ploughing the field. “Just a few potatoes for our own use I am planting,” said this seventy-one-years old farmer with his kindly, patient face. He gets up at 4 o'clock in the morn ing and works until 6 at night in am effort to make his forty-six cows pro= duce sufficient milk to make it pay. And his 160 acres of land are pro- ducing only a few potatoes and a lit tle hay sause he can only get one mgn to help him, You people from the city don't realize with what we have to cont®nd, You call men away from us into t }factory. They start with the whist and stop with the whistle. You are bound to get that much work out of |them, But here on the farnt it is dif- |ferent. You cannot work op whistles. |Sometimes it takes a man here con sidgrable time to get started at his work. And he can't stop at a given \nioment, very time he does we lose by it. “Therefore, men who can go to the elty, do so. Quite naturally they don’t care about working on a farm, “Another th.ng, the city people tome out into. the country either for country homes or to do a little farm- ing, and they spoil the farm hands for * “They get a fad for farming and they want farm hands. They don't care how much they pay for theta when they want them, and conse- quently get them away from us. “Never mind that they get tired of farming and run away: but they have spoiled the farm hand for us just the Ba Mr. Nichols also had something to say about thé’ milk question, “New York people are paying too much for milk," he says. "The trouble 1s not with the farmer. With feed at over $80%a ton, the farmer pract cally takes the milk to the con- sumer in cans and buys it back in bags of feed.” When I asked him why the farmors did not plant a sufficient amount of feed for their Own cattle consumption he stated that the cultivation of such feed to produce the best milk requires not only additional labor, which is so scarce, but careful aevelopment of the land for this purpose, So that it is easier even at Inflated prices to buy most of his feed. He ng. gets it coming and _—— “‘That’s aFact’’ By Albert P. Southwick 120, by The Prees Publishing Qo, "York Brening World), Copynigit, (he On July 16, 1799, Stony Polnt, on Hudson River, N, -¥., captured by the Americans at -half-past 13 at night, A eee In 1640, on July 16, Corneltus Van Tienhoven, Secretary of New Neth- r| erlands, and 100 men rashly at- tacked the Raritans who lived at @ small river back of Staten Island. The Indians sought revenge the next year. , . The drowning of Margaret Fuller @Ossoll on her return from Europe Y., on July dy"nor that husband was recovered, but fant son's corpse Was washed either her their ashore, 8 Samuel Hahnemann, founder of the homeopathic system of medical practice, died at Paris on July 16, Is Mr, Snaed so pro-Mnglish that! nation who operate in this country (ee en he does not believe the Amertean| more to be dreaded than are the ar-| The Hegira (flight of the Eagle ts able to peck out the a of! dent proclaimors of the grievances ot| prophet) or Mobanimedan Era, the British Lion and then rend the|a small, long-suffering, powerless na-| commenced on July 16, 62% It hide of the beast with tis ns, leav-| tion such as eland? wi asituted by Om the 2d ing the clean-up for the vultures? CHARLES EVERSON, | Caliph, in imitation of the era of ‘fa the paragraph following the one ichmond Hills, July 12 the martyr