The evening world. Newspaper, July 20, 1920, Page 22

‘ ' ‘Girl Workers Needed For let each builder exercise his ingenuity, skill-and judg- ment to the utmost. Let him build to spread all the canvas he dages. Let him consider the course, the probable winds and the skill of his crews and build accordingly. Up- State F arms Then let the best yacht win. ' peepee In this direction lies the best and truest sports- By Sophie Irene Loeb. © manship. TIME FOR COOL COUNSEL. N. order to ascertain the, exact conditions affecting the food of the New York consumer, I have talked with practical farmers—large ~ session, New York State now fias a surplus of more than _ $31,000,000, y w year’s surplus was more than $21,000,000. fs $5,000,000 more than the amount realized om the State income tax. {The question is, “Why a State income tax?” Qt is significant that next year’s budget proposes * tee%remoye $16,000,000 from this surplus. » . Here is the perfect example of the functioning of 1 ga « tive political body. 7 j ~_. Af it ts possible to get hold of the money the |} “politicians quickly find a way to spend it. 4 os Here is the reason why up-State politicians favor { |) | “theinoome tax. It gives up-State a charfe to spend + LE | Ait'the expense of the metropolis. ‘ inniflew York City pays the bills and the rural sec- 3 «tions reap the benefits. Salt is conceded that Gov. Smith’s proposals for ‘Widget reform and executive reorganization would bewresult in substantial economies. “Tt is evident that no very large saving would be ‘VSrequired to eliminate the need for an income tax Setighich is generally obnoxious and not productive in )&Uproportion to its nuisance power. sbitw Why an income tax? - “Why not get the State on a business basis and “save enough to make the income tax unnecessary? | Begin a special session now—just before election— set Goy. Smith would hold the whip hand. He could Bal an economy programme which would make _,fthe State income tax unnecessary. bodeiolf not, he could take the issue to the people, ask se Why an income tax?” and point to the recalcitrant dypelegislators for an answer. Penden: a "UNCLE SAM” AND THE COVENANT. ee? NCLE SAM OF FREEDOM RIDGE” bids fair to become a classic of the coming ce The World reprinted the story many have that every voter ought to read it before his -vote. The, suggestion is good. But here is another even p ee thing every voter should read and digest. It TS the Covenant of the League of Nafions. + + Each and every voter owes it to himself and to ‘this country to read this document carefully and with an open mind before he votes. The Covenant, itself, if read with care and com- "pre fs the one best refutation of all the maliciously false charges trumped up by partisans _ desperately striving to becloud and confound the > _.,. If, as’ seams probable, the League becomes the paramount issue, the Covenant will become the cam- Paign text book. Those who indulge in the great Afmerican sport of “talking politics” will need it ever at Critics of the League make broad and Beping yeneralizations they will find it most in- »te@otvenient to be confronted with the text of the Covenant and requested to quote the line and article ‘on which statement is based. avlfTalking politics” bids fair to assume new dignity “fitts year. The talker with the loudest voice and “jhost positive demeanor will no longer have so great “an.advantage. The quiet chap who knows, and who # ison the spot with a “show me” copy of the text, sill have his innings. : : vlawols r cboliry - Weta « REVISE THE RULES. 2 HE yachting expert of the London Daily Tele- one graph criticises the rules by which the Sham- ¥*idek is handicapped and says that in light, fluky -s»ibreezes “it is Resolute who can concede time and net Shamrock.” -ax»-If his criticism applies to the present races, it does oeemtot seem good. 8 Hhe rules of the race were laid down long ago. S**Phe builders knew and accepted the chances. Sir ~*"Thomas believes the features which penalized the ~ Shamrock were worth the penalty, There would be no reason gr justice in changing rules now. Resolute was chosen to defend the cup ine preference to Vanitie because of superior ability -t0 travel in the faintest of breezes. _ was all part of the game. ~ if the Telegraph corsespondent's criticism ap- ~ plies to future races it is excellent. Ne The handicap kills interest. A race ought to be iy not a mathematical calculation. The fastest Seip © -H the Resolute can win on even terms, well and . America will rejoice. But if the Resolute beeen win on the handicap allowance, America would haye small satisfaction. **"When the present races are over, English and can representatives should devise a few simple {increase in pay awarded by the Railroad Wage Board. True, the Increase has been long delayed, but it comes at a time when the rise in living costs seems to have been checked, at a time when employees are no longer able to force progressive wage raises in other industries, True, the decision does not meet the full de- mands of the railroad workers, but the Wage Board has made a substantial award. The average in- crease is reported as 21 per cent. of the present In general the largest increases go to the wage. lower paid workers, Any attempt of the raflroaders to force further concession or to mete out vengeance because they do not receive all they asked would be a serious “Outlaw” action to tie up transportation now would arouse universal opposition, Those who participated would -soon find themselves outlaws | error. in fact. Under the Esch-Cummins law this increase must be passed on to the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion and met by a raise in rates which will in turn be passed on to the public, ‘The taxpayers’ railroad bill for the last fiscal year was $1,036,009,000, in advance. if they are so blind as to use it. thing resembling a general strike. be turned against them, the striking workers, be broken, circles. years, even under protest. labor forces employed. This, they observe, the reports. In this development lies sooner or later. r stave off the workings of the market. duce working hours to, seven a day. claim. garment workers may like the term, business, business. If the railroad workers feel that they have not received justice, then their only effective course is to etlucate the public fo their necessities, or even threats of strikes prejudice the public mind Facing the question fairly, it qannot be denied that a railroad strike would exert a tremendous hardship on the country. Strikers have this power It goes without saying, however, that the Gov- ernment Would exert all its power to break any- In this it woulkt ‘be backed by an overwhelming public opinion, Any measures, however severe, would be approved. Eventually this power the railroaders hold would +A railroad strike would soon tie up all industry and throw into the labor market millions of un- employed, As rapidly as these could be trained they would be put to work on the railfoads in place of Sooner or later and after a tremendous amount of suffering the strike would Now is the time for cool counsels in, raflroad Acceptance of the decision of the umpire will strengthen public faith in the, good intentions and fair policies of labor organizations, against the decision—and against the public—would destroy much that labor has gained in the last few Good tactics demand acceptance of the awani— | The way to further increase lies through reason—not through the strike, EFFICIENCY INCREASING. ANUFACTURERS reporting to the Merchants’ Association note a-general and progressive Increase in efficiency and productive capacity of the has continued for several { months. An optimistic sentiment pervades most of hope of lower prices Not even the profiteers can forever WORKING FOR THEMSELVES. N INTERESTING industrial developnient 4s the announcement of the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union plan of competing with employers, By establishment of co-operative factories and co- operative stores to dispose of the output, the organ- ization proposes to cut prices to the public and re- In theory, at least,, this is not impossible, There is no denying that one fair profit in place | Of several exorbitant profits would permit larger payment to labor and still reduce prices, The garment workers have been classed as.one of the more radical of the regular trade union organiza- tions. This development will hardly bear out the It is essentially “capitalistic’—little as the If the workers are able to reduce their hours, from eight to seven as the result of such a scheme, then « that hour gained will represent capital’s share on the capital and initiative the workers put into the In return the workers must share the risks of Whenever workers are willing to assume these risks on a co-operative basis there is every reason or the public to patronize and encourage such ex- Strikes To the Eiitor of (The Evening World: Having read in your Sunday World that delightful story entitled “Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge,” would like t@ say I wish every one would read it, It reads just like real facts—of giving one’s self for the cause of all that was good and noble and for the country they loved best. Our noble and grand President ‘Wilson almost sacrificed hie life for) the Stars and Stripes and the Land) of the Free, as did miljions of our dear boys, to make our beloved cbun- try sage and free to all. .But after this sacrifice, what has happened? This noble and grand man, our Pres- ident, has been talked about shame- fully because he tried to do all in his power to show the people of the great United States of America the best way to carry out the work he had started and tried to finish. But they could see only those few men up in Congress and hear all they could say against the head of the country. But time rights everything and the truth always prevails, Our noble President's work aad ill- ness have not been in vain, He %s| going to get well again and that Is one proof that his work is got fin- ished. And while he is getty bet- ter the people have found out what the other few have done for us all: Nothing. All they have done is to try and blemish the good name of that grand American, Woodrow Wil- son, His good work will win in the end, The truth and right are mighty and will prevail. Cc. BE. B, July 14, 1920, A strike A Health Menace, ‘To the Kititer of Nhe Brening World: While Bay the other day I noticed a very large amount of oll in the water, I think this should be stopped, as it 1s @ menace to health, A FREQUENT SWIMMER, Wanted—A Poem. ‘To the Editor of The Evening Works Some time ago I read a very clever poem in which were the following lines: “Born of the juice of the grape, Purpled in a glorious sun, Born of the corn's rich flavor, (Both of which were placed here by some wise-thinking force for man's consumption.) He lived to survive and smile At fair-fought battles. He dies—the victim of perfidy.” I believe the title was “Our Friend ‘Booze Is Dying.” Could you or any reader supply the rest of it, or the author's name? I thank you, ALBERT LASKER. No. 25 East 14th Street, City, What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand wor There is fine mental ewercise and a lo} to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. « “Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge.” | League guy, from telling us poor sin- | July 13, 1920, swimming at Sheepshead | something suffers, jday prove that he is not. As soon as the so-called driver is let loose on a| in a couple of hundred? of satisfaction, in trying ners how to behave? Prohibition and Prussianisni, Pro- hibitionists and Prussians should be “yerboten” in the land of the free. K, ERICSON, 8. A» W. Vet. Great Kills, Staten Island, N. Y.,| In view of the controversy aroused over the maiming and killing of pe- destrians by reckless and careless automobile drivers I have been tempted to offer a suggestion, Iam a professional chauffeur with eighteen years’ driving experience, so I feel I am in a position to observe why there are so many road accl- dents. The solution does not lle*in revo- cation of licenses (as has been sug- gested by one of our eminent Judges), same licenses to every Tom, Dick and Harry who can scrape up one or two dollars for payment on same. The issuance of licenses by the dozens to managers of auto schools for their so-called expert auto drivers and pupils should be stopped. The driving test by the State is a joke. The driver 1s taken on the least congested gtreet, such as upper West End Avenue or Broadway, the testeg In the frong car, while behind trail fifteen or renty motor vo- hicles (with a driver and a friend on some of them) for a few blocks. His (and his friend's) slip is O, K.'d and in the eyes of the law he is con- sidered & first-class automobile driver, But is he? ‘Well, the accidents every crowded thoroughfare some one or I myself have seen time after time children of ten and twelve years of age driving cars and getting away with it, And the women drivers! How can the thoughts be on what they are dojng when there is 80 much style to be fen on the sidewalks? It's impossible to make most women dri- vers keep their eyes constantly in front, ‘as good drivers should, I know this from experience, so con- sequently In a tight pinch some one suffers. And the mentality of some professional drivers is’ pretty dull, If a lot of drivers had to take a mental examination quite a few would be eliminated from the driving of automobiles. And that's a test ev- ery drives of autos should have, for the protection of the public should be first and foremost. I always un- derstood that was the reason a dri- ver had to have @ license—for ‘the public's sake, But it seems to me it's more a question of how much money the State can taki protection in its present methods, So why not a mental and physiel Our Candidate, Brening Worl) ae egy i New York rate will not be so he” Rauisdaloon'f Martaaale, N.Y, test and a real driving test for dri- but in the curtatlmént of those self- |. ‘TRAVIS'S annual report gives HREATS of a general strike of rail workers Soup gradhare tartare and auoat bi! one more reason for a special Legislative accompany announcement of a $600,000,000 one man the cry of the hour is high { UNCOMMON SENSE ~ By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by Jobo “Blake DON’T TEAR DOWN ‘THE TEMPLE. |Already blinded by ,his captors and finding himself doomed, Samson pulled lown the temple in the ruins of which he and his tormentors were killed. It was an heroic physical act, but it is not a good ex- ample for you to follow. : In the first place, you are not a Samson, Even figura- tively the greatest financiers or politicians of the day are not endoWed with the wonderful powers of the Hebrew hero. ° « When the Hohenzollerns found themselves irretrievably lost they tried to wreck the world by destroying waatonly the economic strength of other nations and by turning loose the forces of disorder, which actually fell first upon weak- ened Germany. But they did ‘act succeed, If you find yourself thwarted in your ambitions or pre- vented by competitors or rival business associates from de- veloping yourself as you feel you should, do not try to wreck the structure of which you are a part. Doubtless you can do it, but even if you can it will only crush you in its fall, Go elsewhere if you ar¢ certaia that by perseverance and courageous effort you cannot succeed in your present place, If you are restrained by the fetters of lack of train- ing or circumstaaces which seem to imprison you in your present job, break them by study, reading and association. with those who can help you. Ng matter how successful you are or how dismal a failure you have been there is always some one ahead of you with: whom you can associate and from whom you can leara how to better yourself, If you feel you have been wronged get out and develop elsewhere, but don’t try to cripple the machine of which you have been a part by laying down on the job or throwing . the moakey wrench of deliberate dishonesty into it. Benedict Arnold tried that and lived to be abhorred by Americans wad English alike. You don’t want to be an Arnold, and ‘you cannot be a Samson, LA — 7 ia “That’s aFact” | By Albert. P. Southwick ° Was purchased from the Indians by Thomas Pell, when the Dutch pro- tested and drove the settlers from } the lana, The first public wharf was built near Whitehall Street, New Am- in, rather than public |, vers of Soromontieet : en the death . B, SMITH, July ia, tee a 3 s Copyright, 1020, by Pree? Puttiahing Co, tiie Sew ak Erening: Wong) ‘The Island of Madeira, covered | with wood (and hence its name), was discovered by John Gonzales Zarco of the Portuguese marine, in 1491; was colonfzed the next year and planted with the Cyprian vine | and the Sicilian sugar cane, . a 8 The first application for a mu- nicipal form of government in New York City was made on July 26, 1649, b; them ing Bnglish—Stevens and Hall. ' We hat On June 6, 1663, the West India Company, at Amsterdam, Holland, ranted the privilege to New York ty merchants of bringing slaves from Africa. Seas To 1654 Westchester County, ek eleven signers, only two of | sterdam, in 1658, Corer On Aug. 27, 1664, Col. Nichols, Governor of New York and New Jersey, arrived from kngland with four frigates and 300 soldiers, cap- turing New Amsterdam. r gee Paes 9 On Jan. 15, 1665, Nichols confis- cated all the property of the West India Company in New York City. ee * John Shute waS licensed schoo!- master to teach Knglish to’ the ch, in New York City, on Oct, oe te In 1669 races were instituted at Hempstead, Long Island, and Cath- arine Harrison was tried for witch- craft in New York City. . o ee The first Latin school of New York City Was opened in 1684, prices of farm necessities and short~ age of Intelligent help. In a desperate effort to obviate the latter condition the Paul T, Brady farm, the fargest in Putnam County, comrising 500 acres, is seeking girl ~ farm. hands, Another one of the farms, also of 500 acres, is at Dover Plains. When I talked to Eugene Brady, manager of this large enterprise, which has nearly 12,000 chickens and 7 chicks a& one of its activities, he statea: . . “Yes, I am looking for girls—intel- ligent ones. During the war I had college girls ands school teachers and I found them a great aeal more efi- cient than the average man who comes to the farm as a greenhorn, “Such women approach the problem! with care and interest. They refuse to fail, Their spirit is fine. They, want to accomplish something and y do. “In fact, if it wasn’t for sixteen. echool teachers from New Rochelle who came out here last summer & should have lost my entire beet crop —coarse beets that were highly im= portant in the feeding of cattle. “They worked with vim and P. and did't stop a minute until o crop wae in. ip “lf I can get some women the city such 4s these I will be glad Ha tiga @ considerable number of Pit Brag; ly Lage ed a ae from a' ey woman who was farm, Her father had ied abd abe, ban era) Ge mother to sup’ 4 letter was thi Laat winter during the b) (aces ond one farm hand having contracted pneu- monia, this young woman was forced’ horses and’ a0 the general work Bo", herded iP ontege id duties, os é ‘coul secure any help and was determined not to r4 ne ‘oe another winter of this at Therefore she was applying to Mr.; niiths shortage of help 49 appalling,' “This shortage of help is a) fe sald Mr. Brady. ‘I have several! teams of horses practically idie be-' cause I cannot even get men to drive them in the fields. “Not only this, but those who do try to work here who come from the city @re so inexperienced that you. have to watch everything they do. ‘They are so incfficient. “Men of considerable intelligence won't go on the farm, Other jets are numerous and lucrative. And yet, what a splendid life it is. If we could bar a more men to come,” he added. Mr. Brady dwelt at considerable length on the farmer having no bank- ing facilities as compared with the ordinary merchant. This has greatly* acted as a deterrent in develyping farms and farm equipment and re- tarded higher efficiency and better fa- ollities toward greater production. “For example,” said Mr. Brady, “there is the farmer practically a fix- ture with his farm. The risk taken” by banks on his property are cer- tainly considerably less than the; average storekeeper. “Yet I venture to say that the gro- cery man in the small town who may drop his business any day has far less difficulty securing credit than the average farmer.” And if any one has an attractive.~ proposition it is this Brady farm. If went all though it, ‘ ‘There is a fine dormitory for the farm hands, equipped yith electricity, heat, splendid mess hMl, é&c., every- thing necesary to make ing attractive. And yet he is calling for women beca' he cannot get @ sum-' cient number df men. While on this fart © talked with two young men. Few of their kind I have seen on the farms. One of them is the poultry super- intendent. He is a college graduate’ and has developed his work to @ sci~ ence. : ah During the blizzard days he shipped: 1,200 eggs a day. i ‘This young man told me: ‘qhe rea-; son the email farmer very often fails is because he doesn’t pay attention to details, He is not painstaking and does not seek to develop his work in the light of newer and better meth- ods.” ‘At this same farm I found a young man from the Bronx. He had been. “over there’ and was not very strong. He eaid’to me: “This has the city’ beat a mile. I have fine board, healthy work and I haven't gota care in the world. When I think of some of my friends in a box of a room in the Bronx, constantly hard up and borrowing, I am glad I am out here.; I think I have more money at the end of the season than my pals at home.” gah pained, U. S. Population F Now 105 Millions HO is Mr. J. A. Hill? W Why, h he Chief Statie-' ticlan of the Census Bureau.! And what has he done now? you ask. He's the fellow who put the fig 1: figures—and to prove it he tells us that there are 105,000,000 persons in continental United States, He bases his calculations on the combined population of 1,406 cities and towns. The increase since 1900 is placed at. about 13,900,000, showing the growth of the country has not kept pace with the previous decide. Almost com-! plete cessation of !mmigration during the war, the influenza epidemics, the return of allens to their native lands and deaths of soldiers abroad are reasons for the slow growth. , Here are some figures which for the basis of comparison are interestin;