The evening world. Newspaper, July 21, 1920, Page 20

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. [Podiishea Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publiat! Company, Noa, 53 to 63 Park Row, New Tork. RALPH PULT President, J. ANGUB BHA JosaPn PULITZER: MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, x Associated Freee ta exctusively entitled to. the wee fer republleation at ‘ase ie fear i ep ‘wot ctherwise credited tn thle paver j Cal beri, ~ ‘THE NEW “UNDERWORLD.” distance of the city are forced to sell produce at a rate so low as to be unprofitable. It is a fact that at times they find no market whatever and are iorced eitheg to cart their produce home or dump it as waste. At the same time high prices prevail in retail mar- | kets. Cost of summer food is prohibitive. Families ) needing this health-giving change of diet must con- | tinue fo rely on staples to which they are accustomed | _._ at other seasons. : Somewhere between the grower and the com sumer the speculator and the profiteer have inter- vened. Speculators, playing no part in production | and profiteering because they have schemed their way. into control of some step in the process of dis- - tribution, are taking an unearned toll. They are » playing both ends for the profit of the middleman. Corhmissioner of Public Markets O’Malley . charges that this process is “worked in secret agree- |. ment, in cahoots, with the railroad interests, with “\' merchants and bankers of unquestioned financial A: standing.” Mr. O'Malley describes this organization as the underworld of food speculators.” It is a new and effective use of an old term. This “undetworld” ‘A Mr, O'Malley describes is as much a menace to the © public as the more familiar “underworld” against " which the police contend. ti Mr. O'Malley makes these observations in a report "supporting his terminal market project. If he has * definite knowledge of such conditions, and It seems 1 & -” réasonable to believe he has, why does he not present }. them to the proper authorities in the endeavor to get | > prosecution? The City, the State and the United * | States are all interested parties, Surely some pros- ecutor could be found to bring action and punish the members of the new underworld, er Sri Three straight wins are necded to save the Can Resolute make it? Chances have altered materially since yes- terday’s race which Shamrock, won handily despite the heavy calculated handicap. Apparently Sir Thomas has the better boat this time. If 80, few Americans will grudge im the victory he bas so long striven for. If the cup changes hands it is expected that the New York Yacht Club will challenge im- mediately for a race next year, a new experi- ence for the organization. TRUTH AND PROBABILITY. q IS a fact that market gardeners within trucking | a ly la : anes Se YOUTHFUL aspirant for literary honors (A submitted three stories to an editor. Each “was true, but done in the form of fiction. Each story was refused, In each case the criti- ttism was that the story was too “improbable.” After the third rejection the aspiring author ex- ' plained the actual basis of her narratives. The reply of the critical editor is pubtished.in a recent issue of The Editor, a magazine for young writers. He Says in part: e ' P, “*True’ stories ard probable stories are dif- Py. é ferent things; if true stories are teld as fiction they must obey the laws of fiction, and be mado i to seem probable. Most true stories are told a eed — ‘because they are improbable, and gain their * interest from that circumstance. Yesteniay’s newspapers would prove the criticism. Alger’s yams of the good boys who saved the fhanker’s daughter from impending death and so opened the way to fame and fortune have been denounced as far-fetched and improbable. Bul a ‘New York boy who served in the A. E. F, has in- » herited a valuable French vineyard as a reward for * saying the owner's daughter from drowning. Fiction dealing with unnatural marriages is com- * monly criticised as inyprobable, but yesterday's news _ told of a woman suing for divorce from her father. To make the story doubly improbable the relation- ship was revealed in a dream, she says. The yarn of the titled foreigner dying from ‘hunger rather than reveal his shame appears fre- } quently and requires clever treatinem to make it _ appear probable; but a man is in a New York hos- * pital under such circumstances, Another old standby that taxes the ability of the _ fiction writer is the infant stolen from a good home who returns as a grown man or woman; but a Virginia child kidnapped and trained as a circus per- « has discovered her relatives after eighteen snes ere: 2 ae ae Every newspaper holds the basis of a library of novels—if only the truth were not too strange for Ege as fiction. TO OPEN THE CAMPAIGN ENATOR HARDING is an ardent golfer. Goy. Cox is said to swing a wicked club. not an. inter-pariy tournament for the Po- ical Cup, entries limited to Presidential nominees, to be chosen from the Vice Presidential 4? Ma} Ciairinen Should give serious considera- suggests an casy and re- liable way of filling the campaign chest. ness such a competition. One day's play should be on the Dayton links, ihe next at Marion, and the deciding contest on a neutral course, Golfing on election day has been a national scan- dal. Many solid citizens have come to regard the election day holiday as a fine time to get in two full rounds on the links, Surely if the nominees gave proof of such Inter- est in golf the golfers could do no less than to re- ciprocate and fulfil their civic obligations, WAKE UP, NEW YORK! DMIRAL. BENSON, Chairman of the Shipping | Board, has made a most extraordinary an- nouncement. It should stir New York into activity, both to de- feat the play and to prove it untenable. At the opening of the School of Pan-American and Foreign Shipping, Chairman Benson said: “In planning steamship service under the new Transportation Act the Board proposes to breqk up the monopoly heretofore held by @ few Atlantic seaports. Services will be maintained at American ports, with a view to relieving congestion o! railroads and bring- ing goods to the seaports nearest the point ‘of consumption. “Monopoly of shipping heretofore held by large seaports has retarded the development of the merchant marine, The bad facilities for the loading and discharging of vessels and the spirit of indifference of many com- mercial interests has done much to curb proper growth of the shipping interests in this country.” Such a statement from such a source should wake up New York. It should put life into the City Hall and the Legislative Chamber. Admiral Benson’s statement is undeniable as a diagnosis of present ills. But his proposed remedy is no less than astounding. The Port of New York is not congested because of lack of capacity, It is congested because of failure to develop the natural capacity, It is congested be- cause of local political and commercial jealousies and shortsightedness, If the port were properly developed and mechan- red it could handle ALL the freight of the Atlantic seaboard in an efficient, expeditiots and economical | manner instead of the half it now handles in an inefficient, halting and expensive way. But suppose Admiral Benson's plans were carried out. Suppose the monopoly werd broken and the freight divided among -fifty minor ports, What would be the result? If such a thing should come to pass, no one of the minor ports would have business to warrant installation of the expensive mechanical aids to efficiency, In place of half a dozen inefficient big ports in which thg efficiency may be improved, we should have fifty ports—permanently and hopelessly inefficient. It is only by the utmost in efficiency that Ameri- can shipping with its high wage scale can hope to compete with foreign nations, If Admiral Benson’s vision should materialize, it would necessitate a rearrangement of railroad trunk lines and feeders. The expense would be enormous. Railroad congestion in the New Jersey yards is not caused by inability to transport goods to and from this port. The congestion is caused by inability to unload and load the cars that come and are held in the yard waiting for dock or storage space. Admiral Benson has, not learned the lesson of American business. When the Steel Corporation undertook to make steel from the iron ores of Minne- sota and the coal of Pennsylvania, did it establish a dozen different plants? It did not. Engineers calculated the point at which freight charges on coal plus freight charges on ore would amount to the smallest sum per ton of finished steel. That point happened to be a waste stretch at the south point of Lake Michigan. There the Steel Cot- poration located the town of Gary. Efficiency was the first and only consideration, At Duluth the Steel Corporation concentrates all the output of the Minnesota Iron Ranges. When an ore train arrives giant cranes pick up the cars and dump them into specially construct ships. Hand bh labor is eliminated as far as possible—all with an eye to effi ney. seas, heresy. and mu wake up and tea basis of efficiency, economy and service. | Admiral “Benson's speech should be an clock for the Rip Vin Winkles of this port, Any gal- lery of golfers or politicians would pay well to wit- ' UNCOMMON SENSE What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that yives 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 time to be brief. “For the Defense.” To the Fulitor of The Evening World I get a great deal of amusement 8M. from-these letters about on the sub " sbout Canal to criticise New York anyway? the Interbotough and the B. Kt | were barely meeting expenses even |1 before the War, when a dollar had full! purchasing value, and yet the public expects them to put on /OF course, 100 per cent. better service now, and sull > hausting in th obtain a living wage, Astoria, L. L, July 17, Mave You Read (he Treatyt ] To wie KAitor of The Evening World Out of about fifty people T have! argued with regarding the League o |Nations and the Peace Treaty with Germany not one had read either of them, having derived thelr opinions trom’ newspapers aguinst the ane er and treaty In similar development lies America’s hope on the If any other single port could be developed to pro- vide greater final efficiency than the best develop- ment of the Port of New York, then Admiral Benson would have a good case. But when he talks of dividing the shipping he ventures on business Yet his scheme will be popular with provincial Congressmen, Of that we may be sure. With ship- Ping divided sufficiently, every Salt Creek and Scot- land Neck will need development to accommodate the ships that call. Admiral Benson's scheme will appeal to every pork barrel devotee in Washington 3ut Boston, New York and Philadelphia should ) Admiral Benson where he is wrong. His “monopoly seaports’ must prove that they have a right to monopoly privilege on the When asked why, most of ti made reply that they “had not seen | |the famous documents ever printed,” so how could they read them? | For the benefit of these people and |many more—of whom there are thou- | sands— print this, Mr. Editor: u changed th them) W column, 1 | ROBE New Y success . yours: truly v i, July 16 Whevxe Exciting Times, | to tie The Keening World | ane men of America are said to be sirufgling in a tampest of their the truth ts that te sovetous roomers like| this 9. Nage When her husband says, “Well By John Blake (Copyright, 1020, by John Blake.) A MAN IS AS OLD You can't live on hope, of course. live without it. The surest sign of growing old is the fading of hope that a man still has youth aad a future is the tenacity with whieh he clings to his hope. You smile at the AS HIS HOPE, But neither can you w Tam earning seven dollars e best indicatic hat ain't no pay for an American! Jow washers and sircet sweep Lal aorta Mm gettin’ more money than that!" Yours respectfully, JOSEPH ROBERTS. Brooklyn, N. Y., July 17. » but he is far more likely to get something worth hile oatrot lite than'the cynic or the pessimist. You can't catch even a street car without waating to catch it, and you will never catch even the rim of happiness without hope. Don't be afraid to hope. high and hard. Make your hopes great enough aad if you realiz per cent, of them you will finish far ahead of your neighbor. The doughboys who went to war hoping to come hame Colonels or Generals didn’t all achieve their ambition, lot of them came back Lieutenants, and still more came back *,’s and Croix de Guerres, Those who went to war despondently came back, most back privates, and opportuaity, which ‘the y never awed f08, passed them by. Youth, which all men want to hold as "long as they can, feeds on hope. , \ distinguished lawy treet and the ungentle- | manly guards and the shortened) trains, but does he ever stop to con- sider the almost superhuman efforts that the subways are making, @nd| To the maior of Tbh that agninst heart-breaking odds, to) meet the demands of an unreasonable | persuading the B, and exacting public? (What right platforms at Cane! | has a bewhiskered ex-backwoodsman | suggested, so here is a possible al- Why ea deepen t Apparently there is small hope of 0 widen its ' gees baal And don’t be afraid to hope I'll | ternative bet he never sw a trolley car before|nel between the | he came to the city!) It 18 a well known fact that both|to about T.|scant 18-Inch clea |between the rail and the platform his body woutd | |slip off the r and out of danger » platform, ‘but ¢ suicide changed ast moment, the sug- sent would give ly a 5 cent. fare. Take the matter |tn of Wages alone. Even with the cur- | nj tailed service the pay of a subway employee is insufficient for his needs; {at least a fighting chance for his his hours are long; his work $# ex- | life. Sc . Seventy-four years old, is tor doing wa important work for his country. ase, though his physical strength has 1is hope burns as high as ever. Ypu will have trials and discouragements and biack hours/ but hope will carry you through them. and you will live and die with a youthful heart. up and desolation will cloud your autumn years and despair will accompany you to your grave. : yet if he strikes, in a last, ate effort to! a dastardly bloodsucker, preying on the dear, de- | | foniselems public ARD. Brooklyn, N. ¥ To the Exlitor of he Evening Work How much longer must we Lenehan stock of England and the antiquated election |system which permits the executive and legislative majority to be of dif- 4) parties, thus shackling | both and making them impotent? Cling to it a Republican seats as far Madison Square; shown tn Ber- nard Ratzen's kurger map of 1767. rue of Nations calamity, can a Democratic President fu, with a Kepublican ma- *That’s a Fact”’ By Albert P Copyriat, 1920, by The oath of oflice Southwick Battle of the Pyramids, in By 1798, when Mur twenty-two other Beys was d a reform Jaw mal ‘ithe! New York yeaing would like to ask you to| conditi written custom p England of the & pinet resigning when the majority is against them, Yi r present system, complete Treaty of Peace with | y, 1815, the Roman Catholic any and the Covenant of the] C gue of Nations may be found In | the 1920 issue of The World Almanac, ge 616 to 671, [6 is in simple English and — everybody | o wn an Almanac and should] party n both, that they may thor erstand and’ know what bout. tam glad know, have opinions and are for} to your great | h as the Mamolukes termed the war- like Corsican Streets, New. York City, secrated and named St ‘The same year Washington Mar- ket was finished. . of between 1807 1820) calted "extending fron f3d Street and from Fourth is jealous of th » Asylum for the commenced in New York Madison Square, New York City, Phe first savings bank of New r invite the expans York City was established in 1819, RAYMOND ROLPH nd Was reclaimed trom a pout 1820 and there 3 stiN in situ, ned into the present Wa ‘The House of Refuge for Juvenile Now York City in 1924, while Wil! jam Pauling was Mayor . bustling: highway a new comer being lald on Oct, 26. abip bogan on Feb, 25, 1838 suc wi nfronts us? Ne Bare Cakes there, was a "continuous line of ‘of Great Novels aonoc Vadiense Albert Payson Terhune Peet 12 The osing ene Co, |No. 108—TOILERS OF THE SEA, By Victor Hugo. ILLIATT was a handy man @& * visionary, who lived on th® Isle of Guernsey. His one aim and yearning in life was to’ marry pretty Durechette, niece of the island's {chief financier, Lethierry. | Once, in a moment of careless whim, Deruchette scrawled Gilliaft's name in the snow. Gilliatt from that |momest never ceased to worship her. Yet he was poor and she was rich. {And there seethed no possible chance jof his winning her. He and she had | never so much as spoken to each | other. lethierry's chief means of wealth |was his steamship, Durande, whose engines he himself had designed. jOnce the Durande's skipper, Clubin, |was returning from a commercial jvoyage when the Durande went to |Pleces on the channel reefs. Clubin was drowned. And with |him was lost a fortune of 79,000 francs which he was carrying tome- ward to Lethierry. In rage at the loss of money and ship, Lethierry pwore he wopld give Deruchette’s hand in marriage to any man who could rescue the Du- \rande's precious engines fsom the wreck, Eagerly Gilliatt volunteered for the job. He had no cash and no men and no equipment for such @ task. But it offered a chance to marry Deruchette. And ho vowed to achieve it, Sailing in his little sloop to the rocks whence the Durande had beer sunk, he located the submerged ship and set to work salvaging her en gines. One man alone, against the fury of wind and weather, he began his mighty task. Yet, obstacle after obstacle wus overcome by him, Spurred on by his adoring love for Deruchette, he lubored tirelessly. Once he-all but lost his life in battie with a giant devil figh. More than once he was in peril of death from other causes. But he fought on, for Deruchette was his goal. In the course of his work he found « a skeleton in a sea cave, It was Clu bin's skeleton, In the belt: around the body was the 75,000-frane for tune Clubin had been carrying home to Lethierr: Atitatt A the engines. He piled them into his sloop and sailed to Lethlerry’s dock with them, In. his pocket was the recovered’ fortune besides. He had won his right to Deruchette's hand. As Gilliatt was striding triumph- antly toward the house to make his report he chanced to see a girl standing in the garden, It was Deruchette With her was ayoung man. Giliiatt heard the couple's ardent love wor and saw them embrac Then, , jlonger jubilant, he passed slowly on to Lethierry’s house. | Lethierry was wildly ppy at the Jreturn of his engines and his money | Loudly he declared that he wouid keep his share of the bargain, Deru |chette should marry Gilliatt at once Curtly Gilllatt refused to marry her, He would give no reason for his refusal. But on the day of her marriage to the man she ioved he | watched the happy couple sail away jto their new home. Then he [drowned hime! Ten-Minute Studies of New York City | | Government. _ By Willis Brooks Hawkins, This 4s the seventcenth article of @ series defining the duties of the administrative and legislative officers and boards of the New York City Government, DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. Bureau of Chamberlain. HE Chamberlain 1s the oity and county treasurer. Although his office is a hureau of the Depart- ment of Finance, he 1s appointed by/,4 the Mayor. The Chamberlain's most important |duty ls the care of the city’s funds. These are deposited in banks and trust_companies designated by a ma- jority vote of the Banking Commis sion, composed of the Chamberlain, the Mayor and the Comptroller, bur in no bank may an amount exceeding 50 per cent. of its capital and net sur plus be deposited at any one time. Purthermore, no bank or trust com pany may be designated as a depos: tary that will not agree to pay inter est on daily balances at a rate fixed by the Banking pmmission and based upon the current rate of in terest upon like balances paid by these institutions to private indi- viduals. The city at present receives 3 per cent. flat interest from all but three of the depositary Institutions. These three pay from 2 to 3 per cent. be cause they do special work on the collection and clearing accounts, By virtue of his position the Cham- berlain is @ member of the Sinking Fund Commission, He is also cus- todian and admiaistrator of court and of trust funds paid under court order {nto the City Treasury, fiscal agent for the Adjutant General of the State for the distribution of military funds, fiscal agent for the State Board of Tax Commissioners for the collection and distribution of the mortgage tax, | trustee of civil and criminal bail and {ef mechanics’ liens paid in by court Srder and the city's ugent for. the | payment of all jurors and witnesses serving In the civil and criminal courts of the five counties within the City of New York Philip Berolzhelmer of No. 125 West 9th Strect is the City Chamberlain with: offices on the eighth floor of the Municipal Building. His salary ts $12,000 a_year. Charles Sweeney Deputy Chamberlain and Alice A |Rohtnson In Secretary to the Chame ate os