The evening world. Newspaper, July 26, 1920, Page 16

‘ctf . 1 Se ELM sori, +4 ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ALPodiisned Datly Except Sundat by the T vubiiahing Comp: N 53 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH LAT President. ark Row, e J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, Row A 4 JOSEPH PULATZER. Jr., Serre be Row, | MEMBER OF THR a880CIATED PR ee ed heed Dwele BL aH nan ¥ THE LAW THAT LIES. B’ the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution the manufacture, sale, &c., of “intoxicating liquors” is prohibited, + In the National Prohibition Act, Congress defined intoxicating liquor as one “containing one-half of 4 per centum or more of alcohol by volume.” Congress likewise provided for enforcement and » othe employment of enforcing officers in the Bureau ‘of Internal Revenue. * Enforcement officers get their pay through the __. ‘guthorization of Congress. Congress is boss. |<” But now, mark you, the following from a recent 4 “decision of the Internal Revenue Bureau dealing t with non-intoxicating cider and fruit juices: “after such non-intoxicating ciders and fruit juices are mage, they must be used ex- Bs clusivelf in the home, and, when so used, the ot phrase ‘non-intoxicating’ means non-intoxi- q cating in fact,‘and not necessarily less than one-half of 1 per cent. of alcohol, as provided ‘i in section 1 of said act.” l / «Non-intoxicating IN FACT” is the test the hired i men of Congress apply iti this case. The hired men . ‘disagree with the boss, and what they say goes. "They have caught the boss in something which is not a FACT, and they ram the lie down the throat ‘of the boss, The Internal Revenue Bureau ts branding the Tie in the law. It is a form of nullification, not by ‘a court but by an executive officer, i © What will Congress do about it? Will it confess the lie by permitting the ruling to stand? Or will it try to make the lie stick by overruling the Internal Revenue Commissioner—and the natural phéRomenon of fermentation? 3 . O3 Par tary. CAPT. APPLEGATE'S CRITICS. MERICAN sportsmanship is called into ques- tion by the abusive letters sent to Capt. ‘Andrew Jackson Applegate, who sailed on the Sham- rock as special counsellor on winds, tides and currents. 3 Individuals who reproach Capt, Applegate are showing poor sportsmanship. They are also critl- cising Sir Thomas Lipton, who would not have taken on the Sea Bright skipper if the use of suct help had not been fair and legitimate. America disavows such opinions. Cup races are supposed to He tests of yachts and crews, not of - Joca! knowledge of marine peculiarities. If Capt. Applegate’s assistance served to make the races a betier test, to put the contestants‘ on more equal terms, he deserves thanks rather than reprdaches. Sir Thomas and his friends wh accompany him will not rfistake the meaning of the critics of Apple- gate. They will know that’the critics speak for only an insignificant majority of “poor sports.” RECOGNITION BY PROXY? F Socrates were alive and iff London to-day, he vould discourse with his, friends on some ques- tion such as, “When is a Government ‘recognized’ ?” Taking the Soviet Government as an example, he might ask whether Gfeat Britain had recognized Soviet Russia. The answer would be a fegvid denial. Substituting Poland for Great Britain in the ques- tion, his auditors would be forced to admit that Poland recognized the Soviet when jt sued for peace. In an examination as to how and why Polish erelationship differed from the British, Jit would appear that Poland had followed British instructions and suggestions in recognizing the Moscow Gov- ermment, . Just what the present relationship between Lloyd * George and Lenine may be would be a puzzle for * Socrates and all his disciples, It does seem clear that if the recent Bolshevik attack on Poland has accomplished nothing more, it has opened a channel of diplomatic communication which Lloyd George will have trouble in closing without formal recognition of the Soviets, Lenine, it seems, is now in position to talk to Gieat Britain through Poland. Warsaw is in no position to deny diplomatic courtesy to Moscow, “ts Downing Street, having suggested the Polish . action, is scarcely in position to refuse to listen to its agents in Poland, The situation is so complicated as to recall a bit of tongue-twisting doggerel popular a generation ago which ran something as follows: 1 saw Esau kissing Kate, In fact, we all three saw— He saw me, and I saw her, And she saw I saw Esau, But if Socrates wefe to make such an examina- tion he would again find himself unpopular with the powers that be. ——————_ SHARE THE BLAME. HENEVER a new telephone k comes out, subscribers would do well to check up the calls they use most frequently. Nearly every subscriber has a list of calls for more convenient reference than the. big, bulky, five-pound book the company distributes. Some of these lists ar mental, others in notebooks or the like. ‘This time, as usual, there are changes in exchange wheal tr Tita ie changed numbers. The old individual lists need correction. ‘ Subscribers are helping themselves and the tele- phone company by correcting these lists. Every call for a wrong number takes tinte and adds to the work and confusion at “Central.” Good telephone service is not solely dependent on the company and the operators. The subscribers have their part. Extra work for the company is reflected in re- tarded service for all subscribers. Better service is possible if every telephone user does his share and makes certain that “wrong number” calls are not his fault. AN EFFECTIVE BOYCOTT. ATERIAL decrease in the price of sugar last , week was ascribed to the combined pressure of the commercial canning interests. Cannets are reported to have convinced the sugar market that the price was prohibitive and that they would not buy unless the price declined, Here is another illustration of the way of the profiteer. is “Thou shalt not” does not affect him, The only commandment the profiteer respects is, “Thou canst riot.” Among large consumers of any commodity a “gentlemen's agreement” to refrain from purchasing is a comparatively simple thing. It may be an in- fringement of the law, but prosecutors are apt to be blind if notorious profiteers are the only victims. ~ Among small consumers concerted action is more ditiicult, if not impossible. Yet any general refusal to purchase at excessive prices will have its effect. Individual boycotts multiplied many fold speak the language which the profiteers understand. Close buying and high price boycotts are the best weapons the corsumer holds. By going without now, the dollars saved from the profiteers will buy more when the aims of the boycott\have been achieved. LIFE INSURANCE THRIFT. O many of the ills of the day are attributed to inflation of the currency that it is pleasant to discover at least one good effect resulting, Insurance statistics for 1919 are encouraging. New business written by all companies was 49 per cent. greater than in 1918, Insurance is generally recognized as a most desira- ble as of thrift. The thrift habit is diffieult to start, eculiarity Gf Ufe-itisvraice thrift is that once it is started it is more permanent than other savings habits, Many policy holders will not make first payments unless they are in,a position to do so without serious inconvenience. Applicants will not discipline them- selves with strict economy in order to take out a policy. But once a few payments have been, rhade, Jie many policy holders will practise rigorous economy rather than allow the insurance to lapse, TMus it is that a few years of easy money and 50-cent dollars have encouraged record life-insurance business, First payments do not seem so big with “So-cent dollars.” This organized thrift will carry ‘over into a period when dollars are not so easy. Government insurance during the war, the com- panies admit, gave a tremendous impetus to insur- ance. Having experienced the satisfactory feeling of knowing that dear ones were provided for in case of death, the soldier veterans werg “good prospects” when the life insurance companies were ready to write’ policies more liberal than the Government. Another factor in the popularization of insuranc¥* | has been the trend toward group insurance for em- ployees by large corporations, These employees, experiencing the satisfaction of a small insurance Policy, are open to the insurance su ‘icitor who writes individual policies for larger amounts, Tax laws, State and national, are a third important factor in increasing life insurance business. Many wealthy'men are buying large policies as a business proposition which enables them to evade a consid- erable fraction af taxation, ‘Taken all in all, the record is encouraging. An, insured citizen is‘usually a good citizen, SPREADING OUT. ARLY opening of new B, R. T, subways leading from Manhattan to other boroughs will help to ameliorate housing conditions for the winter, It is true, of course, that these openings have th the most \part been discounted in new real” estate developments. Homes have been built in advance of the subways, and the residents have waited with all the patience they could muster for the opening +of service, Nevertheless, the fact remains that the districts outside Manhattan are not so crowded. With every improvement in transportation comes a certain evening up of congestion and a degree of relief for crowded Manhattan. s The same papers which announce this opening mention a plan for a third ‘north-and-south subway for upper Manhattan, The projected route would traverse Central Park, Whether the route mentioned will be the one chosen or not is immaterial. The fact is that in- creased train capacity north and south is inevitable, A line under Central Park would serve part of the territory now, dependent on the west side subway. It would relieve the “bottle neck” at 96th Street and would permit more trains to run where they are most needed. Some such development is imperative as upper Manhattan fills up with the population crowded out by business in the lower island, THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY; JULY | mF Sx ; a aw SF ee ee Bat Maen as FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | Read the Covenant, | To the Extitor of ‘The Eventug World I agree with your editorial that each und every voter read the coven- ant of the League of Nations Lofore they cast their vote election. But suggest that your paper promulgate same and translate it into simplified Englisa that each and every one can get a chance to understand this obscure document, It will also give & better idea to ynderstand » wides when’ they debate ant of the League of Na- Very truly yours, IRVT Brooklyn, No¥., July 20,1920. Another Vote for One Candidate! To the Editor of The vening World } Billy Sunday, the ex-baseball player |and notoriggs evangelist, has made public hig Willingness to accept the Vice Presidency of the United States should “Billy" J.” Bryan, the “defeat mate,” accept the Presidency nomi- nation by the “Dry Party.” I furthermore suggest a candidate for Governor to New-York State— “Pussyfoot” Johnson, the “dry mar- wou ne Op- “bout tions. Gu. tyr!” Let's make the country safe for Prohibitionists! B, R. DIX, Bronx, July 22, 1920. Uncommon Sen To the Editor of The Brening World ‘The article in your paper on Mon- day written by John Blake, under the caption “Ungommon Sense," when taken from a different angle, should make the reader think deeply. When a “civilized” world and “{dealistic” America in particular can allow such arrangements of affairs which bring the ceaseless struggles with our fellowmen toward what we are pleased to call progress and suc- cess, then in the name of truth lot us call it by Its proper name, the climbing over the corpse of our de- feuted brothers “to reach our gual.” It is just this rivalry in a nation which piles up products and forms the basis pf disputes between nations, re- garding markets for .their products Which terminate in armed conflicts, periodic slaughters. It makes necessary armies and navies with the bu@den accompany- ing them. Mr, Blake compares the burying of soldier dead to unpleasant happen- By so doing the hat life at present in this ad stage of “elvillzation" ix a battle In which the motto 1s “dog eat dog.” Why Is it necessary for the human family to fight one an- What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that yives you Me worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental erercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. — my i |“ getting enough to exist on? in the couing | people! Oh “Idealism,” you are surely made | of finer stuff. MS CHASAN. 1 | Bronx, July 19, 1 R ‘To the Editor As a constant Worthy newspaper I should like to| [ask you for advice on a question | Which Land my fam.ly are very mucn | puzzled over, Among the members of my jl have a boy of nine. He ' sularly but he be ambitious, gHe has al- Plenty of ev@rything, such ya, clothes, money and other Ss children of that age like to of your | Two years ago we noticed smail coins disappearing and after many questions and lectures found | was Ro w once In a {t happened and we've been constantly teaching him and telling him how ‘bad it was and why ho shuld not do it but it did not help. One day he was told to go to some place for instructions and in- stead he went somewhere else and we learned that he was not where he should have been. On the very same day a $1 bill, was missing, When questioned about where he was he told the truth but when questioned about the $1 said he had found it, He then gave us the remander of the money which was half the amount. We immediately commenced to think we needed ome one else's advice be- side our own, and for this reason we are asking you to have an article on this subject which will help us and perhaps many others, @ K.'A. Brooklyn, July 24. ‘The High Salaried Employee. To the Exlitor of Tie Evening World: In to-night’s issue of The Evening World you print a letter signed “Ex omployee.” For his benefit let me in form him that the delegites to the New York Civil Service Society and Civil Service Forum, representing the smaller paid Civil Service empoyee. voted to ask the Board of Estimate and Apportionment for a 20 per cent. increase in salawy for all employees from the highest to frgglowant paid employee, We took the osition that as the employee recefving over $3,000 had not had his salarysincreased on the past three occasions the smaller salaried did, that his dollar had de- preelated equally with the others ana 26, 1920. in consequence he was entitled to a 20 per cent, increase. “Ex-employee” seams “to objet to the Civil Service Socleties having a man at their head holding an exempt position and also to this exempt employee receiving a $1,500 increase under the 20 per cent. plan, ‘The head of the New York Civil Service Society and the, Civil Service Forum is Deputy Comptroller Frank J. Prial, a man who has done more ‘for the ‘smaller salaried Civil Service employee than any other man in New York City. Through his activities in behalf of the smaller UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (opy’ WHY REFUSE PROMOTION ? got, 1920, by John Blake.) One way to keep your wages where they are is to go to the boss and tgll him you don't want any more money. Be sure he will take you at your word. } You may not put this announcement into words. In fact you do not need to. w bene But you can convey the ided to him just as plaialy and just as effectively in many other ways. i) For example: Get down a little late!and quita little early. Do your work sullenly, as if you hated it. Do exactly as much as you are told, and never by possible chance waything more. Get other people to do as much of your work es can, Leave the hard jobs till the last, and then hurry through them, half doing them. . - Refuse to take any responsibilities beside those that are directly imposed on you. Steal as much as possible of the time that the boss has paid for by loafing and making other employces loaf by talking to them, t These things will tell your employer plainly that you take no interest in the business, and care nothing for pro- motion, ‘ He may keep you, because just now aay kind of em- ployees are hard to get. But he will know that you don’t want any better wages, and Ire won't give them to you. ‘ And when he is looking for a man to whom he can give more money—and of course get value received for it and a profit beside—you will not be the man he will call into the front office. ‘ Remember that talking to the boss directly, telling hin what you can do aad how well you can do it, will not get you anything. The only language he cares anything about is the lan- guage your services speak, If ia that lamguage you say. you like your job and want to rise in it, in nine cases out of ten you will rise. But if you tell him in the same language that you are indifferent, and perfectly sgtisfied to remain where you are, that is where you will remain—until men are a little more plentiful and the boss can find somebody to take your place. uny you Frank J, Prial while speaking before | the Finance and Budget Committee of the Board of Estimate stated spe- cifteally what he was pot speaking for nor interested in ®xempt_ em- ployees, especially Deputy Comp- trollers, one of which he is. The higher salaried employees other ‘than those holding exempt positions are members of the societies of which Frank J. Prial is President and it he did not advocate this 20 per cent. increase for them he would have been unfaithful to his trust. To sum the matter up, the smaller salaried em- ployees voted for and insisted upon a 20 per cent. for themselves and did not at this- abnormal time ob- ject to the higher salaried employees That’s a Fact”’ By Albert P. Southwick Coprriant. 1920, bh The Press Pubiisaing Co ‘ New York Evening World), City known to be in exiswnee is « plan of Manatus, drawn on the spot by Joan Vingboons in 1639, record. ing the names of the first forty-tive househelders on the island. Cpa oa Bowling Green was so-called be- “> Be Schad | | i demonstr=“42 recently when | the plant of the Macon (2f0.) Davix jChronicle-Herald, the only daily € The earliest map of New York . Made Fortune Investing in ~ Boys and Girls’ | Roger W. Babson, the Statis- tician, Says Hu Souls Are Greatest of §mer- ica’s Resources. OGER W. BABSON, the statis- tician, is the first economist to come forward with the state ment that human souls, and not for- ests, mines and streams, constitute America’s greatest undeveloped re- sources. The statistical sage of Wellesley Hills, inshis latest monograph, “Huns damentaly of Prosperity," has fori) saken the field of percentage, ton’ nage, poundage and dollars In am effort to prove that we must look to religion and not to modern efficiency . methads to insfre national prosperity.» His is probably the first serious ef- fort by a recognized business expert to show an interrelation of spiritual and commercial life. “Too much credit is given both to. capital and labor in the’ discussions of to-day,” says Mr. Babson, “The real credit for most of the things which we have is due to some human soul which supplied the faith which was the mainspring of the enters | prise.” . js In stating that integrity, faith, ine dustry and co-operation are the es gentials of all business relationships aud that these should lead to greater production by our manutacturers, the wuthor has not meréiy echoed the sertions of Frank A, Vanderlip, neis Sisson and other bankers whe have attempted a solution of commers efal lems, Mr, Babson goes @ | ste rand says that inspiration must come | tor « production from religion and that unless the Church is develeped and supported, the fountain head of our inspiration will run dry, Although Mr. Babson ts one of thi most activé-laymen in the Unit “Fundamentals of Prospe rgument for any § this not 4s a chureh- “L would, give the: if I were speaking to fe rs.” : ° a of bar most uaustal par is absolutely impossible for any. dual to develop the fundamen- group tals of prosperity—taith, indus ltegrity and brotherly sindness—with- tu ave ni mad: |money in st or bonds. What money L have madé has come from investing in boys and girls; lyoune men and young wonien, oTwenty- ‘8 from to-day, in- stead of the pastor being thd head Jof the church and a few good people doing volw work, there will be Veen or five church of une denome |igation united under one general mane Jager. The churchés,will then be self jsupporting. The da¥s of begging will be over. When these four or five churches are combined, the preacher Will not have to spend half the week preparing a different sermon for ev ery Sunday. He will have two weeks or @ month to prepare that sermon, He will have time and ‘pep’ and en- ergy to deliver it so you won't @it back in your pe r udjenee i ar the ¥ cher only once each month, and the preacher will then h e more than one congres gation to appeal to.” These ares me of the religiows-ine trial high lights which Mr, Babson , while we pay our gales- from $15,000 ‘to $2000 and doctor our preachers tes, 1 of us, nd lawyers wo r pay C only It is a damnablo often think if > come bRK to us, that d take for His text that por- m the Sermon on the Mount which reads: fering th Jesus w He Avo tion fr ‘If therefore thou aft ft at the altar . . . first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift’ I think that when He came to gpeak to ue on Sunday morning He would say: ‘Gen- tlemen, I would suggest that before we have titis service We raise funds to pay the preacher a decent salory, “The power of our spiritual forces has not yet been tapped. “The need gf the hour ts not more tion. The need of the hour is more religion. More religion is needed everywhere, from the halls of Cone gress to the fact@ries, mines, fields and forests. It is one thing to tall ‘about plans or policies, but a plan or polley without @ religious motive te | like a watch without a spring or a body without the Breath of life,” ‘regis! When Town Crier Replaces Newspaper HE connection between the town crier and the newspaper was |newepaper in the county, was~so |padly damaged by fire it was put out of commission for several weeks, ace cording to “The Fourth Estate.” Some very important announce. ments were waiting—a be stock sale, a public meeting, features at | the movie shows and special sales oy the merchants, There were weekly” papers, but these w@uld not be out in ume, Then some one thought of McKinney, the old town sce ek |had been ‘off the job for a decade, and whose retirement had been the | cause of much storied sentiment as indicative of the passage of the old | to the modern method which came with the daily newspaper. Dick said he was old and rheuma- ticky, and that his yoice was not what It used to be, but they dug him up a bell, gave him a megaphone and told him to get out and tell the people what was coming, The old town erler did the best he could, but it was evident that yea [had weakened his vocal organs, #0 that the bell was the most valuable feature of his service, While the daily paper was out of commission the town slipped back @ decade or more. No market reports, nothing about the weather, nothing from the conventions, no announce. ments of choir practice and socials, The town ¢rier was all in when the paper restmed publication and took his place. But, while his rem other for the things in life of which! salaried employees the Mitchel Ad-| obtaining the same, cause jt was 800 years agc the fa- | yrrectign Was brief, the town erier nature gives in abundance but which | ministration teduced his salary near- WALTER SHPR. vorit& place for. playing “bowls.” | came into such fame as he had never a few monopolize and make the rest|jy twice as much as the $1,500 In- a PRM AN, ‘There js 4 painting of it in the |known in his previous humble hise pou oouscleasly, only for the privilege | grease he will enjoy on Aug. 20 mext,' New York, July 16, 1920, Hotel Imperial, Fi tory. ; , 4 2 ‘ = ‘ ‘ ya — s iciieisi Me . a | ' f