The evening world. Newspaper, July 31, 1920, Page 8

© Published eres deepatches end aloo Une toon, mews published herein. 6K ATIVE SONS” 4 One man would rather be wealthy. * wealth may envy the man of learning. The»wise man longs for physical strength. Not many would voluntarily assume the sorrows which the Empress Eugenie bore. was wise. Happy or unhappy, she “was better fitted for the place she filled than any other would | “have been. And her experience fitted her for her » * place better than it would have fitted her for any ~ other life, - Was ahe Empress not wise? ‘man be happler with great wealth and Its responsi- _ -baltles? Could the man of wealth be satisfied with- HSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing ‘Company. 3 Ba te 8s Park Row, New York. ‘Fees Park Row, soled! SRA Poteet Secretarr: 63 Park, Row, } Ammentated rene te exctustvely entitled 16 the use for repubtiention q@redited to Mt or mot otherwise qredited ta this pepe / \ RIP VAN GOTHAM. IP VAN WINKLE achieved no little fame for a twenty-year nap in the Catskills. Rip was an amateur compared with the Port of New York, which is only commencing to stir after fifty years of slumber. But the Sinking Fund Commission is showing encouraging signs of life. molisi: old piers on the North River and build . fewer, larger and more modern piers in their place. The/Evening World's “Wake Up, New York!” series, reinforced by Admiral Benson's pointed warn- ing of a plan to distribute ocean-going traffic among all the little ports of the coast, seems to have started something. Now New York awaits the ma- terialization of the plans. The piers to be demolished were built in 1874. Perhaps the easiest way of measuring the length of the nap is to picture the pride of the Atlantic, the good ship Oceanic of the White Star Line, the Leviathan of the time, built in the same year as the It has decided to de- The Oceanic was 420 feet in length, 41 feet in greatest breadth and of 3,707 gross tons. Such figures do not mean nwceh to the layman, but the greatest ships of to-day are approximately 1,000 feet in length, 100 in width and 50,000 tons gross. The comparison is illuminating. While the Port hag slumbered it ‘has suffered from growing pains that have caused something Hike a nightmare in the last few years. The babe put in the crib fifty years ago has grown to man’s estate. His feet have shoved out through the slats at the foot of the crib. He is stuck hard and fast. The only thing to do is to chop up the old crib, free the Port and build a new bed. After sucha Jong nap it would seem that the Port ought t6 keep its eyes open until this is done. There is no guarantee that this will be the case. It depends on an intelligent and wide-awake populace, The alarm must be kept sounding. THEY FEEL BETTER NOW. of Southern California, masculine or feminine, temporarily exiled from the land of the poinsettia, have been more than a little puzzled by frequent reports of earth- quakes in the vicinity of Los Angeles. Of course, every one who knows anything about San Francisco knows that the city was once de- stroyed by a severe conflagration. Certainly! San Francisco newspapers have no record of any quake in connection with the catastrophe, But Los Angeles, having grown to larger size than San Francisco, was getting a trifle too chesty. Mother Earth decided that the city she loveth she chasteneth, and so she did a little “shimmy” down underneath the foundation. “Nothing serious, you understand,” according to any Californiac, “but"”—— That “but” was very expressive. forniacs simply couldn’t understand how Mother Nature could be so rude. Now they feel better. Their chesis have returned to normal. wilderment. The report has come that the earth- quakes have opened a pair of oil wells, which Los Angeles proposes to capitalize. Mother Nature is vindicated. The tremors were not an undignified “shimmy.” ment was no more than a gesture of presentation such as(a mother might indulge in when bestowing a sugar plum on a favorite child, Ask any Californiac for verification—provided you have unlimited time to listen to adjectives used in the superlative. Nevertheless, the bungalow and mission styles of architecture will continue popular in Southern Cali- fornia. fifty-seventh story of a bungalow by a sudden gesture of bounteous Mother Earth. Old The Cali- Their heads no longer ache from be- The earth move- It is impossible to be thrown out of the WHO WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE? 6640 7HO would you like to be?” an interviewer once asked the late Empress Eugenie. “Myself,” was the prompt answer of the Lady of Sorrows. How many have asked the same question of themselves? How few have returned the same answer? The man of Yet perhaps she Would the poor out the power his wealth gives? Woukd the be happy away from his books? Stepping Into the place of sonte one else is not Better the effort to broaden one’s self and expand personal | capabilities to fit the position filled by the person the answer to the appeal for change. “you would like to be.” MITTEN AND HIS MEN. N° MORE remarkable story of American indus- trial life has been written than the chapter in the tangled affairs of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit ‘Company printed yesterday. with the Stotesbury group of financiers. ployees have voluntarily offered to defer a , their realization. tion of the difference, “management.” tal and management, managers in control of properties. tion. squareness and ability of the boss. an inspiration to every employing manager. employees are backing nim to the limit. be no less than a national calamity, together and FOR THE PUBLIC, scribed as the “New Day” in industry. of the 5-cent fare. reward of capital. should receive their customary dividends. been balked. friends and backers are writing in deeds, of the Labor theorists. Mitten to tead. Mitten’s men. THE BURDEN ON CAPITAL. the public on capital and to the concessions to labor,” is at a prohibitive price. “WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS.” (From the Ohto State Journal.) basic question, but they seem to have | themselves, Possibly they are right Some 11,000 employees of the company, it was announced, have offered to loan $500,000 of their savings to Thomas E. Mitten for use in his fight No less remarkable was the report that the em- increase already agreed upon because it would com- plicate the difficulties of financing the company. This is indeed in happy contrast to the situation ‘here and in other cities, gc hostile employees confront hostile managers with blunt demands, and ‘without regard to the physical possibility of Thomas E. Mitten, himself, is the only explam-* Mr. Mitten seems to be a concrete definition of that factor in industry which thegeconomists call The fight he is making and the support he is receiving emphasizes the need for the economists’ differentiation of the functions of capi- The situation in Philadelphia cannot fail to sug- |" gest that in our public utilities the part of capital ‘thas been overplayed at the expense of management; that we have had too many bankers and too few President Mitten is a manager—plus. He is the . a8 Big Boss, the commander of an industrial army with the esprit de corps of a crack military organiza- In industrial life such a feeling could exist only on the basis of absolute faith in the fairness, Employee support of President Mitten should be The story of the fighting organization which is backing this traction wizard reads like a new gospel of industrial relations, The example of Mitten and his men is worthy of careful study and emula- tion by every manager and every worker in America. Mitten is playing with his cards on the table. The If a shifty deal by the banking opposition should win, it would For the general public the salient point is that two of the factors of Industry can and are working Here is encouragement for what has been de- The “New Day” need not comes as has been charged so often, at the expense of the public, In Philadelphia the fight has centred around retention Nor, on the other hand, has the “New Day” in Philadelphia been at the expense of the legitimate In spite of rising expenses, the management of Mitten has contrived that investors It is only as Capital has sought illegitimate changes to use as propaganda elsewhere that it has American industry cannot afford to disregard the lesson which President Mitten and his employee Their square deal and fair deal understanding ar- rives at the ultimate aim of all the elaborate schemes God, give America more such managers as God, give America more such loyal workers as And let us have fewer bankers of the Stotesbury type in position where they can make trouble. HE TIMES believes that “the Interchurch re- port can see no Interest but that of labor. If has rights, there is a limit to the burdens Perhaps the Times refers to the “burden on capi- tal” imposed by the distribution of $43,000,000 of quarterly earnings, 25 per cent. greater than for the same period last year, and to the right of the public to go without new homes because structural steel The most interested, if not interesting, discussion now being carried on in a metropolitan newspaper bas for its subject, “Should girls wear socks?” correspondents seem about equally divided on this The women dress to please and attract the men, shrewd idea that they know what will please the men better than the men know wage 8 ang See: mnamer acre anoenn Qs 7 . | There Is ‘One Bor Born. reve Minute! eaaee ao Dibresasiate By J. H. Cassel | coon (A239. iz he, Prams uteing Co | The New York ( Evening Worl [FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | | to say much in a few words, A Wage for Prisoners. To the Faitor of The Prenivg World The question of a wage to be paid} prisoners has been under considera- tion for some time and I am, glad to give you my opinion on that subject. A wage for priseners is not only Just, but, to my way of thinking, is exceedingly good business. I do not belleve, however, that a wage Lesa is honestly earns oa ie Beton, Sie zed from the eann- {ngs of the prisoners’ work In shop and farm should ve used for the at ment of thelr wages. I consider sic! ‘and adequate supervision absolutely essential in the production of Food commodities or in doing good work, believe that part of the wages earned by the prisoner should be used for his maintenance and part for his family ‘ or dependents. It must be remem- bered that not only good machinery ‘and competent foremen in sufficient numbers are necessary ‘but also will- i § Sonat belleve that such willing workers can be secured unless they recelve compensation for their worl: and ihave the constant incentive that thelr recompense will depend on aheir own striving. I believe that the prison shop can produce as cool goods as can a free manufacturer. and that they can be produced in quantity provided q reasonable waxe is paid and there is adequate super- vision and instruction, first class ma- chinery, continuance of the workers in one shop for a long period and the realization of the prisoner that he can gain both material and spiritual profit from a day’s work well done. As [ anid before, part of the wares earned should be used for the famliy or dependents of the prisoner, I be- fdeve that the prisoner's dependents should be given a chance and that the man in prison should be a'lowed to earn @0 a8 to help them, If the In- mate has no dependents would it not What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundredt There ts fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Taxe time to be brief. i few tired, homeless mortals cgme in| to keep out of the cold, or to rest themselves, what harm? Is that suffi- cient excuse for depriving legitimate | readers of seats? W. ANDERSON, Brooklyn, N. ¥., July 26, 1920. | The Care of Boys. | ‘To the Editor of The Brening World | Replying to your correspondent who | requests advice regarding the bad conduct of his nine-year-old young- ster, my experience of five scars handling cases of juvenile crime and delinquency enables me to offer the following: At the outset, have the boy thor- | oughly examined mentally and phys-| jelly; the Post Graduate Hospital is an excellent place for this; next, find out whom hie playmates are and what sort of amusements they in- dulge in. Many boys have the false! notion and influence others to believe , that money they find lying around the home 1s rightfully theirs since the parents are obliged to support | them. Doce he associate with movie-| mad hoodlums who frequent the type theatre, gaining admittance by asking adults to buy thelr ticket, and while there have thelr !maginations inflamed and polluted by — wild scenes of disorder and crime, which | in most cases {a juatified in the pic- | ture, giving them a false ‘moreevion | of right and wrong? | ‘There are three Big Brother organ- | izations in New York who volun- ‘eer much of thelr spare time help- JOHN. P, MALLOY. State Employees. ‘To the Pilitor of The Evening Workl; Want to thank you for your co- operation in exposing the adopted | plan, passed by the Board of Alder- men’ recently, regarding the 20 per cent increase in salary to all city employees, and wish to say that it be an insurance against future wrong- doing if he had lald by a sum of money with which he could make a fresh start on hia release? Work is a healer of many scars: to know how to work and to feel tt» tm- portance 1a a leason which we all must learn if we are to succeed in Ue. ADOLPH LEWISOHN, New York, July 3 26, 1920, Ubrary Chatrs, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Can you tell me why, in the name of all that’s human, the Public Li- brary at 424 Street is without chairs in the circulation room? ‘This room is not only a clrevlation room; it con- tains many reference works that must ‘be read on the premises. I stood there for two hours to-day, holding a book and trying to read, after vainly look- for a seat, I can understand the paint that some official might make— that a few bums used to camp there, hence, It was deemed necessary to re. move the chairs in order to keop them out. Rut now that excuse won't go, because, haven't we got Prohibition, and havon't al] the tramps vanished? } And on the other band, The was one of the most disgraceful pieces of legislation passed in many years, Will ask you to take cogniz-| ,, ing cases of this kind, w UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copright, 1920, by Joho Blake,) EVERY HURDLE HELPS. Instead of complaining about the hurdles that are set for you, try to get over a few of them, it. Perhaps you won't, Perhaps you will do But every time you really try you will be a little better equipped for life than you were before. Men grow by overcoming difficulties. And the more difficulties they overcome, the more they grow. If it had been easy for Robert Louis Stevenson to write —if he had been cursed with the facility that ruins many gifted Island” men—he never could or “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” have produced “Treasure But the hurdle of ill health was set for Stevenson in the’ beginning, He had to write under the most severe difficul- And he had to learn to write, for writing was always ties. hard for him. The difficulties that beset the Allies in the early years of the war—shortage of men and munitions and-lack of easy means of reaching the battlefield—made victory, when it came, a victory for all time. Had there been a quick defeat of the Central Powers, there would be far less certainty of a permanent peace than there is to-day. ‘You can no more equip yourself for real work in the world without difficulties than you ean equip yourself for a football game without training. Practice does not make perfect, but it does improve the Self confidence, the greatest qualification a man can have, comes only through the knowledge that he has met and overcome serious mind as it improves the muscles. difficulties. The ease with which the the past. Don’t be afraid of trouble, and don't complain about it. It has beset the pathway of man since he was born into this world, And because his pathway has been so beset, his body and mind have become strong, and he has gone far toward the complete conquering of the earth, which will come with the centuries, ance of the treatment afforded to) *“™ - — : State ompployees alnoe the Ist of July, 1920, for instead of being increased to meet the present existing condi- tions, many have been reduced. Just dren only receiving $1,820 per year, and instead of ‘being increased to $1,500 to $1,800 per year, has been re- duced to $1,200 per annum. The legislators at Albany do not believe in the true saying of live, and let lve, so they had better look out for themselves this coming plec- tlon a8 the peaple are getting tired of the legislation that they are hand- ing out, A SPATE EMPLOYER, New York City, July 2%, 1920, Reher at Home. ‘To the Extitor of The Prening World: In your morning editorial I see where Mr. Herbert Hoover and Mr. ugh Gibson, American Minister to Poland, ask ald from the United States form the feeding of a million and a quarter of Polish chtidren. What's the matter with our own ohid- | dren right here in the United States, whom we poor, underpaid working people can't feed on account ¢f the think of @ married man with chil-|high cost of Hving? Ameroa first! Lat the Polish peaple here, wi mostly all landlords or storekeepers, und who are not even citizens oft the United States, profiteers—the landlords by boosting rents 35 and 60 per cent. wtorekeepers by changing two to five cents more others——look after thei countrymen. In the block I live in every house ts owned by Poles, and they have raulsed rente 85 to 50 per cent. and age doing so all over this section one reduce the thigh cost of living and give us cheaper and better housing facilities eo that we will be able to feed our own ohildren and be able to rave a few dollars, then we may be able some, tlons—home firet rere engineer tackles and conquers a difficult problem in construction is born of his success in overcoming similar, if less difficult, problems in who are and who are all and the for their goods than/ or Let some to help Buropean countries But with the present condi- poe a 1 : ae oFact’ By Albert P. Southwick Corte We: Pest Estee wollte Ce ———— ne 24, 1676, the Council of New York ordered that six white three black wampums shells) should pass for a penny, and three times as much for the value of the smallest silver coin, Fourteen lots near Coenties Slip were sold at auction for £86 each, and a lot at the foot of Broad Street, New York City, was valued at £80 tn 1689, The revolt of the Penneylvania line at Morristown, N. J., was on 1781. rs and the term expired, they olalued @ discha: (sea- Having enitstea for Tee, “ | Alexander Rook, President-Edltor a “Star”-.- In “The ‘Theatre Through Its Bus Door” (Harpers) David Belasco tel) how he “discovered” David Warflel’ who has just announced his Intent! of returning to the: New York stag next fall in “The Return of Pe Grimm.” “The first time T ever saw him Thi was stan@ing on a #oap box, 1% verses to a streat crowd. afterward became an impersonaior Hebrew types in various companies I recalled how once, in a bee we of Annte Russell's ‘Cather- had observed an uproariou ine, vo. audience quiet down to serious atten tion under the influence of his wistful in his voice. all one night I again noted his peculiar influence over the audi- ence in a mock-pathetic episode in the piece, It occurred to me instantly that In him lay the greatest pot tialities as an emotional etar, . Other mat could not imagine Warfield as anything but a comic actor, But two characters, Anton von Barwig in “The Music Master,’ and | Peter Grimm in ‘The Return of Peter Grimm,’ have proved how great was the genius that had (been stifled up to that time.” * . . Views of Many Minds--- | The Pittsburgh Dispatch has been running a column called “The Wan- derer,” 'n which many minds on many subjects have been. given places, The writers have ranged \from the most learned to the hum- ‘blest, from the specialist to the aver- age man or woman, and in the mass © ‘we have formed a symposium of ‘timely interest, ‘These articles have been under the | editorial direction of Mary Bthel Mc- | Auley, who has now collected enough of them to make a book carrying the — [title of the column, which has just ‘been issued by Boni & Lveright, | with an Introduction by Col. Charlk {the Pittsburgh Dispatch. | he subjects have been judiciously selected and have a wide range. Any | ome can take up the volume and fiid |something in {t to stimulate and to ‘appeal. The idea of the publication is good and has been well carried ‘out. | Among the contributors are sev- feral from The World. Thus we find Sophie Irene Loeb, Marguerite Mooers ‘Marshall, Irvin 8. Cobb, Albert Pay- {son Terhune, William Johnston, and W. G. Bowdoin on various polemics. Philosophy, religion, art, life, sol- ence, birth, economics, death, labor, politics, love and other themes are discussed in both a serious way and in lighter vein. ‘The varying sub- Jects are presented from various an- gles, as they should’ be, and while no one can possibly agree with every story in the book, there yet remains enough with which to agree without violence and without, loss, The majority of contributions are in prose, but certain of the lutter- day poets are represented so as tu give a literary balance to the bool: as a whole. Both conse-vatives and radicals have their day in court in the book's pages. The book will ad- mirably serve to preserve current !f not profound thought in a very con- venient form. 8 6 Playing at Cards--- | “Master Auction,” by Florence Irwin, GP. Putnam's Sons | Publishers. In these hurried days it is pleas@ht to think that somewhere there are people who sit themselves down of quiet afternoons, four about a little green baize table, to play at cards. It {s a friendly, gracious thing, « game of cards; lelsureful, studied and pleasurable, No doubt those sterner guardians of the public soul will realize shortly that an unholy pleasire may be derived from the combinations of the fifty-two paste- board slips, and an amendment will be passed and we shall know them no more. Hence let us make the most of this pleasure while we may. ‘\Master-Auction" is a book for the advanced player who wishes to per- fect his game and keep pace witi the latest discussions and subtleties of the play. It ts lucid, Somnyenen sive and a valuable addition t the bridge library. Wanderlust--- « . My feet tug at the floor land my head mvays to my shoulder Sometimes when I watch trees sway From the avoindow or the door, 'T shalt aet out for somewhere, I shal! make the reckless choice | Some day when they are all in voice And tossing so ag to scare The white clouds over them on. I shal} have less to say, es But I shall be gone, Robert Frost in “The ‘Mountain Intervale,” Henry Holt & Co. ee The Einstein Theory--- Despite ‘ts contradictory title! |«pasy Lessons in Einstein,” by Dr- Edwin E. Slosson, Mterury editor of the Independent and associate in the Columbia School of Journalism, tells in a readable, chatty, human and én- telligible way exactly what Mr, Rinstein was trying to say when he propounded his theory. After you've read the book you actually knuw what Hinstein talks about and you feel as familar with interstellar Space as with your own dooryard. Th¢ layman of scientific leanings whl find this book entirely fascinating, * 8 . Work Versus Geniu: , Rudyard Kipling ts always amused at the idea that terary style is some mysterious gift rather than the resul of hard work, constant growth an | practice, and apprenticeship to th writer's trade. A friend, an English professor, once told Kipling how he ‘thad pointed out to hie class at college ) the masters of story-telling In whose footsteps Kipling had trod and by whose example he had profited, Ki; ling smiled, then slowly asked but why did you give it away? Wh: not let them think it was jusb genius?”