The evening world. Newspaper, August 4, 1920, Page 22

BOTABLISHED DY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pubiianed Dally Except Sunday by the Preas Punitshing Company, Nos, 53 to 63 Park Row, New Yorks RALPH PULITZER, President. Bi ree see. 3. ANGUS Sitaw, JOSEPH PULATZER. Fetter ted PRACTICAL AMERICANIZATION. PLAN for the formation of a so-called “League of Nations,” under the auspices of the Down Town Chamber of Commerce, is an- ot ee es anthe pasee nn Perhaps League of Nationalities would be a more _ accurately descriptive name. _But the name is immaterial. tremendously important. In brief this is, that immigrants who have “been through the mill” and have made a success of it assume personal responsibility for helping weaily arrived countrymeen to an apprecta- of America, Such an organization as outlined has potentiali- for the highest possible type of public, service. a ta opportunity to become the one most “effective agency of Americanization in this Nation, The force of racial cohesion has been one of the < most difficult bars to Americanization, Racial solidarity has accounted for much of the in the melting pot. is tremendous force. Unscrupulous and short- ted employers have used the force for their own ends, New immigrants have been explolted their countrymen. All too often religious lead-, teachers and employers have fostered alienism The purpose is att a te et ec 4 $8 ao & Fe ge hak wr America for their own ends, either selfish or ‘ * mistaken, . 4 est ; But the force is so strong that if it can be directed in the right direction it may become as helpful as it % has been harmful in the past. No one can aid the immigrant as well and with so great a measure of understanding as the immi- » grant from the same country who has been here léng enough to become established, He knows the > problems of the racial group and of the individual * ! + because he has solved them for himself’ in the : _ } e/school of experience. ; * Disinterested and kindly neighborliness, the help- 4 hand, big brotherliness have the power to win - immigrants to Americanism as nothing else can. = This “League of Nations” has the opportunity if it © will but use it, The enthusiastic response to The Everfing World's oe for letters on “What America Has-Done for Me” last winter was proof positive that apprecia- e J 2 alee 5 cae Beara + tion of America exisfggin thousands of foreign-born | hearts. - + If the Down Town Chamber can mobilize’ this | sentiment and turn it to constructive aims it will i } apron a monumental service. A, MAKE THEM PROVE IT. ‘a CONOMISTS, the Department of Justice and, Daniel Willard all agree that the increase in’ { freight rates ought not to result in largely increased j a ue consumers. Z| 4 among all’ the consumers, this Pes soapooon increase would amount to*about 3 + cents per person per day, But in the light of recent profiteering experience a would not be surprising if the chewing-gum mer- . Ghant should attempt to adda penny a package * “for freight.” The best defense the public h as is the “show me” attitude, coupled with a refusal to buy when a con- * viticing demonstration is not forthcoming. If any merchant pleads “freight increase” as a reason for higher prices, the consumer will usually be safe in asking for proof, and offering to pay double the actual increase which the merchant can demonstrate with bills of lading and invoices, ‘elf merchants are unwilling to demonstrate, let ~ them keep the goods until tify are willing. Trade © somewhere else where a better reason for price- A i raising is advanced. © fri 2 fk Fe PREPARING FOR 1921? ANY New Yorkers are frankly sceptical of the reports coming from Saratoga. They refuse to believe that the Saratoga confer- ence of the Democratic Party is any less bossed by ‘Tammany than the’ Republican convention was » bossed by the Old Guard G. O. P. element. Tt is conceded that Chief Murply can’ boss the “@onference if he cares to, The natural question is, “Why is a boss if not to boss?” » Asa matter of fact, this attitude does not con- y sider ali the factors. _ It is unnecessary to hold an improved opinion of _ Tammany in order to concede that Tammany could boss this conference but is not doing so. The truth may well be that Chief Murphy is play- ing for bigger fish. Next year comes the municipal election. From the standpoint of Tammany, the city elec- tion is vastly more important than the State and i, ‘national slections combined. atid | Ws} sure of its pare Anything whic) Tammany may do in this ‘cam- will be done with an eye to 1921. If Chief himself in the esteem of | es ‘ 1920 his fefow-citizens by being an “easy boss” this year he will be glad to do so, in hopes of capitalizing this esteem next year when he has important busi- ness on hand: / Chief Murphy may be as pure in heart as he ap- pears to be at Saratoga. But if that explanation fails to satisfy, the other is plausible, seems to ex- plain the situation, and would be evidence of more politiéab acumen than Tammany is accustomed to display. Moreover, the Republican gathering made all the mistakes possible and thereby mapped out the pro- gramme for the Democrats. Mr. Murphy merely has to be diametrically different in order to have a winning political policy, a policy that deserves to win this year on its merits, IS HARDING VERSATILE? "| uente ek i ee ae, terday’s issue of the Marion Star, we learn, was Senator Warren’ G. Harding, owner of the paper and candidate for the Presidency. The news was widely heralded by the press associations as a bit of human interest copy. We wonder whether the Marion Star also carried the item which announced that the Republican managers had arranged for moving picture men to be in the shop and film the candidate working at his trade, Senator Harding undoubtedly got out the old make-up rule he has catried in his pocket as a luck piece for all these many years, rolled up his sleeves, put on a printer’s apron and did the job with credit to himself and to the Star. The “movies” will give his fellow-craftsmen a lime on his ability and technique. If heads were misplaced, lines transposed and “jump lines,” dashes and cut-off rules wrongly inserted, the printers need ndt conclude that the Senator is not a good printer. Even the best of workmen lose some measiire of their cunning from lack of practice. Nor would a few errors in themselves be a serious reflection on Printer Harding's qualifications for the Presidency. Many a printer who has been letter- perfect in his trade has failed to be nominated or elected to the Presidency. ° A knowledge of the print- ing business neither proves nor disproves his. | qualifications. But Newspaper Owner Harding is a versatile worker in a newspaper shop. Proprietors of small- town’ dailies usually are, They have to be, Tie was wher Owner Harding was wont to write the editorials as well as make up the front page. Here and -now we suggest that Candidate Har- ding who gave place to Printer Harding yesterday give place to Editor Harding some slay soon before the cares. of running for office become too great. This Nation would thoroughly enjoy reading an editorial column certified as written by Editor Hard- ing. Such a column would be copied widely, an honor dear to the heart of every editorial writer. In particular would this be true if Editor Harding would choose for the title of his leading article, “Harding Accepts,” and proceed to give a definite and concise interpretation of the passages in the ac- ceptance speech of. Candidate Harding defining his altitude on the League of Nations. It must be admittedthat other editors have made a frightful mess of this interpretation. If the editor of the Marion Star would, he should be able to give a better interpretation of obscure wording than any other editor, however erudite. Such an editorial might straighten out the editors of the Sun and New York Herald, the Tribune, the Evening Post, the Times, the Globe, the'Mail, the World. The Eve- ning World would gladly be put straight. “What dil he mean?” is a question that puzzles more than one editor, Hardly any two seem to arrive at precisely the same conclusion Editor Harding coul& speak with authority. Will not Editor Harding of the Marion Star add a second. reel to his typographical moving picture showing him seated with pen in hand, or in front. of the typewriter, preparing copy for this editorial? A good editorial in the Star might have as great an effect on history as any editorial ever printed in the United States. UNIVERSAL TRACTION MAPS. PENING of new subway routes this week emphasizes the need for new traction maps of the city. Old ones no longer serve, In subway stations the maps are highly con- venient and frequently consulted by travellers. These maps no longer do full duty. New York is served by distinct systems, more or less competitive, y ing its own lines and omitting, for the most part, the competing lines, The public deserves better map service vision is in order. For the information and convenience of patrons, each subway and elevated station, whether Inter- borough, B. R. T. or Hudson tube; should- be equipped with a complete traction map showing In- tersections, transfer points and servic Competitors have no prospects of material permanent gains in regular traffic from this hid of the more convenient route. The occasional patron who pays an extra fare and wastes time because he is unfamiliar with the best route stores up more than a nickel’s worth of hostility which the companies can ill afford to sell at the profit they make on the ride, re- ling Each has its own map show- 4 ‘THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, KUGUST 4, _Can You Beat It! 1920, r ate Rea ae in ot | DIDN'T CONE ERE Te PREES NEVER MIND, Gq AND PUT ON SOu WHITE TROUSERS AND WHITE SHOES THIS is A SWELL PLACE GET A PILLOW % SITOM OR You'll SOK YOUR. WHITE] PANTS THE GHAIRS ARE DUSTY STOP SNOKING | red You ‘46 DROP ASHES, “@, |ON YOuR WHITES 0 Zz TROUSERS - | » CAN GOING FOR ) FINE | But TAKE YouR HANDS OUT OF YOUR sae T CROSS YOUR LEGS! ‘YOU'LL GEFTHE CREASES! 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To the Esiitor of The Evening World: The John Doe investigation startedé W&s opposed by the best division ot ue : |the German Army and made its ree- by “Florfda” is certainly one that) o.9 ai their expense while it was Offl- should be interesting for all and/ciaiy mentioned for fighting. power should be entered into heartily by|by the American, French and German all—to each individual's personal ad- | Commands. cage Twenty-six States of the Union 2 Personally and from’my own expe- ence I want to hand it to “Florida” for being truthful in every statement. next ev! when b not act as mentioned by $45 point that out, from? Myste IL know true, for I thyself am one of the $45 & week class; friend John Doe, my wife and | many. RAINBOW. live very comfortably on this weekly | July 21, 1920, We have not been to & cease swntown show" for at least a year sik 8 brushed out and pressed, which do ‘And my wife has pad but and that ay rayselt. one new was a summer dress for $7.98, cause the suit she wore was he EC. around? Js it a ba Gn the other hand, however, in the ful to usu: same building with’ us is a young | ail shirts anyhow? le, the head of the family belng|or the other criti 35 a. week man. They go to “the| maker's wife gets tired of opera,” and usually once » week take! footed, what are you. KC in a downtown show. They always | about it? 5 have chicken on Sundays, while 7 JESSE KNOW have roast pork. new suits since T had my last new the first of this year. apartment a month, but for the three of thom ithey must have a six-room apart- how they do it? | neighbor will see this, take a tumble, |nnd' tip me off to the secret as 1 said, my wife and I are living | perfectly comfortable now, If we could find the secret to living as our neigh- would relinquish the movies for the ‘opern | pretty fast What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one There is fine ‘mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. w They Do It, Or How DO They rations than Do Itt any other jthe American Expedition Its members. proudly division in Forees. assert that it the District of Columbia sented in thls famous div National Guard troops. Infantry (old 69th) was the division and it alone major offensives and six fensives accredited to its re the Rainbow Division. The division Jay southeast of Sedan when the armistice was signed on Noy. 11 and fron there began its thind and final epoch of its fleld ope- rations, From Sedan it marched over the devastated country and almost impassable reads to Montmedy, nee it went to Belgium, Luxem course his contradictor in the ying’s issue 18 really truthful, says that John Doe could Florida” on put that is just the orida’ wanted to bring In other words, where does the that 1s necessary come Mystery! Mystery! all of these things to be per wi naining $5) but instead of mocking listrict movies are good enough T haven't had a new suit in han a year—my old ones are enough for me, if properly To the Eeitor of Me Bree I have been reading a great deal of discussion lately about silk shirts. May I ask Florida, Office Worker and the others who are thundering against this extravagance the follow- ‘Jing simple question: “What is th crime jn a young man wearing a sil} ‘|emrt?” Are there not enough t6 go dress in a year, 1 uncomfortable for summer wi He has had two] yuty 311920. “Potential Thieves’? Tor the EAitor of The Kvening Worl e; and she has had two tailored its and a summer outing The “One Who Knows" article under npon payin $60 for a new if z i upon payin # Mnd hand one for} ieading "Potential ‘Phieves” nu ited my wife and me. He smokes | correcting at least on one point, a ant be bought any. |famely: Watchman without any par- , howaver rotten, for less than ts each, while I smoke a pipe, | more? I happen to know of a number | from which I got at least 15 smokes | of large e for 15 cents. I ve a four-room| men are required to work sixty h pS or more weekly for th to $35.00 and mus giv from five to ten years the which sbts me back $34 which must ald test of a bonding com- pany before position is secured. And as for stealing time the watohman's clock dial knocks that point on the head, He may be "One Who Knows" about garment workers and other or- gunizations getting away with it, but where does he get that watchman dope? Vv, PR. July 91,1920, ent for $55. Now, will some one please tell mo I hope my friend While, nr does, you ean rest assured we " and the old clothes for new, BRONXITE July 31, 1920. j lean Cov oa $5 fine imposed on any 1 of that island caught in t | whistling. ‘he war record of the 42nd Division, ainbow Di- | ting off eee so M@ht a fine? Dh pereity,, ae imposed 80 ridiculous. ao en: im ite ope- “ teular qualifications getting $10.69 or | | Can you imagine any one | committing a0 heinous an offense get- ted, T pathy. that sharing them with othe: Sympathy, of course, But sympathy craving drug craving. And most of better off without it. to go about*looking for syin they hurt. The job you are doing about them at all. memory in your own miad, is not necessary to brood oy: having anyway. Learn to d If you have hard luck, world, It is not likely that about it. 5y ypathi But you cant cau own e. to other people. The best way to cure time telling your woes to y, ing to be adequately d this deadly type of 1 minal. his head to whistle and is caught the act, And suppose he hasn't t money to pay the fine? is too horrib® to contemplate. amendment must able to headed. of these United States be upheld our island possession. pay the fine shall be Our watehwors shall sem? pone ting shall be fined $5 M. SCHAFFER, July 81, 1020, Spankings. Te the Baltor of The Sivening World: correspondent one, das w Murray UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) DON'T BE A SYMPATHY COLLECTOR. It is easy to feel abused. Most people like to tell their troubles. They imagine Under the advice of a physician opium is often useful. der the advice of a meta-physician sympathy is also useful. If you are busy and purposeful, you will have little time a fighter takes blows, without stopping to thiak how much than the knocks that are given you that you will not think Telling your troubles to oth@rs only perpetuates their The sympathy you get from most people won't be worth the luck of the helpless individual you pick out to tell If you have suffered real losses your real friends will ou have lost moaey or are out of a job through your clessness or incompetence. Get into the habit of looking for sympathy and you will soon want more and more of it. sympathy collector and a nuisance to yourself and a pest something that is worth while and important. need for sympathy will subside, and in a year or two you will find that you can exist without any at all, aad be happier and more successful than you were when you spent half your } Cy nennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnne # Suppose an urchin between the agee of eight and eighteen takes it Into Ye Gods, this An be made to this ruyal edict directing that any one QB Thus shall the Conttitution Thue shall we teach the natives our brand of de- but any one caught whis- w. no tight ides.” “Now York City. It is natural to yearn for sym~- rs makes them easy to bear. is soothing. But so is opium. Un- can become a vicious habit, like those who crave it would be far pathy. You will take injuries as will be so much more important Troublas are necessary, but it er them, 0 without it altogether. charge it up to the way of the your luck will be half as hard as expect them to sympathize be- Soon you will be merely a the habit is to get interested in Gradually the our friends, about the present day crop of rirle, be much better off and it surely act as a cheek on the satisfied, worldly wise girl of to- day. Until my own, girl was twenty years old I always mad im he required. not an easy one) was her the when she did wrong. eles in to marry her, There must be many and young women who, experience, can testify as tu the fect of the old-fashloned “spare th rod and spoil the chil icy and {Tam sure that the majority of th |will write you in corrobaration ot Mrs, Murray's letter of last night, Let's heaf from some of Hem, foung oe p 7 Nas scans wblishments where watch-| really do net see how society is go- ‘ended against] If*more parents were toh oO heed advice the country as a whole weith would self- le use of the hair brush on her when necessity Her spankings were not | very frequent, to be sure, but she has | always known that a spanking (and And to-day | she is a credit jo the man who iy men from their Ten-Minute Studies. of New York City Government. Covrrigng. 1900, 7 The, Powe Publieted On, By Willis Brooks Haw! Ths the, nine teenth, 4 @ series I vy oO the" ad mninustrative. and lopistative “ and boards, of the New York City Government, Department of Finance. Financial Administration. T= city’s accounting for general = purposes of receipts and dis- bursements is divided into five great classes, as follows: Appropriation funds represent all current administrative and operating expenses authorized by the tax budget. From practically the first day of the year the city requires funds for those expenses, To secure these funds money may be borrowed on what are called revenue bonds, bills and notes Either kind of certificate of indebted- ness may be issued by the Comptroller at his pleasure, No advertisement is required, and there is no public knowl- edgo of these borrowings until after they are made. ‘The Comptrolier sim- Diy seeks the best rate he can secure from lenders. Urider the charter no city securities can be sold at less than par. These bonds, bills and notes are usually made payable at times when receipts from taxes and other sourcés are expected to cover them, It is s fact, howeverg that not all the taxes due in any year are collected in thut year; hence, the city must always carry, creat at the end of each year e Hlontiig aebt. ial revenue bonds cover those expenses which are not anticipated in the preparation of the anmual budget. ‘There are always certain expenses obligatory upon the city which can- not be even estimated in advance, such, for instance, as the cost of snow removal, court jidgments, &c, To de- fray ‘these expenses special revenus bonds are issued and must be included in the tax budget of the Succeeding year. +Corporate stock funds represent out- lays for the construction of all classes of permanent improvements, including rapid transit, water supply, Dridges, docks, ferries, public buildings and 59 on, The cost of these is defrayed from the sale of the city’s corporats stock or long term bonds, This is the process of handling th funds: Suppose a new school is desired. The Board of Education applies for an os tinutisalivn uf corporate stoct cover its cost and the Board of Esti. mate and Apportionment by forma! resolution makes the authorization under certain limitations as to the an- nual sum apportioned te any depart~ ment, any excess of which eum has to be authorized by tho Board of Aldermen, After authorization the Board of Education may make a con- tract for the building, and each month as the work jMoceeds the Departmen’ of Finance, after {nspeotion, pays for the completed puction if it 1s im ac- “| copdance with the contract. A sale of long term bon as must be. advertiaed for ten days. Special funds cover outlays for pub- lic improvements the cost of whicl: is defrayed from special aaseasments upon property owners, expenditures in the operation of the Brooklya wa ter supply system and those tncuned in the care and partial maintenance of bridges. Trust funds include euch tteme as the refund of taxes, aasessments and water rates paid in error and any other adjustments of a special nature. They also include the payments to pension, relief and retirement funds. ee Census Shows Rapid Growth of U. S. Cities ——- IFTY-EIGHT of the more than 1,100 cities, towns and village: in the country whose 1920 cen sus has been announced more than doubied their population in ten years Of these places thirty-three were In the North, which includes New Eng land, New JerSey, Pennsylvania and the States north of the Ohio River, Missourl and Kansas; seventeen were in the South, which Includes all States south of those enumerated; and eight were in the West, which Jncludes all States west of North an@ South Da kota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and ‘Texas, Twelve of the places were among those which more than doubled thelr population in the ten years end- ing in 1910, Cities of more than 26,000 po) tion whigh have doubled ‘the mumber of their Inhabitants in the last ten years, arranged in the order of their ° percentage of increase, follow: Hamtranck, Mich... Miami, Flas... Gary, Ind. Long Beach, Cicero, , Ill. Akron, ‘O Warren, Fint, Mie Pontiac, Clifton, N. Knoxyille, ‘Ten Winston-Salem, Oak. Park, Tl. Of these cities FI Irving- ton, N. J; West New" York, No Jy Pontiac, Mich.; Long Beach, Cal, and sMiam!, Fla,, more than doubled ‘thelr population In the decade 1900 to 1910, — 7 ha | That’s a Fact’ By Albert fe Southwick Jongh, 100, Ry "The. Prom Py fi urate. Wonks O A stone bridge that Canal Street at Broadway, 104.8 | n | crossed beneath the pavement’ of thue tie pene: ie pavement’ of that thoroughfare PueY On Jun of King great j Common, Save the King, ing a shield with the words, and Pitt ” Uberty, My 4, 1766, the anniversary e IL's birthday, as held on a) ft