The evening world. Newspaper, August 6, 1920, Page 14

sn. y bythe Prose Pubtiehing Row, New Tork: : > fs TRY PUBLICITY. BADERS of the American Federation of Labor frankly admit that they plan to make another effort to organize the steel mill workers. 4 Im this they show wisdom which has not always been evident in movements to advance unionism, sq Public opinion is not ready to indorse every tenet ofunionism. But, confronted with a choice between the possible evil effect of unionism and the manifest of Garyism, there can be no question as which direction public opinion will take. | ‘If a strike should prove necessary, public opinion back a strike led by men of a different char- Foster. Furthermore, if the steel employers are certain that public opinion is against their stand they will that the strike is sure to win. They will inclined to listen to reason in advance of the sjrike and yield as much as public opinion thert to yield. Union organizers have been prone to charge that and publicity men employed by the tions have stacked the cards against them and have prejudiced public opinion by misstatement aad misrepresentation. ~ Here seems to be a'case in which the unionists Dave am excellent opportunity to turn the power of ‘publicity against the steel corporations. ‘They should take full advantage of the oppor- tunity. The report of jhe Interchurch Movement thas provided an excellent fulerm on which to op- emate the lever of frank and open dealing with the . pare ' _——_ THE GREATER SHOCK. he ae for a court of final resort to dispose involving vitally important questions constitutional law without disclosing or declar- any reasons other than its, ultimate conclusions.” “No important modern case involving such vital questions of constitutional law, #o far as ;reeounsel have been able to And, has ever before been disposed of by agy English or American ‘court of final resort opinion and upon “@ mere statement of ultimate conclusions, The precedent is believed to be dangerous to consti- tutional rights and liberties.” it was a shock to millions of Americans to find ng ‘this invasion of the Constitution with no further argument than that thus it was and must be. ~~ When the Supreme Court of the United States . eeases to give reasons for its decisions, even when they affect the ftrsonal 4iberty of one hundred people as heretofore recognized and pro- world will have come to a worse pass gloomiest of the post-war pessimists ¥ j THE MAIN THING. ENEWED wrangling in the Board of Estimate over the reconsidered plan of salary increases wa ‘Wig held over for public hearing next Monday. © No harm will be done if this course makes it any ‘elearer that public opinion is overwhelmingly \Bgainst a salary increase scheme that gave the big- * taises to the highest paid employees who neeJ- them least. ~~ ts unfdrtunate that nothing can apparently be accomplished by the present Board of Estimate _ unseemly internal quarrelling and yvitupera- The main thing, however, is to put through the few salary increase schedules Which provide more rong for city employees who have been get- | ig the lowest pay. "Nobody is deeply concerned over what members of the Board of Estimate think or say of each other » ‘” ‘Jong 4s a fairer salary increase plan fs secured. IN MISSOURI AND OKLAHOMA. “> EPUBLICAN partisans who discerned a Demo- ae cratic repudiation of the Wilson Administra- ton aid the League of Nations issue in the Texas | J ie are welcome to all the satisfaction obtain. | from the results of primaries in Missourl and | As a matter of facl, the Texas primary was not | irtiduiarly significant, It is true Joe Bailey led in ; but it was a mingrily, plurality and} rs: a 5 — fssue. In Missouri the issue wae clearer, anti-Administration wing was united under the lead- ership of Jim Reed. The ‘administration support was divided between two strong candidates. In spite of this, Breckenridge Long, supporting the Pres- ident, polled a substaptial plurality, and the third aspirant gave the Reed supporter a close race. In’ Oklahoma the issue was unmistakable, Gore was anti-Administration and anti-League. Ferris was pro-Administration and pro-League. Blind Sen-* ator Gore had the advantage of sympathy with his infirmity, which enabled him {to run 20,000 ahead of his ticket in 1914. But Ferris on incomplete te- turns rolled up a vote in the primary nearly as large as the vote which elected Gore six years ago, and considerably Jarger than the normal Republican vote in @klahoma. MR. TAFT ON THE ISSUE. N ANSWERING for the special benefit. of Eve- ning World readers certain questions submitted to him by The Evening World regarding League reservations, one of the convictions expressed by William H. Taft is that the American people have tired of the League issue. Mr. Taft would have it that what made them tire “was President Wilson's obstinate rejection of the Lodge reservations. i With all respect to Mr. Taft, who has been a con- sistent and courageous Republican defender of the League, he is wrong on this point. . It was not the President’s uncompromising ad- herence to the League and the professed national purpose it represented which first dulled the interest of a considerable part of the Anterican public and then increased its indifferencg or disgust. Popfilar weariness of the issue began when Re- publican Senators made it plain that they were ready to prolong the anti-League fight and keep the coun- try out of peace for as many months as might be required to bring discredit upon the Administration subject to a second primary under Texas law. The | pro-Administration strength was split among several | candidates and Joe Bailey's personal machine was | able to roll up a plurality principally on the issue of | the open shop and not on the League of Nations | In Missouri the 4 | and create party capital for the Presidential cam- | Paign. ‘ - People tired of the issue as they became convinced that Senators in whose power it lay to hold up the treaty and keep this Nation out of the League were . using that power for political ends that would not stay concealed under all the patriotic professions festooned about them. Americans became dulled to the importance of the national and international questions involved as they | saw the paltriness and pettiness with which these questions were approached in that legislative body where the highest American statesmanship might naturally be sought. - To revitalize American interest in the League, what is most needad is the revelation of a method by which to cut through all ambiguities, all sus- picions of double motive that have gathered about proposals put forth by the reservationists. That is why the Constitution itself has come to seem to not a few straight-thinking Americans the best single and sufficing reservation with which to test the honesty of those who say they orily seek to have the United States enter the League with ils Constitutional freedom and its Constitutional pro- cesses of action unimpaired, Mr. Taft holds that, since faithfulness to ils Con- stitution is presupposed in this Nation’s becoming a member of the League of Nations, the Constitution cannot be used as a reservation, It must be remembered, however, that Mr. Tafi feels he must still leave room somewhere for the Lodge reservations. As for the Republican candidate's cold shoulder toward the Covenant, the Republican ex-President can only be valiantly hopeful that somehow, some day light and the League may set Harding: straight. In the mean time the country is in just the right. state to hail with joy the proposal of a simple, direct means of. accepting the Covenant of the League of Nations in words that will affirm and protect the Constitution without serving the political ends of party paraphrasers. That is the hope with which millions of American cars will turn to-morrow toward Dayton, O. . - OUR OWN SLOGAN ENTRY. LETTER to the Times from. Mr. H. P, Chad- bourne of Boston suggests a ‘slogan whicli might well be entered in The Evening World slogan contest, or sent to Democratic Headquarters for use in the campaign. The final paragraph of Mr. Chadbourne’s letter was: “Gen, Pershing was reported to have sald, "Lafayette, we are here.’ If Harding wins, it would be a fitting climax for him to send #ome one to France to say, ‘Lafayette, we were here, but we decided to quit." Condensed to twelve-word slogan form, it would read: “Pershing said, ‘Lafavel'e, we are here;’ on Harding. says, ‘Lafayette, we have quit.’ |to give good service. You 'VE Gor THE LUCKY, PLACE _ LETS, CHANGE |. FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | to say much in a few words. Take ‘The Patron Pays. To the Editor of the Evening World ‘The New York Telephone Company has sent out pamphlets to its sub- Rates Are Necessary’ and tries to Justify an Increase the first of next month by a showing of operating ex- penses of several million dollars. Higher rates should not ba granted by the Public Service Commission without a puble hearing. The com- pany should be required to justify its waste of material, money and time in hanging on to red tape, called by the company, “standard prectice.” ‘As an instance, I mention that sup- pose you move into a room whioh hus telephone service, and would like to have everything left as it is, and think you can save money. the eom- pany may tell you that the instru- ment has to be removed and replaced by another ane (maybe the identical one) at a cost to you of $3.50 and ata delay of from threo to four weeks. In due time a man may ‘come around with a bag of tools and a bundle of wire and ask you whore the new n- strument is to go, and when he secs the old instrument expresses his sui - prise, does a lot of telephoning to the wire chief and requests you for per- mission to leave his bag and his bun- dle of wire while he goes out to lunch The company must be losing moncy by these transactions, because an ex- pertenced electrician's time is wor at least $1.25 per hour and it takes him one-half day, counting in th: time of going and coming from and to the shop. The principal item of expense ts what the New York Telephone Com- pany calls publicity, This Includes everythtng that is considered neces- sary in order to get now subseribers. To get new subscribers, the company Issues neat pamphlets, keeps a force of canvassers and hires expensive stores in all parts of the city and the State of New York. Lt also advertises lin the newepapere for the purpose of telling the public the difficulties with which it is confronted 1 If 1 rememier correctly the publicity expense was ever two million ($2,000,000) dollans in one year, Most of your ere oy will agree that there is @ less expedsive way of sub- sorth to a telephone. An enplica- tlor. bank can be filled out and maaled. T think that the telephone company should be compelled to prove to the satisfaction of every subscriber that money {a not wasted on red tape and publicity before It should be permitted to Increase its rates, JOSPPH B Acolian Hall, Aug, 5, 1920 Ortental Seamen, To the Biter of The Bening World 1 read about the tilictt amuggling of Chinese and Japaneas into the United States, | can substantiate this with an filustration of the plight of the MARX majority of #lewards-and cooks on freight vessels . Of Inte ther Astation have presacd the American cillzens more and mere of thelr 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 hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying | refused employment in at least five or scribers entitled “Why New Telephone | in its endeavors | time to be brief. six Instances the last few months. Chances of getting a good job are very meagre in my branch of sea service. Any one can ascertain these facts on the water fronts, This is absolutely contrary to the spirit and words of the Seamen's Act, which was made to better the condi- on of American seafaring men. The most of us men eagerly volun- teered during the war, braving the submarine and mine dangers, and now we see the jobs gradually given to the Asiatics. Why isn't an American citizen eli- gible for these positions any,m:.re? OSWALD ORTTERSH! S No. 306 Hast 85th Street, Aug. 5, 1920. ‘Te the Bilitor of The Erening World I am certainly glad that Judge McIntyre charged the Grand Jury to investigate the reckless manner in which automobiles are driven through the streets of this city. Unfortunately my business causes | me to travel on foot, Few days pass | without narrow escapes. Last ‘week while crossing 66th Street and Broad- way one of those fellows turned the comer into the street ‘without’ any warning, so rapidly that I barely escaped, Naturally I looked after hfm to get his nutnber, when an- other dashed around the corner in the eame direction without any stg- nal. Luckily I had presence of mind to jump, otherwise I would not be here to write this letter. When I shouted to him he called back, sneer- ingly, in the vilest of language. 1 hope that the Grand Jury will ‘bring in mich a report that the au- thorities in charge of traffic will take notice, Pedestrians should have some rights. J. J. BROWNE, New York, Aug. 6, 1920. Garbage. | ‘To the Kiditor of The Enening Work! and I too wish to thank you for your efforts in having the garbage men- ace removed from Kast Ninety-fitth Street pier, But, believe me, I don't thank the Street Cleaning Depart- ment for transferring the scene of torture to East 107th Street pier by any moans. Conditions here last summer were bad, but this yoar they are really frightful. You can get any disease here except a cold In the head, which would be Indeed welcome when the wind Is !n the east. — J, MARRO. 401 East 108th St, Aug. 2, 1920, | “Take © Tomato for Instance.” To the Baier of "Tin Kreing World ; The honest fammer recetves two and one-half cents a pound for tt, It Is offered for aile to the ultimate consumer at from 15 conta to 30 cents a pound until it dw half rotten, then ft fs marked 10 conte a pound ct Just read Mr. Welsmiller’s letter | ‘ tomatoes, #0 it naturally goes to the dump. night, 10 cents a bag, and went to the trouble of counting them, There were twelve, Now we wouldn't object to paying 10 cents a dozen for nice big cherries, but eome of thése were not much larger than a New York land- lords heart. 10 the Histor of The Evening Work moat certainly ts the criticiam of (ho Central Public Library, 0: 42d Street and ¢Fiftth Avenue, Anderson. tdea of until it becomes as of no account as PT 6 h \a Now York Congressinan, then it 1s] praise should come forth in tte behalf, in a basket with five or slx other) t have made use of this wonderful or- rotten ones and marked J0 cents a ganization on many occasions. and i heave besa basket, No poe wants to buy gotten wes always | Gor A FISH ! LOOK AT THE UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) BEWARE OF BOOMERANG. “For himself,” says Hesiod, “a man doth work evils in working evils o1 others.” Which means that spite is a dangerous weapon and re- venge a dynamite bomb. The percentage of perfection in human beings varies about as the alcoholic coatent of liquors, which is so much discussed lately. Some of us are high proof, and may run about 40 per cent. But we often grade down to two point seventy-five, and even lower. And the more imperfect we are the more impatient we are with the imperfections we see in others, and the more desirous of making those others realize our superiority. The desire to humiliate our enemies was strong jn hu- man beings wheu the Twenty-third Psalm was written. It is as strong as ever to-day. . Too late, people discover that in trying to do evil to 3} others they do evil to themselves. The fact that Hesiod $| knew about it and wrote about it centuries ago doesn’t make any difference. | Wise men in all ages have known the way we should go, but, when they pointed it out, nobody paid heed to them. 3} The plotter and mischief-maker, whether moved by a desire for revenge, by envy, or plain spite, merely brings unhappiness and often ruin on himself. He seldom in- jures the object of his venom. : The desire to hurt others results almost invariably in inflicting a worse injury on ourselves. And if it does not, it fills the soul of its possessor with hatred and bitterness which crowd all happiness out. Forget revenge. Abandon any desire to get even. Cast out all thought of humiliating those who have despitefully used you, 7 Even if you succeeded you would do yourself no good. And it is very unlikely that you will succeed. Instead, your existence will be bound up with malevo- lence and rage, axd on your own head will be visited the punishment that you tried to inflict on your enemies, AA NARA RARA RAAB RAD ASALASAAANAN ARN AAARAARARANAA AAA. be met by an ever-welcomin, irit of readiness to help, even in cases whore a lot of trouble was involved. Any- body thinking I am overdoing a bit should go and find out—it will only add one more to the great army of grateful admirers of our library, of its management and of that fine type of people that make up Its force of at- tendants, FRANK A, WESTER, Chatsworth House, 7 Roosevelt Ave- nue, Larchmont, Aus, 3, 1920. * ‘The writer bought some cherries to- MISS ANNA NEWSOME, 58 West 106th St, N. ¥, City The Library. « Bathing. To the Mxlitor of The Brening World While bathing at South Beach, Staten Island, the other day I noticed a_very large amount of oll and tar, heavy enough to. cut with @ knife, in the water. I think the Board of Health should look after this and atop bathing, Instead of finding fault with | If there {s anything uncalled-for {t given by Mr, That {natitutton ts my perfection, and nothing but year at least. The public’ has proclaimed its de- By Sophie Irene Loeb. Om ERS her York mae YHAR ago the Public Extuca- cation Association reported that there were at least 20,000 children in the public schools suffer- ing from heart trouble whose condi- tion was accentuated by climbing from fifteen to twenty flights of stairs dally. ' After an investigation, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment appro- priated $25,000 for treatment of these cardiacs, After a year's work the great need of more such preventive work in the Interest of the health of school cbil- dren has been clearly demonstrated. Children’ from seventeen schools, numbering 600, were thoroughly ex- amined, One hundred and twenty- five of these children were found to be seriously affilcted and were taken from their classes for individual at- tention, Later, fifty of these 125 serious cases were returned to their classes with the normal children, but under careful supervision of a doctor and nurse, Such progress has been noted that the children have gained from one to seven pounds in a single month. This wag accomplished by a co-operative plan of parents, children, purses and doctors during’ the time the ‘children were attending publi¢ school, Ag an evidence that this means of caring for childtgn is most important, lost weight over Saturday and Sun- day, when they were at home without This is only one of the many inno- vations that will needs be put into of the future citizen, We have been shortsighted in the spent in building up the brain of Johnny Doe with little thought toward understand that he cannot take the educational meal until he is physi- The physical welfare of children must be one of the chief studies of seoure its highest attainments. Science Conquers ISCOVERIES, in connection with the origin and treatment of «ntists of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research during 1919, indi- materially reducing the mortality of the disease,” according to a partial stitute made public here by its Pres- ident, George E. Vincent. Guayaquil, Ecuador, by Dr. Hideyo, Noguchi, bacteriologist of the insit- with guinea pigs, the review stated. in cultivating from the blood a minute spira icteroides—'slim spiral, the jaundice make By means of this serum for the treatment of the dis- ease, number of cases with apparently {a- yorable effect,” Mr. Vincent's report a means of identifying yelfow fever has been found, and that the chances mortality of the disease, which now ranges between 40 and 85 per cent, be made which apparentl protects non-immunes against infection,” eliminating the disease from Guaya- quil, which averaged 269 cases an- 1918, the report added that no cases have appeared there since June 1, “Tt Is too early to affirm that yellow fever has been completely cradic “Vigilance will not be relaxed f Nevertheless, the pos- vincingly demonstrated. Guayaquil, the chief seed bed of yellow fever, has ‘This is as it should be. the records show that the children this extra attention. the school curriculum in the interest past. Millions of dollars have been his brawn. We are just beginning to cally fit for it educators if the public school is to Yellow Fever D yellow fever, made by the scl- cate that “the chances are good of review of the year's work of the in- Research work was conducted at tute, He succeeded by experiments organism which he named “Lepto- organism he was able to prepare a “This has been administered in a said, “It seems more than likely that are good of materially reducing the and, furthermore, that a vaccine can Citing the results accomplished tn nually from 1912 to 1918, with 460 in 1919, £ from Guayaquil,” the review sibilities of control have been con- been free from the disease for moths. liverance from a menace whicn had never been abscht since 1842, Gen Gorgas's ambition to write ‘The Last Chapter of Yellow Fever’ seoms no Utopian dream.” The commissions created in Cen- tral American coyntries to regulate control measures wilt be continued through this year, and concerted ef- forts will be made, the review de- clared, to guard against another out~ break. ———-——- “‘That’s aFact’’ By Abert. Seuthck York Evening _Wor Nassau Street, in honor of the Prince of Orange and Nassau, was originally known as ‘“Piewoman’s tana” ‘The present Barrow Street, New York City, running paralic! wilh was known for a time as Raisin Strect, a corruption of “Reason” Street, given it by @he Commissioners in compliment to the avthor of “Common Sense,” their neighbor -for more than @ year jn Greenwich Village. The Vice Admiral Warren home- stead, with the fifty-five acres sur~ rounding, was for 125 years the most important dwelling in Green- wioh, New York City, The square pounded By Fourth, Bleecker, Perry and Charles Streets was purchased by a Mr, Van Nest in 1819 for $16,000, Greenwich Road, close upon the Une of the present Greenwich Street and directly upon the Hudson, wes until 1767 the only thoroughfare to ‘the north, Where it crossed Lia- penard's meadows and the marshy valley (about Charlton. Street) of the Manetta Creek, the road was & Spot On an orangeade glans, REAPER OF THE WORLD. | surprived to Aus. 2,10 \ pen raised won a causeway, which was partly under water when there were, etrong epring tides,