The evening world. Newspaper, August 10, 1920, Page 20

1 ous RHAW. + Treasurer, _ goainnt PULITZER, Jr. BE ae reg ne MR. ROOSEVELT'S TELLING POINT. 'N his speech accepting the Democratic nomination for the Vice Presidency, Franklin D. Roosevelt, - former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, lays appro- priate and telling stress on a national need of which _ he is highly competent to speak. “I may be pardoned,” said Mr. Roosevelt, “if 1 draw on my experience of over seven years in an administrative position to state unequivocally that the Government machinery requires reorganization.” “The system, especially since the war, has become antiquated. No mere budket system, much as we need that, will correct the faults, “First of all, the methods of the legislative branch of the National Government, especially in the Upper House, require drastic changes. It is upon Congress that every executive de- partment must wait. Appeals to the House and Senate in the last session fell on appar- ently deaf ears.” ‘The country has never been moré painfully aware of defects of method in the legislative branch of the National Government, especially in the Upper House, than since a Republican Congress took advantage of those defects in seeking to obstruct and discredit the Wilson Administration at whatever cost to public welfare in an era of unprecedented reconstructive need. ' After what he has seen and suffered. in the past ighteen months, nothing could seem less re assuring to the average thoughtful American than the Prospect of legislative methods reinforced and inten- Sified by the Republican candidate’s conception of government by a Republican oligarchy in the Senate. If Mr, Roosevelt draws upon his experience, a majority of people in the United States can also draw upon theirs. The common conclusion will be that, in the matter of reconstructive aim and method, a Republican ma- jority in Congress had its chance and deliberately Spumed it for a shameless partisan rush to regain control of the exeoutive branch of the Government. NOT WORTH IT. f Rd Interstate Commerce Commission empowers the railroads to increase fares. Railroads pro- pose to put the new schedules into effect on Aug. 26. It ts reported that managers consider collecting the Surcharge on monthly commutation tickets and on return-tickets sold but not used before Aug. 26. Such ptocedure would be the height of folly. The purely legal aspect of the matter is im- material. If the railroads attempt to collect an ad- ditional cent or two a ride for the last six days of ‘August they will incur a $10 burden of animosity for every dime collected, Railroads have suffered from public hostility. If the public has abandoned its policy of fighting the railroads, the managers will be foolish indeed if they again stir up the spirit of opposition. THE TIME IS SHORT. ARAGRAPH 292 of the Election Law of the State of New York provides for a J vacan- cies in elective offices. The following passages apply to vacancies in the Assembly. The italics are ours: Upon . ° . the occurrence of a eer which cannot be filled by appointment * * the Governor may in his dis- Sali make proclamation of a special elec- tion to fill such office * * * which _ Shall be not less than twenty nor more than “ forty days from the date of the proclamation. A special election shall not be held to fill Ned @ vacancy in the office of a member of Assembly, unless occurring before the first day of April in any year, unless the vacancy occurs tm such office of * * ¢ member of Assembly after such first day of j April and a special session i ies Legislature be called to meet, bd Speaker Sweet and his clique delayed the ousting of the Socialist Assemblymen until after April 4, Thus Goy. Smith was forbidden to proclaim special elections except in the event of a special session. In the event of a special session the proclamation of special elections és “in the discretion” of the Gov- emor, The Evening World believes that a special session is imperative. It believes that the Governor would fail to exercise his ‘‘discretion” properly if he denied representation io the disfranchised voters of the five Assembly districts, \ The Evening World desires to call to the attention of Gov. Smith the “not less than twenty nor more than forty days” clause in the Election law. The time is scant in which the Governor may call a special session and proclaim special elections in | | a COX A FREE TRADER, ROM his Congressional record it is clear that James M. Cox is a “rampant free trader.” This is plain, at least, to Wilbur FP, Wake- man, General Secretary of the American Protective Tariff League, whose charges were published in the ‘Evening Mail on the day previous to Gov. acceptance speech. The alleged offense is scarce grave enough to de- mand critical comment. The 1909 record is of less interest than the 1920 record, But because of the specific items on which the Protective Tariff League bases its accusation the “expose” is worth examination, According to the list prepared by Mr. Wakeman, Congressman James M. Cox favored changes in customs, as follows: 1. Free coffee. 2. Free tea. 3. Free boots and shoes, as well as hides. 4. Free lumber. 4 5. Repeal of the preferential duty on re- fined sugar. 6. Repeal of countervailing duty on oil. 7. A constitutional income tax. 8. Free zinc. 9. Such reductions on woolen goods, blank- ets, &c., as will wipe out a prohibition of imports, thus supplying revenue and bringing the cost of clothing down to equitable prices. The list is significant, Readers of The Evening World who recall the series of articles, “Is This Profiteering?” printed last spring will note more than a coincidence. Shoe, sugar, oil and textile concerns were shown to be flagrant offenders as regards exorbitant profits gouged from the public. Congressman Cox in 1909 wanted to reduce tariff favoritism to these lines of business, Lumber needs no “protection.” The Evening World has demonstrated, the lumber concerns refuse to cut so long as the excess profits tax applies. The lumber supply is limited and can be marketed more profitably when it is no longer necessary to divide profits with the Government. Lumber imporis wouid ieip conserve gur tast dwindling forests. Free lumber would be a true sort of “protection” of national resources, Free tea and coffee do not violate the Republican protective principle. Neither is produced in the United States. | ‘The list is impressive, not as an evidence of gen- eral wisdom on tariff policy, but as an indication of the economic prescience which Congressman Cox displayed, In 1909 he picked out these particular commodi- ties on which “protection” was unnecessary and a burden to the consumer. Dealers in these com- modities demonstrated the correctness of his views. When the time came they showed they could take care of themselves without protection. They took all they could get. Certainly there are few Americans who care to “protect” for profiteers. A DIFFERENCE IN DEGREE. COMPTROLLER ORAIG’S public quarrel with the Mayor woul! be amusing if put on_the variety stage, The Mayor's “retorts discourteous” would be laughable if delivered with the slapstick in the saw- dust ring. But when these interchanges of amenities take place in the principal legislative body of the city they are out of place and eventually become wearisome. Comptroiler Craig affirms that the modified “22 per cent. plan” of adjusted salaries is “public lar- ceny.” If he is correct it must be conceded that the present schedule is only petty larceny. The “straight 20 per cent.” plan which Comptroller | Craig advocated would have been grand larceny | for the benefit of the sinecure holders. “REPUDIATION AND RETREAT.” “The Republican Party since 1912 has been the party of destructive criticism, It has made a specialty of fault finding. In peace, in war, and in our relations with other coun. tries, the settled purpose of Republican lead- ership has been to make trouble irrespective of the merits of any problem involved, It has persistently sought to increase irritation and discontent rather than to allay them. From every element of discord, and even of sedition, jt bas sought to draw some resultant of part!- san advantage. Its purpose has been and stil) is, repudiation and retreat.”—From the speech in which Homer 8, Cummings officially noti- fied Franklin D. Roosevelt of the latter's nomination for the Vice Presidency on the Democratic ticket, Mr, Cummings Is sustaining the reputation he made as Temporary Chairman of the Democratic National Convention at San Francisco. We have seen no keener analysis of Republican political methods than the above. Nor has Republican policy been more succinotly summarized than in the two words; “Repudiation” iene yt | Cox's THE “EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, Avoust 10) 1920 Ler ay HERE COMES |E RURAL ELIVERY SAY FANITOR \WHY DIDN'T You SEND THE CANARY | AM week WE oe THe AT IN NARY THE Foot! T TOLD HIM To SENDTHE WITH mee On HE SAYS HE DID! Ty the Bilitor of The Prening World. Will Prohibition tast? ‘There are many reasons to dowbt that it will If it does, the Eighteenth Amendment js likely to exert neither influence | Ror authority, except in case of some | great emergency, As a figurehead it will adorn the whip of state for the | Prohibitionists to admire, Its enforcement is @ serious ques- tion, especially when the people are compelled to pay for something they do not want. What an anomaly st ts to ask @ man to yay for punishing ‘himself and yet this is simply what the enforcement of means, Although all laws take away Ib- erty, is it advisable to deprive the people of a pleasure which they would ordinarily have a moral right to enjoy? Another thing is, “Will they endure it and how long The sooner statesmen recoxnize these things the better it will be for them- selves and the country at large, The thing for the citizens of the country to do is to get aa many wet representatives in office as cam pos- sibly be secured and then the Said enthusiasts of Prohibition will be driven back to “The Land of Nod.” JOHIN LYNCH, oa Johnson St, Brooklyn, Aug. 9, 1920. A Good O14 World, j Te dhe Fair of The Brening World In a way I find times good because I don't expect too much in this world, Most people want to become mil- lionaires in a short time and live easy ever after. I am weil sutisfied to work, All 1 want is health and strength to the 5 finish If some of The Evening World readers would dig in and keep that million out of their minds they would find that this isn't such a bad old | world to be in after all. SELRAY, \ Brooklyn, Aug. 9, 1920 Weary of Waiting, | "To the Miitor of The Frening World | Now that the railroad men and Post Office employees have received | their tnorense in pay, why don't the | Labor Board show some haste in the demands of the American Railway | Bxpress employees who neturned to work last October on @ promise of in- loreased wages and are atill receiving the measly salary of $20.77 per week? | Do you thing this 4s a living was AN EXPRHSSMAN. Now York, Aug. 9, 1920. A New Party. Faiivor of The Boenlig Word is an idea for a new party be Known as the “Anti-Prohibt- Anu-Profiteering and Anti Fake Graft Party." Ts name is its slogan | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | jtlcularly opposed to Prohibition a Means 3 | | What kind of letter do you jind most readabiet 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 | to say much in a few words, Take time to be brief. The Thing to Do. ~ |tera and to clasa government, whole or in part, whether by a degeneraje | and subsidized or by labor, “free press" profiteers, Prohibitionists, farmer, sex, race or creed; and par- all counterfeit and grafting reform and welfare as- sociations and fake patriotic organi- zations, active in politics and other | drives, ‘The main purpose of this new party | to be the timely election of a free President of the United States, un-| pledged and unobilgated to any class, | vocation, sex, creed, race or section— a candidate that will give a pro-| testing voter and citizen an oppor- tunity to exercise his franchise, Not) figure-head tool, or newspaper frame-up (win both ways candidate), ®ut a gnan-President, representing and representative of We the people of the United Stal ‘This country will never be safe with the executive branch of its Govern- ment in the control of any present dominant political party, all of which, as constituted, stand for corruption, hypocrisy and false pretense, in their most aggravated form and opera- tion. With an Upper House of Con- representing States (instead of the people of the United Stutes”) and with war declaring pow- ers, and a President-elect represent- ing grafters ‘and classes, good~by free country and government of the people, by the people, for the people, gress "We T. B. EIKER. . “Quite Wrong.” To the Biliter of The Drening World: You are quite wrong, Evening World, ‘The people are "tired" of the “League” and its imperialistic “covenant,” be- cause they have found it out as a s New York, Aug, 9 1920. ‘Tory dooument; an International trust to keep for Kings and Emperors and their agents and servants the fruits of 300 years of wars of conquest, Have any of them come in with clean hands to purge their titles? Not one! Please wake up! JOHN JEROM¥ ROONEY. Woolworth Building, Aug. 9, 1920, Pa ™ SS SERS ES UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake 1920, by Jobn BTake.) USE YOUR MEMORY. (Copright, You will not get very far without a trained memory. You will do well not to trust to memory matters which can be found by reference, or noted down for future use. will do well not to stock it with useless facts or information, But there are many things that must be carried ia the mind and they slip easily out of a memory that is not trained. The way to develop memory is to use it, and use it Do not depend on it unless it is trained. will pick up impressions readily, but drop them just as consciously. readily. ‘To-make it retentive, you must use it carefully and con- Think about them. stantly. Observe thiags that you see. Lét them make an impression on your mind. Then, in a day or so think them over again. book. If you observe carefully, you must always make an effort to do so. A foreigner coming to this country soon forgets much of his native tongue, unless he speaks it occasionally. things you have learned waless now and then you go back over them and So you will forget many valuable try to bring them to your mind. Do this repeatedly, by step. Reconstruct a conversation. by. The man who has: knowledge WHERE HE CAN GET He has an orderly mind—the equivaleat in his brain of a card index He will save time as the years pass, and time to AT IT has a big advantage over other men, system, the intelligent always means money. A bad memory means a disorderly and an untrained A man with a brain that is disorderly and untrained has just as much chance of success as a business house whose books and accounts are in disorder and whose office force braia. has never beea trained for its work. you will remember well, but Reconstruct an experience, step Notable and portant things you will remember loager than others. even these will become dim as the months and the years pass meee nnn See how much of a journey you have taken has remained with you. Try to remember all you can of a play or a lecture, or a Ten-Minute S of New York Ci % By Willis Brooks Hawkins. This ia the twentieth article of @ series defining the duties of the administrative and les officers and ‘boards of the New York Oity Government, ‘ FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION, City Debt, The city debt consi: of many forms of obligations—revenue bonda, bills and gotes, special revenue bonds, corporate Stock notes, corporate stock, assessment bonds and general “find bonds, What is called the temporary debt, consists of revenue, bonds ana | bills and special revenue bonds to be | pald through the tax budget. | The funded debt consists of cor- porate stock and assessment bonds runping ‘over a period of years, in- cluding, however, corporate sti notes jssued/ in temporary form finance permanent improvements, by | to be paid from proceeds of sales of long term bonds, The power of the city to incur debt is limited by the State Constitution to 10 per cent. ofthe assessed value or its taxable real estate. Certain ex- emptions are, however, allowed, st as county bonds issued prior to con- solidation, water bonds issued after Jan, 1, 1904, and self-sustaining rapid transit and dock bonds. Also exemp- tion Is made of the amount in the sinking funds, which is to be applicd | to the payment of debts, and the bud- get appropriations for redemption and for sinking fund, instalments for the current yi In determining the city's power to incur further debt certain jteims whica will ultimately represent debts of a permanent character must be added to the debt within the debt lim: These are amounts set aside to cov liabilities incurred in acquiring lands for public purposes, but not yet re- duced to precise ‘amounts; contracts made in pursuance of authorizations of corporate stock for street improve- ments, rapid transit and general pu:- poses, and all open. market orders made against corporate stock author - zations, Revenue bonds issued in antic tion of the colleetion of the curi years taxes\(except revenue bonds still outstanding five years from date » of levy) and special revenue bonds, redeemable from the tax levy of t# succeeding year, are by law excluded from the computation of the city’s « borrowing caj ity. Saleen comment Here’s a Jail That’s a ‘Home Sunlight for every cell and jndl- vidual washbowls with hot and cold water are conveniences to be found within the new cylindrical State prison at Statesville, Ill. The prison house, the first of iis kind in the world, gives one the tin- pression upon entrance of being In an , aviary. Every cell has been provided with ninety minutes of sunlight, com- ing through a skylight. This universal distribution of sunlight, accomplished by a slight curve in the skylight, was figured by Forest Ray Moulton, ‘pro- fessor of astronomy at phe University of Chicago. A cafeteria system) another new idea for prison life, has been installed Most of the eatables are supplied from the 2,200-acre honor farm upon which the prison is located The 248 cells, which are a!! alike, Y are built of concrete, with cork tisu- ou lation in the walls. The doors ofgth: cells are doubly locked, They cas be automatically locked ‘by a hydragiic oi! control, and then the guard coines around and locks each cell separa: ‘They can be opened individually, In the centre of the prison tower from which the gpards Ban watch the movements of all prisoners At night the outside of the pripon is lighted up with electric lightay by which the guard in the centre ofthe round prison house can see everything that is going on in front of the win. dows. The prison is surrounded with circular concrete wall 33% feet Bi 14 inches thick at the top and 24 ind thick at the bottom, The New It State Building Commission has ad ed this idea and expects to i Sing Sing with a similar wall, ORs sich iia Rl “That’s a Fact’ By Albert P. places | ‘ Conyright, 1920, by The (ins New! York ‘Ev : im- But Just before 1700 rumors of was ibe- tween France and England reaeped” New York and the Governor onde) platform to be built on the rocks » a“ Lt nis to support a battery that would com mand both rivers, “Battery.” Jutted from the fort on the river Hence the adme Early in 1698, William Bradtonly 0 Philadelphia printer, quarreled it! the Quakers, was invited to York and set up bis press at 8 Street, printing a mass of laws, phiets, etc,, now eagerly sought Poy hook collectors, v ‘One of the most interesting maps is that in the Rev. Jobn Miller's “De- semption of the Province and Cltyy of New York," aa they existed in 1696, From a Vinitor, ‘Yo the Waiter of ‘The Brening World : ‘Have read numerous letters on the treatment recetved in the various prisons and certainly did enjoy the letter signed J, F., who claims to have gone through the “hell hole” of our State Penitentiary at Ossining. When [ attended a ball game with our team about three weeks ago we were escorted, under heavy guard, to em what {t says, and always says what|cover them all over the field, while] lieve that our great nation will, fr | period without reasoning: Saner and é it means; and stands for manhood,!all during the game wo were care-Jany length of time, remain on such calmer judgment will” demonstrats| Hanover Square, New York ¢ honor and principle in government fully scrutinized and guarded as itl minded basis. |that beer and wine area necessity for|was named in honor of King Georgs. and politicos we were the cofvicts and our oppon- | ibition Law ‘a a farce, in| the majority of our populathe |}, who was of the House of Hanover, Opposed to politic! on nee banks, emis che free men. fapliy of ail the enforcement aacnts. | y JOHN PRELHTL, |Germany. ‘This spot was also the firsh vase: -gieorere wud graf- Wihery do they @ey that “well hole’ if thy pment were to put an’ New York, Aug, ¥ 1020, [Printing House Square, i stuff? I say go to it, Welfare League. | wi poor convicts a iittle more comfort- able? Hell hole! What @ wonderful palace you are! I admire the stand The Evening hy not start a drive to make our So far, KEADER. New York, Aug. 9 1920, © |to pay the price, ho Ratit ht by Catchword, of The Brening World: agent in every household to watch, thero would still be violators, Even the enforcement officers like somc- thing stronger than water. Prohibition prevents tha workingman from getting a deccat glass of beer or wine, while all other goods can be had if you can affoid It is well known | that certain claves are well prepared for the next few yeurs. has his older, the Upper classes thoir The workins- siders a violator of the Prohibitwn | ceramon Ni the ball flelds and w I was the|Workt has taken on Prohibition. 1) well stocked’ cellars, sight to Our Agni emen ner oH believe with your help tt will be booger Prot eicn, Bnd be ae well | cts” were attired n wonderful 7 ny ok | #4 a 6 rest violates thia “olen White silk sport shirts, fountain pens | Possible to bring our country back | OAd i oudeniced reform, Nobode cot neatly pluced at the collar, bevutiful] to a sane position on the lquor qux- gray pants, with a crease in them|tion, Although the common people | law « criminal. on sharp as a blade, enjoying good|/at present are tyrannized by the Voi-| The catchwords “booze” and Havana cigars and wot guard to|stead Enforcement Act, i cannot be- have been adopted in this hysterical Tits was’ when the town bégan “spreading.” Three streets in New York City, about 1695, called Crown, Smith and Queen, are now known as Liberty, Cedar ‘and Pine, Tn Feb, 1697, the dedication sermory of Trinity Church was preached by the Rey, William Veney, whose na hag been bestowed on a street form ing part of the original church ptop- erty. The farmer == 7] ‘in 1699 the cornerstone of aymew City Hall was laid with conside: assan and Wall St (ite of present Sub-Treasury,) and served the o purposes’ for more than a centur: “rum