The evening world. Newspaper, August 20, 1920, Page 14

ATZER. Sunday by the PubMehing to Fark Row, New York. President. Park & , Treasure: Park fi PULITZER. Jr,. Seoretery. 69 Park Dally Ex » Now. ‘cont 33 Row. . Bee 4 emote OF THE ASSOCIATED Paes el From ty anclastvety entitied to the use for republication a ‘eapatchen credited to it ot mot otherwise credited in this paper Md Aino the fom! news published herein. COURT HOUSE VS. HOMES. "QR AAYOR HYLAN endeavors to justify construc- tion of a limestone Court House by saying that “limestone is not used in building houses,” “His. statement is iubdeniable. At $11.33 a cubic ; foot the cost is prohibitive. Any individual paying such a price would be considered insane. y But the Mayor neglects to refer to the labor in- yoived in so large a construction job as the Court _ House. , These workers could be used on other jobs. | ~~ Aside from the exorbitant price of limestdne, © © this is the most serious objection to going ahead. » It is, perhaps, only natural that the Mayor does got value the opinion of many close students of labor av“airs who have repeatedly pointed out that, where possible, public work should be postponed ‘J wintil periods of depression tn the labor and con- = struction market. This is expert ‘opinion, The © Mayor's aversion to expert opinion is well known. | _ Nevertheless, this theory has the facts to back it. _ Forehanded planning of public work not only makes - for economy to the city but'it helps to stabilize the -, labor market and prevent breadlines and soup “kitchens. = ‘ ; It is highly desirable that Court House consiruc- tion should be authorized and all plans laid for build- “ing as soon as the démand for materials and labor slackens. It is equally undesirable that the cily should bid against homeseekers for material’ and + Now that the excavation is under way, it would "probably be the part of wisdom to go on with the * foundation. Construction. of the superstructure . Should be abandoned until the building situation is “more favorable to the city and until homes .have Ve $= oh ed + i * been built, E ; p MEANING A REPUBLICAN SENATE. ! og FTER reaging Senator Harding's panegyric on ; the United States Senate one wonders why the framers of the Constitution went to the trouble _of creating an independent executive branch of the | Government with a Chief Executive at its head. Surely legistative and judicial departments plus a docile appointee to carry out the orders of the Senate would have sufficed. “I do not hesitate to say,” the Republican can- didate declares, “that the Senate saved American ~~ mationality in 1919 and 1920.” \ + Needless to add that only a Senate under Repub- * Tican contro! could have thus saved the cpuntry. If the Senate were dominated by a jecratic | majority we should of course hear that only in the * fearless action of a Republican Chief Executive defy- || ing the Senate could the people of the United States , hope for sa A mp A CLEAR ROAD FOR WOMEN VOTERS. _. PPHE Federal Attomey General assures the Na- tional Woman’s Party that the Nineteenth ‘Amendment will become effective throughout the United States without the need of further legisla- No State law contrary to the provisions of the mew Federal amendment can stand once the latter ~ This will enable the Suffrage leaders to concen- - trate on the task of calling out a women’s vote which in size, intelligence and influencé shall make _ the Presidential election of 1920 a worthy victory mark for the winning of the great fight. The Suffragists have shown how well they can organize to demand their rights, The next job is to get 20,000,000 women to ex- ercise them. eon ‘at THE GREAT DIVIDE. Secretary of State ‘The’ next time Mr. Colby struck a true Colby is visited he note of soum consti- | ehould either be more vutionaliam and un- | frank or else hald his impeachable Ameri- peace, It is trifiing _ Sanism {n bis address | with a great subject an Wednesday to the to try to bundle it representative citi- off to Congress and zens of Polish birthor | to try to shake offa descent who, through | responsibility which him, urged the United | in the first place rests States toaid Polandin | on the Executive.- ‘thet nation’s present From this morning’, @ifhiculties. —F rom New York Trfbune, this morning’s Sun ami New York Her- ald. x cee ese * = Beeman sae BRANDEGEE AND WADSWORTH. T IS freely predicted that adoption of the Nine- teenth Amendment will result in defeat of Sen- ator Brandegee in Connecticut. If this proves true, it will present a strange con- ‘trast to the situation in New York, where Senator Wadsworth squeezed through without much diffi- of feminine voters. St played a role infinitely more exasperating Thére are two distinct ways in which a Senator may look at his job. He consider himself a h representative of his constituancy, obligated to ex- - press the views of the majority. Or-she may re- gard himself as an agent selected by his constitu ents to act for (hem according to his best judgment. So long as women did not vote in Connecticut, Senator Brandegee was at liberty to assume that he was a representative. Senator, Wadsworth could ‘have no such illusion. : Senator Wadsworth has offended as either repre- sentative or agent. His opposition to Suffrage proved cither that he was a misrepresentative or else that as agent he was out,of step with current thought. , RELIEVE, BUT ALSO CURE. OV. SMITH has called a conference of public 3 officials and legislative leaders ‘to prepare a définile programme of housing legislation for pres- entation to fhe Legislature When it meets in special session next month, f This course of action ,was strongly recommended to the Governor by The Evening World, which has urged the value of conceniration as opposed to the hit-or-ntiss introduction of scores of housing bills, resulting in a legislative jam out of which will come nothing or worse than nothing. bs One member of this housing conference callal for next week is Abram |. Elkus, Chairman of | the State Reconstruction Commission, While it is perhapsynot whiolly forgotten that the | Housing Committee of the State Reconstruction Commission made an. extended report on housing | conditions to the Governor last March, that report never received the public attention which, by its | thoroughnéss and sanity, it merited. _ Among. the conclusions presented in the report none had more prominence than the following: ‘The crux of the genera) building situation ie the loan or mortgage market. With adequate loans obtainable on reason able terms, the general housing situation would tend rapidly to adjust itself,as the law of denmnod and supply would be in free operation. ' That i§ as sound to-day as it was six months ago. Until the prices for labor and building materials become stabilized on lower levels, the only way to cure capital of its shyness toward home-building is | by deliberate measures to increase the attractive- ness of this form of investment. The most obvious and effective of sual measures is to remove’ State and Federal income taxation from real estate mortgages and to lighten the burden of local taxes ‘on new construction fer housing Purposes. ‘ Here is a means of getting down to underlying reasons for the housing shortage and restoring nor- mal economic action while first-aid remedies are alleviating the worst superficial symptoms. Concentration on one or {wo fundamental causes of the trouble will effect more real cure than 2 hundred poultices and palliatives. applied to the surface. + “4 It is to be hoped Chairman Elkus will keep the Reconstruction Commission’s report-in full view of the Governor and the conferees while the legislative ‘ousing programme is being formulated. “SHOW ME.” FIGURES. HE attitude of the railroad. managers toward ihe public in the matter of the impending raise int freight rates is encouraging. American Railroads, the organ of the Association -of Railway Executives, is co-operating with various economists and traffic expetts to publish exact in- formation as to the increase in freight rates on in- dividual commodities over stated distances, The object is to inform the people as to actual added freight costs so that they may detect profiteers who attempt to justify unfair profits by the plea of higher freight rates. President Ralph Peters of the Long Island Rail- road has given out definite figures to show the trifling increases in freight on some of the com- monest products of Long Island. ? “Soon after the rate increase was announced The Evening World advised its réaders to adopt a “show me” attitude in meeting claims for higher prices which might result from the higher rates. It is glad to commend the co-operation of the railway executives, who are giving the public a standard by which to check up tricky and greedy dealers. TWICE OVERS. 3 T HE Presidency belongs to the people of the United States. They are its custodians. I does not belong to a group consisting of a Senate oligarchy.—-Goo. Cox. * 8 « WwW THERE is the. Tweed Court House. The same conditions which existed there seem to reign now. President of the Board of Aldermen La Guardia. ‘OMEN will,pote in the coming elections exactly as they please.—Senator Brandegee. eee ‘ERY ball player loses his nanny at least orce. Babe Ruth. i Tt conduct of Senator Brandegee has been re- hary and obstructive enough to juslify the re- | Charles Ponzi. E! HERE will be a big blow-up in a few days. ~ . * ‘Can You AT HOME NEVER KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE LITTLE IRDIE MiSs HIS MOTHER I HAVE A CANARW PERFECTLY DEV i TO HE aint THAT'S. { LET My WIFES L ARARY STARVE GINE ME ONE TH Ju HE DOESN T WANT HE TO GO AWAY n urice Kette AT LOOKS ST LIKE HIM OD KERB “a that gives you the worth of a thous For Convenience of the Public. fo the Editor of The Brenig World + - Apropos your regent remarks aa to the necessity of modernizing the route maps of New York Oity, owing to the increasing number of tubes, &c., why not take # leaf out of Lon- dan’s book and fix an illuminated map outside every elevated and tube station? ‘Travellers \n London, both foreign and domestic, are never at ‘a loss, for theso maps, many of them of im- mense size, denote every section of the underground service, besides showing all the interlocking vo«nec- tions and bus routes. Moreyver, these maps are visible without heving to enter the stations, as is necessary on the elevateds here. As a mere ordinary individual »who dislikes ‘asking questions unneces- sarily, 1 consider the London under- | ground and bus services beat New| York to a frazsle. If any one doubts | the possibilities of the double deck bus and its advantagés over the elec- | trie tram or trolley car let them spend a few days in London. ‘The unified systém of London transport ople seems to exist to make travel and ensy. ‘The New York ser mostly spell discomfort, poor connec- tions and «a regular’ piracy plan, whereby short distance travellers pay through the nose to enable long di What kind of Yetter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. jyou think’ of one of the i est and richest firms in New York (i ibich has never given any of its ‘6: number of years whose half holiday | begins at 2 P. M. and he makes up and words in a couple of hundred? ‘eeg a vacation during the entire I kndw,of one man in particular weno has served the firm faithfully for @ (all the year argund) on Saturday for thet by working every Sunday Garin the winter and all day Satur- Y All during this Intense heat, while the heads of the firm ar: enjoying the cool gea or mountain breezes their poorly paid and overworked men are slaving to make their millions and are denied a summer vacation which would give them new strength and ambition to work for their employers during the winter. Let us hear some other men's ideas on tl subject—especially some of the employees of humane employers. ips VPRIGHT. J., Aug. 17. Weehawken. ‘N. Mayor Hylan's Salary Schedule, ‘To the Baitor of The Evening World: I am a city employee who will be affected by the increase in pay which | |was veted on a few days ago by the} | Board of Estimate and Apportion-/ ment. ' | ‘To me it was amusing to note in the various papers that His Honor) had vetoed the original increase of 0 per ceht. for all city employees! and in its stead had sent his ideas of | ! \ tancegpravellers to enjoy special priv- leges. Incidentally, too, when will New York provide a regular and decent system of public conveniences? One |may travel miles and find noth'ag in vay of public wash ups,and !ava- ch as exist a!) over London. ¥o y the saloons were privileged to provide accommodation, aucn as it was. The accommodation as provided | by some of the stations, the Erie, for example, is a superb object lesson to a travelling foreigner pn modern gani- tation, We are pleased to make eat clatma about our city of wonders, but on some ,points we might well con- sider the convenience of the public and m t at least equal to the best, Or must we assume that such things don't count? T. W. Orade}!, N. J., Aug. 16, 3920. A Suggestion. ‘To the Editor of The Brening World Replying to Mra. J. B. pertaining to the twel who has developed into a ptpe-smok- ing, owing marvel, which |ghe assert entirely due to his father's extraordinary !xnorance, 1 would suggest that she got in touch lwith the Childre Society. at once, or else file with the Children's Court ja petition verified by affidavit, atat- \ing the alleged facts, In violation of vectlona 488, 484, 484 and 494 of the Penal Law JOHN BP. MALLOY. $72 West (6th Street, Aug. 16, 1920 | aio the HAiLor of Tae | Speaking of umenity, what do what the Increases should be. ‘This! was voted on and passed and will) jtake effect Aug. 20, 1920. | | Hie Honor stated that the original \Increase was not fair to the poorer | | paid employee, especially those re-| {ceiving less than $1,500, and sug-| jwested that their increase should be |22 per gent. If you will figure this out you will find thatthe largest} _ amount effected by the’ change, |$1,600, will be increased $830, or §80 more than was intended In the orig- Inal bill, Thirty dollars a year fig- ures a trifle more than seven cents @ day, « truly wonderful raise, per all of a sudden he had a change of heart and ald be waa not in fuvor lor the {noreaves as intended |; Tam anxious to know who his ad. |visor wag, Whoever he was he oer ‘tainly ai@ not guide His Honor right |this me, I am one of the under-| pald amployees referred /to by His Honor, I receive $1,000 ahd 1 recoive the benefit of ube extra 2 per cent. pi | ~ bh i \ | What {s pusaling mo {@ just where I will spend my vacation with this e tra 49 conta @ week, Shall I on the subject, \dent of the Horough of Manhatten, UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. - (Coprright, 1920, by John Blake.) YOUR:MIND WAS MADE TO USE. You never know what your mind can do till you use it. The man who saves his money until he ca’ buy an auto- wobile finds out right away what that automobile’ can do. He takes it out ér the road and runs it. He reads about the speed and endutance and gasolixe consumption of other cars. And he experiments with his own to find out how it compares with them. : Yet the same man who has a ming that may be of more value than a million cars will, ia nine cases out of ten, go through life without ever knowing what that mind can do. Few of us ever develop more than a quarter of our ability. Few of us discover more than half*ef the powers that lie in our mind. The reason for this is chiefly laziness. It is so much easier to work just hard erough to make a living than it is to work hard enough to amount to some- thing big, that we take the former course. And our minds, lacking exercise, never are made to produce the results that they could produce. Unfortunately the realization of this comes usually too late. At forty we see other mea who in youth had no bet- ter mental’ equipment than we had surpassing us. We see that if we had been as thoughtful and as in- dustrious as they and had developed our latent powers we might have done as well. But mind building is loag and hard work. time that it can be done is in youth. Learn to use your mind when you are young. Don’t be afraid of overstraining it, Few of lis die of love aid still fewer die of brain fag. The distress that-comes from failure is far more deadly than that which follows hard nienta) work. Get all out of your mind that is in it. You may hot be gifted with genius or even talent, but you will never find that out till you bring out every unit of power that is in your brain. And the only way todo that is to use it constaatly and intelligently. And the much because of the 2 grease to the lowe: ules as because it deprived ten Island or Coney island? Perhaps His Honor figures that he AM receive the plaudits of the read- I refer to the Preal-/Of our feelings, do column known put tn tte You Know’ Curran, andthe President of tite oard of Aldermen, Mr, La Guardia, he only real friends of all city em- oyees who are on the Jevel A CITY EMPLOY Bx. oo ‘The Byening World Hylan's salary want to be reading good stuff all thy s time. (Editor's Note Mayor Yours for welfare,” 8. T. L. QUIGLEY, 61 West 183d Street, Aug, 14, 1920, > schedule to the one*he vetoed, not #0 r cent. in- The hienly ped political appointees of Meee: with the ‘Oulja Tidfhigs,” and Place more of’ “What io 1 make (he olalm that your paper ta the best in town and I Cabled Photos | Mark New Er | | In Journalism ‘Pictures of Shamrock Cabled | to London Appear the Day After Race. By Roger Batchelder. HOTOGRAPHS of the Resolute+ Shamrock yacht race, cabled i across the Atlantic, actually ‘@ppeared in the London Daily Mirror the day after the events took place off the coast of New Jersey. On July 21 @ photograph appeared in the pie- torial daily showing the two his ‘jockeying for position on the 2 A ; Week later the original plates ar- ‘rived in London, and a comparison between the two pictures showed that they were practically iden. ical. This marvellous invention, per- fected by H. G. Bartholomew, a mem~- Ler of the’ Mirror ataff, not only ‘bridges the gap of at least five days which formerly were necessary for he eerste to England of nows- paper photographs, but it also fore- ‘casts for photogtapirs an added value fin the elucidation of crime ani the apprehension of criminals, 4 | When he left England to, atténd |the yacht, races, Mr. Bartholomew . and the Mirror promised that photo graphs of the taces would be in thi Bands gf London readers within perescy ety hours after the events. England. smiled tolerantly, and was |ready ta be shown. When the plates \arrived, the practicability of the in- vention was proved without axgoubt. \The cabled pictures showed ac- curately the positions of the. boats and the more important details. Some details were slightly inac-* curate; this, the Mirror admita, say- ing that the necessity of immediate reproduction made impossible the \fimer and more detailed processes of {the invention. “Code errors” were Jso responsible. But the fact re- |mains that with the publication 6f these pictures a new'era of phote- graphic journalism began. |" Promment men, including J. W. | Davis, the American Ambassador in |London, hatled the achievement as j;monumental and likened it in im- | portance to the invention of tele- phony. Sir Donald MacLean declared that another important stage had been marked “In the shrinkage of the world.” Scotland Yard is equally enthu- siastic and predicts that the Meld opened will create a new tertor for criminals. The apprebension of in- ternational criminals, who are often on @ liner a few hours after com- mitting a crime, will be greatly fa~ ‘| cliitated and the same methods will most usefully be employed for identi- fication of suspects or prisoners in remote Continental cities. The Yard suggests that it will revolutionise Secret Service and the chief of the Detective Bureau cites the Crippen murder case as one whith might more easily have been solved it photographs had been available om transatlantic liners. ‘The transmis- sion of fingerprints, if possible, would de of added value, he declares. ‘Mr, Bartholomew asserts that hie invention is nearly perfect and in- fers that wireless and the telephone may also be utilized for the same | purposes. \ | By Albert P. Southwick A it. 3 ‘The Prew Publishing Co, eerie New Mona. Seven Word The «New York Public Library consolidation was effected while Willlam L. Strong was Mayor, in 1895, Prom Jan. 14 to Feb. 2 was the Brooklyn trolley strike. This year also the Washington Arch was dedicated, on March 4, and the Har- lem Ship Canal opened on June 17. In 1786 the first New York City directory was issued. There are about eighty pages, some 900 names and addresses, including a nac, &c. On page 63, unde yers,"” the, frst name is “Aj Bufr, Esq., 10 Little Queen Street,” and second, “Alexander Hamiltou, Bsq., 67 Wail Street.” Little Quoen is now Cedar Street. ; A memorial was erected on the spot where Alexander Hamilton fo!l dying. His funeral on July 14, 1804, & most imposing cortege, slowly down Broadway, Every ov- ganization was represented and tne entire community was r On the chureh platform sat hi!s sons, the youngest aged four. Gouveneuy Morri delivered the fun oration, A monument was erected over Hamilton's grave by the Society cf the Cincinnati, and there is a statue of the great Federalist in Central Park, erected in 1880, and one in front of =the Hamilton Club yin Joralemon Street, Brooklyn. The Society Jf the Cinctnnatl, an organization formed in 1783 by the officers of the Continental Army, was named after, Lucius Quintide Cincinnatus, an iflustrious Romar. who retired to his farm after veasy of patriotic fighting, Men distin guished for natriotism and special talents were admissible as honorary members. George Washington was its first President Forty-three Popes reigned during the building of St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome, Italy, of which Michael Angelo was the original architect, +a | creases at the expense of taxpayers. om AySnnnst wnerenand File, dtenore | {ng public who hurriedly glance over Roosevelt Street, New York City, se toaliig the ty. employees’ by|tne columas But who do not or osns was named after Isaac and his son, Pot rolng . Drobably thinks” the (Hot figure ont the percentage tabi Nicholas J. Roosevelt, The former, pufio quill be.Gnted ae the atung he | had wen WiLatve. Nem Greele fae) 2h Me areat invpiration tor each | oe ee ork, perio te oe a voto power, and eve New Xork, prev . lone inst ol - te ' the New York, WN! original bi relative to 20 per cent, | ine well NOU tne employees or|John Blake's “Uncommon Bense.” I| was an’ inventor. with nepeiet Tee eee nee foe Stott teeaaig|the publle, have fhstructed my help to at once| genius for machinery designing. eaeateat Who would feel the ins|, Aa @ olty employes T can Only ese|met a acrap hook and paste them in rer Boone tthe lucky. politiciuna), At{two men who really are heart and|it for future uae, It ts the beat thin, Jamea Henry Roosevelt, the phi- Get “time he-rematkéd that the high {soul for the underpaid employees and] yupiighed in your ent thing | ianthropiat. foiinded Rporevelt Io ealarled. employees were entitled to|who whenever the opportunity pre; your paper. Now. fer) stalin 16. Thare iB © thbiet-ate a flat 20 t. increases, ‘Phen|eenta itwelf make themselves heard A ilttie knock: Please, for the sake fixed to {ts walls, a panegyric his superior qualtties, : At No. 1 Cherry Street, New York corner Pearl,” moving to the MeComb Manston, |: No. 39 Broadway, on hts bi in 1790, een