The evening world. Newspaper, August 26, 1920, Page 22

* ESTABLIGHED BY JosHPit PULITZER. © Dally Broept Sunday by the Preae Publishing any, Nos. 33 to.63 Park Row, New Turk. President, @3 Rew, aedeasraun saw. our PULATZER, Jr.. Secretar~. MEMUER OF THB ASSOCIATED PRESS. Asedinted Prem } cxcivetvely entitled to ihe us fey repuntiontion WF a news Genpatchen cretiind 1 i or met etberwise credited im thle pees kino the teen) mews published herein. GHER TELEPHONE RATES SOUGHT, HE New York Telephone Company petitions the Second District Public Service Commission to ‘be allowed to boost telephone rates in this city 33: we Per cent. beginning Oct. 1. ‘ _ The cost of restoring and expanding Its service to “meet the increasing volume of post-war demand is the reason the company gives for asking the raise. This is the same telephone company which enjoys &@ monoply of telephone business in New York. This is the same telephone company whose profits for the four years from 1915 to 1919 amounted to $17,000,000, and whose prosperity based on high Charges has been such that the Public Service Com- mission ordered it fast fall to make an 8 per, cent. -discount on its subscribers’ bills and charged it with “cherishing too dearly its policy of a fixed annual dividend of 8 per cent.” The New York Telephone Company admits that Ht has yonnected 66,000 new telephones in the last ‘six months and still has on its books 77,000 unfilled applications for new telephone service. Does the certainty of unprecedented increases of business count for nothing in providing the cost of enlarged service to meet those increases? Must a great metropolitan public like that of New "York expect that the more business it provides for a public gervice corporation the higher will be the cost of the service supplied? The New York Telephone Company can justly Claim that it has improved the quality of its service in the past six months, But that every telephone subscriber should pay + an average of $20 a year more in order that the New York Telephone Company may proceed with an ex- pansion of its service, which would seem to mean _ an expansion of its prosperity, is a proposition thal calls for close scrutiny, BRING THEM TO NEW YORK. ° OWN the Hudson comes the report that at 4 Albany agents of the Department of Justice Shave been examining into the prices of the so- + called “moderate-priced lunchrooms and restaurants” and that as a result PRICES HAVE TUMBLED. If true, and if possible, New York City would greatly appreciate the assignment of some of these successful price-cutters for service in the metropolis. Profiteer hunter Riley, late of New York but at Present working out from Chicago, appears in the mews despatches again. Chicago editors and re- porters seem to take him as hopefully as New York did for a time. New York profiteers never paid much attention to Mr. Riley, it seems. But if the agents at Albany are getting results, they cannot come too soon. New York can use’ them in a campaign against the outrageous prices charged at most of the once moderate-priced restau- rants. New York has special need of such service be- cause of the abnormal number of people who are forced to eat one or more meals a day away from home. ' At present these patrons are the victims of un- merciful gouging. They know it. They resent it, A “JAY-WALKING” TOWN. HE Grand Jury investigating automobile homi- cide in New York City willl probably recom- mend the adoption of a traffic ordinance’ forbidding pedestrians to cross the street except at regular crossings. Such a measure has long been urged by The Evening World. Other cities with only a fraction $f New York's traffic congestion have tried out this tule and have found that it helps materially in re- ducing automobile casualties. Western towns have a‘ common descriptive phrase applied to pedestrians who violate the rule. They are “jay-walkers.” . New York is a city of jay-walkers. Jay-walk- ing is one of the least healthful of outdoor sports, as police records show. Pedestrians have some rights on the streets, In spite of motorists’ opinions to the contrary. But * so, too, do motorists. The better avay would be to define and divide the rights and responsibilities with a suitable ordinance, In the case of the long cross-town blocks, it would probably be wise to provide an additional legal foot crossing at the middle of the block, EXIT THE FIRE HORSE. ene are the last half dozen of the gallant, smoke-eating fire horses of Manhattan. They haye been supplanted by the motor-driven appa- ratus, which makes faster time and does not “eat its head off” when not in use. : _ They are gone from the stréets but nol from memory. No one who has witnessed the galloping * dash of the trained fire team can ever forget the These horses knew their job and loved it, No one who ever watched the crack teams help them- , Selves into the harness and chafe against momentary x & delay would care to deny that the fire horses k what they were doing and why. Banishment of the fire horse has more than a sentimental meaning. ‘Last winter when New York was buried beneath the snow-drifts it was evident that horses had a place in fire-fighting. Horses could and did struggle through the drifts when motor engines baiked and driving-wheels spun. If no horses are to be available for winter fire- fighting, then it places a double obligation on the Department of Street Cleaning. If there are to be no horsés to buck the drifts, then the drifts must be removed so that the engines can operate, MR. GOMPERS'S ADVICE. R. GOMPERS whistles the third party move- | ment down the wind with a final puff: “While the house of labor ts on fire I de Hot propose to have my mind diverted to some tom-fool ptan. Ne one can tell what the future may hold for us or what it may be necessary for us to do, but in this cam- paign an independent party is worse than folly." Whatever the future may hold for organized labor, Mr. Gompers made it sufficiently plain this week to the State Federation of Labor Convention | at Binghamton that he believes the Republican Party holds nothing or less than nothing for the workingman at present. ‘ “I hold,” said Mr. Gompers, “that in the presen campaign the masses of American wage-earners are in duty bound to see to it that this spirit of reaction shall not be installes in power.” Mr. Gompers named the Republican Party as responsible for reactionary policies of the past. He left no shadow of doubt as to his conviction of its responsibility for reactionary proposals and pro- grammes looking to the immediate future, Nor was he less emphatic in his denunciation of current shutting down of industrial plants, like the American Woolen Company mills, as a repetition “of the old policy of the corporations and big busi- ness to frighten the working people into believing that if they vote one way they are going to be put | out of their jobs and out of work.’ Mr. Gompers is sight in believing the Republican Party is likely to find little virtue left in this out- worn device for coercing votes. Labor has its eyes very wide open, indeed, these days. » Never has labor been so conscious of itself as an integral, essential and influential part of the Nation’s industrial, social and political life. Never has it seen itself less as a separate or sec- ondary element subject to the orders and manipu- Igtions of capitalist groups. s Never shas “it beep in a better position to see through The threats or blandishments of a political party campaigning for a return to power. and privilege. If the labor vote in the United States this fall is not far and away the most thoughtful and intelli- gent that labor has yet cast, the immense progress that wage-earners have made in the past three years is not all it has seemed to be. Labor will do well to use some of this quickened intelligence and self-confidence in a direction on which Mr. Gompers does not sufficiently dwell. He warns labor against attempts to make the strike under certain conditions unlawful; he warns wage-earners against letting “the gyves of slavery and unfreedom be riveted upon their wrists.” He does NOT warn workers against the danger: of letting false theories of slackened energy, short hours and diminishing effort get a grip on those * same wrists. Organized labor has got to be clear-headed as to the paramount economic need of 100 per, cent, Production, That is every bit as important as for labor to be clear-headed toward the paramount issues of politics. . , ONE OF HIS BEST. R, AL JOLSON'S “Harding, We've Selected You” song is one of his best comedy turns. “A man like Teddy, one who is a fighter through and through,” is a brilliantly sarcastic description of a “front-porcher,” Mr. Harding specifically denies that he intends “to do the Nation's thinkin’.” He proposes to be governed by the party leaders and not to formulate and advocate individual poll- cles after the manner of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Wilson. As a political characterizer, Mr. Jolson is a “big- time’ comedian, : TWICE OVERS. $8] T tales ben’ oi milk ty moka e pat of butter. The congregations of to-day want a pat of butter and not the pan of milk.”—Dr, Lyman Abbott. . * * €6 JT remains for the workers: and investors to come {non a common ground in the building of homes.” —Goo. Smith. 'OUR prohibition seems to be working well in the interest and general welfare of the people, but in my country, where we drink light wines and beer in modest quantities, there is no need of prohibi- tion.” —Prince Carol of Roumania. “eé ©, DEAR No, ] GRAND MA IS VISITING US SHE ISOLD HIONE D! A ST ATMO u Beat It! sme. O,NY. YEs! SHE HATES CIGARETTES ! Does SHE OBJECT T CIGARETTES ® : HE MUST BE YES, SHE IS, ! HE DOESN XA antiQus | SHE DOESNT WOMEN OKRING: CIGARETTES SHE DOESN EIS OLD FASHIONED. SHE SMOKES A PIPE What kind of letter do you pnd most readablef Isn't & 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 sutisfuction in trying fo say much in a few words. Take time to be brivf. syncopated music is not “Jazz.” Peo- ple have lumped into one conglomer- Before the Lusitania tragedy we re- Pie ae ragtime, Dies en jazz, at celved a “friendly” visit from a Ger- °f Which are distinctly different an | Interesting to different people accond- man submarine, A New York aews-|ing to taste, Many people. do not | paper published a picture of the sub- know that blues and jazz are not marine commander and in long \'nes s¥nonymous terms. On the contrary, j While jazz is, as stated by you, the |addition of spontaneous comedy to | syncopated music, Hiues is an en- | tirely different thing and means that the actual musical construction |s different, For instance, the musician wil} tell you that to be complete, musié tnust have sixteen measures to the strain, while Blues is so constructed that {t has only twelve measures to the strain and at the same time it {6 written in syncopated time, It can- ‘be correctly interpreted in the time in which Jam: music 1s played, but If played as it ought to be, in a siow and croony style, there is noth- A Note of Wa To the Editor of The Brening Ca eid: of big, black letters an American edi- tor proclaimed the German com- mander another Neptune. Within a few weeks the Lusitania Was sent down. , Then the Germans were checked, ‘but not subdued, for to-day they are making a declaration of destruction: “Our new gas,” they declare, “is #0 deadly that by dropping bombs from airplanes we. shall be able to desiroy our enemies, their armies and navies.” League or no League, Germany's top merciful conquerors are to be destroyed. And yet, in the American press there ts not one editorial note of warning. ROBERT A. HALL. No, 963 Third Avenue, Aug. 21, 1920, that everything that Is called Blues is not Blues music, but unless it has this pecullar metrical construction it is not genuine Blues. The enormous popularity of the gen- uine article indicates that the people want it and appreciate {t when jt is played properly. Take such a number as St, Louis Blues, which hag three distinct Span- ish movements jn 2-4 time written in a syneopated style, and having cay twelve measures to the strain, and you have an unusual combina- tion which really is a beaut.ful ono when properly played by an orches- tra that knows the difference be- tween jazz and blues. It Js just as enjoyable to sit and listen without dancing as is “A Perfect Day.” hen orchestra leaders learn that To the Kditor Replying to “Upright's" letter per- taining to getting no vacation, my cage is similar. T aim employed as a bookkeeper by one o! ‘he largest and richest firms of New York City. The hours are from 8 A. M. to 6 P. M, Saturdays until 1 P, M. (60 hours per week). Previous to January, 1920, It was 55 hours per week. Saturdays were 8 A. M. to 5 P. M, And about a vacation—if you are with the firm for a year or more you are allowed to take a week off but you do not get paid for it. If you are with the firm less than a year you are not allowed to take any days oft, My employer takes two months’ va- cation. UNDERPAID OFFICE WORKER, Good Employers ‘To the Bdltor of The Drening 3 Replying to “Uprights” letter of play Blues, which in reality is the new folk music of the American negro, then auditors will enjoy the! music more, and there will be less criticism of this class of music, which has some virtue. We ought to cul- tivate as far as we oan the virtue of ft and to speedily get rid of the vices. HARRY H. PACE. %67 Weat 138th Street, Aug, 19, 1920. Wall Street. ployers, I want to say a word of thanks and % appreciation of a ‘wonderful ly of big hearted men— 100 Per Cent. the members of the New York Stock Exchange. I feel I cannot say too much in praise of the big things they have done and are doing for thelr em- ployees. These are the things the outaide world rarely hears of, My 1 husband waa employed by them for many, many years, and was in ‘a position to know of the many kind acts they were always doing for thelr employees s I would lke to thank each and every member for what they have done for me, EMMA 1. YOUNG, No, 607 Monroe St., Brooklyn, Aug, 21, To the Editor of The Brening World: In regard to the percentage of profit Brown makes on his job, the overhead {8 not to be considered, or, in other words, can be taken as noth- ing, Taking the job as it stands, with- out any overhead, what is his pros? Bronx, Aug. 22, 1920. Favors Vacation Lhw. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: A letter in The Evening World of Aug. 20, signed by “Upright,” re- quested to hear from “employees of humane employers.” Iam happy in- deed to be able to answer, as I con- sider myself fortunate enough to have one of the best. In direct contrast to the shameful “Mulatte Munte.”” To the Editor of The Wyening World: 1 have read your. recent editorial, entitled “Mulatto Music,” which is a UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Coprrtent, 1920, by Joho Bike) PAY HEED TO THE PILOT. You will seldom be in a crowd of men an hour before you hear one of them say: “If I were twenty-one years old and kaow as much as I do now, I'd be a whale of a success.” Perhaps he would. Perhaps ne wouldn't. . But it ts certain that if he could begin life at twenty-one with the experience of forty he would be far bettér off. And the curious thing about it all is that he could avail himself of this experieace if he would pay heed to the pilots who are always willing to direct him. What would you think of a man who, after asking a policeman for the way to the railroad station and getting the direction, would deliberately go the other way? Yet that is what is done, repeatedly, by almost every young man who starts out ia life. From his father, his employer, from older friends he constantly receives directions which, if followed, would be invaluable, Tney come from the experience which these men have dearly paid for. They are invaluable. Yet youth is unhccding, wad the advice is almost in- stantly forgotten. \ith the result that the recipient has to learn from an vaperience as expensive and Often as dis- aStrous as thet of the man who cowaselled him, = If you ure a young man you are fortunate. Almost any of your elders will give you sound and sensible advice advice which you can follow to your own profit if you will. You can learn by the mistakes of others, iastead of by your own, ‘. You can plot your own course from a chart which has been made by those who have gone before you. You will be wise to do it. Your own experience is a .good teacher, but it is an expensive teacher. Far better listen aad listen carefully to the pilot who has travelled the same sea you must travel and knows where the rocks are. Some young men do this, and all of them who do so succeed. Remember that, and you will be saved many gricfs, many losses, and perhaps final and utter failure, Arad when you are forty, and nowhere, you will not be repining that you can’t start the world at twenty-oxe with your pres- ent knowledge. (holiday all day Saturday), and every cne gets a vacation of from one to three weeks, The wages are above t average, and avery one gets a bonus who has been with the firm even six months. Also the profit-sharing plan ig now in operation, and also full pay given for. absence due to sickness, death or anything within reason. ‘This 100 per cent. humane Arm has its main building in the Greenwich Village section. close to Sixth Avenue, and the employees are (as the firm themselves like to term them) one large, happy family, holiday, besides depriving them of @ summer vacation. Let us hope that our Legislature will enforce @ vacation law before this year is ended. LUCKY NINTH WARDER. Aug. 22, 1920, i Right. To the Bitttor of te Brening Wortd: Will you kindly decide the fofOwing: A claims that the Volstead act was passed by a Democratic majority Con- gress, B claims that it was passed by a My sympathy Is surely with “Up-| Republican majority Congress. treatment meted out to “Upright” and his co-workers, the employees in the fcur factories operated by my em- fact i thag all oloyers work but Sve days @ week very unhappy phrase. Evidenuy you have sensed something which tew opie realize but which neverthe- is true, right," Whose lot has been cast with + 0. DIBHL, such despicable, grinding scoundrels [Editor's Note—B {s correct. The who begrudge their hard-worked em- ployess the ususl Batunday balf the veto of President Wilson.) bill was passed in October, 1919, over) of Nes York City | Government. By Willis Brooks Hawkins This is the twonty-Asth article of @ scrica defining the duties of the administrative and legislative officers and boards of the New York ity Government. TAXATION. Personal Property Assessments. In 4 previous article of this series Personal property was defined as of two classes, namely: (1) tangible Property, such as household goods, merchandise, machinery, tools, B&O. and (2) intangible property, such as Mercantile credits, chattel mor.gagoa, promissory notes, cash, &c. A resident of the city who owns tangible personal property located outside the State cannot be assessed by the city for such property, but If he owns such property In another part of this State the city may assess and tax it | Intangtible personal property owned by a resident Is assessed against him regardless of the location of the evi- dences of such property. In addition to the taxation of resi- dents as above, the Department of, Taxes and Assessments has power to assess non-residents who have their principal place of business tn the olty for the following two classes of prop~ erty when located within the Stater (1) The capital of non-residents of the State Invested in business, and (3) the tangible persons! property of non-residents (not forming part of the capital) having an actual situs in the city, but this does not include bonds or other evidences of debt. Persons who stand tn @ trust capaoe ity, holding the legal title to prop« erty for the benefit of others, are assessable as owners, while the doneficigries are not so assessable, In other words, the Department ef Taxes and Assessments has to view residents of the city as owners or trustees of tangible and intangible personal property located within and without the State and non-residents as owners of certain property within the State. Since it is difficult to de- termine accurately the Mability for taxation under these heads, espect- ally as certain exemptions and off- sets are allowed. by law, and since, therefore, an initial assessment may. be unjust, the department allows every opportunity to the persone assessed to appear and correct the aunount. AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT By Sophie Irene Loeb tention that the Milk Trust and the Dairymen's League are hand in glove, as it were, In protecting their joint interest and not, as they would have the public believe, rather af variance with each other on milk prices, was evidenced a fow days ago by the very careful way in which they took care of each other, despite the thousands of undernourtahed chil, * dren. Senator George F. Thompson, Gub- ernatorial candidate, was solicited by the Dairymen's Léague to put ap advertisement, setting forth his posi tion on milk, Datrymen’e 11k ‘Trust, the distributers, and stat~ ing that the were not at fault in the widely disparaging mare gin of price from the producer te the consumer, It would seem that the Dairymen’s League, who are the producers, would have welcomed such a statement im their paper, but this was not the casa, ‘They refused Senator Thompson's advertisement, Was this another so-called “gentle. men's agreement” as between the producers and the Milk Trust? Ian't it high time that this gigantie industry was forcefully dealt with im the Interest of public health? Tastances such as this are numer. ous, but as yet the Legislature has failed to break up the stranglehoid on the supply and price of this most necessitous food. ‘The special session called Sent, 20° might well take up this vital ...tter, ~~ “That’s a Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick sre 0 dain eh ‘The flour barrel and the wind- mill arms (referring to the “Bolt- ing Act") on the New York City's seal, granted in 1686, were chown as symbole to represent the ear- lest causes of the city’s prosper- ity, as were also the beavers. “Wboract” is the Latin name (in the possessive case) of York in Es see On April 17, 1817, funds were provided for the construation of @ canal, 363 miles in length, width of 40 feet, the bottom 1b feet, Ground was broken at Rome, N, ¥,, on the middle seo- Uon, and the Erie Canal opened 8% years lator. te Greenwich Village, New York City, with the exception of the immediate vicinity of the Battery, ig the oldest habitation of white men on Maniiattan Island. Crooked lanes were turned into streets, and so, in this disjointed region, Fourth Street crosses 10th, Lith and 13th at very nearly right angles, ee On Jan. 8, 1815, the Brittwh one der Gen, Packenham opened a battery of two 18-pouhders on the Americans at Now Orleans, It was silenced in a few hours. The main battle wae fought om the &th, | A HE EVENING WORLD'S con