The evening world. Newspaper, August 31, 1920, Page 18

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. nday by the Press Publishing 63 Park Row, New York. Park e MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ray SP torrent Free ie asta, utd tected tate lon news credited to it ‘BR otherwine in this paper SAAS. eal hows punished herein. POLICE ON THE JOB. Pi : GOOD word is due the New York police for the efficient manner in which they are hand- * ling a difficull situation. Vigilance against possible outbreaks of violence and sabotage among the striking employees of the 8B. R, T. is only part of what the police are sup- ‘ ratty if not more important is the management oft vast crowds of people deprived of their usual means of transportation, who are forced to travel to and from their work by any route they can find. To keep the jam at Interborough stations from aching the point where it means stampede and suffocation, to insure steady movement in the end- Jess lines of buses and passenger-carrying trucks that use the ‘bridges is no easy job. One instance of the systematic way in which the police are tackling it may be noted in the bridge-end emergency automobile repair depots installed by the Police Department. If a motor truck in the long line has a blow- out, the police mechanics are instantly on the spot with first aid, tires are replaced in a jiffy, and the | gruck is sent on its way—“bill to be rendered later.” The hard, well-planned work of the police is of | incalculable aid in helping New Yorkers through a Samet railway tie-up like the present. THEIR SPOKESMAN’S WORD FOR IT. RESIDENT WILSON'S reply to the “ultima- tum” of the anthracite miners came well » within the time limit the miners set. The reply was a simple and straightforward re- | filsal to modify the decision of the umpire which the \ miners themselves had agreed to accept. } © Public opinion will support any reasonable meas- + ures necessary to enforce the findings of the com- | -Fortunately in this instance the public ts not under j dhe necessity of sceking advice from sources h ‘ ito the miners, nor even neutral in the dispute. | Neal J. Ferry, representative of the miners on the “earhitration commission, has stated the case in ad- SMirable form. President Wilson's strongest single ' point is his quotation from Mr. Ferry's report. | In the conclusion of the minority report, Mr. Ferry \ ! took occasion to emphasize the importance of the * <y principle that, win or lose, the parties to arbitra- _ | tion must expect to accept the decision of the s ; umpire. « He said that the United Mine Workers “will of } course accept and carfy out this majority award” as ‘ ‘ _fwe obligated ourselves to do when we submitted ‘our cause, 4 THE COST OF SERVICE PLAN. %¢@ OST OF SERVICE” traction regulation is cf recommended by the Federal commission * which fas reported on electric railway conditions. “Cost of service” agréements are no new thing + in transit affairs, American mwunicipalties have been ; experimenting with the idea for a generation. » #etCost of service” combines many of the advan- H ges of public ownership and private ownership, 4M Jinks up public credit with private economy in ‘ } operation. In its best forms, “cost of service” is 2 "fair both to the riders and the carriers. ii "In its essentials, the two principal factors of such san agreement are fair valuation and fair return. } Eaclrmust be fair to both the city and the operating Ngompany. Otherwise such a contract will onl: 4g, Sompany | such a contract will only ‘serve to perpetuate injustice and dissatisfaction. \ |. in New York a “cost of service’ agreement 4 Would probably meet with more approval in trac- cireles than four years ago. The 5-cent fare no longer “sacred” to managers who face higher H ; } Gperation costs. LESSONS IN EMERGENCY. SJ BSTERDAY New York experimented with ‘ “oneway” bridge traffic in rush hours. Naturally there was more or less congestion. This was due: to the enormous increase in vehicular traffic and misynderstanding of the emergency sys- ‘tem of routing. But it is probable that the “one-way” plan pre- vented a far worse tie-up and nade possible greater total use of the bridges. The experiment will serve as a lesson in traffic ; Management. If results of the test justify the ac- ‘tion, the police may make such adjustment of bridge y traffic a permanent practice. New York's street congestion problem ts so great and grows so rapidly that experiment is necessary. ‘New York must evolve better and more expeditious neans of tgffic routing. » New York must realize that the test of a traffic | mille is its effect on all traffic. Minor inconvenience 4 to individuals cannot weigh against the greatest good 1 to the greatest number. | "Deputy Potice Commissioner Harriss’s plan for | control of traffic on Fifth Avenue has proved its <a--- i ' ‘ ‘ 4 ' nues one-way streets in rush hours, What New York must learn is that no individual preference is paramount as compared with the gen- eral need for a system which will allow the bulk of the traffic to move more swiftly and safely. THROUGH THICK AND THIN? R. TAFT’S predicament gets worse and worse. His party’s candidate, in whom Mr. Taft heroically strives to retain faith, still insists that the League of Nations is an utter failure. In his speech of last Saturday Senator Harding said: “We know now that the League constituted at Versailles is utterly impotent as & pre- ventive of wars.” “The original League, mistakenly concetved and unreasonably insisted upon, has undoubt- edly passed beyond the possibility of restora- tion.” “It (the League of Versailles) has already been abandoned by Burope.” All this Mr. Taft must believe if he accepts the eloquent statements that issue (whoever may have prepared them) from the lips of his party's candi. date. But suppose Mr. Taft listens to Mr. Herbert S. Houston, Chairman of the Committee on Informa- tion of the League to Enforce Peace, of which Mr. Taft is President. Mr. Houston, who has just returned from Europe, reports in the current number of The League Bul- letin, issued by the League to Enforce Peace, as follows: ' - “The feeling that one brings back from Burope in the summer of 1920 18 that the League of Nations is a sheer necessity, In the Versailles Treaty it stood as a promise of in- ternational co-operation, but In the days that have followed it has steadily taken form as the one bulwark against chaos.” “In England Lord Robert Ceetl gave a vivid amd optimistic report of what the League of Nations was actually accomplishing * * * He was glad to say that the League of Nations was justifying the hopes of its friends and confounding the fears of its enemies.” “M. Clemenceau stated that he believed Frenchmen generally understood that nothing could be done while the League of Nations issue was pending in a Presidential campaign, t that they hoded that America would join when the election was over.” “The eminent international Inwyer, Dr. Alta- mir, told me {n Madrid that Spain would bear its full part In the League, bellevmng that it was the one practicable agency that could be equipped to do many international things that, left undone, would be causes of friction and even of war.” Obviously somebody is deceiving Mr. Taft. If the special emissary of Mr. Taft’s League to Enforce Peace is right, then the candidate of Mr. Taft’s party says what is not true, “| hope,” Mr. Taft wrote recently in reply to one of the six questions put to him by. The Evening World, “that President Harding will ultimately con- clude it to be wiser to enter the League with the Lodge reservations than to attempt to carry out the same purpose through a new form of association.” Dow Mr. Taft mean to cling to that hope through thick and thin—even while Senator Harding con- tinues to kill the League and kick the corpse? JOE BAILEY’S CROPPER. pS ieee Col, Harvey modestly proclaimed him- self to be “the only real Democrat left east of the Alleghanies” he probably had in mind that no less modest, no less valiant and no less choleric Democrat, Joe Bailey of Texas, as a fitting associate of the Harvey Democracy in the region west of the Alleghanies. Col. Harvey and his new-found Republican con- ferees must be deeply troubled over the sad mis- fortune that overtook their favorite in the “run off” primary in Texas, Those who love Harding as Col. Harvey loves him were fairly jubilant a month ago when Joe Bailey managed to poll a minority plurality over a divided field of Administration supporters in the Lone Star State. How deep must be their grief, now that the people of Texas have snowed Joe Bailey under just as con- clusively as did the politicians who refused to let him go to San Francisco. Joe had “come back,” it was heralded. But “they never come back” seems to be the morning-after decision in Texas, BOYS, GET THE MONEY! Run and get the money, boys, Where the getting's good; Remember hoiv the Plutes Shelled out For General Leonard Wood! Run and get the money, boys— Make a bully drive; Remember how the Plutes Shelled out For Dudley's “blocks of fiver" Run and get the money, doys; Don’t mind damns or darns; Remember how the Plutes Shelled out For Brother Billy Barnes) Run and get the money, boys; Help to save the land. Make the Plutes shell out the Cotn, We need the cash in hand! —THE WILL HAYS SONGSTHR, psaiaiiee ciel TIRE Fifth, Park, Madison, Lexington and Seventh Ave- OUR Morre ' + ne ’ “Boys. GET. yO MEY 2 Disillustoned. To the Kditor of The Evening World: Will you please, through your edi- torial columns, explain, or have some of your readers explain to me why| people would rather be working for almost nothing in New York than go out of New York where prospects are better? T came to New York from the South fifteen months ago thinking to get a clerical position that would pay @ liv- ing wage. I've got a job (which I either must holdor starve), and I am very much dist Now York is joke and a ie. A person has better opportunities elee- where for reasons as follows: 1 Sal- aries are larger conside expenses. 2, Outside of New York are more friendly and try to help a person up. 8 In New York tho#s who have plenty get more and thoee who have ttle have thet little taken from them, DISILLUSIONED SOUTHBRNER, World Not Civilised. To the Mittor of The Drening Workd: I wonder ift the world realizes that a crime facsimile to the one for which the World War was fought ts existing at present. Those who com- | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | 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 8 fine mental ewercise und a lot of satisfaction in “trying to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. mit that orime are the Poles, They are Iwing up to the despised axiom that “might is right.” Who can say that the Jewa have not shed their blood in the recent struggle, not only for America but for all the countries of the world, yea even for Polish freedom! Is Poland taking advan- tage of a nation that has had no home for centuries? Is she euch that takes advantage of the wanderer when he begs for a night's shelter by piercing him through the heart right on the doorstep? Is there no Chris tlan who can say that he is impar- tial and admit, at least, that the Jews !n Poland are living in earthly hell? ‘With present conditions existing in Poland the world is entirely too vain to call itself civilized. DORA STAHL. Brooklyn, Aug. 28, 1920. Prison Labor for Housing. To the Witter of The Evening World: In the housing question, the most tmportant item Is labor, Many people have lots who would like to build, but have not the capital and would never be able to meet the present cost of labor, I sa The World last week of the discussion of new houses being built by the clty with the approval of the Board of Estimate. In order to cut the price ow building: they must cut the price of labor. Im the five boroughs of Greater New York there *are approximately 2,500 public offenders who now are sorving @ prison term of from ten days to one, year for petty offer: benefit? We must feed our prisoners anyway, 80 why not use them {n this way to bénefit the public they have offended? This may seem a trifle’ )“autocratic", but it is not meant to (raanised labor ought nos y noteutilize this body for public because this idea ts to benefit the laboring man by lowering his rents. Wages are coming down, 80 some- thing else will have to come down. Tam an American, first, last and all the time, and am very anxious to) prevent the growth of Bolshevism. | A DAILY READER. Vengeance and Germany. ‘To the Eithor of The Droning World: I was very much surprised by the | Jetter in The Evening World signed by | Robert A. Hall, about vengeance on | Germany. ‘The war 1s over. Let us extend the hand of peace and comradeship to our late enemy, Let us reconstruct the word. If we are morally superior to the German people, let us set them an example by moderation and Christian love. Do the Ufe and words of Jesus mean nothing? ‘If thine enemy hunger, &c”—is that mere verbiage? The example of the hard policy of a react! the so- We ‘ng our Civil Wer @hould wam us that as gobdness begets goodness, 80 evil begets evil. I abhor Katsertem and autocracy but for the life of me I cannot hate the poor misguided German people. By the way, all my ancestors came from the British Isles. L. GARDINER, J. New York, Aug. 21, 1920. Newspaper Vandals, ‘To the Diiitor of The Prening Work!: ‘There is a story told of t est man.” One night'he gave his son a dime. ‘When fhis son was asleep he took the dime back and the next morning whipped ttle Johnny for losing the dupe, “Phie man ts a philanthropist of the finest calibre compared to the cheap vandals who tear clippings from the \'o files of The Bvening and mora- ing Worlds. Cannot something be done to stop this shamefulness, ¥. W. FALKENBURG. 118 Starr Street, Brookiyn, Velvet Was Cruel. ‘To the Bithtor of The Brening World Your little editorial entitled. “Where Velvet Is Cruel,” was won- derful and showed that you have an understanding of childish woes very seldom exhibited, It certainly awoke memories of my own childhood, as up to the age of ten I was kept con- stantly clothed in velvet and curls and suffered mental and physical tor- ture at the bands of my boyish com- panions. I think every red-blooded boy has a horror,of Velvet clothing which is so essentially feminine, and although secretly I liked it's soft, silky touch yet I underwent agony when I had to wear it in public, although I am sure that my parents did not make me wear velvet clothing for punish- merely because they enhanced Doyieh “mean- | } Girls Discover Business Creed By W. G. Bowdoin. Most of the great discoverers bave been men. Adam discovered the earth, not to mention Eve. Columbus discovered America, or at least got — the credit for so doing, Sir Newton discovered gravitation, f 4am Harvey discovered the cireula~ tion of the blood. Admiral Peary dis j covered the North Pole, and so on. |. With the entrance of girls into the business world they came into imme- | diate contact with the master mind of masculinity organized for the dis- covery and overcoming of business | problems, and straightway they am- |@ertook ttipation, y ne poor employer in his atterpt| |to establish and maintain a gainful |occupation had waited many long end Weary years in the mean ¢im eee recognition, Labor unions had lenounced him time after time, aga he. was almost universally roreeded with horror and loathing. His rec- ognized function was merely to pay. | Wages and from time to time jn-» crease his payments for labor emoly-- ment, without regard to his “over- head.” At & convention recently heli ‘at Oxford, O., at which there were4 representatives of 9,000 girls who work for employers, a leaf was taken out of the masculine book of difcov- ery, and a creed was adopted stating @ collective belief in the employer as a human being, with like feelings, ambitions and desires as other per- sons. In paint of fact, the ereed states ‘that “the employer is a human | being just as Lam, He likes to have things go smoothly and he deserves to have them, so I shall do all in my power to help him.” . This conclusion is all the mo: wonderful in these days of conflid between labor and capital because ¢ -| girls seem to have discovered th gently. independence. without « penny. The men who thrive are They are men who know how to save. thinks it is worth. lower price. as well as on necessities. theatre go, to good plays. as well as in your larder. Make every cent count. be steady aad continuous. quires intelligence and care. their incomes. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) GET YOUR MONEY’S WORTH. Spending intelligently is as important as saving intelli- Both are necessary to thrift. Thrift is necessary to Independence is necessary to happiness. Among your ow acquaintances you will see men gain competences on far lower salaries than other men who die Spend intelligeatly on learning. Get read them after you have bought them. Don’t think it takes business genius to prosper, not necessarily “tight wads.” to spend, and who know how Wise spending consists in getting your money's worth, and that is something few men know how to do. Wome’ are usually more careful about money. shopping woman who goes from counter to counter is not wasting time, she is getting what she wants, at the price she The In other words she is spending fatelligently. It is often wise to buy more of a thing than you need for your present uses if by doing so you can get it at a It is wise to take advantage of low markets. And it is always wise to pay more money for a chair that will last a » lifetime than buy a cheaper chair that will last a year. Buy carefully. Spend your money wisely—on luxuries Spend money wisely on_your pleasures. If you go to the If you go on a vacation trip go to some place where there is something of interest and profit to see, even if the trip is You can store up material for future use in your mind ore expensive, Bpod books and In that way you can keep within your income and begin to save. And your gain will It re- And those are things which few people employ in the management of their time or of Bn childhood which we all have to an- dergo, and I can still vividly remem- ber the wasplike sting of the shingle and think it eventually benefited ine considerably, Thanking you again for your wonderful understanding and timely articles, 6. P. Vv. “riod Ate.” ‘To the Béttor of The Evening World: Senator Harding is a great speech- maker, His Engteh is fine, his method is great, and his choice of ong words ls wonderful, But with all that he doesn't say anything. It hole in the paper to lt the “hot air” out. In his speech he blames the Demo- as I know, the Republicans have majority in the Sixtv-sixth Congress land they surely were able to pass laws to reduce the H, C, L.; but they did not seem to make any great ef- fort to reduce it. my As for “spanking,” Ht, penal of I hope that some of your readers may inform me why the Republican candidate should be elected RAS ical . eae Eade wet is a lot of “hot air,” and so I made a | crats for the high cost of living, but | the Republican Congress could not pass laws to reduce the H. C, L. B, SONDREY. New York, Aug, 26, 1920, De The proposed bill of Senator Dowl- ing, exploited in Tuesday's issue, would be most excelton (according to the point of view), for it would raise rents most heavily in the poorer class of hoses in which most of New York dwells. For instance, ments owned by the writer, I could raise a gross rental of $3,200 to $4,800. This proportion of increase would apply to untold thousands of tene- ments throughout the clty,” Persgn- ally, I will not raiso rents in this class of house, even though they don’t pay savings Wank tnterent, but it ts obvious that "the temptation to in- crease rents to the legal limit of the Dewling measure would be suc cumbed to in most Instances, W. D, KILPATRIC! way ue, ret Laaer es MRARNBE HS 36, 4820, . . an pe oie mete ete te in the various tene- |‘ the employer is humanitarian independent {: itigators, The records fail to show ganda from the skilful use which the rights of the poor employer] were to be secured. No combination of employers has ever come into ex- istence with power enough to cram this Ohio idea down the throats of ity on the part of femininity. ‘The action is all the more hi since the constantly growing ten-¢ dency on the part of labor has been for some time toward taking more and more and giving less and less Carelessness has too often made this an age of inefficiency instead of an era of efficiency about which we have too often boasted without ade- quate foundation. . Possibly the action taken at Oxford, will presently be followed by a recog : nition of the fact that wage ac-. ceptance calls for an adequate service® return, and tt may be that the mil- lennium is about to dawn. If all this is really so we a ray of light amid the gloom of to-di - If the average girl cannot keep her check book, when she has one, in/ correspondence with the bank’s reo- ords the Ohio incident demonstrates that girls can attain to a broad view {n economics quite irrespective of the outcome of events in Tennessee. Thi chances are that they may be en- trusted with the ballot. They cer- tainly cannot make a greater mess of its use than some men have. Nine thousand girls are also tot dentally added to the ranks of disco erers. fi — REQUIESCAT. Since they have died, remember. this of them, That now forever in a fleld om, France America shall dwell. What requiem | Would they choose rather, whgt bright circumstance? amar Because of your lad, deeper is the have here. Bolshevik , hue 4 Of fleur-de-te; of mane, the vevheh, stain, y The flowers of France have sprung, from them anew, Enriched from hearts that perished not in vain. Then make earth worthy of their \ sacrifice, Think not to break their bodies’ rest, laid down ; To pleasant dreama, whose couches*! draperies Are tricolor and star-flelds of re-‘ nown, Take not this last citation from: their shield— 4 America in France, flower in her feta! ISABEL FISKE CONANT. os “That’saFact’’ By Albert P. Southwick coustigat, 1 Press Publishing (fas Now York Bening World). =O The first United States Pension Act waa passed in 1818, North Carolina and Rhode Ish did not yote for President in 1789, not having ratified the Constitu. tion; and Florida, Mississippi, Texas and’ Virginia in’ 1868, not ‘having: ‘been reconstructed. ' ‘Mhe first town named after the “Wather of His Country" was Washington, Wilkes County, Ga; and the first county, Washington | County, Va, Grover Cleveland was the only President who ever delivered an ex» tempore inaugural address. Washington, D. C., was original; a. small settlement named Rome, af ‘Tiber Creek, and owned by a Mr, Pope (who facetiously signed him self, “Pope of Rome"). j Fulton Street, originality called Partition Street, was named in honor of Robert Fulton. With the monument in Trinity Churchyard these are his two memortals, = a Gansovoort Street, Now York City, is In honor of Brig. Gen. Peter Gansevoort, who, by checking Bur- goyne, recelved a vote of thanks from Congress. Lorillard Place preserves the name of Jacob mince ere’ a Rafe}