The evening world. Newspaper, September 1, 1920, Page 18

=. | R. BRISBANE, who has persistently misrep- resented the Covenant of the League of Na- on @ basis of mere assertion, seems to sense that sort of attack is growing wearisome. So for a change he quotes—as The Bvening World has challenged opponents of the League do. Mr. Brisbane quotes from Article X. He also cites the words which authorize the Council to “advise.” Sp far so good. But Mr. Brisbane's objective will riot be served by further quotation, so he abandons quotation and lapses into misrepresentation and falsehood in this paragraph: | ‘i “The ‘Council’ ts a foreign body in which - the United States would have as much in- fluence as Mrs. Partington’s mop had in ©, dealing with the ocean.” {If Mr, Brisbane had been willing to let his readers have information instead of misinformation, he Would have quoted from Article V. of the League, , where it is written that “decisions at any, meeting of the Assembly or of the Council shall require the ement of all the members of the League repre- ited at the meeting.” «© In other words, if the American representative re- fitsed to acquiesce, the League could not advise. wThe Evening World does not ask any reader to accept this assertion of the falsity of Mr. Brisbane’s statements, or of Senator Harding’s or of Col. ~-George Harvey's. What The Evening World hopes to do fs to en- ygqurage voters to go to the Covenant Itself and check up the misstatements which are made about the League of Nations. fis s er eS et He te SF - octane stews wane AS THE HOUSEWIFE FIGURES IT. Pal « AILS of anguish rise from grocers, They admit they have been squeezed, ‘Phey bought sugar at a high price and the market thas dropped. They attribute the loss to the activity of the De- ent of Justice and loudly cry, “No fair!” ate Consumer will be sceptical of Mr. Palmer’s responsibility. He or she has seen the Palmer H. C. of L. drive fail repeatedly. Grocer’s cries will fail to stir compassion in the “hearts of the U. C. Hoarse laughter sounded at a dinner tables the evening the wail of the appeared in print. But greater than the glee over the loss of the sugar will be the real amazement that should go up over so trifling a loss. gf g coukin’t promise delivery of any more before middle of week.” No one had sugar at 30 cents a pound. So how, b housewife is prone to ask, can the loss on next to no sugar be very large and ‘serious, even if the i price per pound sinks one-half? eta alls <p E eh A PARAMOUNT PLANK. ENATOR HARDING seems willing to let the League of Nations issue become paramount. But a little matter like the League of Nations does snot satisfy the Get the Money Boys. Not at all. For the Get the Money Boys there is a paramount issue that is a paramount issue. “Step On It” Blair, who plays the saxaphone in the G. O. P, Cash Band, puts the paramount issue in plain words, and makes no bones about it. * «Hete is the paramount plank in the Get the Money Platform: Let us all work as if nothing but fund-raising was of any importance.” There is a paramount issue that is paramount. Take it from “Step On It” Blair. A’ INTERESTING devélopment in after-the- ‘ war commerce is ‘reflected in the current ‘trade bulletin issued by the Guaranty Trust Com- pany. )} ‘ a Because of the exchange situation and the dearth of transportation and coal, it has been extremely difficult for Europe to get back to work and so im- prove the exchange situation, The result is a “vicious circle” in which conditions have tended to become worse rather than better. The opening wedge for the break in the circle, is suggested by the Guaranty bulletin, is “the direct arter of domestic produce for imported products,” wif process already under way and worthy of extended ‘use. ? BANKS AND BARTER. ~ ! i 1 : i \ / 1 h oon EE OENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER t, 1920. ° ¢ i novel that a bank should sponsor such a movement. When barter was the only medium of exchange no banks existed. Banks were created because trad- ing by credit proved more convenient thap barter. If all the world went back to barter, banking would be destroyed. For a bank to advise barter seems to be a contra diction or else an effort to commit suicide, The contradiction, of course, Is superficial. What the Guaranty bulletin does ts to confess the inade+ quacy of bank credit under unprecedented condi- tions. Such advice Is no brief for suicide, because the bank belleves that, once the vicious circle ts broken, credit will come into Its own again as a great commercial service well worth the toll it takes, “SALESMAN'S STUFF." From the testimony of Witt H. Hays, Chairman of the Republican Na tional Committee, at Monday's session of the Senatorial Committee tn- vestigating campatgn funds: 25 “We, of course, wel- come the opportunity further fully to set forth the effort of the Repub- lean National Commit- tee to popularize the elving of money for campaign purposes by getting small contribu- tions from a great many ‘men and women rather than large contributions from a small number, thus forever eliminating any possible opportuni- ty for sinister Influences in connection with money in politics. “This plan for the raising of money through smail contribytions grew out of two primary causes: “(1) The real desire to work a real reform im the elimination of any (possible improper obli- gation. © © © “(2) Out of the experi- ence in connection with raising funds for war purposes these popular drives had become a fa- millar activity, and it seemed possible at this time ‘to undertake that kind of action by litical organization. “The plan was posed early in 1919, pro- I think the! first publica- tion of the idea was on ‘May 21, 1919. “It was then the purpose, and it has since been the purpose, to en- deavor to limit the con- tributions to a mazimum of a thousand dollars be- fore the nominating con vention and a thousand after, We have all tried to adhere to that plan.” The italics are ours, a From Gov. Cow's epeech at Columbus, 0., yester- day, introducing as evt- dence a document ad dressed last June by the Republican Committee to dita fund ratsers: “Two days after Sen- ator Harding was nom- dnated a communication , Was sent to the ‘men whom Chairman Upham himself characterizes as the ‘money diggers.’ The document is headed ‘Campaign Plan, Larger Cities.’ The very first advice is this: “‘Seoure as chairmen of the campaign a man widely known and of commanding Have him appoint a strong representative Executive Committee of at least twelve men. It may require two or three days to secure such a committee, but it must be hand-picked. . . . Have the date set for an Executive Committee luncheon that will be held within about three days. At this luncheon an inepirational speaker should awaken this com- mittee to the necessities of the situation, “This will get the “sights” of every one of the committeemen “high” as to the amounts to be asked from big business men, The time has ar- rived when some pros- pects should be asked for subscriptions rang- ing from $5,000 and up- ward, In any case, it is absolutely © ccessary, first of all, to “sell” to this committee the quota and the campaign plans!" influence, How does Mr. Hays explain this glaring contra- diction between what he specifically declares to have been Republican purpose since “early in 1919,” and what is on record as an avowed part of Republican money-getting policy expressed in the plainest of terms last June? Treasurer Upham asks the Senate Committee to regard quotations from the Republican bulletins— “boys, get the money,” “see the right people,” “give her the gas,” “step on it” and the like—as just “salesman’s stuff.” That is exactly the way most of the country al- ready understands it. The question is how many Americans can stom- ach a political party that brazenly puts up the Presi- dency of the United States as a purchasable prize which the Republican National Committee guaran- tees to bid in if its “money diggers” will dig hard “enough. It will take more purity of purpose than Chair- man Will Hays has so far demonstrated to sweeten the “salesman’s stuff.” SURE! ’ Boys, get the money! Money gets votes; Votes elect Presidents, TWICE OVERS. 66] AM a Democrat, and I ati probably the only real Democrat left east of the Alleghanies,” — Col. George Harvey, speaking on the Front Porch. iam 66'T HE crop of apples in New York State this year is large enough so that every man, woman and child in the State could have an apple a day for a year.”—Neil Strom. * * es A ASSIGNED only the State quotas and how these were subdivided by the State organization was none of my affair.” —G. 0. P. Treasurer Upham. Sey gin 66 C@ENATOR HARDING and I have been on opposite sides of many questions. In order to et together there was much for each of us to overlook.” Gifford Pinchot. [FROM EVENING WORLD READER What kind of letter do you jind most readable? isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? ‘To the Editor of The Brening World: BRT. the Proletariat.” disturbers forever, ¢ rikers and they need ex- pect no sympathy from it. RUT Aug. 27, 1920. cation. I have visited different farms. I think it is a shame the “Sore on the Strikers.” Is the minority to rule? these striking employees want is a Lenine government—"dictatorship of If I owned the B. R. T. @ystem I would discharge every one of the strikers and be tid of the There must be rican men who can over the constant strikes and thr etied strikes of the employees of way ‘What ee fixed,” There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. Take time to be briez. &c, &c, Furthermore, S| ns suggestion would permit the landlord The Brooklyn public is pretty sore, “to make 10 per cent. plus 2 par cent. t. | for depr eclation on his equity.” | __His suggestion to use the purchase price of the building as the basis of calculation 1s indeed rich. Can you doing—t n fact, uggests. . ‘Unless the jokers are eliminated frem the rent bills and legislation Is enacted that will lift the crushing we are laboring under—well, Russia was once supposed to be an burden the middleman gets the profits and the people of New York and other citi have to euffer and pay extra high prices for food stuffs, For instance, tomatoes which were selling in the city when I started at ten cents+a pound for good ones, whereas here they offer them at two cents for tweniy-five pounds. diemen offer almost nothing. a own use. can't be a city market. PATRICK Farmers say that next spring the: going to raise only enough for It that happens I do. know what the people at New York will do, I don’t see why there Edgemont, Md, Aug. 27, 1920, Keep Ont the Jokers. To the Bititor of The Evening Work; offer a of rent profiteering, Among other Hilly is quoted as saying: believe that a t evicted by a rental, but I do bel move of thelr own price he can for the cated.” Very ingenious own accord. figure for rental apartment forthwith,” follows: building, or its as: chase price, The [te In The Evening World of Aug. 26 1 noticed that Chairman Hilly of the Mayor’s Rent Committee expects to gestion to the Joint - lative Committee on Housing int in his opinion will @olve the question thines, Chairman “I do not ant should be diord that he may lease to another tenant at higher ve that, if they ccord, the land- lord should have the right to get any artment Leave it to the landlord to make us vacate of our But the real nigger tf the woodpile is his suggestion as to the procedure necessary to arrive at the proper » which is to be named by the court, and once fixed the tenant must pay or “vacate the Let us again quote his words “The ‘The purchase price of the valu It ts the same with the other crops, Mid- in three spoonful for 10 cents, and found after my dish clean, eight spoonfuls. probably one-half salad, ideal climate for Czar ROBE! New York, Aug. 26, 1920. ago wien &c. SRT GORDON. “Moderate” Pric ‘To the Editor of The Evening Wor After reading your editorial en- titled “Bring Them to New York, I feel sure you have hit the nail on the head. I have constantly been a patron of a certain lunch room until a few days 1 found an increase in price rent items, namely milk, 10 cents per glass (half water); lex of veal, 4 cents; soup (as they call it), 18 oents per half bowl. I took the Dother of counting just how many di 1s of rice pudding were ee! 15 cents, imagine what the Bronx and Wash- ington Heights landlords would be have been doing? What would be the purchase price of a dwelling house after the profitcers [had finished passing {t around the | circle of “wash sales?” prediction that after being bought and sold a half dozen times by fake sales the landlord would be In a po- aition to welcome euch a law as Hilly I venture the ‘aping Fruit peach, one-third orange and two cher- ries, Then they have a specially em- men, do good, verify sound u va- |Bolshev nent in ee Al in event that was more than the pur- outrage? would . be established. | morgers, would be deducted ‘a «equity thereby and that the be herself in this not give too much, ployed man to see that the counter I believe if the Government would round up these profiteers instead of hibition and rounding up ey would be doing more my statements should nmereciful, A SUCKER. Aug, 26, 1920, ed Suspicion, ‘To the Editor of The Prening World: Two Jewish men, both citizens of the United States, were killed near Kamenetz-Podolsk, Russia, by three men who were wearing, reports say, The victims of his crime, Dr, Cantor and Prof. Fried- lander, were members of an American committee to relieve Jewish war suf- ferers in Europe. Both were promi- Prof. Friedlander jis mourned by a wife and five chil- t uniforms, America. 1) that is known, Not to my knowledge, Is it because these men were J Ones States did not {nters Probably there are others who can they ‘American citizens have the protec- ; ld be fixed by th tion of the United States wherever follows: vo price of thaithey happen to be. Am Iright?. ijut did the United States investigate this matter? Or is that the A UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. | (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) IDEAS ARE BUILT, NOT BORN. Don’t ever think that great ideas come to great minds in flashes of inspiration, Edgar Allan Poe, whose verse sounds as if it flowed from his soul in a crystal stream, tells in oe of his essays how laboriously he toiled first to get an idea, next to express it in poetry. : No great idea ever flashes into a man’s mind. built, slowly, from knowledge aad deep thought. It may be that the Tinal conceptio may come quickly, but it never comés to a mind that is not seeking it, any more than a buried ledge of gold quartz is ever discovered by accident, Benjamia Franklin, the first man to learn that the lightning tnat tore asunder the clouds was the same force that could be produced by a glass wheel, spent years of thought on the subject before he made his final experiment. Edison, who invented the talking machire, had bent his mind on that single topic for years. And slowly and painfully he constructed the machine, which to the astoa- ishment of his fellow workmen at last reproduced the hu- man voice with startling fidelity. It is natural to think of the inventor as one who has a suddea inspiration and hurries off to the laboratory to carry it out in a machine, Inventions are never made that way. .They are thought out first in the mind, and it generally requires years of labor Before they are brought to a point where they are of aay value. All are The ideas of the poet, the painter, the engineer, the sur- geon, which lead ultimately to the great benefit of humanity are worked out in the same painful way. You must be looking for an idea before you can find it, and you must be looking for it hard. Inspiration: plays a very small part in the progress of this world. And even what seems to be inspiration comes oaly to those who have done hard and weary work seeking to find something new. Don't be discouraged if ideas do not come to you, and do come to other people. Ideas are built, not made. Begin to build ideas and you may learn to realize them. But don’t expect that they will ever come through inspiration, Ten-Minute Studies of New York City | Government. By Willis Brooks Hawkins. This is the twenty-sieth article of a series defining the duties of the administrative and legislative officers and boards of the New York City Government. Taxation. Bank, Mortgage and Motor Taxes. Under the law the shares of banks and banking associations are subject= ed to @ special tax in lieu of all other taxation. The assessment ts based upon the book vaiue of the capital, surplus and undivided profits of the institution, no deductions being allowed for real estate otherwise taxed. ate of taxation is 1 per cent, At thi resent time it yields abous $5,000,000 @ year, The mortgage recording tax is 60 cents upon each $100 of indebtedness secured by mortgage upon real prop= erty within the State. The payment of this tax exempts the mortgage and the debt secured thereby from all other forms of taxation regardless of the term of the mortgage. After de= ducting the expense of collection, one« half of the net ipts Is turned over to the State Treasurer, This tax yield~ ed_$1,142,147.60 to the city in 1919. The State Highway Law provides that the city shall receive one-half of the Motor vehicle registration fees from the five countigs within its lim- its. This brings to¥the city at the pregent time not less than $1,250,000 a year. Before the Prohibition Amendment / went, after a manner of speakini into effect, the city derived an eno mous revenut from the excise tax and from its share of the fines and penal-/ ties resulting from infringement of the Excise Law. Now it gets nothing! from that source, even the tax on liquors used as ‘medicine’ “going wholly to the United States Govern- ment. "AS ONE WOMAN | SEES IT | By Sophie Irene Loeb ‘oprah N a few days school will be open and as yet there is little or no Prospect of a real Penny a: System in the public school, Owing to one or two members of the Board of Education, this work, 90 firmly established through the efforts ‘|of The Evening World, hag been wo- fully retarded and the city on sehoot feeding has gone back many years on account of it. While conservative people are important on school boards, the indi) viduals who will not keep pace with” the progress of the times should be eliminated as speedily as possible, Every other city has gone far ahead of New York in this matter of secure ing for every child @ nourishing mead at novn time in {ts own school build- ing at a minimum cost, — ‘The examples of Philadeiphie and Syracuse, nearby, are worthy of com. parison, There is no city in the worlg that needs these lunches like the metropolis. ‘Thousands of chi go to school beakfastless because the rm other who 1s called into induse ff try and must many times leave the child to chance. Thousands of children are nourished because of ignorance parents. Who suffers? The child Yet some school board members proceed on the theory that by elfmbs nating the lunches they will puntely the parents. By procrastination and delaying ree ports they have succeeded in put back lunches in schools many It is high time the blame was exactly where it belongs and! ago person on the school board be pera mitted to use his vote against; the interest of the children becauag of, personal prejudices, , ane a Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick [oerristes Nae: 2.7 ce, Pyle Stephen Jumel’s New York City house, on the northwest corner of Whitehall and Pearl Streets, was of yellow double brick, two stories in height, with dormer windows in the roof. It is a coincidence that the two famous mistresses of the Mor- ris-Jumel Mansion, Mary Phil ang Betty Bowen, both went to the ouse on Washington Heights fro Whitehall Street. y, :” Jumel and his wife (also Known as Hliza Brown) were first married by a Protestant clergyman and then at the old St. Patrick's Ca- thedral, in Prince Street, New York City, on April 9, 1804, A James Carrol lived on the origt- nal farm of the Jume! place for two years, raising fruit and vegetables, ¢ In the spring of 1765 he offered place for sale, the advertisemen pearing in the Post-Boy and Gaines} Meroury. In June it was withdrawn, ‘and this date marks the time of the pur- chase by Roger Morris and,.ap- | proximately, the building of the house, contravening the widespread statement that the mansion was erected in 1758, ss, Roger Morris, born in England 01 “a Sasit way America feels and acts toward] No matter what it was that brought about Prohibition, the motto of the her citizens? HYMAN B, BHRLICH. New York, Aug. 27, 1920. A Miracle. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Tho first miracle that was performed by Jesus took place at the Marriage Feast in Cana, of Galilee, At this banquet Christ changed “water into wine” and his disciples believed in him. However, !t may be aald that the latest miracle on record was per- formed when Prohibition became a part of the Constitution of the United States. How in the name of heaven did {t happen? Was it due to some extraordinary influence of @ few over|Christ or their county, many or was it the magic thrust of a HIN LYNCH. thunderbolt which struck » dumb? = Brooklyn, Aug. 29, 1920, \ country is “In God We Trust.” some of us have it in our hearts. like a mockery, crites. water.” We see it daily on the coins we use and At present this noble inscription seems It we do not intend to live up to it, why should {t be on our silver pieces to brand us as hypo- Eyrthermore, if we truly be- Meved in it we would approve what Jesus did when he changed “water Into wine,” and we would condemn all who take the “trust” out of our na- tional motso and reverse God's work when they try to change “wine into This ts juet what the Prohtbitionists have done and they seem to have more faiih in themselves than in Jan, 28, 1727, was a captain in thy 48th Foot, in 1745, at the age.of eighteen. ‘Ten years later-he came to America as alde-de-camp to Gen. Braddock, and was wounded on the banks of ‘the Monongahela In July, 1765. Roger Morris served in a came palgn with his regiment in 1767 une der Lord Loudon, but returned to New York in July of that year,’ He, was married on his birthday, Jay 28, 1758, at the manor house in Yor kers. A month after bis marriage. he purchased a Major's commission’ in the %th Rritish Foot and with that regiment in Halifax, In the winter following his ser vice in Halifax, Major Morris wr stationed at Fort Frederic, and occasionally dejailed to pursue Indians, wi erenned the settlements in Nova Scotia, =