The evening world. Newspaper, September 8, 1920, Page 22

pay BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Puditanca Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Genpanr. Nea te te 63 Fark Row, New York. PULITPER, President, 68 Park Breaeurer, fa) mews Gaapatches credited to At or not otherwise credited tn this paper alto the loca) news published herein. a “NOTICE TO THE TRADE.” q Oh sentence in the full-page advertisement of the American Woolen Company, printed in _ the newspapers yesterday, was a source of particular * satisfaction to The Evening Work. , The statement, signed by William M. Wood, President of the company, said: “When, however, on May 26th, the Govern: “ment Drought indictments against this com- pany for prices charged for its goods in open : competitive markets, it was notice to the trade _ | by thé Government that the price for woolen 9| — eloth must be reduced.” ) if The Evening Work!’s campaign against prof- ") fteering concerns had no other effect than, to incite + the Government to give notice to the woolen trade ee while, Mr. Wood is not entirely candid when he men- -}) Gons that “indictments were dismissed by the court The statement is true, but the dismissal was on a \ technicality. The court did not absolve the American + 4 Woolen Company of the practices charged. +} Unfortunately the law was not so drawn as to “over the offense to the satisfaction of the court. ip a MAHON'S ADMISSION. his first statement on the B, R. T. strike Presi- fH dent Mahon of the Amalgamated made clear the ) walidity of The Evening World’s criticisms of the 4 wepresentative character of the strike leaders and \. striking unionists. _ \President Mahon virtually disavowed the action tof the local leaders. His statement in a measure ustifies the stand of Judge Mayer and Receiver Garrison. | Under the present arrangement of balloting and Wepresentation the employing company appears to hhave little or*no guarantee against irresponsible ac- tion. The public has even less security. But Amalgamated irresponsibility is only one of ‘many similar experiences in which the public has * been the loser. The Evening World has suggested State or Fed- ‘eral supervision of union elections and referendums, Has any one a better suggestion for making * unions and union leaders dependable? NEGLECT NO TRAIL. _. @AMUEL UNTERMYER'S offer to serve as a oR prosecutor of the Building Materials Trust is one _ which Federal authorities can not afford to ignore. Mr, Untermyer is a man of standing in his pro- fession. He has come to the conclusion that such "| a trust exists because of his investigation into the _ ¥ focal situation, which he believes can not be remedied a successfully except through Federal courts, . Housing shortage is not confined to New York. Mt is Nation-wide, Whether or not Attorney Gen- eral Palmer sees fit to commission Mr, Untermyer . as a prosecutor he should immedjgtely investigate. If he does not enlist Mr. Untermyer’s aid it should _ be because he already has competent legal talent for the task. Mr. Palmer’s efforts against the profiteers indicate __ that a man of Mr. Untermyer's ability might be a welcome addition to the Department of Justice staff. ? HE Department of Public Markets proposes to take a.whack at the prohibitive price on ap- ples set by the fruit jobbers. Rt Commissioner O'Malley has concluded an ar- zl jp Fangement with an up-State oo-operative association _ of apple-growers under which apples will be sent i Wirect to the city market for distribution to public ) markets and peddlers. The Markets Department || proposes to set a maximum price for retail sale of » the apples which will be materially lower than the prevailing retail price. ee Suocess of the experiment will depend on the de- 3 it mand. Housewives should see that the demand is ~ great enough to encourage other similar ventures. : 4 To do this it will be necessary to revise buying , habits. When apples are too high the housewife i crosses them off the marketing list and gets out of | the habit of thinking of meals in terms of apple- | sauce, apple pie, baked apple, apple salad, apple { dumpling and the rest of the list of apple dishes, s Now is the time to plan to use the new apples at ; the new price. Put apples (at a fair price) back “on the menu and shopping lists. Then watch for the agencies that sell these apples. Buy from the apple sellers. Make the demand. i ee ella M’NULTY, chief of the Legal Rit with authority for the organized owners and dealers ~ in hoysing. Mr, McNulty’s recommendations made to the ) Joint Legislative Housing Committee are a serious _ Tbe really interests have nothing to offer, Ma, y f te - ‘ THE BEST THEY CAN CONTRIBUTE? | Bureau of the Real Estate Board, speaks | i U9 ¢ Se THE EVENI MeNulty’s suggestions are purely negative. They reflect the spirit of “We want all we can get,” voiced at the Hotel Astor meeting last winter. The men who know most about housing have no constructive suggestions, ‘They say, “Hands off.” Neither the Joint Committee nor the Legislature can accept the programme of the Real Estate Board. Whatever laws may be adopted will not rélax checks on the rapacity of the rent-gougers. An earnest ef- fort will be made to draft laws which will restrain rent profiteering, even if it proves necessary to fix an absolute maximum of return and tax away any, excess in rentals. Realty interests had an opportunity for construo- tive effort during the regular legislative session, They threw this away with a programme of obstruc- tion. It was to be hoped that they would learn their lesson. Evidently they have not. The Lockwood committee must needs do its best without co-opera- tion from the landlords. If the Lockwood committee brings In a report distasteful to the real estate men, they will have only themselves to blame. EYES ON THE SENATE COMMITTEE. S it looks to the umprejudiced citizen, the Re- publican campaign fund scandal sums’ up to date as follows: Gov, Cox has charged that the Republican Party is trying to raise $15,000,000 with which to buy its way back to full power and privilege in the Govern- . ment of the United States, . To support that charge, Gov. Cox. has produced evidence in the shape of official documents issued by the Republican Committee and Treasurer's de- partment. » These documents, nrany of which carried the warning that they must be ‘kept secret, appear to give the direct lie to the assertion of the Chairman of the Republican National Committee that it “has been the purpose to endeavor to limit the contribu tions to a maximum of a thousand dollars before the nominating convention and a thousand after.” Moreover, the tone of these documents indicatés, with brazen and shocking plainness, an apparent Republican conviction that “Boys, get the money,” “see the right people,” “give her the gas,” and the rest of what Treasurer Upham calles ‘‘salesman’s stuff® will buy the Presidency for the Republican candidate, Gov, C8x is neither a Court, a Grand Jury nor duly appointed investigating body. He can bring in no final verdict on the evidence he submits or on the leads he furnishes, There is, however, sitting at the present mtoment in Chicago a Senatorial Committee whose sole func- tion is to investigate campaign funds. If it shirks such investigation or if it puts ‘aside and fails to follow up such evidence as Gov. Cox has supplied, this Senate Committee convicts itstif of either incompetence or partisanship. As regards the Cox charges, the Senate Committee is ina position analogous to that of a Grand Jury. If it is honest it cannot dodge its duty. VICTORY NO GUARANTEE.’ “cc E have just got to win, That's all there is about it. If we don't, it’s goodbye Republican Party.” This quotation from the informal philosophy of a Western political leader is fairly typical of “pro- * fessional’ sentiment in the party. The feeling ‘exptessed helps to account for many developments of the campaign, ' “Boys, Get the Money” is another expression of the same sentiment. But this politician is fooling himself if he imagines that victory will prove a panacea for Republican Party ills. Once the campaign pressure for “har- mony” is removed the old split will become wider than ever, Johnson and Penrose, Harding and Hoover, Borah and Brandegee, La Follette and Lodge, Norris and New do not belong in the same political reservation. Granting that it will be “goodbye, Republican Party” if the G. O. P. fails to win, it nevertheless remains that victory may prove only less disastrous. In any case the Republican Party can not long survive unless it reforms, reorganizes, sloughs off some of the dissonant elements and comes to mean something, to stand for ideas (whether reactionary or progressive) and not for mere place-hunger. y TWICE OVERS. at | REGRET that you were not more prudent and careful in going out on strike, You can get into strikes easily, and I regret your impatience.” —Presi- dent Mahon of the Amalgamated. * 8 e Ae is we ‘let these men out we cannot govern Ire- land.” —Premier Lloyd George. “ce HE time will come when we shall need a pro- tective tariff.” —Senator Wadsworth. > * * . “ce HE baseball gambler is the greatest peril of professional baseball to-day.” — State's Attorney Maclay Hoyne of Chicago. 66 JT (grape juice) has not enough bite in it for me. Mr. Mixer please make me a ginger ale—grape Aighball.” =—William Jennings Bryan NG WORLD, ._Employment Extortion, ‘To the Eitttor of The Brening World: Who is responsible for existing con- ditions in the employment agencies of New York City? How comes it that open extortion ‘e practised daily upon respectable American ex-service and militia men seeking honest employment? They turn away in despair when unable to hand over in advance the $35, or whatever sum the so-called prospective job 1s worth weekly. Is there no way of curbing these blood-eucking Shylocks? And no law to prevent such a dis- grace to our city and to the powers that be? THE MOTHER OF A CHAUFFEUR OUT OF WORK. New York, Sept. 7, 1920. Politics ‘To the BAltor of The Prening I am a lad of about thirteen years of age, and am very much interested in topics of the day, as are all boys of about the same age. Now the Presidential election comes along and as it is, probably, the great- est of all times, boys are looking with keen interest to the day the political orators will take the stump. But many ‘as in past years, perhaps, will ‘be dis- appointed, ‘They will not be admitted to the campal hall. Men at the doors, when asked why, offer the poor excuse of “Boys are too young to un- derstand it,” But if they wily ever understand they might as well begin now. We must begin to learn some time, for we shall be the future citi- zens. I ask you, as editor of one of New York's leading dailies, to help in the cause; to help build @ better class of citizens for a future date; a class of citizens that will know and under- stand all, LBONARD J. MANN. 866 Southern Boulevard, Sept. 1, A Personal Experte ‘To the Biltor of The Brening World: I noticed tn your columns Justice Hughes's statement that more legal assistance should be made possible for the public unable to pay @ re- tainer fee to a competent attorney. My mother was employed as a maid in a large hotel, A guest re- quested her to take a pet poodle dog up to the roof for a little alr, On the way up @ large bull dog attacked the poodle and when my mother caught up the little dog to prevent its being jnjured the bulldog bit Jer right arm which were very painful, My mother is the sole support of several children, The injury caused her tg iay off for three weeks. ‘She was kept awake at night by the doctors’ bills, When she re- tirbed FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | What kind oj letier do you find most reudubler isn't 6 the one that gives you tq worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ts fine mental exercise und a lot of satisfaction in trying to eay much in @ few words. Take time to be brief. causing several deep “tooth marks severity of the pain. She was obliged|had quite for her time off or for the injury. In fact, when the incident was reported to the Board of Health the wife of the owner of the dog hid the dog and put on ap expression which meant to eay, “The nervo of the common peo- | plei” What did my mother do? The money she, had lost was vital. ‘She | did not possess enough money to pay | la retainer fee, so she consulted the | Legal Aid. “You can’t do anything in a case like that,” is what the clerk told her. And when my mother was | going out ehe overheard the poorly paid but morally sick clerk say: “These domestics do all sorts of tricks.” Is that fair? Os the Legal Ald per- forming a service? JUSTICE. New York, Aug. 31, 1920. et hy Stupid Children. To the Editor of The Brening World The price of milk goes up again. After Sept. 1 skimmed milk will be 18 cents a quart or 11 cents a pint, a little better grade will cost 21 cents per quart, and full milk, 28 cents per quart. One of “our” State Senators who helped kill the Fair Price Milk Bill, offered as his reason that “price fix- ling is socialistic.” | Some people do j stupid children, MISS MAE LISTON. 58 West 106th Street, Sept. 1, 1920. have awfully On the Up Grade. To the Bilitor of The Evening Worb!; I never before appreciated such a good joke as that originated by “Anonymous.” What is the matter with him, can you tell me? Has he been accustomed to having aome one carry him around upon their shoul- ders? His own words clearly picture what kind of @ fellow he 1s—and that is not what he wants one to think by the wording of his letter—and I'll that he was not one of the four mil- lion odd who did “their bit” just a few months ago. My own case positively belies the claims of “Anonymous,” In fact, had I belleved all that my parents tried to preach to me about position and class And society, &c, perhaps I would think about’ the lines he writes, for my folks were wealthy and highly re- spected citizens and my dad a poll- ticlan:and they hobnobbed with the elite of society in my Southern home town. But I didn’t bank on all they claimed—and became the black sheep of the family. I enlisted in the navy, and when discharged.I found myself in New York City without funds or friends. I had to get to work—there were no two ways about it. Thad had a good education and, though I say it myself, according to letters of recom mendation from Yormer employers I an enviable business In fact, my last position be- record. wager my right eye (it's @ glass one) | — UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake) TRAINING IS WHAT COUNTS. You may have a great and powerful horse, and find him utterly useless. You may own a hunting dog, naturally intelligeat, and with an ancestry that ought to insure nis value, and yet never be able to use him in the field. i And you may havé a ‘aaturally goed mind, quick to re- ceive impressions, ingenious and alert, and yet go through life earning a living with a pick and shovel. Untrained mea can be had by the thousands. Just now they are able to earn better than a living, for labor is searce. But it will not always be so. With’ a readjustment of war conditions, which is bound to come, only mea wno are trained will be in demand, Others will be lucky to find regular employment of any kind, Trainiag is what counts in life. It is what trade schools and technical schools and colleges are for. It is a schooling of the mind as well as of the hands. And in the latter instance the mind is also schooled, It is ot really with his nands that the carpenter or the machinist or the watchmaker earns his living. It is the skilled brain that directs the hands that makes him worth more than the ordimary day laborer. Give your mind the best training that can be had. Get it in college if you cw. If that is not possible get it out of books, and by learning of other men with trained minds. Cultivate people who have trained their own minds, You will find in their compaay inspiration to train your own, Learn to do things, and to do them well. think consecutively and straight. tory, as well as literature. 'Get the nabit of thought, of constant and sustained thought. Find out why things are and what makes them so, With training you can accomplish much. Without training, though you may be naturally gifted you will be of little use in the world, and the world pays rewards oaly to those wno can give it something valuable in return, Learn to Read biography and his- ores and some dozen or fifteen men, But did I step right into a similar job here in New York, thourh armed with a half dozen spellbinding letters of rec- ommendation? Well, I guess not, But while I was almost positive I ceuldn't find such, I did try for fully a week or ten days to locate one. Then my bank roll deserted me. What did I do then? Go calamity howling throvgh the dally papers? No, I needed a job and funds and didn't have time for such nonsense, Though it aure did take my pride down a notch or two I went to work as @ dishwasher in @ restaurant at $3 a day for about two weeks. Mean- while I kept both eyes open and my ear to the ground. I located another job, just a little more refined and a little more nearly in my line, but still not what I wanted, though by then my, salary had been’ almost doubled— to $85 per week. Don't mistake me; I didn't take this new job as a in the heir to @ block of the pose of. than a year and a hal plaining of. perience, to work she was not id for | fore salting was that of office man- Seg ads Ba Beate teases fie data de aad aaa dian atin r= manent one, nor did I deceive the | saba Wa Te! GB "har wis" a tons. fitted and which was just the was looking for, about three At later, I went out after it. I used a hit- tle diplomacy scrambled with sales manship: And to-day I am back again saddie of office manager, though with not quite so large salary ag before and not quite ae bie a job; it ls a much more pleasing place, with bigger opportunities, and if I stick ft out to Oct. 10, one’ year according to agreement, I am to’ fail com) stock to the amount of $5,000, whicte ae though I will benefit from the divi: dends, will never be mine to dis. Now all of this happened in less in the same New York that “Anonymous” 1s com- Let him “turn to” and find a job. Personally, I wouldn't hire & man who did not hold a job from which to rise, regardless of his ex- ability and recommenda- wo VaR, aK, ON the “Father of the Faithful" and his descendants threw around the family @ dignity and glory euch as has fallen to no other family in history, This mighty pre-éminence was to be t Gbrewebury: “Honor pricks me on. Yea, but how if honor prick me off when twat ecutcheon, and so ends cate. chism.” be ‘The fat knight was anticipated by thousands of years by the human Lat ys such thing as an eleva’ ted though it, ‘by any form of the ideal, He stood equarely on the ground with both of his big, hairy feet, and through his y eyebrows he never looked up at the stars. Eeau was just the kind of man to tumble to the proposition that was soon to be made to him by the wily Jacob, his younger brother. Coming in one day from the hunt as hungry as a bear, Esau's eye fell on a big pot of red lentil soup thet Jacob hed prepared, and he asked for some of it. “Sell me first of all thy birthright,” demanded Ji a without a quaver or a moment's hesi- tation Bsau answered, » t am going to die some time, and what profit shall the birthright be to me? Give me some of that soup and take the old birthright if you want it!” And Jacob.said, “First of all, swear to me.” So he swore to him, and he @old hig birthright to Jacob. And Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil pottage, and he ate and drank and went his way. We can see Esau, swinging along, abdomen, , tickled death over the fine deal ‘he had just made with his brother. And we can seo J: chuckling to himself on the soft pedal to think of what a bonanza he had found in Esau's stupidity. It was the funniest business deal on record, and yet it was just euch deal as a man like Esau would nat~ urally make, Esau wes a sense- bound man. He lived onty in the present, and in the passing day eaw only the material advantages. After a while Esau repented of the transaction, grew wrathy, end Jacob hed to run for his life; but he was simply maddened to think of the temporal advantages he had lost in the deal. To show how utterly mer- jal Esau was in his afterward, when Jacob, returning to the homeland, sent hhm the presents of sheep, oxen and camels, he made up with him at ‘once, Sol aplga rbaagllgnapecg tical rage : It is generally understood thet the “Edomites"—the. tribe founded by Esau-—have long since utterly per- ished from the land; but it is e mis- take. There are Edomites aplenty yet—eerise-bound fellows, iter in nothing above the material, ‘dead as a door-nail to the sense of hono?’ and dlind as bats to the visions, of the spirit. “That's a Fact | By Albert P. Southwick i "the ie tk renting World): hea It is @ sad commentary most every relic of Washington that remained at his home when it passed into the possession of “The Ladies’ Mount Vernon Association” ‘was borne away by the retiring proprietor. These and many others at Arlington House, the home of | George Washington Parke Custis, | were widely scattered during the Civil War, and it is believed that many perished. Fortunately we can ‘read of them in Losstng’s “Home of Washington,” time 1859. It is Delieved that there is only one relic of the old Washington family (two brothers who came to Virginia in 1669) in this country, and that is @ small bronze mortar having the initial “C, W.” (Cimon Washington) and the date, “1664," cast upon it, which is now in Inde- pendence Hall, Philadelph: la, Of Washington's two eeal rings, ved with his monogram, one was lost by him on the bloody field of Braddock's Defeat, by the Mo- nongahela, in 1755, and the other by his nephew in Virginia about 1888. Both were foung in 1854 and restored to the Washington family. Tt wae a beautiful spot near the Potomac, half way between and Bridge's Creeks, later wr id, where stood a modest mansion in which Washington's mother lived. mates Of the birthplace of Washington nothing now remains but a ohtmney and a few scattered bricka and stones. Bverything is neglect and ruin, Tt was hallowed ground to both Federals and Con! 4 1861-66. a | D, ‘The impression made upon writer who visited this spot in 1885 was, that there had been the usual style of English brick col- fonial mansion (Annapolis, Md., has & dozen or more of them, and so has New Berna N. Cand at Willamsburgh and other towne in Virginia, are many specimens of this type of architecture), but ithe the records, according to Lossing, state that it wae « "four-roomed ‘house a end," per- -" i