The evening world. Newspaper, September 9, 1920, Page 22

* labia an ‘ RSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. | [Peviisned Datty sexcept Sunday vy the Press Pubitsning Company, Park Row, New York. 4 MEMBER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRESA ; Ameciated Prem ts exclusively entitied to the use for repubitestion | Fak os news Geeta eves fo Sah bern end a ie por ‘else tho local news published beretn. GOV.SMITH’SGREAT CHANCE. OV. SMITH announces that his forthcoming oa message to the Legislature when it meets in Special session Sept. 20 will go into every angle of the housing situation. 4 The Governor of New York has the opportunity to make a notable contribution toward solving a serious and oppressive problem. This State, with half its population concentrated in one of the great metropolitan areas of the worl) has felt the post-war housing crisis in its most acute _ Phases. New York has been the victim of rent gougers at their worst. Bitter experience has made it familiar with all their merciless policies and methods. It has also observed at first hand and ‘on the larg- est scale the economic factors at work behind the housing crisis. It has seen capital withdrawing itself from home-building.. “It has heard realty interests > protest that ‘only unlimited freedom to boost rents will insure capital for housing investment. It has *had time to study the effects of emergency rent laws <passed for the immediate protection of tenants ce sgainst intolerable injustice. ian Out of all this experience, what can the best ex- op pert intelligence in New York evolve? 5 If Gov. Smith’s message to the Legislature does not supply a hopeful answer to the question, where shall we look for one? So far, the housing problem has been like a mass of soft rubber, Tackle it and shape it on one side and it bulges out on another. Regulate rents tem- porarily in order to remedy injusticé and you frighten away private capital upon which, in the long rum, new housing must depend. One thing has gradually become Clear: The only promising way to grapple with the prob- lem is to attack it on two sides at once. Rent laws passed to givé relief to tenants’ must be counter- balanced by special inducements to capital to come ‘back to the normal business of home-building. Reduced’ to simplest terms of pfoposals so far _ made: If you (4) limit rents to a fixed percentage | on property valuation, as proposed in the Dowling plan,‘ you should (2) remove State and Federal taxes on mortgages and even free new housing con- | Struction for a time from local taxation in order to stimulate, building. If State or municipal building be undertaken to meet immediate emergency, as the Governor seems to think feasible, then again special,care must be taken that such public action Shall résult in no. per- maneni discouragement of private enterprise. Another point: Other countries, Great Britain in particular, have formulated and put into effect elabo- rate programmes to stimulate post-war home-build- ing by means of Government aid, The British Goy- ernment is now loaning money for this purpose to Public Utility Societies, which are nothing more than developments of the building loan association familiar to Americans. It would be the height of folly to ignore such foreign methods of dealing with the housing prob- fem if theré is anything in them that this country could profitably adopt. New York shouki not stupidly shut its eyes in this direction but learn all there is to be learned from foreign experiments. Albove all, study ways to induce the rent-payer who is able to buy or build a home of his own to do so NOW. ; : His initiative can be of immense help in starting the housing situation back toward normal. If Gov. Smith can take the best thought State and city have given’ the housing problem and con- dense it into three or four concrete proposals on which the Legislature can get promptly to work, he will perform a service the people of New York will not forget. There is no public achievement that could bring a man greater credit at present in this Common- wealth, ‘ an Bt CASE REFORMATORIES FOR PARENTS. NSTEAD of ‘reformatory sentences for juvenile delinquents, a Baltimore jurist suggests that frequently it would be better to apply the reform treatment to. parents. 4 . » aaa The suggestion ts novel, It would be easy to pick out many instances where such procedure en Sanne R' It would be foolish to assume that Mexico has attained any full measure of pure democracy or of popular government. But the election was held in an orderly manner, The successful candidate felt himself strong enough to measure forces with his adversary at the ballot box instead of at the bayonet point., Mexico's Govern- n@at is no longer “de facto.” The succession has been determined by Constitutional procedure. One striking sentence uttered by the President- elect may forecast more good for Mexico than columns of diplomatic conversation. Gen. Obregon sald: I’ would be unjust. But there is no denying that in - many cases parents are the true delinquents and are prove practical. conduct is supposed to improve, P yore it is probable, would not learn much in a School, for minds of adults are less open to instruction than those of children. But the suggestion of the Baltimore Judge ts worthy of serious consideration, by every parent. If there is no State school for the reformation of parents, there {s always the opportunity for self- reformation, which is far better, All“bis Is not to say that discipline needs to be The strongest disciplinarians may be the very parents most in need-of reform. It is as casy to @verwork the rod as to spare It, In the home reformation of a parent, self-study is as apt to bring results*as study of the child. A successful parent combines the two. Any parent of a wilful child should carefully question whether his or her course of discipline is correct and is working properly. Judge has called attention to one of the great reasons for juvenile wrongdoing. “strengthened.” VIVA THE TOOTHBRUSH! are reassuring. “I would rather teach the Mexican people the use of the toothbrush than to handle a rifle.” In the wake of the toothbrush we may hope for other reforms to take the plac lawlessness. SENATORIAL DISCRIMINATION, “The time has come when, as a Nation, we must determine upon a definite agricultural policy.”—Senator Harding. “You cannot conduct a campaign on a spe- cifle foreign policy.”—Senator Knox. THE NEW FRENCH LOAN. inyestment, the yield is high and the security is excellent. Considering the need for abundant capital in this Nation's teconstruction activities, the loan does not | at first seem particularly desirable from a natibnal point of view. Many will be inclined to think how desirable it would be if the $100,000,000 were to be invested in mortgages on homes. The fact is, of course, that the French loan will not amount to an actual withdrawal of funds from Chances are that most of the loan will be taken by investors who already This loan is not 4 flew credit operation, It is practically the investment market, have money tied up in Anglo-French bonds. a refunding issue. , If new investors subscribe to the present loan, their money will not go out of the country. It will be turned to redeem bonds already held here. Hold- ers of the previous issue who do not Subscribe for the new loan will have the cash on hand to turn to investments in the United’ States, Republican managers are considering aban- domment of the front porch, There is, however, no movement designed to dislodge the candidate from his secure seat on the fence. Harmony must be preserved even though Sen- ator Harding wears out the seats of his trousers, TWICE OVERS “cc HEN any one tells you that the present govern- ment of Russia has in it a single element of success, laugh at him.”—Hugo Riska, Finnish importer, . * * 66 JF same of the men that used to work farms would : go back to them, they would help soloe the hous- ing shortage and the food problem, which is going to be serious, But the farmers have gone to town to work in the factories. They get high wages, easitr work, and can go tothe movies in the evening. Incidentally, they help to fill up the city houses: —Henry’ A. Sc henck, President of the Bowery Savings Bank. * . * si fliagawhaig of all shades of opinion have visited Marion, and without exception, whether the guest favored the League or opposed the League, he inoariably reported to the press that he in- dorsed Senator Haeding's position as stated to him in conferences. All of this would be laughable if it -Goo, Cox. . * . were not tragic.” “ec Tes young fellows (slockyard laborers) between the ages of 17 and 24 are demanding silk 1 Uimony of « merchant tna Chicago cous, In theory, at least, the children who are committed to correctional institutions are supposed to learn the right from the wrong. Their The Baltimore ESULTS of last Sunday’s elections in Mexico e of banditry and entering the market for a loan of $100,000,000, the French Government is offering an attractive From the investor’s point of view, shirts that cost $16 to $18. These are the same young men who formerly paid $1.50 for their shirts.” —Tes- RHE NING WORLD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1920. Copyright 1926, by The Press Publishis New York Byening ithe ©, FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | Irony and Humor. ‘To the Editor of The Brenivg Work! : I presume that most of the letters about “spanking” have been either {ronical or humorous: no one cow soberly advise the “spanking” of | young women or even growing girls; and, by the way, why not boys also— | why limit the treatment to girls? On) the other hand, the matter is too serl- ous for joking. I am not an uncom- Promising opponent of all corporal unishment, and, to avoid argument, will admit that cases are conce.va- ble In which it would be well to spank a g.rl or boy who has passed out of childhood: Personally, 1 do not be- \tieve there are such, but If they exist, they are too few to be considered, The truth is, that if a girl has not been trained ‘to right behavior by the time she has reached adolescence, no amount of spanking will remedy the earlier defect, and then it is the parents who really deserve punish- ment. Furthermore, while spanking has a in the training of children, 1g @ very small one. A very large part of the spankings ad- ministered, as well as other punish« ments, are just expressions of the parent's irr.tability, or defective judgment, It is not a dream, but a condition existing {n thousands upon thousands of American homes, in which girls growing into womanhood, believe in, and love, father and mother as the * best friends, their wi counsellors their most sympathetic listeners, un are ready to talk over their Ideas and wishes, and plans, with their parents, nd to we gh their reasons, ‘and con- der the suggestions, and to a rea- nable extent be guided by, the ad- | What kind of letter do you pnd most readable? Isn't it the one | | | that gives you the worth of a thousund words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise und a lot of satisfaction in trying te say much in a few words. Tuke time to be brie7. sions when I have succeeded in se- curing @ brief interyiew I have been dismissed unceremoniously because 1 could not be exploited or because 1 could not measure up to impossible conditions, I have the brain, the desire and the knowledge which ‘would be an asset to many people, but, cannot even get a “look in” because I am “broke” and idle, What is left for such as 1?) | ANONYMOUS NO, 2. ° | New York, Sept. 7, 1920. Inquire Qu rma » WwW ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: | I am an ex-soldier and served over- | seas for twelve months, In which time I lost my right eye. | Would you be kind enough to let me know if the United States Gov-| ernment sells touring cars singly and} if so where should 1 inquire. Please let me know through your Evening World, as I read the editorials every night and take much interest in your paper. F. R. of the 165th Infantry. Sept. 7, 1920. An Appreciation. ‘To the Editor of ‘The Brening World Americans interested in Ireland al- ways believed the editor of The Eve- aing World, once having learned the truth, would sympathize with the un- happy but heroic little «republic in question, The recent tone of your paper isfles them they were correct. The writer for one in future will boost The Evening World at every oppor- tunity and when there are no oppor- tunities he will create them. CLAUDE WALTER CULLEN. 680 Mott Avenue, Sept. 7, 1920. vice offered by greater experience and maturer judgment. Will any amount of spanking of\ grown up girls, or young women, pro- duce such a condition of family life What sort of fam ly life would neces: sarily be predicated where such grown girls or. young women were spanked? T say {t 18 a dangerous subject on which to joke, for It is possible for some hot-tempered father or irri- table mother to take these letters so- riously, and attempt to act acoord- ingly, to the great injury of their daughter. A. B. Sept. 7, 1920, Elderly Worker's Pil ‘To the BAttor ot The Brening World I have just read the letter in this evening's Evening World signed “Anonymous” concerning the diffi- culty for the elderly, capable intelll~ font man (minus @ trade), in seour- mi bad {dea for some philanthroptcally reon to inclined ying employment for puch for supp! unfortunate m on thelr qualifications, am i of the men inly #0) it a position, withetanding a4 fet that I demonstrat am skilled in certain lines, I met ith surly ‘w employment, It would not be a tart a movement contingent of course who has and not- can hy He only Self-Appointed C 0 the Editor of Thg Evening World ‘he immortal Dooley once said, “You are a fine man, and I despise you.” Dean Swift put it rather better, He said “A nice man ts a man with nasty ideas.” I think that both of these aphorisms would just about fit the Rev. Mr. Kopfman in his pre- sumptuous interference with the bathers at Washington Crossing. Nothing in the deportMent or ral- ment of any bathers nor in the ex uberance of the most ostentatious lovers could disgust and pain a really delicate mind,as would the pryings and criticisms of a raucous “Peeping Tom." Our American holiday makers aref tolerant and good humored to a fault, but there are limits, The really de- cont and Kindly men of this country have put up with an almost intol- erable amount of chiding and cen- sure and exhortation from protes- sional and amateur Inatructors, but when !t comes to the defamation ani 1] insult of their sisters and wives and sweethearts they may be expected to show resentment, On the clean #ea beaches in the sunlight and open alr, our men and boys may be trusted to honor and protect the modesty and the Inde- pendence ef the women they love. iJ T. HACKRETT DALY. \ : Srota), rebulte. sma] | soca: Me. 448 Wont B81 Bey Map & 100 ~ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) \ MAKING MONEY FOR OTHER MEN. { Half the complaints you hear from employees are some- thing like this: “T am tired of making money for the boss. like’ is a‘chance to make money for myself.” That, of course, is what everybody would like. And if the complaining employee would stop and think a minute he would discover that the oaly way to make money for himself is to make it for somebody else.” Who are the high salaried men in the country? The men who can show a firm or a corporation how to pay big dividends. Who are the lawyers who get the biggest retainers? The lawyer who knows how to keep his clients out of litigation or to win lawsuits for them, thus makiag money for them. . What are the articles of manufacture that have the biggest sale? The articles that effect a money saving, or bring about economies, What I'd i \ Read, for example, the advertisements of motor trucks, Every one of them points out that the truck it exploits will save money to the firm that buys it, You will never make money for yourself until you learn how to make it for other people. Life is largely a struggle for money, If you gan teach somebody to make more money he will pay you to do it. He can afford to. If you can show him how to increage his sales, or to cut down his expenses, or to buy goods more cheaply than he has been buying them, you cw#a come pretty near fixing your own salary. Don't worry if the other fellow is making money, ‘The more money he makes by your help, the more he will pay you. He will have to pay you, for he will lose money if you quit. Whether you are working for a salary or are in busi ness for yourself, great success avill come to you only if you can make money for other people=-success; that is, ia a business sense, which is just as necessary as success in any other sense, Work with the idea of making money for others and you will make it for yourself. bs prosperity. Don’t grouch about nis Yours is dependent upoa it. * New York’s Public Library ‘to the People’s Bookshelves WO strangers—call them Mr. and Mrs, Brice—from a town in the upper part of the State, were found the other day by a frien, wan- dering about near the Fifth Avenue door on the main floor in the New York Public Library, The New Yorker, Mr. Miller, remarked that they looked lost. “We are lost,” vurst out Mrs. Brice, “We came in here on the other side —from 424 Street. We've been roam- ing through these halls and corri- dors for ten minutes or more, We haven't seen a book, and we can't find anything worth seeing. We'd just about decided ‘to go out again. ‘This is a big building. and very hand- some and all that, but it strikes me it t# confusing.” “You come with me,” said Miller, “I have learned the way around, It is a little confusing at first—not so much so as the Grand Central or the Pennsylvania Station, and it's much more interesting. You have to leara your way about a raiiway station, you have to find out how to use it, and how to consult a time-table. You do all that in order to pay some- thing in to the railroad company. Here, in the library, for halt the trouble, you get all the benefit, ai! the amusement or instruetion, or whatever you want—and jt does not cost you a red cent. Come and see this room.” And he led the Way toward a large (soo, which faced Pes sreas door, . | “Dhis exhibition: room,” said he “a! most always has something interest- ing init. They had some foreign war post last year, and later sotne war hotographs, taken by our men in ance. The books here this summer are from the Spencer collection— handsomely bound and handsomely lustrated; Mr, Spencer was a New Yorker who lived most of the time in Paris. He collected beautifully bound . | books—as gome men collect jewels or | aces—ana he got the best French ‘bookbinders to bind his favorite works {ot Iterature for him. Everything that beautifully colored leathers, gold tooling and ornamentation, inlays of precious metals, even jewels—every- thing to make an exquisite book bind- ing he acquired regardless of its ex- pense. He visited the library build- ing, before it was completed, and | while he was on a visit to New | York. Then he went back to Paris and made a will leaving all hig collec- + tion to this library. A year or two | later he was lost on the Titanic, so all of these extraordinary books came to Mr. Spencer’s native city.” ‘The Brices and Mr. Miller wandered through the room awhile, looking a’ | the cases of books. The delicate a signs of the French binders attracted Mrs, Brice’s attention and admira- tion. Then they left the exhibition | room and went down the corridor to the left. They looked in at the Lib- rary for the Blind, to sec the great volumes—so light in weight a child could hold the biggest. of them—in which the stories are printed in raised letters and read by the fingers. There was also a typewriter, playing cards, maps, cheas and checkers and other curious devices by which blind people contrive to read, write, amuse and in struct themselves without having to call on thelr friends for help. | They m. “Here is the information desk, and the place where you start your re- quest for a book, Those cases all round the side of the room hold the card catalogues, They say there are ‘between three and four million cards in them, I won't dispute it; I've never tried to count them, The peo-~ ple at the information desk answor your questions, and show you how to ,eet 2 book to read in the big reading room But the best part of {t is th he continued, as they went through an aroh into the main read- ing room, "the reading room itself, big as it is, !9 oVercrowded in the afternoon and evening, about eight months of the year. There Is a whole brary of books—twenty or thirty thousand of them—around the walls here, and you do not-have to go to any trouble to read them. No writing of any request, nor giving reference, nor signing slips. You don't have to speak to any one, if you don't wish to, Just come in here, pick out what you want to read, and help yourself.” “Are these all the books in the Ubrary? ed Mr, Brice, “There's something like a million more, in the book-stack under this room, ‘The catalogue, in the room outside, is the guide to them, You make out your request from the cata- logue, write out a slip, and file it at ‘the information de. Then you get jyour books in her |" ‘They watched the people waiting lat the delivery desk, and were j amused to see the electric indicator flashing up the number to show @ |reader that his books were ready. “And all this,” Mr, Brice remarked jimpressively to his wife, “costs each tax-payer a fraction of a cent or two each year.” | "It “doesn't cost even that,” said Miller, “All this part of the Mbrary is a free gift to the people—from the Astor and Lenox, and other endow- ments, And it is one of the most valuable libraries in the world, with rare that they are only walked into the catalogue boo! | duplicated in great collections like |the Library of Congress and the big | Buropean libraries.” They walked about and sited four or five of the special reading room) ‘| ore for American history, one for science, economics, Oriental litera~ 8 80 publication that their a “That’s a Fact” By Albert P, Southwick ae, aa while We were at war with England, New York was thrown into a fever of excitement Avenue, between employees might ald in the Projected defense. oe | Fort Fish and Fort Clinton, tn MoGowan's Pass, were then hastily erected. The latter may be seen in Central Park near Fifth Avenue, between 106th and 107th Streets, with a flagstaff and several old cannon on top. Fort Fish is also in tho same on a line from Sixth 06th and 106th —|ture, and so on, As they went out to 42d Street, Miller pointed out the circulation library, where books are lent to take home, “You can run In here,” he said, “and read for a few minutes, when you're if = hu’ The other rooms are not so near the street and they are kept quiet and more or less se- cluded so that people can read and atudy in peace and without confu- sion. That is why the main reading room 1s on the top floor, and in the And that is wh: Rricé, “you didn't see any books ‘by a rumor that Manhattan Island | Streets, There ‘blockhouse | while you were wandering around the was to be invaded Four thousand Fol Pa od Ste “i one at 18d It pant by acxtteat but ; y ie Am: nue ap- persona anawered Cliggon's appeal |- Siner one, both of the-chain’ of for help, including e' hat the road laborer, clerk and my the > "6 5 hs defenses that eepraeg trom Hell Gate to the heights ‘ eights near