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| BOTABLISHED BY JOSEPH a Except ‘Sunday Press Publishing Nos. 63 to 63 Fark Row. New Tork. BY FORCE OF DOLLARS? OV. COX made one mistake in his charge re- garding the city quotas to be raised for the blican campaign fund, He listed only fifty-one The actual number was fifty-four. Gov, Cox asserted that Cleveland’s quota was ~ | 840,000. Republican testimony admits this is cor- rect. In the Governor's list the figure for Atlanta § $25,000. Republican testimony admits this also ct. Gov. Cox said $25,000 was expected m Jersey City and $300,000 from the State of Jersey. Republican testimony confirms the | the $3,000,000 which Chairman Hays declared be the goal of the Republican “money-diggers” as already been raised to $5,000,000 by the testi- ony of Republican witnesses, and the going is still od. Moreover, it has been established that, de- te denials, the Republican National Committee dahand in fixing the quotas, ‘Much of the latest evidence confirming and even in beyond the Cox charges must be credited to professional pride and frankness of Harry M. , the expert money-raiser employed by the Re- can campaign managers to captain the “money- ° 3 a ‘}) ‘What does the country think of Republican ad- ; is before the Senate committee investigating lign funds? How does American instinct react in face of this brazen attempt of forces in control of a tical party and its candidate to put him into the te House by sheer force of dollars? Can the thing that ruined the-chances of Wood i al d Lowden for nomination better the chances “of | What has already been revealed should be enough ‘make success for such a candidate out of the |, Unless the people of the United|States have put their earlier principles and professed ideals for d and all, it ought to be impossible to get any within hailing distance of the Presidency under h auspices. | to OUTLAWING THEMSELVES. HERE is no excuse for the stoning of trains, de- struction of equipment and violence against yees of the B, R. T. who become outlaws deserve to be ited as outlaws. . who endanger the lives of passengers are twice at the public for every blow they at the company. It isto be hoped that police ad prosecutors will be vigilant in enforcing the law the lawless, so far as the strikers may find justification for strike, they should carry it out by appeals to public, by appeals to the new employees of the jompany and by economic warfare. Ai “a No phy damage the strikers can hope to do will compare to the financial injury to company they inflict by the strike itself. cnet of strikebreakers is expensive, both ‘wages paid, in equipment damaged by inexperi- i onestcrs and in the loss from fares which ‘ isfrkebreakers “knock down.” strikers strike at the public with rocks and cks, they will speedily alienate the last vestiges public sympathy. EVENING UP. E Interborough had no hope of higher fares, “the annual report would probably be more opti- in tone. managers would be prone to reassure stock- and investors. They would point out that, ed with last year, the company had made a Showing. They would show that the operat- eficit had decreased by $1,500,000; that operat- g income increased more than operating expense; the rate of gain continued for a certain period would be wiped out and the company would farn expenses and something over. poration manager who had no hopes of a gation of the contract under which he operated demonstrate that the last year had been ab- nal, that prices had continued to rise, but that ® tum in the market was to be expected. 4} He would remind his stockholders of the earning x demonstrated in the years before the war, hen the company paid 20 per cent. He would out the larger volume of business which would H even Jarger profits if prices receded to pre- levels. trikes Wil these statements would be justified. Other ns are making the latter kind of report, ‘ that might be extracted from the facts: The obvious reading for the public is, “Wait and see.” If earnings do not catch up with expenses, New York will have to face a higher fare, If earnings contirlue to gain and prices go down, the financial condition of the company will Improve. Investors will be attracted to fumish capital for extensions, At present the transit business ts conducted at a loss, buf the loss is decreasing. Under normal development of the city and with normal prices prevailing, the Interborough’s earn- ings tended to increase, The war stopped this. If the Interborough had not had a highly profit able previous history, there would be good reason for increasing fares, As it is, the average citizen feels that he is “getting even” with the company for excessive profits of the past. When the books are more nearly balanced and operating expenses are more stable will be time to consider a change of fare, ANOTHER FALSEHOOD. 667TCHE League of Nations,” says the Evening Sun, “has been presented to the American people as a sure preventive of war.” Here is another of those clumsy perversions of the truth with which anti-Leaguers insult American intelligence. The League of Nations is NOT accepted by think- ing Americans, or by anybody else, as a sure pre- ventive of war. There is NO SUCH THING as a sure preventive of war, and may not be for another thousand years. The League of Nations is presented to the Ameri- can people as the most progressive and practical step that nations have yet been induced to take TO REDUCE THE PROBABILITY OF WAR, The covenant of the League of Nations is not guaranteed to usher in a millennium of peace. What the League covenant does offer is a con- crete, existing functioning programme of interna- tional co-operation that marks an immense advance beyond the demonstrated impotence of The Hague Tribunal. It marks the farthest advance that nations emerg- ing from the most terrible conflict in history could plan out and agree to in months of earnest confer- ence, discussion and compromise, For the United States to reject the League of Na- tions because the League of Nations is not a guar- anteed and instantly operating preventive of all war would be for the United States to refuse progress because progress does not reach perfection in one jump. Why, in appraising the League of Nations, should Americans put aside the clear-headed common sense with which they measure advantage and gain in their private affairs and in their civic adjustments? No sane citizen of the United States argues against a police force because a police force is not a sure preventive of crime. No sane citizen of the United States pooh-poohs a plan to increase the efficiency of a police force on the ground that such increase of efficiency. is not warranted to put a final end to murder, theft and every other form of lawlessness. By the same token, no sane American can pretend to believe the United States should stand aloof from every concerted international effort to prevent war on the plea that it must wait for something “sure,” No covenant aimed to lessen the probability of war can have a fair show without the will of ALL the most progressive peoples of the earth behind it, Is it to be the policy of this Republic to damage the League as much as possible by staying out and then point to the damage as an excuse for not go- ing in? CHEAPER WOOLENS, At ER listening to repeated predictions of con- tinuing high prices for woolen goods, the public will be glad to learn that material reductions have been made in the prices of fabrics manufac- tured by the American Woolen Company. The public may congratulate itself on the reduc- tions, A more or less judicious refusal of consumers to buy is responsible for the lower price. While the market was booming the manufacturer stimu- lated demand* by continued predictions of even higher prices to come. Not until a substantial number of buyers made a stand and said, ‘No higher prices for us. We shall wear what we have,” was there a chance for lower prices. Not until buyers demonstrated determination not to buy did the manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers take warning. Whether prices go up or down depends on buyers, on the demand, Now is a good time to buy with extra discrimina- tion and with an eye on the market. If dealers will not make reductions comparable to those the manufacturers make, then leave goods on the shelves until the reductions are made. Buy what Is needed, but don't hail tits first re- duction as an opportunity to stock up against a rise, MW buyers plunge now, the market will rise, | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS | “Puny Amerteans,” ‘To the Raitor of The Evening World: Permit this expression of apprecia- tion of your editorial on “Puny Amer- leans," Sept. 7, 1920. As a mother of two who were in the A. EF. F., I am against war and for anything that will prevent it honorably, I am, therefore, for the League of Nations, and have read the Covenant, | While some of the articles are ‘be- | yond me,” I am, however, conscious that one litle state in South or Cen- tral America or Europe may prevent war, since martial action is only de- | Leper On unanimous consent of all | he signatories of the League. | Tam also conscious that our Nation was forced into a war when a League of Nations did not exist. At the present time we are no better off than we were in 1918, When our boys went to France and died “to end all) wars and make this the last war for all time” we did not have a League. | And the covenant of the League promises something, When a single nation can prevent armed action. When I look over the list of nations who have entered the League I am painfully conscious’ of the absence of the greatest country on earth, the country whose boys set the whole | world free for humanity's sake, the United States of America, Iam further conscious of the com- pany we are keeping, that is, the nations who are not in the League: Mexico, Turkey, Russia, Germany and Austria. I wonder would any American pre- fer to live.in those countries now or accept the conditions existing there? Mr. Cox has sald “he was for going in,” his position, at least, Harding | has not yet stated he was for the| League, Therefore, I am fof James Cox for President, MRS. CATHARINE G. WALSH, Lyndhurst, N, J., J, Sept. 7, 1920. We Are Trying. ‘To the Bilitor of ‘The Brening World; Isn't It possible through your paper to bring the League of Nations to all people, especially the voters? The lack of interest und knowledge 1s wrong. The absolute ignorance in discussion about it shows the need of intelligent writings on the subject. R. READ. New York, Aug. 31. Municipal Motor Licenses, ‘To the Kuitor of The Evening World: The point that you and your cor- respondent, Mr, Bowman, overlook in slamming the “jay walking” pedes- trian for contributory negligence in automobile acoldents is the fact that not one single pedestrian has ever run into an automobile with such force a8 to overturn the machine, dump out the cocupants and apili their brains in the street, Two years ago @ motorcycle police- man assured me that he could not get a conviction for motorists driving twenty-seven miles per hour. What kind oj letier do you fud most reudubles len't vb the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ia fine mental exercise und a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. Tuke time to be brief. dermen to pass an ordinance com- peliing motorists to have a special license, at a nominal fee, to drive in the clty limits. This will put automobilists under the jurisdiction of olty officials, who may at any time revoke the special lcense. Meanwhile it should be suggested to Commissioner Enright that he stop Jasulni police cards fo pass through traffic." DRIVER FOR 15 YEARS. | Brooklyn, Aug. 7, 1 Wages and Prices. ‘To the Editor of The Brening World: I see that a moyement is under way to reduce the wages of mechanics oll! over pe country, Now I presume that | > L. will come down also, If that | is Ss what yalid reason can be given for an Increase in city employees’ salaries, police, firemen, teachers, &0.? Once they are raised their wages do not come down, and we are saddled | with a tax millstone to |, keep up the inflation. Business decides that a mechanic 1s worth no more than 80 cents per hour, which means $1,998.90 per year (pro- vided he gets employment the year round), He has no vacation unless he takes jt without pay. He is not paid for time lost through sickness, and he gets no pension after twenty- five years’ services—he usually “gets the gate.” ‘That the police, firemen and other city jobs are better than the mechanic's is easily proven by the number of mechanics in those posi- tions, Now, if the authorities are go- ing to grant those raises why not ar- range it so that when the H. C, L. comes down their salaries reduce in the same gatio, and the: the ever-increasing tux den? TAXP Rosebank, 8, 1, Sept. 6, 1920, Knives and Fork To the Biitor of The Evening World: The question of table etiquette brought up by your correspondent “Waters,” in your Sept, 2, edition, can easily be settled by looking up any book on table etiquette, The fork held in the right hand is a breach of manners, everywhere out- site of New York. Here it is taken for granted that it Is right, but no good book on etiquette or good so- ciety would tolerate such manners, 1 have lived in high class families and have seen little children taught very curefully that the knife for right hand and fork for left only. * A BUTLER. Haven Ave., Sept. 6, 1920, The Packer's Side. To the Féltor of The Brening World; Now that the public has been fed up for a week on the statement de by Mr, Morris, President of the an Owners, which was only part of the truth, would you not care to rs UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) \ THE BIGGEST PRIZE—SUCCESS. Prize contests are always attractive. a foot race, an essay, a poem, the solution of a problem, and you will enlist the best efforts of hundreds of com- petitors. Scholarship p' expenditure of more energy. Few of us reflect that life is really a prize competi- tion, with the biggest prize of all as the reward—success. That is a prize that is better worth working for taaa It means competence, happiness, the realization of the dreams that are dreamed by every youth. Consider yourself always in a competition, with thousands—yes, millions of others striv- any other, Keep that prize in mind. ing for the same prizes. Try for the highest in the game, it, but there will be plenty of others that you can get. #10) 8 Train for the competition as you would train for any Bead all your thoughts, all your energies to the attainment of the prize you are after. If a medal, ora purse of a hundred dollars, or a blue ribbon will stir you to extra exertion, surely success ought ‘to develop the best that is in you. Remember that it will not be easy, Right beside you in the office or shop are otners who are out after the same prize contest. prize, and determined to get it. You will have to learn self-sacrifice, you will have to concentrate, you will have to work hard if you win. But you ca'a win if you try—not the capital priae, per- haps, but a prize that will bring happiness to'you and those And no prize that is ever offered in aay other competition can compare with such a prize as that. dependent on you, Newspaper prize competitions are valuable because they stimulate minds that might otherwise remain inactive. izes get better work out of students. Prizes for anything stir people to deeper thought and to the | The Business Men' of the Bible | y Rev. Thomas B, Gregory, vast act, a No. 4—Hiram, the Mighty Artificer. Hiram ( introduced to us in the seventh chapter of First Kings: “And King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. He was the son of & widow of the tribe of Nephtali and his father was a man of ‘lyre, @ worker in brass, and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and cunning, to work all works in brass. And he came to King Solomon and wrought all his work.” The entire seventh chapter is de- Yoted to the work that Hiram did jn the great temple at Jerusalem, work Lat but for the ignorant malice and other barbarians, existence to-day, glory and wonder of the world! was in many respects the most wonderful city on earth—won- in navigation and commerce, in wealth and financial influence, but moet wonderful of all in the number excellence of its builders and Renan: “Phoenecia (the little Oe count of the M: was the capital) is the only country im the world in which the indudtrial arte have left magnificent remains, A wine press there resem- rine ee 3 Leonardo da Vinci was to the Italy of 1500 A. D. It is said of the great Leonardo that he was arohi- tect, poet, painter, engineer and mathematician all in one, and, from what we read of Hiram ‘in First Kings, he must have been as many- sided a geniue as was the immortal Italian, From all the accounts that ane left to us of the work that Hiram did in the temple on Mount Moriah it wes on a par with the best of the work that Pericles had done on the famous Acropolis at Athens. ‘Those matchless creations have dis- appeared. ‘The wrath of man long ago destroyed them and tossed them over into the scrap heap of time; but the impression that they made upon the mind and spirit of humanity ts tm- mortal, Hiram was a business man in the highest and most important sense of the word. He worked with his hands just as Phidias and Leonardo did— but his chief aim was to fashion with his hands the forms which should embody and express tho eternal Idea. The form, even when carved or moulded in brass is subject to decay. Nothing is able to stand “'gainst the tooth of time and razure of oblivion” —nothing but Beauty, which is eternal and everlasting. The Widow's Son, who wrought a0 gloriously and faithfully in King Sol- omon's Temple, using the plumb line, the square and the compasses with such fidelity and accuracy, is in no danger of being forgotten. An ancient and honorable order, so ancient that the memory of man is unable to say with certainty just when it had its birth, and so pre- eminently honorable that {t numbers among its members to-day the elect of the earth In every land, has | come sponsor, for Hiram’s imme tality; and #0 long as the “hier giyphic light which none but crafts- men ever saw” continues to flash in upon mortal ‘vision the name and work of Hiram shall not perish from the earth. “That’s a Fact” By Albert P. Southwick Coosa, 1900, by ihe, Eee Publishing Oa Offer a prize for Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt began as an owner of sailboats and owned He sud~ denly guve up this business and became captain of a steamboat at $1,000 per annum or one-third of what he had previously been earn- ing. Soon he owned steambouts, but when the railroads came, ho forsook the water craft, became a proprietor of cars and rails, and gradually amassed a colossal for- tune, @t the age of twenty-four several and $9,000 in cash. You may not get Close upon the southern borders dt Lispenard’s Meadows were Vauxhall and Ranelagh Gardens, two vastly agreeable places of proper amusement, “to which re- sorted the gay gentlefolk of New York's frolic-seekers.” They were in hue imitation of their fa- mous prototypes in London. The New York Vauxhall was known origin‘lly as the Bowling Green Gardens, and, as it is shown on Lyne's map, It must have bee in existence as far back as It received ils more pretent name about 1760, As a tavern, |t stood at the corner of Greenwich and Warren Streets, down throug! the yarious grades of respectability until encroaching huildines caused {ts disappearance about 1800. Ranelagh, In which Leonard Lis statement from the boys’ view. The boys are striking chiefly for eight hours a day, they have tried for two years to get what every illit- erate foreigner in the country can get, and they are mostly full blooded Americans, They do not get $1 an hour either, or maybe the owners would be glad to let them work six hours. ‘True, they got $5 a week Increase in the spring before their contract ran out, But, why? Because they were about the lowest paid organization in the country, Packers received $29 per week, and rents and living going be~ yond any human reach, How wera they going to exist on that? So, to keep peace in the family the van owners handed them about ten cents per hour increase, These same men have helped to put on the big extensions to ware- houses and got repeat orders for the envployers by honesty, oourlesy and good, careful packing. They do not have to be watched when they #0 into the finest homes in the country. Yet, 1 repeat, they cannot get elght point of handed out ty-four mmonses (in one day) all of which pn ‘remy 1s Sue Ba [Paes remedy ie tor She Manes Of Ade hear the other side of the story? I really think the public should Se ee fe cet cee ee: hhoure the same 48 any man with a whovel and hook, Mr. Morris ® week ee nothing much of the other scales of wages) bear some think the raise would need passed on, The trouble is the van| respectable throughout the whole owners give the men ten cents and| of its career, want to charge the public fifty conts Pat an hour, About 1730, Col. Rutgers had If the yan men were American| built “a p nisly fine building” gentlemen they would show their near the present corner of Thomas preciation by @ little kindness, grati- | Street and Broadway, in whioh he tude and gencrosity in times that try | lived, “in becomingly stately fi men's souls. A PACKER'S WIFE, | ion” for 20 years, Soon aft . Sept. 7, 1920, death, nbout 1750, one John Jones took the place, turning it into a To the Editor of The Breaing World In @ recent issue of The Evening World ao request from Mr, Burke, whereabouts of his comrades of 1898 in the First Battalion of Marines, ap- peared. ¢_# ''% In Brooklyn, at No, 165 Waverly Avenue, near Myrtle Avenue, he will find on the first Wednesday evenin; “Meadows, of each month, the Major General Elliotte Camp of these veterans, his former shipmates, hearty welcome WILLIAM J, LON: ieee ee tenes Geto 10+ penard and his wife had a moneyed interest, was the transformed homestead of Col, Rutgers, father In-lawof Lispenard, With a hand some beginning it remained hy the public would have to of the burden, I don't to be Spanish War Veterans, public resort and, as such, it was patronized by the polite society of that day and did not cease to exist before it wes ll a fashionable resort, Thore was another Rane- lagh, later, in Astor Place, near the Bowery. Thomas in his endeavor to find the In 1765, established Brannan's Gardens were he north side of the r the present cross- ing of Hudson and Spring Streets. It was principally a.day-time re- sort and made its profits out of thirsty wayfarers. Close in front UET, Co. ©, the of it ran the Greenwich Road, 202 Weat End Avenue, | River-side drive, slong which went parade fashionable tug Moi Se in session, A aits him there,