The evening world. Newspaper, September 25, 1920, Page 10

s rh Re . 63 Perk Row. Seorstary. 63 Park Row. ‘TRE assoclATXD PREne. setiiied to the wise for repubilontion to It OF ot etherwien credited a this paper ‘ae taal news Penaned bern “CARRY YOUR LUNCH.” hy PPE EVENING WORLD suggested last week that New Yorkers might be forced to start a Mearry-your-lunch” movement to curb the rapacity | 0f the “unpopular priced” lunchroom proprietors. S| The following day a report came from Boston | that the Mayor had set the example in that thrifty me; . Since then there have been reports of dozens of small organizations in many cities. The movement seems to have had an almost neous birth. Even now it is only in its in- , but growing lustily. The season and the weather conspire to make Outdoor tunching pleasant as well as profitable. But there would be fewer lunchers staying away from Testaurants if the public had not experimented with the overalls fad tast spring. “Overalls” were only the symbol of the “absent treatment” which proved effective in causing price-. cuts. The “absent treatment” and the “carry-your- ~ funch” idea ptomise even more effective results if applied to the restaurant profiteer, because they come at a time when the price scale has definitely turned. { “Carry your lunch” and eat it in the fresh out- doors! Give the profiteers the “absent treatment’! ‘Mf there are enough outdoor lunchers, the restau- vant men will find a way to cut prices. They will hays to. Then by the time the weather is too cool for comfort outdoors the lunchers will be able to éat a8 usual and at a lower price. “Carry your lunch.” For pleasure, for profit find to swat the profiteer, ie . PROTECT THE GAME. HEN we have a “baseball scandal’ the players and the gamblers come in for censure. Few realize that the fans must shoulder some of blame. Betting on taseball results is not a sin in itself, two friends to go out to the ball grounds and @ Wager is no crime. For the office or shop make a pool on scores is not particularly harmful. But wheo the fans begin betting with profes- sional gambiers and pool-makers, they are helping | borcorrupt the game they love. $n small friendly bets there would be nothing \to * fempt the players to dishonesty. But when small _ } fhets, multiplied by thousands, are made with pro- | fessionals, there is a prospect of &mmense profit in "a “sure thing.” | |. Fans can protect the game, if they will, by keep- a { fing away from the gamblers and pool-makers. 4 Isn't the great old game worth the effort? If it is not, then it is bound to suffer the same fate that overtook horse racing. RED EARS. : LETTER in the day's mail was a delight writer asks: ‘ “At a “busking bee’ what are the rules for | the ‘red ear’? ’ “If a young man finds a red ear does be ‘Kelas any girl, or must it be hie own girl, bis partner? If the girl finds it, does the same ‘rule apply, or cap the finder kiss any one * @he chooses?” 4 When this was referred to the Red Ear Expert | Y @he first respotse was a series of chuckles followed “by.a voluble and circumstantial story of the time " f the fooled all his rivals by smuggling in an even The ; © "halt dozen spurious red ears he had previously col- - |. iected:and painted. As the com at this particular i Spatty was of unysually even yellow color the fore- ‘ ©) * handed expert had almost a monopoly of the enter- ‘tainment. 4 ‘As to the rules, the Expert confesses (hat his = memory is failing. If there are any hard and fast x he believes they are more honofed in the breach than in the observance. “Jn my day,” he advises us, “I always held that | . the finding of a red ear entitled me to kiss any | and every girl | could catch. My girl was always close by when | discovered the ear, so she always game first, but I had an enormous appetite for fouskin’ bee kisses.” However in some circles, he admiis, rules are enforced, Usually these are “ground rules,” some- "© thing like the rule that makes a fly into the Polo ~ Grounds bleachers a home run. All that Is neces- sary Is to proclaim them in advance and apply them to all. As a fair compromise between the un- bbridied greed of our Red Ear Expert and restriction ‘of kisses to partners it might be possible to arrange that each red ear discovery should give the man the right to kiss his partner and one or two others _ of his choice. {n deference to the Nineteenth Amendment the » girls should have equal rights. | Many a reader whose youth was spent on the farm will wonder how such a letter ever happened jp find its way to a New York newspaper. The deepened when it was observed that the er was mailed not far from City Hall. 4 reader, we imagine, will secall with ‘| 24 ee slight mistiness of the dyes some gay party of years ago when ced ears were treasure trove infinitely more precious than the gimcracks the Broadway cabarets give away as souvenirs. IN TIME. * CT. 1 will hold few terrors for New York tenants who ask no more than justice, The Legislature has passed emergency bills which provide protection against gouging landlords NOW. Practical relief measures urged by The Evening World have been adopted. They will become law in time to avert landlord tactics which threatened to tender thousands of families homeless after next Friday, Td Detailed study of the rent legislation passed last night will be necessary to determine its full scope. But it appears certain that under the new laws no tenant can be ousted from the premises he occu- pies save (1) where the landlord can prove to the satisfaction of the court that the tenant is disorderly or otherwise objectionable; (2) where the owner ef the premises actually intends to occupy them as a dwelling for himself and his family, or (3) where the owner has been duly authorized by the proper authorities to tear down the building to make way for new construction. If the landlord raises the rent he will have to Prove in court the necessity of the raise, if the (enant so demands. Tenants who have signed leases and who believe the rents stipulated therein to be unreasonable can have the rates in question reviewed and adjusted by a Municipal Court. Nor can a landlord henceforth oust a tenant by the device of taking the case from the Municipal to the Supreme Court. This programme gives promise of proving plain, comprehensive and effective. Its paramount purpose is to give extra protection to tenants at a moment when the latter are at the mercy of landlords who see in a housing crisis only their own profit. Such protection had to be positive and prompt. Whatever steps realty interests may take to dis- pute the constitutionality of the measures passed, the latter are bound to appear formidable, for the present at least, to any landlord who is tempted to iry profiteering tricks. i al oat Landlords and realty men will complain of the drastic character of the new legislation. They may be reminded that an abnormal eco- nomic situation involving an acute housing shortage has reacted—despite the higher cost of labor, coal, &c.-—much less severely against them than against hundreds of thousands of wage-earmers who have to have shelter for themselves and their families. When supply runs far behind demand in the case of a necessity like housing, the people whose acute needs constitute the demand get immeasurably the worst end of it, And where greed and rapacity take advantage of such economic upset, first ald is due the victims who are least able to defend themselves. The other side of the housing problem—consid- eration of ways and means to get houses built—re- mains, It is no less importani, It calls for con- Structive planning and action without a moment’s unnecessary delay. But the more imperative need was the need of immediate relief for families threatened with the loss of their homes. Public health was involved, Public welfare and the maintenance of community standards were concerned, Ht is to the credit of the Governor, the Legislative Rent Committee and the Legislature itself that all three co-operated to assure the passage of sorely needed relief laws in time to forestall the misery and confusion that must otherwise have followed Oct, 1 ‘ TWICE OVERS. “e HE solution is co-operative associations or- ganized on a sound financial basis under municipal control to build on a large scale.”—~Clarence S. Stein. : “ee €6]7N no way do I countenance the Anti-Saloon League of New York. That is the only organi- zation in this country that does not let a person have his own opinion.” — Bird S. Coler. ¢ iw 4 ce HE Barge Canal is handling exactly one- tenth of the freight it should handle.” Herbert Hoover. ‘ T is rarely that a public man champions the right of big business to do wrong as openly as Mr. Wadsworth.”"-—-Ex-President Roosevelt, quoted by Mrs, Carrie Chapman Catt, sé ILL HAYS writes telegrams that are not only literary but musical. You can play them on a flute, His letters are used on the pianolas in many Indiana homes.’ —Samuel G. Blythe. Dake te * You BeR By Joh ovr Naw Yk reas WOVSIN Sy? | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ien't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a coupie of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a tot of satisfaction in trying fo say much in a few words Take time to be brief. ending the Primer Te the Bdior of The Rreaing World I wish to exprens my thanks and Approval of the Primer of the League of Nations. 1 bought three copies of the first installment to-day, Tuesday, 4nd will send one copy to my mother in Connecticut and one to my uncle in Rhode Island eVery day until the finish, Your cartoon, “But,” - ning’s World ie a remarkably good one Tt nails the biggdst lic and the one the Kepublicans are using the most. Throw this cartoon into o live character on movie screens in the squares aid uasembiing points in vities and towns ali over the country for tho next thirty days and Cox will be elected. 1 think ta practical and eMvient Way to nail a lot of other ea, whioh, no dowbt, many voters fall for A movie screen showing a character acting out your cartoon would’ be ob- served by thousands of an evening ond would speak louder than words and would not require a good orat H.R. CUTTER 79 Him Street, Flushing, Sept. 21, 1920, in th jenwne, ‘To the Editor of The Broning World The League of Nations advocates could not ask for a better champion of thelr cause than The Kvening World. I aim very much interested In the courageous fight it tn waging against Harding and bia bunch, Let me suggest in answer to those who claim that instead of preventing ware the Loague actually starts thom to take cognizance of the fact that just the other day the League of Na- tions prevented further bloodshed after Lithuanian troops were tn ac- tual collision with the Polish armies, The dispul® was referred to. the League for « peaceful decision and the loaders of both aides soon shook hands and agreed to abide by the decision rendered by the League. Could a more convincing argument be advanced to those supporters of Harding, who re- fuse to use their heads except to throw bricks at? Mr, Cassel, your able cartoonist, should draw a cartoon depicting the above for the benefit of thone readers who have not the time to read lengthy articles. Such a pleture would not soon be forgotton. 8. 8. O'HANNA. No, 725 Lott Avenue, Union Course, L. 1, Sept. 23, 1920, Statement Contrary to Fact, ‘To the Biter of The Ryeuiag Work! Your reprint of the New York Times editoria!, “Why Not the Whole ‘Truth? ts timely Mr, Hughes uinong severely criticised for the unprepar other things President’ Wilson dnes# of our country jim 2918. Finding fault, therefore, suggests the implication that Mr Hughes ts for a war standard of pre | paredness, which Is contrary to Art | cle & of the League Covenant. Mr, Hughes must therefore be against the | reduction of armaments, which means the reduction of ability to make war, and this reduction also makes the [Probability of war more remote, Mr, Hughes complains of the cost of war, Under Republican direction Would it have cost leas? The cost of he Spanish War is an answer, all suMicient, with the attendant food and medical supply scandals, This point, however, Is more impor. fant: ‘The expense of the war will never recompense the mothers of the boya who sleep forever in Flanders and France, The burden of that ex- pense is of no moment to them. The prevention of war, not the prosecution of war, is of the greatest import to ail mothers, Another war would be un- endurable, There are 80,000 reasons tor that, and those 80,000 reasons are our dead boys in France, Flanders 4nd on the bottom of the Atlantic. Senator Johnson says Cox is for the League and Harding has scrapped it. . Mr. Harding has scrapped a treaty which is now preventing war between Finland and Sweden and has actually stopped hostilities between Poland and Lithuania, And all this without the aid of the United Stat Hughes saye Article 10 will pluage into war. What T can't understand is state- ments made by men to whom we look for guidance which are directly con- trary to fact, MRS. CATHARINE G. WALSH. Lyndhurst, N. J, Sept, 28, 1920. Spreading Untraths, ‘Te the Baitor af ‘The Brening World The writer is located in a neigh- borhood where # certain doctrine is instilled by a paper that ts spreading false statements. It says that if the United States goes into the League of Nationa our sons will be called upon to fight the battles of Burope, ‘ This seams to be the main objection to the covenant. I wish The Bvening World could be spread broadcast among them to explain to them that if the League hud been in force be- fore the World War broke out their sons, lying lifeless in the cometertes of France and other countries where they fell, might be safely with them now. EVBRETT B. DUVAL. 219 Forsyth Bt, Sept. 23, 1920, Indyiduel Righ: ‘Te the Editor of The Evening World ‘The longer we live the more we learn! But when it comés to Mr, Will- lam H. Anderson of the Anti-Saloon League dictating to judges how to mete out justice, it’s time to wipe our eyes, I never heard of such cheek— daring audacity—as these Anti-Saloon Leaguers who the other day drafted some wort of a resolution referring to recent decisions of juges on alleged violations of the Volatead Act, Amoricans, like every other nation, are entided to freedom. The well-to- do cluaves ayo wble to get along all right because they have the monoy, but where does the working man come in? The majority of the electorate in the United States are of the working classes, and notwithstanding this, here they are to-day subjected to a |Luw whieh they never demanded—the 'Volstead Act, Americans whom I met in France, Balonica and Sonenatlng ’ oonsid~ at @ bigh-handed action to turn ’ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1990, by Jom Blake. Correspondents who write asking for lists of books they should read cannot be answered ip this column, There are too many of them, and their needs are too divergent. In every, city of any importance there is an excellent library. And in every library there is, or ought to be, a librari@m who will cheerfully advise patrons on a course of reading. The moncy invested in the libraries of the country does not begin to give the results toat it ought to give for the redson that most people are so indifferent to the value of a library education, Libraries were built to use. And they ought to be used. To neglect them is to neglect opportunity. Nowadays librarians are,carefully trained in schools for that purpose. They are intelligent, thoughtful, ambitious young women who know where the books on their shelves are, and a great deal about what is inside tnem. Go to these librarians with your reading problems. Tell them what you are doing or trying to do. Tell them what your shortcomings have been. They will give you better counsel than any writer can do. For they have thegbooks at hand, and can fit your reading to your needs Get into the library habit, if you haven't it already. Don't go tnere to read, merely for entertainment, Half the books in any library are instructive books, which hold be- tween their covers the secrets of success tbat you have looked for so vainl There is a free education in every public library how to get it, and it will be yours. A few hours spent every evening in intelligent reading will bring results that will count in your business, will broaden your mind and give you many times the interest and enjoyment in life that you have now. No greater gift can be given to a city than a library that people use, But if people do not use it, the money is like money that is hidden in a drawer—of no value what- ever. Learn around and pass Probtbition over the heads of the men who In the Great War fought for freed Prohibition was panded in the absence of millions of men engaged in the war, and with out any reference to the people what. ever. 1 was in Loffdon when footerg” started @ campaign there, but it oon dropped. Britishers are ali right until somebody comes to inter- fere with their individual rights, Its then time to quit! They see to that.| Americans should be the same, In all nations the minority is bound by the majority, and President Wilson, knowing that the majority of the voters did not seek Prohibition, vet “That’s a Fact By Albert P. Southwick ‘1880 Pre tha New York Woveatag Ws “Pussy: | Augustine Washington died in the Spring of 1743, when his son George was eleven, and by his will bequeathed {his estate of Hunting Creek, upon a bay and stream of that name, near | Alexandria, to Lawrence Washington 4] Son by his first wife Jane Butler it, with the result that Congress/1t waa noble domain of several hun passed it over his head, The Antl-| dred acres, skirting the Potomac and Saloon League to-day gloats over this| bordering the estates of the Fair temporary victory. | faxes, Masons and others. Tt is up to every American at the see coming elections to vote for his Indi-| Lawrence Washington, of a mili vidual rights, spirit, had been under Gen, Shakespeare must have had some-| worth in 1741, when he held a Cup thing like the present Congress in} tain's commission. But there was a mind when he wrow “What fools] terrible pestilence at Carthagena, and these mortals be.” WM. G. GHOGHBGAN, Daw York, Sept, 22, Lido, 20,000 British and Americans, soldiers and seamen, perished in that expedi- ‘ foun Ped!- | ie. iB the it's casy (o stride where. the road te wide And the pavement ia firm and fine; it's easy to skip at a good stiff olip When the road is a iong white line; 16 jolly good fun down the hills to run If there ian’t a chance to fall; BUT- A MAN'S TRUE BLUE IF HE JUST PLUGR THROUGH WHERE THERE ISN'T A PATH aT ALLI y We realize that thie ia not poetry. So, presumabiy, does Julian Street,who wrote it, and who makes no pretense of being a poet. By the book, the quoted lives form a Gloom Chaser. They are @ part of thé scheme pro- moted in “Sunbeame, Inc.” ( day, Page & Co.) by Henry Bell Brown) allas Belwyn Brown, for the promulga~ tion of the smile, Mr. Brown writes Up. hin pungent paragraphs, his vivacious verne, his quaint quips and his what- nots of humor, He makes them into’ handy, sterotyped pages and sends them to any editor who subscribes, Thus, with apologies to the Bard of Avon, the Syndicate succeeds Silence as “the perfectest herald of joy.” .. 6 In the Dance Man Still May Steer --« ‘Turnt: to page 32 of Paymaster- Commander A. M. Cree's “Handbook of Ball-Room Dancing,” (John Lane) You must trust yourseil solutely to the steering of the ma and nothing annoys (he man mors than to #ee that you do not. In these days of a fading mascu- line predominance, even a little pre- rogative faithfully preserved may eo @ great way in compensation, T! privilege of mere man to steer feminine partner th doubtless will be tr Outside the ballroom, of course, the ladies of the Era of Hqual Suffrage will insist upon their right to bump their own bumpa, ee Woman as Preserver of the Smokes Writing of womanhood past and present in the Fiftieth Anniversary Number of MoCall’s Magazine, Ber- Sard Shaw says: When women discovered that the toleration and even the practice of smoking was tho price male company, they first tolerated and then practiced it. The habit is one of the most extraordinary aberra- tons of our civilization, Imposed om Were always a little ashamed of it. and ware actually heading tor ite renunciation when womea gave it an enormous impulse, and made tt quite shamelers, In the nineteenthcentury it war possible to hope that “amoktie disappear in the twentieta. But Edward Vil. succeeded in a tadlishing large cigars, each one capable of poisoning the air of the room for a month, tn the drawing- room; and now the people who do Got sinoke have to choose between stale tobacoo fumes and social os~ tracts, Milady of the Franchise aa hand- Maiden and rver to the Lady Nicotine? Even the typewriter of our Irish playwright must chuckle among ite keys as realizes ¢hat bere starts another argument, 8 A Mother With a Big, Big D Incidentally, Mr. Shaw reveals lit. tle patience with the prudery of bloomers and with woman who indulges in mere ation of the man. It is clear to him that what women have to do is “not to repudl- ate their femininity, but to assert its gocial value: not to ape maaculinity, but to demonstrate its insufficiency.%y He recalls that “My mother, who went her own way without ever dreaming of belonging to a movement or smoking, never cried. When any- , thing bothered her, she relieved her feclingy with a hearty ‘damn’ ” oe ® Use for Foreign-Language Press--- Instead of suppressing the foreign language pabers they ought to be encouraged, to diminish {iliteracy and used for popularising Engiial where It 18 most and Immediately Beeded. | The possibilities of such rhe move are «test and many, leanons, condu needed supplementary r ert yeark everytody who would know English! ‘There's an idea exploited by Adam Abet in the book of eamys, verse ana dketches which Is issued (Co-operative Publishing Company, Bridgeport) un- der the cumbersome Utle “Social Con. science or Homocracy versus Monoc- acy.” Mr, Abst says twenty yrare of thought have gono into his book. Whioh indicates that he never will write a best-seller, He w the Government to hire columns for Eng- lish lessons in the foreigu-language press and that probably is not the practicable way to work out tris plan, * s 8 : The Higher Education of the Rich. Under the title “A World to Mend” (ittle, Brown & Co.) Margaret Sher wood presents what purports to be the war-time cobbler whe.” thinks wh and whore little shop is p! much haunted men. Coming home by the shore path this wfternoon I saw Billions Brown out on the headland, standing in relief against the sky, Poor Bil w ew reads @ paper Hons, he does not yet know that he hia passed away! 1 see no place for him in orld of the future or save perchance thor 3 of ent ep rn ftom the Of individual wealth and power and lend thetr energies to the up_of the country mubelag Billions and Tare soveral © tiny or tonethor now mings in the week, alt open fire in hin library where eweet-smell- ing pitch pine ‘londa & {ragrane OUF ‘dlacusslons.. Secrouye eee te he likes my shop beat, thought hy still looks sadly ¢ place, in all odds and ends of bee ne mY Sometimes he picks a book f nad © Ht would almost. seem hur tatiored glos: ond him. He was OF an hour, over | i economies treatine prott-wh, noth ugh T sited that vol. Place for hia ation of the rhoh ¥ Hilosophis Cabblens it may succeed te bout tt sid uoualy to open in th mt higher o Pa he processes inver th «lied weapon of the mice Hepeciuty, if it is only a nomttan ty if books Open ik the Fight bab at acm PENN a RN i em ornate eam \