The evening world. Newspaper, September 30, 1920, Page 22

ee mere Catorld, PRICES; GO AHEAD. Fy HAHN, Managing Director of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, is quoted as That is the only explanation of his « " use of “obviously.” _ © Bven more obviously the price at which retailers ‘ . rf 4 ought goods has little or nothing to do with the aprice at which they are sold. Every retailer knows this. It. is his regular explanation of “discount sales.” “Stocks must move at any cost” Is a truism fn every branch of business. The only question facing the merchants Is whether yothey will make the cuts now and move the goods, or keep the goods and make the cuts later, . The public is not buying and will not buy when it knows cuts are coming. With retailers, no less than wholesalers, the path _ of courage is the path to renewed business activity. «+ ~ Visa case of cut prices now and go ahead or else hold up prices now, stagnate and then cut. There £ 4s wo third choke. Either means loss of profits, loss of capital in some cases. But losses are inevitable. The only _ question is how long the period of losses will ; Continue, '+ Consumers are all the more ready to take ad- _ vantage of this market condition because they know _ that in most cases the retailers marked up stocks “as the market rose instead of selling at cost plus a fixed profit. Py In most cases these losses of the falling market “were discounted on the rising market. Cut prices, and go ahead. , Suppose come one had asked the Senator . ‘what ought to be done under the circum- stances. : ‘ er His speech gave no hint of what the Treas- urer should do, so it is fair to assume thet he would have replied to that question as he @id to another the day before: = / “If 1 believed in one-man government 1 could answer the gentleman's question.” But Senator Harding does not believe in one-man government, 40 he fails to formu- late constructive suggestions, ; ONLY PERMISSION. “AHAIRMAN HILLY seems optimistic on the building situation, He says that “remission of taxes for ten years means a saving of 30 per x of the cost of copstruction.” 1 calrnan Hilly ede assumes that the Leg- fslature remitted the-tax, Actually, it did nothing of the kind. 4 The bill passed by the Legislature gave permission to local tax authorities to make such exemptions if they considered it wise and necessary. __, What is the City of New York going to do about it?) Until the Board of Estimate acts, Mr, Hilly * should qualify his enthusiasm. Early action by the board would start more houses than any amount of optimistic prediction. » WHY ISN'T LABOR REPRESENTED? RGANIZATION of the Merchant Truckmen’s Bureau seems to be a step in the direction of $uch a co-ordination of intra-city transportation as The Evening World has long urged. It is not too much to hope that this movement _ may eventually lead to a “store-<door” delivery sys- tem and installation of standardized equipment, including removable truck bodies for loading and unloading at docks, railroad terminals and shipping and receiving stations. Increased efficiency and decreased street conges- tion are essential, Low efficiency and congestion idelays cause losses to the business interests of New York which run into the millions. _ Ina statement by James J. Riordan, President of the new bureau, we read: © #1 believe it will be the means not only of stabilizing the industry Itself and afford- Pe ing @ workable understanding among a!! ’ concerned bat also of correcting many of the as conditions that tterfore with commercial " transportation.” The last clause should be significant. ' THE EVENING W confed a voice in the organization of the bureau? The other interests were represented. /, ' ALIVE AND’ AT WORK. HILE Senator Harding keeps on pretending the League of Nations is dead, in the hope that people will stop bothering him with questions about it, Mr. Taft’s League to Enforce Peace Incon- siderately calls attention to the liveliness of the corpse. The Executive Committee of the League to En- force Peace declares it “has accurate information as to the functioning of the existing League of Nations” and proceeds to make public what it knows; ¥ “The League of Nations has formed tts Councii snd has called its Aasembly together sl to meet in November. 1} “Tt has established successful administra- | tive commissions in the Sarre Valley and at Dantig. “It has begun, through a committee of ex- Derts, a survey of armamonts, to the end tha? plane shall be devised for their gradual re- duction. “It has brought together conferences to consider the economic, financial and labor problems which perplex the world. “It has made arrangements for the rogistra- ton and publication of all treaties, to avold secret diplomacy. “It has taken up tho task of arbitrating the dispute between Sweden and Finland concern- ing the possession of the Aland Islands, to avoid threatened war between those countries. “It has, acting in accord with one of its articles, formulated through its advisory com- mittee of jurists, of which the Hon. Elihu Root was a leading member, a plan for a per- manent court of international justice, which the committee has recommended should be given ultimate mandatory jurisdiction in jus- Uciadle questions. “The League has not functioned In the prea- ent war between Poland and Russia because, being an unfinished part of the great war, it has not been taken out of the hands of the Supreme Council of the Allied Powers.” Mr. Taft has approved this statement of the facts. Among the members of the committee Issuing the sarpe are found such names as George W. Wicker- sham, A. Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard University; Oscar S. Straus and Mrs. Carrie Chap- man Catt. - It és highly embarrassing for the Republican can didate that so much truth about the League of Na- tions has been and continues to be furnished by Republicans like Taft, Wickersham and Hoover, There are eminent men in the Republican Party who refuse to look on in silence while the biggest functioning programme civilized nations have yet evolved for safeguarding peace is made the butt of misrepresentation and lies in a campaign to elect a Republican President of the United States. The League to Enforce Peace might have accom- panied its exhibit of a very much alive and working League of Nations with words that Mr. Taft ad- dressed to his fellow countrymen fifteen months ago: “What I urge you to do is to purge your minds und souls from unworthy considerations in reference t this issue, Take it upon ils merils, If, because you do not like Mr. Wilson, or don’! like that Ad- ministration, or don’t like the Democratic Party— any more than I do—and think it may redound to the credit of that party and so oppose the League, then you are acting from unworthy motives, irrelevant and inéompetent to any such issue.” No honest American has to be a Democrat to know a live League from a dead one, TWICE OVERS, “ E are living in the Republic of the United States of. America, a country by no means perfect (on the contrary, it has many defects), in which all too frequently injustice is done. But it is a re public based upon the principles of freedom, justice and untoersal suffrage. Our men and our women are nol likely to throw these rights and principles into the scrap heap for the dictatorship of Moscow's Lenine and Trottky.""—Statement from American Labor Leaders in the American Federationist, * 6 6 66 KNOW one thing cory definitely."’—Senator Harding. * « “ec ‘0 man has done more than President Wilson J in recent years for the development and up- building of the American merchant marine.” —Secre tary of State Colby. . 66 FIVE housing conditions in New York are un- believable, There are many apartments of three rooms in which twalee persons are living.” — Health Commissioner Copeland. . . ° Md Seid no issue for one part of the country which I won't discuss with any other part of the Stee . oul ORLD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1020, —<— | “Get Out of the Game | FROM EVENING WORLD READERS || There is fine mental exercise to say much in a few words. herwine, Ale Well To t» wf The Evening World: *For king such « @llly question in an editorial, “What Alls AmericaT” I think you and the owners of your paper o1 ght to be committed to Bar- ren Island for ten years, if the United States entered the League of Nations it would cause no end of trouble, for the simple and express reason that it is made up of all nationalities, and if the League made 4 ruliog favoring any tndivid- ual country, the other factions in this country would go up in the air, and stay there, J am not a hyp! ated American, but there ts one thing this country will never lose, and that js the hyphenates. The polities} polley of your paper ix absolutely raw and, as John C. Mooro says, detrimental meper ’ Outside af the kind of politica they advocate, The Morning and ‘The Evening World are the best news- pers in New York. How in the me of all that is good and holy uld your papers slander the name, he was altve, of a man like Tiwodore Roosevelt and boom Wood- row Wilaon 4a beyond any eane man's comprehenaion. While Lam about it 1 might also mention the way you try to ridicule the honest efforts of Mayor John F. Hylan, one of the best Mayors New York has ever had and who tw hon- estly and truly for the “peepul,” as you would put it. Whether a man is & Republican or @ Democrat don't Dother me as long as he has the in- terest of the people at heart Thie letter stands as much chance as a snowball in a Turkish bath of being printed, for from thé tone of uur editorial you must be getting thousands of knocks every day. Cut out your dirty mud @linging cartoons, for if you want to find faws in any one's character and take the time to look you will find thousands in the make-up of both our Honorable President Wiieon and Governor Cox to your, Even though you don't print thin, I enjoyed writing It es os Brooklyn, N. ¥, “wh “Amertont” To tthe Patines of The Brenieg World ‘To answer that questiv: tm first necessary to know what America i#— or, rathor, what Americans are—in ao far as to have a clear understanding of their opinions, tdeas and ideals Tho writer may not be typi ‘h eyes will Light up and hia chest expand when some gil talker (gifted orator) speaks of “willing sacrificee endured for the glorious cause of humanity,” &o, &o, Consider the late war. The plain facta are that f “regulare” it was all in the @y's work, for tho yoluntoers it was the e«pirit of adven- ture and for the eonseripted mon it was & case of Nevenatly. The high-sounding, _ mouth-Aling \ used that purport to delina bbe - that gives you the worth of u thousand words in a couple of hundred? Take time to be brief. What kind of letter ‘do you find most readable? Isn't it the one | | | J) wtrangs and @ lot of satisfaction in trying feelings of “us guys" in or out of the| servo in “pure Bunk" and we all know it, though we may be tncoherent or inarticulate in making it known, | | The truth is that most of us don't care a darn what they do or don’t do outatde of the U. 8. A. but are will- | ing to follow the crowd. Do all voters realize that Harding alone cannot kill the League of Na- tions any more than Cox can cause | its ratification? It is false reasoning to make the League of Nations the paramount issue In this Presidential campaign, In view of the above the an r to jon, “What alls America?" ing or} new, startling versonally, I don’t mind you asking these pertinept—or is it impertinent? questions. ARCEDE, Brooklyn, Sept. 1920. Recommended by Hin Foes, | 'T> the Editor of The Erening World | Of course the Republican leaders don't like the League of Nations. They are ful of hatred and envy | toward President Wilson, The League of Nations stands for friendship and justice to all. It speaks the word of God, President Wilson Is proved a great man, Only great men have such a lotofenemies, C, A, ANDERSON, New York City, Sept. 22, 1920. | 1 note from the papers that the Po- lice Department is about to weed out some of the police reserves, because they have failed to pe ™ their duty, and some of them will be weed- ed out because of physical disabill- | tes, and the reorganization will have about £000 men who will enlist for | & period of two years Below are | some of the inducements, 4+ | As a police reserve I am supplied with a nice “showy” uniform, a night stiak and a police whistie—this I got free from the city, although 1 waa |‘ quite active in raising the money from the public for my nice “showy” @ real gun, a jal of nippere, an “ned” | must wear gloves, For my | cr’ badge 1 must pay a deposit, Now 1| to am & “regular " cop and am ready |p! for duty 001 During the war there was quite a| tl shortage of regular policemen, and a good many of us were sent out on e voker billy and a pair dreary hours, with nothing to do butyarrest and are are at a| imposing memory of Rich- uniform, and if I charged for my | to pet es a nightstick and each hour] lows as to the next step—then some ard oo og who iy me I would Wear a nice “Turkish |call up the station-house from a po-| “nice” court clerk tells what to rr, before ‘Admirals uniform” for the amount {lice signal box, and there receive a|do. If your prisoner is Tor the| Quebec in 1715 (his remaing were of Umb and y 1 apent, Now, to| list of stolen autos, missing pensons | higher courts, it becomes your sworn| iterred with honor in the Cana be a regular I must bus myself |and general alarms, etc, and answer | duty to see the case through. dian city and rested there till 181% to keep from being | traffic, spot the sergeant, apprehend home. Ui ve . By John Cassel work. out his living. It had idea, Watches were cons ple of means could own them. woe pondered this. He reason: were sive becau: ipped on a iki e bought its raw material in qonctities and manufactured by labor-savi machinery watches could be tui out at low cost. He ngured toat,with * an output of 2,000 watches a day hie coats would be but 37 cents per which he could profitably sell a Ssjust as bie f ust on lellow workers in the engine works were wetting atirred rospect of joining “Hen” in cldent occurred . Hie er and an older brother were suddenly laid up, and the i. machinist was called home charge. He threw up his job {in Detroit and went back to the old farm. He married the daughter of neighboring farmer, they built a litte home, and apparently Henry Ford had settled down. He plodded along for a time, then—— 4 ee ee eae nee hgh po hit Henry Ford ike ehtning. It led to his imagin- ation, ft atirred hie, meohantoat’ in- stincts. The first thing Dearborn folks knew he had quit the farm again and was back in Detroit. He & Job at the electric power plan’ hin real work came at night, in a Little workshed he bad fitted up back of his house, There he ¢! there ing apparatus, It chugged the little workshed in triumph—the fenton was the basts of Ite manu- facture and of Ford's amazing finan- clal euccess. —— UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake . (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake) THE STRENGTH THAT COUNTS. Nearly nineteen hundred years ago Epictitus, a Greek slave in Rome, gave this definition of the muscular training of a philosopher: “A will undisappointed, evils avoided, powers daily ex- ercised, careful resolutions, unerring decisions,” If men’ had striven to obtain this training the world would be considerahly further along than it is to-day. But Epictitus's advice, like all advice, was largely dis- regarded, and even to-day there are few who will follow it. Yet the sentence we have quoted lays down the very best rule for the youth of to-day. A will that mastersstne mind, the ability to see evil and keep away from it, the aily use of the power of the brain, geod resolutions well kept, and swift and accurate decision ~—these will make any ma leader. And no man without at least some of these qualities will ever rise above the average. It is of course easier to give advice than ta take it. It is easier for the teacher to teach than for the pupil to learn, But remember that many men have followed the rule so carefully thought out by Epictitus, and have risen to fame and power because they did follow it, You may not aspire to fame; you may fancy that you do not want power. Really you would like both if you could get them, But whether you can get them or not, you can get more by trying to get them than by contenting yourself with the sort of development that your every day life may bring. Mental muscles are of slow development, but they con- stitute the only strength worth having. Toere were hun- dreds of men in Napoleon's army who could have crushed him with a blow, but there was not one wha would have dared to try. it, The strongest man physically and the hardest hitting man in the world are poor things compared to any man of real mental ability. Read Epigtitus and learn from him how to develop your mental muscles. He thought consecutively and intelligently, and he reduced many of the problems of life to simple rules. Some of our readers who have been writing to ask what books they ought to study will do well to go to a library and get a copy of this philosopher's work, and read it carefully and thoughtfully. Ten-Minute Studies of New York City Government By Willis Brooks Hawkins. ‘Tha ts the twenty-ninth artiche of @ series defining the duties of the administrative and legislative officers and boards of the New York City Government. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. Bureau of Records. ‘The Bureau of Records of the De- partment of Health is really a bureau of vital statistics, it registers all marriages, births and deaths occur ring in the city, prepares the official mortality and morbidity statistics of the city, issues Durlal permits and keops a register in which must be recorded the names of all practicing physicians in New York City. ‘Another duty of this bureau is to furnish transcripts of birth certtf- leates tofchildren applying for work- ing papers or children entering the public schools, The Division of Statistical Re- search of this bureau, created five years ago, took over all the etatis- tical work of the department. It pre- pares standard mortality tables and weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly reports of at eel yd the de- ent ications. also con- Leng kt studies of illness and ‘Many noted men, one of the most Kinds of fooliah questions, regulate when the State of New York had them transferred here.) Thomas Addis Emmet and William James Naven also slumber hera. ‘These three men wore of Uriah birth, The means the boas of several ’ pay if you are not a millionaire cop. For this work you do not even got the wit- fees that “even as you and him” Utled to, but never mind—you cop. parades, riots, &c, if you don't | pay for your own lunoh you don't eat, imtnals, chase unruly boys, listen all kinda of complaints, stop peo- le with bundles and at midnight me back to the station-house and on pay your own carfare to your There are still many little brick houses and wooden dwellings in Being an “almost” oop, it is natural the section originally of Greenwich , © an arrest. You must pay for that may properly be st the tered ate aot t te ae prisoners’ fare as well as your! of duty ono gets killed-—wel American quarter of New York ‘ant amount of territory, and most }own, Po'the station house as well as| lies there until hie family can City, At the corner of Varick and Bf the posts where they sont us are|to the N! Court, and come home| the required amount to bury him, ming .Btrestes on , Dominiek 47 within walking distance of the|at about the time you usually leave| Pensions or rewarde we get—nix.| Street, off from Clark} on Des: oot, wicboeeseo Sus in our nice! to go to work. [ft you are in luck you| Our salaries are aa big As Our pen-| brosses Street, off from Hudson; Bat Sahowy" wniforms tried to ride there|come before a magistrate who taki s| sine oF Aaath bensdts, in spite of the hee z Gy ceieantial. Mt. \- on care—sike regular “copy’—but we) you for a regular oop-—he then aimptes | fact that we pay dues, a re ‘ana’ wochen: purvivale,? fares "even ag you | you worm than if you Were (he /Pis» M, 46th Preoinot, polnt ad Mon hie ‘tae ts 4 dds base sapadide: rake New Kork, Gept. 32, 1920, carry am alr of Bngieas romay rerhever