The evening world. Newspaper, October 13, 1920, Page 26

¢ Prose ie exctuaively entttien t credited to \t er not otherwise a ‘cow poniisned herein” 1 H i ae oly vom, By ad BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Datiy Except Sundey by the Press Publishing 5 Jesases dar Nos. 63 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Prerident, 02 Park Rew, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. PULITZER, Jr., Secreiarn. 63 Park Row, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRERA WHAT WILL MR. TAFT SAVE? OW is Mr, Taft going to take Hiram Johnson's expression of sympathy? ] The Senator from California says now: i “It would be unkind for me to comment on i poor Taft. Taft can save his face so long as ‘ he doesn't save his League. It ts hard to see how William H. Taft can save his face at the expense of an issue which he has de- @lared to be “as fundamental as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States ‘@r the issues of the Civil War.” Has Mr. Taft come to believe that “an issue as } fundamental as the Declaration of Independence” © must after all play second fiddle to the need of { getting Warren G. Harding into the White House? The League to Enforce Peace, of which Mr. Taft fs President, has been one of the stoutest defenders +of the League of Nations. Can the President of the League to Enforce Peace » consistently support a candidate who rejects the Movement which the League to Enforce Peace has indorsed as the embodiment of its aims? Other members of Mr. Taft’s League will not a) easily calm their consciences with their Presi- Gent's faith in Harding plasticity. r { TIME TO COUNT NOSES. | YT iS gratifying to note a distinct change in the Fy tone of some of the utterances on the landlord } side of the tenant and landlord dispute. j The Monday meeting of the United Real ; ‘Owners’ Association was very different from the { winter session when the shameless “We want all we can get!” cry stirred the ire of tenants and com- H i i ; ate pelled legislators to bow to the storm of protest. Stewart Browne, President of the organization, expressed the opinion that the new rent laws were constitutional and more favorable to the landlords than the April laws. Isadore Montefiore Levy, speaking for the associa- tion, agreed that the new laws were fair and con- Stitutional and reproached the Real Estate Board, which is fighting them. The Real Estate Board, scoording to Mr. Levy, is composed of speculators |} and brokers and has caused most of the trouble. Besides the two organizations mentioned, we have the “Real Estate Interests of New York” and several other ostensible spokesmen for landlords. ‘There is a confusion of tongues. Who and what do these organizations represent? How many landlords and how much property are represented by each? Which view is most representative? The public has little or no information on the + subject and is as likely to take offense at the least influential staterhent as to be soothed by the most _ authoritative. Membership and representative character of most | of the tenant organizations are fairly obvious. But well-meaning landlords will confer a real sérvice Son themselves and the public by giving con- \ crete facts and figures as to the membership and ) property represented by the different realty organ- izations. It ts high time to count noses and work Jarge a measure of peace and conciliation facts in the case warrant. for as as the ' THE “WET GOODS” GAME. ROHIBITION enforcement—and non-enforce- ment—has given rise to many oddities, Com- missioner Kramer's recent edict excommunicating the raisin is only one of the more humorous official manifestations. Unofficially too the humor has a broad range. For instance, there is the oft-repeated story of the hhome-brewer whose product looked so much like varnish that he decided not to drink it. We have stories of pocket stills and “canes with | a kick.” Inventors are turning out suspicion-proof containers to confound the more or less watchful Volsteaders. A revived in elementary | chemistry centres in the textbook chapters on 1 alcohol and distillation. i But perhaps the most interesting feature is to be found in the rise of a new swindling industry. The old “green goods” game has been metamorphosed into the “wet goods” game. To date the most ingenious and comprehensive swindling story comes from Chicago and deals with the activities of an individual called “Mike de Pike.” “Mike de Pike,” according to the Chicago Daily News, is an efficiency expert. The News's story ‘ of his exploit is worth quoting: In higher police circles “Mike de Pike” Is credited with having been the engineer and chief beneficlary of that recent booze-running episode in which $175,000 worth of illicit Uquor was sold and delivered on trucks under police protection to a number of saloonkeep- em who on thee way home were robbed of their treasure by policemen, The stolen the authorities, found interest the ane for repabticntion ‘qreaied tm this paper | their way back to the possession of “Mike de Pike.” “Mike de Pike” undoubtedly has a bad code of business morality. But few will deny that he has imagination and executive ability which, if turned to more legitimate ends, would deserve large re- wards. Compared with our local booze-runners who hide whiskey in barrels which appear to be filled with herring, it must be admitted that “Mike de Pike” looms up as large as a Capt, Kidd alongside a mite-box robber. SCUTTLING HOME RULE AYOR HYLAN and his Board of Estimate have not prepared a “tentative budget” such as the law requires. The City Administration pro- posals constitute only a “part of a budget.” Im- portant items are omitted. The Mayor and his Supporters pass the buck to Albany, Unfortunately, the “passing of the buck” does not rid the city of taxation. It merely transfers the taxing power to Albany, where the city representa- tives are in the minority. The action of the Board of Estimate is a flat denial and avokance of the principle of “home rule” for the metropolis, Mayor Hylan may disclaim, but he cannot avold responsibility by such shirking. When the Board of Estimate makes no provision for expenses uni- versally recognized as unavoidable, this does not help the city financially. A tax based on a part of a budget will be recognized readily as only a part of the tax which the city must pay. If the Legislature did not meet before the city election ‘of 1921, the Mayor might hope to fool some of the people some of the time. But the Legislature does meet. When it authorizes and requires further expenditures the voters will place the responsibility where it belongs. Under the circumstances, avoidance is not shrewd Politics, let alone good finance or good political morality. The unavoidable addition to the “part of a budget” will come just when the political pot be- gins to simmer for the election of 1921. With proper economy now, Mayor Hylan may be able to avoid blame for high city expenditures, ‘but he cannot escape responsibility by any policy of scuttle and pass the buck. A GREAT DAY FOR SPORT. LEVELAND, Carpentier and Man 0’ War— these are names to conjure with the morning after the day before. Yesterday was their day, a great day in the annals of sport. But let there be never a slight for Brooklyn, Levinsky and Sir Barton. They lost, they were out- classed, but the losing was sporismanlike. Three times the best won in decisive fashion and the next best lost handsomely, Columbus Day, 1920, was a red letter day for those who love the sports of the diamond, the ring or the track. To-day three large and interlocking groups of Americans know the answer to the questions they have debated for weeks, To-lay they are open to new interests. It Is possible the contest between the gladiators of the political arena may now catch the attention of many who have been so interested in athletic sport that they have overlooked contending candidates for office, With @ pennant won and the Presidency cinched for a favorite son, expatmiated Ohtoans may be pardoned if they wax almost as boast- ful at the tive sons” of California A SUGAR PANIC. "a atin NS seem to differ as to the precise de- gree of disorganization in the Cuban finan- cial crisis which has led to a Presidential decree of a fifty-day moratorium. There is, however, no question of the seriousness of the situation which has resulted from the crash in the sugar market The Cuban panic has its lessons which the United States cannot afford to ignore. In the South there are threats of cotton gin burn- ings to force 40-cent cotton, Western farmers are threatening to valorize wheat. Some manufac- turers are guaranteeing customers against falling prices. All these movements are fundamentally similar to the hold-up on sugar which the Cuban interests tried to engineer. No one of them'can be effective without a dangerous and illegitimate use of credit. Any one of these movements contains the fac- tors for its own destruction. When credit ts stretched too far it snaps like a rubber band. The snap back is apt to be painful in the extreme. Arbitrary interference with world markets is dan- gerous, Experience has shown—the Cuban panic is a representative example—that such efforts are likely to react on the interferers, Advocates are plausible, but economic experience repeatedly rises up to confound their theories, By a regretted oversight, an Evening World editorial quoted certain recent utterances of Senator Lodge on the League of Nations as from a speech delivered by the Senator at Nahant, The remarks cited were made by Senator Lodge in the course of an interview obtained by William H. Crawford and sub- sequently printed in the New York Times, Neither from Mr, Crawford nor from the would The Evening World have inten- withheld credit. THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1920. By John Cassel a ee as Primer of the League of Nations By | Richard Linthicum | a | This. instalment, the eleventh, | treats of the humanitarian fea- | tures of the Covenant, the im- provement of labor conditions, the | promotion of public health and prevention of disease, the sup- pression of the traffic in women and children, and of opium and other dangerous drugs, & Question—What are the hu- | wanttarian provisions + of the | Leaygue-that ts. what are tte plans for the general benefit of humanity? e provisions of inter iS cxIStiNg, OF HOI upon, ty unite ia wing endeavor: | national conventic after to be ag? f | (1) To secure and maintain fair and [humane conditions of labor for men, women and children in their own ntries and in those to which thei Jeommercial and industrial relatione | extend. (2) To secure just treatment of the |native inhabitants under their con- 4) To give the pervision ove rents with Tee League geteral su- the execution of agree d to the traffic y>™ women and children, and the, traf jin opium and other dangerous drug (4) To give the League general “4 yervision of the trade in arms a {ammunition with the countries @ wh e control of this traffic § () To secur vt t co tre ant equitable tre © commerct of ail ment Paw Ie. ' ) To take ps in matte o and ¢ control of disease Article 23.) ! these provisions te ed out? What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. From To the Bilitor of The Bi Your editortal went heart of the present di fcu men’s clothing industry of City when it auld: "In the Take time to be brief —— otal right to the Ities in the New York resignation of Cohen, Goldman & Co. trom the Manufacturers’ Association lies @ danger of industrial warfare.” This is not the first time that an employer has resigned from th elation and scrapped the which he signed and was bound to keep, But in ch head of the firm happeos a0 agreement in honor is ci the also the Chairman of the Ma¢ket Commit- tee of the Association, xn the union people ask: agreement fully by arbitration mean of the employers’ associaty to arbitrate and ¢ from the associa The charge made by t which you refer, namely bers of the union practiced " i4 as you say, a serious proved Our agreement, exist, as well as any other that the employer may ha violate s that such offenses, dna urally “What dovs an to settle disputes peaco- if the head jon may re- the tion?” he tirm to that mem sabotage,” offense if however, if they grievances ve, shall be heard before the impartial chairman, and after investigation he the punishment for the gives redress to the ageri decides on guilty and eved party, If the break should come between the union and the Emplo: yer's Asso- ciation, 1 certainly shall make the tn- vestigation that make public all the facta, public may know the rea any industrial war that you suggest and go that the 1 causes of May result from the resignation of Cohen, Gold- man & Co, 1 Wish to call tion, however, to the action of this company w prevent an investigation partial chairman. Every complaints of the w unton. in accordance with the ev fact your atten that the as taken to by the im- day [ hear on against em ployers and employérs against I investigate and decide them the idence, No complaint of swhotage has ever been made to me by any employer in New York, but charges have often been brought against individual workmen or groups of workmen that they heve not given a fair day's work. Som times they were proved times they were not proved. and so When the charges are proves the workers have been compel) production. Under the agreement ied to increase thetr it was the duty of Cohen, Goldman & Co. to iile specific charges and p rove them ‘Then they were assured of relief. In- stead of doing that they refused to Jappear at a hearing and made general oharges in the press whic: j hundreds of workmen in \shops ageinst whom they h reflect on their own have no complaint, and denied to those against whom they may have o! ‘Kes to make the right to defend thefnselves in an open hearing. ‘Considering that an indu which this orm agreed to, to bi rong there can be no tor ‘ting alleged. wrones as tor De breach of faith, tial obairman, therefore, ite cases and redress Jal court available any 4 Justification ing the agreement and then yet ifeation ‘he impar- ingiate shat the firm must pr Court established y the between the Manufacturers’ tion and the unton and abide by cision made in accorda evidence, nt its ¢ se in the reement ia de- » with the WM, M. LED Rochester, Oct. § ‘To the Editor of The Bvening World With a glut of apples on the ma ket and the price of sugar tumbling | to earth again, why is it that the “fool” public is made to pay 16 cents for a very meagre piec of plain, old-fashioned apple pie at supposedly cheap chain. restaur Germany's accusation that we aro « nation of dollar Krabbers seems vary At some of our too thrifty WARNER, ank: New York, Oct. 9, «A Soctety of Camerrt ‘Te the Editor of The Dreoing World You are at liberty to qualify me as “a puny American," but please pub- lish this from a naturalized citizen who fee real love for this his adopt @d country: This country !s not going to join the Leagu of Nations and become in volved in the camorras, quarrels and conspiracies of old Europe, The League of Nations can be prop erly called a society of Camorrists, and those of us who Were born in rope and lived in Europe and k that ope will alwaya be the rope of Franco-German hatred, English perfidy, of Turkish rev fulness, of Balkan free-for-all fight and of many other tncurable charac teristics, but who, thank God, are now true Americans, not by accident, but by voluntary ‘adoption, will heip in the coming tions to keep America rut of the European embroil You are patronizing a bad cause Evening World, but you cannot con vince those of us that know Europe ANTI-CAMORRA New York, Oct. 7 Why the Discrimination? ‘To the Editor of The Brening World Why the discrimination? Puplls going tothe day high schools In Greater New York are provided with all the necessary books, such as alge- bra, physics, &c., while those proba- bly mostly forced by clroumstances to work during the day, aud who are sti willing to go Very often miles to the nearest evening high school, must buy their own text books out of their vory meagre spending money, Is this right, or are certain schools taking advantage of those anxious for an education to better themselves? A MOTHER Certainly, tf Kegistered, ‘To the Haltor of The Breuing World Can @ young lady over twenty-one years of age, born in this country, whose father is not a citizen, vote at tile next election? ANXIOUS. , Bound Brook, N, J, Oak #, 1820, u UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. 1920, by The Bell Syndicate, Ine.\* DON'T QUARREL WITH YOUR CONSCIENCE, (opyriaht Every man’s conscience is a good deal of a nuisance. | mission, to perform the duties outlined nication and transit + (3) An internatiqnal Health Office |for the international co-operation of all health organizations, semi-officla! ® health, pre vent dis 1 mitigate human suf fering everywhere (4) The International Bureau Bec- ftion to co-ore | nundr existing. (5) ‘The Administrative Section, to co-ordinate the work of the special |bureaus created by the peace treaty Uke those national and impre te the work of the 3 of internavonal bureaus now It iy always telling him he ought not to do things he wants to, and that he ought to do things he doesn't want to. At night, when he goes to bed feeling pretty well con- $ tent with himself, it reminds him of faults he had almost forgotten, It is always urging him to play less and work more. |$ It is always pointing at other men who succeed, and holding them up as models. And the worst part of it is that it is usually right | But there is this to say in behalf of conscience, It talks to you in private. It respects your confidence. It doesn’t hold you up to scorn and ridicule you by lecturing you in the presence of other people. And you know, down deep in your heart, that it has no object whatever in nagging you but your own good. If you quarrel with it, it will soon get disgusted and now administering the af. , Valley and the City the direction of the quit. Not even as persistent a thing as a conscience will keep on trying to reform a man who is absolutely hopeless. Get mad every time your conscience speaks, and it will speak less often, By and by it will stop speaking alto gether and leave you to work out your own salvation, which |fulrs of the Saat of Danzig under | League, () The Public Information Section }to fusue the League's offictal journal prepare its cor bureaus or comn' | Q.—What are these organiza | tions? | y ones already | > 0 be 1 are | ternational Laver Organ- | ization, which will establish @ perma nent International 1 © and hold an annual {tern Confer ence. Its purpose wil, Ww oBtadn | Hberal labor legislation throughout the world, humanize labor conditions an establish social justice as one of the | bases of peace. (2) The International ‘Transit Com jabove concerning freedom of commu muniques and to give ; | m1 jon concer he rl f of course you will never do. ine Sofie RCORIOE. Che WOrn:.oF The best thing to do with conscience is to respect it, and 7) The International League of to try to follow its promptings. The more you do this the Cross Societies, which’ the Cove s to encolrage and promote ) working conmectio the International Health Organ zation, less it will prod you And by and’ by you will find that it is actually com mending you, And there is no praise from other men that is so sweet as the voice of an approving conscience. | Q.—What is meant by piving Your conscience was given you as a monitor, It can $| {he/eauwe sunruion ann the be of vast help to you if you keep on good terms with it. $| gard to the traffic in women and But quarrel with it and it will soon desert you. And a man $| children, and the traffic in opium deserted by conscience will never in the world hear oppor ae tunity knock at his door. sire set ype he ne ne n" ft ee | querors that must have been a thorn SN ER tie - in Wolfert bay “That’s aFact’’) ':',.:' on | classified "a loose tis! . ; 1 . ett by name, establi : ' ) é t By Albert P. Southwick Gardant” eae aha ce t evi veh [swore ape, he, tome ubueing tT | Just north of the 4 k ’ AP oa 7p si f Square, about the purlieus of the n : t |Cherry) Street, one tasiviona ‘li, Cos ‘ Of theatres, the first at Athens,| théroughfare. | There y powlin atlas PN stage Gre was in 420 B. Cu; in Engian,| green in the place the oe (dacs! att in America, at Wililamsburg,| “other means of divers! : pee neha ds » in 1752, . ry ry n r e he eupecy Mb Sieg one is ‘ ch still fuptue The greatest food product in the] pleasur maoiidutes and co-ordinates the Wore world is the banana. It produces, per| other nd makes it much more éffec acre, forty-four times more food than! York Joy oe the potato and 131 thnes more than} rival carp: (Th instalment will treat wheat | merry on @ basia of 5 of the meth famending the by ae) other ¢ minant ru Covenant. This 4s provided for iu The Beefsteak Society, mesting in|in their own language, (rticle #6, the last’ Article of th a room behind the Lyceum Theatre, Gsosnanad London, was founded by John Rich in 1785'and became extinet in 18 © by the Editor—It ts a matted Rut there are still minor organiza. rae ei foregolug lane tions which Kave an annual fsteak | In the early years of the Bighteenth | t he Le dinner, several of them alor to the York and Brooklyn ee in New Century there the top of the and this was su was a worgen’ o| not been vied upon, It ii regret by al 1 gurden on | their ‘atimuts Hill] the ded down on Crown | po | Street (at went Liberty Street) by Barberrie’s Garden, Adjacent to the | shore of the Hudson (as shown on} | Lyne's inap of was the Bowling SN: Green Garden, later renamed Vaux-| party a statement that Article 23 of After 1604, with the British in pos-| hall and about 1760, Ranslagh, which | the Covenant pimed to recognize and aeasion of New York City, there was|has already been described in thin | lemnll wile It weeks te upprese @ rival pleassure garden the eas columa. and i oftene: . It 18 @ surprising fact that chloro form is not yet 100 years old, having only been discovered in 1, by Soubelrun. part! that an esti 2 woman was permitted to sen out under the auspices of a political