The evening world. Newspaper, October 14, 1920, Page 26

Bunday by the Press Publishing to 68 Park Row, New ¥: ent. ark Tow, AW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, * yoanin POLITEER:, Ir. Beoretary. 03 Park Row, a MEMBER OF THK ANSOCIATED FRENA Sie Aamctaset vom sxcictvly sled to the osm ter ropueieaton ewe Gapniches ereditied te Mt ot not etherwine credited In this peur? Sd tthe the focal owe puhiieneg bere. THE TOLL-TAKERS. IDE variations in retail prices of coal within a twenty-mile radius of New York will looking into. Evening World’s: investigations show that age of cars. On the other hand, retail coal prices tend to re- | fect the activities of middlemen and speculators whose the distribution of coal never stands in the is not the only commodity that finds its ‘Path from producer to consumer barred by toll- at each of which somebody stands to take a and increase the price. _ One of the most pressing of present economic ‘problems is to dissover how many persons “make” He segs by earning It through actual service ‘ but merely by interposing themselves ai ; a points in the movement of a necessity ; _ frem producer to consumer, where they can levy a on its progress. TThe public has been amazed at recent disclosures of the number of times a ton of coal is “priced” _ between the mines and the man who ultimately pays for it. _ WNobody expects actual work of distribution to 5 be done for nothing. “fl But what about men who merely straddle dis- 5 tribution and make a profit out of buying and re- ‘Ssefling a product that in nine cases out of ten they mever even sce? " It's about time to get after the money-makers as distinguished from the money-earners in the process ‘of distribution. Begin right now—at this seasonable time—with * con. AJOR GEORGE HAVEN PUTNAM was howled down and so forbidden the right of fre speech by a crowd of hoodlum hyphenates in a New York school building. Rev. John Haynes Holmes was arrested and so denied the right of free speech by the narrow-vis- foned police authorities of Mount Vernon. "The two speakers have little in common. The _ hoodlums and the Mayor of Mount Vernon have t Aittle in common. But the two contrasting cases, ' coming so close together in point of time, empha- Size a condition which should cause grave concer. ‘ Perhaps it is only a hold-over of wartime psy- chology. If so, It should be rooted out. Bigotry, Intolerance, unwillingness to hear the other side— eal it what you will—is dangerous in any society, Ima democracy built on the fundamental right of % speech the denial is a symptom of disorganiza- and decay. The Evening World holds no brief for Major _ Putnam nor for the Rev. Holmes, but both should have the opportunity to have their say if any one fares to listen. & re > % e “-"F ELIEVED.” If Sedator “believed in one man government” he might have taken the pre- ‘ - caution to find out more about the Ameri- _@an occupation force in Germany before ad “vising its withdrawal. , If he “volleved in one mon government,” he , might bave found out that many of the men ; > in the Army of Occupation enlisted in the | a with the definite understanding that ope field of service was to be in Germany _ and that the Government would be breaking i its word to these men in bringing them back FOR AN AUTOMOBILE CODE | OUR leading authorities on the automobile in its relation to pedestrian safety and welfare have Volunteered expert advice toward carrying out The Evening World's proposed plan for an automobile > eodé, These are Chief Magistrate William McAdoo, ewhose judicial experience has been added to his executive experience as Police Commissioner, and |) Magistrates House, Cobb and McGeehan, who are | grappling with the problem every day. _ These four experts are unanimous in the opinion that an automobile code is essential. They recognize that the traffic problem AY New Ms Vork is unique because of the size of the Aty and the multitude of motor vehicles operated in. its “streets. To produce results, an automobile code must ree- sognize the differences between traffic in New York | City and elsewhere in the State. *) These experts agree that all the regulatory statutes should be brought together and clearly de- fined in a code as simple and as clear as possible, $0 that drivers, pedestrians, police and Magistrates ‘may have a definite and concise guide, ‘These experts in traffic matters agree that present ws make it too easy to get a driving license, and hard to secure amie, of that license in cases z ap 3 E are unanimous in the opinion that City Magistrates should have summary Powers to suspend licenses and that the system of revoking licenses should be simplified. Other suggestions are: Standardization of warning devices Restriction of pedestrian rights in crossing streets—penalization of “jay-walking.” Home rule in traffie regulation More traffic policemen. Pollee licensing of drivers. Licensing of owners ae well as drivers. Separation of motor vehicle regulation from the State department. Adoption of the best experience of other Btates and cities, Rigid examination of drivers. Paid inspectors independent of the police. Fingerprint identification of drivers. Centralization of control. Each of these suggestions is based on Intimate experience with abuses arising trom insufficiently controlled use of the automobile. Each recognizes the distinctions between up-State and metropolitan traffic: problems, Codification and simplification of existing laws are essential. The code must include a notable strengthening of the laws relating to the automo- bile and automobile drivers, The next step is to take these suggestions and others that may be offered and work out a short, practical law that will be effective in saving lives and property and simple in administration, A DISTORTED CAMPAIGN. 14 League of Nations ougirt never to have been an issue in this Presidential campaign, It never would have been if Republican leaders like Lodge had not deliberately set out to degrade the relationship between the United States and the greatest peace movement in history to a plane low enough to yield party capital. Only a year ago Mr. Taft ranked the League of Nations among “issues that rise above party, that transcend all parties and all party triumphs that are merely temporary.” Democrats and Republicans should have long since lifted the question of entering the League out of ‘reach of partisanship and discussed it solely as a great national aim and purpose to be carried out with the co-operative aid of the best thought the whole country could bring to it. Instead of fighting over the League of Nations, the two great political parties in the United States ought to be at this moment concentrating their brains and backing behind practical programmes of attack upon domestic problems, Instead of wrangling about the League, the Re- publican and Democratic candidates for the Presi- dency ought to be engaged in earnest debate on how best to undertake great tasks of Reconstruction. Republican League-wreckers are responsible for the fact that the average voter hears little in this campaign of questions that vitally concern his wel- fare as a citizen and worker in his own country. What about those looming problems of Taxation. The High Cost of Living. The real prosecution of Profiteers. Reduction of Government Expenditures, including the elimination of Government employees who are not needed in order that there may be more pay for those who are needed. Labor Adjustment. Improved Postal Sercice. Housing in the wider aspects that permit of national encouragement. The party platforms touch on many of these, But where is the sustained discussion of such problems that might make the campaign productive of real progress toward solving them? The only possible answer is that this is a dis- torted campaign, a false campaign, It was fated to go wrong from the moment Re- publican leadership decided it would rather lie about the League than abate by one hundredth part of a degree its hatred of the President. KANGAROO CAMPAIGN NOTE About the time that Senator Harding is being herded back to his porch for fear he may say something that may @sturb the harmony of the campaign, the managers of the G. ©. P. announce a speaking tour through the South for Calvin Coolidge. Some one must have advised the managers Oo “put the best foot forward.” TWICE OVERS. 6 T'S the very cheapest thing we have. It's $75 a month,” —Rental Agent on Washington Heights. . . 66 AM an optimist on Amvica.”-W. P. G, Harding, Governor Federal Reserve Board. ‘ €6¢ T CONTROL only one vote and that is my own,” Samuel Gompers. . . . * . . 667 AM going bo sit down with the Senate and say, *Gentl:men, the lime for talk has passed. 1 will take any resercalion. I don't care where it comes from." Cox, THE EVENING WORLD, Spree 60h 1 wlmicaataets UA rape aéimeee se ge heat (The iat hace Sa, How They Started that gives you the worth of a thou There is fine mental exercise n Bars Matrimony. To the & of The Ky World: Last night I read in your paper where a certain Supreme Court judge said apartments were plentiful in New York. 1 wonder if this judge has ever had occasion to look for an apartment within the means of the average man Every one can't have a Jud ® nalary—but it me that all apartments are rented for the men with fut pocketbooks. 1 have been engaged to a boy for a few yeurs, @ boy who werved his country faithfully during t a ‘sa good worker, haa a steady pouition, with an after he came back, He average good salary, It te now two years since he returned and we have been denied the rightful happiness of having our own home—through no fault of our ewn For the past few weeks we have rearched the atreets of Now Yor @n apartment within | What 1ooma, and s place of buyin 8, which would neces- extra hours of subway rulse a fomily in one or Ja it the Intention of tte 5 landlords te ep n ¢ Kenenition? ‘The youn: and married couples are pay ing heavily in lost happiness for thei few “Shylock” dollara. Why can't on have the means of living when sincer: and consolentious effort ts being put into the matter of being a gvod otisen? 1 passed from one item to another, and read wh an organization ts do- ng one t n dollars to the eree m of & monument to commemorate the boya who answered thetr coun- try's call. They don't want to live in the past and glory in their deed; they want to live now, and they have a right to hap in the land they fought for. The boy who died in action thourht of the coming generation The boy who fought and returned dreamed of home and future happl- ness What more beautiful “monu- ment” to the dead than to mise men to take thelr place, trained tn the principles whioh they upheld. But how can this be accomplished? B New York, Oct. 1 ‘Ty the Palitor of The Broning World Are all employers selfish? Yes, all omployers are selfish and so are all employees In fact the whole world’s selfish, and all men are me ved by their worth in dollars and All employ tookin, “good man cheap.” but a ge cheap ata very high salary. If your work | really worth mor than you are getting for it, the mer- cenary employer will readily increase your salary, consequence of the ions of & money making employee. for a man is , there are more tea thou- sure Wat to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. rather than suffer the ene ommetten one es BAI What kind of letter do you pad must readudlet Isn't the bnew sund words in a couple of hundred? and @ lot of satisfaction in trying | j®and dollar a year positions than |theve are ten thousand dollar men, and the sme {s true in unlimited amounts in cnlartes, | Whatever your position may be, make yoursel’ folt to your employer, that you are filling that job better than it has been done before, Hig business is constantly on the In-| asc and managers of dig business combing the country for men with rgical and worth while ideas, and| are willing to pay unlimited salaries to men who are really worth €hile Strive to be one of these worth while men and some poaltion that is worth your efforts will seek you out. Road every muon Wor'd, anc on life's serious thought New York, Oct. ®, 1930. ‘The State Ronus Bends, ‘To the EAhor of The Evening Work! The Board of Elections te issuing this week at registration places pam- phlets explaining the proposed State bond of $45,000,000 to pay bonuses to ex-service men. The question will be voted on Nov, 3. Here will be an opportunity to set- tle once and for all the “bonus ques- on,” which hua been causing all hinds of agitation in the ranks of the veterans, It will give the people of New York City the chance to prove |whether the army and navy that fought for them are entitled to hand- claps or a more nouriyhing reward for the hardships endured. It will give & correct gauge on pub- sentiment, tle And the veterans of the army and navy who paraded down Fifth Ave- ie Will be the judges, A HAND-CLAPPED VETERAN, Smoking In Bases, Ty the Elttor of The Brewing World A few weeks ago I saw where the Mayor had men arrested for smuking on the ferryboats, I think it would be a good idea for him to have a buses that ply on Chambers Street, You can get on any of the buses at any time of the day or night and you will find men smoking pipes and cigarettes, This is very dangerous, as the Kas tank is in front of the bus and there 1s only one way to get out It Is only a question of time until a spark from a cigarette will drop on one of the tanks and there will be a fre. In this city you cannot expect the officials to see these things until something happens, Then It Is too late, J. D. GRIMES, Montclair, N, J., Oct. § 1920, Surely Worth Trying. ‘Ty the Biiiior of The Brening World: How pessimistic your correspond-| ent, Mr, Louls Chasan, is about the League of Nations. 1 shall not deny that there is some truth in his statements, but he should remember how young and untried th ange fe yet pod wits the soul | 7 and strongest jation, Ue ee yet ie" the Uaited Stat oe bes few men to look over the| beén. RASTER Or EC eT E Rb ee 6 mocte pesitioe rit * ieee ts By Appleton Street NO. 2—GLORGE EASTMAN f ACK in the 1870's George Kastman was bookkeeper in @ Rochester bank. He had worked there for several years, and out of his $1,000-0~ year salary had saved for # vacation which he proposed to spend on « trip to Santo Domingo. He mentioned his plans to a friend, a young engineer. “Why don't you take along a pho- tographic outfit?” said the engineer. “Then you can take pictures of ali the interesting things you see.” ‘Thie chance suggestion was the germ of the kodak. It got George | Bastman interested in photography. It made an enthusiastic amateur out of him, It set him to thinking and experimenting with the camera proc- esnes, Eventually it caused bim to go into the manufacture of photo- | sraphic supplies, By 1885 he had por- | fected a method of film photography, ‘and in 1888 the kodak was born. Bince [then it has been easy for vacationists |to take along a photographic outfit land make pictures of the interesting | things they sce. As a matter of fact, Mr, Eastman did not get to take his trip to Santo ‘Domingo after all. He got #o inter- ested in photography: that he post- poned his vacation until he could study his new bobby, In the mean- ‘time the bank developed unexpected |demands upon him, and when the jtime came to go he found that his jemployer could not spare him for so |" ‘hg an absence. So young Kastman contemtod himself. with a trip to Lake Superior, taking his photographie ap: |paratus slong and making a few pie tures. Rut they were not snapshots. tography in those days wa \proceas, ‘The camera was | awkward to manage, chet |ronsitiae the plates hud to be c a) zg, also a dark tent. Youn, was Impressed with th en and uncertainty of it about to make impro’ bookkeeping at the bank In daytime, nd experimenting » good part of the night in a ittle Ianoratory that he had fitted up for himeeif. His firat invention was © compact le camern outfit, Then hs | turned to the de ¥ gists procens, which }had ju been oduced, and soon wom supplying customers with plates [In 1891 be gave up tie bank and | with a f ond as partner devoted him ,[eelf entirely to photography, The | first kodak Was loaded at tho factory }with w flim permitting 106 exposures; jafter snapping bia pictures, the ko |daker would send his camera back jt Phe v | set ove n the | another 100 ex |its owner | _,This was a great advance over the was elon yaures und returned to old methods, but tt didn't. satiety George Mastrnan. A man down in | Bante Deniins ldn't conveniently ship his kodak back to Rochester, He J wanted 4 that he could him. | nelt tond, and ‘uniond, develop and print ally, tn 1892, the eon venient fr » cartridge and daylight UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copyright 1920 by The tel! Hyudtrate, tae.) BEWARE OF A TIME SHORTAGE, Youth has an abundant supply of time. long, days are langer, years seem eternity, But a time shortage is coming pretty soon, one, ‘ You will begin to notice it when you are thirty-five It will trouble you seriously when you are fifty. Make your time count, when you have plenty of it. The things you learn now will not need to be ‘learned at fifty, when, though you have little time in which to learn them, they must be known just the same. The men you know who get big salaries for working very short hours did most of their work many years ago, And they are being paid for it now. The successful lawyer can prepare a case quickly be- cause in his youth he did the work that enables him to know where to find the law he wants, The engineer plans a building or a bridge in a sur- prisingly short time because in his student days he found out about strains and strength of materials, and all that has been dene by bridge builders in the past. The practised writer does his work quickly and easily because he has already developed a style and filled his mind with the literature and learning of other duys, Successful men do not work long hours, it is true. They have time to spare, even in the days of a time short- age. But they have it to spare because they knew that the shortage was bound to come, and prepared for it. Employ your time intelligently when you are young. Make all your working time count. Remember that there is much to learn, but remember also that now you have plenty of time to learn it, Tt will not be so always. The days will come when there will be more work than time, unless the work has been accomplished, Conservation is a good rule in everything, but it is best of all when applied to time, Hours are and a severe RR NR A A AA ANNAN NARA AINA RAR A AANA NAN ruil beeen alert ceases aaSchss eeeoesiares eee joined the League of Nationa imme: diately much of the unrest that the: eg in Burope would not hav develop and treaties which human race so much good. It gurely 1s worth while trying. Kindly look at the history of this, our beloved country, waich started as thirteen individual States, each one doing ag it pleased, They soon found Out that they needed a Federal Gov- ernment amd made an attempt to get one that would bind them together and prevent bitter strifes and wars. They did not succeed and you may be right In saying they have not suc- ceeded yet, as they have had a very bloody war and may have more yet son Lam writing this ‘letter, Can some one explain why ¢ candy and paper stands on subw: and elevated stations of the B. R, without a hitch at first, but it la only nt of international laws have done the GRORGE W. MOHR, I am not @ habitual’ kicker, but belleve in fair play, and for that rea- jak was introduced, and George Eastman nad was a rea Later tm nte are oaly velopments of jo iden han bes Mr, Eastman ts a bachelor, vin years old, liven In Rochester, _ sixty- has given millions to Rocherte vernity, Massachusetts Inatitute ot Tecnology schools, “That’sa Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick ‘vorighs. ia, eS ‘The Pram Hublmres Oo i Firening ora It Is pleasant to read that when the first census was taken on Manhattan Island with 120 houses and a popula- ton of 1,000 inhabitants, the average [price of the best city lots was $50, | while the rent of an ordinary good | house wan ie & month, | At that time ry was the bounden |duty of the Sheriff to traverse the ‘city at night, But he officially com- plained "that the dogs attack him; that the people tag ‘Indian’ in night, and that the boys cut ‘koackie This last word probably refers to what the country youth of New Englaud and New York Would call “didoes” or pranks, | Brooklyn, a borough of New York City since Jan. 1, 1898, derived its name from Breuckelen (‘marshy jland"), @ place in the pi of Utrecht, Holland. ‘Phe first move j toward settiement was the purchase \from the Indians tn 1636 of Imnd liying at Gowanus and of iand at | Bay the next year. A | Wallabout | ferry between it and New Amsterdam | wos established ny 1643, | | whe United States Government established a Navy Yard at Bi N. ¥., in 1801, In August, 1614, thi were stirring scenes in the small city when hosts of citizens went over from New York to assist In strengthening the old fortifications there, os an attack was expected trom the Engllah. ee Brooklyn was incorporated a stage in April, 1816, and became a chap city In 1434, Williamaburg and G} point werg annexed to it in 18608 towns of Platbush, Now Utrecht a Gravesend in 1894, while the settle. ment of Flatlands (toward Canarsie) became a ward of the city im 1896, f Guatama, or Buddha, was founded in the Sixth Century, B. C., of the reli sion, Buddhism, now profeamed by « large part of the people of Aaa (even interrupting Confucianism in China and Shintolm in Japan) and the Indian islands, The most beautiful account of his life and doctrine tn given in Sir Edwin Arnold's poem, "The Light of Asia.” he ay T, However, Mr. Chasan and all your/and Interborough are permitted to Ld dear friends who are opposed to the| overcharge on widely advertised artl-| In Hindoo ieeiaeicey) Siva te the League of Nations, would it not have| cles, such as CRiclets, Maaon's can-| Supreme Being, in the character of been much worse if those thirteen| dies and others too an avenger or “the changer States had continued as individuals,| mention? Personally, I each one hav! an armed force} fused to buy, when 1 trained and ready to conquer {ts|to pay sometimes much as two neighbors? Head about the other| and three cents more than the price of the world—how each of] of the article ful, Now, all you, my dear friends, ali the nations into co-opera- it qurely cannot BROOKLYN MOY, be @ success um, ' Brooklyn, Oct. 9, Tam one of the firet other readers haye been taken ad- ts it not thme to make an attempt to|mantage of while down in the hole, of form,” while Vishnu ia one of the chief deities, the preserver, and Yama ja the Judge and ruler of the departea the Hindoo Pluto. Brahma was regarded ay the firet person of the to sive the other follow the benefit of | Trinity--the Creator, His four heada the doubt, think he deserves it,| look to the four quarters of but T hate to think putting , Mp woes, re promperous and power-| something over on me, No doubt Pt a were niaataae) rulera of the House of the Hohengollerns Friedrich I, in 1417 to the pi it de! Katser Wilhelm ‘I, @ fright by holloo-, ,