The evening world. Newspaper, October 20, 1920, Page 26

eee ee a “Pt PULITZER. Sunday by the Press P to 6S Park Row, New ¥ G3 Park Row, Park tow, 63 Park Row, VORRPA PUUPTAER, Jr. Secret MEMES OF THE ASSOCIATED FRESK ‘Tet Ascectates Prem te exctunrety entities te the ame (or repubiiontion | Of all Orwe Geapnicnes credited to | at OI OUberwise credited te thie Paper | ine the inenh Bows published harem. BRITAIN'S COAL STRIKE. THE English coal strike the interest of the American public is divided on two general lines. | There is interest in the political division in Eng- land. The result of the strike is likely to be reflected | in America. Capital, Labor and the Great In- Between Group in America are all interested in this. | But far overshadowing the political interests are the economic questions involved in the strike. What effect will the cessation of English mining have on the American coal supply? How will decreased production In England affect the American home market and the foreign demand? These and other similar questions strike home. The answers will commence to appear in obscure news items gathered here and there. If tie strike fs settled soon, its effect may scarcely be felt, If «it drags along, it may occasion results scarcely less + important than warfare between nations. aie Meantime, it is reassuring to read reports from P€xport coal dealers to the effect that the strike will } shave, little effect on American coal consumers and | will not cause a rise in prices. The dealers announce that the United States is oe : | voalready exporting all the coal which can be loaded ; 4 wand that orders for millions of tons are waiting ; cargo space. | 22 Burope needs fuel. The longer the English strike jag on the niore intense will be the need. The “United States may ‘have to furnish this coal—but | bot at the expense of the home market. : 1" Exports should be supervised, and if the coal 1 joers commence to “kite” the price of domestic +..00al because of foreign demand for a small marginal . lus, it will be in order to slap on a regulatory ‘ ‘ embargo which will prevent profiteering. «= ON THE POLICE POWER. OLICE power in the emergency resulting from an abnormal housing situation growing out of the disorganization caused by the wat was the basis on which Justice Edward R. Finch of the Su- preme Court in the Bronx decided that the new tent laws are Constitutional, , This has been the contention of The Evening World from its first advocacy of these laws, 4, « It is on the merit of this contention that the laws must go to the higher courts. , The tenants have a good case and should wel- come the test. The sooner the constitutionality is ecided finally, the better, If there are holes in the Jaws as enacted, the land- lords may be cerfain that the regular session of the [ Legsstature will apd must remedy the defects, ‘ ‘ i i ’ 4 ‘ ‘ ' ‘ i i ‘ ‘ ' ‘ LICENSING FOR SAFETY. i M’ HARRIET MAY MILLS shows political : sagacity and comprehension of the office to which she aspires. ‘| In her first New York speeches she touched a topic near to the hearts of New Yorkers when she discussed “‘the tragedies of the streets,” the trail of | the Juggernaut rffotor-car, i “Conditions are chargeable,” says Miss Mills, “to 4 the promiscuous licensing of persons to operate 4 cars.” | | "THs must stop, and it will stop if Lam elected, for | Wis the Secretary 03 State who ts charged with the duty H of iss: ing these licenses. ; Election of Miss Mills will not remove the neces- | sity for a State and city automobile code, It may | not remove the need for removing the licensing | from the office of the Sectetary of State and place ing it in the hands of a spectally qualified depart- ment, But until this reform Is In operation It would be wise Indeed to have as the Secretary of State at Albany a person ready and anxious to con- sider the problem from the angle of the principal victims, the chiktren of the city and the State THE CRIMINAL'S FRIEND, { I E dime-novel-like escape of Stivers and + Bassett from Sing Sing we have a new Mlustra- tlon of the eternal balance between the Law and the Lawless, i In days before the | tion of the telegraph and telephone the Lawless had “an even break.” If he were able to procure the fastest horse and ride with all speed, he had an excellent chance of escape—for | ta time at least. He could travel as fast as the | * news of his escape. Invention of the telegraph upsat this balance, Bor. | a time the odds were all against the criminal. Un- | fess he could get heyond the reach of the telegraph | ‘his pursuers, with fresh mounts and the opportunity | i \ to ride and hunt in relays, had the aves i tage With development of the common use of ihe automobile, the pendulum seems to have swung again in the opposite direction. As yet the police have been only partially successful in matching criminals in the use of the speeding motor. 4; Without the motor the escape of the two conyicts would have been more difficult. is true that | these two were an unusual pair, particularly adept gjor, but it-has always been the exceptional criminals who have escaped. Ordinary ¢riminals Munder and are soon recaptured, All the more reason, then, for vigorous pursuit to discourage similar efforts. Warden Lawes Is un- questionably right in promising a shake-up of prison employees who were negligent, When prisoners perfect pew means of circum- venting the Jaw, it is doubly necessary that officers of the law shauld redouble vigilance in thwarting the new agency of criminal vity. THE ROOT SPEECH. S was to have been expected, Elihu Root's A discussion of the League of skilful and plausible. Mr, Root is equally skilful whether his case is good or bad. ‘ Unfortunately for Mr. Root he labored under the weakness of his cause. Consequently it was un- avoidable that Mr. Root was obliged to base his case on misstatement. He says, for instance, that Mr. Wilson “insisted upon the trealy absolutely unchanged.” This, Mr, Root knows, is false. Again Mr. Root says: “This is practically where we stand to-day, Mr. Cox declares thal he will insist upon the treaty just as Mr, Wilson negotiated it.” This is equally false. Goy, Cox has repeatedly and explicitly expressed willingness to accept reser- vations, “Tt is plain, therefore,” Mr, Root says, “that the issue is not between a League of Nalims and no League of Nations.” With all respect to Mr, Root-that is precisely what is NOT plain. If this were plain, friends of international peace could regard the coming elec- tion with some measure of equanimity. The only way in which this could be mate plainer would be for Senator Harding to wiggle and wabble again and so cast off the support of the Borah. Jol Hearst-Viereck contingent which with Elihu Root. The plain fact fs that the best case Mr. make out for his candidate is to attempt to prove that he a liar, Mr. Root cannot down the fact that in the Des Moines speech Senator Harding said: “1 do not wish lo elarify these obligations. I want fo turn my bach on tiem, His not intere pretation bul rejection [ am seeking.” Mr. Root quotes Senator Harding's speech of Aug. 28 and says he has reaffirmed the position, So, therefore, these statements “must be taken as repre- senting” his policy. Unfortunately the public record is to the contrary, The “hitter-enders” considered this speech of Aug. 28 and they said these statements MUST NOT rep- resent his policy. The Des Moines speech followed. The Candidate wiggled and wabbled and the “bitter- enders" were far more positive in their approval than is Mr. Root. There is small reason for sympathy with Mr. Root in his difficulty, He, more than any other man, is responsible, He was the author of the “facing-two-ways” plank inthe Republican plat- form. This was at the bottom of the present cam- paign of misrepreseniation and deception. It was worded as cleverly as his speech last night. It mollified the Anti-Leaguers in the convention and paved the way for a “facing-two-ways” candidate, The Root plank preventeil a bolt of politicians in the convention, The Root speech will not stop the bolt of voters who put principle above party and are disgusted with and afraid of the equivoeal, “for and against” stand of the Front Porch Puppet. The Root speech was as cleverly worded as the Root plank, But neither is worthy of the man who has tried to forward a functioning League of Na- tlons and an effective Court of International Law under the League. Any voter who puts principle above party must reject the Root sophistries and come out fairly and squarely for the one candidate who Is surely for the League of Nations, ‘The Issue ts too important to risk wasting a vote for a candidate who may be for and may § \ Ison flatly, disagrees Root can “NO PINK TEA AFFAIR." N THE Grand Banks where the fishermen O face the hazards of wind and wave, of fog ind fee, t Ing event, Phe Nova Scollan fishing schooner Delawanna Is the pick of the Canadians, The Amertean schooner Esperanto ts to carry Old Glory, It fs needless to say bers of Ame: are armoging an fiteratlonal sport- that rvalry Is Intense, Au Crews Mem- ire pooling savings to bet against the savings of Canadians. It will be “no pink tea affair,” the fishermen say with haug and intensely masculine disdain for the socially im- portant America cup races, “Ghosting” ability and the of the fishermen. They of six Into the calculations are praying for “real sea weather.” Nor will they bother precise measurements, designed by the same man and matched, A y will start from ‘scratch in their working clothes, and may the best All tue respect to Sir Thomas Lipton and the American yachismen and the Resolute and Sham rock loys, but real sailormen will prefer the battle royal Qetween two pr Ml workaday craft ing appre weather happens, with time Mie allowanees and heoners were two 8 reasonably evenly crew win, Nations was, — ms ee 4 cys ac goee aegypti An “Informal” ” Message From France! ad John C Cassel | fou York Bren Vest} i4 + in number, There is fine mental exercise fo say much in a few words A Shronken Ty the Kalltop 0 Pawan Within ‘Se past week or so I have Heem aisagreoully surprised at ex- President Taft's stand on the League of Nations. 1 saw him a year-ago inst Marchat the Metropolitan Opera d the centre t Pperiaans ¢ A no ns for the Laagae of Na- Tart. 4 House, when hi of the stage w Wilwon and 1 uncertain to tio The n I thought he was one of our est Americans, physically, men- y Within the past am afraid he has that I couldn't find among ® dozen average size E, T. few weeks, I shrunk #4 much him men. Jorney City, Oct, 18, 1990. “What Goes Up Docen't Come Down, Te the Kivor of The Kvening World Sir: In reading through your “high er clty salaries comment on the Budget, 1 cant} across a paragraph sinting that when salaries paid to political Job helders go up, they stay Un, thoy are Hover challenged, N Hdltor, 1 wrote a short |tlme age on that mubject, [iC the city did raine (howe salarioa, 1 jshouid be done with the understand tig that they ahould come down in the sume ratio aa tw MO ot seo any one mike stay the hy answered welvor grap W not Wor man (ele M s pity to see a Spencer) waste hie Linu ¢ 1 tle about a Rosebank, Creed tn Pallites, | UL APO NOL diobaasct bau | tue ; | ts an f thom poople would give} J ite fat fonmideration that 4 pe nt, of the a, ba were Mo waul Bigotry, Dy not uasume This attite Nak 1 in Ue9 i 1 at Jthat the Guthol awa { Lan maki ‘ ve 100 por cent Americans and did their bit Where onoerned ther should 3 thought af ter, and © teok tied the more beneficial | tt at thie antagont BRADY, 10, 1920 tam the Ka-Kiux, Ty the Pitliog of Pike Brening Werkt I huve deen reading lately concern- lng the revival of the wed ku Kiux Klan As ane of th ty Bouth 1 dep’ wugh a condition and hope that a fo in the South will learn <n renner ME rs reece Take ” | ay the Hallow af The Evening World 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? and a lot of satisfaction in trying time to be brief. ar | | that race supremacy i# something for ign 10 an American people. J am Interested in a movelment that is being led by Fenton Johnson, a YOWNE negro poet, who Is devoting hin Ute to the cause of abolishing racial ideas and substituting instead the idea of the American people as (both @ nation and a race. Perhaps it is a dream, but I feel as if it is the only opportunity we have or we will ever have to Wipe out racial animosity. In addition to that Lam firm in my| | convietion that Fenton Johnson js the | | leader of his race and the first leader that that race has produced since | Hooker ‘T, Washington, who waa a personal friend of mine. He has the manner of the lamented Booker | | Washington, and the same common sense when it comes to solving any | kind of problem, BH. MORTIMPR GRORGR. Columbia University, Oct. 16, 1920, Gunning for Them, ‘Ty the Tatitor of The Evening World: | 1 live in Fordham, 1 wish to know what candidates for Legislature and | Congreas | will bo called on to vote! | tor at the coming election, and what the attitude 4 of those can. | vard the Volatead act and nih (vo called) Amend- ‘ould thank you to publish this | nation, t# 1 do not wiah to vote ny person who tn tn favor of eting Individual Mberty in vernonnl matters, ‘THOS, 8. WOOT From Mreokiyn, Hime of the DB. Tk ‘T, living in| v those happy ble to ride to} t and case on on Avenue onrm Do v Vidar: 15, 1920, a rab. 14 tha Hatin ot f 1am sorry to see the lack of re- sults from your eritiolsms of the prof- Your advice ter thelr launch hae has your ex-| | tecedng rontauranin, the publio to earry |not been taken, nar posure of profitecring had rhe slight vat effect on restaurant keepers, e to Viens that your ted aguinnt 0 wh chains of reatuue At of these restanran: Fan explanation of }ieismas w the best daciousty informed they re- 1 200 per cent, profit on most \dishes. At the time of this Inquiry iyou showed that even 600 par cent. was m1 on seme of the oft Biches served by this comeern, Tnatead of all the intended unfavor- amlutary tae le publicity Loving } it was in monarchies in the past. | What is more important to you, it is practiced in every i || UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyrtaht, 1820. by Zohn Make.) EVERYBODY DESPISES A FLATTERER. Men advance themselves sometimes by flattery, hut the advancement is never permanent.* The world is full of people who like to be and many of them hold important positions. ways despise and diffrust the flatterers, In the vicious and destructive game called office poli ties you will often see flatterers impose on the vanity of an employer, and rise to positions which their ability does not entitle them to hold. But watch them through the years, and you will dis- cover that they all go back where they belong in the course of time. Unfortunately flattery did nobdie outwith the waning power of kings. It is practiced just as much in democracies to-day as flattered, But they al little monarchy called a business institution, where one man dominates the activitics and saqmetimes the fortunes of others. But the flatterer, busy with his schemes for turning the head of the man over him, has no time for the progress he ought to be making in his business. And when he is turned out of favor, as he always is in time, he is without any means of making a good living for himself, Yon will find among the ranks of failures thousands of men’ who have at one time held high positions which they got not through their deserts, but through pandering to the vanity of employers, Rut they finish failures, as they ought to. Go Into ‘a job with the knowledge that if you work hard enough at it, it will teach you to hold a better job, Consider that only by making yourself able to do something better than other mem can do it can you get ahead, Don’t bother abont “bulling’ the boss, man, so much the worse for him. You will get nothing worth while by ministering to hiv vanity, And while are thinking up schemes to feed his self complacence, men who aro Interested chiefly in their own advancen will be learning their business so well that they will seon be able to plek thelr own boss, and to pick one who has no use for flatterers, If he is a vain you corn and operating [dollar and twenty the public, it has | you know that buly 1 them into retains | ane sorting lees, yot t reducing the charges extra for bre: Hut what in th platnin “? upper ing the size of the dis! patronising these places 1 this opinion, * Your aps wable to go into much tail rogurdinuy & nutwber which 500 per cent vain and f uroUBed any one who might have Jurisdiction over there matters to act | Colleges and Universities’ Of New Yi ork By Appleton Street Donat, 308, Vy Prete Pubtishing Co) ithe New York Ensioe World). = No. 3—College of ‘the ¢ City of New York. HE City College tn literally what its name says, It is the egllege ofthe City of New York. It was fougded by the municipal ediiea- tlonag authorities, 1# owngd and niain- tained by thee ty, as a part of Ita public educational system, and jtw conries are open without tultton ‘to all properly qualified young mer ‘of New York. It was founded in 1848 as the fico | Academy, but within a few years yal | #! ving Burses of collegiate grade; po | in 1866 the Sta wembly changed | its name to the present title and pane | ferred upon it all the powers and privileges of a college. As It erew in ize, the authorities found It neges- y to create a separate board of jtrustees to administer the college (theretofare it had been administered by the Board of Education along with the other elty public schools), and fo- day the City College is under the di- rection of @ board of nine trustees, appointed by the Mayor, The college has expertonced a bre marka growth within the past twenty years, In 1907 it moved from Its old quarters Twenty-third Street and Lexington Avenue toy @ pagnificent group of building Washington Heights which it o¢eu day, The new buildings, fir are in the collegiate Gothia style of architecture, and are madelot the native gray stone re De@tlt pntrat plaza, soutt is t stadium and athletic 1@d gift of Mr. Adofp nd has become a civic Aid chdorhgod nd pageants and otte hinents presented there h@ye carried an interest and attracted @u neo far beyond the college ¢olh on ples to wround a Mum is the centre audt munit The move in 1907, which was m necessary by the rapld growth in student enrolment and the consequent need of more room for class hiQs, laboratories, library facilities, -and recreational advantages, made it p@s- sible for the City College to add togts original » of Liberal Arts Science two professional schools; Teohnology. W chemical, civ hanical enginoer } of Business and Civi istration, which « jout the diffclet ualmitted tout) mined t Young women are Session, but the the « men. A xt Nigh seh young York Clty (and of 8) who has ten story courses pay withoul examination : ed high achool quired prepar i the re enter By Albert P. Southwick Su rrghL MizO. Vy he, Freee Pablianing, (09, New Yor Brening Word) | PR eae DO Se Bn Ba | (4a) When was the ¢ ref t Massucre d@ to by Carl in his enoh Revolution.” which | have read? (b) What American officer carried a bullet in his body till hin death? Corona, N. Y. (4) On Sept of Paris were fi clesiastios were bel and aris were t mob. oft not T. BOYD. , 1792, the prisons nd with nobles, ec nd opulent eltizens whe nved to favor the c@titt neratic party, The dodre t open by an infurigpesd nd the inmates, to the number 487, massacred during this and the following day. Neither \ rank nor Sex Was respected by thi Jacobins, who urged the expedienc: ; of destroying these people before the Austrian forces could reach the capital (p) Killan Van Rensaolacr, a Gehe eral in the Revolutionary Army died at Albany, N. ¥. in Septembes W818. Among the first in the di fonse of “country, he was attacte ed in 1777, by a lange force of t dians at Fort Anne, where he wi wounded in the leg by @ ball th: Was pot extracted till after hip death. The same incident is related . Federal G but was ral in the Ciyg r proved Actilsid belle the that Frenctaffan tenced tn never ne to death within or a criminal of- given a term of MT that this was an derstanding between Washington fayette, BIONDA. 144 Dakota Avenue, Jamaica, or Weahisgen nor hie broth- ma, Lafayette, had an con- vil ‘court proceedings— } ° mir cone or desires might ' have recelved consideration trom the gal tribanais of thelr day—nor could her bind his own Government. to i t virtually would have been & nant, Only & special, et lnw by. the logiviative bodies be the bw weparate countries, the Senate, if if out Ki Cocsitering the a oftrying the United. States, the Chamber Al, sinoe your | to AlLme there pe Into Honest Deputies in France, could have. et joneern, and the | treatment ef the public and the din fected any #uch reservation or exe same price retained nelinalion of th to eo-u4 tlon, Any from any other sean. Every one knows that lomone haye| with you, f Would like to ask If there try committing & orime in the Voltas } been the only cheap fruit in the |ia any law ge ning theme In spite of the cheapness | whereby tha Department o6 Jy could take notion against ul cod. | ple and others like them? PJ. BRADY, New York, Oct. 18, 1020, market. of lemons and the pros of sugar, the quantity Judging by the sizo of the | ordinary sized ple would yi tho . an ene ie pene ites will be tried by our Inwa, . conviction or acquittal wiht wed upon our regular lena dure. Crimtnals ef all nationaltt jure frequent) hanged oF cleggrocwhet in the States, mie 4