The evening world. Newspaper, November 8, 1920, Page 20

A OE HE oP ORE DOL ESTABLISHED HY JOSEPH PULITZER. Sunday by the Press Publishing 3 to O8 Park Row, New York. President, 68 Park Row, W. Treasurer, 69 Park Row, ER, Jr. Sroretary. @: Park Mw. AUS 8) IPH PUTT MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. asked in recommending constructive rev- enue legislation as one of the first duties of the coming short session of the present Congress. Early and comprehensive revenue legislation is desirable to free business from the onerous burden * of the excess profits tax and so help to lower the cost of living. 4 Equally important, the Government will need the money. Tinkering the tariff is not the answer. It may Surprise the average reader to leam that customs receipts for the fiscal year of 1920 amounted to $323,000,000. This was under a so-called “low” Democratic tariff. But only in 1907 and 1910 have customs receipts exceeded this sum, and in those years by comparatively small amounts. No tariff i can be depended on for more than a small fraction i of"Federal revenue. f Internal revenue receipts for 1920 amounted to $5,410,000,000, or more than sixteen times the ‘customs. 7 Income and profits taxes for 1920 accounted for ‘neatly $4,000,000,000 of the internal revenue, Because of profiteering and inflation, these taxes greatly exceeded the estimates and enabled the Treasury to clear up more than a billion and a half of floating indebtedn ee” This year conditions have changed. Deflation, F business slumps and loss of paper profits will cause Ls a shrinkage in income and profits taxes. The excess profits tax should be repealed and "mew taxes must be levied to raise the required revenue. | The Government will need the money, floating debt must be paid off. What the form of these taxes shall be remains < to be determined by Congress. But new taxation ie ‘there must be. Why mark time? The Government needs the money now and the American people must sooner or later face the fact that they have a war to pay for. There is no hope for low taxation for years to come. - The profits tax which was productive on a rising market would not be in a period of deflation. It is a vicious brake on production and should be abol- ishéd. But its place as a collector of revenue must ‘be taken by new legislation. And the sooner the better. , Why mark time? i More f It becomes more and more plain that the un- covering of collusion, graft and conspiracy in the New York building trades reveals the need of Nation-wide investigation along the same lines. - The heusing shortage has been a formidable post-war problem for more than one city in the United States. Efforts to deal with that prob- lem have led to the discovery that the building industry in this section of the country is honey- combed with blackmail and graft. Other sec- tions will not wish to spare the probe. ‘ Not the least of the opportunities presented in asthorough overhauling of building trade conditions 1s the opportunity for organized labor to rid itself of one of the worst systems of graft that ever fastened its krip on the earn . ng power of the workingman. GIRL SCOUT WEEK. MOTHER” in a small suburban town not fA a far from New York has written to The ; Evening World to offer a bit of advice to a young ' man who is puzzled as to whether he would be ie wiser to marry an American girl or try his fortune i jn France. This mother says if she were a young man she would select a Girl Scout for a wife. “They are true, noble and dependable American citizens, There are thousands of auch girls who will make happy American homes,” . This letter comes at an opportune time. This happens to be “Girl Scout Week.” This mother is right. It may be true that most of the Girl Scouts are rather youthful for matri- mony, but the Girl Scout kind, the sort of girls who would hawe been Girl Scouts had the organiza- tion been in existence ten years ago—these are the girls on which the young men of the generation can- not go wrong. And the Girl Scouts of to-day who paraded on Fifth Avenue Saturday are the type of girls who will be making American homes happy ten years bh “True, nobl @ whit too str f Boy The Evening World has repeatedly praised the Scouts, and everything it said may go doubled for the Girl Jetween two such organizations there is little to choose. Both deserve cordial and hearty public support. No investment Promises better returns than leadership of and girls, the coming citizens of "America “A Mother's" advice is good. Her letter is a wel- dependab adjectives not ¢ sisters and future y apply to the Scouts. Bo has couls he hos | ‘The Associated Prem ip exclusively entitied lo the use for republication whereas oS bebediese WHY MARK TIME? » 6 HY mark time?” The Evening World has ‘THE come Addition to the literature of “Girl Week.” x ‘ Scout START A NEW RALLY. EFORE President-elect Harding departed or vacation, announcement was made that when B he returns next month he will hold personal con- ferences “with men and women who have been eminent in the discussion of our foreign relations.” The list of persons who receive requests for these conferences will not, we assume, bé limited to such as are in accord with Mr. Harding’s post-election assertion that the “Versailles deceased.” The Harding of this sentiment could enjoy har- monious confabs with Senators Borah and Johnson, and even with a Democrat like Senator Reed of Missouri. Another with whom the President-elect might ex- change congratulations on the alleged decease of the covenant is Count von Bernstorff, who last week issued a statement in Berlin which read in part: “As President of the German League of Na- tions Association, I desire to foake it clear that it is not the Versailles League that we desire, "The Versailles League proved to be, ax Senator Harding said it would, an offensive and detens!®e alliance for the purpose of aup- pressing helpless nations. The Versailles League has bad no regard for the rights of self-determination. We therefore welcome Senator Harding’s programme of developing ‘The Hague Tribunal into a free association of nations, which coincides with our desire for the complete reformation of the League.” The idea of “scrapping” the present League in order to remould one nearer to German desire has, however, found little favor in the minds of many Americans who have not only been “eminent in the discussion of our foreign relations” but who have also been eminent supporters of Mr. Harding in the late campaign. . Republicans like Taft, Hoover, Wickersham, Root and Hughes are not going into conference with the President-elect on the premise that the Versailles League of Nations is “deceased.” Nor do we believe that Mr. Harding will find Covenant is now ‘much profit—now the election is over and the “great change” at Washington assured—in these pretended “post-mortems” qver a League that all intelligent, unprejudiced Americans know to be very much alive and fuictioning. In his speech of Aug. 28 last, in which he de- clared himself ready to “take and combine all that is good and excisqall that is bad from both organ- izations (the League and The Hague Tribunal),” Mr. Harding was cautious enough td add: “This statement is broad enough to Include the suggestion that if the League, which has heretofoye riveted our considerations and apprehensions, has been so entwined and in terwoven into the peace of Europe that its good must be preserved in order to stabilize the peace of that continent, then it fan be amended or revised so that we may still have @ remnant of world aspirationa in 1918 builded into the world's highest conception of help ful co-operation in the fitimate realization.” Which means, getting down to brass tacks: We may have to go into this Versailles League, after all, if we can get no other. In which case we have only to put so many tags on the Versailles Covenant that it will pass for a new article. Compromise of this kind would make Borah and Johnson gpash their teeth. But, as Mr. Harding said last August: “No one can foresee the exact conditions by which our country will be confronted seven months hence." Nor could any one foresee just how much influ- ence, “bitter-enders” like Borah and Johnéon might keep or lose in a country no longer under the in- tense partisan strain of a Presidential campaign, Now. is the time for public opinion to rally in a broader spirit on the League issue and show the President-elect what, in his own wonls, “this coun- try is willing to stand back of and support.” Show him it is NOT willing*to stand back of and support a policy based on the. false pretense that the existing League of Nations is dead. Nor is it willing to support any cgmpromise the result of which will not be to give the United States its rightful place with forty-three other nations in great existing partnership to safeguard peace. “FEED THE BRUT EVENING WORLD, MOND ide wh ret of gir gir bot ser % liv she s6t 10 say much in a few words. | A before ¢ acteristic ialf hard enough absolutely with more brains than to think: that. Would this cook While pi AY, WO Working Them NII ANGIE RAE A IA ILE 8 ag VEMBER 8, 19 ing Co Word What hind of letter do you find. most readhble? Ian'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 Take time to be brief. truck running down some imaginary person, Some day, perhaps, the punishment will fit the erime | EORG Nov Marry the he Editor of The young American als correspond with “Ex-A. E. E.'s, jose lette ently published, urned Mranc the close the with a well-bred French He tie geninieGancer V's picture, He had an American | ay the Eaitor of The Bvening World 1. as a wife in view, but as he liked] time arrived to cease h very well he weighed his views| the rl Scout Kind. ing World sailor whose MAC NULTY. | 1920. you re trom war New York, at ent criticism of Senator cldihg in favor of the Amer-| Harding fh which The Evening World| n git {has been indulging? wast week they were married, and| , Now that the S| doesn't seem lik APY {© congratulate him, “EX-| jam, it doesn't | complains that he is too re-| soul or a sportama | ‘hat is to me a splendid char-| Continue the use of contemptuous If there were more young| ¢Pithets in connection with the name +] of the next President n in the country like him it would merican greatness of titude to ved. me Senator Harding's ‘ignorance’ may be a safe guess that any girl would| not be of such colossal” proportions | feel free to accept invitations whieh|@s you seem to think. At any rate, | would bring her in his company, The] 8!¥€ the man his chance Pantie majority of the young men Ilke| New york City, Novi” | “vambs."" ‘They don't want a Sunda hi school girl, They like painted and | a aininsae bind | rouged “baby dolls,” not the old-fash- | -ro 410 Eaitor of The Evening World ioned girl with high ideals and com-| After reading your editorial “a | mon sense State of Mind, I have come to the| Many girls in our community have | concl that this paper is no paper an “wallflowers” because they do not re goes another of your | care to flirt | 1 If | were a young man T would] voted for Harding (as all good} git] scout for a wife. They | would, and have, as Hard: | r noble and » Amer= | ing's plurality has shown) because he | ican citizens, There wnds of | is the better man | such girls who will make many happy | Don’t be a sorehead as you usually | American homes, | A MOTHER: @ |are; give credit when credit is due, | New York, Nov. 6, 1920. | Harding ts looking out for the Inter- | - eat of the United States—not England. | Food Bills. Brooklyn, Noy. 8, 1920 Ge | To the Kalitor of The Evening World rar | Mrs, 1, Sehulta of Hoboken has nit} Fd - bebe tay s pall equate on tha Head, Dub not] soe rdtonet Phe Braning Won the. nail square on s A says that a United stat nator is ¢ ected for of two years, | or a term of} , | a whe statement that four persons can e a week on $12 worth of food is Phi expert” ening World readers a state what effect M HOROWITZ, nul credit 6, ttempt her printed W. L. COMBS. | | Jolin's Place, Brooklyn, | | No Religtous Qualification, To the Editor of The Bvoning Work! Kindly inform me whether a Prest-| dent 1 States har to bo Catholic stant, GCDB New York, Nov, 4, 1920, ing Ninth Avenue and} h Street to-day [ Saw the driver of ge automobile truck jump off o: “Dead brom the Neck Up” rhe only woman elected to Coygress was an Jtne seat while the truck wag In mo-| | "Dead irom Ap | temp! o push ba some Lycee Anti” until the amendment was passed, She ian and atvempt to 7 oi rn Anent your snarling. vilifying, in was elected from an Oklahoma district: where baleen | sulting polities! editoriais, 2 nf. Ho was #0 anxious to prevent! thut sou are dead (ron the: Suffrage never had been favored oir calling what We had ne. Because ( ind [is gang wer With these disadvantages to overcome it ts [of the moving truck. Instantly the! soundly beaten you attack the intel ce milntahaval iad’ Bailk aihencad f ont w ® | lgenee of vo Ticeday's elec sricent she must have had some r over PTE REL ONRORERT AUCcAV RE ANryi core mONEREEDPS et rerraateaur thelming advantage leeiton ana rby were two Women| Bah! Lay down and die Fact is Miss Robertson was proprietor of a aved from being strack You ane \ varie cafeteria | Towish a policeman had been the and 8 pooroat & pe " fo arre u ud without igime fe he way Woman's old slogan, "Feed the Brute,” is Joubt have | ined ax much as t he election of Sone hosed on Jong obsefvation and frequent trial | Had bo killed seme on ourse r eould huve said that he was compe Regurdloss of what you say, we sare It stands the test, {qo run on the sidewalk to prevent his now going to have a government of ’ a Ot eh eS me es en UNCOMMON SENSE By. John Blake (Copyright, 1920; by John Blake.) , GOOD JUDGMENT TO SURVIVE LUCK. Good luck is never an unmixed blessing. The man who has to work hard for all that he gets, understands what a little suceess is worth when it is attained. IT TAKES GOOD Instead of having his head turned by it be grits his teeth and goes to work to make it permanent. , The man who suddenly falls heir to a fortune, or— which amounts to the same thing—discovers that he has a talent which brings early his success- lookout. had better be on the . The very thing which seems to him to be good luck may (urn out to be thé hardest kind of luck if he person who “can’t stand prosperity.” Rochefoucauld says: is the sort of “We need greater virtues to sustain goud than evil fortur You will see that exempli ied almost every day, if you look about you. further be of finer clay The man who fecls that because he las gone than most of his fellows he must necessarily is in grave danger. Such men are falling by the wayside constantly. If’vou have gained a little success, remember that until success based on vour own efforts is established your posi- tion is perilous Don't despise the man who has not gone as far as you have. Some sudden and unexpected tutn of the wheel may act him far above you. . Learn to distinguish between success and luck, and always figure luck outside of your calculations thoughtful after you have made a little headway as you were before. / Try to be as industrious and The men who deserve the most eredit in the world are the men who succeed despite great inherited wealth, Those who stand next to them in deserving are those who succeed early in life and keep right on succeeding. In the profession of the stage, where success comes quickly, and often because of some spe ial characteristic, it seldom endures very long. You can remember, if youthink back, a hundred names of stage stars of whom you never hear now, but who are still alive. ‘They are playing little parts for small salaries, and dreaming bitterly of their past glories, Gain the that .and when good fortune comes you will know what to do with it. Ml fortune will take care of itself, for that is something a man will work to get rid of without any prodding virtues are required to sustain good fortune the people, by the people and for the to print this in your otherw people lent paper, PAL Don't suppose you've got the nervel New York, Nov. 4, Uv Colleges and | Universities: Of New York By Appleton Street | (Copnrigit, 1920, by the Prwe Publishing co] (The New York Evoning World) ARD COLL 2 Is 8 both an i nd a part of its own chart 1 buildings and wn student life. f# one province |Mttle world of Co and takes of all the uniqt@ pendent college reat universit¥s rand trustees advantag ventre can is of the nard | and other university are open to dents, the Lib Chat Columbia institutions ared with Barnard, {the Barnard girl comes to |sho gets her degree from Columbia Unive i , Daan Keppel of Columbia + scribed Barnard as “a first jlege, primarily for the girls of 3 York City. In {ts organization to-day it is furnishing a mgdgel to women’s colleges all over the cBuntry, and pare ticularly the Southern States, of @ complete and independent college ag an integral member of the university organization Barnard |s independent becaus@ | when the subject of women’s cducae tion was first broached to the Colume bia trustees fn 1881 thi frowned o@ it. Frederick A. P. Barnard, who w President of Columbia University’ at that time, was an ardent friend of women's education—and it was a time when there were few friends of thig ause, If he had had his way Columes bla would have been a co-educationad Institution, In a report he urged upon, the Columbia authorities that “the admission of women, being in th@ direction of mantfest destiny, would be @ graceful act nile to lag behing the spirit of the age would be only to be coerced after into accepting it at last, ungracefully. The Columbja trustees finail to a sort of informal recognition o| women as deserving colleg e ade vantages, but they were not wilting |to admit them to the University. | 1889, after President Barnard | » & group of people wara ted in women's ullding at No nue and start It was openec selected from the staff, ree Au Ma Columt nrolled only atude first year. the great University had blazed thew tion Was In honor of President who the new institue Jarnard College, continued between Barnard mbia until 1900, when by agreement between th tees of the two institutions d was Incorporated into the educational system of the university and became of | hools The Pre of the university ts ficlo F t of Barnard Col- e, but the college retains its own internal administrat onducted by the Dean and the Provost, who are appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the trustees of Barnard The college is now estabti \{ts own campus, between 1 119th Streeta and adway Claremont Avenue. There are five buildings, Milbank, Brinkerhoft and Fiske Halls, containing the lecture room, laboratories and administrative offices; Brooks Hall, furnishing dor mitory accommodations, and Stus dents’ Hall, the gift of the late Jacob H. Schif’, providing quarters for the gymnasium, swimming pool, reading room and other recreational activle ties, Between 600 | ind 700 young women | go to Barnard each Among {ts | graduates ¢ Anderson, . Gordon James Lees Laidlaw, Mra, MeAneny, Alice Duer Miller, Mjls Reid, Mrs. Henry year Mrs. A. A Mrs. | Glass, Mrs | George Mrs. Ogden F. Osborn “That’s a Fact’} By Albert P. Southwick F | covrraght, 10: | it, 1020, by ‘The Pree Publind {tae New York Erenng Word EU LL | The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, | (he first in the United stotes, was bes | sun in 1828, while the Charleston ang |Savannah Railroad was commenced us Deol SCOMMEDO! the next yea In the year 1829, also, the ocket,@ j 4gort of engine, travelli m twene ty-flve to thirty-tlve miles an hou te chester Ratly % won the £ by the directors 0 ‘aad Mace The first American locomot constructed by Peter Md,, and was t The Liverpool Manchester Railway, miles | was opened in 1830, and a man by the name Huskisson was killed accidentally. of ‘The first street railway in the world opened on Fourth Avenue New Yo 1332 ad By 1835 there were 1,000 miles of nthe t yeur or two I first sleeping | mans,” h as late as 1864, States, nd a the 1 e "Pu introduced, There are severnl noted in Quee At Bi x rk ( ad. s the Moore Hoi pt nd Shell Roa hurst, Newtown, built in 1661 by son of Rey. John 3 Newtown, the re the family since, 15 t, and coms paratively modern, At Boune | Roune | Flust House and Island the 1681 by John forty y« ; Quaker Ther veg), much th wae, Inside And out, as it w A “Friends,” os they The house to-day iia. ws when first ‘bu having temained in. the family continuonsls id The Tong Island b States, c © build a line ty epport, on Long emer place, te through ine ¢ Now: Toston,