The evening world. Newspaper, November 13, 1920, Page 10

a et kee eed nes tori, ESTABLICUED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ,Publianed Dally Except Sunday by the Preven Poblishiag THE EVENING WORLD, SATU crop. But even. if this is trite, the pleading of the | case, should form a precedent for other similar prosecutions. Company, Nos. $2 to 63 Park Row, New Turk. RALPH THER, President, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treamy 8 Puck Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr.. Secretary, 68 Park Row. MEMHER OF THR Abs0Or: PR Sor rh MR. FRAYNE IN ERROR. CCORDING to the Call, Hugh Frayne, Gen- eral Organizer for the American Federation of Labor, declares that The Evening World's solu- tion of the Wall Street explosion is “an insidious attempt to discredit the labor movement in the eyes of those who are not well acquainted with its work- ings and purposes.” Other newspapers yesterday carried what pur- ported to be deprecating comment from individuals on The Evening World’s story. Several of these took pains to inform The Evening World that they had been inaccurately quoted. The Evening World hopes that Mr. Frayne was among the number. The Evening World’s story was in no sense an attack on Organized Labor. The first story defi- nitely stated this, The Evening World reilerates that it has no reason to believe the crime was committed by any organization of laboring men, nor by connivance of hor officials. The Evening World belieyes that the bombers were individuals driven to desperation —probably crazed—by Brindell and his men, who have been as thoroughly discredited within the ranks of Organized Labor as with the public. Organized Labor was not responsible. DlSor- ganized labor, as disorganized by the insidious attack of Brindellism, was indirectly responsible, Zaran- ko’s union was the regular labor organization. Brin- dell’s wolfish crew are the outlaws and were under attack within the A. F. of L. before the Lockwood The theory thal the State may compel a manu- facturer to operate his factory because it is to the interest of others than himself is new and almost revolutionary. The Kansas plan is on trial before the court of public opinion. The great army of “in-betweens” who have suffered from the exactions of both capi- tal and labor are interested and anxious to see how the Kansas plan will work. If it succeeds in Kansas it is certain to be tried in other States. » WITH THIS HANDICAP? & Ctty of New York is under a heavy handicap, The present moment finds it face to face with Startling revelations of crookedness and graft in one of (he industries on which it most depends. Conspiracy, extortion and oppression in sinister forms have fastened on the building trades. Labor and the building interests that employ labor are shown in collusion against the public. Tyrants dis- guised as labor leaders exploit workers In these trades, Greed and injustice grip the whole building industry. Now that the evil stands revealed, there is no dodging it. New York has got to grapple with these condi- tions and put an end to them. Here's where the handicap is heaviest. For the task ahead the city ought to have as strong an administration as it ever had in the City Hall, . Instead, it finds itself with the weakest. ir" committee exposed them. A STORY OF THREE MEN. soom the men who are cruel.” “Coming home on Saturday night In the subway I noticed opposite me a weary old man sitting, who had perhaps been working all day to support a family. © “As T was looking at him I couk see him trying to keep himself awake, as each time his eyes shut he forcibly opened them. At last he fell into a slumber, and by constant jerk- ing and shifting of the train his hand rested on the shoulder of a man to the left of him. ‘The man gave an ugly stare, and then another stare, and then gave a swift and forcible shrug with hie shoulders which awakened the old man and sent him half dazed into excite- ment. ‘ “He gained consciousness and again fell fast asleep. This time his head rested on @ man to the right of him who was reading a paper. This man didn't move an inch for fear he would awake the man. “Now, I am writing this little Incident to bring out this: As I was sitting there oppo- site the three men {t came deep in my mind: Here was an old man, weary and tired per- haps after a hard day's work. On each side of him was a man. They wore clothes that were very much alike and everything else was alike but one thing. “One was a man, gentle and kind to look at and love, just what this world was created for, a lover of people who considered others as well as himself, “The other was a brute, a tyrant, hard to Jook at, and disliked by all after a first meet- Ing, @ person that cares for himself only and nobody else, Worse than animal and of no value to this world. “How is it that two people born the same way could become such different persons in heart?” That is all of the letter. hearts of men who are kind to others.” honest appreciation. try to answer the concluding question, A NEW TEST OF THE KANSAS PLAN. HE country will watch with interest the case before the Kansas Couftt of Industrial Rela- tions in which grain millers are cited to show cause why they should not be forbidden to close down their mills or decrease production ‘at this time. The action was taken on the initiative of the Cj 5 the first trial of a new doctrine in try. The findings of the court, if to ghe millers, probably will be taken to the It ma: al highest courts. IS little story came in the mail. The writer submitted it for publication “so that it can touch the hearts of men who are kind to others and It will “touch the It may @ make others kinder. We hope the man whose kindly act was noted will read this simple and We hope the other man will ‘The Kansas plan has been the subject of hostile criticism by Samuel Gompers and other labor These have attacked the court because it leaders, has power to forbid strikes, Gov. Allen has defended the scheme on the ground that it is in the tine production while, the court decides what is right and fair. He has insisted that it forbids shut- downs and lock-outs no less than strikes and is in public interest. Goy, Allen has asserted repeated! | interest of the public to con- | | | that the law 1s a3 strongly opposed to unsocial employers as to | workers who may choose to stop produc essentials, Critics of the Kansas dan will be quick to print jon of | out that the case of the millers is primarily in the interest of wheat farmers seeking a market for their If ever New York needed a Mayor with capacity, courage and clear vision, it needs such a one now. Instead, the city finds itself with Mayor Hylany No executive of a corporation, leave alone the executive of a great city, ever gave an exhibition of such muddle-headed incompetence, to put it chari- tably,“as that presented by Mayor Hylan in his testi- mony before the Lockwood committee. Take the following from the record, concerning the letter over the Mayor’s signature which sug- gested a change from tetra cotta to limestone for public school construction: “ Lawyer Untermyer to the Mayor: He (Hettrick) teld you to write this (the letter)? A. 1 don’t say he told me to write it; I told him to aubmit whatever he had and I would send it along. Q. And he was just working up the labor union end of !t as a blind to help the lime stone combination? A. Yes, sir; there is no doubt about that. Q. No doubt about that at all; and all this gammon and talk about workingmen and getting them employment and’ all the rest of it—that was just a plan so as to get that contract for the limestone ring? A. Yes; that seems to be the way he was acting. Q. He fooled you pretty weil’ A. Yes; I think he fooled a lot of others. Q. Never mind about them; he fooled you? AI think I was fooled, and many other people were fooled. Itis needtess to go further or to dwell on the Mayor's clumsy efforts to establish his own igno- ramce as to the personality of a man to whom he wrote letter after letter and whom he invited to be- come a member of the Peace Celebration Com- mittee, What does New York think of a Mayor who lets somebody else dictate his recommendation on a building matter involving some $16,000,000 with- out informing himself as to the facts or troubling himself as to the motives of the man who did the dictating? Call it only incompetence and it is still enough to prove any responsibte executive unfit for the office he filts. New York has only begun to uncover the condi- tions that underlie the buikding industry. New York has a big job ahead, Must the city go at it with this handicap? TWICE OVERS. “ce ‘0 vidory, however complete, long can survive the spirit that conceived it.”—F. W. Gal- traith jr., National Commander of the American Legion. ry See . 66 T is time to give thanks for our duties which there is a power to meet and for our hopes which have been fulfilled.” —Goo. Coolidge's Thanksgiving Proclamation. * + 66 J AM oud lo get business and naturally hate come to the United States." —A. H. G. Fokker of Amsterdam. * 66° HE situation seems to have all the earmarks oc fight."—Siéney Hillman of the Amal- Clothing Workers. | \ book Mn SZ sty 2 even TSE re gr on LD ROO a to aay much in a few words. Take An Bye tor Economy. To the Kaitor af The Irenine World I have been residing on Greenwich Avenue for a number of years and would like to inquire about the street electric lights. | I notice they are left Durning in the | morning until 7, 7.80 and sometimes until 8 o'clock when the sun is shining brightly. What is the usual hour for putting out the lights? Doesn't a press of the button do it? “NFRANCHISED WOMAN. New York, Noy, 91620, | Wisard. | Bening World letter published by The Eve- Worid from “One Who Tries to Play” is an eyen greater tribute to the tulents of the “boy wizard” than the writer probably intended, He says the Hodges problem is easy. It took him less than four minutes, he saya, to make the move—“bishop to queea's knight four.” Four minutes! And the boy wizard has not even yet made that move, because it happens not to be the right one. It will not bring mate in three. The boy also worked the problem in “less than four minutes," with this difference; be made the move—the only move—that does bring mate in three. ONE WHO WATCHED HIM. New York, Nov. § 1920. i The 1) the ia The ning Let Us Have Peace, ‘Dy de Kaiior of The Brenkng World When hatred, revenge and envy have decided the election there is nothing much to expect. Mr. Harding criticiaed President Wil- son al] through the campaign. |New that he ts elected we will ox- pect a lot of him. This ts not the lonly country where living ts high. It's w ail over the world, and we haven't got peace yet, That has a lot to do with conditions here in this country. But now Harding is elected and has his own party in the Senate und House, there Is bo reason why we shouldn't have peace und everything that goes with it A WOMAN VOTER. York C Nov. 8, 1924 New Glory im Defeat. TO ihe Blitor of The Evening World I hold no brief for The Evening World, put as it has proclaimed my own opinions in its editorials I want to oppose the attacks of L. H., G. 5. and Fair Play. Their consciences stem to be both- ering them already as it does many another who “wanted a change," Now that the shoe ts on the other foot it begins to pinch. They are prating of greatness of soul, sports- manahip (big league baseball variety), play Americunism (probably puny), &e. Have Harding and “his" gang or the “gang's” Harding shown any of t qualities in the fight against Wi) OUR President? They were so blinded by party that they would not a Knowledge Cox was the candida, From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readavie? Isn't it the one | that gives you the worth of @ thousand words in @ couple of hundred? There ia fine mental exercise and @ lot of satisfaction in trying They fought Wilson and his League of Nations, RDAY, NuV time to be brief. Let G, 8, read his Repub- Hean paper; he'l} election bly, League of Nations, becaus only one and we are not the only na- tion with a constitution and amend- ments, ‘The others have both and will protect them. So it up to us to protect ours G. S. has indulged in personalities by svating Harding won because ne Was the better man, In whose service-—the people's? Does his record prove it? Emphati- cally NO! Why refuse a public debate on the League when challenged? He Is not of the “sterner stuff” of which Lincolns and Wilsons are made Truly Fair Play is “dead from the | neck up" and “Bah! Lay down and die" ts the general expression used to down opposition by the Republi- cans, but although Cox was defeated (God bless him) the principles he ad- Nocated will not down and will never dle. The state of mind change” and it is coming, The “toe” is felt already by the union min workers and cotton workers and soon the “iron heel” will be on the neck of thousands who have chosen ft. * DEFEATED DEMOCRAT. New Brunswick, N. J., Nov, 10, 1920. “wanted a Beaten to @ Frazslet To the Editor of The Byening Ward Yours is an excellent paper, and again you have espoused the ause of the people, but on the League issue you were on the wrong side of the fence, You didn't convince convert many or how would you account for the Republican avalanche? You are belittling the man who rolled up the most tremendous plurality — these United States ever gave to a candi Time or date. You ure scolding those who voted according to the dictates of their conscience. You ure vitupera- tive If not abusiy The League is Let it rest’ in up a new thres aten to a frazzle. ace, Why not pick d; a live issue? Did you hear about the "continuation school” law that has been sneaked through the Legislature? This is a sumptuary law of the worst kind, an economic monstrosity compelling “grown ups" to visit school or their liberty A FRIE New York, Nov, 8 1920. To the Editor of The Brening I have read of the attempt made to solve the bullding problem in New York City and have been gur- prised as well as disappointed in the lnok of actual results—surprised that your do benefc aper cannot 1 for th interested, Why cannot large corporations or the efty make contracts for the eree- tion of one and two-family houses, not in the suburbs orput in the wilderness wey (row wii stores and amusements, — . * EMBER 13, | | | ‘ ‘ 1920, Porwried + the Meow 1 tie New York By John Cassel aRINDELLISM: UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) YOUR GOLD MINE IS BETWEEN YOUR EARS, It may be that a few more gold mines will be discov- But not many, And for every thousand men who rush to the most newly discovered gold mine, nine hundred will come back ered, empty handed. It was so in California in the days of ‘49. It was so in Alaska in the Klondike and Nome rushes. Your best chance of finding a gold mine is not in searching the surface of the world for one that is visible only after you have delved beneath it, but to try to find one somewhere between your ears. It may be there and it may not, but you never can tell till you look for it. Walt Mason, the cheerful poet of Emporia, Kan., carried a gold mine about with him for thirty years before he ever discovered it. The outcroppings—his ability to write unusual and popular verse—he noticed from time to time. But never till he had failed in every other pursuit did he learn that his talent could be commercialized and made valuable. All men who succeed late in life—and there are many of them—have merely discovered the gold mines that were in their brains, And all of these could have succeeded far more notably had they discovered the gold mines early and gone to work on them when their energies were greater. Look for your own gold mine. If it is there, there will be some indication of it—some ability to do a thing better than others can do it. But, remember, there is no free gold in that sort of a mine, It must all be got from the quartz that contains it by hard and tedious labor. “Pockets’ containing free gold are sometimes found in the earth, and sc.ue gold ore is called “free milling,’ which means that the gold is readily separated from it. But that never exists in the brain, You will have to work to get out the gold, and work hard. But even at that you will have a far better chance of getting it than you will of finding a mine by yourself, or of gaining a fortune by hurrying to a couhtry where gold has been newly discovered. as proposed recently in a letter to your| sent his petition to the corporation and paper, but right here in the Bronx? trow .wo or three standard house plana| In the West Bronx there are mile-long| select one to his taste, and when ‘titty stretches of land that could be utilized | families have filed their petitions then so large and powerful an organ as | by @ combination of city authority and| the building of these homes to bel ni something | wealthy ® helpless individual; | profit would suffice—to relieve the ap- disappolnted because I am personally | palling lack of homes for the “white-| easily be found who would willingly, |: pay from $1,000 to $2,000 for a lot it! ford to pay $26 4 room for the modern| they could have a bulliding put up for! men to whom a moderate| started on this wholesale plan Fifty? A thousand families collar man”—the man who cannot af- apartment them at @ reasonable price. Let the corporation be founded on some such principles as these: the prospective tenant to buy his lot, pre- H, COHN, No. 2897 Grand Concourse, Nov. 4920, can 10, Oo 90, Yad indtte Wight HE tilts her face and emiles end aske Some quaint gift for her play, The friendly little oirt neat door, ‘ Who thinks I have a magic store Of lovely things—bdalloons and more Wonder for every dag. ~ And I am just a bit amused At her calm, trusting atr; 1 who have somchow grown to de Older so many yeare than three, Still asking, all erpectantly, For beauty—everywhere! A little poem from the book, “ and Cobblestones’ (Houghton-Mif+ flin), by Hortense Flexner, We are glad to have turned to the page that holds it, see The Higher Criticism of Poetry--- Such verse as Miss Flexner’s sings its own just praises, Quite by chance, we barely finish our quotation when, in Karle Wilson Baker's little fan- tasy, “The Garden of the Plynck" (Yale University Press), we come across an utterance of Avrillla, a small and petticoated sage of April, thus: “That's the regular way to do about Poetry,” she said, with « pretty little air of authority, “First, you write it, and then you drop it over the Verge into Nothing. But it must be very good—otherwise, It isn’t worth while to spend your time on it." | The higher criticism of verse haa yer gone higher than this, even r the auspices of the Poetry Su- of Anierica, - oe Earthquakes and Dress Reform-+.« Writing of earthquakes in Peru, in jthe second volume of his “Spanish | America” (Seribners), C. R, Baock | says: A moral effect of these visitations is to be noted. by the traveller In is seen that the women of asa Wear very long en drag in the nud oF ained that the formerly mmodeat and dis- 1, Which, it was d the peopie by tha they should hence- forth be nm long enough to con- ceal the ankles. A South American hint for Dr. Eliot, for the strengthening of nis cru- sade against the shortened skirts of North America. Let Harvard's former “prexy” en- list for his cause the first aid of a punishing earthquake! 8 . The High Cost of Refrigeratio From eof the current issue of the ma e House Wurnishing Re- view cam this item of sombre import, perhaps to more than one American home; Judging from the market condl- tions of inaterin! and labor, there ts absolutely no possible chance for prices or ators to be reduced between id this coming sum- mer. However, the Grand Old Democratic Party is In a position to view with indifference this threatening of a par- tla] famine in refrigeration. It has, so to speak, been forcibly chilled. oe Where It Rains Not on the Idle--- When it rains in Montevideo, ac- cording to J.O. F Bland, writing the book (Scribners) called “Men, Man ners and Morals in South Amertca, All outdoor work comes to 4 stand- still; steamers cease loading and un- loading cargo; the goods depots of the raliway become congested with tarpaulin-covered wagons. A fortnight’s continuous rain would paralyze the country's Indus- tries, quite apart from the fact that it would cut off all internal commu nications. Your South American workin all the Asiatic's horror ol getting wet and none of his affec- tion for an umbrella. Only the infrequency of it would seem, keeps Mon be\pg the Paradise of Toil- ne rains, deo from jluders. it have been in that conde- quarter that the saying orig- inated about people who do not know enough to come in out of the rain? . \ \ eo. Enjoying Hard Times Past--- An anonymous philosopher whe is the author of “In the Mountains” (Doubleday-Page), writes thus of the healing influence of time: I know time is a queer, whole- some thing. It is very sanitary. Tt cleans up everything: "It never fails to sterilize and purity, Quite possibly T shall end by be- ing a wise old lady who discourses Pied the utmost sprightlinoss, after her mi past able entertainment = from even is amusing about them. You see, they will be so far away, 80 safely done with; never, anyhow, her De Coume of time, In years and years, one’s troubles’ must end by ‘being entertaining. Adversity survived ts on thesl terms its own reward. Even to Mr. Hoover may come the moment when he shall find cheer in the thought of his lost chance to be @ great non-' partisan Democrat. * Normalcy and the New Girl--e Arnold Bennett, writing in “Our Women” (Doran), offers this appre- etition of the current generation of girls: Tho modern girl, startling though indy, be- with she ts to the gray-haired haves more in accorda human instincts than the 2 haired. lady ever did in. girlhood: and she has quite as much real dignity. Indeed, {t may bo argued What she has more real dignity. She can most the male companton in a hundred matters on common ground. Their, mutual interests are not confined to passion and pleasure, but. stretch over about. two-thirds of life. Their intercourse is free fuller, saner, more amusing, mor less perverse, ‘All of which constitutes Mr. Ben- s ample way of telling us that Twentieth Century Girl wii! » to be the mother of the real ancipated Woman. he breaks the shackles of art; ality which of old were camms flaged as the becoming bonds oF jmaideniy modesty, But need she smoke cigarettes to point ber turp to normal: