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ET nS he LS a —— ee ee a é f gE b » fi 4 { on 2 6 2 Gbe Biorld, ESTABLISHED BT JOSEPH PULITZER Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Pui Company. Now. 53 to 63 Park Row, New York RALPH PULITZER, Presi . 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW. Trean 43 Park Ror JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr.. Secretary. 62 Park Te hing { MEMBER ‘TRE ASROCIATED Petpamtitee greet ay ggg I emnitied repeniicacios tnareiee edited’ (sthis Pam! WHERE 1S IT COMING FROM? | TERNAL REVENUE COMMISSIONER ROP ER'S suggestion (hat Congress should author ize postponement of Dee. 15 collection of the lout instalment of the profits tax is a good one—tor ihe tions. low such procedure would affect bond-holders ‘and other creditors of the Government is not so clear. | But the conditions which gave rise to this un- “usual proposal may well cause anxious thought among those responsible for raising next year’s Federal revenue. Income and excess profits taxes provided approxi- “mately 70 per cent. of the Federal revenue this year. Many of the firms who contributed most heavily last year are now so embarrassed by losses that they are having difficully in paying taxes. These firms will pay no excess profits tax at all this year. The same conditions will cause a decrease in the income tax collections, particularly in the high percentage brackets which reflected war profits and profiteering Talk of a billion-dollar tariff is nonsemse, A third of a billion in 1910 is the record return to date. This year's receipts were almost as large. Senator Smoot, who knows something of the matter, is not fooling himself. He is aware that such an income from customs is impossible. Only last week he went further and warned the wool growers that they need expect no retum to the ,, favors they received in the iniquitous Schedule K which wrecked President Taft. Some new source of revenue is imperative. Wise legislators will be investigating the most feasible way of raising the money which must be provided. PROTECT NERVES—AND LIFE. O-OPERATING with Commissioner Copeland in his anti-noise crusade, the police are _ Stopping and examining aytomobiles to locate un- noises. Examiners should have specific instruotions to test the warning devices and separate the sheep from the goats, The piercing sirens and whistles and the move blatant homs are the worst offenders in m: They are not only useless and offensive but posi- tively dangerous. No small measure of expert knowledge would be + required in a policeman qualified to diagnose and prescribe a remedy for a “knock” in the engine. ‘But the veriest tyro could “push the button” and banish the shrieking siren. There is no reason why nerve-racking waming devices should not be restriated in the same mannet that glaring lights are banned. There is every rea- son for the suppression of terrifying, dangerous warning signals that frighten more than they warn. Som. “There is no occasion for coal consumers paying unreasonable prices for soft coal,” the National Coal Association assures us, Such an assurance, unfortunately, has littie effect on radiator temperatures, although it may provoke a hot temper. " HOOTCH AS LOOT. aes a daring robbery of a mail train occurs it is “big news,” It is interesting because it has a historical background, Noted train robbers of other days have provided this, In the Sunday robbery between Omaha and Council Bluffs the robbers are believed to have ac quired some $20,000 {n loot. ‘The whole section is aroused fo capture the bandits, But in the same newspaper were accounts of at least three equally daring amd much more com- pletely organized thetty of intoxteating tiquors in transport. Judged by the value of the booty, the “hootch robbers" are far more enterprising and busi- ness-like than the old-fashioned mall thieves, The losses.in liquot were appraised at $65,000, $70,000 and $50,000. “Hootch robbing” has another matertal advantage, Bonds, checks and large bills are rather difftcult to transform into cash, Many a robber who has es- caped with his plunder has been caught when he tried to “cash in,” In the case of liquor, the market Is all in favor of the robber, Most transactions in “hootch’’ go through with “no questions asked.” THE COST OF CONGRESS. om? THE one hand, several of the interested persons are proposing increased pay for Congressmen. On the other hand, several Feapportionment pro- posals are ready to be presented, the effect of which would be to increase the membership of the House to nearly S00. To complicate maiters, voters have listened to economy pledges throughout the campaign. They are wondering whether these pledges mean an)- thing. > : Tovsuggest a solution jfgay be weil to recall a veli. When a “smelling committee” number of enployees in ihe Navy Depa Rousevelt was willlitg to meet the investigators hall Wa He offered to discha per cent. of the emplovees jy d Congress would consent to the divicion of alary saviligs among the re: maining empleo. Vhe Nation, we believe, would be more rere i sul approve a plin iu 1 the meni i we It ht be rad nalevially and ail iN . remain Cong Hei. , We imembers!i fits Tlouse vere reduced to 300 wind the salary total reamtied the sane it would provide for practically a 50 per cent. increase in Congressional salaries, If such a reform were made, it is highly prabable> that cach Congressman would be more efficient and actually worth the increased pay. Higher salaries would help to attract a higher grade of public ser- vants than are now in evidence at the Capitol . THE LIVING LEAGUE. ISTINGUISHED delegates from leading nations met in Geneva yesterday and formally organized the Assembly of the League of Nations+ under the covenant which is part of the Treaty of Versaiiles forty-two A considerable number of Americans will doubt be dumfounded that the newly organized As- sembly did not immediately pass a resolution acquiescing in Senator Harding's pronouncement that the League of Nations is “deceased” and, after a funeral oration or two, politely suggest that the delegates return home and wait for the President- elect of the United States to explain just how he will permit the peace of the world to be safeguarded. To those who hailed thé result of the recent elec- tion in this country as complete proof that the League is a corpst, the proceedings at Geneva must be ‘highly annoying. Yesterday the “dead” League calmly gathered itselt together in one of the most momentous meet- ings in history and prepared to set about its great task with every sign of life and vitality. Even the wrangle over the admission of Lord Robert Cecil as a delegate from South Africa, which Opponents of the League hoped might embarrass and discredit it at the start, failed to materialize. le ubert took his seat without challenge, Paul sans of Belgium was elected President, and the Assembly made ready to consider details of organ- ization and procedure, apparently unconscious that enemies of the League are already celebrating its demisa, no We o not mean by this that the defection of the United States does not seriously impair the League. We do mean that the League of Nations is a big- ger thing than even the United States and no amount of hypocritical half-baked “Americanism,” $o called, can ever make It otherwise. The delegates who gathered at Geneva yesterday did not belittle the harm done by this country’s absence. But neither were they one whit deterred from go- ing forward with the great purpode of the League. As between the supreme moral clalm of that pur- Pose and the momentary strength of prejudice and Party perversity in the United States, there can Be M0 question which must ultimately yield, ‘The deeper conscience of the American people is not going to let the United States be kept out of the League. The conscience of the American people will never permit the shame of a national policy which would cripple the League by keeping the United States out of St and then point to its crippled condition as an excuse for not golng In, TWICE OVERS. 6s Frkom what I know of Villa he will not follow that cecupation (of ranching) long." — Senator A. B, Fall. * « « “ec OU can make baildings to prevent fire, to wtthsland flood, to hold fast against cyclones, bul the one kind of building you can’t make is a pante- proof building.” Fire Chief Kenlon. * 6 6 66 ALL right, boys, let's go.” "Young" John Burrow THINK wa have been very tender with the Mayer.” | 66 HERE have been cleven convictions against Samuel Untermyer Py * . @ theatre in Third Avenue, but it rarely hap- pens that any license has been revoked.” Col, E. K. Coulter. 667 HE motion picture industry is only in its babyhood.” — Henry Arthur Jones. “cc M Y fight with Jack Dempsey won't last more in eight rounds. Whichever of us gels in punch will win.'’—Georges Carpentier. the first | | Laughed at Robert F THE EVENING WORLD, TUESUAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1920. ulton, Too. ult By John Cassel ‘ =e New Yor evening. World What kind of letter do you fine that gives you the worth of a thous: There is fine mental erercise | to say much ina few words, Take “Home Brew." To the Balior of The Eeening Worl T read to-day where the Proiibt- tlonists want the sale of mait and| hops discontinued. They are not sat- tsfled that 50 per cent. of the laboring men go directly home to enjoy @ glides of home brew with thelr sup- per, Instead of going to a saloon to drink that slops called beer or to drink whiskey Now they want t take the laboring man’s home brew away from him, not being satisfied to leave well enough alone, Why don’t they stop the sale of sugar and all fruice out of which brandies are made, or stop the sales of grapes out of which wine is made and bas a per- centage of & to 12 per cent. alcohol, while home brew has wbhout 4 per cent.? Why don't they demand that all articles used in the making of mash for whiskey manufacture bo | discontinued? There ate thousands of atilis tn, this clty where whiskey Iv made, and the supply is greater Chan the consunption, and which does more harm than the manufacture of home brew, The Proflbitioniats have made aases of themselves, and still they are trying to, mull the wool over | the eyes of the laboring man, A THMPERANCE MAN We Baie OF Tae Brewin Wort The State Military ‘Training Law wae insiiiuted duriug Mr, Whitman's faat term as Governor, and 1 believe it was he who was its strongest ad-| vocate, It was slipped over without much trouble and the people pald lit tle heed to tt, However, I wonder if the voter, and tax payers in particular, would | be surprised to learn that the average remuneration per “drill” which is re- | colved by the State training officers {4 $10? Some, fain told, receive us| high as $20.0 drill, and for what? Undoubtedly if some of the true and senscientious adlierenta to the univer- eal military training idea were tol witness the manner in whieh a “drill” is conducted, (hey would realiso the vaat difference between their dreams and theories and the practical execu- tion of the training law, ] am @ young man eighteen years of age and took the tralning for a} During that time T was not ear ven taught the manual of arms. The divcipling was a joke. "Phe officers cared about nothing but the way to) pass the time so that they might have more easy day's in their one pay pockets: At present IT am employed in an office and am takin well known correspondense sehool course, T hon- estly spend four nights a week on it, aludying hard from the the T finish dinner tit T retire. Fri night T practixe mastic lessons CL ata @ mem Jber of a small band) and Saturday | night 1 invariably have an opportu nity to earn a Httle money by play- ing at a dance I rogiatered when the time came | the d most readable? isn't at the vue ind Words «no couple of hundred? aid a lot of satisfaction ty truing time to be brief. night @chool but two nights a week had been), but was refused because they hadn't provided for such cases yw omy entire plan has been thrown out and TI will not be able to finish my course by the first of the) year, as | had intended (and gradua- Hon meant a new job). but will have| to drill every Friday. I advi: ory voter to get the true! figures regarding the money and ex- pense thi« ia costing and compare it with the good (which is nil) and have this law repeated. GBK Political sportamanship. To the Editor of Tha Brentra World | I am wondering |f WL. Hauser, | whose lotter you print in The Eye: ning World ‘of 8. has over) used “contemptu epithets" in connection with the name of our} present President, since he no doubt | voted for Senator Hurding, tt 1s to be resumed that he is opposed to Presi- dent Wilson one can draw one’s own conclusion as to epithets “Fair Play" -vame issue good = “#sportaman” that show respect for tho highoat office tn the land by preceding Mr, Wil- son's name with his official title, and he resorts to barroom slang to ex- Presa thoughts that he evidently can- not oxprems in good English, “Fair Pinay" jn of the type that will mourn the loudest and oulogize most bla- tantly after tho President has gone beyond, Perhaps greatness Is ita own reward, but most folks require that tho great one must die to win It. Congratulations, Mr, Editor, on printing such letters, When “Hair Play” sees his letter In cold type he may change his cognomen to “Foul Bawl,"" F, B. H. Irvington, N, J.. Nov. 0, 1920. fs auch a} he doesn't Abuse of the Prosident. the Halton of The Mrentnut World; Home of your correspondents com- plain of the criticism of Senator Harding in your editorials, despite fact thal during the past two Republican or “epsotal inter- est” papsra took great pains to 8e- lect the most vituperous, insidioug and insulting Jansuage in thelr mt- (acka on the President, Even after hia attack of illness they sneered and spoke aa If he deserved no more, Of course Mr, Wilson did not fa- vor Wall Street or any of the trusts, but did favor the mass of people Ho gave laber a square deal, He favored the common group, He oon- ducted the wat successfully, Of course there were efceased and u certain amount of waste which would have been inevitable under any President, These whe voted for Harding will find out how grossly they have been misled, When prices are high and wages low we will have explanations aplenty by administration papers ex years plaining (he why and wherefore, but no remedy It may be indelicate to say, and perhaps sound abusive, but it will undoubtedly prove true that the next President will be a mere puppet dom inated by others, and will be told togsign on the dotted ling, with no for the training, expecting to be ex-| cifice. INDEPEN DEN’ empted (for some whe @o te -ooklya, Now. 8, 1808, u si 4 ASE Ce Raa i IES UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1020, by John Bake.) \LWAYS WORK WITH A FACTOR OF SAFETY. A bridge uesigned to support a railroad train is always built far stronger than necessary to carry the load it is to hear, The difference between the weight of the train and the weight that the bridge will carry is called a factor of safety. . it is the protection to the people who travel on the railroad, the insurance to the railroad company against loss by the breaking of the bridge. Architects and engineers figure in the factor of safety before putting up any structure or edifice. And it is a necessary part of the edifice that you build— which you call your career. Work always with the idea that you may meet with an accident or fall ill, and that something must be provided to support you in the meantime. Keep, if possible, your work done far enough ahead so that you can afford to take a few days off if, because of a slight illness, you need the rest that will prevent its becoming a serious one. Gain among your fellows and with your employers a reputation for steadiness and competence that will insure your job during a lull in business which necessitates the laying off of part of the force. Remember that when such a [ull comes, the men in the organization are carefully checked off, and the most valu- able men continued on the payroll. : Make yourself a valuable man, and you have put a strong factor of safety between yourself and possible un- employment. Remember that while it is important to sav it is equally important to save energy and capaci of which have a money value. Dissipation, careless living, inattention to your work, wll cut down your factor of safety, and mak@it more dif- ficult for you to weather a storm. You can never read to-morrow, which is a closed book to the wisest and most thoughtful. All you can do is to prepare yourself fér any turn of bad luck that it may bring. That preparation is the factor of safety you must build into your life, Think of it constantly and it will save you many a jolt and perhaps failure that might easily have been averted. money, ‘y, both ® | | | | | Department ceives applications ~The Warriors | of the Bible By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory lComrright, 1920. by ‘The Press Publishing Cal (The New York Breulag World) No. 8.—Joab, David’s “Mighty Man.” | “Joab, the Captain of the Host,” Such was this old warmor’s title and he deserved it, for if ever there was 4 military man who was the “whole thing” tbat man was Joab, the mightiest uf King David's “Mighty | Men." |. As another bas said: “Joab haa deen called the Douglas of the House jof David. Jie was the Goneral with- jout whose aid the monarchy would not have been cstavlished, Had tt not been for David, Joab would have climbed up into the throne of Israel. As it was, he stood up on the ateps of the throne and faced the King all ‘hie days, His position In the kKing- |dom was second only to David, and jeven the King himself was afraid of his Commander in Chief." | The first mention of Joab is in con- nection with the skirmish at Gideon, dut It was during tho terrible fight for the capture of Jerusalem from the Jebusites that Joub leaped in fame. In that 1 ns Joal was the first walls of the 1 Bo enruplure formance thi the spot to the lsh ft, ihwt of “Captain of t i Jthat he held to his dying hou : | Joab wr lis name tn bleod all over the One ufter came the terriie campaigns | 7 Syria and Aminon, in Bde tn all of them Joab was victorious Toe tune was cruel, apd David's Commander in Chief was even more cruel than thy time in which be tived Pity and compassion were feeling ) Joay Was a total strange: want to read the story of a | uger in the shape of a man read the Slory of ony as told in the second book of Samuel It was bad vagh in Bolgium ant Northern Brance wide mans but the Belgians and Mr had 4 piente & “pared with Mo: ; Ammonttts and Edomites under Jowo and his hos ‘ Most of Joab’ sners werg 1! to the sword as svon after their cap n were kept ar he Generals of “ther nationalities, They were a alike, remorseless in their atinen eo “enemy.” W wa th them all fe such killing thelr eves. save in taro in siances, was unk wn, It wa. war \to the knife and knife to the hilt,’ regardless of age, sex or condition But, of course, we are thinking just \now of Joab th not Joab t moralist or ph pist; and as & fighter his story \s a brilliant one. You know, have been told that |“all things are fair in love and war.” land such appears to have been the creed of David's Captain, He didn’t fight fair—-if he could help |stratagem Joab was a master of |masters. Full of resources as an eek |!s of meat, he sneaked rather than marched to most of the victories just as he personally killed Abner, * Amaga and Absalom. Mr. Lincoln ts reputed to have sald he ‘didn't care whether his Generals drank whiskey or uot so long as they whipped the rm and it would seem to have been the case that King {David didn’t bother himself about bh great captain's character so long as |he brought him the ps of the Am monites and the Philistine But Nemesis got Joab at last lyed by the sword, and by order 0 {King Solomon he died by the sword | with no one to drop a tear fot him, He of New York City | _ Government __ By Willis Brooks Hawkins. This ia the forty-first article of a series defining the duties of the administrative and legislative officers and boards of the Now York City Government. PUBLIC WELFARE DEPARTMENT Investigations. The Bureau of Investigations, Boarding Out and Inspection of the of Public Welfare re- and makes in vestigations leading to the commit- ment of normal children to private child-caring institutions and thei therefrom; the support of born out of wedlock; the admission of aged women and couples to the Farm Colony Cot- tages; the financial relief of veterans and members of their families; the relief of poor adult blind not inmates of institutions and the transporta- tion and deportation of poor persons. Applications are made at the office of this bureau in the borough in which the person resides. Those of- fices are located as follows: discharge children Manhattan--No. 124 B. 59th Street, Frederick Fi. Bauer, Superintendent Bronx » Bergen Building, Ar- |thur and Tremont Avenues, Mary |O'Connor, Superintendent Brooklyn=No, 327 Schermer | Street, Willlam H. Heaton, su Jintendent { Queens Town Hall, Flushing, Wu- dora I Superintenden nond—-Borough Hall Staten Island, Bileen n, Superintendent Hoepital and Home Divi his bureau, of whieh Ar M on, D., 1k physic 5,000 pipes, some of them 16 inche A eee ————— 66 ’ 99|\'0 diameter, and sixty stops “That’s a Fact’’|) ae The fest old-style cannon in thi | By Albert P. Southwick world ts In Ghent, Bélgium. The di | 1900, by ‘The t ameter of the bore is 2% feet Comer, Te ee . | The Keven Wonders of the Middl: o. The largest fountain in the world|A@#* wore the Coloaseum at Rom ig at Wilhelmphohe, Cassel, Germany, | ® Catacombs of Alexandria, Dayp' It throws ® 1f-inoh stream £00 feet | tho Great Wall of China, the Leanin, in air. Tower of Pisa, Italy; the Porvela! tiabing Ces! jorid), Tower of Nankin, China; the Mosque with offices ing, Manhattan in the M make nti Siinto the ctr and inmates proposed charges by the private. hos; | a0mes of all borougiia, a and inmates admitted to the and homes of all boroughs un jurisdiction of the Department 4 |Public Welfare, with the exception @jof the Farm Colony Cottages, The Tuberculosis Hospital Admi« sion Division, of which Sterling Hot ter is Superintendent, with offices at 4 | No. 124 East 59th Street, recety plications for admission to preven- os Jof Bt. Sophia at Constantinople, and|toric. sanatoria and hospitals tor The luigest collection of coins, | Stonehenge, England | tubereulonis 195,000 in number, is in the cabinet of | sr > ce |p Vigter, 8. Dedworth is Director of antiquities, Vienna. $0,000 are Greek| ,., ; vert je Bureau of Inyentigations, Road and Roman | ‘The first Thank Me Day wan on] ing Inspection: Agnes M | Feb, 28, 1680 Appe 2% 9 of Mamachusetta for a genoral tas The largest organ ix in the Churoh|on account of the scarcity of of St, Bavon, Haarlem, Holland. Iti visions, but changed joy ani with supplies, ed by the bettlorn| Muiry, Assistant Director, and Jose ‘O- rt, hine V, rawley Supervisor in Chnrge of Reinvestigation and Place aj ment of Children. Thetr offices are fills entirely one end of the vast edi, thankegiving by the arrival of a ahipjon the tenth floor of the Mumioipai Buwiding, Manhattan, th te the pact, a Ape