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Jeorumea Dany xcs Company, Nos. 6 ‘ @ /RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS GOSBPH PULITZER: Jr.. Secretary. ie SHAW, Treasurer, 68 Park Row. Park Row. — n - NO ORDINARY CHARGE. ; N fixing bail at the unusually high figure of p ] $100,000 in the case of Robert P. Brindell, in- dicted for attempted extortion, Judge Mulqucen * said * “Tt is my duty to hold the accused in $100,000. This, I feel, is no ordinary offense and no ordinary offender.” . Public opinion is in entire agreement as to the seriousness of the offense, Without prejudging the man against whom the \ charge is made, the people of this city are of no two mincs as to the imperative need of either <learing or convicting him. Testimony before the Lockwood Committee has “Ppointed to conditions in the building trades which ™ cannot be tolerated. ‘ . i If these conditions exist, individuals as well as Vetganizaticns are responsible for them. ‘Y - Blame must be fixed and where punishment can t ‘be immposed the law must impose it, unless the whole | ed oe } building trade investigation is to be a mere flourish «§n the air, \ ‘After what witnesses testified as to the activities ix {of Brindell, head of the Building Trades Council, “his indictment by the Grand Jury for attempted extortion was as nwuch a foregone conclusion as was | the indictment of George Backer for perjury. * Now, in the interest of the accused and of the -Sommunity, let’s have quick application of justice. BACK TO A PEACE BASIS? = EPUBLICAN committeemen forecast a reduc- fe tion of 40,000 in the number of Government employees at Washington. ! Early this year The Evening World recommend- \ed such, procedure. “Get the Country Back on a ee Peace Basis” was the slogan for a series of Eyening * World aiticles exposing the way in which Govern- “ment bureaus were overstaffed, 5) eratic Administration had the courage to wield the axe with a campaign impending. As a result the _ taxpayers have to foot the bills. / Representative Wood's estimate of a possible saving of from $100,C00,000 to $200,000,000 by Whoiesale discharges is not too great. However, it is an old political trick to abolish jobs licld by members of one arty only to re-create similar jobs to be filled by members of the winning . The country will be wise to inquire how many _.. New place holders succeed the 40,000 slated to go. A RENT LAW UPHELD. HE Co-operative Tenancy case which Justice Lauer decided Tuesday turned on the point ‘which The Evening World emphasized when the claws were passed. The test for the eviction of tenants whose leases fhad expired turned on the “good faith” of the co- operative organization which bought the property. | After a complete investigation of the deal a jury -@ecided that the purchase was made in good faith 2 nd that the buyers were entitled to possession after existing leases have expired, Justice Lauer specifically upheld the validity of the law. | Jury trial of such cases insures justice to tenants. ‘ Most of the jurors will be tenants, = | If shifty real estate dealers attempt to secure evic- __ ‘| tions by creation of co-operatives not organized in a : } good faith, the jurors may be depended on to detect e bad faith and find accordingly, ’ GIVE THE MAN WHO PAYS THE BILL HIS SHARE. 66\/OUR check is your receipt” has come to be an accepted understanding with persons pay their bills by check. ny firms and public service corporations in this city print on their monthly bills a notice to the - effect that unless a receipt is specially requested, the voucher that comes back from the bank in the shape of a cancelled check will be assumed suf- ficient for the man who has paid his bill. This means a large saving in postage and clerical * — work for the firm or corporation, On the whole, ¢ it seems to have worked without much inconven- “Fence or objection. But we should like to put in a word for the cus- mner and subscriber, Why not make it a more general rule for firms anj corporations to inclose with their billsean ad- dressed envelope, which will save trouble for the man who is mailing the check ? Some firms do this. More do fot. A small part of what the firm saves in postage by not sending receipts it could well devote to pro- -) widing this convenience for charge customers. ‘The chances are a man will: pay his bill more promptly if he has only to slip his check into an addressed envelope, stick on a postage stamp and avho “ht | ~ drop it im a mail box. y firms, in T dow-faced envelopes, which make it unnecessary to type the name and address of the customer save on the bill itself. Why not print the name of the firm on the other side or end of the bill in such a way that the cus- tomer could make use of a similar window-faced envelope in mailing the bill with his check? Smal matters, but they mean a lot in time saving. Give the fellow that pays the bill a fair share of the convenience. MOVING’ PICTURES AND THEIR INFLUENCE. ‘OTION pictures make the widest popular ap- peal of any agency that this or any other generation has seen, The possibilities of the moving picture for carry- ing amusement, instruction and mental stimulus to men, women and children in every walk of life, in city, town and village, are even yet grasped only in their beginnings. \ The popularity, cheapness and portability of the motion picture filma already mark it as one of the most far-reaching human inventions since the de- velopment of the art of printing. i The Evening World would be the last to deny the power for good that lies in moving pictures, But the very strength of this hold motion pictures have taken on oid and young requires an enlarging sense of responsibility as to the character of the entertainment they provide, ; In power of vivid suggestion the film is/far be- yond the printed page. As a means of graphic illustration—for good or evil—no ordinary picture or text can approach it. in subject scope, no less than in the immensity of the audience it reaches, the film immeasurably outdistances the legitimate stage. The more reason, then, for keeping constant watch on the influence it exerts upon minds—par- ticularlyeupon young minds. Censorships have been established for this purpose, } But the censors have become lax and :unintel- ligent. t No one will maintain that the right: kind of “movies” for children are films that show ingenious methods of murder, burglary and bomb-throwing, or that exploit immorality for the sake of “putting punch into the pictures.” : ‘Yet The Evening World has found this kind of pictitre only too common at present in New York “movie” theatres that are most frequented by children, The city is overlooking a grave duty. It provides playgrounds, recreation centres, whqle- some influences and aids toward making good citi- zens out of the coming generation, ‘ Yet it ignores the amusement of which most of these boys and girls are fondest. t It sees no harm in letting their immature imagi- nations and emotions be stirred by “movies” that are lurid and immoral. This is not an argument for Sunday-school “movies.” ‘There are pleniy of moving pictures that are full of thrill and excitement without depending for either upon morbid visualizations of crime. The great numbers of unobjectionable , films offering enterlainment of the most absorbing and satisfying sort are additional reason for ruling out the kind that “play up” evil and degeneracy, The Evening World is not trying to put acheck on the possibilities of moving pictures, It only urges that we expand those possibilities without perverting them. TWICE OVERS. 66 QIHAW'S a great fellow. He slings a nasty pen.” —George M. Cohan. ; * * * 'E must sce a head before we can crack it.” — Judge Mulqueen. i ce . * * t: “FE ‘bee! Brands Untermyer Attack as Des- picable.”-—Streamer Headline in Nee York American, 66] F the people want me I shall return to Athens, unless, of course, prevented by unjust force.” Ex-King Constantine. . * * ‘ce HE Assembly secognizes that you have done perhaps more than any other man to lay the foundations of the League.” ~Pasil Hymans, President of League of Nations, to President Wilson. * * * “ee HE people of Brooklyn should not be out in the cold while some of the Federal officials are failing to meet the very serious (coal) emergency.” —Distric Attorney Lewis. | HE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, NOVEMB ‘ if ! Fanal Pay for Kquat Work. To the Editor of Tho Evening World: this newspaper on the subject of “Equal Pay for Equal Work,” I have several comments to make. ‘To my mind, one of the important | reasons 2 man receives more money than & woman is because employers | realize that in most cases there are more tremendous upon the shoulders of a man—to sup- port a wife and family. ‘Thié is more apparent when we see that most working women are unmarried, If the man iy unmarried he is de- serving of extra money to lay aside for the future, a college edutation, to go into business, to get married, But with the greater number of women, ting a husband and letting, him sup- port her Another argument !s that the labor turnover among women 18 much greater than among men, An em- ployer is skeptical about paying a large wage to @ woman who may resign the next day to get married. eral classes of male and female workers, the men are the more sin- cere, ambitious, earnest, and less ad- dicted to: that awful disease of “chewing the rag.” A READER. New York, Nov. 15, 1920, Has Broad Powers. ‘Yo the Falitor of Tho Evening World Kindly let me know if the Lock- wood committee was appointed to in- vestigate the elty departinents or was it appointed to help housing condi- PATRICK O'BRLEN, Noy, 13, 1920, tlons. New York City hey Shali Be as Gods.’ tdiwor of The Lvening World; Sir Auckland Geddes in his speech Nov. 12 at the Biltmore warned us civilization could not survive another great war, and urged a complete un- derstanding between the United States and Britain as a preventive of war, ‘The people of America have just repudiated the English League of Na- ons as they have never repudigted duything by the ballot before and it should satisfy Sir Geddes America’s understanding is complete, The British Ambassador also stated, “But here men are us gods.” Yes! The incoming Republican Adminis- tration shall be as gods in dealing | with the main obstruction to his de- | sived understanding between his and our Government, for Harding and the new Congress will and shall prove as American as their suport- ers believe them to be. It will be but necessary for them % ognize the Republic of Ireland os Gemand that England do responsibilities | their most finportant thought 1s get- | Referring to the letter appearing in| tion made us as gods. \ | And, don't forget, taking the gen-| 7? !d¢ ater of T j but true Americans, euro oa omens SRR KARIN ea From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readablef Isn't it the one | that gives you the worth of a thousand words in agouple of hundred? | There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying | to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. Satne and Ireland will be free America, Our might and unique pos! Sir Geddes whines about peace while Lioyd George whimpers that , England's safety necessitates her re- | | tention of Ireland. To accept that plea, we would have 'o do so in defiance of justice, and in so doing we would be simultaneously serving notice on all concerned that England would be right in seizing and holding, under the same pretext, the entire territory of France. | Lloyd George's anxiety to huld Ire- | land for England's eafety suggests to | the mind he is worrying about the, navy America will have three years) hence; so let every man and woman} in America pray, wotk and fight for the unqualified and absolute inde- pendence of Ireland. | History proves Ireland has a} greater Claim on our sympathy than | England. Our common business gense should make us cultivate an ever in- creasing solicitude for the freedom and safety of Ireland, for if that country were restored’ to her own, through our good offices, we would have a friend where in tine we may most need one. CLAUDE WALTER CULLEN. 580 Mott Avenue, Nov, 14, 1920. “Still Amertean.” Brewing World I read “with mingled pity and dis- gust In this evening’s paper the rav- ings of another self-centred, self- termed “True American,” who 1s stupld and narrow enough to pro- claim that because the majority of voters of these United States did not agree with him they aye everything Such a statement on the face of it \s ridiculous enough, but tt becomes laughable to cal! Harding supporters pro-German when we remember the fact that Woodrow Wilson Was elect- ed in 1916 largely by means of the slogan, "He kept us out of war.” T hate to belleve that the writer of that letter is a “true American,” {n- asmuch as most true Americans real- jge that this great Republic is based upon the will of the majority, and the majority are still Americans, B, FEINER JR. Nov. 11, 1920, New York, B in Correct. Buitor af The Dvening Works saya the President of the United States does House. B says the President of the United States does live in the White House, ALBERT E. BARRNTZ. New York, Nov, 10, 1920, Fresh Air at the Li To the Bilitor of The Eveniig World: it seqms strange at this period of the year that. readers who go to the Library for some comfort have the windows opened upon them and the main door also open, In the : zine room last winter I contracted a severe cold which developed into ary. the bronchitis, Better treatment should be shown the patrons of the Library. AR’ COURTNEY. ‘ew York, Nov, 16, 1920, The Warriors of the Bible By Rev. Thomas B, Gregory} lCovyrignt, 1920, by Tae Pree Publishing (The_ New York Brealag World) No. 9—Ittai, the Chevalier Bayard of the Bible. Of the immortal French Knight it was said that he was “without fear and without reproach,” and upon the monument above his’ ashes is the well-deserved inscription: His bones are dust, His good sword ru: His soul is with the saints, we trust, An equally honorable tribute be- longs to Ittal, the Gittite, whose ‘briet but honorable story is given us in II, Samuel 15: 18-22, David had his troubles like all the rest of us, and one of his greatest troubles, the one that grieved him the most, was the revolt of his son Ab- salom. x Absalom appears to have been one of the astutest politicians of his time, and from all accounts he was the original ‘Populist’ or “People's Party” advocate. He hired a lot of shouters to go before his chariot as he moved about, and as often as he succeeded in gathering a crowd Jaround him he would tell them what an unjust’ and iniquitous thing the Government was; how it was next to impossible for the “plain” people to et justice at its tribunals, and how, , if they would only get together and | stand by him, he would see to it that | everybody got a “square deal.” Absaloin's (rick fovied the peuple to Such extent that a messenger was sent to King David with the advico to get out quickly if he thought any- thing of his life, and David got out, | without any particular regard te the | order of his going. | At this point begins the story of } [ttai, which had better pe told in thé very words of the Bible itself: | And the King went forth, and all the people after hin, And all the |Gittites, six hundred me which | came after him from Gath, passed on before the King. Then said the King to Ittai the |Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also | with us? Heturn and abide with the | King, for thou art a stranger, and {also ‘an exile; ine Own country. Wheres amest but yesterdty, should [ this day makea thee go up and down with us, seeing |1 ~o whither I may? Return thou, and take back thy brethren; mercy and truth be with t And Ittai answered the King and }said, “As the Lord liveth, and as my lord the King liveth, surely in what place my lord the King shall be, whether for death or for life, even there also will thy servant b And David said to Itai, and pass over.” And Ittai, the Gittite, | passed over, and all his men and all the little ones that were with them. Volumes have been written about the Chevalier Bayard, and he richly ‘deserves every good word that was ever spoken or written of him; bu } Who could be ¢ it than Itt the | Commander of the “Noble Six Hpin pct ues | who passed éver wi Dadid? Did chivalry and undying devotion ® | ever-reach a higher mark than | this \“stranger who came but yesterday,” By John Blake. (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake) LITTLE THINGS ARE WORTH LEARNING. “However much money you will make, your real fortune will be in your mind. The richest man in dollars is poor if he is poor in thought. " His dollars will do him no good if he lacks the imagina~ tion to spend them wisely, And it is one of the consola- tions of the poor to see how many of the rich are only made miserable by the money they: have accumulated. Begin life by figuring that your fortune must be laid up in the hidden and mysterious cells in your brain, where memory is stored and thought employs its miraculous processes. "If. you do that you can be reasonably sure of a com- petence, which is all any one really needs. And remember that learning, like money, is gained a little at a time, and that no scrap of wisdom is too small to be acquired. Said a wise Greek: “Those persons who despair of “ever being rich make little account of small expenses, think- ing that little added to a little will never make a great sum.” Yet it is a little added to a little that has built up the greatest fortunes the world has ever known. And a little added ‘to a little builds the fortunes in the mind that make men in their later years happy and con- tented and independent of all the rest of the world. Looking at the sum of human knowledge, it seems im- possible that you will ever be wise by learning painfully one little thing at a time. Because you cannot master in a day an entire language you give up the study of the language. You cannot see how by studying the development of a seed you can ever know anything about the evolution of the human species. A Yet knowledge must be gathered slowly, bit by bit. And out of knowledge springs wisdom, Learn patiently gnd thoroughly little things. Their sum will become important soon, and in their accumulation you will gain a fortune worth more to you than any safe deposit stored with gold and stocks and bonds. not lve in the White|” enn ems | the same year he invented the ele T r) 93 | Ire pen ana the carbon Th t Fact ing telephone. atsa oe jJoud speak- |chose to take his stand besid | Man and the Cause in which his soul | believed? } Ittal remained true-blue to the end, }lending his military skill to Davic Joub in their struggle for sthe | pression of Aibsalom’s revolution, and, | his work yell done and his sword and |his heart unstained, he passes off the stage, leaving behind him the story \that the elect of the earth throughout jall the ages will read with the pride that thrills the sou lia thal sup- Ten-Minute Studies _ of New York City __ Government Ry Willis Brooks Hawkins. Tits 13 the forty-second article of @ serics defining the duties of the admin- istrative and legislative officers and boards of the New York Otty Govern- ment. PUBLIC WELFARE DEPARTMENT. Bureaus and Divisions, In addition to the various bureaus and Divisions ef the Department of Public Welfare described tn previous Jarticles of this series, the following Jare maintained: | Children’s Clearing Bureau, Black« well's Isianc,’ Anna Cunningham, | nurse-in-chaj This is’ a-clearing bureau for the mental and physical examination of children accepted as | public charges ter investigation by the borough offices of the Bureau of | Investigations and before their ad« miss 1 to child-caring institutions, Its Inspection Division in the Mu- 11 Building, in charge of Eleanor mara, ingpects private char- » institutions and agencies _re- | ceiving money from the City of New | York tor the care and maintenance of cepted as public charges, y Out Division, in the ing, visits and super~ |yvises in family homes children who been acgepted as public charges rded out by the Department » Welfare and the child-care titutions and agencies, artment of Public Welfare ment! clinic on the first nict Municly | ing insi | The De conducts ( Jfloor of the Post-Graduate Hospital, 20th Street and Second Avenue, Mans hattan. This clinic receives applica= tions and makes examinations for care in the municipal and State in- stitutions for the feeble-minded and epileptic. The Division for the Inv of Mental Cases, at. No. Manhat estigation. 354 Second n, makes investiga- by Aldert P. Southwick || wiht also i 1878 that Prot nomic and home conditions | Lewye. Mow, by The ome Poplshing ughes constructed an instrument|of applicants for admission to and “the, Nos “tom phates Mette "ll lwnten ne callon e microphone and, | discharge from institutions for the a little later, the firat telephone com-|feeble-minded and epileptic, | Ffora pany was established, M. Purcell is Investigator-in-Charge, In 1839 the iron and steel patent of Aiea? ‘The Collection Division receives Heath was given; ozone was discov- ered; the daguerreotype patented and Talbot's invention announced; abe OURS, wood-paving was tatro- juced, der whose spreading branches In 1878 Thomas Edison bis discoveries in electric ‘The famous old chestnut tree un- money from parents and others in part payment for support of inmates Lord | in institutions of the Department and Howe and his officers had thetr lunch. eon just before the Battle of White Plains, N. Y., in 1775, ie still standing in @ wooded dell north of Eastchester, in the Bronx. It is known as “Lord Howe's tree.” in private inst{tutions recelving pub- lic_charges, The Department also maintains three mortuaries and the City Ceme- tery on Hart's for unidentified unclaimed