The evening world. Newspaper, December 1, 1920, Page 30

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH P' Pudiianed Dally Except Sunday by ite Le Company, Nos. 53 to 63 Park nate PULITZER, President. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, SOREPH PULITZER, Jr. Secretary, LEAGUE OF UNIONS. |OVEMENT is under way in the American Federation of Labor to set up a tribunal will be effective in settling jurisdictional dis- be hoped the Federation will be success- will succeed in enforcing the findings of a Court of Labor, It would be a notable con- Ee Fao Soosive ssp ta labor eft. |_|. Jurisdictional disputes resulting in strikes and ‘e Uelays have been all too frequent. The strikers "fost, of course, in time or wages, but one party or the other had something to gain by a victory. The ; teal victims have been the public and the employers |. who were entirely innocent of any blame in the Ss Time and again work has been delayed at great % fhoonvenience while mentbers and leaders»of rival >. wnlons.have squabbled over which, if either, should do work which either or both might do. | Such disputes put a premium on overbearing, _ unprineipled overlordship such as Brindell , dis- played. ‘The viciousness of the jurisdictional war- | fare has never been more apparent than in the case "of the Brindell building-wreckers and the Zarenko union. Such disputes are properly subjects for adjudica- tion, arbitration and compromise, If Organized » Labor learns this lesson from its experience with ' Brindell and finds an effective remedy, the Lock- wood committee may count one more valuable | by-product of its activities. mos 1 wa 4 THE WRONG WAY. TSQUIETING reports come from Buffalo to the effect that negroes are being forced out _ ‘of that city by the police force. "Employment is reported to be the test as to _ whether a negro may remain in Buffalo, The un- _ employed are arrested and ordered out of town. ‘New negro migrants from the South have added ~ to police troubles in many cities of the North. But ' order rather than employment should be the police test of negro residents, For the disorderly, exile "| is not the proper substitute for jail terms. ___ Appolicy of raiding and rump justice by the potice ~ {s ticither a wise nor an effective way of meeting the problems arising from the anxiety of employers fo get any, sont of labor at any price during the war, ; i _ IN MEMORY OF DR. H’ M, LEIPZIGER, : ‘MBMORIAL, MEETING in honor of the late Dr. Henry M. Leipziger will be held to-night én Townsend Harris Hall, City College, under the muspices of the Bureau of Lectures of the Board of Education. There aremany in this great community who will [pay tribute to the of the Father of Public ‘Lecture Service in New York. | As The Evening World said at the time of his ‘Meath, the name of Henry M. Leipziger will always be ed with the beginnings of one of the “greatest educative and Americanizing influences in the iife of this city, j For more than a quarter of a century Dr.. Leip- » wiger was the efficient directing head of New York's » free public lecture system. ‘ One of The Evening World's earliest and most ‘far-reaching achievements was its campaign which "secured the use of public school buildings for the “broader purposes which Dr. Leipziger deeply be- “Weved in and which he carried forward to, large and, results. Under his direction, free evening courses in his- tory, literature, art and music.opened treasures of ‘interest, knowledge and opportunity for self-im- “provement to hard-working men and women who » “have neither the time nor the money the more for- | tunate can spend on these things, |, * Allihis life Dr. Leipziger sought practical answers ‘to the question how the alien worker can be made an American worker, Manual training, technical and trade schools, free libraries and lectures were “the Leipziger methods of turning aliens into loyal, contributive, integral elements in the Nation's indus- “trial and social life, ice ' Americanization work in this city has its firmest Mfoundations in the earlier movements to which COPE, BEA ie ATE jenergy and culture, There should be some permanent memorial in New York to Dr. Leipziger. =, Bronze or stone, of course, suggest themselves, ‘But the finest and most fitting memorial—one that the himself might have liked best—would be a splen- did new free lecture course for the people of New York, including every up-to-date illustrative or edu- ‘eative aid of moving pictures, music and the like, with the most distinguished names in the country gm the list of speakers, to be established, endowed ‘and forever known as the Leipziger Lectures, a PROTECT THE EVIDENCE. NDICTMENT of the members pf the Furring and “Lathing Association of Employers should d by vigorous prosecution, tharge 1s that these men destroyed evidence unions, L . “Henry M. Leipziger gave the best of his humanity, , in the form of books and papers wanted in { RWood inv ation J f ; Public testimony seems to leave smal) doubt that the act occurred. fession of guilt. if these meh can be tried and convicted it will serve as a timely warning to others similarly dis- posed. Every effort is being made to delay and obstruct this investigation. The reason for such efforts is that the investigators are getting results, In every court test the law has backed up the powers of the committee, indicating that the com- mittee is wisely staying well within its authotized field. But if associations and individuats may destroy evidence with impunity it is apparent that the inves- tigation Will be seriously hampered, ARE ELECTRIC COMPANIES ABOVE LAWS? HOUT public hearing or even due notice in the meaning of the law, three big electric compantes in this ¢chy—the New York and Brooklyn Edison Companies and the United Electric Light and Power Company—announce an increase of rates for electric current which will add from 10 to 15 per cent: to the bills of small consumers. ‘The first intimation consumers had of the raise was when they found in their mail this morning printed notifications from the electric companies to the effect that from to-day the price for each kilo- watt, hour of electric current will be subject to an addition to cover what the company has to pay for coal over and above $3 per long ton, The city should fight this high-handed action with every resource at its command. The electric companies quietly filed the new rates with the Public Service Commission thirty days ago without one word to the public, Corporation Counsel O’Brien declares that “the spirit and purpose of the law is being violated in this instance by these companies, apparently with the approval af the Public Service Commission.” The electric companies boost rates on a falling coal market, with no public hearing provided—and the Public Service Commission approves! If the Public Service Commission has slumped to this low level of usefulness the sooner it is found out the better. L NO ORDINARY COURAGE. HE death of Dr, Charles Infroit of France adds one more name to the roll of immortal heroes and martyrs of medical science. Even in this roll his deeds shine out, j Dr. Infroit was a scientist. His specialty was the’ X-ray. With it he cured others, but by constant association with the mysterious power he learned Tong ago that it was a danger to him, that it was killing him while he cured others, Two years ago he lost an arm from X-ray burns. Iso, it was lille less (han a con- To most persons this would be sufficient warning. But not in this case, Undoubtedly Dr. Infroit knew that if he continued his experiments they would be fatal in the long run. Yet he persisted, This is no ordinary courage. It is not the courage of the battlefield, in whic! men have companionship and a fellowship In-danger. This was the cold cour- age and devotion which enabled a man to stay on the battle line alone and suffer day in and day out, year in and year out, with the knowfdge that every day of service shortened his life. The only reward in such a capise is the knowledge of service rendered, the homage of associates, and the gratitude of those who benefit by the self-sac- tifice, ' * Such indomitable courage and fortitude are well nigh inconceivable to the mind of the average man. “The world is fortunate indeed to have an occasional example such as Dr. Infroit. It shows us why hu- manity progresses and why men differ from the An occasional man’ like. Dr. Infroit changes the world for all his fellows. SSE TWICE OVERS. “ec TAZ FAEE teoe ores men (the 100,000 youth- Sul gangsters of New York), who-aré neither on the side of honesty nor industry, are neglected noth- ing can be gained toward defeating Bolshevism by de- porting a few hard. fellows who talk in a’ language we do not understand.” —The Rev. P. S. Grant. * * + ' ap chine is not anything like as black as he is painted.” —John Armstrong Chaloner. . * *. 0°] OF con ven mall ©, 8 sip ener fom industrial democracy.”—-The Reo. James P, Cronin. ; . © 8 | SHALL be free to preach peace within nations as well as peace between nations.” —W, A, Ap- pleton, in resigning Presidency of International Feder ation of Trade Unions. ; * 6¢ FQEJEWELLED, scantily clad, in those fancy high heels and earrings—that is the street cus- tom of the American woman, It is the custom of the Eastern harem.” —Missionary Williams returned from A Pe an toy .jevening was over were : ‘to his personal liberty, right rn 'S¥ 2) . : ve THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1 There ts fine mental exercise Let's Bury Ow ‘To the Editor of The Evening a Now that.the reformers have Start~ €d a movement to stop us from en- joying our one day of pieasure that We are supposed to have, I suggest that some one start a movement to make gure that: Congress in looking over the next budget make sure that there Is on buying of coffins so that we can all bury ourselves and save those won- derful reformers from starting to amend the Constitution in some new manner, Let us have “a country by the re- formers, for the reformers, and of the reformers.” H.H Immodest Depressing. ‘To the Editor of The Prening World : Being a stranger In your city and having little to do, one evening last week I attended a cheap dance hall not far from 424 Street. Some of the sights Which I Witnessed before the a rhea Not anly were they disgysting, how- ever, but they called for Quick action on the part of the authorities, I eaw girls certainly not more than fif- teen years old dancing the most !m- modest steps with men many years their senior, Many of them were smoking. The music was of a type almost certain to have a Dad tnflu- ence on such young persons. The en- ing and common, c Rive Sunday. ‘To the Editor of The Breoing Work! “Government of the people, by the people and for the penple,” will sure- ly be an obsolete saying if Blue Sun- day goes into effect. We now read in the papers of a fine collection of antiquated reformers, who should have lived in the middle ages an would now make an excellent addi- tion to the fossil collection in the Mu- seum of N&tural History, New York 4 City, What on earth can thelr object be? The average man works six days a week. Sunday {6 the only day for recreation, and "what Js better than bmotoring, swimming or a play? Tam sure that sensible people will agree that whht Blue Sunday would prohibit 1s personal rights, If a man wishes to spend the day at-home, of in church, that is his business and should not be the law of the land, ‘The leader of the new movement was one of the actrve leaders in the Anti-Saloon League. Why didn’t he finish one thing before beginning an- other? I say to the 4,000,000 men who were ready to offer their all to their country, to have @ voice in whether the Blue Bunday goes Into effect or not. Is it a principle we fought for? Is it a principle our sons, brothers or comrades died for? No, a thousand times, no! The average man has a ‘To the Bator of The Eveaing Workd ; Referring to the letter under date of Nov, 22 complaining of the exor- pitant prices chi by rooming houses In New York City, I would like to call “A Vietim's" attention to the fact that there are dozens, s “ From Evening World Readers 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? to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. article allowing $100,000,000 for the g; tire atmosphere was sordid, a a by 0 Nea tor Gopstinia, 1930, t ahing Co renin Work) and a lot of satisfaction in trying | hundreds, of rooms over In the resi- dential section of Jersey City, in private homes of respectable citizens, who would be only too glad to rent @ good sized, heated room with all conveniences, including, in many cases, telephone and electric light, for # up a room per week. It takes only | twenty@five minutes to reach New York from the Greenville section on the Central Railroad, foot of Liberty treet. Considering the difference of room rent and all the conveniences derived by living in pleasant sur- roundings, one is more than willing to pay the additional fare. You can} {always get a seat and are travelling with a nice class of people. Several young people could form a club, and while they might not all get accommodation in the same house they could be in the same block or neighborhood and travel back and forth together. We have tried by advertising, but it Is dificult to explain all those facts in an advertisement. We do know from expérience with other New Yorkers that once over ere they will never again live in a crowded New York rooming house, subject to bugs and disease, as stated in that letter. . ° Most of our homes are detached houses with grounds around them, making all the rooms light and airy, besides having screened-in porches during the summer time. EVENING WORLD READDR. Jersey City, Nov. 26, 1920, High Priced Fiction, ‘To the Editor of The Brening Work! : The Interborough makes play with Tye Evening World disclosures ‘n its latest bulletin and quotes. tho fact that Boston and other cities apart from Philadelphia have raised their fares, as have Paris, London and other European cities. It is correct to say that inden has raised its fares, but the Lifterboro 1s only telling half the truth. The whole of the British railways fares, up to a year ago, when I left; were but 60 per cent, above pre-war, as were the London tubes, District-and Metropolitan electric railways and motor buses, and I have not heard that any further additions have been 6. deed, the London General Omnibds Company, which is more or less part and parcel of the under- ground rail service, has rocently put @ fleet of new style buses on the road which make an all-the-way trip at four cents, Where tho services of London and New York differ ts that in London you pay according to distance, If you want a half mile trip you do it for two cents, If you make a twelve. mile trip you take a ticket costing about 18 cents. In New York the short trip pas- eenger to pay for the fons tri 5 Further, the New York service gives no consideration to regular pas- | sengera; the city worker, travelling! to and fro, meta no rebate, In Lon-} don the early travell a double! journey ticket at a fare, or he may take @ season it for three, six or twelve months at a pres well below ordinary faré and he is not @ven|\imited to the trips as the monthly, it's John to-night, ak e RRA AAA AAA AARP AAA AAAAAAP AAA eee UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1990, by Zohn Blake.) DIVIDE A BIG JOB INTO LITTLE ONES. A big job, physical or mental, is always discotraging. The small boy who has a lawn full of leaves to rake up looks at the leaves and fills his soul with despair. Everywhere he looks is an ocean of leaves. To get them all into piles with a single rake seems impossible. _ Last week we saw another kind of a small boy. He had carefully warkéd off the lawn he had to rake into squares and counted all the sqmares, He was busy on the first with a rake. tioning passerby. ‘‘When I get one of these squares all nice and clean I'll want to make the others look as nice, and then the job will be easy.” . Here was a small philosopher who will go far in the world. For he knew, without being told, how to tackle a job in the right way. Try that yourself the next time you are confronted with a piece of work whose mere bulk makes it seem impossible. Divide it into sections and complete one section. If you do that well the desire to do the rest of it equally well will carry you through the whole job beforé you know it. Never get in a hurry to get through a task merely be- panee it is a big one. Hurry at the beginning will mean a reakdown before you get half through. Look it over. Make a survey of it. Divide it into sec- tions. If there is a part of it that is particularly tedious and wearisome, do that first, When you have got over it the rest will seem, and ac- tually be, easier. ‘ . There is always satisfaction in knowing that part of your work is done, even if it is but a small part. To-mor- row there will be twice, perhaps three times as much done; for you. always work more easily with practice. When it is half done you know that the worst is over, and the remaining work seems increasingly easy. You cannot climb a mountain by a flying leap to the top unless you happensto be in an airplane. You cannot build a house by shovelling the bricks into the wall with a steam shovel, . Always you must proceed slowly at first. afraid to begin. When a part of it is done you will have a start, and a good start has cartied'many men to what they considered impossibilities before they began. commuter’s ticket here, Even allowing that the London service {8 as congested during the rugh hours as in New York, the Lon- don workers certainly have the pe with a better service, better cars than the L operates afd the additional ad- vantage of a bus service that reaches every section, to say nothing of the London County Council and United | way, trolley services. sae JBRSEYITB. Hillsdale, N, J., Now, 29, 1920. ‘dn Behalf of the Girls.” Fo the Kaditor of The Evening World: “In Behalf of the Gins,” in Satur- day's issue was just what we needed, It does seem that the average New York girl prefers to spend five nights a week at some dance hall and the other two at some Broadway ($6.60 for two) theatre. Why? That's easy. to-morrow, Bob, the next evening and so on. to himeelf, he has got with the rest.” are not. Its fifty-fifty. If che girls the fellows complain, and ROBERT RAYMOND RO . Read the Constitution, ‘To the Exlitor of ‘The Evening World: out the advice and consemt, of Songrete or Senate. not. , Who is correct? New York, Nov. 40, 1920, “I can see what Iam doing now,” he said to a ques-, But don’t be’ nts, Bo if the fellow expects to hold a girl all to “keep up But are the girls to blame? ‘They if th don't gouge, the fellows complain a: ‘ee because they're too old fashioned. LPH, 586 Broome Street, Noy, 28, 1920, A claims that the President of the United States has the power to make treaties with forelgn countries with- the B claims he has J, C. JOHNSON, he Warriors. of the Bible By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory. Comrie, ae Wakes ene * No. 10—Abishai the Fear! Abishal, the eon of Zeruiah brother of Joab, was a member df Israél's finest aristocracy, but it waa y merit rather than he won for himself gerous work. The more danger theré ‘Was the better Abishai enjoyed it, Abishai’s war record is a long an@ Blorious one, He was with Da his famous raid against Saul’ quarters when, it will be re: they found Saul fast asleep with bie Javelin beside him on the ground, He was with Joab at (ibeon, where Abner’s hosts were crushed. In the war against Hanun he wae second in command at the great battle of bah, driving before hie the Ammonites, while Joab was fim ishing up the Syrians. “ In the great Edomite campatga Abisha! took a prominent part. At the decisive battle in the Valley of Salt he carried off the highost honors Gnd was the recipient of the tinest possible gompliments directly froma his King, » aid At the battle of the Wood of Pphraim he commandeli one of the three divisions of the army and, ag usual, gave a splendid account of himself, $ Very thrilling, even at this distant day, is the atory (IL Samuel xxi, 17 of how this doughty warrior rescue David from the gigantic Philistine, Ishbebenab; and in IL Samuel err 18 and L. Chronicles x1, 20, > how, single-handed, the might fighter contended ruccessfully againgt 800 of the enemy, This reminds us of some of great achievements of individual iors during the late World War, while, if I remember aright, no of them ever quite came up Abisbal, what they did is enough convince me that the story of the Hebrew warrior is quite believable, Unlike Lee and George H. Thomas, the “Rock of Chic! “mauga,” but much like Hood, Sheridan and Cue ter, Abishdi wag a creature of im- pulse, hot-blooded, and quick to agt as_a “halr-trigger.” David ‘had all he could do to keep him from killing Saul and Abner the night of tho raid, when they found them sound asieep in the midst of the laager made by the wagons, and it took every bit of the King’# firmness to keep him from putt! the everlasting quictus upon Shim While the upstart of a rebel stoi cursing David and throwing stones at him, his Lieutenant's blood boiled, and “then said Abishal, the son of Zeruiah, unto the King, “Why should this dead dog curse my 1 the King? Let me go now, thee, and take off his head.” By the way, let me say here, lest should forget it, that for real soli human-interest reading that six’ teenth chapter of II. Samuel ts hard te beat. It 4s in that line a pure c and I defy any man to tead it an not feel a mighty strong liking ‘g to._ the rough-spoken soltlier who want: the “dead dog” a so much to get id of his insulting prea rid the earth ANSWERS TO QUERIES. Ts a poll tax charged to citizens af the polls, at a.public election, in any part: of the United States? ¥ FRANK PACK, »' 211 Division Street, N. ¥, City. In-some of the States only—fore merly the practice was quite univers salelectors (voters) are required pay an annual poll or capftation tag as a condition of voting. This ig merely a nominal sim of $1.50 to $§ (though varying from $1 to $4) and is merely a tax on persons. In a few States taxes on property, when nop id, will prevent an elector frons exercising his voting rights, It ts tact, however, that in many cori munities, and especially in larg@ cities, there are thousands of eleos tors who make use of the ballot box each year a6 an expression of thete rights and privileges who have neves had @ tax receipt in their possession, There is no such requirement in Ni York State, er} #6 # ‘What ts meant by a “town seal’? WERTH. | Jersey City, N. J. It is the official seal of an Incorpo, rated town to be used on its bot warrants and all official documents, and usually represents in design phase of the town's life or hist For intance, the historic town of Cans cord, Mass., adopted a seal which boara the figure of the Minute Man, with the date April 19, 1775, and 4he Latin tne scription, “Quam firma res concordia,* togethor with the date of the incorpg. ration, Sept, 32, 1685, . Why wan't the father of Pocahomy tas fen: y at her wedding?—Teachem Brooklyn, N. ¥. Capt, John Smith returned to mgs land In 1609, and, after his > the m of the colonists reli Gapt Bemval Argel @ recat per tratical character, who had made trous Bie with the Dutch of New Amster. dam, bribed a savage, old Japazaws, means of @ copper kettle, to bet Pocahontas into his hands ‘while com~ pelling Powhatan to make restit: for injuries inflicted. For love ef hia daughter the Indian Chief (or. Empes Tor) agreed to the terms of rangony gladly—and promised unbroken frie) ship for the English, She was 1 free to return, but an attachment grown up between her and John Kt and #o she remained to become aficy a bride, Powhatan, stil picious of the good faith of the lish, kept aloof, remaining in his itation (“palace,” the Todlans called at Werbwocomoce, * -