The evening world. Newspaper, December 3, 1920, Page 38

‘ i \ * \ ’ ) ‘THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, teze.™ Soconesiametbnemneniaianetineiene:reanenier semmmememneen-auecieiiaieememminan: tl Gre ebiiin saint, RSTABLISHRD BY JOSRPH PULITZAN, it Daily Except Subday by the Press Publishing 7, Now, 8 to 68 Row, New Terk. /RALPH PULITZER, President, 69 Park Now. ANGUS BMAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. PH PULITZER: Jr,. Secretary. 68 Park Row. - MEMBBR OF THE ASSOCIATED PaERa. FILTHY PAPER MONEY. HY is the paper 'y now circulating in this section of the country the raggedest and filthiest ever seen? It’s a rare thing in New York these days to get any kind of a small denomination bill that is fit to be handled with anything but the tongs. It used to be the rule that tom or dirty paper currency was either laundered or replaced. fas the Federal Reserve Bank adopted a new policy of putting soiled, tattered bills back into cir- culation until they drop to pieces? Dirty paper money has long been recognized as ‘one of the most dangerous mediums for spreading disease, There is enough filthy paper currency circulating tn this city to-day to start a pestilence, / INCLUDE THE PUBLIC. HE Meat Council of New York has been organ- ‘ized. Its announced purpose is to cut down overhead costs in the retailing of meats. . Retailars and representatives of meat-packing firms constitute the organization. , There is a field for such an orgamtization. Cer- tainly tae public will approve any steps that may Jower meat costs. But woukd it not be desirable to have a represen- tative of the Department of Markets in the council, to represent the public? Perhaps the city can help the dealers. If the Meat Council is what it purports’ to be, there could be no objection from the ‘meat dealers, Indeed, a representative of the public would help insure the Meat Council against suspicion that It ‘may be merely another trade organization with Ostensibly laudable aims that serve to disguise the teal purpese of price-fixing, marketrigging, unfair { Pie and conspiracy. The Lockwood committee has discovered so iny trade organizations with illegitimate aims that it behooves new associttions to act with special care. “Segregation” is a word we are likely to hear automobiles and walk ‘than to try to ride ¢o thelr a; destinations. When the Harriss plan of regulating Fifth Avenue traffic with lights was suggested it roused a storm of criticism, Results have converted even the most skeptical, ‘A one-way Broadway may not prove as advan tageous as Commissioner Harriss anticipates. Too much detouring and inconvenience may result. But give the plan a trial If Improvement és not manifest, It will be a simple matter to end the ex- periment and go back to the present Inextricable congestion, EVERY REASON FOR IT. RESIDENT WILSON, it is reported from the White House, will be glad to see the Presi- dent-elect when Senator Harding rétumns from his vacation. There fs every reason why Senator Harding should accept the invitation. No good reason for réfusing is apparent. Senator Harding has pledged himself to take counsel with the best minds of the country, Presi- dent Wilson has one of the best. The coming session of Congress is highly im- portant. I should mark a period of legislative achievement. No man will exert greater influence on the Sen- ate than President-elect Harding. This will apply after his prospective resignation “as well as in the month he probably will serve, It may be assumed that President Wilson and Senator Harding will not agree on all policies. But there is the possibility of agreement or compromise on some imperatively needed measures, Critks frequently have complained that President Witson has been a hard man for others to work with. If this is true, the offer of a meeting with his successor may indicate a change. The possible benefits from such a meeting are too great to be disregarded. At the worst, a com- plete disagreement would do no more than clarify issues. At the best, the two men might be able to formulate a mutually satisfactory programme in what virtually amounts to an interregnum in Fed- eral government. THE BASIC FACTOR. ee Lockwood committee has adduced enough evidence to prove to the public the charge that a building material ring has had a hard and fast strangle-hold on the market. Nothing couki be more damaging than the re- luctance and refusal of those involved to testify. Here is the most fundamental factor in the hous- ‘The Great Bird of Fre edom x2, By John Cassel The Warriors of the ible | By Rev. Thomas Bo GO esory |] coves ithe New York 2 No. I -Jonathan, the Friend of Dav.d Whose me t ond 3 just,” Was one of the fnegt-looikims Tmen of his time, He was a is Alot: . and possessed along with his wand beauty the * tine moral principle to which the handsdme Greek was a total stranger. In jine with the poet's declaration that the “loving are the, daring.’ we ‘find that Jonathan's gentleness of eout carried along with it the manline surage of the bravest of the n she cinell sw ad ng the Crown Prince of the of Israel, Jonathan was nob nthe upportuntty tn war that be otherwise have possessed, but qven with this great handicap upoo jim he mangged upon more than one uccaston to Miow his mettle Some idea of what Jonathan was cupable of doing in the line of war like achlevement may be gained from |tho interesting story given tn I. Sam uel, xtv, 1-17 | While the Phitistines were still | stvong tn the country one of their of- ficery with a congiderable foroe was stationed at Gaba, near by the polnt where Jonathan stood with one thou | sand amon In a moment of youthful darter Jonathan slew thia officer, which was taken as @ signal for a general revolt lof the Tsruclites. ‘Tho Philistines came back at them with renewed |vigor and the oppression became. | greater than e From this oppres- sion Jonuthun resolved to be the first |to free his people, inasmuch as ho had been'the first to bring It on. Without communicating his project to any one except his armor-bearer, Jonathan sailied torth from Gibeah to | attack the yarrieon of the Philistines, lon the other side of the steep defle The suddenness and vigor of the assault threw the garr.- ‘son Into a pantie, the-pante spread itke wildfire, and the Philistines were | routed “horse, foot and dragoons.’ | Tt was a splendid piece of work, and | stamps the victor as a man who, bad [the opportunity been given him, would most asmuwediy have written his hame high wp in the list of military heroos, a Jonathan was kdHed along with bis two brothery and his father, King Saul, at the famous battle of Gtlboa It was upon receiving the news of Jonathan's death that David uttored. out of his broken heart the immortal eulogy, Il, Samuel, xl., 25, “How are the mighty fallen In the midst of the battle! Jonathan ix siain upon thy high places, I am distressed for thbe, my brother Jonathan. Very pleasant hast thou been unto me. ‘Thy love to me was wonderful, n-ving the love How ‘more of in financial news. The Southern Pacific's divorce from ita ofl properties is at least a variition in the fine art of paying fat profits to shareholders without permitting the Dayments to appear ae big dividends. ‘The privilege of paying a emal! sum for a whare in a new company known to be worth of woman.” avid and Jonatoun' The Miracle ing shortage. Under the conditions which have ex- of Friendship, The one classic In- Isted a carpenter could not afford to build a house Stance of thw devotion of Man to for his own occupancy. There must be building | ————— + Man, “It was the miracle of the . oo ————— |death of Self. Jonathan forgot his materials before the labor element enters into the UNCOMMON SENSE - er ee + parity between the King’s son and the shepherd boy.” ni ‘ =r pride and David his ambition. In the building problem. From Evening World Readers kingdom of love there was no dis- It fs to be hoped that the investigators will be two or three times the price asked is a variety 5 es atc! a nme able to get evidence of criminal conspiracy and pyn- What kind of letter do you find most readablef Isn't 4¢ the one | < of melon that will stimulate la ‘ y pun i i : sa a eicene ek . oe eT eee ai tis perpetrators. But even if this fails, the Bet acd ae er wel ee a ae : einen hence | By John Blake | en-Minute tudies ators. m ere o rying ali Wille (ie Govies, (seems. emtirely dagitimate Public will watch the building material market. CM ALC Mimo | iS estneetns antes 8 ae and desirable in the case of Southern Pacific, Unless prices come down and competition is re- — | DON'T BLAME THE CITY. HH of New York City } “segregation” has possibilities in fields less stored there will be an insistent demand for legisla. | Submtvstve From the Start? ‘ty. We all know why the Home Rule The mother or father who fears to let a son go to a big | - regulated than railtoads which will appeal to ‘ se tw the Bilton of The Brening Work: || Will, fairly passed years ago, \@ not ¥ city thinks that there is peril in the city. But*the peril is Government tinancia! jugglers, and those on tho “Inside.” and prosecution which will be effective in SEARIES, W Yom eBE BERET FOU rs Ableated Conan tis Sar pa really in the boy. M4 P | breaking the ring. sat d5 ” 7 Yours fs an amusing policy. When xa ution 2 To all comers the city gives what we call an even break. IRNESS TO THE TRUST. Such an organization can work only jn the dark, |anything of moral betterment ts pro- |Jority fules. Protestant employees ot |¢ To Prosper there is harder because there is more competi- {| TMs 49 the forty Aft articly IN FA HUDSON «| As soon as the light of publicity 4s tured on such |Poted one neod not walt, for your the United states Steel Corporation $ tion, To stand out among your fellows is harder, because port el og Ba ae A YNJUSTICE was done the Hudson Trust Company | 3 combination it is doomed, chasing ammunition in Germany to | BAe bogy y ve oploers ‘re not shooting their Catholic breth- S mimatrative and slepisiative oplovt comment. You are sorted In advance, cp Tor *ROOuUns thelr Canons awe to|¢ there are more people already standing out than in the and doarde of tho New York vity js i 5 |for you alwuys run true to expecta- work. Yet you are 90 solicitous about |} vill: Gavernenstt of this city in a recent Evening Wortd editorial . tion. lenesel teapertinent Divetal et iver ro F bio ehtedons h ae TENEMENT HOUSE mapmeeing oa testimony inthe Bonn! of Esth FIRES IN CONVERTED HOUSES {like recreation on Sunday—tonnia| lie in ireland ie they want tn. and bY !} i. So ulyavs in direst proportion te'the popalation. © DEPARTMENT: mate's investigation of city contracts, Bad. or golf—but I refuse to -get excited | legen they arould hove If living nor, DIED SiS POP Ong On LORE POR UIA HOH. This department \s charged with O violation of the law has so far been found over, the naw agitation, If it ‘oens | which, would not Inelade: vetomne toe But the boy who can only prosper in a village is a pretty + The editorial in question represented the Hudson ; fa b And if } i ‘i " r ib 4 i Ma will of the majority or shooting those poor sort of a boy. / And if he can lift his head nbove the Trust Company as having asked for the $50,000 ish eres pilin mies yester: teed Money nee t ‘tavor Sotne in" Who happen w ‘belons to a different|$ common level in no place except where there are a few hun- _ bonus which, it was testified, the contracting firm The fiemsan cones P house. of your ubeot and ive it some es: | “Geographteally Treland is rather |} dred individuals you may be sure that his head is not worth of Terry & Tench expected to pay, over and above to agree, however, that in the close to England—and has small 3 lifting. hs New York, Noy, 26, 1920, reugon to be thankful for it. France i ist ii <a heaps orgy Maga 0 taenedl stricture, which was a remodetied private 8 | Foner tte SA eat tee td As to temptation, unless he can meet it and resist it, he the duty of enforcing the Tenement | House Law, which defines a tepe- ment as any house or part of a house occupied or arranged to be occupied — by three.or more familits Iving in- dependently of each other and doing . ; ; cee dana y Up. Wehr I 4s alwave in peril whath dwell in Newsy: : their own cooking on the premises, . gts . - dwelling, and in the twin studio building nex " Sig ose SO Canada is rather close to the United |} is always in peril, whether he dwell in NewYork or Painted Th fealeticn extends. over ue 4 to finance their contract with the dity for the build- f 1g Next door, | to tne master of The Rresing Wee | States, JOHN J. TOBIN. |{ Post, For.sconer or later he will meet with temptation even }] construction (as to lighp, ventilation the elimination of stairways between certain floors | Relative to Lonesome's letter of] New York, Nov. 29, 1920 = this evening, I would say he has my heartfelt sympathy. I have several ing of six piers on Staten Island. ? r ‘The official stenographic report of the testimony made it hard for occupants to get out quickly. in the smallest of communities, and if he has not learned to fire egress, fre escapes, freproofing and privacy) and the alteration of }$ put it behind him he will be helplews before it when it comes. The Uippopot } © Disiri ’ ice ; ‘hte 4 2a | , tenement houses, as well as ove! ; before the Board of Estimate shows that Mr. ‘Tench | The Disirict Attomey's Office states that “this is |tfSonaly. ‘What mum it be lin to | “te meee ea ereament, could. you rae) famin| men ide pekiay ini esa toivnay then large 9] Unie canunaniy. Me Ten eee testified that he himself “arrived at and made” the | th¢ first loss of life in the private houses which were |bo lonasome with no friends what- | yicaso tell which has the wider Jawa |} Cree, oo wun) Or cand, training the smull town has ad- 3/ i iiouciied into a tenement house, no vantages over the city. ‘The boy is brought into closer con- $j} alteration oan be made in a tene- tact with people and is better able to study human nature. ment house until the plans and speci- But if he wants to try himself out in the city it is a })"citons of such work have been ex- $50,000 offer, that the President of the Hudson | converted imder the law passed last year liberatizing Os piu aura) Toreetice, Ciakedien| nO neaer ar eke eee “Trust Company told him it would be necessary to | the restrictions that formerly obtained at the tuming |yo4 meet POOR 7e AC CONT antes ERe Lesebe: pay out that sum in order to secure the loan, with of private homes into apartment houses,” ee eee, why mot keep | to the Kditor of Tho Wrening World: foolish parent that will deny him the privilege. amined by the department and up- " your: et and let time ethe help of other banks, but that it was made Yesterd : reaches “absolutely clear” to the witness that the $50,000 | Conversions should be thoroughly inspected and | {Raltrctont ut rirst pre work of construction ané alteration. ™ in like departmental {napectors visit th of the great cities to make their livings. premises regularly to deserml proved as being in compliance with 's fire is a warning that all such recent |hoal all wounds, Generally ono whe | +48 4 Feader of ‘The Hvening World, Most of the successful men in the United States are indifferent at first proves to be one’s; Why has no “reformer” created a the law. During the progress of the thotle ana |! Will submit a pertinent inquiry, vix.: country boys who have early in life come to one .or another | " , “was not going to the Hudson Trust Company as studied with a view to discovering whether the re. [bent friend, as T have found from my|“Jeugue" to combat murder, robbery e ive hether the work ts being done in ap f ith, view: to decoys her t Beak Grignd. ast ave fou ‘ a If the cities were destructive and bad, and tended to $|Whsther the work i éxch.’ laxed restrictions have increased the possibility of | 1 ao not think being wstranger } ee ee eee eens hold down straggling genius and crush out budding talent, }|° Peper ey r the 00- The Hudson Trust Company found itself unable | fire traps. Sider HEN. Up nd ODE iittie fee [eont, harmicas amusements the abo-|} these men never would have succeeded. The fact that they {/subancy of bulldings as tenement to secure the amount needed and the loan was New York needs more homes. But that need Ber. ayn, Nov ee UDH MB |ition of which appoalst did succeed, and succeeded on a far greater scale than would 3) [0h ecionn, or apocial inspec. pyn, Nov. 29, 1920. The situation may be briefly sum- have been possible in the smalJl town, is certainly a point in on complaint, to determine marized, Ones snapping, yapping the city’s favor. sanitary condition. If these in Scoteh collie can, and does, compel spections reveal. violations of ihe | obedience from thousand ‘sheep, If you think you have talent, and are willing to do the 3} jaw, notices are sent to the owners finally obtained in Buffalo, where a contract backed | Must not sanction the multiplying of hastily con- Pee an _ by the credit of the City of New York looked better | verted apartment houses in which safety is the last | ay me mutor ot the being Werkds _ to bankers than it did in Manhattan, thing considered Good for The Evening World! lam) driving the flock here and there at q glad’ tomes that we hawk one toy ar eaeroert ae terrific amount of work that is necessary to develop it, don{t 3} {9 remedy the conditions. Such con- *. A 8 1 ‘ athe hn > ave Yi o ") O1 Ws | 0 , » impulse seizes, 1 ep id A ° aittor Mi ol q Mr. Tench's testimony in the official record offers The Fire and Building Departments should over- | paper in this elty Of outa which has|.cre'not orguned. And one hundred |¢ be afraid of a great cit |chities tor Sie Pig ete 0 wo basis for the assertion that the Hudson Trust | look no lesson that may be learned from this 57th |‘ Wat Brought out 's goods cartoon | ‘housand reformers, in action coheatve It Will crush you if you are a weakling far quicker than }|adea sht, ventilation or water . <n eS : 7th | on the bluc-law question | and pertect jn sy: nating function. |$ the village would crush you, But if you really have the 3) Supp! sanitary equdps Company demanded the $50,000 bonus or that it Street fire. Keep it up and make then stre are to drive One hundred milion and he 1 a d willin Ee : ee ment, Te-Innipections are lies Sliwndie testes Are the people of this country | hore suppouediy ftee Americans Into|% talent, plus industry and willingness to fight, its rewards will $]iade to dovermine what action dn was to ultimate recipient of the money, ye se eae seas ue faethe: one! onal obedience to thelr intolerant be far greater. been taken on pending violations \The Evening World gladly makes this correction TWICE OVERS. The thing that makes a man a success or a failure is not and if the department can enforce ita E | talcing this vital question quite meekly The great, placid body of sheep, « p othe Y, s | im faimess to the Hudson Trust Company and in | ¢¢ ICK ‘les with |‘*Gome om, Now Workitw, wend ii| chene-the genera publiecare to-con:|% the city or the village. It is his own conscience and his own }|prowouted) nny “Ay the Owner is } faithfulness to its own purpose of printing the truth. jp ae ereene toe Batt Meee for Uae ened | aan av iaed fod tins Thai cee | CF yabping Cote, TRATHOURTOR Ga Ese ae ee arene coe ene ieind of stuls the surroundings) $1 Ue ome aes ware that honete ; ! —H. W. Ritter formers Have sold thy Statue of Lit-| worthy, serious reflection by every |} in which they are placed will sake but little differenee. Fe aa been Meese croveneniee : erty ‘us funk, lear-minded American man and toa, tenement house. If a bulldlug a 7 + « OND OF THE COMMON PROPLE | woman 9 {s found to have been 60 conv. - 1 A ONE-WAY BROADWAY. New York, Nov. 26 1920, ate we all to elt suntnely and epcri- ed ite or health the 66] WANT to M in ; a to be dangerous to life or health, the make the Manhatlan an international Sreinisbig: dihievense. o the hitherto sacred Drinciples of] the eteady tread. of twenty milton) Words From the Wise, | department has power to omer it vu- OMMISSIONER HARRISS, who devised the opera house, where opere in language and |» 1% Bator of To Breire Word, reedom of action in private life wpon | others jer along in rapid cated and closed as a public nuleinos. block-signal system for regulating Fifth Ave- | | bea You sek, what te Ireland's present | ravupiia veal Are wh ase whole, tal "kod the utter dlscom#ture of the| sac oaher ang perk for tid st | ena cuemtenont of the Tenement Rees ¢ : ae a ee wees : sent | rapublic rest? Are we, ole, utter discc tment of the Te! to B: Hammerstein. the will of her people. ‘That tena!) ness In cringing, saffron surrender? |e complete and thorough! Let us) poses; for as laughter enables | ments,” those erected since that time ‘etna “pig Fs | * 8 « ord of the British in ireland has ever is there & public-spirited altigen| drive the agitators, aturing inne | wirth and surprise to breathe | being called “new law | tenements,” y probability is that Broadway will be made a been and 1s to-day brutal to the last | TRO Wil & nt!-Reform''| genston and seoking to destroy inno-| +1) 60 tears enable s0 The requirements of the two kinds “ ERE, you are a better mechanic than | am. | degree ‘a but incidental. Invaders do | ensue to fight fire with fire? Are/ cent pleasures In these ominous days | be prrow t0 | of tenements differ according to the i one-way street during the theatre rush hours. bi oI en 8 0 | the "reformers" to have a clever mo-|of labor unrest and genera! high ten-| vent itself patiently. Tears hin- | laws under which they were erected. Ven dine t—Meee Hylan Fee et ode are. meltions Nama’ | nopoly on. “leagues” and “alllances"?| son, back Into the verdant obscurity | “ger sorrow from becomisa! da The Tenement House Commissioner But ig'an alien Government were to | A smoothly functioning organization | from whence they sprung! Other- | pares ts appointed by the Mayor, 2M o® jmake the of every Irishman a ia inenorably essential 2 tangible wise we wis (eeeere 00 Pon dry | SRO Se. wat si jaalary in 37,500 hie The Present veritable Paradise on earth the a: nr ta--and the public has not || portant, we . e parlance igh Hunt. incumbent ts Fran ‘amn of No, 67 6¢°T HE business grew by leaps and bounds under | ot freedom would till conetiute ine Let an “Ant!-Reform’ of the day, “ALL that ts coming to ait Vee r Grove Street, Brooblyn, John | P. the of the Gold ond I dlackest crime soiok & powerful | #tarted, if the vast majority cares to vale eg ae Sy rae Rie: termity, Finperty, is, Fist, Depa, Commi influence Rule never mation cou! perpetrate against 6 ANWO! LEM HENDPR! * apecch as §) low as Tim sioner, offic: on ine. f : 198 Broadway, New York, Nov. #0, ° Pathe: teenth floor of the Mupietpel Buila- cng Soe e ys 1 pent ge Oe form.”—drthear Nash, of Clngtanett. 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