The evening world. Newspaper, December 6, 1920, Page 20

at me ee i ESTABLISHED RY JOSAPH PULITZER, fea Datiy Kucevt Sanday br The Press Publiching ny, Noa, 43 to Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, 2 PULITZER Ir., Secret: 63 Park Row Monien OF THE AtsoctareD Press. Dbsovtufed Prem le exctustvely enticed to the tee for Gempatches credited ike local mews poblidhed herein YO MUCH LIBERTY LEFT. 'Y members of the Sixty-Sixth Congress Riwhich meets to-day have expressed doubt this final session can produce legislation of fictive or reconstructive benefit to the country. # so the Prohibitionists and other self-appointed pers of the Public Morals. These wakeful and MOS workers are ready with new measures of 4 importance to the Nation. us Iness may stagnate under war taxes. Waste fional expenditure may continue to impose heaty tax burdens upon American citizens. The “United States may remain under the handicap of ‘ outside the League of Nations. fional welfare demands the consideration of matters more momentous. Sfnator Jones of New Mexico, author of the District of Colymbia Sunday Bill, will meet the hy’s imperative needs by introducing in the ‘Uniled States Senate this week a bill forbidding NE ic in Ambassadors and other diplomatic ser- _-van{$\of the United States in foreign lands to serve alcoholic drinks at public functions. Héte is American statesmanship at its full breadth % nee t does it matter that the trade of the United $ is at loose ends, that doubt and uncertainty "are fundermining its prosperity, when representa. tive} of the Nation abroad sit down at dinner tables on Which appear beverages containing more than “oneamif of one per cent. of alcohol! i yw can the country go on until its national leg- | islatire has passed.a law which provides : fi ePhat it shall be uniawful for any citizen of ity the United States or person owing allegiance té fhe United States to serve any of the intoxi- ting liquore mentioned here in section one at Public or official finction or give official reo- Bition to any clu or association that keeps serves such liquors for beverage purposes, #should go further than this. e is grave doubt whether any pressing need American people ought to be considered until Con press has enacted a law wherdby a citizen of the Binited States leaving the country to gei a drink ‘ Joses his citizenship. | ‘The Rev. Dr. David James Burrell, President of i tie fAnti-Saioon League of New York, said recently: q|As to “personal freedom” it cannot be too fearly understood that there is no such thing if this country of ours ; . Hritifying as this may be, it is the odious fact ericans can still enjoy a certain amount of 1 freedom outside their own country without in Q i Should be unreasonable to expect Congress to for the minor needs of the Nation until the _ AnthSaloon League is able to announce that no z frican in any part of the world can retain both his personal liberty and his citizenship. ' S®X PER CENT. READY. Uf the City Hall it is announced that six out of dh hundred snow plow tractors ordered have | Ha eived. fe) ery of more tractors is anticipated in the e of the winter. 1% possible that the city government may have _ the whole fleet available for a May Day parade to | the Gireen in Central Park. | 1€}400 tractors ure needed it is easy to calculate how}well the municipal authorities learned the les- ‘son ipf last winter's snow blockade, Six per cent. when heavy snow may come any day! ; far the weather has favored unprepared “NewYork. The wind has been tempered to the shor lamb. For the remainder of the winter the _ cityttan only hope that snow will come only in the | proportion that the Department of Street Cleaning red: York needs a Best Weatherman as well as a Mayor. 4q }OVERNOR-ELECT MILLER is reported op- posed to any revival of ouster proceedings Socialists elected to the Assembly. uch as Speaker Sweet is not again {o grace it is probable that the Governor's recom- ‘d will be accepted. New York will again ra e irepresentative government, and the Socialist P yoige will subside to the normal of ineffectiveness, : such procedure can not be anything but a tér pill to those who participated in the legislative ing that marred the last session of the bly and took precedence over important busi- the State. + case of the Socialists in the coming session ¢ republication it oF mot otherwise ervdiied tm this paper TATIVE GOVERNMENT AGAIN Re ee RE as will be not a whit different from their cause in the last session. They will have no more—nor less— right to their seats than those who were rejected by an intolérant majority last January, and again in October. REGULATE TOWAGE RATES. . ARDLY a day passes that the Lockwood Com- | mittee does not bring to light some new and shameful violation of the Jaw or abuse of public confidence, Testimony indicates that the Cornell Company, engaged in the business of towage on the Hudson River, is a serfons offender in, the field of business morality if not against the law. Witnesses described the policy of the Cornell concern, This was to charge all the teaffic would bear in the absence of competition and to cut rates to less than bare cost when competition material- ized. This was precisely the policy which prevailed in the railroad field in the predatory period of the ’70s and ‘80s. It led to strict regulation of railroads and to the creation of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission. Barge lowing on the river does not differ in prin- ciple from freight car hauling on rails, The remedy for such a monopoly as the Cornell Company holds seents to be public regulation of rates either by State or Federal power. This is so apparent that such action may be anticipated. | RENT STRIKES ILL-ADVISED. A LANDLORD in the Bronx has complained that tenants, are “striking,” demanding a re- duction in rent and refusing to pay rent until the” desired reduction is in effect, These “strikers” and any who may feel inclined to follow their example are making a serious mis- take. They are not only unjustified but they are foolish in the extreme, Such a move can not suc- ceed or even hope to succeed. : Rents are in the hands of the courts. The only relief the tenants have is to.be found in the courts. Striking will not gain the ends sought and such acts are certain to prejudice the courts against the illegal strikers when the cases come to trial. The courts have power to prevent the landlords from evicting tenants—provided the tenants live up to the rules laid down by the Legislature. If the tenants fail to live up to these rules then the courts are no less bound to evict them in accordance with | the law. The law is supreme. No “strike” of tenants can | win them anything. The strikers had better pay | their rents and be sure of a place to live this winter. | REST CURE BY THE WHOLESALE. (From the Philadelphia Inquirer.) The rest cure is a familiar prescription, but few have tried it as thoroughly as the man who has just come back to civilization after ten years of hermit- like existence on an island. © soltuide, where are the charms ‘That Gages have eeen in thy face? Cowper thus makes Alexander Selkirk: rhetorically | deny that solitude has any charms, And we know | how Robinson Crusoe was stirred by the sight of a human footprint. But these were out of touch with their fellows completely. This new hermit of our time lived on an island In Chesapeake Bay within sight and sound of the world without: No doubt the knowledge that he could leave when he chose bad something to do with his contentment. Nevertheless, 60 long a silence would be intolerable to most men, The seeker after rest did not even try to break the monotony of life with manual labor. His first Intention, we are told, was to do a little farming, but he soon gave this up. Books became his sole re- source. Many may have felt that ten years of reading and study would be consolation enough fof any lone- liness; but few, we fancy, would persist in such rigor- ous culture. Enoch Arden's long exile almost deprived him of the power of speech, and it was some time before he could make his rescuers understand him. To forget even one's native tongue is easy enough in the absence of all opportunity for its use. Perhaps this hermit de- voted part of his leisure to reading aloud. He comes back with no apparent impairment of his faculties and improved. But 60 strenuous a rest cure would be a dangerous dose for most of us, | | AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL. (From the Milwaukee Journal.) No, she doesn’t dress all out of style, but her mother tells us it never worries her when the style changes and she has clothes too good to throw away. It's m other ways she's old-fashioned—terribly so. She really says “Please” and “Thank you" in- stead of the snappier equivalents that show one’ is up to date. Mer tongue runs on merrily enough, but she stops oddly when her father or her mother speaks, ag though they might say something she cared to hear, When she is asked to go somewhere, she doesn't answer with a “line” of teasing, but says “Yes" as though she were glad. Sometimes she even says “No,” instead of making up her mind to tell all the othen girls afterward how she took pity on the man who asked her, The young swain arriving early is likely to find her doing dishes and be invited to help. Ang when she is starting she doesn't wig-wag to mother, "Don’t wait up for me, Ta! T Her mother already knows all about the engagement, but this old-fash- oned girl comes and kisses her good by and tells her just when she'll surely be home—and she is. And when she's had a good time she isn’t afraid to say “Thank you,” even if it means a little trouble. ‘The hostess she will not see very soon again receives a delightful little note, And the escort who has tried to make her evening pleasant gets the same usury, These are a very few of the things that make her old-fashioned, but you can see she ts, One would think she wouldn't get much attention from up-to- date youths, but did you ever see any one refuse gon- wine hopey because it was old-fashioned? | Pie _‘]HE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, DE | | CEM to say much in a few words. On the Erle. ‘To the Kiitor of The Krening World Would call your attention to the crowded condition of the Brie Rail- road trains leaving Jersey City be- tween the hours of 5 and 6 in the evening. Monday night, Nov. 29, in one car I counted twenty-five men and women standing in the aisle, and the other cars on the train were in the same condition, Standing near me was un elderly woman. When the ticket collector came through the car a boy, about seventeen, wlio was sit- ting in a seat alongside where the elderly woman was standing, showed & pass. In t right that the employees of the railroad should have seats while the customers of the railroad stand? This boy did not get wp and offer his ‘seat to the elderly woman. While the train Is backing down to the de- pot the track gates are kept shut, and passengers are not allowed to pass through the gates. The trains usually switch down on the same tracks every night, and If @ railroad office employee shows his puss to the gateman the employee is allowed to pass through the gate ahead of the passengers, and he or she, therefore, wets a seat, Is this fair to the pub- Ne? ‘The ferryboats formerly ran under a five-minute échedule during the rush hours, and boats were also run to 2% Street boats to 234 Street have been taken off and the boats from Chambers Street are run- ning under a ten-minute schedule, As & consequence, unless passengers ar- rive at the ferryhouse five minutes or 80 before the boat leaves the slip, the passengers are frequently unable to get in the ferryhouse and on the ‘boat, As ao result, they miss the train. It is a great pleasure to stand outside of the ferryhouse on a rainy night, What we want are more trains, or loner trains, and a five- minute boat schedule, Get busy, Eric commuters, stick up for your rights or do you like to stand up in the cars during a fifteen or twenty mile ride? M New York City, Dee 3 1, 1920, Open the Offensive. ‘To the Editor of "The Brening World Once again the reformers are start- ing an offensive to deprive the Ameri can people of the few constitutional for the people not to forget, and t: stand by or be robbed of those few Mberties, Keep up the fight. All good Amer- breed excluded) will rally to your will wipe these breeders of disconten and misery from the earth, Amer canism will then be safe and liberty | seoure | TE H. M. SDMA N Yi. 0. | Brooklyn, N Where In Libertyt | To ihe biditor ef The by Werld Why 40 the Bamg of Leuven dg ay liberties they atili possess. As usual your great paper 48 sounding the call jeans (hyphenated and yellow back call, and when the time is ripe will start an offensive of thelr own that Isn't it the one |the citizens of this nation wake up and make America live up *o its voasted Lvberty? If not, send the |Statue of Liberty back to France, where they could use the metal for some better purposes than to let i stand in a country shat doesn't know } what Mberty is. | Why doesn’t the state take action | And deport these reformers. It's bad enough they took our wines and beer| away, but still they want ‘o torture| and play with ua some more. | OLD TIMER. | = canal i On a Hunger Strike. To the Editor of The Bveaing World Recently 1 read an editorial in your paper regarding the reduction of prices in our best known chain of restaurants, Not haying patronized these restaurants for several months, as 1 was thoroughly convinced of thelr -profiteering on a very large scale, I was moved by your editorial to resume my patronage yesterday at one of these restaurants, 1 went over the bill of fare very carefully and T can say without fear of contradiction that there has been no change of prices, only upward. From observing my dining neighbors and the dishes ordered by them, 1 can also state without fear of mtradiction that the quantity of food has been re- duced in the dishes. These outrageous conditions pre- vail in all the restaurantg controlled by this syndicate. ‘The place I pat- ronized yesterday is one of their largest, yet its capacity was taxed. I venture to say that ainong that im- mense number of people, every one felt resentful at the imposition prac- y this concefn, yet not one among them, with all the criticism they indulge in, has enough spunk and will power to refuse to patron- ize these restaurants until the long- suffering public is given some con- deration, Notwithstanding that a number of foodstuffs have come down. in price, yet this concern continues the exo bitant prices, For example, they still charge 10 cents for a smal! cup of coffee, Bread and butter is still 10 cents extra. The bread and butter sandwich (7) which is a substitute for bread and butter, costs 5 cents, It is a joke, considering the djaphanous thickness of the bread and the but- ter illusion. ‘The repast that T partook of yester- day easily yielded a profit of 500 per cent. to these humanitarians. Therefore, their proclaimed reduction »Jin prices is all buncombe. And as long as the easy going public contin- ues to encourage them by th pa- tronage, just so long will they con- tinue to be buncoed. The only remedy is to remain aw. from these places until the profitee ing proprietors come to their sen: Only lack of patronage will make them see the light. The exorbitant charges are maintained because PO ple crowd In to these places and sub mit to them. The only protest the profiteers will realize is a boycott The public's only ree e is to eut elsewhere or carry their lunch. T prices will never be lowered by prof- isgera ae long as they sevcive euvour- ‘ BER 6, 1920. | Good Night!- :: ‘Ti Pires Puibliphing ¢ New York bre From Evening World Readers ? ——————_—$_____ What kind of letter do you find most readablet that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There 8 fine mental exercise and @ lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. . Copsriaht, 1990, ng Oldest | Love Stories | By Maubert St. Georges rlght, 1920, by The Prew Pubtint | Core Ree Tork reine Worlds LANCELOT AND ELAINE. Wien Arthur was King 6f Britain he was wont to en- | courage his knights by yearly jousta. Now every time that Bir Lancelot took part in these tournaga hé won 80 regularly that at last none would take part If they knew him to be @ contestant, So one year he de- jcldeu to take part in disguise, thus | not hindering the contest, since in hia |absence all would strive their best to win the prize, and he on his part {would find opportunity for great | glory, since, none knowing him in his disguise, ail would fight to the last susp to defeat the stranger. Pretending he would not be present at the tournament he rode away until he came to the castle of Astolat Here he met the lord of the place, his two sons, Sir Torre and Sir Lavaine, and his beautitul daughter Elaine. Tu them he disclosed his plan, and tt was agreed that he should use Sir Torre's shield, tor the latter was wounded ind could not use it, and that Str Lavaine should accompany him. Short though the time was that he stayed at Astolut it was long enough for his Kindn his grace, his strength and all those qualities which made him the first knight of the realm, to make such an impression on Elaine that she fell deeply in love with him, not knowing that his heart Was given to Guinevere, Arthuy In the morning, when Sir Lancelot and Sir Lavaine were preparing to leave, she made her way into the courtyard where they stood, and Sir Jaancelot, startled by her sygden ap- pearance, and fearing to seem rude if he just stood there and said nothing. asked het whether she would mind his shield during his absence. She agsented delightedly, and, thinking this an advance, even timidly sug- ® gested that he wear her colors, a jcrimson sleeve embroidered with | pearls, overcoming his refusal with the suggestion that his wearing it would further disguise him who had never worn any but the Quoen’s | colors, ‘At the tournament Lancelot greatly distinguished himself, and, though |Wwounded, defeated all who opposed him. His exertions, however, so ag- |gravated his wound that he was un- jabte to claim the prize which had been awarded to him but fled, accom- | panied by Sir Lavaine, to the cell of a | hermit where they had spent the pre- vious night. Arthur nevertheless sent a knight }to discover the stranger and deliver | the prize, a jewel, to him, this knight lcoming finally to Astolat, where on | seeing Lancelot’s shield he discovered his identity, and also disclosed the fact that he had’ been wounded Hlaine on hearing this immediately set out in search of him, and at last discovered him on the point of death She dressed bis wound, however, amd So carefully and lovingly nursed him that he recovered entirely, They re- turned to Astolat, and Lancelot claimed his shield. Seeing he was UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright. 1920, iy Tohn Biave.) WHATEVER TEACHES YOU TO FIGHT HEL2S YOU TO SUCCEED. ‘The line of the least resistance leads away from opposi- But it never leads to success. Whatever teaches you to fight helps y musele and mind. The reason that most men are abler at forty than at twenty is that their faculties have been trained by opposi- tion, And the more stubborn the opposition the sharper the faculties. The man who stumbles on what appears to be success by finding a diamond in the road seldom keeps either the suceess or the diamond. But what he has to fight for he learns to value. More than that, the training he gains in the fighting gives him strength to keep what he has got, and keeping is'even more important than getting. Probably three times as many men make fortunes as keep them, Probably ten times as many men attain impor- tant positions as retain them. But the fortunes so easily dissipated are the fortunes easily earned. And the posilions so easily lost are the po- sitions easily won. Do not be afraid of opposition. you find it on every hand. . If a football team played only with other teams which stood courteously aside and permitted it to make touchdown after touchdown it would not be much of a football team at the end of the season, If an army were allowed to take every enemy city with- out difficulty it would be a very inefficient army when the war was over and won. Fortunately for most of us, few things that are worth gaining can be had without opposition. Especially is this true of leadership. For almost every man in the world imagines that he is a leader, and will give other aspirants for leadership a hard battle to prove their claims. But if you fight opposition steadily and intelligently, overcoming, one after another, the obstacles that you meet with, you will gradually develop a strength that will carry you far gn the way you are to go. Better still, when you have really gained some of the prizes for which men contend you will know. how to defend them, Instead of avoiding opposition, look for it. Do not be afraid to fight. Do not run away from controversy. You will need all the exereise your pind can get in your struggle upward, and the only way to get it is by encountering and endeavoring to overcome opposition. tion, on to develop your Do not complain that agement from the public, which is the war, on account of high duce the cost of living ‘The average wage earner has had Justice will The DepartinentXot | powerless and the people seems ve lve remuneration food dispensers of mannnnnnnnad love, but Lancelot repulsed her. jabout to leave, Blaine confessed her He refused her father’s request that in ithe hope of curing her he should be |rude and harsh to her, but went #0 far as to be discourteous enough to leave her without a word of farewell For days and weeks Elaine re- mained in her tower, growing paler, sadder, more unhappy. Finally love unreturned proved too much for he: and she began to pine away rapidly |Feeling her end near, she dictated a letter to Lancelot, and directed that her body, the letter in her hand, should be laid in state on a fine barge and steered to Camelot, the King’s | residence, by a mute boatman. in this guise the dead Elaine came to rejoin the man she loved 80 dearly The letter she brought was read aloud in the midst of the awestruck coust. The King, wondering much at this faithfulne asked Lancelot how thts came about. When the latter had ex- plained, Arthur ordered that he should lay her to rest. ‘Thus, mourn- ing sincerely over her end, he who had refused to love her at least came to respect and regret her. seb Ne “That’sa Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick es oe A Mr. R. J. Brunton of Putaski, ‘Tenn, who had joined the order mm July, 1867, claims that he took riteals and organized the “K. K. K." in South Carolina, just a year later— Tuly, 1868, oo. “The Invisible Empire" was the name given to the Klan of the South. It had, naturally its secret signs, grips and passwords, and was in reality a band of regulators, Most of their effort, at first, were .in jest scaring negroes and illiterate whiter by deep sepulchra] tones and weird answers to ordinary questions, They succeeded in stopping what had been a reign of terror and wholesale rob bery, Dxcesses were committed and, whether justly or not, were credited to the Klan. oe they The first railroad line built was from Brooklyn to Jamaica in 1 but the line to Great Neck and Po Washington was not completed til! 1898. ‘To-day, electric service ix given to many points to the east on Long Island, eae The Payntar Homestead, at Jackson Avenue and Queensboro | Bridge Plaza, Long Island City, one of the most ‘picturesque of houses, with its vine-embowered back porch, was, torn down only a few months ago, to’ give apace to the advance of industry and commerce. NEW INVENTIONS. wages = . practically an indorsement of their and luxury taxes, have impregnated N jnventor hee) given « ae ile tenn thelr nyatema #0 tenatiousy the baby carriage a handle Let the public in a’ small way, if iteering germ has become’ almost upon which can be possible, emulate the hunger strik Jicable sipped a muff to w ers in Ireland, Let them unite and very big and little merehant has bil ae oe the orgunize and pull together to help res enjoyed undreamed of — prosperity, hands of a person pushing it in his|$ cold weathe all] ‘The round top of a table In- | to tint their own r¢ High prices down to] vented by a Connecticut man and Dig profits have Heoumo i halt cates ' fool's Bays be folded to form a Maltese | with buteher ears, fruit and ves | Adise se i clable merehinty and pestis PJ. BRADY sor & sanare, The advantages they took dunag i OI TC | 4 Newark, N. Jy Doo, 4 1920, —— ‘ TTT STL Sel AL ella inmate toate \ ma ‘ 4