The evening world. Newspaper, December 10, 1920, Page 38

Boris. DTA ISHED RY JOSEPH PULITZER »Peblimed Daily Except Sunday by The Prem Publishing ae, Company, Now. 6 to 68 Park Raw, New York RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 65 Park Now JOSEPH PULITZEN Jr. Secretary, @9 Park Row MEAMIPER OF TITE ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘The Associated Prev is exclusively entitied to the use for republication @F GD news eopatches credtited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper @2d also the local news published herein, _ NOT IN THE SUBWAY SUN BUT IN. YESTERDAY'S 4" WALL STREET JOURNAL: |. INTERBORO PRESIDENT CONFIDENT 4 r Eepects to Raise Sufficient Funds to Meet | { ! ! ( the Year-End Obligations. Frank Hedley, President of Interborough Rapid ‘Transit Company, is optimistic regarding the outlook for raising sufficient funds to pay the company’s year-end obligations, including the semi-annual tn- terest due Jan. 1 on the $161,504,000 first and refund- ing bonds. “It is too early to make a definite state- Ment,” President Hedley says, “but we are hopeful of passing through the crisis safely.” Interborough’s gross is making big monthly gains, due to the development of traffic on newly opened Mines. With the trend of costs pointed definitely downward, operations are expected to reach the stage some time next year where a profit can be shown after fixed charges, even under @ five-cent \ fare. , | After carrying the company through the lean years » @f the war period, banking interests identified with j the management are not expected to permit the sys tem to fali into a receivership with the turn of the Poad in sight. r » STRENGTH OF THE RENT LAWS. IN ONE decision after another the courts have -upheld the rent laws in general, and in particular, the difference between sickness and health—very probably the difference between life and death, Any $10 contributed to the European Relief | Council will mean this aid to starving children, But $10 invested in a “dinner ticket” affords the finest practical object lesson in applied charity, It has the dramatic clement which will catch the imagination of parents and of children, Iy the next two weeks many a father or mother will tell the story to the children, and many a child will be so moved that a “dinner ticket” for an orphan will be a gift more desirable even than a doll or a pair of skates. With the “dinner ticket” before the vacant chair the “little invisible guest” will become real, ANTHRACITE ROYALTIES. NDER pressure of investigations in the anthra- cite coal industry, the big coal operators have themselves taken a new and highly significant tack. The anthracite coal monopoly now points to the high royalt 4 by the owners of coal lands as one reason for the high price of coal. The Anthracite Bureau of Information has given out figures showing that the Girard estate, for ex- ample, gels from its coal-mining tenants royalties averaging 20 per cent. of the mine price of coal of all sizes, This completely confirms the results of The Eve- hing World's own earlier investigations in the an- thracite coal fields, and furnishes official figures for |, further establishing the charges and surcharges that are passed on to the consumer in the price he has to pay for coal. Recent inquiry into the policy and methods of wholesalers who bandle the coal on its way to the consumer made it plain that many of these gentle- men are nothing in the world but toll-takers who Sell and resell coal, adding progressively to its retail price but rendering no service necessary to its actual ‘ _It weuld be hard to conceive of an affirmation more sweeping than this sentence by the Appellate . Division from which only Justice Blackimar: dis- sented: “Whatever the contract rights of the relator (landlord) |, or of the tenant, they must give way to the public welfare.” This was the spirit in which The Evening World * wnged the passage of the rent relief legislation. This . — -was the spirit in which the Legislature acted on the measures. : : But there is another element of strength in the rent laws, an element which the sponsors of other legislation might well consider: The sent laws were phrased in simple, straight- forward language. The courts and the lawyers could not misinterpret the statutes. Their meaning and intent were clear and concise as compared with distribution, . Just as certain classes of wholesale handlers of coal were finally forced in self-defense to reveal the purely toll-taking functions of other wholesalers witii whom they dealt, so now the coal operators are driven to disclose the enormous royalties paid to landowners with whom the Coal Trust has for years enjoyed harmonious relations in a course of mag- nificent profit-taking. Enough facts have been established showing the «profiteering practices in the mining and distributing of anthracite coal to warrant an authoritative over- hauling of the industry. The coal operators and the coal distributers have had to let in the light upon themselves. Mt is now the duty of Congress to see that con- sumers of coal get substantial and lasting benefit the legalistic verbiage in which so many legislative + It would be better for both citizens and legislators if the example were followed generally. In the Union League Club elections the “Old Guerd” or administration ticket won two to one. , There is no reason to believe that this is in any Way misrepresentative of the Repub- Mean Party. Insurgency and progress are under a powerful handicap just now, _ WILL THEY FORGIVE THE WOMAN TOO? e r WILL be interesting to watch developments in is - the case of the New Jersey pastor who took a vacation from his family and pulpit with a feminine __» member of his flock and has now returned to contess % that he made a mistake, ' * The return of the pastor had many of the ele- ) ments of drama. His wife, family and friends ap- ! pear to be in a forgiving mood in spite of the fact— ‘or perhaps because of it—ihat the pastor assumes ‘all blame and responsibility for the adventure. ___. Forgiveness is probably the proper treatment in 4 | this unusual case. But should forgiveness be limited “to the man’ and withheld from the woman?. In most similar cases this is the procedure. ‘The world at large, and the metropolis in par- ticular, will be watching Passaic men and women a ‘to find how the tangle will work out. ; If the man deserves and receives sympathy and i is permitted to work to retrieve his good tame, is there any moral or spiritual barrier which should i _ togwally bar the woman from similar effort? \._- Police Commissioner Enright'’s doorkeeper orders hewspaper reporters with questions to “put them in written form and present them.” “Then, if Commissioner Enright thinks they are important enough, he may answer.” It is high time some one besides Commis- sioner Enright had something authoritative to say regarding the importance of questions bearing on present conditions in New York's Police Depart=ent. —— eee “THE VACANT CHAIR.” ERBERT HOOVER'S suggestion of a vacant chair at the Christmas dinner-table for a “fittle invisible guest” is one that will touch the hearts of Americans. The European Relief Council, of which Mr, Hoover is Chairman, is to sell these “dinner tickets” at $10. The receipt for the money placed before the vacant chair will be mute but conclusive evi- dence that the family in the midst of plenty has not ts | * forgotten those less fortunate. _ American relief has been administered so wisely, from the information obtained, “An optimist Is a member of the Bartenders’ Union who keeps his dues paid up to date,” according to Nick Longworth, Would the Ohio Congressman define a “prag- matist" as a member of the Bartenders’ Union who is now paying dues to Federal Enforce- ment officers? SPANK HIM~—LAST. 66 HAT you ought to do is to spank him.” That was the opinion Magistrate Brough ex- pressed to the mother of an eight-year-old truant. In this case the advice was very likely good. The truant raised Cain in the court-room and was guilty of contempt ng less than of truancy. fut this is the sort of advice which may prove dangerous if it is accepted too generally. “Spare the rod and spoil the child’ is an aphorism which has probably done far more harm than good. The first half of the saying is a good rule to follow—first. The whip or the heavy hand should not be the first corrective. First try kindness and reason, Point out the probable effects of wrong-doing. Tell the child he is foolish, and tell him what the result of his foolishness will be. If the parent is as wise as the child is foolish, the child is likely to ob- serve the results and learn to profit trom the wis- dom of the parent, . % Spare the rod until it is evident that the child is actually spoiling. In such cases, of course, the rod is needed as a sort of artificial preservative. TWICE OVERS, 66°QCHE demands upon the Treasury are so enor- mous t'a! every dollar of the taxes will be needed to meet maturity obligations.” —Senator Mc- Cumber. . 6¢J KNOW I done wrong in every shape and form, and I pay for it.”"—Bull Cassidy in Sing Sing Death House. 66 (CEMENT has officially dropped 25 cents a barrel since the investigation began, but it is really $1.50 under the theoretical price. This makes it $2.65 net delivered instead of around $5.""—Louis Horowitz of the Thompson-Starrett Co, . 66 T will be useless for anybody with so-called fads and fancies to expect action on them at Albany.” —H. Edmund Machold. carefull and economically that phe $10 dinner. the fli mean a meal a day for some orphan from sor : HE effective way to tax the rich is to adopt rates that do not force investment in tax- | exempt securities.” —Secrelary Housten, one dak oceaeeeee that gives you to say much in a few words, Cleray Not All “Bine.” To the Editor of Tae Brening Work! 2 Among many people the idta pre- vails that,all clergymen and chureh people want a Turitan Sunday. | Newspaper reporters take it for granted that all ministers are in| favor of Prohibition, Blue Sunday la and other legislation to restrict personal rights and liberty, It is time that some one should prove that not all Christian ministers fun- atics. Could not The Evening World take a poll of the views on this sub- ject of the ministers and other re- ligious loaders in New Yori City? 1 belleve that it would be found that % per cent, of the clergy of the Episco- pa) Chureh and of the Roman Catho- le Church, and perhaps a large per- centage of other ministers are are Bishop Bureh and the key. Dr, Ham T. Manning. It is said that the How tles of the General Convention of the Rpiscopal Church endorsed — the Lorg’s Day Alliance, but 1 de not be- lieve that a majority of that body would sanction Bine Laws. Prohibition and Blue Laws are dis- tinctly qontrary to the principles taught by Christ ana by St, Paul The people of this gen » be shown that the prin of Depu- hibition and compulsion was not only condemned by Christ and St. Paul but that it has been adopted from time to time in the listory of th Church only to be discarded ag a failure. It ts the principle at the bot tom of the Inquisition, The applica tion of this principle harms rather than helps religion by antagonizing Mherty-loving people, Human be ag cannot be made good by legislative enactments, hey must be won by love and sane teaching It may be asked why take this mat- ter seriously? Blue Laws ave really contemplated and could not I enacted, But the fact is that not take Prohibition serlourly, whe it waa talked about, and consequently tt was forced upon the country by some who did take It se} ’ CLIFFORD W. FRENCH. St. Gabriel's Church (splacopal), Holils, N. Y¥. Deo. 7, 1920. Ab Tubes, To the Haitor Having did letters on “The Old-Fashioned Girl” a "O the Erle,” I would Iike to express an ‘From Evening World Readers What kind of a tetter do you Jind most readable? Isn't it the one ve worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Tuke time to be brief. as|As a former member of a railroad vigorously opposed to Blue Laws as | clerks’ union I know what 1am tala- opinion, It's a pleasure to find some one else who also appreciates “The Old-Fash joned Girl.” I have a friend who |s the very image of the girl de- scribed in the letter, and am proud of her, in the face of the “knowing” smiles and derisive looks of my male friends, Let's hope that the real girls are more numerous than they seem to be, An to “On the Erte, Cc. M." ts cor- rect. I have commuted between Jer- sey City and my home town for over ‘a year and know that “C. M." ts just in his remarks. Also, “C. M." forgets li call attention to the service on the be, My trip fiurect he Jersex is from Christopher City. in the rush vi ptown ors refuse to : train the traMe from lown to 14th a little? inth Streot and Christo- eet have just as mueh right ) the trams as the people from 14th, 23d and 33d Streets. Another on needing is the ve attention smoke there during rush ? This practice is both to men und w r myself, but good thing tne. Tat the annoying en. f am a¢ aitze that for! 4 a time and CHROL 6, 1920. LA place. § Passaic, N. J., De Opposes White C To the Ruitor of The Kyening World; A word in regard to your editorial of Dec. 2 relative to pang for @ union organization of ollice workers. Union. ing about. A clevks’ union ts a farce and can never succeed Such a unlon tends tc deercase the working etficicney of o her than inerea it, ts to employers? ‘Through the 8 system of filling vacant posi- tlons by seniority rather than by crit, an inefleient clerk is often put in a position he or she can't handle, White Collar Workers, before en- be such aN organization, speak to ter 2 Min Or Woman who has had deal- nga with the clerks' union. ‘They wil unanimously tell you “Don't Or ganize. A WHITE COLLAR WORKDR. Brooklyn, Dee. 5, 1920. Awatnat the Blue and Dry, To the Editor of The Prening World T read with pleasure Mr. Stanwood Lee Henderson's suggestion of form- ng an "A Sue Law League.” 1 m with him, Now, how about form- ng an “Anti-Prohibition League’? 1 would like ‘to know, through yi very instructive paper, how many ‘ur boys would have given their ti to the Prohibition Amendment caus: fit were xplained honestly to them. ght they were making the erty, not for READPR ne im Rent. ‘To the Falitor of The Brening World For two years 1 have lived In a three-family house and my rent was nty-one dollars ($21) to April, 0. ‘rom April it as raised to iwenty-four dollars ($24), and now ‘oy January it Is raised to thirty dol- ars (339). I would like you to kindly give me some advice as to what I shall do about the matter, or if you cannot, rive me the address of the Commis- sioner of Rents. CHE Re Brooklyn, Dee. 5, 1920, {Editor's Note—Offer the old rent, the landlord refuses this he can only take the case to court and ex- his {duction jehronicte. This condition d the report continues: missioners were appointed to erect fortifications, \ tablish the reasonableness of claim. If he can prove the reason ablenoss of this higher charge, you muat or move. If not, the court will determine whether any increase \‘That’s a Fact”, “By act of March 31, 1790, for the encouragement of education, nor’s Island Was granted to the Re- gents unless needed for military pur- poses. The committee conalsted@ot Gen, Schuyler, Mr. L'Hommediou and Mr. John Price for twenty-one years, at an annual rental of £93, with a de- Copsetati., 1920, toy The Tine ithe (the Now York Brett UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Conreight, 192(, by John Blake.) NOBODY WORKS WITH HIS HANDS ALONE. Look at a gang of men digging a trench, which is gen- erally regarded as a very ordinary manual labor. Mast of them are doing the work perfunctorily and ut the least ex- pense of personal effort. Th shovels are half full when they leave the trench, and there is a long interval before they return for another load. One man, perhaps two, in the crowd will do as much in the same time as any two of the others—and for exactly the same wages. The inefficient members of the gang reason that they are only manual laborers, and that they are beating the job by doing little work—getting just that much ahead of the boss, Wut the very fact that they work in that way shows that they are using their heads as well as their hands and using their heads as clumsily as they are handling their shovels. The other men—the one or two who are working stead- ily and accomplishing something—are using their heads, And they are using them to good purpose. For when a shortage ofework comes along they are the men to hold their jobs, while the others are the first to be laid off, There is not such a thing as mere manual labor. The man who swings a pick has to have a certuin skill to do it, and that skill is in his brain, not in his hands. The skilled laborer who handles tools in his work has to keep his mind constantly busy if he does not want to be a mere bungler. The time spent in learning a trade is not needed to train the muscles but to train the mind that is behind the muscles. There are countless cases of men who have great and important positions in the business werld trom day laborers. These are the men who used their minds more than their hands, who while they were digging trenches or nailing on shingles thought of quicker and better ways to do their work, and planned to develop them when the op- portunity came. You can train your hands to a certain point, and there the training must stop. But there is no limit to the amount of training of which your mind is capable, And if you use it a quarter as much as you use your hands you will find that it will soon begin to pay dividends. isen te and the Regents’ | Governor's Islan vholls of New York Bedlows Island as th " “largest of the Oyster Islands" | by Albert P. Southwick New York Harbor, It received Its eoitanh, sen, Peo) bday ay ed raine from Isaac Bedlow (also spelled Bedloo and Bedloe), patentee under the Governor, and For many years the Battery, New York, was the city's parade ground In the heyday of their popularity, the Pulaski Cadets, the Light Guard, the red-coated City Guands, the ‘Tomp- kins Blues went through their elabo- rate manoeuvres there, and there alae the Blue Stockings and the Ked Stock. ings vied for championship in the na- tional game, . Gover- Benson. It was leased to Mr. for taxes,” states an old 4 not iast tong, as} It will be many years again before “In 1794 Com- | Thanksgiving and Christmas will ap- on the 6th of thelr respective op month he i = 1a works were The Statesmen of the Bible By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory Copyriaht, 1920, by the Prem Publishing Oo. ore ‘Now York Evening Work, No, 1.—Moses. Moses, born about 1500 B, C., was one of the greatest men of whom hie~ tory gives us any knowledge. Statesman, law-giver, captain, he dia the work which will cause his name to live forever. Like Abrahatn Lincoln, Moses grows larger and larger the further we are removed from him in time. lt was my good fortune to be per- sonally acquainted with the late Rubert G. Ingersoll, and a better fel- low und grander man never lived, but the greatest mistake that the Colonel ever made was when he wrote his fa- mous lecture on the “Mistakes of Moser." Ingersoll was a very bright man, and I have often wondered how he managed to keep from seeing the fact that the civilization in the midst of which he lived would have been unpossible but for the work of the nian he so mercilessly ridiculed. By accident, Moses was reared and educated’ in Egypt, At, the great University of Heliopolis he was taught ali the wisdom of the time. He be- came renowned in science, war and theology, but he was greatest of all in his devotion to the race from which he drew bis life. He was a thorough Hebrew and an uncompromising patriot. Moses reached manhood at the ime of the deepest depression of Israel's fortunes, and the sight of the de- gradation Into which his people had {alien caused him to resolve to set them free—to make of the nation of slaves a nation of men. It was @ bard task, but Moses pos< sessed an iron will, superb brain- power and masterly leadership, and when all was ready he set out at the head of his people for the “goodly iand" wherein they should be free, A silent man, speaking but little, and then straight to the point, ho contented — hituself with = “doing things.” He took full charge and as- sunied the entire responsibuicy. Toe Exodus was Moses and Moses waa 1 bxodus. The great leader's outstanding characterisue was his common sense, and he Knew that he needed some bisher sanction for his work than was to be found in his own patriot~ He mus, make his peope be- were being led by th ; might not f.llow Moses, but they would sur follow 8 as the agent and oracle uf God. we people had now reached the rt of the Sinajtic Peninsula, ono of the wildest and most awful regions to be found anywhere on earth, and nthe midst of a fearful storm of hundertand Nghtuing Moses went up into the beetling crags of Sinal und y und by came down with the “Tablets of the Law"—the immortal Ten Commandments, Setting the tablets up against the grim side of the mount, Moses read o the assembled people the laws which he told them had been carved nto the stones by the hand of God, They believed him, and he than had the power he was after—the power that would keep his stiff-necked country- nen in the traces and enablo them to pull together under his command untit his aim was wo For forty years the great leader led his people up and down through the wilderness, getting them ready for Uberty through the struggles and trials that came to them; and as he purposely pulled and hauled them around he would evers little while make them stop and listen to the words which Jehovah had sent town from the mountain, The "Grand Old Man’ died before he crossed Jordan's waves, but he zot his people safely over; and with them were the Commandments which teach the veneration of the holy; the sanctity of Hfe and property; the sacredness of truth; the love of father and mother and the unselfish ness which causes us not to want to deprive our fellows of that which be- longs to them—the basic principles of the true civilization for all tima, Ten-Minute Studies of New York City Government ike PPB We By Wi'lis Brooks Hawkins, This is the forty-seventh article of a series defining the duties of the administrative and leywlaive officera and boards of the New York ‘ Government PUBLIC MARKETS. The Department of Public Mar« kets, headed by a Commissioner ap- wointed by the Mayor, issues permits and leases and collects rentals for stands and lots in the various publio inurkets, and receives the fees paid by the market wagons which afe per- mitted to use the market squares. It ulso exercises a general supervision over the business transacted at the markets, ‘There are at present fourteen pubs ic markets in the city, West Wash~ ington and Gansevoort mafkets in Manhattan and Wallabout marwet in brooklyn are for the wholesale trade, vhe Atlantic Ayenue market tn Brooklyn and the Jamaica market in Queens are for both wholesale and retall, The exclusively retail mar- kets are Washington, Delancey, Man- hattan, Jefferson, Pifty-ninth Street, Queensboro, Harlem, Union Square, Teck Slip and Catharine Slip mar- kets, all in Manhattan, Under ap ordinance passed thiv year by the Board of Aldermen, the Department of Public Markets ts em- powered to issue permits and exar tise general supervision over all ioe dealers in the city. ‘The office of this department ts om the twenty-third floor of the Munict~ pal Building, Edwin J. O'Malley ts the present Commissioner, His pal- ary is $7,500 a year, Thomas F, Moc Grath is Seeretary to the Commis- sioner, The Deputy Commissionera pre Warren Hubbard, George A. Cole gan, Mrs. Louls Reed Welamiller Samuel Buchnex, ;,_ 2: Dae ory ~ Oa e— — e A