The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1920, Page 38

PS aN RACE ae ee tees = 2 OF TNE ASSOCTAMED PRES Pee Assoctaced Trem ts exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to Mt or not otherwise eredited tn this paper and also the Jocal news publlated herein. MR. UNTERMYER ‘AND MR. GRACE. F Sad siaake SCENE in the world drama of industrialism was staged in the Aldermanic Chamber Wednesday when Samuel Untermyer in- terrogated Eugene P, Grace. Mr. Grace is President of “Bethlehem.” Mr. Untermyer is the largest single stockholder, Mr. Untermyer advocated collective bargaining and unionization of workmen, Mr. Grace is willing to go to any length in op- position to these principles. In this conflict of opinion, if we go beneath the Surface, we find one of the great basic faetors of modern industrial life. Mr. Untermyer typifies ownership of industry. Mr. Grace typifies man- agement. The two do not always agree. If Mr. Untermyer owned and managed one or more of the Bethlehem plants or subsidiaries, it is fair to suppose that he would put into effect the policies he advocates. He would be in touch with his labor forces, would know what his workers wanted and would probably grant what was asked without the need of an elaborate union organization, Instead, Mr. Untermyer ierely owns a fraction of al/ the plants, He manages none, If he disap- proves of Mr. Grace's: management he is helpless unless he can persurade a majority of the ownership to cither discharge Mr. Grace or force him to change his policy. Mr. Grace is the representative of a union of toying capitalists, These capitalists are out of touch with the labor they employ. The workers have no avenue to reach the humanitarian ‘instincts of the real employers, such as Mr. Untermyer. Mr. Grace stands in the way. When every owner was his own employment manager there was real competition in employinent. Each owner had to treat his employees fairly or they would go to a competitor. “He was in posi, tion to know whether the treatment was fair. The corporation—the union of capitalist employ- ers—inade the union of employees essential, The very conflict between Mr. Untermyer and his Hired Man, Mr. Grace, is itself one of the best reasons a labor organizer could advance to justify the unionization Of labor for the purpose of collect- ive bargaining. Republican Leader Mondell thinks Federfl expensea may be decreased, particularly the miliary expenditures, The G, O. P. needs a Board of Co-ordination, Hew will Mr, Mondell’s suggestion check up with Senator Fall's determination ti conquer Mexico. War is expensive, even war against Mexico, " BURGLARY AND BANDITRY. URGLARY and banditry have flourished this week. So much so thd it seems evident no working agreement between the police and the un- derworld exists. Of late we have heard frequently that the “crime wave” is a pure figment of the imagination, If burglars and bandits were friendly with Com- missioner Enright, they would have taken a short holiday to help him prove his contention, But they have not. Instead, the crime record forms an almost ironl- cal commentary on the ‘Enright statement, The burglars and bandits seem bent oa proving the Commissioner in error. According to Commisstonoy , Blatewent, more than one- policemen voted “ aright’s own joyonih of the Xo” on the police hospital question in spite of “orders trom Meadquar- ters.” This {8 a striking commentary on elther the courage or the acumen of the jforce, Elther this minority could not bo intimidated or else they decided that aright Is so nearly “through” that his disappyoval will not amount to much, NAILING ANOTHER, fa¢ iconoclastic statesmen at Geneva to tear down the structure of false- usly built up by Chairman Hays and ague propagandi minittee of the Assembly officially ex- baseless fabrication about Article thai, willy-nilly,our country would be dragged into back alley row in Europe, Then, by their ind dence, the British domin- fons torpedoed the “‘six to one” lie that had sailed so serenely through the campaign, piloted by Chief Na tor Johnspn—or was it Mariner Reed? As for the wiy the League would conspire to suppress Irish freedom, the correspondents in S: land must have been remiss, for they have not jet ried any resolution calling on member nations 5, pt to Eng nds 4 in quelling the irish revolt. brazenly outraged truth and decency than the asser- tion that the League condoned and even sponsored the white ‘slave traffic. And now the Assembly has unanimously voted to summon an national conference to draft a world-wide convention looking to the prevention of the traffic in women. One more Anti-League lie nailed and clinched. PENROSE POINTS TO THE SOURCE! ENATOR BOIES PENROSE, one of the big- gest Republican bosses that ever dictated party policy in of out of Congress, now steps forward to warn the country against impending doom, “The situation,” declares the Senator, “is appall- ing. It cannot be exaggerated. We are rapidly reaching the point where men must sit down In the cold light of reason, without any illusions, and reach a solid basis. We cannot continue for many months to go on as we have been doing. : “Perhaps the principal source of all the tls which are likely soon to break over the country is overtaxation. ° * * “Prompt relief must be afforded by Con- gress.” ' Is Senator Penrose prepared to explain why a Republican Congress could not have afforded some of this relief during the past two years? If the country was being overtaxed, the remedy puld come only from Congress, and Congress was ae by Senator Penrose’s party. 5 Why diin’t-the Senator from Pennsylvania and his Republican confreres sit down “in the cold light of reason, and without any illusions,” to determine how they might best serve their country when this Sixty-sixth Congress met a year ago? Why didn’t they listen in a spirlt of patriotic help- fulness to the President’s message to Congress In December, 1919, in which he laid stress on the “Smmediate necessity” for tax revision and on the peril of continuing taxes which “discourage energy and remove the incentive to new enterprise”? Senator Penrose lays the present ills of business to overtaxation. “ Who is to Plane for the overtaxation if not Sen- ator Penrose and other dictators of the Republican Party who refused to sanction any programme ‘of tax relief until they had capitalized their country’s neal #6 help elect a Republican Pyesident? That is the Republican record of patriotism dur- ing the period when the American peaple were sut- fering for want of reconstructive aid from their National Legislature, I; isa record which Senator Penrose cannot blot out, though he shed rivers of crocodile tears over perils that now threaten, : All these months of vain wailing for tax revision in order that a Penrose may mount the platform of secure Republican victory, tell the Nation it is over- taxed—and try to persuade il ils best hope lies in a new protective tariff! , The hypocrisy of It! - TWICE OVERS. 6 ¢ FANUARY 9th, 1857.—After three years of ex- pensive war the balance-sheet exhibited such a state of wealth and prosperity as may well make us ‘the envy of surrounding nations’; but while we have recov- * ered the great blessing of peace, we have to look back upon a year stained beyori all precedent with frightful crimes of every sort and kind: horrible murders, enormous frauds, and scandalous robberies and defalcations. The whole attention of the country ts now drawn to the social quéstions which press upon us with appalling urgency, and the next session of Parliament, which is rapidly advancing, must be principally engaged in the endeavor fo find remedies for the evils and dangers incident to our corrupted population, and our erroneous and inade- quate penal system, the evils and dangers of which threaten to become greater and more difficult to remedy every day."—From Greville's Diary of the Reign of Queen Victoria, ° . . 66 OTOP those men; they are robbers!" Common- est street cry in New York at the present time. ° ° * (ALT Ca T sing these songs in German, 1 ama good American, But I think the time has come when we should lay aside our hostility and be at peace.” —Mme. Schumann- Heink, . * . 66 CHELTER 1s as much @ necessity as bread, and that likewise has in times of stress been the subject of regulation and, indeed, of apportion- ment.”—Opinion of United States District Court Judges Upholding the Rent Laws. ah) ee 66°T HOSE who have opposed our unions, who would destroy them, represent the old idea of master and slave,""—Samuel Gompers. . . . «¢ AMERICA has no friends in Europe.”— P Alexander Konta, New: York Banker just a * ee _ Where It Goes! AND EASTERN By John Cassel AER, eh Me tne i { ve ‘ haf. haft. y nder, fied from the field ‘Ik H (f- a whipped cur, to die a few day! pune later at the hands of Jael, and the ‘The Statesmen { of the Bible : By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory jopyright, 1 the Pree Publishing Oo, Tite New York bvenine Wort). N No. 4.—Deborah, In ‘thinking of .the great women who have from time to time ma thelr mark upon the world we oan- not afford to overlook Deborah, This remarkable woman is olarly entitled to a place, and an exalted place, in the hicrarchy of statesmen, | tor her work proves her. to have been @ natural born leader of men and o@anizer of human society. When Deborah reached womanhood her peopie weir in a bad way, leaders were incompetent,’ wisdom [seemed to haye forsaken them, and | the outlook was forlorn almost to the point of despair. At this juncture Debdérah took jeharge of things and resolved to Siraightensthings out or perish in the jattempt. She practically made herself | Judge of Israel, With a clearness of vision and @ |strength of will that but few men im jthe Wiole course of history have shown, this woman buckled” herself | down to her heavy task and whatever she said became law, Up in the North dwelt Jabin, Ki Jof the Canaanites, who for twen| years had been oppressing the peo; ft israel, riding through them in ‘chariot of iron,” devastating th fields, and playing havoc generally, ‘o dispose of Jabin was, therefor Deborah's first and most pressli busin . ‘ | So, sitting upon the seat of judg+ ment under the famous palm tree, eh ordered Barak, her leading captain] to appear before her; and whep bel came she ordered him to raise an{* army of ten thousand men and go tp) and annihilate Jabin, Barak was a weak sister, @ sort of tin soldier, and at the thought of ad his “ten thousand charioty he began to shake in th id to Deborah with ther will 1 | nei a coward, Deborah replied, “wil Phe ten thousand men were raise 1 the expedition started under leadership of the fearless Deborah, tht chicken-hearted Barak going alony just for for sake, ‘A traitor informed Jabin of Deb oral proaching legions, and whet she got there Jabin was ready for he with a large army and all his dreaded chariots of iron. Barak fairly shook in his sandalt when he saw the enemy lined up b > him, but Deborah, straightening 1 shaking her long black ner eyes flashing fire and every of her strong face knit fot pattle, cried out to her Captain: ‘or this is the day In which r th delivered Sisera into and : ectrified by tho fire of Deboral he Israelites swept forward a) hosts disappeared like isera, the Canaan it Menace of the North was no e. Mion fortytyears after this phenomo= Another Unforgivable Sin. ‘To the Kaitor of The Evening World: The ant-hill is again stirring, The usybodies, the self-appointed Mes- siahs of the human race and the “up- fingers to heaven. Heartened by the success of Prohibition, they are about to perpetrate another unforgivable sin. The ceiebration of the three hun- dredth anniversary of the coming of | Te the Editor of The Fi | May I congratulate Pp, H. Hib- bard of Athens, N, ¥., on his letter, “None of Our Busini Let them attempt !t. Thetr friends] ‘This spirit 1s commendable and I feel | y, many more Uke | the Pilgrims seems a fitting time to doliver another blow to liberty, How perfectly American! and enemies are fighting openly. But where do the newspapers stand? No matter what thelr editorial opinions, Idiotic crime of publicity, ‘The dailies breathe. Knowingly or defeating the cause of fr ing and planning appear. It calls to mind the bad boy tn the class who gloats when the teacher and fellow pupils give him too much attention. I repeat, Publicity of blue-law campaigning {s {dtotic, It is fur- thering the alms of the most stupid, short-sighted, slave-minded, mission ary-cursed ring in history; an anom- aly in this century, Stop advertising them at once. Stop roporting thelr piffle. Stop men- tioning them even for the purpose vt humor, Glye them the only boy- cott they deserve—SILENCH. Finally, I commend to your read- ers a fow thoughts expressed by the omniscient H. G. Wells some years ago in “The New Machiavelll:" “They want to take hold of life and make nothing of it. They want to cut out all the stimulants. Just ag though life was anything else but a reaction to stimulation.” FELIX SPER Dee, 5, 1920 and Salary, Frening World To the Raitor of how are they applied? N. HUNTER Brooklyn, N. ¥., Deo, 15, 1920, ‘To the Falitor ot The Event The only saving the money and loan associations), Blates, They every member hi little advertising hay been done, have 4,800,000 members in the Uni ‘ ‘about Mb pee oak of sure there are man: him, I charge the weWSpapers with the! power is to be son are blowing the poison gas over the secure our ‘help and sympathy. country until the air is unfit to, Whether right or wrong, they only ot, they are| think the U. 8, A. should help them. edom, very | On the other hand, when all |s serene day columns of froth minutely telling |and they have made thelr little bundle what these idiotic agitators are think- | the first thought is to return to the “Old Country” with it and torget where they owe thetr gratitude, who fights and runs away 1 fight another day," ‘To the Raitor of The Eve grcatest obligation fronting parents to-day is the proper What {s the difference between the two words, wages and salary, and this Stato under the Jurisdiction of the Banking Department that ptaco all hoy recolve from sav ng depositors on small first mortgages are the savings and loan aseocia- tions (generally known as bullding ‘These institutions are the greatest agencies for the promotion of thrift and home ownersnip in the United purely mutual— a volee in the man- agement, whether he pays $2 cr $100 a month, Their amaging growth has largely come by word of mouth, as Your readens will be interested in a} ness few statietics, These associations From Evening World Readers What kind of a 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? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. are paying for their homes and 75 per cent. are systematic rs. On Jan. 1, 1920, assets were $2,126,- 620,000 and the growth this year \s at least 10 per cent. Across the river, fn Now Jersey, one person in every six lifters" are again pointing warnins|of the population belongs to a bulld- ing and loan association, ARCHIBALD W. M'EWAN. New York, Dec. 15, 1920. janine: ing World: Tt Js really a fact that if any foreign ing trouble there are sure e of thelr agitators here to Tt would be much better if these people would only remain where they belong and fight the battle land, than to come over here for safety sake and then talk of what of thetr hould be dong, But, of course, “He iS irae! H. A. BRADLEY, New York, Deo. 14, 1920. “Spank Him—Lant.” 4 World: Upon reading your editorial of Dec. 10, relative to “Spanking Him—Last,” { could not help but think what a blessing {t would be if those words could be read and atudied by all parents needing much advice. Tt ts generally dmitted that the d problem con- rearing of their children, Since a child's temperament and character, which are carried through life, are largely developed by impressions got- ton in youth, It Ja essential that these ‘mpreasions be good ones, These im- pressions aro formed in a child by Means of tho teachings and disotpline of his paronts and teachers, Opinions ‘iffer as to the proper ways to be em- ployed in the disolplining of bad or mischievous children, but it ts certain that ‘consistency, kindness and pa- {feno@ must form’ (he basis of all d.goiptinting me 4 a former achool teacher made a fow absorvations, long ais ling which #eem to be quite common among a considerable number of par- ont, One of thoso Ia the inability of parents to seo and aympathize with {he point of view of thetr children, and as a result of thfs, burst out in a fit of anger against them, All nor- mal children have a reason for doing any one thing, though they hens eelves may know beforohand that tt is wrong for them to do it. But in place of the parents reasoning with of Dec. 9?! UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. (Copyright, 182), by John Blake.) DON'T WAIT TO BE The man with initiative doesn’t wait to be told. sees what is to be done and does it. And when other people discover this trait in him his future is pretty well assured, It is the faculty of initiative that fills the positions of general managers, general attorneys, présidents, superin- tendents and all highly paid executive places in the world. It is the faculty of initiative that makes inventors, authors, artists and orators, The man who is looking for something that can be done both find it and go it. The man who never does anj thing till he is told to do it, and who never does that until he is told how to do it, may be honest and faithful and in- dustrious and loyal, but he is very likely to spend his Nife wondering how he will ever raise the mortgage from his house. ment. Do the work that you are told to do, and then lg around to find other work that you have not been told todo but which it is possible todo. Keep your mind on your job, and when you find a better way to do your work adopt that way without waiting for somebody else to tell you to. Look about for opportunities to prove that you are bet- ter than the boss thinks you are. make use of them. ‘The boss may be an individual or a cor- & poration,’ It makes no difference which. will be measured by world, 4 Like everything else that is valuable, initiative is neither usual nor easy to come by. who are born With it are very few. so easily discouraged by their fellows that the initiative as soon as they find out that employi erally means a battle of some kind. Yet initiative is a quality that can be cMltivated. than that, it is @ quality that must be cultivated if you expect to amount to more than the mil The proportion of men And many of these are y lose their ons and tuillions of very ordinary people who populate the world. You can begin to cultivate it in any working environ- Your importance your usefulness, and eventually your income will be the measure of your importance. Work intelligently and as swiftly as is consonant with good work. But, above all, keep your eyes open for chances to do your work before you are told to do it. do that, and do it continuously, you will soon be past won- dering whether or not you are going to get along in the fiome parents even threaten death to) their children when bad, | Certainly such @ method ts a crime. | A much more jasting impression would be gotten by the child if kind- ness and gentleness were used by the piront, atusive language 1s a harm to ohil- dron is that it teaches them to be disrespectful, The children will #oon reall: that the threats are never carriéd ous, and hence the parents are in reality tolling lea. Surely children will then lack confidence in their par- ents, and lack of respect for them 1s the result, 6 rewon threats and Yes, much good could be done for our future genorations if many of our parents would use a little more oon- the child and pointing out the fooliwh- | sistency, kindness and reason in the of the chttd's action they, owing | dealings with the to their Mok of patience, burat out in on aie a) shout; ‘Johnny, it To children. . LUTHER L. LIND! 167 North 20th Street, Pii! Words From the Wise. | Miescia’ ‘upenta and ater tellfaw Character ig innate and con- |Jo8e that his mother dies of a broken duct is merely its manifestation. Schopenhauer, Man {a but a reed, the feeblest _jsqare and enters the arena, A tale of created things, reed | R008 UP as Eo jcamillo enters with Gar. man |} dies, but haw he tives. dear Franklin, nal victory, the people were able to sit under their vines and fig. trees with none to molest them or make them afraid, The woman who won their great victory for them remained as their law giver and judge, and un- der her wise administration all went weil. Opera Stories At a Glance Copyright, 1920, by the Pres Bublishing Om (The New York Evening World.) BIZET’S CARMEN. Don Jose, a corporal of dragoons, the lover of Micaela, a peasant girl, #* entranced by the coquetries of Car- men, gypsy cigarette worker, who one day throws a cassia flower at his feet. With all the characteristics of the , she is passionate, yet fickle, love and quick to tire, and ng that dash of fatalism which flirts with death. Jose conceals the flower as Micaela greets hini in the square. Just then there come cries of terror from the cigarette factory, for Car men has wounded another girl with a | knife in a quart Jose, as corporal of the guard, a its her, but she mocks at him’ gayly. On the way to the prison she bewltches him com- etely and, while he is off his guard, | escapes with a merry, taunting laugh. In the tavern of Lillas Pastia Car- a figure of Hsci , a famous torea- dor, But her fam@y js still for the |handsome dragoon, who has beem onfined since her escape, and only |to-day was liberated. | Jose appears at the tavern and, after becgmt embroiled with a superior mien te persuaded by Carmen to desert and fly with her to the mountains, Re- luctantly he consents, for the spark- ling eyes of the maiden have made soner, They go together to a smugglers’ Carmen's infatuatton_ts short-lived and Don Jose becomes unhappy, reale2 g that her thoughts are turnin, other men, notably the tores One night, as he Is on look- Escamillo appears on the scene Jand announces his Intention to see |the beautiful Carmen, “Before another man sees Carmen, he must pay the price—with the \inife,” warns Jose. y draw their knives, and just as is about to despateh his advers the smugglers intervene ls camillo walks Jaun~ a in whose eyes he sees iit of approval and admiration, heart at his absence, prevails upon him to accompany her to the town. i is the day of the bull-fight in Seville, and the crowd crosses the men on his arm, Carmen ts wayhed te go, a8 Jose is reported to be seek. ing her, but only laughs and Virtue is not a thing you can | tosses her head, Suddenly she faces have by halves; it ts or it ts not, | her rojected lover, who begs: her to go back with him ‘to the mount Wee With @ oss atntle, ‘she, professeg her love for the Toreador. ‘The orow ‘oars its approbation as Escamitlo en. ters the arena, and Carmen with triumph, ‘The flash of und she lies at the feet of Jos 8 an officer comes to arrest school, but fools will learn in no hrows himself on her . and ories, “C on Careuah rm te" tore woes"