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basis would lead to more economic production in the railroad shops. Congressional Salary Arbitrators might fix similar standards for legislative activity. Good legistation is worth a great deal to the country. It should be paid for at a fair rate. Bad legislation or no legislation where legislation is needed is infinitely costly. “ Here is a great ‘scheme for national economy. Suppose we took it-seriously : system, many Congressmen could not afford to live in Washington. . On a piece-rate basis the present Congress would have earned just about enough to tip the Pullman porter on the trip home, * BORAH OR TIRPITZ? io putea hel micas ict cambonpideaud tace oo the disanmament movement in order not to embarmss the President-clect makes no impres- sion on Senator Borah. The Senator from Maho points to plain facts: “The Hovse has sent us a Navy Appropria- tion Bill carrying $396,000,000, and we are about to construct sixteen capital ships at a cost of $40,000,000 each. The bill carries $90,000,000 to continue construction. “It aeals the proposition of an expenditure of $640,000,000. Contracts are made, and if we go ahead for this year and ratify the pro- cedure, manifestly it will be impossible to stop construction. “The army ‘and navy are the only places where wo can cut expenditures, Attempts to reduce in other bills are merely nibbling at feduction, We are appropriating more this year, I am told, than we did last year. ‘That yerges on madness.” . If there is any sincere wish to save the country this new burden of naval costs, why should Con- gress or the President-clect object to an immediate first step toward getting the chief naval powers mto conference on the question of at least partial dis- armament? That is all the Borah resolution calls for. Why shouldn’t Congress adopt the resolution now? To say the effort is not worth making or that it does not matter how tong it is put off is to profess indifference as to weight of the load the people of the United States must carry. Such indifference finds a natural counterpart, in the views of Admiral von Tirpitz cabled from Baden ‘by the Associated Press, ‘ The German Admiral cordially advises the United States to build a still mightier navy to protect its commerce and hopes this Nation “will not make the mistake Germany did of trusting to the broth- erly feeling pf the Gngtish’ (1). : “In a certain way the position of the United States will be the same as Germany’s situa- Sh Ee ‘What constitutes a “whip hant’? What is the which the Governor is holding over recalcitrant _The “present regulatory powers of the State” considered even dangerously broad whén they New Yorkers generally befieve that nothing short “strong-arm: methods” will be effective: Brook- B. R.'T. has practically _ . VENEER FOR THE CABINET. - FORECASTS from Florida now include Herbert Hoover as a Cabinet probability. ‘ Mr. Hoover accepts the post of Secretary of THE EVENI On a piece-work basis; or under an efficiency | ; Party was supposed to a monopoly on the supply of intellectual giants stature. ae than the stion before the war.” Will any Congressman admit be sees no use in trying to ebtain for this country anything better of a naval rivalry intensified rather than lessened by the great war?’ , " ‘Then why postpone an hour even the smallest action that may advance the cause of international disarmament ? We assume a Unijted States Senator cares more than von Tirpitz about keeping down bills Ameri- cans must pay. Pll Hays, Hert and Fall are politicians. ; are not “strong men” except in a political » Mellon, Weeks, Davis and Wallace are only less politically minded. Their “strength” than to inherent During the campaign there was talk of publish- ‘ing a list of Cabinet appointments as a vote-getting move. But the political advisers decided it was If his managers had reached the conclusion that © such’ a list of “strong men” was needed to win the ‘election, we may be sure the Harding Cabinet "would have a different complexion. It would have _ % Included more “strong men” and fewer politicians. To keep further typhus cases from slipping into this country is worth many times the $200,000 asked of Congress for the purpose. PRICES AND RENTS. Wholesale prices, the Labor Department at Washington announces, decreased an average of 61-8 per cent. during Jantary, making a decline of 35 per cent. from the high prices of last May, Why, the consumer asks, hasn't there been a corresponding cut in retail prices? In this city, one reason is rents. It is not only home rents that are high in New York. Business rents felt the upward boost. ’ If you ask the grocer or the butcher why his prices have not come down with the fall in wholesale costs, he will confront you with figures showing how bis rent has risen. War, inflation, lack of labor, falling off in building—all these economic influences got in their work with an extra wallop on this city, Retail prices in New York are still kept up in many caseg by high shop rents, ‘The National Woman's Party has decided to go on freeing women some more before it supports disarmament; Couldn't the party have combined both aims to their mutual advantage? IF CONGRESSMEN WERE PAID ON A PIECE-WORK BASIS. ‘OW that the Congressional teapot has blown off some of- its tempestuous steam in the direction of the blatant Mr. Blanton of Texas, it may be an opportune moment to suggest a scheme for the revision, of Congressional salaries which, .. ‘we believe, would have public support, In the Railroad Bill, Congress went on record as favoring the arbitration and adjudication of wages toy ‘the Railroad Labor Board. Why should not Congress set up a similar organ- -Ization to decide what would constitute fair and ‘equitable pay for the services Congressmen render? Such a board might be empowered to meet at ‘the end of each session of Congress to survey the legislative record and decide on a fair remuneration. The Railroad Labor Board is now considering the TWICE OVERS - 66 VOU women who have never’ bogne a child, who have never lost a child, what do you mean by telling us who have that the question of dis- armament is not @ feminist question?” —Mrs. Harriet Brown of Iowa. Rene! he “ec E have got to make allowances to enable her (Germany) to get raw material and the food which are necessary to enable her to produce these foods.” —Premier Lloyd . ° * 66 BELIEVE the tax exemption ordinance is a tery good measure and it ought to be passed.” — Mayor Hylan, é omeinnen 1 jada Manele: + he wtenp sobs be ys ’ 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 ie fine mental ewercise and a lot of satisfaction im trying te aay much in a few words. Take time to be brief. ’ An Innocent Abroad im the Subway. ‘To tho Wiiitor of ‘The Drening World: First thing I did when I got to my office this morning was to raise the salaries of my typewriter and Danny, the dynamite office boy. I chased them out to lunch ahead of the reg- ular time and told them not to hurry. ‘Then I went to a “place” and had two 76's instead of my usual one— you know, To what did I attribute all this exuberance? Listen: 1 had the rare experience of hav- ing an honest-to-goodness laugh. on my Way downtown in the subway. At 110th Street an express nosed in, ‘There was the usual irresistible wave of rushers toward the car doors. I was carried along like @ cork on the crest of it. Silently but ferociously that crowd pushed and heaved and ‘kknuckled in the back those on the outside layer of -wretches who had edged in beyond the doorstep, There were no sounds save the grunts and snorts of desperate men andthe timid ttle squawks of a few poor but honest working girls, Suddenly a rich, Southern bass drawled: goin’ on yar?" It was as the bursting of a sheli Jaden with captured comicality. Everybody within the range of that surprised inquiry roared with laugh- ter. Even a weeny little salesgirl who was being slowly flattened out against the closed end of the plat- forni giggled delightedly, That jam- med-in mass of sufferers laughed as if there was no torture in thelr daily ordeal in the subway, and they kept it up until the macerating inrush ana exit of tte two human currents at 96th Street had to be reckoned with. T smiled all the way to Park Place, notwithstanding the fact that the latest lament of the Subway Sun was ‘pasted up in front of me. far-reaching, “What's all I found time to analyze the owner of the rich, far-reaching, Southern ‘bass, Clearly be was a etranger in ‘our subway midst, getting his first experience as a New York sardine, He appeared to be fectly innocent query was received. ( could foresee what he will say about back to Grit- nk he'lt ever ‘And hop- ing for bis sake he won't have to, I we ‘uns when he ge’ fin, Gawga. I don’ ride in the subway again. remain, “ DE NICKEL RYDER, Amend the Sullivan Law. ‘To the Bititor of The Mrening Work: I honestly agree with I. H. K. jr. in his letter advocating amendment of the Sullivan Law. Tam a married man with @ fem- fly. My work calls ¢or me to be out at times six nights out of seven. think it te nothing but proper that every houscholder who could produce good references to be in possession of a there should be a law for dazed at the hilarious manner in which his per- revolver or some other article of pro- tection. i I itve in an outlying district of Brooklyn, and my wife always com- plains of being affraid to be alone. For these last two years we have rarely seen a policeman within nine blocks of my home. I am sure there are many more out here who will agree with me on this subject. WATCHMAN, Brooktyn, Feb. 17, 1921. Comfortable at Fox Hills, ‘To the Baitor of The @rening Workt : I have reat with interest the ar- tcles published in The Bvening World recently ‘regarding conditions and treatment received by ex-soldiers at the United States Public Service Health Hospital at Fox Hills, Staten Ialand, N. Y. During the month of January, 1921, I was compelled to go to Fox Hills Hodpital to be operated on for an all- ment resulting froin my anmy service. I was a patient in Ward 16 at that ‘hoaplital, and I can truthfully say that while I was there the treatment was excellent. ‘The food gas good and there was plenty of it, both in the general mess bali and during the time I ceceived my meals while in bed. ‘The doctors assigned to that ward took a great interest in not only my- self but all the other patients in the ward, and the nurses and orderiies were in constant attendance both day and night. The ward, too, was kept very neat and clean, While there I talked with other ex- service men who had been in private hospitals before entering Fox Hills, and they ajso apoke highly of the treatment they recelyed, saying that treatment ‘in other hospitals and food was not as good iby a long ehot, I considered my stay at the Fox Hills Hospital a very pleasant one, outside of the time that I was in pain, and I am sure there are many other ex-soldiors who have tbeen treated there that can say the same. STOTHARD, 1250 Hancock Street, Brooklyn, Feb. 17, 1921. . Think of America Firet: ‘To the Mitttor of The Bveuing Work!: There is danger of tetti: migrants, It is a proved it. that Kurope is infested with a plague, and if our representatives im Congress were working for Americanism they wil stop working for foreign interest and not argue about the stopping of immigration for at least a year, Our worthy health commissioner, who knows more than the representa- lives about canditions, should be not interfered with by people who don* know what it means to the American ‘public, ‘Congress will look for prevention when It ts too late. ~ in im- At present we have not the proper housing to accommodate our own people, so let us all think of American interest first. J.P. Now Youk, Fob. 15, 102. . lett | enon (The New York Brering SOI ganar te Severe UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (CooPHebt, 1911, by John Blake) ROLLING STONES. The proverb tells us that rolling stones gather no moss. Then turning to Shakespeare we find in “Two Gentlemen of Verona” that “homekeeping youths have very homely wits.” For ourselyes we prefer Shakespeare to the maker of the proverb, whoever he was. A well known editor who has a fancy for discovering where the successful men in New York City were born has discovered that about one of them in a hundred was born in New York. The remainder came- from almost every State in the union. Of course, this is hardly a fair test of the proverb, for the stoné that gathers moss naturally transplants itself to a metsopolis where the moss can be exchanged for more luxury. re a man who has distinguished himself in a smaller town attéacts the attention of employers in cities, and thus is likely to go from one city to another, till he finishes his journey in the biggest one in the country of his natiyity. But as a rule the man who has travelled understands the world better and is consequently better fitted to do the world’s work than one who has been a homekeeping youth all his life. The more you learn the abler you ought to be. travel is education. The great war left manifold evils behind it, but the law of compensation has never been repealed, so it also did good in many ways. One of these ways was to acquaint the men of England “and America with the Continent of Europe, to bring them into contact with a people speaking another tongue and fol- lowing a different mode of life. . And the great lesson they learned from their travel was that men at heart are much the same, no matter how strange their speech or how unusual seem their customs. The young man who has his way to make will do well to travel if he can find the opportunity to do so. This world is not so large as the Betelguese, but it is big enough to con- tain many wonders that are worth seeing, and the greatest of all these wonders are the people who inhabit the dif- ‘ferent. portions of it. Don’t try to gather moss too soon. You'll enjoy travel more at twenty-five than at sixty, and gain more from it. Settle down early in life, but before settling down know something of some country besides your own, even if it is just across the border, Your experience may not make your fortune, but it will give you new things to think abont and enrich your memory, which one of these days will be all the treasure that is left to you, no matter how much money you may have stored away, And @ AAA AAPL) . asked to give something.—Me Words From the Wise| winar. » ~ The Udrary is the scholars Affection is a coal that must be workshop, the teacher's assist- cool'd, Else, suffer’d, it will set the ant and the professional man's chief outft.—Baldwin, A poor man’s relatives are hard to find, for no one will con Jess that a needy man is one of his kindred, since he might be heart on flre—Shakespeare, She hal consents who silently dentes,—Ovid, Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.— Henry Ward Boocher, oan neem ine mater sue Ses abies The gage ts mighty sweets You recoltect the wide eapémes Of silver-covered plain, And jeat for one more sight of & You'd trade your pelds of grain The cactus ain't @ lovely flower Competin’ with the rose, But when you're miles and miles wag You want it, goodness knows ; You'd wear it, spikes and all, upow The lapel of your vest, Because it brung to you a hint Of your brave, open West! ‘This little poom called “Homesicic~ ness” we cite from Arthur man’s “Cactus Center” (Houghton- Mifflin) just to show that Long Acre Square /and ite white lights do nos constitute life's sole center of yearm- ime. Cactus Center ie in Arjzona, . .. Defying the Melting-Pot - -- Writing in her “Immigration and the Future” (Doran) of the problems of Americanization, Keller says on a certain page: Indignation rather than curlostty fe garoused when ithe average meri told, for nee, it thers “are” sections “In Amertes where the third generation of for- kn born has noi learned to speak the English tanguage; or that Turkish colony, with its olf world customs and manners off living, Is established in one of the oldest and most conservative ot New Kngiagcs 7 oF t in to William wholly by Sicilians who own mayor, chief of ce, master, school teacher, and itf= cal leaders; or again, that a fourth generation of native born Germans of gative stock favor the Fathery land in preference to America, Exceptions here, by thelr very note worthiness, prove that the meltimg- pot has, as a rule, worked very well. Anyway, it doesn’t help to get mad * 8 6 “Remaindered” to Fame - - - Having been “remaindered” as te his first book, C. ‘Lewis Hind, in his latest work, “Authors and I” (John Lane), describes the process to his readers: I wonder if the general publie Knows the meaning of the word “remaindered” In publishin; It signifies that the book has been discarded, given up as a bad Job. Suppose the edition is "1,000 copies, that 150 sell in the first six monthé, and that a year later the - 200 marks hag not been pi . ‘The publisher, if he be hard-hearted and ‘business-like, will “remainder” the 800 remaining copies to an agent for a few pennies a copy. ‘The agent will ship them to Aus- tralia, to South Africa, to the treaty’ ports, to Brooklyn, to New Jersey, to any place that is eager for @rbolesale literature at an ‘absurd price. There they are tumbled [ito bargain boxes. Tt is a fine way for an author to become known, but it is not a good way of earning a living. “Remainder” authors have their troubles, but they do not have to worry over income tax forms. The moral appears to be that, gives a reniaindering publisher— There is no remission of his first sin for an author of ever so bad & beginning. eee Mutual Aid in the Wilds --~ In his “Natural History Studies™ (Henry Holt), J. Arthur ‘Thomas writes thus of mutual defense in the animal world: Mr. W. H. Hindson tella of the Vis- eachas—burrawing rodents of Gouth America—that when a farmer de~ stroys a burrow and buries the in- hebitants under a heap of earth, other jscachas, coming from a dis- tance—for there are frequent visits Detween village and village—dig out and save those that have been bur- led alive. There are thousands of facts Mie this) which show that there is much more in the animal workd than “Every one for himself and extine- tion take. the hindmost.” Apart from gregarious and soctal animals, there is much co-operation. Little birds, like wagtails, will com- bine to drive off a falcon, and the: are many instances of ‘the disap- Feintipene of }irds of prey when hey visit a Inke side crowded with ducks and tern and plover. It is quite certain that suceess ti the battle is not always to the strong. Clever soclable birds like «rocks, cranes and parrots are. very safe, Presumably’ they woukl tbe set down as queer birds who, being both clever and sociable, chose neverthe- lesf to stay out of the feathered League of Nations. ¢ . 8 8 King and Beggar Maid -- - There is no story better worth re- telling than that of a certain King and a begear maid. This tale of Cophetua has come down the ages to find new place in the pages of ‘‘Mad- falena’s Day", (Yale University Press), a book of sketches by Laura Wolcott, We quote from where the King pulls suddenly the rein of bis black Lucifer: For there, wading in a pretty puddle at dice of a wood was the Bweet id he ever laid eyes on. She no more akin to the numberless with their ¢ smiles and bashful miens, than she was to the pik that raced out at the door and chased, grunting amd — squealing hhunerily, after him, with all children—no end of them. Indeed, to think again, the pig might have laid claim to ther sooner than the King's daughters, Her long block hair waving and carly at the glistening ends rippled all over her in mad abundance. And well, © King! that it did! For beside i she had nothing belonging to her—, positively nothing but @ few unton- sidered rags and tags and stream- ors of past clothing to keep out sun and rain, let alone the wind and the folks’ prejudices, Now the figure that stood dri ping from head to foot in the pud- diq and not so much as diinking at, sight of a crowned King, seemed 80 splendid tn to the Ind so lovely, color with the splendor of granate blossoms, that as he kmew now what he wanted quite as well as what he didn’t want, he just leaned down and picking it up with one hand, set it. on hin saa ‘bow with a algh. of ‘content: never having has (ule own mantle scour, nor his horse's gear withal. “By the si dor of the sun I wit marry you!" criod Cophetus, kiseig ; a hundred times e sweet un- Wwashen mouth that emiled up at | him unefraid—and he with his @tit- tering crown ont ‘What is marry?’ laughed other, And—"T will toll yen ts ‘we ride," wht the King. And yet, here and there ie a mod ern Robert W. Chambers or some. body who thinks perchance he ime Fouances sary x