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snateasntea ey easetnnnesescennnnitpusigalsaaialia ESTABLIGHED RY JOSEPH PULITZER. Prbltmhed Dally xcept Buoday by The Preas Publishing Company, Nos. 53 te 42 Park Raw. New York PULITZER, Preeident. 68 Park Row. S SHAW, Treamurer, 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITAER Jr. Secretary, 62 Park Row — MEANTER OF THR ASSOCIATED PRESS. ‘ (The Associated Prom is exclusively entitled (0 {he wa fer republication t Mf atl news deapatches credited to It or not otherwise oredited tm this papgr Wed also the local news published bereim THE TELEPHONE FAMILY. RUMOR is going the rounds that the man- Bk agement of the New York Telephone Com- | if pany is anything but happy over the raise in the | Hit, dividend rate of the American Telephone and Tele- | @aph Company. This is plausible at least. Family quarrels are ho novelty and the raise in the dividend rate came at a most inopportune time. The New York Tele- phone Company, whose stock is all owned by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, tied poverty and played poor until it slipped @hrough its 28 per cent. raise in rates. Then the | parent threw out its chest and cried, “Look how prosperous I am and have been.” Explanation of this corporate contradiction is to be found In the direction of the companies. “The Boston crowd” of financiers has the say in the parent company, and the directors of the New York Telephone Company are all residents of New York er New Jersey. The local men couldn’t prevail on the Bostonians to be reasonable and wait until public clamor over tg rate raise in New York died ' @own and so save the faces af the rate-boosters. Sometimes family quarrels result in disclosure of family skeletons. | Thus far, however, the New York Telephone Company has shown no disposition to go into par ficulars 2s tothe “services rendered” by the parent company in return for the 414 per cent. allowance @n gross business. Nar is it publishing payments and prices at whici ft buys supplies from another fat chiki of the Bos- ton parent, the Western Blectric Company. ACCUMULATION OF MISFITS. NY duster alone or in comparison with figures for the last few years, the record of business failures for the last three months would be alanm- ing. The first three months of 1921 witnessed | 4,807 failures, three times as many as if the cor | wesponding period last year. Liabilities were six | ames as great as for the first quarter of 1920. To get a fair understanding of what these figures | mean, it is necessary to look over a period of say | ten years. In’ such a review it will be noted that | wart] last year business failures had been abnor- | mmity low for three or four years. | | The present excess of failures is simply a weed- fag out of the unfit who in normal times would have failed in the years from 1917 to 1920, A certain proportion of business failures is to be | expected. It is the toll of healthy competition in | business. In the war years anybody with a little money could get into business and stay in business. With a rising market in everything, it was prac- | tically impossible to fail, except by gambling on | the bear side. | As a result, many misfits and unfits got into | commercial life. [t was not until the drop in the | market came that competition had its stern way. | Those who are failing to-day are merely those who would normally have failed other years | but coukin’t because of the market. | MORE WORMS TURN. FTBR a survey of menu cards and schedules of hotel room charges, the Hote! Committee of the Intermational Federation of Commercial Travellers’ Organizations has gone on the war- path, with the statement that these ‘make one think that Jesse James was a piker.”” In a broadside letter to 600,000 members of six organizations the committee advises a “strike.” | In brief, the letter summarizes the course of the “tnuyers’ strike” of last year. No one knows better than the commercial travellers how effective this was. They watched its progress in their order books. The committee advises the travelling men to use the same weapon: 7 “It behooves every man to help break the , wall of high prices by patronizing cheape: hotels and restaurants. When you step up to a hotel register and you are told the price of a room, if you believe it is exorbitant, i after taking into consideration the service | j offered and the investment of the hotel, do not hesitate to say-so and walk out. * * ® } You cannot bring down these prices by sub- 4 mitting to them and then go out and kick Your complaint must be made to the hotel proprietor and he must be given to under- stand that you and the members of your craft intend to refuse to pay them.” The travelling men are hardest hit, but the gen . eral public is no less interested. Vhe crusade should *e extended by vigorous missionary work on the part of travellers, In particular, it might be urged upon members of the theatrical profession, who are directly as are the commercial travellers. ' of road companies have expenses are prohibitive. L A consumers’ strike is effective in proportion to | ' alfectad as ndreds not been sent out because the freetlen of the consumers we resohtely re- fuse to ty. A boycott of profiteering hotels will bring down prices. Every patron can help by com- plaining loud and often—and refusing to patronize the profiteers. SATISFACTORY ? ORECASTS of what the Harding Administra- tion will consider a good-enough place for E the United States among nations after the great War are now confidently made, A separate peace with the Central Powers; guarded and perfunctc with the Allies y professions of agreement ~as “in hokling Germany responsi- ble for the warj” a cold shoulder toward the Treaty Versailles— ot to ave as specific advantages fhat United States; every effort to replace the existing League Nations with a association in which the United States may secure membership at a cheaper price—these are expected to be the Handing-Hughes policies upon which depetds this country’s interna- tional position, Is the prospect satisfactory to Americans? During the campaign last year Candidate Harding more than once made the veiled but significant ap- peal to which Senator Lodge earlier descended: can be made to accrue therefrom to. the ot new “They will take na on our own terms,” Mr. Harding went before the country with the halt-suggestion that, if elected, he could be relied on to secure some sort of peace league that would let the United States out of such obligations as those which forty-three other nations had been will- ing to assume, Indications are that the foreign policy of the Harding Administration is shaping itself along this line. From the Republican point of view such a course has three advantages: It definitely spurns the despised path of ‘the Wilson ideals It propitiates elements who voted for Mr. Har- ding in the expeotation thit, if elected, he could be - counted on to spare Germany the blow of complete accord between the United States and the Allies. It satisfies those who have all along maintained more or less openly that, with its manifest advan- tage of power and importance, the United States ought to contrive to get all the protection against war. an association of nations can provide, without paying the regular price. To this sordid and cynical attitude Mr. Harding’s campaign denunciations of the League and entanglements” strongly appealed. President Harding cannot fulfil in his foreign “foreign policy the hopes ot each and all of the huge ma- jority that elected him. It is tor the country to say whether the best and most patriotic part of that majority is represented in a programme which begins with a separate peace with Gennany and proceeds to a scuttling of the League. U.ULSCIOUS MEMORY ! HE story ot the Colorado “hooch melons” in 1. yesterday's Evening World will probably re- call to many the “spiked melons” of the pre-Vol- stead era. For the uninitiated it may be well to explain that a “spiked melon” was probably the “ambrosia” with which the high gods refreshed themselves on Olympus. More specifically it was a well-ripened “water- million” picked in the dark of the moon and sci- entifically treated by the seventh son of a seventh son of sero butler to’ a Kentucky Colonel. Others in ipproximate a spiked melon, but it high priest of the order of the mint julep to produce the ultimate ultima of the spiked melon. Preparation of a spiked melon required two to four days. First the melon was plugged and drained required a of juice for several hours. Then the melon was refilled with a heavy wine and placed in the ice- box. At stated intervals it was turned first on one side and then on the other. Then it was drained again and refillal with a lighter carbonated wine, plugged and sealed and chilled for hours. Finally it was carved and served. Oh, man! Perhaps Dame Nature and F. HH. Chanlear’s yeast ma imilar melon. But those who have piked melon will want to be shown. produce a TWICE OVE on May 1, Germany tries to escape by dodging, it is a firm hand which will grip her by the col- Briand. . Aye lar.” Premier . * “ee HE English have made a great mistake in ar- ranging trade agreements with the Bolsheviki, for the latter have nothing to sell.” former capitalist of Petrograd. . + * ONE that Brindell is out of the way labor troubles are minimized." ~ President Goodstein of the Builders’ Association of Manhattan. Jacob Gourary, <a Rae Rae eo REE is Ae THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1921. Be Ren Reena Ey Mate Cassel | There is fine mental exercise ‘0 Say much in a few words, Take I hope that you will give some space to my congratulations both to ‘The | Evening World and to State Senator Cotillo as regards their splendid war- fare against some of the city’s para- Sitical agencies. As a Buropean I can not only fully appreciate the nature of the offenses, | but 1 venture as well to hope that the warfare will be continued against the “lazy and grafty" exploiter of the poor immigrant State supervision of monetary } transactions will certainly not remove all the filth, Let some one commence to prick the ticket agencies proper, and I feel almost certain that the re- sult would well be worth striving for, | not only for the benefit of the indl- vidual toreigner but for that of the country’s reputation GEORGE SARAN'TIDES. New York, April 1, 1921, Enforcement Expenses, To the Falitor of The Bvwning World. Prohibition Director Kramer wants $7,500,000 to enfors Prohibition If the like to suggest that his agents would | probably jad to furnish him that j|amount to keep thelr jobs in case Congress had the sense to refuse him. New York alone had a revenue scandal not so long ago that involved millions and was announced by big headlines in the newspapers. it, he pass the hat here frat April 1, 1921. Election Returns, ing Word, Brooklyn, N. Y., Wet From Evening World Ricker What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Ten't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? chief doesn't mind I would 1 never read where anybody landed in jail for and I would further suggest | and a lot of satisfaction in trying time to be brief. | For Papi and Jearn thoroughly in that period To the Haitor of of years? 1am not mechanically inclined. My education is equivalent to two years of High School and most of my life | worked at “clerical.” What sort of future is there | motioh picture photography? | SBRVICE. Bronx Is Part of the City. To the Editor of The Byening World in | New York City. | Which ia right? Soldiers and Marines. To the baitor of The Byering World With no disparagement to M. J. B or to the army, I wish to enlighten the readers of The Evening World on several points regarding recruiting for the marines. As one in a position to know, let me state that last year when army men were re-enlisted in the Marine Corps and assigned to duty, they were were found unqualified to perform the duties of marines, The result? These same men are now in special com- panies for the purpose of training and indoctrinating them. Under present conditions, they are being transferred upon re-enlistment to the Parris Island recruit depot for training, regardless of rank of previous service. It has been the experience of the Drill Sergeants that these same men are harder to train as marines than are the “boots,” because it is necessary to “unlearn” ‘ex-army men before the will absorb the esprit and regulations of the Marine Corps. IRGHANT MAJOR, U. 8. M. C. lyn, April 2 B claims that it is. Dic, “Six Months Idte.” To the Kdnor’of The Kwang World 1 ask permission to reply to “ ix ir—In y ue of March) Months Idle’ and dozens of others ptimiat” answers “N. MH | who are worrying about the unem- ates if “N, M. H. will refer to) ployment problem. ‘There is, theré | last he oo be further eniight-| can be, but one answer, There would pond “py the fact that not one wet|be work for all, leisure for a | Congressman was elected profitabl jobs for ali—men, wome i} He is either dreaming or he doesn't} .nd children—if the earth were free. know what he is talking about, In] Give equality of opportunity in the | New Jersey we elected three wet Con-| use of the earth and life would be a sressmen within one's throw of} song of joy. Land values are cre- another, In the ‘Twellth Dis-/ated by the presence of the peop! trict Dr owe their origin, existence and per- Olpp of West Hoboken, ¥ |N. J.) in the Fifteenth District, petuity to the activities and labor |X. O’Brien of Jersey City was elected|of the masses and should be used | over his narrow-back Prohibition op-|by the people for their own emolu ponent by 2,500, although F ment and benefit instead of being Harding carried the city, pocketed by the few who happened Hudson River. In the Eighth [ Jlor, an out-and-out wet, ran Bayonne, N. J. April 1, 1921, What Tradet these Congressmen are as wet as the istrict, H. W. Tay- oa the to get on the ground first. It is all right for tho early bird to catch the worm, but when he saves up worms and corners the land from which al! the other worms must come he ex- | wet ticket at the primaries and beat his Prohibition opponent, ceeds his rights, z ny |""Mr. Optimist had better look up JIM THORPE PRICE. the last election returns, A.W. K. Inwood, L. L, April 2 | To de Walator I heartily x, & Bis To the Kaitor of The Dreuing World sentiments concerning the vomng i} -soldier, wounded tw. last fall. c Allowed ‘After all, the anti-Wilson people J with pay. by Wederal did vote rather childishly. It seems Jinent. "The training may extend|their cry was: “A straight Republl- to four years, if itis needed, in any |can ticket.” | wonder if they regret course I desire, Would some read-!it? ers suggest and advise me on a good trade or profession 1 could take ap enly well liked politician who had At least ex-Gov. Smith was the A claims that the Bronx is not in| UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyricht, 1921, by Joka Make.) CHECK UP AT THE END OF THE DAY. When you go home to-night decide whether the day has been a success or a failure, If you have learned how do yesterday it has been a success If you have done the same things in the same learning nothing in the process, it has been a failure. Do that every day for a weck and you will find it inter esting. You may also find it discouraging —for a time. But unless we get discouraged now and then we never learn the importance of doing better. You never stay exactly where you are in the world, any and why. to do something you couldn't way, more than a boat stays exactly where it was in a rapid stream, unless it happens to be tied up to the bank, And you have no means of findiag eut how much progress you are making unless you check up regularly, Your journey may have no definite end, but if you have any ambition at all you want to get as far as you can while you are making it. And, provided you have picked the right business, your progress ought to be more rapid with every year If it isn't, there is something the matter, The only way you can find out what is holding you back is to go over tl day's work, note the obstacles that prevented progress, and try to find some way to remove them the succeeding day. There may be very little difference in two days, but there ought to be a tremendous difference in two years, But you can't review two years successfully, for tuan’s memory is equal to such a task Resolutions are hard to keep if they of time. But it is easy to keep them for twenty-four hours, Make fresh ones every night and you will be able to make better ones the following night with a fair chance of keep- ing them. In any event check up. Go over the day's work care- fully, You will always find something ‘that was done wrong and could have been done right. And it will always be sible to eliminate that particular mistake the next day, Ane if every day a mistake is eliminated you will soon cut the number of your mistakes to practically none at all. After that, progress will be almost automatic, no cover a long period pos Get-Rich-Quic. ‘of The Ages | By Svetoz ar Lbs he | Co ore. 10% RREN HASTING Astings, first of India under the ment, was one of ti vbout men in history, A tinguished galaxy of British si men, nen , talked y get-rich-quick with get-rich-quick tendencie the question had been thorou cussed from Feb. House of Lords cent of the ct »bbed the his own ben! aly disposin tings, But the ctreumstances under which vemlict was brought is apt t sidetracked in the multiplicity o tails. This feature js the singular 1 tance shown by the members o House of Lords to re the After atrial that had attr world-wide attention and shake fabric of .pudlic opinion in to its foundations, y members out « veloped enough convic issue to vote on tt This ded suspiciously 1 finding that Hastings was inn but that he must under no cir stances Warren H sou It m that when he was old he swore a mist |recover the family estate, Ind that time was the place where tutes were most ¢ found |to Indta, as a “writer” for the India Company, like Lord ¢ | Hastings h himself at sever He won his spurs as Col. C in the important demons many dir When Parliament decided to + carb on the exploitations of the India Company dy creating Governor Generalship of Ind tings got the job almost autor cally His first be wns the receipt of a} Siraj-ud-Daula for nway the money transa “ce sum te nid provinces of Ki: from the Rohillns, who held the rich 1's money, or most of it, h plained, was turned into the Be treasury, which at that time po with alarm to a heavy deficit. Hastings's next money transa Jon a targe scale was the depost Chait Sinch, Rajah of Benare: harges of disloyalty and insu and the confiscation of his sure Then, under an agreement Asaph-1d-Daula, son of Slraf of me name, the Governor Get | proceeded to deprive the mother grandmother of the nawah of 1 properties, ‘These and similar tr actions cast a blight over Hast! |return to England, where ho |deemed the family estates and [received with great honors by } George TIT. and his court ‘The length of the impeachment seedings and the small numbe ars who voted a verdict of “t show how thin is the line j e common or gurden rich-quick from the statesmar | get-rich-quick tendencies. th tein WHERE DID YOU GE THAT WORD? 8—CHURCH. ‘The word “church” travelied over Europe betore 1 found a ¢ ‘in our dictionary. Its original 1 was “ky e,”" and It was a G |word. ‘The Goths, the first Teut jtribe to adopt the Christian reli | borrowed it fr yzantiium, | ‘The Goths, in their turn, pnewe jong to other Teutonic tribes, cluding the Saxons, and t) c rs introduced it into the Engl |guage, where it hag remained \"dne Germans and the Sootch 7 ined th word nearer to its « form than the English, for ne reason, perhaps, that the 1 lish have applied the name Lag \to Livorno and Florence to Fire Phe Scotch, call it “irk” and “Kirche.” [Ouigvmake” is derived. trom “ley \kon,” pertaining to the Lord "kyrios.”" When our Amertcan instttw | wi to tween the being planned It was dec raw a rigid line of separa onds derived f state, and from “) \ c urc h. And it is adm [thai the separation was @ wise n —— =e —_—— “That's a Fact pel Albert P, Southwick otto "Al The State of Washir T M ‘ | The Unit Army the chance to drop from public life|fenses and absent themselves from | inventeil ‘plhaek | ; at the height of his fame, Although |home. Find out the cause of such Ma ab f this is nothing marvellous, he will {conduct and criminal offense h be missed more than any other Gov-| Make the parent (the girl's mother) | neo an is ernor ever Was. MISS K. € onsible for her daughter's — uct. Hnve girls charged whth xn] Re 1 00 bles. offenses placed on probation in eh anit) ‘ HD a) apieddianiapelg . ; kind worde and good treat doinoi ld In the Woman's Court, Judge Nor. | ind worde ar ise treat mont to noi aid P ' ris has made a statement in regard] should inatruct the parenta. of wads | edence : to the problem of incorrigible girls, unruly girls to spank the unruly'| the year the British evacuate , ying shame thet/ daughters. York City sho sald: it ie tes not pro-| There are few girl In New Yori se: 8 the City of New York d Pro-| ity who really don't know what a] At 4% vide enough facilities to meet thin} oalty good apanking is, and. fron, | mone problem.” Are the taxpayers of the/what I ace evory day on public ole. | da sf bo burdened With a new prob- | vated trains and street cars, many of | ¥e gliy 8 ‘Alsctplinasy {tho Mighty ones aro in need of spank. lem of building more disciplinary | ioe iy a mother for misbehavior in] Mixing blue an homes for unruly girls? public, They are Indecent and un-| paint, will Tt is the faylt of the parents and|ladylike, A little more strap oll or a| white and ca dings if a girl is un-|slipper would do lots of good instead home surrounding: of burdening taxpayers with unneces-| ,In Great Britain the sale at b governable, Let the Judges of 5.4) institutions, lg by the four-pound and two-pi Woman's Courts suminon to court the: MRS. MARY BROWN, |ioaf, which must be weighed in parent of girls who commit petty of- New York, Aprils, pemetner of the buyer,