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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28. 1920. 6 THE OVERLOADED SHELF Foundrd br Isaac Van An Jen In 1841.) llYldl Mark "Eagla" Hrflaterad.) workers themselves whose efficiency is being demoralized by laxness; third, lu tho interest of manufacturers who want to produce goods cheaply enough to make retail price reductions possible.

As for radical leadership, that has always been a curse to the Union movement. It has been as clearly a curse to the mind of Samuel Gompers as to that of any captain of industry. If employers cau aid Mr. Gompers and other conservatives In getting rid of It, they will deserve the thanks of all Intelligent unionists. purpose of the combine.

At a time when the mulling of all housing accommodations to completion is of vital Importance to the community these fellows would not hesitate to stop all work If that would serve the ends of graft. But nobody knows better than Brindcll himself that such a menace Is pure bluff. To "pull every building" would mean the drying up of graft sources at each end of a long offensive. Neither employers nor workmen would be "giving up" while that sort of thing was going on. Striking must be by streaks, so that attacked employers cau see the value of being generous, so that most tUn laborers may still lie earning money and able to pay dues.

to their lair. Incidentally, the Journal and Mr! Rathom made tho Secret Sen-ice and the Department of Jus. tice appear as rank amateurs in such work. Well, the stories read well and were of compelling interest, but most 'of them were not so. Mr, Rathom was forced by the Department of Justice to admit as much and had to sign a long confession to that pffeet to avoid expose by the Government department, at a time when such a confession would have given aid and comfort to the enemy.

The confession has now been made public, as an Incident in the charges of libel brought against Mr. Rathom by Franklin D. Roose. velt. The case has a moral for those most concerned, the publishers of news-paiiers.

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THE CHOICE NOW BEFORE THE PEOPLE. The pro-League Republicans who were yesterday received by President Wilson confronted a physically broken man, but one whose mental vigor has not been Impaired to any perceptible degree by acute bodily suffering. They brought to him the grateful assurance of a large, Independent support for the principle in behalf of which he had sacrificed himself, a support which is daily and hourly increasing through the defection of Republicans whose conscience and Intelligence will not al low them to vote their party ticket. Mr. Harding has publicly stated that we went to war with Germany because our rights as a sovereign nation had been denied, because we had been outraged through the killing of our cttlzens and the sinking of our ships.

In other words, we fought to avenge our Individual wrongs and to further individual aims. In his address of yesterday the President emphasized the broader and more significant aspect of our belligerency. "We entered the war," he said, "not merely to beat Ger- many, but to end the possibility of tho renewal of such Iniquitous schemes as Germany entertained." The desire of the American people, as Mr. Harding and hla supporters ought to know, was not merely to defeat Germany and avemje outrages committed at our es pense, but to make impossible the revival of ambitions such as those for which Germany fought. We did not fight only to end a particular war.

We fought to prevent the recurrence of War In the future. We cannot achieve that end If we are to throw overboard, at the bidding of the Johnsons, the Borahs and the Brandegees, all that has been gained by the Allied victory over Germany. The President does not exaggerate when he says, "The great moral Influence of the United States will be thrown away if we do not complete the task which our soldiers and sailors so heroically undertook to execute." We shall not complete that task if we make a separate peace with Germany, encourage her to evade the plain obligations of the Versailles Treaty, and then wander, as Mr. Harding advises, In a labyrinth of discussion with foreign governments to devise some substitute for an existing and functioning League. Mr.

Harding has nothing definite offer in place of the League as it now stands. All that he does is to utter vague pledges which the radicals in his own party are determined he shall never redeem, even if he be disposed to redeem them. Germany may be extinguished as- an imperial and military power, and no peril may be apprehended from that quarter in the near future. But short of a strongly organized international association there can be no assurance that what Germany attempted to do may not be again attempted by some other nation or group of nations. Whether we like it or not, our participation in the late conflict entailed certain obligations which were not discharged by our success in "ing the surrender of Germany.

"We have," as Mr. Wilson says, "to choose whether we will make good or quit," whether we will sustain or abandon the issue which we ourselves created, the Issue that lies "between tho spirit and purpose of the United States and the spirit and purpose of Imperialism, no matter where it shows itself." We have to choose whether we will lend our aid to a practicable plan for the prevention of war and the repression of militant imperialism or whether we will sit around and wait apart from the rest of civilization until another! war becomes Inevitable, when we cannot intervene for prevention, but when we may be compelled to fight and endure calamitous consequences which we would have done nothing to avert. THE "PULL-EVERY-BUILDING" THREAT. It Is reported that the Building Trades Council, made up of one hundred and thirty-seven "agents" or walking delegates for whom the chief secured $75 a week apiece, paid by their followers, Is rallying around' Brindell and denouncing the movement against Labor graft as an employers' attack on unionism. At a not a public conference, one of these highly paid confederates is quoted as saying: If there Is going to bo any attempt ere to Ir.

lirlndell, and us nis associates, let us Bhow them by action what they can expect. They talk about calling the men out, and pulling this and that job. Suppose we pull every building Job In New Vork. How will they like that? Manifestly the threat is not uninteresting. It illuminates the spirit and HOTELS CUTTING PRICES.

Notwithstanding the recent defiance by the Hotelnim's Association of the demand of the Department of Justice for lower prices for food, six of the large hotels in Manhattan have an nounced considerable cuts from their recent rates. The cuts are made by means of that familiar device to attract business, the table d'hote meal. The new prices an nounced run from 05 cents to $1 for breakfast, 75 cents to 1.50 for luncheon and from $1.75 to $2.50 for dinner. The hotels also publish estimates of the cost of the same meals, if eaten a la carte, which show a difference of from $1 to for each. Such comparisons are misleading, however, because few peo pie in ordering by the card eat all the courses given by the table d'hote.

The portions are larger by the card and a substantial and comfortable meal can be made from two or three courses. But even with this effort to show the reduction as greater than in practice it is likely to prove the new move is a step In the right direction and may be expected to lead to more reasonable conditions in the better grade of res taurants and hotels. The existing scale of prices has been calculated to appeal to people of luxurious or ex travagant tastes and a large Indiffer ence as to what they did with their money. There are many thousands of such people In the city and many other thousand transients passing through it. But it is doubtful if there are enough of them to fill all the high-priced dining rooms in the city and the hotels are likely to profit by these new schedules through the return of people who have been driven to eating at home or In cheaper refectories.

CONCERNING A CARTOON. Chairman Will H. Hays of the Re publican- National Committee rises in virtuous wrath to denounce the Democratic campaign agencies and the Dem ocratic newspapers which have dared to call attention to the blasphemous cartoon entitled "Professor Wilson's League of Nations; the Immaculate Conception." Mr. Hays "deeply re grets" the publication of the cartoon. "It is, he says, "as offensive to me as It can possibly be to anyone else." And he explains that, In the first in stance, "it was used inadvertently and without the slightest approval or knowledge on the part of myself or any member of the Republican National Committee." We give the origin and progress of this cartoon in Mr.

Hays's own words: The cartoon was sent to a number of newspapers early in October by the Albert T. Reid Cartoon Syndicate, which furnishes cartoons to newspapers for the publicity department of the Republican National Committee. It was drawn by Mr. Reid and was his own idea. As soon as the cartoon came to the attention of the director of the publicity department, Scott C.

Bone, telegrams were immediately sent to the newspapers receiving it requesting that It should not be used. I never saw it until two days ago In the New York World. Neither Hays nor any other responsible Republican, so far as we know, deplored the publication of this infamous cartoon in Harvey's Weekly, owned and edited by one of Senator Harding's foremost supporters, until after Allan A. Ryan's indignant protest had called atteutlon to the Insult which It offered to men and women of the Catholic faith. And If, as Mr.

Hays Insists, telegrams were sent by the Republican National Committee "early In October" asking that newspapers and periodicals receiving the cartoon through the publicity bureau at once suppress it, why was it that the National Republican, mouthpiece of the Republican party, and Harvey's Weekly both failed to heed the request, the former publishing it on October 0 and the other on October 23? The publicity department of the Republican National Committee is responsible to Mr. Hays as chairman of the Committee. Mr. Hays is responsible to the public for what the department does. He cannot evjnde the responsibility In this Instance by striking at the Democratic campaign managers or Democratic newspapers.

He is apologizing for an outrage too long after its perpetration and only when the recoil threatens to damage his cause. A REMARKABLE CONFESSION. John R. Rathom and the Providence Journal created something of a sensation lit the newspaper world during the war by numerous stories concerning the activities of German and Austrian agents here. The Journal was liberally quoted and was a never-falling source of news of this character.

It was assumed that the paper had access to special Information and there was much speculation as to this mysterious supply of exclusive material. After we entered the war Mr. Rathom freely capitalized the publicity his newspaper had secured, and in nvticles and speeches took credit for many of tile sensational revelations of enemy rgents In this country. Kts narratives were of extreme interest to newspaper men, and especially to cub reporters, who came to regard the Providence Journal as a kind of super-detective agency, engaged in tracking the conspiring enemies of the country HIGH IDEALISTS FOR COX. 'Fellow citizens, God reigns and the Government at Washington still lives" exclaimed James A.

Garfield, quieting the anxious throng that gathered In front of the New York Custom House on A.lril 13, lNGr, aftur the news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination had shocked the metropolis. The General, thePresldent that was to be, was a preacher, an idealist, a dreamer, if you will. He was no better a Republican than his son, Dr. Harry A. Garfield, president of Williams College, the Gen eral's alma mater, who has emphasized the decadence of the Grand Old Party and announced himself squarely for the election of Cox and the consumma tion of the League of Nations.

Thomas W. Lamont, also the son of a preacher and an idealist, has taken the same position. Mr. Lamont's posl tlon as a financier lends special interest to his breakaway from the "big business" combination that is doing so much for Harding. But In essence we believe the bolt of Lamont has nothing to do with business, big or little.

As in Harry A. Garfield's case, Idealism is hereditary. Republicans in the Christian ministry, Republican college professors, Republican thinkers in large numbers come to see the only hope of a Greater America in the defeat of Harding. To what extent they have a numerical following in our electorate is a puzzle to the politicians. It is a puzzle which only the counting of the votes next Tuesday can solve.

Proof that their following is mythical or unsubstantial would be the best justification of pes simism as to the after-development of this Republic. A LOST OPPORTUNITY. A reiterated endorsement of the Democratic candidates comes from the nonpartisan political committees of the American Federation of Labor in a statement setting forth the issues regarded as paramount, first place being given to the League of Nations. There is a renewed assertion of the right of workers to withdraw from service the terms and conditions of which arc oppressive and a protest against the establishment of arbitrary boards to coerce the workers, repress their normal and legitimate activities and clog the processes of industry by artificial methods. Reiteration is welcome, nor can any fault be found with renewed assertion of the right to quit when conditions of service become oppressive, but it is difficult to conceive what can be accomplished by the arraignment of boards of arbitration and the charge that their function is to coerce and to clog the processes of industry.

The very essence of the purposes of such boards is to prevent the processes re-ferred to from becoming clogged, and to facilitate rather than to repress normal and legitimate activities. The statement includes an appeal for protection from the profiteers, hut It takes no account of disclosures showing what profiteering has cost under the system upon which the light is being turned. It says nothing of tho huge sums paid for Immunity from strikes and of the repression of legitimate activities by methods artificial and arbitrary and not always peaceful. The committee sees the beam with perfect clearness, but the mote Is or appears to be beyond its range of vision, and it is from just such a source that disclaimers and denunciation should be the first to come TEXTILE WAR ON REDS AND SLACKERS. The announcement by J.

L. Benton, managing director of the Philadelphia Textile Manufacturers Association, which employs about 225,000 people, that 40,000 slackers have already been discharged, and that the process Is to go on, because the manufacturers are now in a position to do this, while during the war they were not, Is exceedingly significant tostudents of our industrial and economic conditions. Even more significant is the declaration that while war on Labor unions Is not intended, war radical union leadership will be kept up to a finish. And yet the textile situation In Philadelphia Is not much different from tho textile situation in Fall River and elsewhere, and pretty closely analogous to the conditions In other factory fields. It is related where manufacturers discuss things among themselves that a certain auto-tire manufacturing con cern In the Middle West, having 12.000 employees, discharged a thousand of them.

It found Its total aggregate out-put was greater than before because the fear of being discharged stopped slacking. Then it carried the process farther, dropped a thousand more, and still found that it was producing more goods than nt the start. The trend was inevitable, but it could not make Itself felt when many jobs were hunting workers in vain, With even two percent or unemployment in the country -the present figures as statisticians assert the outlook Is changed. Shop discipline is coming back. It ought to come hack, first, In the Interest of the general community demanding a maximum of pro.

ductlon; second, in the interest of tho SIXTEEN YEARS OF SUBWAYS. The brief review by Manager Hedley of the sixteen years of the Interbor-ough's subway operation Is well calculated to impress upon New Yorkers the great importance of the service about which they are wont to complain far oftener than they praise it. The record Is one of which the company may well be proud, both for the number of passengers carried and the very small number of accidents. The chief complaint against the subway service is the overcrowding, greatly reduced since the operation of lines on the east and west sides of Manhattan. But the figures show a notable underestimate of the demands to ba made upon this form of transit at every stage of its growth.

The first subway was planned to carry about 400,000 people a day, yet the first full day of operation recorded, over 320,000 fares. Nine years later that line was carrying 1,000,000 passengers dally. In its first full year ending June 30, 1900, it carried 138,000,000 passengers. With such a pressure upon the trains, comfort and even decency were too often disregarded. It would have been impossible tol put trains enough upon the tracks to afford a seat for each passenger, even if the stock of cars had been unlimited.

The pressure has been reduced with the In. creftse of lines in the dual subway sys tem. There are now three parallel subway lines up and down town through the heart of Manhattan, two subway tunnels into Queens and three into Brooklyn, beside the Manhattan Bridge which carries one line. Yet all these trains are overcrowded at times and we shall soon repeat the conges tion of several years ago unless haste is made (ho -of the additional routes already planned. Our subway service, imperfect as It proves at times, is still the greatest wonder of New York and tho thing upon which the growth and prosperity of the city is very largely dependent.

PLENTY OF ROOM FOR REFORM. It Is. much to be regretted that Secre tary Houston's address to the bankers came at a time when the country had other things to think about. One of its salients was that the Government's receipts for the fiscal year will not greatly exceed the required which Is $1,500,000,000 below the record of last year. Another was his program for the liquidation of the war debt, which he said must go on steadily so that final redemption 1 be accomplished without disturbance to the national life.

He touched a tender spot when he came to the matter of taxes, considering the political auspices under which the system was ushered into being, explaining if not apologizing that many of the war measures were hastily devised and admitting it to be of the most urgent Importance that "there be a re-survey of the situation," with a view to reform, to the wiping out of inequities and inequalities and to the raising of sufficient revenue, which may not be secured should the system remain Intact. The fruit of the re-survey will be the repeal of the excess profits tax and modifications of the Income taxes, and It will strain constructive statesmanship to find substitutes for both. There's no law against the word "ale" or. "beer" or "porter" as a label on legal beverages. The Washington official ruling that these words shall not be used Is a striking illustration of the "government by whim," which is altogether too much in evidence.

That oppressive British Government which let MacSwluey die showed a new phase in permitting eighteen political prisoners to be pallbearers at the funeral of the Lord Mayor of Cork. Also In allowing the exhibition of the body in state at a London cathedral. We are all rather glad that" dignity governed the obsequies of this man, whether we regard hlin as a suicide or as a martyr. Police Commissioner Enrlght doubt less expresses the view of a vast number of thinking observers of street con gestion in Manhattan, when he advocates putting the Second avenue and the Sixth avenue lines, now elevated, under ground. But for the immense cost, now double what it would have been In 1014, the Third avenue and Ninth nvonue lines might well be treated in the same way.

Our poverty and not our will consents to elevated railroads. News that a syndicate of Cuban cap italists has secured for Havana the meeting between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentler by an offer of a $500,000 purse, will not be unpleaslng to those who had credited the story that the "bout" might take place In New 00 I HEAR K3 JUDGE CHASE'S POSITION Mr. Shea Points Out That He May Not Continue in Court of Appeals Unless Elected. Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: It Is important that the Court ot Appeals, which is the court of last resort in this State, shall sustain its general reputation as one of the ablest and most Impartial of the Federal or State courts of this country. Judge Emory A.

Chase of Catskill is one of the Republican nomlness for Associate Judge' of the Court of Appeals this fall. He has been a member of that court by designation for the last 15 years. The Judiciary committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York reported Oct. 13, 1920, in which report it is said of Judge Chase that he was "admitted to the Bar in 1880 and between then and 1896 had a large and varied experience both at the Bar and In public office. In 1896 he was elected a Justice of tho Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department and was appointed a member of the Appellate Division of the Third Depatment in January, 1890, and an Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals In 1906.

In 1910 he was. renominated as a Justice of the Supreme Court by both of the great political parties and unanimously re-elected, and his term as such will expire in December, 1924. He has served continuously as an Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals since January, 1908, and he is now the senior Judge In service. During these 24 years of Judicial service Judge Chase has shown conspicuous ability and scholarship, as well as eminent capacity for the work of our highest appellate tribunal." Some time before Judge Irving G. Vann, who served with great distinction in the Court of Appeals for many years, writing of Judge Chase, said: "He is one of the ablest of the many able Judges who have adorned that high court.

His clear and convincing opinions attest his fitness and show better than any other test his fairness, learning and ability. He has good health, great industry and a trained mind that grasps a question from the bottom, sees both sides with absolute fairness and decides according to Justice and equity. He unites great learning with common sense, impartial Judgment and moral and intellectual honesty." Judge Chase has served in the Court of Appeals for a longer time than any person ever served therein by Justices of the Supreme Court are designated to the Court of Appeals when "the elected mem Dei a of that court certify to the Governor that by reason of the accumulation of causes pending therein it is unable to hear and dispose of the same with reasonable speed. Supreme Court Justices so designated serve in the Court of Appeals until the causes undisposed of in said court are reduced to 200. When the causes are so reduced in number the designated Judges return to the Supreme Court as a matter of course without order or further direction or designation.

During the years of service of Judge Chase he has written opinions which now appear In the official reports of the courts on nearly every subject of controversy. In his work as a Judge no one has ever suggested that he was not able, fair, patient, industrious and unaffected by political considerations. There are now less than 300 causes on the calendar of the court. The weekly average number of causes heard by the court in its sessions will exceed 20, and unless there is a larger increase in the number of new causes filed than now appears possible it will be seen that the time when Judge Chase must retire irom the court unless he is elected this fall will come soon after Jan. 1 next.

A letter has been circulated in the interest of Abram I. Elkus, Judge Chase's opponent. In which it is said without qualification that Judge Chase will continue to Bit in the Court of Appeals whether elected over his opponent or not. This is misleading. Judge Chase's opponent, although prominent In hla profession, ha had it no Judicial experience other than his sitting in the Court of Appeals since December last, when he was appointed by Governor Smith to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Cudde-back.

The long and acceptable service of Judge Chase in that court entitles him as a matter of fairness to an election by the people of the State. It Is more, however, than a question of fairness to Judge Chase. It is a question of serious importance to the court. The people must decide whether they will retain an experienced, satisfactory Judge during the time that he can constitutionally serve in the court or ex-change him for one all of whose experience has been substantially along other lines. Do not be deceived by misleading I suggestions that no harm is being done to Judge Chase personally or to the standing of the court or the interests of the people of the State of New York in electing his opponent.

Vote for Judge Chase for an Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals. TIMOTHY J. SHEA. 177 Montague Brooklyn. NEW BOOKS RECEIVED "The Poems of Henry van Dyke" (Charles Scribner's Sons).

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CASTOR I A For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Yeara Always bear the Bigaatan at it York City. A fight between champion heavyweights is not going to be what anyone will call a pink-tea affair, and New York's boxing law is distinctly on probation. The State Commission, we Imagine, will be well satisfied not to have anything to do with the Dempsey-Carpentier encounter, interesting and historic as that encounter is sure to be. WEDNESDAY'S RECITALS When last spring Ellen Rumsey, contralto, gave a recital in Aeolian Hall, she wrote herself down as one of the most promising of the younger singers. She had a good technique, and singing intelligence, ia-terday afternoon she returned scene of her vernal triumph, and while she sang most agreeably, and at times delightfully, we were, it must be admitted, disappointed that she has not made the progress in her art which her first appearance seemed to guar antee.

Miss Rumsey is not getting out of her voice nearly the power or the Intensity of which It is by nature capable of producing. The contralto quality a rarity in these days when everyone aspires to the soprano ranks has given way to what may be described as a light mezzo-soprano. By appllcatlon the singer has developed a scale that has only slight breaks throughout its length, but at the same time the pity is that this scale is monotonous in color. One misses, therefore, in all her Interpretations that variety of color, which is so essential in the Interpretation of songs of varying content, and It is only when the song in question fits her voice that Miss Rumsey gives of her best We liked, for example, her singing of Schu mann's "Nossbaum," but "Die Junge ITnnna11 ma fmrA In-tnt Tii. IJ 1.

1 1 AUC 111 (111 111?) song, which stood on her program under the English title of "The Disappointed Serenader," should never have been subjected to the pitiful shortcomings of so poor a translator. Miss Rumsey strove her utmost, but what Is amusing inv. German is sometimes cheap in English. Now that we have delivered what the singer must accept as a kindly sermon, we are glad to say that Miss Rumsey still has so much more to offer than the average young singer that her recital was an oasis in a desert of bad singing. At least, she knows the need of investing each song with a manner peculiarly its own and, better, she succeeds In singing songs with style, with form, and with diction that especially in her English is always comprehensible.

She takes the trouble to learn her texts, so that she is able to devote herself to the necessity of convincing her audience without having to peer anxiously on a printed slip for the words of the poem. In Carnegie Hall Thelma Given played a program of violin music that included Grieg's Sonata In Minor, the Chausson "Poeme," and shorter pieces by Debussy, Slnding, Brahms, Edwin Grasse, and others. Miss Given takes high rank among the contemporary fiddlers of the feebler sex. And there is no slight asset in the charm with which she graces the platform; that is only equaled by the loveliness of the tone she draws. We always tremble when we have to listen to operatic tenors on the concert stage, for without the engaging attributes of lights, scenery, costumes and the other paraphernalia of opera the average operatic artist simply explodes artistically.

And this is precisely what Hipolite Lazare did last evening In the beginning of his first Carnegie Hall recital. Stylistically he tore the "Caro Salve" of Handel to shreds, despite the production of much rarely colorful tone. However, favorite airs from "I Puritanl" and went better and the singer stepped Into the field that pleased an audience of his countrymen when he sang such Spanish songs as Alvarez's "La Partida" and "(ira-nada" and the "Clavolitos" of Val-verde. The first and last are known through Mme. Galll-Curcl's singing, but the spirit and suavity with which Mr.

Lazare delivered them were a revelation, at least to the present writer. They quite put the singer back in our good graces. 'And once again we were impressed by the truly unusual beauty of hla voice, W. B. M.

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