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New-York tribune., 1920-10-04
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A Record Of F allure
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: The human and economic loss
chargeable to the Wall Street bomb
explosion is dcplorable, of course but
the occurrence offers another de-
slrablo opportunity to our national At
torney General to brag about himself
and to slap two OF three Reds gently
upon the wrists, with the approval of
the WILSON, Wilson Post combination.
A careful perusal of the daily papers
during the whole of the present ma
tional administration has not revealed
positively to my (perhaps obtuse) in
telligence any decisive, effective effort
for the material benefit Of the all
American people or their protection
from the murdercrs, plunderers and
parasites of the world. Indeed, it
actually seems that we have been ex-
plotted for and held up to the ridiculc
of the whole un-American population
of the globe Personally, can testify
to the loss under the present regime,
by direct and indirect robbery. Of
several thousand dollars; and a large
portion of this loss is chargcable to
one Of the great departments of our
boasted Federal government
The Democrats have had their chance
and failed miserably on practically all
counts. If Mr.. Harding is honest, in
telligent and decent let's give him a
chance; but, at least, let us gather up
the wreckage, patch up the old Ship
Of State into something like sea-
worthiness and proceed rapidly with
the construction of a new one from a
concrete of business rock cemented
with humanity. WILLIS R. PERRY.
New York, Sept. 80, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04
From, $40 to $40

This, plus the constant danger OF
building strikes, or the just as er-
pensive increase of workers demands
backed by the threat Of strikes. ia
what makes piece of limestone. which
can be mined and fully prepared for
$40 in Indiana. cost $40 when erected
in New York. and have raised other
building costs proportionately.
Edward P. Doyle, secretary of tho
Mayors housing commission, after a
thorough investigation into the high
cost Of New York rents, says the chief
reason is labor unrest, with unpro6t-
able strikes"
AS typical Of the whole situation
Commissioner Doyle gives this specific
example: The City and Suburban Homes
Company began building on cheap
land, with a splendid organization.
abundant capital and thoroughly cana
BILE supervision. The original inten-
tion of the company was to rent rooms
for not more than S12 a month, but It
finds it cannot rent the rooms just built
for less than S72 to sS7 q month for
four rooms,' which means just s32 per
month more rent, not only now, but for
years to come.
And this official authority added
again: "The situation is entirely up to
labor
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04
Reasisterl

This is registration week. In this
city the booths will be open on
Monday to Friday, inclusive; from
s p. m. until 10:30 p. m. On Satur-
day they will be open from z a. m.
until 10:30 p. m. Those in line at
the closing hour will be allowed to
register.
This Is the first Presidential cleo
tion in which women Of this state
have had the ballot. The registra-
ton returns will show to what ex-
tent they are eager to use it.
1t has been said that the present
campaign has been apathetic. 1t
has been so--on the surface. Peo-
pie are less interested to-day than
they have usually been in some of
the outward manifestations Of party
activity. The old taste for parades,
red fire and spellbinding no longer
exists. The Presidential candidates
are travelling over the country max
ing speeches. But what they say
is taken calmly. There is no hys-
terra in their welcome. Personality
seems to count less than it has
counted in other campaigns.
But these signs of surface apathy
do not argue a lack of real interest
in the 1920 fight. Seldom has an
election presented an issue which
has sunk so deeply into the public
mind. The "great and solemn ref
erendum" which President Wilson
wished on the country has been
prepared for by nearly two years
of exhaustive discussion. Nobody
can hope to say anything new about
the Administrators proposal-sec-
onded by Governor Cox--to fasten
on the country the league covenant
as it stands. The minimum formal
reservations which the President
and the Democratic nominee say
they are willing to concede mean
nothing. Practically every voter has
known for long while whether he
is for or against the unmodifed
Wilson league.
An even larger issue remains.
That is continuance of Democratic
administration or deliverance from
it. The Eastern States spoke their
mind on this issue in 1916. The
country as whole spoke its mind
on it in the Congress elections Of
1913. The enlarged electorate is
waiting to speak it's mind on it
next month. Argument has been Of
relatively little value in this cam
pa'gn because the case was def
nitely made up. The country is
utterly weary of Wisconsin and of
Democratic incompetency in WASH
ngton. All it asks now is a chance
to vote.
But no voter can cast his ballot
unless he registers. His emotional
reaction will be wasted unless he
qualities as an olector. Therefore
every man or woman who wants
to translate pent-up sentiment into
action should get on the registra-
tlon lists at once.
If you do not register you cannot
vote.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04

freezing restrictions of Article X.
DE equivalent to an external ag-
ercssion." And that aggression
would at once make the United
States n covenant breaker and in :.
v,lve us in war with all the other
members Of the League Of Nations
if .he latter live UP TO their treaty
obligations.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04
The Unknown Quantity
{ From The Richmond 1,mos- nis.x,.s1

(From The Richmond Times Dispatch,
The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce supplies figures showing
that less distilled wines and liquors
were consumed in the United States
rer capita during the twelve months of
last year than in any other like period
since 1870. Aye, verily-leaving out Of
account the amount consumed from
the boot!sgEer supply.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04
The NaneIess Child

Pleading for the nameless chill
dren of America, Dorothy Garfield
Fisher, in The Pictorial Review for
this month, tells of the policy adopted
by France for the handling of an un-
welcome problem. In comparison,
this countrys Indifference to the
future Of its so-called illegitimately
born citizens is gross.
Because the subject is distasteful
and otfends our moral sensibilities
it is ignored Nevertheless, the
problem exists. Thirty-four thou
sand such children are born every
year in the United States--thirty-
four thousand children for whose
future no one is willing to be respon-
sible. The fate of these nameless
ones, as shown by the two reports
quoted by Mrs. Fisher, is as much
reproach to our national honor as it
is to the parents who repudiate
them. From eighty to ninety-fve
out of every hundred of these help
less babies die of starvation and dis
ease in the obscure, unsupervised in
stitutions to which their desperate
mothers consign them.
In France parents repudiate the
children Just as they do here. But
from that moment the state takes
hand. The attitude of the govern
ment is, according to Mrs. Fisher,
that there is no such thing as an
illegitimate child; there may be ills-
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04

Copyright 1890. New York Tribune Irc.
The average New Yorker Is to-day
paying $32 more rent every month on
account of strikes or threats of strikes.
Bricks used to cost $40 to $12 a thou
sand To-day they cost s44 thousand.
Bricklayers used to lay from 1900
to 1900 bricks a day for $3.50 a day.
Now they lay from 600 to 300 bricks
for $40 day.
If it costs twice as much to lay half
as many bricks, it obviously costs four
times as much to lay each brick. And
when each brick itself also costs four
times as much to buy, it is not hard to
figure out one very material item in
the high cost of building and the high
cost of rent.
The reason why each brick costs
four times as much to buy and then
four times as much to lay is at least
75 per cent because of the spirit Of
strikes, the threat of strikes and
strikes themselves.
New York is surrounded by square
miles of sand and gravel. There are
miles of mountains of sand along the
southern outskirts Of Chicago. Yet in
New York or Chicago this basic build
ing material costs 81 to $5 a cubic
yard--twice as much as coal cost few
years ago. The only possible reason
is strikes.
The writer was in a position where
he could watch the erection, q few
years ago, of the building at 100 West
Fortieth Street The ironwork went
up twenty-five stories at the rate of
two stories a day. The brickwork
went up at the rate of more than a
story q daY.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04
Gotham Gleanings
q H1zZEsgEgzzy.s.z90 zEs 7RssNI1gSs'

John T. McGovern bought two
books Thursday.
Tom Lamont says these are busy
days at the bank.
J. NJ. Kerrigan is back from
Dublin and vicinagc.
Hen Candy is moving into his
Charlton st. house this week.
Ray Ives and Rosina Henley
are going to Europe next week.
Prices OF things are on the
downward toboggan everybody says.
Ring Lardner of CT. Neck will
spend some time in Brooklyn this
week
Louis Untermeyer has new
book of poems out named The New
ADAM"
Sam Merwin the transplanted
sage Of Concord, Mass, was in town
last week looking things over.
Roy Durstine's new advertising
book is published by the publishers
OF Something Else Again. advt.
Paul Patterson of Baltimore was
pleasant caller Thursday, he hay
ng been to party at Geo Nathan
"Wednesday eve'g.
Francis x. O'Malley took his an
nual trip to Beach Haven Fri, being
met at Lakewood by the authors of
The Beach Haven Blues"
Mr.. and Mrs. B. l.. Taylor and
family have moved to their October
place on w. 79 st. They spent Sept.
in Riverside, Conn. and will Novcm
Der in Glencoe, Ill. Here to-day and
there tomorrow is Berts motto.
Fired Stone begins his 10th yr.
under Chas.. Dillingham's manage
ment tomorrow eve but it is longer
ago than that when we saw Fred at
the Ferris Wheel, Chicago, doing
blackface act that was darned
COmlCal
Perhaps the authorities were too
severe with Hard Boiled Smith. But
things even up, as Emerson said. Can
didate Debs still is in Jail.
Suggested title for Miss Annette Kel-
lermann's book: "The Girl Who Under
stood Swimmin'"
Low! all our costs of yesterday
Are one with motor cars and tires.
A slash in the price of newspapers
would be, we basedly remark, the most
unkindest cut of all.
Fall Prices becomes simple declara-
tive sentence.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04

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rsc for republication Of all dispatches credited
10 e OF not otherwise credited In this paper and
also tbs Local OF spontaneous origin published
herein
Al. rights OF republication Of all other matter
herein also reserved
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04


Again, a building operation requires
the work of many classes of labor, one
after another-cxcavator plumbers,
steelworkers, masons, carpenters, etc
so that strike of any one Of these
classes of workers, though they repre-
sentcd but a small minority of the total
workers, could hold up all building op-
erations
AS result Of these and other cir
cumstances, builders long ago found
that it was cheaper in the long run to
yield to almost any demand, no mat
ter how unfair, from the unions rather
than permit strike. Thus, although
there has been for years far less strik-
ing in the building trades over con-
troversies between employers and en-
rloyees, the strike threat has served
constantly to increase the cost of
building far moro than actual strikes
have increased costs in many other
fields. In fact, the report of the Calder
commission Of the Senate shows
that to-day at least one-third is
always added to the estimated ac-
tual cost of any building operation to
provide against contingencies s'-which
consist chiefly of possible labor trou-
bles. large New York contractor has
stated within the last few weeks that
he would not think of accepting a con-
tract at a fixed price without adding
so per cent for such Contingencies"
Many of such "contngencies" are
quite involved, but here is one very SIM
pie example. Some time ago the steam
filters decided that it was below their
dignity to move radiators from the
ground floor up to where they had to be
installed. They demanded, on threat of
strike, that somebody else be hired to
carry the radiators. The employers
yielded and hired extra labor to do this.
But the steamitters soon found that
with this work done for them they could
not charge so much time to a given Job.
SO they demanded, on threat Of strike
and some of them did strike-that they
again be allowed to carry up their own
radiators!
AS result OF such continually
increasing demands, not only for
higher wages aid shorter hours but
for all sorts Of special and expensive
concessions, always backed by the
strike threat, costs of buildings have
gone up for decade out of all pro-
portion to normal costs, and rents
have continued to go up even faster,
! both because Of these costs themselves
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04
" hs' Materials " ent Up

The second element in the high
cost of rent to-day for which strikes
are chiefly responsible is the high cost
Of material
Our steel capacity in 1918 was So
100000 tons. In 1919 the steel COM
panies had orders for 100000 tons
which they were bending every effort
to fill. But the steel strike cut our
actual production last year to ST.
600, 900 tons
Such a shortage as this, due to the
steel strike has a far more serious
effect on building operations and the
cost Of building than the figures
themselves indicate. The great ma
jority of our steel is bought by big
and consistent users of steel like the
railroads or the American Bridge
Company, or other manufacturing
plants. Such users are always in the
market and SO in a specially favor
able position to get as much, or al
most as much, steel as they require.
When there is a shortage, therefore,
1t means that the smaller or oc-
casional user of steel has to bear the
chief brunt of that shortage, which
often means there is no steel at all for
hlm-the builder is such an oc-
casional user of steel A shortage
therefore of 100000 tons in the steel
market does not merely mean that
there is 20 per cent less steel for
him, but means there is no steel at all
for him, or so little in proportion to
the demand that he has to pay exor-
bitant prices for it.
The third and final way in which
strikes have added to the high cost of
building has been in holding up or
stopping the transportation of building
material.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04

A slash in the price of newspapers
would be, we biasedly remark, the most
unkindest cut of ALL
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04

(This is the third Of d series Of thirteen
articles whtoh arc appearing upon this
poge daily, Including Sunday.)
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04
The Price Of Victory

Jurisdiction fights between unions,
however, are more and more tending to
result in compromises which often do
far more toward increasing costa of
building than the strikes themselves
A new type of heating regulator, for
example. is put on the market and be-
cause of its superior qualities is adopted
in maay buildings. 1t consists of
meter connected by pipes and valves
to the furnace. Immediately the
plumbers union and the steamftters'
union each claims it should be erected
by their workers and each calls a strike
TO keep the other out of work until
the other gives in. If, as has been
said, the strike results in victory for
either side, the owner of the building
only suffers the ordinary losses of an
ordinary strike. But if there is a COM
promise reached, this compromise s
very frequently that the workers of
each union shall do part of the job.
This means that the work which one
or two men could easily and quickly do
by themselves must now be done by
twice that number of men, each of
whom has to wait for the others to
get through with their operation, with
he almost invariable result that the
installation costs at least twice as
much or more than if one man or
group of men were allowed to go right
through with it from the beginning.
Four unions called strikes to see VINO
should set registers. Two unions now
control this one job. Plumbers and
steam filters must now work together in
connecting a boiler which either could
connect easily and much more quickly
alone.
Nineteen strikes out of every
twenty in the building trades all over
the country during the last year
have been of this kind and they CON
stitute one of the biggest reasons
why only half as much work is being
done for twice as much money and
why the price of building is going up
so high that even the present high
rents are not enough inducement for
the building of enough new buildings
to offer any hope of rents being re-
duced, at least for wears to come
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04

There is much smaller building
going up at the corner of Madison
Avenue and Fortieth Street at pres
ont. Each piece of material in it
costs up to four times as much as
that in the former building. Every
laborer is getting twice as much pay
But in spite of this the building is
going up half as fast. With this con-
spicuous and typical example, child
could figure out the reason for the
high cost of building and the cost of
rent to-day
A New York City schoolhouse just
put up is an exact duplicate Of one put
up before the war. This makes possible
an exact comparison of labor efficiency
then and now. Even on such q building,
for the education of their children, work
to day was 33 1-3 per cent less efficient.
What is it, then, on the ordinary job :?
Often at least so per cent less efficient,
say almost all builders in all fields
All this applies merely to the high
cost of buildings on which construc-
ton progress is steady, even if slow
On buildings which are affected by
strikes high costs are not only run
up much greater, but for special
and pernicious reason run up dispro-
portionately greater.
AS is we'll known, years ago the
building field was one in which
strikes of the ordinary kind-between
the workers unions and the employers
-hourished. For a number of obvious
reasons, however, the union has
very distinct strategic advantage in
such controversies. In the first place,
the employing side was weakened be-
! cause the employer represented only
one or a few building operations and
was further divided into contractor
architect and owner, often with dif-
ferent interests, while the union rep
resented ali the workers of given
class in locality.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04

"1f the offending ballplayers had
found Liberty bonds under their
pillows instead of currency" asks r. P,
"would they have received guilt edged
securities 2"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04

Low! all our costs of yesterday
Are one with motor cars and tires.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04

Commendation by the Boston news
boys is given to Kerr and Schalk "for
their manly stand against the Benedict
Arnolds of baseball" Why not the
Nathan Hales? Their only regret ap-
pears to have been that they had but
one series to give to the gamblers
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04

Well, we are willing to bet $35 900 900
to one cord tire that has been driven
only 24,572 miles that the Reds would
have won the series anyway. Takers?
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04

Fall Prices becomes q simple declara-
tive sentence.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04

If Mr.. H. Bell Brown ever writes US
a letter he will address it, of course,
to One Fifty Four Nassau Street.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04

To-morrono's article. Tho High
Cost of Sh-i1es to Labor")
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04

Suggested title for Miss Annette Kel-
lermann's book: "The Girl Who Under
stood Swimmin'"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-04

Perhaps the authorities were too
severe with Hard Boiled Smith. But
things even up, as Emerson said. Can
didate Debs still is in Jail.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-03-26
SCHOOL NEWS.
prepared by the Pupils)
Athletics
Prepared by the PupilsJ

Athletics
The High School Glass basketball
teams will start practising Wednes-
day, March "a, for the coming class
tournament. Most. of the boys who
are to play have been practising all
season with the first team so their
games this season should be very
good.
The boys who won their letters on
the first team will not be allowed to
play in class games but will act as
coaches for the various teams.
Those who will receive letters
are: Capt. Hipakka, Oscar Hario,
Emil Skantze, John Gerzin, Mike Ha-
bian, Marvin Adams and Joe Bott-
lana.
We lose three men by graduation
this spring: Capt. Hipakka and Os-
car Hario, Forwards, and Emil
Skantze, Center. Although their
loss viii be hard blow to next years
team, we feel that with all our good
subs going in next year as regulars,
that our record will be somewhat
different than it was this year.
The following boys win act as
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-03-26

The remains of George Bridson,
who met with an accident which
caused his death last week, were laid
at rest in the Ely cemetery Saturday,
followed by large concourse of
friends. The funeral was in charge
of the Brotherhood of Firemen of
which deceased was a member. The
services were held at the M. E.
church, Rev. John Blackhurst, Of
ficiating.