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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-09
DOWN STAIRS STORE
Wanamaker's Dolun Stairs Store

Girls White Frocks
$2.65, $3.50 to So.
Confirmation, Palm Sunday
and Easter are all close at hand
and girls must have pretty white
frocks! Many dainty models Of
white voile and organdie are
tucked or ruffied and finished
with ribbon sashes. Sizes 6 to
IA years.
Delightful Tafeta Frocks
for juniors are in brown, Belgian,
navy and Copenhagen. Many
show hand-embroidered touches
and all are particularly becom-
ing to girls of IL to 16 years.
$15, $16.50, $18.75 to, $25.
Top Coats of Every Kind
Full-length coats, sports mod
els, loose-back, belted, full rip
pling coats and dolmans - they
are all here!
Materials include velours, polo
in tan or heather mixtures, serge,
basket weaves, etc.
Sizes 10 to 16 years, $40,
$14.50, SIS to $3.50.
(MarkeD
The evening world., 1921-02-26

men who are doing "a mans Job"
every day. believe that men in
strenuous occupations need some
stimulating liquid retreshment after
their hard days toll This applies
particularly to lOngshoremen, coal
Tuiners, stokers and firemen, truck
Usen, freight handlers. SC.
Iwould like to put all the Senators,
Congressman and other legislators
who are responsible for Prohibition
at snow shovelling, for instance, or
as coal drivers and helpers. I greatly
fear they would then change their
minds about the harmfulness of drink
when its indulgence does not inter
fere with others rights or prejudices.
As coal beavers, our fanatical friends
would DOUBTLESS consider a drink Of
innocent lager beer to relieve their
paYched and dusty LlrOaJs, no helm
Gus offense. after ali. Evil is
wrought by want Of thought as wen
As want Of heart" BOokkEhPBR.
The evening world., 1921-02-26
UP-To-DATE SNOW HANDLING.

I INTERESTED crowds in City Hall Park yesterday
afternoon watched the demonstration of three
different types of mechanical snow leaders.
Frozen piles of snow provided difficult test for
the machines, but all three did the work. Which
was the best and most useful Is for the engineers 10
decide. Very likely any one of the three could be
improved by further experiment.
But that mechanical loading is both possible and
practical is no longer open TO doubt. New York
may expect to see more of these machines in action
Oext winter Application Of expert engineering skill
to the business OF snow removal has proved its
worth.
When the city was bockaded laSt winter The
Evening Worlds editorial TRY an Engineer" was
followed by the creation OF the Board of Snow
Removal under Chief Kenlon.
A year later The Evening World is glad to con-
grahllste Commissioner Leo and the Snow Removal
Board on the results achieved The engineers when
tried were not found wanting. Preparedness and
machinery had the snow beat from The first
New York will never go back 10 The old slow waN
OF fighting snow Keep the engineers on the job
The evening world., 1921-02-26
TAX EXEMPTION PASSES.

A FTER four months of backing and filling de-
"A lay and obstruction, the tax exemption ordt-
nance, forced through the Board of Aldermen ten
days ago, was passed by the Board Of Estimate
yesterday.
II was high time. The building season is almost
here and plans for new construction are far below
normal
The need for new housing grows more insistent
day by day.
The sole object Of partial exemption from taxa
don is to encourage The building Of homes. Because
Of the housing shortage and because Of the high
ooSt of building material and labor, the city Offers
4 S,tbventon likely to amount to from $500 to
s. 500 for present home construction.
AT the end of ten years it is possible that build
ing costs will Rave dropped 50 that the net invest
nuent cost of houses constructed now win be ap-
psOxmately on par with both older houses and
u5wer houses.
Whether exemption will give the necessary stimu-
ls for the 1921 building programme remains to be
seen If it does not, the next Legislature will hav,
70 consider further plans for the encouragement Of
building.
At least the New York Board Of Aldermen ana
Board Of Estimate no longer block the one construc-
I've aid for which the Legislature provided
The evening world., 1921-02-26
THINK OF THEM IN THE SUBWAY

FIFTEEN Americans from the West, who helped
j transport a Slipload Of milch COWS given to
Germany by a relief organization, have been max
ing what amounts to a uiunphal tour OF that couN'
ny as guests Of the German Red Cross
They have been seeing Germany and Germany
has been seeing them Cabled accounts Of the trip
ndicate that surprise and aStonishnlent were mutual
PnISdan pomp and Difference to rank and class
meant ABSOLUTELY nothing to these Western. cattle-
men. Municipal dignitaries in high hats failed 10
awe these modern 'fnnocentS abroad" They shook
hnds with brother farmers and talked about the
crops.
One paragraph Of the report must interest New
YorkeTs. The Red Cross conductor of the party is
thts quoted:
Germans don't understand them They
ere aWfully decent fellows and polite in their
way too. Every in a party riding on
street car last night got uD promptly and gave
women their seats. The Germans on board
kept their seats"
The k0ihe was merely matter OF viewpoint
The evening world., 1921-02-26
Words From the Wise

Anger is fierce and sudden
fame, tnhich mag be I5iRdlcd
in the RObIest breasts: but in
these the slo1o droppiHgS Of an
unfortunate temper never take
me shape aud consistency Of en-
duriR0 hdtred.-Hillard.
In a free State II Is mol Capital
that rHIeS Labor; neither Is II
Labor that rules CGpttGI; il is
Justice that TuIes.-L. N. Notkin.
Jealousy Is said to be the off,
spring Of IOVe. Yet, unless the
patient makes haste to StndR0le
the child, the child ioiH not rest
TN IL has poisoned the parent,
Hare.
The evening world., 1921-02-26
UNCOMMON SENSE
%
THOUGHT Is VALUABLE-DON'T WASTE 1T.
BY John Blake


THOUGHT is VALUABLE-DON'T WASTE 1T.
1t is thought that makes progress Men first aspired
higher things, then thought out ways to attain them
Thought has produced every that has CON
rbued to the comfort of civilization It has brought
great REFORM 1t has carried the human the
to the modern city 1t has produced and literature
and drama-clean down to the movies.
So you easily that it is far and away the
valuable thing in the world
1t is in truth, far too valuable Yet
those who have the of thought employ it idly and
unprOductively as to gain good by it.
Do your hard thinking about matters that Two
hours day spent in thinking how improve your golf
swing will improve your golf swing but they be sub
tracted from the time you ought be spending thinking
out ways to get a raise of salary.
1t was the women who thought about freedom for
their sisters who CO. the ballot the who thought
about the clothes they ought for
the social snubs they received while they trying
break into society
Find what thinks about chiefly, and you can
make very accurate prediction of his future.
IF his mind is the box of the baseball teams
the latest styles neckes he will be thinking of these
subjects ten from drawing the salary
If he thinking about the problems of his business
profession and how to solve them you will find him in
bigger office with bigger pay and authority when
meet him after few years
Thought productive only when in channels of
ductiOn You think all day about the population of
Betelguese and get anywhere.
But if you think for consecutive days about better
way to do your work. the work will show results You will
do it better and easily.
Thought is capital. But capital be foolishy
vested and thought 1t gift that given you
use wisely. You cannot afford to waste it.
The evening world., 1921-02-26
OVERLOADED MUNICIPAL COURTS.

ONCE the passage of the rent laws last autumn
/, ~ the Municipal Courts have Been swamped by
the flood of landlord and tenant cases.
Congestion results in delay of all cases and prac
teal denial Of justice in some.
The excess of new work has submerged The regl-
lar function of these courts in deciding cases Of
small debtors and creditors
If II were necessary to choose between such
condition and repeal Of the rent laws, there could
be only one decision. The rent laws have proved
heir worth.
But there is good reason for a change OF pro-
cedMe IN administering the rent laws. Several Mu-
nicipal Justices believe the Legislature should grant
thAm power to appoint referees in rent cases. The
referee would take testimony verify claims examin.
books and then act as adviser to the court. Much
of ihe work of the referees could be done evenings
with minimum Of inconvenience to working
tenants
In actual practice the referees would probably be
able to arbtHate good share of the cases out Of
court and relieve the Justices of the overload of
work
At present II is physical mpossibity for JUS
tees to get accurate first-hand information on the
multitude Of cases they must decide The referee
could in many instances do this, visit the premises,
Il necessary, and find out the Truth Of disputed
points Service Of referees in rent cases would speed
tp the action Of the courts and add assurance that
decisions would be faT to both sides.
The Legislature should consider this suggestion
and at the same fine devise a method for stand
ardizng administration Of the existing rent laws
The evening world., 1921-02-26
The EnEiHesr's Pay.

To the Edlt0T Of Tue Byening World:
May ] reply to "A Former Pas
senger" whose letter on railroad
wages and fares you printed Feb. IS,
1921.
Every fair minded man will side
with Warren s. Stone when he under
stands the situation.
Let all our readers, including "a
Former Passenger" weigh well these
facts 1 relate IN regard to "A locomotive
engineer who Is looked upon as a
bandit by this Former Passenger"
During the war unskillCd labor was
receiving from to so cents per hour,
instead OF $3.50 10 81 day as'in 1914.
Tradesmen and skilled lOborers were
receiving 81 TO 3l.35 per hour, COM
pared with " to So a day in 1914 The
engineer who pulled the train
that this Former Passenger" rode in.
IL ne was a cOmmuter which
suppose he was, received on an aV-
erage of S5.6S for his first ten hours
and "a cents an hour for overtime
providing he made less than 100 miles
/ IL he made miles TO exceed 100 he re-
ceived 5.6S cents per mile over 100 IN
addition. After waiting two years living
on hope, hustle and hash, he received
50 cents per day increase, which
| brought the average engineer in com
muter service. pay per day OF ten
hours 60 S6.4S. with the same ratio fol
overtime and miles in excess of 100
| HOW does this compare with the car
The evening world., 1921-02-26
THE UGLY TRUTH.

livery one knows that Nationwide Prohibition
IL has failed to prohibit
But up to the present time there has been no
such concrete presentation Of the grim facts of the
failure as The Evening Worlds survey OF the actual
news records Of law-breaking graft and crime dur
ing the attempted enforcement Of the Voisead at:
since Jan. ", 1920
In this city alone, 1913 arrests for drunkenness
in the year 1920 as against S,657 in 1919.
Thus does Nationwide Prohibition diminish the
intanperate use of alcoholic liquors!
More than $ioooOo,ooo worth Of whiskey re-
leased from New York warehouses on forget
permits.
Thus does Nationwide Prohibition maintain Gov
eminent control Of alcohol!
Smuggling and bOoteggng on colossal and
growing scale; stills and private brewing plants
multiplying every month; home manufacture Of
alcoholic drinks studied and praoticed as new
domestic art
Thus does Nationwide Prohibition put stop to
the circulation and consumption OF intoxicating
beverages
Unprecedented daily records OF crime in its bold
est, most violent forms; bribery and corruption per-
vadng The entire system Of Prohibition enforce
ment; private citizens of high standing and dnar
acer jovially violating the law as kind Of new
sport
Thus does Nationwide Prohibition lift the moral
level of communities!
So il was bound to be- and so it is,
A law that cannot be reconciled with reason in The
minds of temperate, self-respecting men and women
is dangerous law.
The strength Of any law is measured by the re-
spect in which ii is held by good citizens
When any considerable number of this class treat
new law lightly their attitude has the worst pos
sibe influence on other classes who hold no law in
high esteem
That is what has happened in the case OF Federal
Prohibition.
Because it takes away personal liberty in a man
ner hitherto abhorent TO American ideas of the
proper function Of Federal Government, otherwiS:
law-abiding men have evaded it,
Because aw-abiding men evade ii, unprincpled
men disregard il entirely or make money out of it
Such law can work incaloulable harm by lessen
ing The respect in which other laws are held among
classes upon whom the fear of law should act witt
greatest force
When, on the plea of treating an i'll that coul
have been cured by other means, the Eighteenth
Amendment was damned into the Federal Consti
tuition violence was done some OF the soundeS
fibre and tissue OF the American democrats
organism.
The ugly look OF the wound can't be concealed
..unraLrr in In nnnnra VIII, Hnnrnrl an,Inhn
The evening world., 1921-02-26

The Germans don't understand them" Wouli
New York;
II these mlch COW Argonauts return to'Kansas
and Indiana and Texas by way of New York, what
are we 10 look forward to in the subway in cass
the Galahads offer their seats to women'
'Wll passengers be dragged out in faint, or will
the cowrf4en be arrested as "mashers"?
The evening world., 1921-02-26
WHERE rs 1T NOW3

Hi Johnson says New York will have to worry
along without him for few days over Inaugu-
ration,
We hope he's made plans to leave the pallad-
ium we'll guarded. Or maybe II would be safer
IL he took It with him
The evening world., 1921-02-26

penter, plumber, painter or mason
with their 50 to $40 per day of eight
hours? Stop and think that the man
who pulls your train is only one out
of about eight boys who started in
the game with the expectation of
some day sitting on the right side of
locomotive. Only about forty out
of 100 boys who start life as firemen
stick at it long enough to be promoted
to engineer. About ten out OF this
forty become successful passenger
engineers. American youths will sell
dom put UP with the hard work and
hardships long enough to sit on the
right side OF locomotive.
started TO fire a locomotive at the
age OF %. After eight long years l
was promoted to an engineer. How
easy II looks on paper, but six years
out OF this eight 1 bucked the extra
list, never knowing when I would eat
or sleep. When not sOn duty l was
held in readiness, without pay.
At the age of thirty L was promoted.
had two years of regular hours and
comfort during my eight years ser
vice as a fireman. After putting in
| eleven years bucking the extra list
as an engineer / was assigned to To-
! cal freight. My family grew up al
most without getting acquainted with
| their dad. Now, after twenty six
years OF service, have a regular pas
senger run in commuter service. But
remember, Mr.. Former Passenger, II
| work Sundays and holidays, and when
| you think OF an engineer in commuter
| service with a monthly wage from
|! 5000 to $3.50, think also Of thirty days
OF from twelve to fourteen hours on
duty. Have the locomotive engineers
been receiving war wages. compared
| with other skilled labor, and In &C
cordance with the responsibility and
hazard OF the occupation?
AN HRIE ElNGINDFIP
Suhfern, N. Y, Feb. rs, 1921
snow shovel Jobs.
To the BditoE Of Tue Evening World:
made application for work on
the snow last Sunday night, and was
told that they had enough men. but
to come out Monday night and they
would surely give me ticket TO go
to work Monday night was told
they would only put the men To
work who worked on Sunday.
Tuesday morning (Washington's
Birthday | went out again and was
told they had too many men and had
to call in the night gang at A. M.
instead of A, NJ.
In this mcInipg's World l saw Q
notice saying that practically all OF
the moneyless ana tobless men ac-
customed To ask for meals and
sleeping quarters at stations OF Or
ganiZed charities started work when
the call for help was sounded by the
d. s. z. and are still working.
Now, Mr.. Editor and fellow readers
how about us men who never ask fol-
charity Cbut are sometimes money
less, and who cannot get work on
the snow when our own work is tied
no by the snow? We want suuart
deal. JOHN J. WEBER.
NeWaYork, Feb. 90, 1921,
Jobs for Legislators.
To the Patio. o. The EVening World
Men who sit at desks may get along
. better under the volsteRd act than ia,
The evening world., 1921-02-26

More women than men, the Census Bureau
tells us. in both New York and Boston Poor
man! He's losing his urban standing by even
the quantity test.
The evening world., 1921-02-26

Are We to infer Presidentelect Harding is in
accord also with the Senate Naval Affairs Com
mittee on the proposition that the natural course
toward disarming and cutting expenses Is to 30
right on arming and spending?
The evening world., 1921-02-26
From had to Worse.

From bad 10 Worse.
To the Editor Of The Evening World
agree with the subject matter OF
the letter you published from DR..
DAWN.
l used to be a Tammany Hall man,
and l am sorry TO say voted for
Hylan. Never again-and have quit
Tammany for good.
All there is to Tammany nowadays
Is the Big Chief. He hogs everything,
and the Democratic organization is
going from bad to worse.
The Hylan Administration has fallen
down all along the line, and the city
Is in the grip of a lot OF political cor
ruptionists who steal anything from
hot stove TO a wheelbarrow. The
only way to get rid of them is either
to have the Governor remove them or
have the people get together at the
next election, regardless OF politics
and political affiliations, and vote the
whole bunch out from top to bottom.
We want a housekeeping in New
York City, and as a constant reader
OF your admirable paper l hope you
will help the taxpayers get this re-
| lief HENRY SMYTHE EtS.
New York, Feb. %, 1921.
Does Money Make the GehtIemaa
To the niitorod The IsVsning World:
would like to answer Jane Wright
and others by asking them whether
the ability to pay rs cents or $3.50
for a seat in the theatre makes of a
roughneck a gentleman? on so a
week / have been in but one the
atre in Manhattan since 1895. 1 have
a wife and six children TO support
and can't AFFORD 1t. NJ. B.
Brooklyn, Felb. p, 1921.
The evening world., 1921-02-26
From Evening World Readers

Wha kind a
that Otves the worth
ThOre u erece lot satisfaction Trying
to much fe0 Take tNe bTtof
The evening world., 1921-02-26
Tho Comfort Of Old Age ..-


Writing his book, "Why Die 81
YOung7" 0Harper) DR.. John b. Hubei
turns a tribute to old age. thus:
There are some very comfortable #.
opinions about old age. For in
ence with whose name l began this
Dock, Francis Gallon, declared in
his eighty-sixth year: Il md old
age to be a very happy time. on the
condition Of submitting frankly to
its many limitations"
Then there is the justified moth
er of men," whom Walt Whitman
extolled, who rests in her armchair
on the porch, surrounded by her
while the rays of the setting sun
touch warmly her whitened hair.
Serene she sits, her eyes stead
fast upon the westerly glow, as the
twilight gathers and the evening
star appears, musing Of many things
in the past, but mostly of memorials
dearly treasured and fondly laid
aside in some old cabinet, -,
And there was the aged aunt OF
Brillat-Savarin; when ne was sum
moned to her deathbed ne raised
her head and induced her TO tako
some most excellent and restora-
tive wine" Whereupon she thanked
him and sinking back contentedly
on her pillow, said. My dear. should
you come to my years you Will I'M
derstand that the aged need death
just as the young need sleep"
The doctors words are beautiful
but we fear his trend is oid-fashioneC
The twentieth century Mother o
Men" sits not in the twilight, but at
tends at the evening jazz.
The evening world., 1921-02-26

Harding is in accord with Hoover" sounds
more like 1t than tOther way round.
The evening world., 1921-02-26
TURNING THE PAGES
BY
c. ". Osborn
I1S, N es S Y ~ E- slS wo3 5ss ''
Z NET three Qnalsers on a mn

7 NET three QuaIoers on a hu,
! And thee'd and thou'd tCith them
unHI
thought tCds a Quaker, too,
And oUdkers oil the birds that JIstn
And oHasers all the trees that stood
lake little angels being good,
WhtIst Quaker thoughts paced
through my brain
LSoe Quaker ndideHs dotCn lane.
Alas, a solemn goat came bV,
dWd btstted me, and closed his Greg
And not q quaker could quote
Would make him be quaker goat
Reprinted, without apologies to any
DactiSt, from the Poems" (Moffat
Yard & Coz OF Haniel Long.
The evening world., 1921-02-26

Jobs for Legislators,
To the Hito- o. The Evening World
Men who sit at desks may get along
better under the VolsteRd act than the
The evening world., 1921-02-26
The Perfect Lover.

From THE Stars in the Pool" (Dut-
ton), a prose poem for lovers, the
point Of quotation being chosen where
Flame sits at the feast on trial, as il
were, before the eyes Of the royal
parents OF his beloved Rosehr"I't:
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-11-18
INVESTIGATES THIS
DFRMOTT PROPOSITION

There are few lots. both bust
ness and resident. surveyed out at
Dermott. There is. not better nor fit
ter place on the Santa Fe railroad
than this is for a little town. II Is
eleven miles west OF Snyder, now
has Hotel blacksmith shop and
3 stores. Stanton Oil Co.. miles
from here. is working day and night
and are down near 1000 feet and
will say there Is 4 lot OF good boys
working at the well. don't say there
will be rush but there might be
such a thing, so you had better take
no chances and get on the ground
floor. II you think of buying lot
come and will show you the plat OF
the town and sell you one.
Very respectfully,
]. w. RUSSELL
22tf. Dermott, Texas.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-11-18
STOP THAT ACHE!

Don't worry and complain about {
bad back. Get rid of that pain ant
lameness! Use Doans Kidney Pills
Many grateful people have used then,
and know how effective they are
Here's a convincing case.
]. L. Campbell. Fluvann.a Texas
says II am out 10 the field bending
over a lot and II certainly makes my
back sore and lame. There we're
times could hardly get around and I
would have bad headaches and nerv-
Gus spells would also get so dizzy
I thought would fall right over.
Nights my rest was disturbed by hav-
ing to get up to pass the kidney Sc
cretions. but since using Eoan's Kid
ney Pills. + am greatly relieved OF
that trouble. | find by taking a few
Doan's now and then that am great
ly benefited"
soc at all dealers Foster Milburn
Co. Mters.. Buffalo. ~ Y
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-11-18
MITCHELL COUNTY OIL
FIELD Is LOOMING UP

Colorado. Mitchell County. Texas.
Nov. 13.-Sloan and associates will
drill we'll between the Underwriters
No. north Of Westbrook and Foster
No. I at Iotan. Material is being
hauled TO the location.
Mr.. Sloan believes Mitchell county
will show wonderful Developments
within the next few months II opera
tons now under consideration by diff
ferent operators are carried out
Another important Item to be con-
sideed Is Mitchell county oil comes
from sand and such wells are usually
long lived and the oil is high In gas
oline content.
G. S. Owens OF tho Underwriters
Company has returned from Tulsa.
He reports that work on Coleman No.
/. near Cuthbert, In the northwestern
part OF Mitchell county. will be re-
sumed at an early date.
oIllhu w. II Lave HiaNo "Nch VI
Colorado. Is drilling below 1000 II.
Drilling water ia getting scarce.
Conway, No. / we'll, fourteen miles
southwest OF Colorado, is making
slow progress, as drilling water has
to be hauled b. truck! The forma-
lions continue to look favorable. The
drillers have not yet passed through
the oil sand pierced at 3.029 feet.
Foster No. l, near Iatan. has set
big casing and is drilling below 500
feet. Production from Foster No.
continues to hold up we'll.
The Iatan operators are the only
ones not troubled with water short
age. Messers Brown. Gardner and
Hanley OF the Cult Refining Com
pany were here nearly a week in
speeding the field and purchasing
leases. Messrs Reece and Amery of
the Texas Company have also been
here again on the same mission.
Mitchell county 10 we'll worth watch
ing