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The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1921-03-04
Veteran Merchant Declares Honesty
Is Duty and Not Credit.


"The retail and wholesale credit
associations these days keep remark
ably close tab on how individuals and
business concerns are meeting their
obligations. Reports are filed with the
associations by members showing the
standing Of all accounts and just how
they are being met, and constant ref
erences to those reports are being
made by all other concerns. II man
is far behind with or failing to pay
a bill with one store, the facts will be-
come known to all, and his credit rat
ing and business standing is hurt just
that much.
"The other day woman called me
and said she desired q credit account,
not because she was unable to pay
now, but because she thought she
would have better standing from hav-
ing n good credit rating. We investi-
gated her references, found her stand
ing elsewhere was good, and rated her
accordingly. And she has the right
view Of it-a proper credit-rating is
very essential to do business these
days and To ones standing in the COM
munity.
"If more people would realize these
things, there would be fewer people
buying more than they can pay for
in other words, fewer would contract
obligations too great for them. And
that is n part Of business honesty, for
when n customer says Charge II to
me- he or she promises, in effect, that
when due the obligation will be met.
II the promise Is made with an inten-
ton to repay and a confidence that the
debt can be repaid, Il is an honest con-
tract; when the promise is made with
out the ability or the intention to re-
pay, that person has been guilty Of
dishonesty.
"A man or woman may avoid pay
ment Of just debts for while; may
exceed their means through careless
ness or indifference, or even without
the intention Of meeting the obliga-
tons; but soon there will come a time
when he or she will suffer heavily the
consequences, in loss Of credit, loss Of
standing, loss Of sslf-respect. And,
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1921-03-04
WICHITA FALLS.

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Miss Pearl Zacharias has returned
to her home in Kansas City after a
delightful visit with Mrs. Chas. Green
burg.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Juster are the
parents Of baby girl.
DR.. David Goldberg left Saturday
for New Orleans where he will report
for military training.
Mrs. M. Schlosberg Of Henrietta
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Zundelowitz.
Three war orphans have been adopt
ed in our community. One each by the
Council Of Jewish Women, Jewish Re-
lief Society and the Junior Auxiliary.
Mrs. Pinkey Japper and daughter,
Ruth left Saturday for their home in
Houston after being the guest of her
aunt and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. E. Fisch.
Mesdames P. Kleinman, Greenburg,
Spitz and Lyons were hostesses Mon
day afternoon to the monthly Council
social affair. Cards were the diversion
Of the afternoon. Prizes in bridge were
won by Mesdames Horowitz and Kru-
ger and in race horse, prizes were won
by Miss Shapiro Of New York AND
Mrs. H. Setback. Refreshments were
served after the games.
Mrs. Dan of Fort Worth is visiting
her daughters, Mesdames L. Cohen
and P. Kleinman.
Mrs. Arthur Lyons underwent an
operation Tuesday at the General Hos
pital.
Mrs. Lyons Of Fort Worth is visit
ing her children, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Lyons.
During the last month, Mrs. Harry
Katz has given a series Of entertain
ments consisting OF an afternoon
spent in sewing, a theatre party and
a dance. Those who enjoyed the after
noon spnet in sewing were: Misses
Lilly Ginsburg and Pearl zacharias OF
Kansas City; Mesdames Kruger, Hor-
owitz, Kaufman, Kleinman, Lyons,
Feldman, Shain, Lebenson, Marko-
WITT, Pink, L. Cohen, Goldberg, Beck
err, Dampf, Joseph and Ginsburg'
Those who enjoyed the theatre par
tv given at the Palace were Mesdames
Feldman, Kruger, Shain, Lebenson and
Ginsburg.
On February 9, Mrs. KATE tompli-
mented her sister, Lilly Ginsburg with
a dance given at her home. Those
nresent were Misses Bernice Dan OF
Fort Worth; Ethel Shapiro Of New
York; Pearl Zacharias Of Kansas
City, Pearl Goldstucker, Lilly Gins
burg. Messrs. Herman Cohen, Joe
Marx. Harry Ginsburg, Nathan Gersh'
Jack Saikin Of Fort Worth; !. Persky,
Herzmark Of Kansas City, AMI Mes
danes Ginsburg, Persky and Green
burg.
Mr.. Herzmark Of Kansas 'ity -
visiting his daughter, Mrs. CnaS'
Greenburg. :,
Misses Rose Levine Of Hartford
Conn. and Miss Mamie Lipshy of Fort
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1921-03-04

AT the conclusion OF the program
Mrs. Ben Kaufman brought in small
express wagon full Of linens and pre-
scented them to Mrs. Goldberg with the
following poem which she had written
for the occasion.
Dear Friends:
want you one and all,
To listen to me well
For I've a very wondrous tale
| would unto you tell.
It's all about our Rabbi
And his beloved wife,
And contains thru all some dets.s,
Taken from their very life.
When war broke out some years age.
Our Rabbi-like a man,
Enlisted in the navy
So he'd help Uncle Sam.
He gave up wife and child and home
And all that he possessed,
To serve his country and his God
In the way that he thought best.
And when the war was over,
We felt that we were blessed,
To have a man come to US
Who had stood such test.
He and his dear wife have done so
much
To help us on our way,
That to show our love and friendship,
Do we give this shower today.
II has really been a pleasure,
To have every member say,
"Not only will bring one piece,
But more - IL | may
NOI OHiy HeInpcis ei'hei'
But friends who heard US tell,
Asked II they might bring something
And show their love as well.
So please, my dear Mrs. Goldberg,
Accept these linens small,
They come with deepest love to ynu
From each Of US and oil.
Written by Mrs. Ben Kaufman.)
After this, dainty refreshments
were served The linen shower was
given to show the love and esteem in
which our rabbi and his wife are held.
The Wednesday Bridge Club met
last week at the home Of Miss Rose
Rosenberg. The club prize went to
Mrs. Gene Leopold and the guest prize
to Mrs. Sam Kruger. Miss Zacharias
Of Kansas City received visitors
prize. A Dutch lunch was served to
Mesdames wolfson, Kaufman, Lie
pold, Greenberg, Art, Horowitr, Klein
man. Paul. Kruger Lazarus Cohen,
Emold and Miss Zacharias.
Mrs. NJ, Schlosberg Of Henrietta en-
tertained a few friends last week with
theatre party given at the Palace.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-09
Pipers en- Masse

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May I be permitted to answer
various queries | overheard last night
at the Hislop concert at the Hippo
drome?
The number of pipers assembled at
this concert is not a record. In July,
1918, at village in France, Highland
sports meet was held. Every Scottish
battalion having a pipe band attended,
which, of course, included Canadian,
South African and Australian Scottish.
After various competitions some 500
pipers and drummers massed for ere
treat" and gave an exhibition of pip
ing long to be remembered by those
lucky enough to hear it. The music
probably penetrated even to Fritz Is
ears. Fortunately the "Yanks" we're
giving him the coup-de-grace at the
time, which accounted for his non-ap-
pearance via the overhead route.
1t may be of interest to note that
at least two of those pipers present
last night also helped to swell the
number on that occasion, and one of
them, Charles Warburton, of this city
also won the first prize for fancy dane
ing in the dancing contest.
F. MAURICE CHILD,
Chairman Entertainment Committee,
British Great War Veterans Of
America.
New York, April 6, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-09
The Dawes Report

The Dawes commission has clipped
away heroically at the red tape in
which government relief for the dis
abled soldiers has been smothered
1t recommends the creation of a
single agency, to be called the Vet
erans' Service Administration, which
shall have free hand in rehabilita-
tion, vocational training, war risk in
surance and hospital work.
Unified control is the prime es-
sential. A division of responsibility
and functions subjected the disabled
soldier to rebuffs, delays and bu-
reaucratic cold-shouldering. He was
passed along from one bureau to an
other. His self-respect was humbled
and his disgust at what he consid-
cred governmental ingratitude was
aggravated by having to wait and
suffer while the wheels of circum-
locution office went round. The sick,
crippled and nerve shaken aren't
New-York tribune., 1921-04-09
The Passport Problem

The difficulties which our govern
ment has thrown in the way of any
of it's citizens who had the temerity
to think of going abroad have
scarcely been lightened by the latest
ruling. No passport is now re-
quired upon leaving America, it is
announced. But are or are not pass
ports still required of aliens in Euro
pean countries? AS to this the State
Department processes no late knowl-
edge and proposes to inquire. In
place Of a definite and difficult OBJ
stacle the State Department now
substitutes a puzzle which the Amer
lean going abroad must solve at his
peril.
The sensible change, it would
seem, would be to make the obtaining
of a passport an operation requiring
something less than mountain of
effort and waiting and complexity.
Under present conditions of unrest
and suspicion in Europe it is unques-
tionably better for an American to
take a passport with him, whether
New-York tribune., 1921-04-09
The Unsuitable Won Mach

We strive to please in America.
Certainly Herr Won Mach, who held
his Horror meeting in Madison
Square Garden unmolested, under
stands this fact. No polyglot board
ing-house-which Theodore Roose-
welt asserted America was not
could have been more generous in
letting the discontented boarders get
together and insult the friends of
the house to their hearts content.
But Herr Won Mach is not salts
fed. He is deeply grieved because
the speech of General Pershing con-
demning the Horror meeting was or
dered read in the public schools. The
fact that General Pershing played
certain part in the underlying dis
pute which ultimately reached the
Rhine means nothing to Won Mach
cr, at any rate, offers no excuse for
such an utterance. Nor does the
fact, which Superintendent Ettinger
we'll expresses, that the Pershing
view is the general view of all loyal
Americans count.
Just what will satisfy Won Mach
we wonder. It is too late to undo the
events of 1918. Perhaps if, as pre-
liminaries, America apologized to
Germany for misunderstanding her
noble intentions in the war and paid
an indemnity for all damage caused
by our unfortunate blunder some
basis Of accord might be approached.
But we fear our Teutonic friend is
Unsuitable. He talks and acts too
much like the Bernhardis of more
prosperous days. Not until the Ger
man empire in America swallowed
the nation surrounding it could the
Won Mach school of patriots be
wholly satisfied And against such
a result there are so many prevent
ing obstacles-a hundred million or
so-that we fear Herr Won Mach had
best hunt up new boarding. house,
without further waste of time.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-09
The Airplane Carrier
Capital Ship of the Futurc-Could
Destroy BattIeships

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Quarterdeck's article on Meg
lect of Naval Aviation" is all right in
all respects. Naval aviation must, Of
course, be part Of the feet, and to be
of any use it must be manned by sea-
men and trained with and "indoctri-
mated" by the fleet.
"Without it our feet cannot take
the offensive against an enemy sup
piled with air forces" says Quarter
deck.
Therefore, an enemy feet having
superior air forces would defeat our
feet by destroying the big ships-and
taking his time about it.
That is, air forces (in command of
the air) can destroy battleships, while
battleships (not in command of the
air) can do nothing against air forces
except relieve their nervous strain
by wasting ammunition shooting at
them.
Suppose somebody should build a 90
control that would enable us to hit an
enemy battleship at $4,000 yards, what
sort of ship would we put it on? Ger
tainly not on a 25-knot heavily armored
ship, but on a 35knot unarmored ship
that could choose her range and bonn
bard the life out Of the battleship.
This would be the capital shin of the
future.
Well, the airplane carrier is very
much more powerful than the 20-inch
gun ship, simply because her bombs,
of one or two tons, carry ten times
as much explosive,
Therefore the carrier is the capital
ship of the future-so much so that one
carrier could destroy a whole division
of battIeships, one at a time.
If we keep on building battleships
and our future enemy builds q great
air force ashore and afoat he will tell
us where to get off, and we will have
to get off.
The only way to refute these con-
CluSlOuS is 10 claim, as some ACtuatly
do:
/. Planes can never be successfully
launched from and landed on carriers.
9. Planes cannot drop bombs on a
moving ship.
3. Anti -aircraft guns can always
shoot down planes before they get in
position to drop their bombs.
d. The feet can protect itself by
smo Ike screens.
These and similar arguments are the
only ones, and they are all unsound,
and are getting unsounder every day.
THREE PLANE NAVY.
New York, April 7, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-09

B. M. Jewell. representing various
railroad workers unions, has tele-
graphed President Harding an offer
to negotiate new working rules to
supplant tho national agreements
imposed on the carriers by the Fed
eral railroad administration. This
shows a welcome appreciation on the
part of the workers of the realities
of the railroad situation and that
the period of initiation and of drafts
on the United States Treasury is
over
The carriers were not consulted
in drawing the working code. which
nationalized shop rules and over
time allowances as we'll as wages
and disrcgardcd all local and re-
gional differences in market rates
for similar unskilled labor and in
living costs. The roads, which are
spending GO per cent Of their gross
revenue in labor costs and more than
90 per cent of it in all operating
costs, have as yet made no serious
effort to change the basic wage rate
for skilled labor. They have re-
stricted their criticism to complaints
of shop rules and overcharges on un-
skilled service made possible by the
intricate natonalized working rules.
Mr.. Jewell says that the workers
concede that the roads are entitled
to fair return for the money they
pay in wages. The wage fund is
now startlingly out of proportion to
the roads earning power. Since 1914
railroad net operating income has
sunk from the 100 level of 1914 to
nearly zero. But the wage fund has
risen from the 100 level of 1914 to a
220 level in 1920.
Railway wages have also risen
higher than the cost of living has.
Starting at 100 in 1914, wages were
at 220 in December last, while the
cost of living, having reached 200
has fallen back to 1870, and the de-
cline in living prices continues.
The transportation act of 1920
provides that in fixing wages and
working rules the Railroad Labor
Board should be governed by the pre-
vailing rate for similar work in other
industries and by the relation be-
tween wages and the cost of living.
These requirements stand in the way
of continuance Of the present ma
tional agreements. 1t appears that
the workers are wisely preparing to
cancel or modify the agreements in
order to preserve for themselves the
benefits of the fair and reasonable
wage guaranty Of the Esch- Cum
Minis law.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-09
Anti-Kcrensky
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: James F. Morton jr., in letter
to The Tribune, accuses the Russian
National Society of denouncing alike
the Bolsheviki and Mensheviki and also
of placing Kerensky in the same cate
CORY with Lenine and Trotzky. While
this charge is substantially correct, l
deem it my duty to call attention to the
fact that the Russian National Society
in it's Bulletins furnishes ample evil
dence of the fact that Kerensky and
the Social Revolutionists, of whom he
is the recognized leader, are even more
harmful than Lenine and Trotzky. A
repetition of Kerensky's experiment
would be terrible disaster for Russia.
CONSTANTINE SAKHAROV,
Lieutenant General, Chairman Rus
sian National Society.
New York, April s, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-09
The Livingston Handicap
Republican Party in Kings County
Hurt by His Leadership

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS reader and admirer Of your
paper for many years feel deeply
interested in the stand you are taking
for an investigation of New Yorks gov
ernment under Mayor Hylan.
I was resident of Kings County for
sixty-fve years, until / moved to Mont
clair, N. j., in October, 1920 have al
ways been a stalwart Republican, as
were my ancestors, for many years
very active in leadership Of Republican
policies.
For the last few years, with many
others of my party, have been dis
gusted with the representative of the
party in Kings County. Since 1917 tho
party has been misrepresented by one
Jacob Livingston, who is looking more
after the advancement of his own per
sonal ambitions than the success Of bis
party.
In his opposition to an inve stigation
what would be more natural than for
Livingston to secure the cooperation Of
Senator Burlingame, a Senator who
comes from a district in which doc
Swazey. a Livingston henchman, is the
executive member, appointed by Mayor
Hylan as member of the board Of
Tax Commissioners. as a political re-
ward for his services in helping to elect
Hylan Mayor. For you viii recall Liv-
ingston and his cohorts did not exert
themselves to help reelect Mayor
Mitchell. Swazey does not want an in
vestigation of the Tax Board, the most
important of the city government, upon
which all others depend.
1t is very easy to discover the u
wise leadership of Livingston by care
fully going over the candidates he has
selected for nomination to Office in the
Republican party for the last few
years.
Only last year his candidate for Gov
ernor, until the last moment, was e.
Comptroller Travis, who if nominated
would have been badly beaten.
believe with the majority OF Ks'
publicans of Kings County that you
cannot say too much against the Lead
ership- Of Livingston. If the party +"
to have any success in Kings Coun"
it must be under other leadership.
| think the Republicans, as party
feel that a thorough and sincere IN
vestigation would be very apt to ellmr
nate Mayor Hylan as a candidate.
J. D. REMSEN,
Member Assembly. New York STATE
five years.
New York, April Z, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-09
Contrary to Nature

from The San Franciscu Chronieie)
Lenine probably had his tongue in
his cheek when he instructed Krassir
to sign the agreement with Britain
vik propaganda in the countries bor.
dering on the British Asiatic posses.
sions. The Bolsheviki can no more
stop trying to spread their doctrines
everywhere and anywhere than they
can stop talking, or breathing, which
is the same thing to them. Propaganda
Is their life and promises mean moth
ing to them
New-York tribune., 1921-04-09

this country requires one from him
on leaving or not. A passport is
not favor which the State Depart
ment grants in the generosity Of its
heart. 1t is document which every
loyal and honorable American citi-
zen bound abroad in normal times is
entitled to as matter Of right.
Such being the case, he should not
have to stand in line by the hour and
tramp the corridors Of the Custom
House in order to secure it. Espe-
cially obnoxious was the ingenious
scheme by which citizen who had
secured his passport after long ef-
fort and wheedled a receipt for his
income tax payments out Of the
Collectors office by persistence, pa
tience and tact had to have this mat
ter Of income tax payment and idcn-
tity checked again on the pier before
sailing. This particular nonsense
calling for another waiting in line,
Of course, while an inadequate per-
sonnel inspected and verified and in
dorsed-has presumably become un-
necessary as a result Of the new rul-
ing. Or at any rate it should be-
come unnecessary. The State De-
partment should make it both simple
and safe for Americans to go abroad.
That much is considerable part of
its duty.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-09

good walters and ought not to be
expected to wait Their unhappy
plight, coming to public attention
through thousands Of individual
cases, irritatcd the country, which
had put their care first among our
postwar duties.
In the general disorganization at
Washington following the armistice
the government failed in its obliga-
tion to the soldiers, as it did in so
many other reconstruction tasks.
Now, fortunately, q fresh start can
be made. Hospital accommodations
must be multiplied, for the after
effects of service on those who went
overseas have been grossly under
estimated. Congress recently ap-
propriated $lS,000,oo0 for the con-
structioh of hospitals. The new
centralized control will try to end rs
quickly as possible the scandal of
assigning veterans to local poor
houses.
The Dawes board also recon-
mends a policy Of "helpful neigh
borliness." 1t was in sympathy and
eager attention that the existing
agencies fell so lamentably short
The disabled soldier is not burden
on the community, to be dealt with
like pauper. He is entitled to
every consideration and assistance
and also to respect and honor The
new Veterans Service Administra-
tion will not do all that is required
of it simply by being efficient. AS
the report suggests, the service it
gives should also be "humanized' u
and come from the heart.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-09
Brotherly Love
From The Kansas City STAR

From The Kansas City Stdri :.
How we Americans do love sssA
other! You get into ordinary conve''-.
ton. All Of as are convinced we s''
being robbed by somebody else. Wv
next door ncighbor is good reH'"
personally. But as a business man ~
know he is pirate. /.
The salaried man is suspicious W
his employer. He knows his grocer -
conspirator AS for the store do"a.
town where his wife trades, he cahs =
the daylight robbery. So, too' -.
dealer in notions looks darkly on nv
clothier. Both the clothier ana ".
notion man blame the jobber ana -.
farmer The farmer is convinced nc =
the victim of the boards Of trade. ~
Wall Street broker is certain the eo'A
try rs being held up in the price y
eggs and meat.
With all this brotherly love so WIZ,
spread. isn't it good deal OF mii's'-
that the country is able to rock AVE-
and net fly to pieces?