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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SATURDAY. AUGUST 16. 1919. ingle sollim; AND THIS IS NO JOKE By "ZERE" do ou pay for the ag for are charging To cents a NT much profit do you take on fresh meat? Io you the ulv.

He has 1 l.vosolv an.l carelessly, his sympathies swung hy demagogy, clap trap. In class je.il He has seen heelers hiz.ing bv Find tme estate ljlf AGE. NT WHO ADVERTISED wa Ksm UnJ.iv 'r'jj'AC' I I i r- titwr i I MjMMa, on. causer! by war have told nowhere so I 1 -X loidDi' tt lpavjv gg jn tnp industrial and that "it is to these that the day-THt STRIKE THREAT AND THE CITY'S light saving law is of most service." DUTY, The President also suggests, and very The Intrrborough Brotherhood ln the farnlpr' "nis own life and methods. I venture tt.

ii.i.mN for its mrmbi an in, I think, are more easily adjusted than Wage! and a readjustment of hours I arp thogp pf tp manufacturer and tn0 which ould leave them infinitely bet- merchant." tor off than the majority of people who A previous veto of a rider intended Be th( transit lines they would tie to accomplish the same purpose as the The motormau of four years' service hill now disapproved seemed to tndl- expenditure. An.) tin- iirM Mf ran; lead to a i oinhinatlon printing plants. HM a pirwtir economy. Types and pMMM liHve no. tlllli leanings.

They tuiizht jump from work on a treatise as to the Greek word Baptize on Monday to one of the Westminster Confession Tuesday without heresy or inconsistency. Of course, while denominations exist, their hooks will he written and edited hy denom in at nam! thinkers. It is only the me i hanics of printing and publishing and ailing that be jointly conducted, VETO SAVES DAYLIGHT SAVING. For a second time Presiilent Wilson has interposed his veto power to prevent the killing of the Daylight Saving Inw- hv comhinnrion In the House I and in the Senate representing the i class interest of fanners in one of Its pettiest forms. The message that ao-1 companies the veto is temperate in form but inflexible in spirit.

That certain inconveniences come to agri-, I rulturtsts from this daylight saving 1 1 is acknowledged. But it is held that "the disorganization ami dislocation secured by the opponents of the sldent's policy. Against that vote a vote was not secured. Our he- In any considerable numbers. In that case daylight saving may be perma nent: and.

if so. we shall owe a real boon to the firmness and the broad statesmanship of President Wilson TWO HEALTH MENACES COMPARED. The determination of Dr. Copeland take Sea View Hospital on Staten sland for drug addicts, which wai ainly objected to by residents of Rich loud Borough, meets criticism from new angle in the protest of the Com-littee on the Prevention of Tuber ulosis. Dr.

James A. Miller, chairman. usd for the addicts Sea View can Mayor: we cannot refrain from tailing at tention to the obvious fact that drui addiction as a cause of sickness am 0Ln importance as compared with tht scourge of tuberculosis, which still, ai has been the case for generations pasi ranks in this city as tne great. of death and disease We cannot help thinking that this point is well taken. Sea View is ad- mirably located for consumptives.

The site chosen for them. It is true nat lnp ugni to looh mil mi me lirllg ailUICis. II IS cipiail.v in great farm up at Warwick in Orange County intended primarily for aleo- 5" is nardlv half WDoU U8od? Th'u tbe ues' tDat rne "eu a right to ask when th plan take Sea View from the eQMUmpth rut forward. The greater distal from New York is an advantage 1" drug, victims who have to struggle against temptation. Tuberculosis tic tint no such problem.

They NON-TURNING WORMS WANTED. At last one agency active in the i of the profiteer has a scent is off on a hot trail. While mgton wishfull. waiting for a Mrs Hirst suspects that retailers of foodstuffs and other necesstti. sUmP that all of them are purely altru- istic.

Then there is the economic side. In the absence of a monumental endowment it is almost Inconceivable that so manv philanthropists pnnld ex- 1st simultaneously in a community. but such duplication would doom philanthropy. However Mrs. Hirst and the club women for whom she speaks do not intend to act merely on suspicion.

Without asking for enormous funds, after the manner of Governmental agencies, they purpose to start the most comprehensive Investigation on record. Their method are also to be com mended, for they are nothing if not direct. They intend to drop all timidity the snsieetod retailors face ti (ace about this question profits. a It is Hi is would. under the proposed scale, work, forty eight hours a week and receive in id urn Mi.M.

How many clerks, 1 kkoepers. shop workers, salesmen' ople I heir heads as well as their hands enjOJ hours so short and compensation Comparatively few. The demands are not only excessive for I he quality of the service rendered, not only excessive by comparison with other wages paid to workers who do not ing the club of collective bargaining, but they are. or would be. immediately destructfcvp to the corporation from which it is, proposed to extort compliance.

It is to be hoped that the conference at the Mayor's office today will result in sonic agreement averting a strike. The Inconvenience and the peril ti publli cessation of subway transit would be very great. 1 brotherhood leaders care nothing all. about the public. They know as well as anybody that the finances of' the Intrrborough have been strained to the utmost in the recent concession of increased pay.

they know as a anybody that the higher rates upon Which they insist spell ruin swift and Irretrievable. But to them the rights of investors in transit stock and securi- tics ure of as little consequence as the greater rights of the people of the City to uninterrupted transportation over the onlv lines giving real rapid rnnnlt. Whether thev can he hronaht the Citv Hall eon. rf r.rlit i no such hannv result Wni accrue if the Mayor reiterates hia absurd charge that the strike situation is an "Inside job" arranged between-" the company and its employees for the' of onmnelline the Foard of Kstimate to increase fares. The strike issue and the fare issue should be kent mart Hichcr fa es have been conceded in other cities where the bug of municipal operation lias not bitten into the vitals of public 1 officials Higher fares will have to he Conceded In Nen York if operating con-rerns are to be saved from the fa.ilities of real rapid transit preserved.

But tbe question of fares ought to be considered on Its mcrit-nnd not under the compulsion of a threat to blackjack the public through i If a and whirl) dozen on fruit charge customers for what you call overhead "Ask bini the answer to this is important sa the question naire. There is only one drawback to this heme, so far as we can see. The retailer may develop a similar frank ness a ltd directness and ask the club how much their husbands pay I for the things they sell. This may lead to embarrassment if it happens jthat the husbands of club women are also engaged in business. That is the of this whole profiteering trouble.

What we need are worms that won't turn when poked, and folks who won't gouge when gouged. RIOT INSURANCE IN CLEVELAND. Clevelands street railways hi been In the limelight for more than a quarter of a century. They conspicuous in ltHH. the year that the three-cent fare issue cltvted as Mayor of the parent city of the Standard Oil Company and the old home of John D.

Rockefeller that aggressive Kentuck ian and ex -Brooklynitc. Tom Loftiu Johnson. That the street railwn combination of today In Cleveland feeling so nervous over possible ders in the near future that it ha. taken out siii.li.i.ooii riot insurance. and pays premium thereon, i significant of the trend of the time-gravely significant.

This is a new phase of the insur ance business in the I'nited States. though in England Lloyd's has ni than once issued inch I policy in of its general policy to taki i almost anything. It is said that the guarantee to the Cleveland railway interests is participated in b. four big companies, It protect against losses hy "riot and civil conimo lion." Some Ohio insurance ngenti are declaring for publication that i. onslderable number of large industries iave secured or are seeking to secure like Insurance.

In principle. pose it does not differ much from burg lar insurance. The psychology of the matter, how ever, is unsettling. Rioting is crime burglary is rime, but burglary can never he guarded against in ad ance. by the cleverest of police or ganization.

Riot can ordinaril.i he hecked in its incipiency hy forceful. intelligent public officials, it is ibe fear that officials will not be forceful intelligent that leads any concern heavy premiums to be guarded against civic disorder. What that fear rests on and it is not by any means baseless is easy to understaud. Elected officials control the police, and the militia, and the I'nited States Army. These elected officials are ton often skillful in demagogy; too Infre quently skillful in the art of govern ment.

The vital value of continuous irder is hid from the eyes of the ef ficient vote-getter, which is a public misfortune. THE REVOLT ON FOOD CONTROL. Three Senators. Smith of tieor; Smith of South Carolina, and Ransdell of Louisiana, join Gronna of North Dakota in a scarcely veiled threat to filibuster against any food control amendment that will send profiteers to jail. Cotton and wheat are apparently standing together for the exploitation of consumers in so far as the personal political interests of their spokesmen will permit.

Gronna says the fanners are the anti-profiteer law. And thai is possible if not probable. It may be frank) confessed that the law means, as Hoke Smith phrased it. the prosecution of the individual for wbotlj new and unheard of crime' But if wholly new crimes have tie-, eloped in the growth of civilization, should they go unpunished for luck of Sinful it is for I man to be scirish and grasping If sinfulness threaten-the comfort, even the very life of the community, ive think II naj properly be made criminal and punishable. 'rofiteers' sinfulness docs menace the immunity.

The people in all our Hies know it. Neither Western wheat aisers nor Southern cotton raisers eem to understand the cities' feeling. The real question to be settled be fore such a law is enacted is whether enforceable. If it bears only on those who obey voluntarily as good citizens, it doe? evil rather than good and tends to bring all law into disr. PUte, And let us repeat here what The Eagle has more than once said: that high prices are made inevitable by con ditions: that only extortionate an be trimmed by the most drasti, penal gisIation.

HOME-BUYING AND CITIZENSHIP. That rent-un. ertaintles ha, con strained I very large number of Now Yorkers to buy homes or to combine ith fellow tenants to buy out land lords of apartment houses is certain Is equally certain tluit this mov ment. pronounced in all the most impressive in Brooklyn. With a few weeks a single company has made Sixty-three home galea, ActhitJ everywhere, from Hed Hook Point to Newtown Creek.

The next step will be for the former tenant, now- owner or pari owner of a building, to si, down and think it over. used bis inings. He has hi. deeds, or his stock in a joint stock ries over plumbing and nalntfne ind paper hanging, repairs ami Insurance Prohietas are formidable. Heretofore Ibis man has not paid direct taxee on realty, He has not fell a a a i in i.jtJ- aulos without indignation: streets left torn up for uionihs.

with 1 anger: waste in a hundred forms, without agitation. His point of view changed, radically changed, The relation between home-buying and standards of citizenship is too head of a family owned the house he lived in. demagogy would have to take a back seat in city politics. The bans of marriage clash sharply with the bans on marriage at Coblenz. A Yankee in uniform ins hearts in spite of himself: and bis (iretchen is not to be left disconsolate, just because of military officers or officious mililar- Pleas for the minting piece are appearing In of public sentiment, i pay for a two-cent n.

Eagle would prefer to cent piece come back, of a two- arious organs ould tlo to ispaper. Tht oe the three Of analogous Is liquor taken ith meals a "bever That question is bound to up. and who so fit to settle it as Mr. Justice James C. Cropsey? He, at least, never shirks an onerous judicial responsibility.

We're not surprised that Frederico Tinoco. quondam "President has vanished from Costa Rica. His brother who was vice president was assassi nated a few weeks ago: and such warnings have a definite meaning in all Latin American countries. Can a man be convicted of bigamy because, deficient in his geography, he didn't know that Haverstraw was in Xew York instead of New Jersey? Tbe puzzles of forty-eight different systems of divorce law- in a single country are more pathetic than humorous. One can't help ndiun the audacity of Jim Nugent of I fighting for a gubernatorial nomination in New Jersey, defying the Drys.

defying the Suffragists, and standing on his conservative platform. He the boy on the burning deck, and us congratulate Dr. Masaryk, io found his wife in Brooklyn, on re sisting the pressure for Czech interfcr- in Hungary. He's a sane Presi dent for a new government in Central Europe. Czechoslovak Is might be unselfish in Intervention, but tne world 1 not believe it.

Neither would the Magyars. AN HONEST CONFESSION By an Expert Professional the Criminal Fraternity. Sl.o The istion Does is asked. What a foolish question We all know that it does not Viewed from the lower or busl-ItandpOint, not one. among the I have known, has anything to for the time spent In dishonest practices.

in my seventieth year: 5 of the hest years of my manv times risked i been shot than I i remember; have escaped from te different prisons; tried to escape in this one almost broke my neck the attempt was recaptured after ry escape, generally as a result of and now. when natural- I if life I have absolutel.v nothing to nw nothing to even hope for. The writing of this brief autoblog-ph Is not a very pleasant undertak-r bul it is written in the hope that fellow-men may derive some benefit, haf. been said that a wise man does need advice, and that a fool will accept it when it is given, T'os-lv those who do not know it all. or jsp who are not entirely foolish ma; benefited.

A prison official one. ted me why I followed Hie life I. mj re nl was "1 have ofien aakef self that same question hut have cor found a satisfactory guessed" that I possessed too much srgy which had been wrongly di- As a boy, at tbe starting of the Re-llion when the entire nation was li laos. I was taken to St. Louis from small Pennsylvania town.

I i average boy, good natured. fond of and not inclined tn mid. The youngsters, like then is, were about equally divided in eir smpathies for the North or tht nith. and we kids used to have fre icnt pitched battles. I tried to en It but was refused on account of A brother, two years older thar enlisted and died in that hell-hole-bby Trison.

Being an orphan I wa i.lo no proper restraint; I ran awav nm home and got mixed up with other running wild. One escapado to another until I was finalli rested, and sentenced tu Kansas State prison for a term of years for the robbery of a county treasure. This was in 1871. My life since out of prison has been continual war upon yociety with the certain consequences resulting. The judge who first sentenced mo was named Hong (double I have dislike for pork ever since.

Speaking of judges reminds me of little story: In the county seat, court bring in session owing to the crowded condition of the hotel, a fudge was obliged to share a bed with an Irishman. The judge remarked. Pat you would have remained time in Ireland before you art lid had the honor of sleeping irith idse Just no. your honor. Id have remained In Ireland long time before you would it ien elected to be a judge of our natr Court aTM upon being canted i one of tbe prison com- my reply was.

-As I have idged so often myself, the in-tes thoucht I was qualified to judge ers." I'pon ronviction for a vro-r prison regulations, the Judge entence tht offender to the loss ert.un privileges for whatever i of days he considers proper. an arbitrary and siiriden suspension of millions to help find out what is subway traffic. If the strike foment- I wrong while war. peace- the Senate, ers will nor listen to reason it will be President Wilson, wheat, prohibition, tbe duty of the Mayor to tell them they daylight losing. St.

Swithin and iac-CanttOt rarr.i their point by recourse tojclnatlon are being blamed for the high the methivl- of intimidation and VIA- cot of living, Mrs. Charles D. Hirst Umce Which were disgracefully em-'of the Daily Footl Alliance h.i.s had ployed right Brooklyn. her suspicions aroused and is prepar- The (ferehauta Association is doing ing to go the limit in uncovering the a public service in arranging for -an, whole trouble with the price of things. if the Germans, cnowlni that at the rale 300,000 men Thierry pocket, then the hopelessi Of trvlna to stand UP much Ion against the power of the Allies would sink into ihc consciousness pf i ven thickest of square-heads; ah the Allied propagandists "pla The Owner of the Uury by William Patterson White (Little, Brown A story laid In the wild West and having an abundance of gunplay and excitement.

"Mr. by John Buchan (George H. Doran Company), A new-war novel, continuing the career of Dick Hannary, hem of "Greenmantle" and "The Thirty-nine Steps Gilbert Canna madia Northwest. Anna in L'oale, lury Co.) This book, by a authority, tells about girls' ready organized, indicates ing grounds, suggests dally for camps and In general is helpful informal ion to anvo ng or organizing a girls' of Ruib Pennls of her heritage. A Hint from Italy Was horn, of t- i earth which gave him Is I.

"Dingo." Just make your peace with And let the Chinks come in. Then farm our lobs to alien slob. Worlt not, but sit and arin An eight-hour day at crlnning wm lint ditn His thought will Xt.vr..myTr up" the Battle Chateau-Thierry, than the French did. or the English did or the Italians, I 1 New Books Today PBll rTlew. of import twolu wUl I tw fooad on tn.

Book Ps-. I WHO WON AT THIERRY The Truth About a Famous Allied Exploit. To an a. man, the convictions of the average civilian that two regiments of L'nited States Marines and tn-o of I'nited States doughboy regu-lata unsupported at first with artillery could stop a German army in its march upon Pans is a shocking piece of exaggeration. But your average American believes it like a gospel.

The A. V. man sils down and draws on the back of an envelope a diagram of the deep bulge running from sioissons down to Chateau-Thierry and up to Rhetms, He explains that the Chateau-Thierry pocket was about sixty miles long on the first day of June, 1918, and that the American units of the ReCOnd Dvlslon on Ihc Bclleau Woods front and the men of the Third Divi-ton in the city of Chateau-Thierry i and cast of there along the Marne held I una li i.n on of i hat sixty-, iu-Ic front These facts do not please your civilian. He is certain that but for the machine gunners of the Third Division, those two regiments of Marines and a fen other Yanks who happened to be around, the Germans in column of squads, with colors flying, would have marched right on unopposed through Meau.x and Vincennes into Paris to camp on the night of June in the Tlace de la Concorde and along the Champs Elysees, You remonstrate that you are an American vourself, and Hie proud as any one possibly could be of the way the Second and Third Divisions took the place of the worn-BUj French divisions and held a bit of the bnr that was rapidly crumbling. Bui after all, It was only a bit, and two do Isiona could not have stayed a huge army without considerable co-operation along the rest of the front.

That certain French and English and Italian and troops took part in the icket" and atehed that cularly thou Allic tioned at the hinges of Ibe line (near Bolsoons and near Ethelma) Is too much for a headline skimmer to grasp. Vour Man In the Street believes that the Tanks did it all. however small their sector of the line may have been, and nothing under heaven will shake his convictions on the point. He believes that Koch had played his last card, and that if a single Marine had faltered the world would never again have been safe for democracy, This is one of the prices we pay for propaganda, ai nrst a kink In the Army's censorship rules which allowed the word Marine'- to be mentioned, but no identification of any other outfit gave more than due credit to the two gallant regiments of soldiers of the sea. Later, a little more light was let In.

and a share of the glory was spread around to the Ninth and L'Sd Infantry, and to the artillery and engineers of the Second Division. Then it was further disclosed thai the credit for the righting In the city of t-hatcau-Tlneri itself 1, clones to French troopi Second Division man ever got Into the tow unless he went there on a pass, or A.W.O.L. If we keep on letting in the light it will be discovered that a French division held the front from the western borders of Chateau -Thierry to the eastern limits of the Second Division's sector, and that horizon blue uniforms were, In fact, standing up to the music slong 80 per cent, of the Solssons- Chateau-Thierry-Rhctms line. They weren't all demoralized, either. They had been fighting the Boche for nearly four years, and still were, as they expressed it.

"a little hit I hero. The way the Yanks were fighting put heart Into all the other Allies, for those were dark days; but no A. F. man with a spark of fair play left In his System will daclat-e thai the pollus and others all afoni that line had given up the ghost. Here is Where the propagandist reduce it upon promise of futu n.lic- very SCld.ll thut I is violated.

If hi ere put in practice in a lurts. it is my humble opi i that MM results would follow. The prnc of measuring out penalties ac ireing to the offense never did am will prove effective in the refor- of have the indeterminate sent Pi accounts it is an Improvement upoi the Old law of flat sentences. Upoi conviction, if the prisoner were jus committed to orison without specify ing the length of time and leaving it to the discretion of a board of prison officials, composed of, say, th ilen. principal keeper and the chap- lain: these officials are brought into close personal contact with the pris oner and should therefore be the best judges of his fitness to return to so ts do not require the same amount or kind oi irwunvn.

s.o.o- bad in tne nesi oi us. so re seme good in the worst of us as never in the pest years i s-reat chance in public sen i toward the man who has been son Employment is furnished, me is assisted in every way to back to the sensible right way ing. When you return to the world let this fact weigh with thi going to prison you arc ulYerinr to vourself onl ir and dear must suffer st as certainly a3 night B0 will disaster, follow ing doing. The advice of one hav-jgh it all from A to V. go straight.

THE NIAGARA OF NATIONS Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Really I don't feel as if I can adequately and to my fullest satisfaction answer that miserable, bitter attack and cur Which Marion Welsh had inc presumption to write to your paper and which was published in today's Eagle My brother was a member of that glorious Division which was given the splendid chance of helping to bring a speedy victory out of sure defeat Marion Welsh does not seem to realize that the ocean and lands adjoining were being terrorized into submission until the splendid American Navy cleared the way for safe conduct, not only for our troops but also for Great Britain's safety. Does Marion Welsh realize that it was the Australian and Canadian forces which bore the greatest part of Great Britain's burden? Great Britain's splendid troops certainly did fight and die with their backs to the wall. Ameri- ovs have never none oi nerw Britain's defense was for self-ovation. America's heroes fought the greatest call to brave men. rly, humanity.

America docs not her greatness to the boastful, in of the much lauded blood in her veins. She supremacy over all Other -at Britain includ. id blending of the sturdy. sons and daiuihtri universe who have sought Kuropean and universal nd cracy i this land of opportunity nd fair to apolo- Sbe seeks no champion She has found her re-ig that, without a doubt, ry, a peaceful country, unselfish and self- count rv mine deed; brought the peace which, yes. even the Iritiahera knew, would come with tbe lowing of the red-blooded Yankees nio Flanders May we never see any ther flat bul the glorious Stars and itripes flying on any day.

anywhere this land Here's tn the un-uenehable. never-tiring, unconnuorcd. mighly. dynamic Niagara of Nations the good old V. B.

A. AN Woodhaven. Ausust 7, 1919. I dependent system of observation. Oiould a strike materialize If this Ir Inatrs a distrust of the city admin-; charging more for the things they sell istration tbe administration Tlas only than they pay for them.

We are bound Kaetf to blame. The Merchants Asso-' to admit that on its face this suspi-tiation is operating within Its rights jcion has a semblance of fact behind in leaking to determine for itself and it. There are a suspiciously large the business interests it represents number of people engaged in retail whether elected officials do what they business so many it is becoming a sro paid to do in maintaining law and strain upon human credulity to as- cssing ercry form of ilence. It is giving a sentiment which is with the of politics into disputes ihV utilities. A RELIGIOUS-BOOKS POOL.

Baptists, rresbyterians. Congrega-liotmlists have heretofore, printed their own religious books and sold then through their own agents. It not hard to m-c a trend toward churd unity in the announcement that tin Baptist Publication Society Ihc Fresh-torinn Board of Publlcatioi and the Congregational Publishing So ciety. in combination with the Asso Press of the Y. M.

C. A. and Ihc Women Press of the A have organized a joint selling In handle all publications, ami that the expert other evangeHcal dei 1 Vnntioiis p. fall in Hue. though the KntkodlKi Book Concern has not reded to ihc plan.

Tln-re has doubtless been great waste In of efforts In the past. Religious books, especially denoealtt books, hme not the general ap-phm! that is needetl to encourage book who are business men to handle them Yet they arc highly prized by fpti.se for whom (hey arc written. The I.Ike tn yoUBg nrtoe who asked which holds title. But tin first domestic who answered an adver- investment faces if tne future is to be tisemont. -Arc Ihc club judged by the past, assessment valua women of the country are to go direct- Hons perhaps 90 per cut.

in ex, ess of ly to the point in their investigation. I forced sab- value heavy taxes sprint. The answer given bj the dOBMatk to out of municipal again an the cautious bride was-. Yes'm. We I noyancc from half a dozen different shall -re if the retailers will readily partment inspect ions and orders admi' their virtues.

I The Dally Pood Alliance has si mpti-j mailer, by formulating a set of questions to be asked retailers by in.ll i.hmi club women what could be I.