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vy lghine ey Bataan tn pt Sunday by the Prem Publlabing # Pur President, Path Row, a - NOT ENOUGH. DY THE court’s direction, a jury in General Ses- sions sacquitted Police Inspector Dominick of the charge of neglect of duty. "To exact the very letter of the statute,” said the who tried the case, “by insisting that a failure as “to achieve absolute perfection was criminal would est in making the holding of a public office more angerous than profitable.” If every man in the Police Department were left fo interpret the above dictum in his, ow: way and ‘gauge by, his own standards the extent to which he could safely fall short of absolute perfection, the “result might be most serious. it is the more imperative to go straight forward ‘with 2n investigation of the department. The police are not expected to be perfect. But _ from the point of view of public safety it is highly "desirable to have more explicit data regarding pres- ent accepted lintits of imperfection. The Henry case has:not been notably enlightening, ‘The State Secretary of the Connecticut Tem- perance Union reports that 380 pounds of brandy drops have been seized in Hartford. Peace hath its vietories! MEXICO'S MORAL REVOLT, Carranza regime in Mexico.continue to display marked liberalism, respect and even cordiality in, ‘their tone toward the United States. The Provisional President, de la Huerta, telegraphs t fo The World assurances that include “complete + guarantees! to foreigners and to foreign capital and “Our Government is also well disposed to relations with the United Stafes, in -with the postulates of interna- -and-with the criterion of absolute Sustice, equity and good faith.” | Obregon goes further, repudiating Car- 's interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine and that future relations between Mexico and Ss Nid States should “make the international border like the Canadian boundary.” ‘i com Obregor sees the revolution as a “moral than an armed revolt” against Carranza’s dictation and points to the strict orders by the evolutionist leaders for the protection _ Of private rights and property. Time alone can prove whether this liberal ‘policy will prevail. At present, Hiowever, prospects ehaisaly poor eerie sort of propaganda that American oil inter- ‘ests and professional annexationists have -been using oes in the hope of someday’ prodding Uncle into taking a forcible lease on Mexico. Boral safd this week in the Seni going on since January, 1917, and it will last some time yet.” ‘ ‘The boast gan come from few more fittingly than from the Idaho Senator. y ‘ AN EXAMPLE TO STRIKERS. HE strike ofthe students of the Albany law school had one peculiar feature... ‘Most of the students spent the day in court. It is fair to presume that they learned as much Yaw from the conduct of the case in which they were interested as they would have had they remained in class rooms. Herein fies, a constructive suggestion for other PM RARER TRA IT tne ye | ih Bt HY ae See seein Fd aa Weer th Se Ris SE “When conditions make it necessary for men to stop’ production, why should they not learn some- thing during the leisure period? Then when they returned to work they would Mg betier producers and worth more. ’ Waiters in “beaneries”,‘when on strike should be encouraged to eat at the best restaurants and observe thelr raore accomplished fellows. Garment workers should patronize the Fifth ‘Avenue sales parlors. Coal miners should frequent Maiden Lane and " Tearn the elements of diamond cutting. Stevedores might engage in foreign travel so as have an idea of the destination of the parcels “gel load. ~ ‘The list mjght be lengthened, but these few sug- Should convey the idea. eetenere Ss : A SORRY FRIEND. ‘FF ADMIRAL SIMS has been so “pro-British” as his own statements and his past record would indi- he chose a sorry way of showing his friendship es rrking | the charges he did he forced the hand r mt Wilson ahd Secretary Daniels, Admiral could, not reasonably expect but that by @ presumably responsible subordinate d be answered in just the way they have been ‘Subjects touched on in the Wilson and , ' even though it is not written into the,law. roan ‘that there was Kg need to rindi them public. Jf the experts of the English “Admiralty” do not relish the publication of “amateur” criticism, they have only Admiral Sims to thank for it, HOW BIG? : DVOCATES’ of the “One Big Union” idea might with profit make a careful study’ of our trust regulation and draw some helpful analogies, The laws themselves are admittedly imperfect and incomplete, hind the laws and find out what the American people are tryihg to do with the trusts rather than what they have dane. The antagonism to ftusts fies not in their size nor in their practices, but in their possibilities. - Possibly—yes, probably—a committee of emi- nent and beneficent Wall Street financiers might own and manage all the industry of the Nation with actual benefit to the consumers and workers, But the people are not going to permit it. The fundamental idea behind trust legislation js to protect the country from any aggregation oft power which might threaten the supremacy of the Government, No minority of the people may ever become more powerful than the majority. No better i\ustration could be cited than the agree- ment which the Government forced the packers to accept last winter, by which the packers agreed to restrict themselves to the meat busmess and to cease a sere of ihe revolution that has ended the |- extending control over other food products and by- * products. The packers preferred to yield cather than go court. ‘ They knew that if‘they won ’the first case#t would result in legislation’ which eventually woilld beat them. No man or group of men can dominate the food supply anil be in position to Challenge the Govern- ment. The sanie principle applies in union regulation, If it ever becomes necessary, it will ‘be written and enforced. No minority of the people may ever become more powerful than the majority. Trade unionism and industrial unionism may well ‘be compared: to corporation and trust organization. - Each has its proper sphere, An industrial union such as the Amalgamated Clothing Workers may be'serviceable. There is no demying that the Amalgamated has eliminated some of the worst abuses of 'a trade in which abuses abounded, [ft has proved “more effectivg than the trade unions it supplanted. The organization has many good features and has followed constructive policies in many cages. But there ‘will come a limit to its expansive éf- fort to include other allied trades such as the textile workers in “One Big Union.” America permits a meat trust to exist, but balks at a general food trust, e Whenever any “One Big Union” comes to cover a dangerously large field of production, public senti- ment will crystallize and the majarity jill find a way to deal with the minority. , . The American Federation of Labor differs from “One Big Union” as widely as the United States Chamber of Commerce differs from an All-Business Trust. The “One Big Union” idea is timited by the fun- “damental American principle that no minority may ever become more powerful than the majacity. NO TIME. 66]F WE are to have éfficient and economic busi- .ness administration of Government affairs, the Congress, | believe, should direct ifs efforts to the control of public moneys along broader lines.” These words are part of the message accompany- ing the President’s veto of the,Legislative, Executive and Judicial Bill on the ground that its “rider,” put- ting publications of executive departments under the supervision of a Congressional committee, is an in- vasion of the Executive province. ‘Whatever the precise purpose of the “rider,” the President was justified in pointedly reminding Con- gress of certain recommendations in his message at the opening of the regular session last December. He urged upon Congress at that time two specific duties: * 1. To revise the income and excess profits taxes so that they shall not discourage energy and initia- tive in industrial enterprise, 2. To establish a national budget system, supple: mented by an audit to ascertain whether money ap- propriated by the legislature has been spent “wisely, economically and effectively,” For such broad and business-like legislation in the interest ‘of a tax-burdened country the Sixty-Sixth ‘Congress has found no time. But it could see its way to tacking on the Legis- lative, Exteutive and Judicial Bill a picayune pro- vision calculated to annoy the Executive branch of the Government. ‘This typifies the whole attitude of the present ‘Congress toward the pressing problem of getting the country back on a peace basis and providing some hope of substantial relief for the taxpayer, It may be more helpful to go be- “1 Ja Jack rag rt Ke) 1 eering fe aie FROM EVENING WORLD READERS that gives, you the worth ‘of a hundred? “Sarkastik, Erening World The letter “Writ Sarkastic’ by Arthur Jackson in The Evening World of May 11 surel¥ must have been composed by Boss Anderson of New York State “and. signed by Arthur Jackson. Singe the people have now saved two and one-half billions by not be- ing able to get their glass of beer, surely they can now give these bil- lions to the clothing and food profiteer instead of taxes to the good old U. 8. A. Al To the Editor of Since Mr. German\ Brewer cannot make any more real beer, food and sugar ure plentiful and cheap. And Mr. Arthur Jackson 1s, happy for all this, exeept that he has not been able to make the poor people go ¢o church @ few times on Sunddy and also part with some of the two and one-half billions, JOHN F, SWEENEY, 41 East 2ist Street, New York. Cruelty Forbidden, ‘To the Eduor of The Evening World: “Why does the law allow men to ‘pick the feathers of a live chicken?” I.*Anxious asks,’ ‘The law does not allow any cruelty to animals. If you witness anything like that, please call up the Animal Society at Madison Avénue and 26th Street, telephone Mudison ‘Square 7350, or call an offi- cer; if he refuses his assistance, which is not likely to occur, take his number and report same to ‘the so- ciety, Ww. Ne New. York, May 14, 1920, Memorial Spehding. ‘To the Baitor of The Krening World: I am in favor of a Victory Memorial Hall that can be made useful to the present time we should spend a large amount of money simply for a victory monument. There are a lot of victo: monuments in Germany, a whole ave Rue of victory statues in "Siege: Allee” in the park in Berlin, and if Germany had won this war there would have been @ great many more, I would rather see more stress laid upon the good things in life, service, friendship, loyalty, justice and mercy, the strong to assist the weak instead of glorifying the victor. We can use a great deal of money to good pereatage at present to pay better salaries for teachers and better cost of living. It is not fair to under- pay them, nor can we expect good service without adequate remunera- tion, We colld use money for pensions to the widows and the disabled, for recreation centres, (playgrounds, op- portunity for free good music, .and {musical instruction, home gardening, care of the feeble-minded—all of What kind of a letter do you find most readuble? Isn't it the one There is fine mental exercise and a 5 lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. community, but I do not think at the| eo: A | thousand words in a couple of * | | there will be'’much chance of Bol- shevism or extreme radicalism. ADOLPH LEWISOHN. 61 Broadway, May 11, 1920. Whité Collar Wite.’ To the Dditor af ‘The Brening World It is about time you White Collar Men got together to do something to raise your salaries, the same as the rest do. You whg toll day in and day out (not speaking of the nights you spend in the office) certainly deserve more ghan you are getting. It is time you Were paid for holidays and when you are absent through sicknegs. That ' is the least your employers may do for you. My husband is a wreck ¢rom the nervous strain which he is under , all day and he gets the large salary of $30 per for four in family, and we have to go some to pay rent, feed and | clothe ourselves and two childten, | Pay insurance, doctor bills, &c. Wake | up, men, I am not the only wife who | is complaining. Seg what yours says. ANXIOUS. | | Minery Loves Company. ‘To the EXlitor of The Brening World My advice to “Worldite,” ho seems to be troubled with the sad affliction of falling -hair, is that he pay no at- tention to it. Being partially bald myself—although far too young—I am in hopes of .see- ing the bald head made fashionable. In fact, if the preserft price of hair- cuts increases, men will become bald as & protest against the profiteering ioarber, Don't worry, triotic. New York, May 18, 1920 Judgment Day Comin; To the Editor of The Evening World: Yesterday's Evening World re- ports: “Senatot Borah, who is Jonn- friend in the Senate, put it in this language, the mildest lan- guage that was heard trom any of his faction on the subject: ‘I hardly ¥ think the party will go on record in favor of ratifying a treaty, six months hence, which is already under con- “Worldite." Be pa- BRAVE AND BALD, be more and more condemned as disastrous economic effects are felt. Granting all this true—in the ex- treme, as he puts it, which it is not— what of it? Did any sane man or woman, expect a treaty, consummated after 6ome months’ heated discussion, agreeable and lovely all around? Did any one expect that this initial in- strument, wrought to effect such rad- {cal change in the world’s relation- ship—the most revolutionary and far- reaching in the world’s history, be- gotten in the heat of war rancor, amid the conflict of diverse national aims and amibitions—weuld be the perfect and final instrument, or that it would not abound with many im- perfections and, én fact and in part, unrighteous and inequitable conclu- | j sions, and that they would not recor. | nize it as a compromisé, a beginning | toward a more perfect end, and the | these to be given not so much as charity but as an act of justice. If (we do ali these things 1 do aot gat an -- hr ier nate taper erealepannatinates best that could be had in this period? We adi admit it, But'the point is, demnation in Europe, and which will | ~ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) GET YOUR BEARINGS, You have as much chance at success by rushing it as you would have of trying to climb Niagara in the same fashion, e "A running start is valuable in a foot race, but in te other contests. Before you tackle any problem it is better to stop and find out what the problem is. And it is generally agreed that success is the biggest and most difficult problem in this life. There are more entries and fewer winners. That is certain. Our army in France was taught to make’ an estimate of every situation in, which it found itself. Even when this occasioned delay it was insisted upon. To know where the ehemy is how strong he is and whether or not he means to fight is essential to the win- ning of a battle: + Every man who aims at success has enemies to over- come. They may not be human enemies, although they often are. . But whether they are rivals bound in the same direc~ tion, inanimate objects, habits, conditions of life, or enemies within the contender himself, he must make an estimate of them before he has much chance of overcoming them, Often a little thought will show you that what you supposed to be obstacles are not obstacles at all, and that what you regarded as aids are really stumbling blocks. Look the ground over, wherever ybu are, Size up the situation. Determine your own strength, and if you find it is not great enough to grapple with a peeblem: take means to make it greater. ¢% Gen. Grant would not have accepted the command of \he Union armies in the first year of the Civil War even if it had been offered to him. When the offer did come he had grown big enough to accept it. Rushing a thing seldom achieves it unless the rushing is preceded by a long, hard preparation. _ That is true even of a football game, where the first rush is what counts. It is well enough to know where you are guing, but unless you also know how to- get there you will never do anything but make a bad start. 1 | finest | these cynics of Sheridan Square may lor | the fisherman's paradise off the coast ' |poon in Florida waters or the sword- * |the lure of misty torningp on the |a delightful collection of poems of that dts main aim is for welfare and progress, and that what is good there- in largely exceeds that which is im- perfect and unjust; and more largely, that it contains within, itself the remedial germ tfor its amendment and nearer approach to perfection, And the world sorely needs Ameriaa, and, as well, America needs the world, in vhis World League, to remedy these very imperfections Senator Borah speaks of. It is safe to say that within the next ten y@ars—yes, even five—that | treaty, with {ts covenant of the League, will be so amended and per fected that those who created it will | ngt recognize their own creature, What are these — irreconcilables afraid of? As Senator Owen well said at the beginning of this discus sion in. the Senate, “they see ghosts,” nd as Dr, Frank Crane said later, ‘they are airaid io take the next step” an the evolution and progress of the world, They are not construc- tive, but destructive; they seek to annihilate, but not ta build up. But the day of jtigment is near, Our easygoing American electorate always arises to great occasions when a momentos (ssue is to be de- termined, and tke people | then solve right |time, ‘This great issue of the treaty Jand the Worlds League will be | |threshed out as pot before dnd there will be a sifting and the question narrowed down, and the people will | visit with defoot those whom the 1 finally hold r H |struction of the p tion and of the wo of world-wide | tion misery and “unrest, and who! have | ubased this Nation befpre the world, Al NDER U. MAYER, A New York, May 18, 1920, RV RSME ss BSN Hod NEO ROAR Ae NO generally | they will do so this | Otis Peabody Swift wea cP anahnt f In Praise of the Victorians «-- The little tin gods of to-day’s intel- ligenzia have a tremendous amount * of fun throwing stones at the mids Victorians, Batik clad authoresses cr vers libre scoff at Browning, and * mock the art that produced that flower of civilization—the , Morris chair, It is our sincere hope ’ that, via some celestial oulja board, some day hear in turn what their’ Breat grandchildren have to say of, their arts and their second hand Germ man philosophies, But Isabel Fiske Conant, writing in , The American Poetry Magazine, de- | fends at least one of the mid-Vic- torians. ‘Three stanzas of a poem, “My Mid-Victorian Aunt,” follow: Her what not with miuch bric-a-brac is laden; Her mind with trivialities of knowledge, But, her hot doughnuts for a littte © maiden (Who'd wipe her muddy boota) are help at college! To others, kind (severe to herself only), How good across her threshold to be taken! Soft as her yard of pansies to the lonely When by whatever friend or idve forsaken, My Heaven shall have a Mid-Vic- + _ torian corner With “Welcome” for its sweet fa.‘ miliar lare, When I arrive, with more earth staing than honor And leave my muddied sandals ot its door, * + ns The Problem of the Universe --- “A Philosophic Solution of the Cause of Causes” is*a new hook by Samuel A. Motheral of Greenmount, Ossining, N. Y., who has spent many years in philosophic study and has arrived at an entertaining, enlighten- ; ing and interesting solution of the age old problem of how, why and for what the universe exists. He states that infinite space is not a vacuum, but is filled with substance, out o! which atoms and the visibie univers are built by the ‘mental action of in-’ finite substance which is enersy. Zane Grey Writes a Book : It is a theory of ours that a man can write but one book of importance + in his lifetime, that story being taken from his own life. His own life is, after al, the only thing in all infmity that he cait hope tb @ven partially under- stand. He can mirror and reflect the | stories of others—but he can pajat own life in tones and colors which i knows to ibe true. Marcus Aurelius put his years of the ruiling of empfre into such a book. Senpvenuto Cellini told a story that has lived. In “David Copperfield” we can trace the life of Dickens, the harassed London reporter, Ew: oO, Henry story was taken, from his? life, whether as a wanderer in Central America or a member of New York's , Bohemia. Zane Grey has written a ‘book, It is, @ new kind of beok for us, who know the Zane Grey of the six best sellers, purple, adventure and verbose Western sunsets. Only a few know the man Zane Grey, the President of the Long Key Fishing Club, and big fish hunter of Santa Catalina Island, of Southern California. Zane Grey would rather fish than write a book any time. Whether seeking the tar- fish of the Pacitic he is a fisherman first, seldom an author. And in “Tales of Fishes” he has given us a 4 book that will rank close to “Izaak Wajton” on the shelves of many a true fisherman. It is a fisherman's ‘book. There's the thrill of the fishermanjs battle, flat fog-bound seas, the glory of ihe big catch and the weigher’s award of victory. Here is a typical passage: a. battle with a @lant 328-pound | swordfish. off Ca@lina Island. “I was so excited I did hot see the danger of the swordfish's coming aboard. But Captain Dan dil. Strange it seemed to me how pale Dan was! @'The swordfish made long swift leaps .right at the oat, When he thumped (back the water rose in a resounding splash, deluging us, and leaving six inches in the cockpit. He sheered off astern, sliding over the water in two streaks of running white spray, and then he rose up again in a magnificent leap, Now he made two dives into the aim and the next one missed us by a yard and showed his great glistening body, thick as a bar- rel and curving with terrible speed and power right alongside the cock. pit . . . It took two hours of per- sistent final fighting to bring this swordfish to gaff.. We gould not lift him aboard, and had to tow him in to Avalon." Wie 3 A New England Poet--« “River Verses,” by Lowell Starr, is youth, very pleasant and charming in their gracefulness of touch. Many of the poems have the atmosphere of New Engiand, although others, such as “Moon Eagle,” deal with the ‘ author's war eervice in aviation. Th. book, which ie illustrated by sketch from the pen of the author, is pub- ; lished by the Gotham Press of Boston. ob ae Prince and Pauper --~ Even in these days of adventure | and romance it is interesting to read the ‘story of Emir Feisal, Prince of Arabia, as told by Lowell Thomas in the Asia Magazine for May. Feisal began life as an unkempt little Arab shepherd boy. ‘His+mother was an Arab girl of Mecca, and when he was still a baby he was taken into the desert to live with a Bedouin tnibe. Here he rose to be leader of his tribe, and. is now an important figure in the new life of the Orient, Distinctive color ilhustrations mark the May issue of the magazine pee ea “‘{ court imprisonment’ shouted | Comrade tein, ‘Jf jail is good enough for Eugene V, Debs'—— “‘Exactly,’ said Oliver, ‘It's good lace The End of a Revolution enough for you left", From “Trimmed With Red," Wale. Line forms to the Irwin's entertaining novel of parlor Bolsbeviam, ‘