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h diario, BY JOSEPH PULITZER. inday by the Press Publishing jon. 53 to O8 Park Kt RALPH PI President, @3. Park J. ANGUS BHAW, Treamurer, 62 Park Row, @OSEPH PULITZER, Jr.. Secretary. 63 Park Row, ED MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PREAS. Pree, te exclusively entitied to the use for republication chen to it oF not otherwise credited in thie paper ‘iso the local need getseca berta, PANACEA GROUPS. GQEVERAL minor and more or less localized par- ite ties will be meeting in Chicago next month at ev thié.same time that the Committee of -48 Conven- yr effort will be made to weld these various ps.into a harmonious whole which will enlist a measure of popular support. of the material from which it is hoped to 4 composite whole belings to what might be d “panacea organizations,” Each has a definite iti to remedy the many admitted evils that afflict tiety.. The problem facing the sponsors of a ‘thitd party will be the construction of a platform. Mf, the resulting effort is the greatest common ot of the ‘various programmes, it is a question it can be more than an unsatisfactory nega- = Hon of the existing order. ‘a Wf the platform is the least common multiple of the programmes it will contain so many reforms they will conflict with each other. It will be so ching tirat the doctrinaire specialjsts in pan- Will find more to condemn than approve, and general public will reject the programme as ff. Y’ and a product of the lunatic fringe, 4a + Compromise is the only hope in such a platform, p)_,and the doctrinaire exponents of particular reforms * ate anything but given to compromise. * GEORGE W. PERKINS. EORGE W. PERKINS will be remembered as more than an able financier, more than the mbusiastic and faithful backet of the political nent in which his name will always be as- ciated with that of his friend, Theodore Roosevelt. ‘Mr, Perkins was not only a Progressive in par- but a progressive in general, The excep- nal energy which in his earlier years went into and business undertakings on a large and ces seale, found expression in later life in a teles ly active interest in industrial and civic im- ir "Whether it was profit-sharing, insurance and pen- ; lons for workers, parks for the public, cheaper milk the poor, or the score of intense activities which to meet the needs of war, Mr. Perkins’s or- ng and executive abilities could be counted on OF as generous help and service as his check book. _ When he retired from business it was with the “‘a¥owed intention of devoting himself to “other work of a public and semi-public nature.” (New York has had few civic workers who brought mixture of capacity, zeal and dynamic force # young child for ransom is a hidedus crime. "The kidnapper plays on the holiest emotions that ctuafe human beings, the love of parents. * The kidnapper's game is relatively safe, for the fst thought of the parent is for the safety of the rather than to brifg the kidnapper to justice, or this reason the State should make every efy to apprehend the criminals after the child is re- avant the Coughlin case in Norristown, Pa., the issue aby ally complicated. After the child was kid- the parents provided ransom, but the child returned. It is not even known whether the per or an impostor got the ransom money, not surprising that Pennsylvanians are mani- «deep interest in the case and are subscribing to a fund to hunt the infant and his ab- DOLLARS SAIL ALSO. . NAO RE than 2,500 passengers sailed for Europe dh Thursday on the Imperator. ‘The Celtic, dsand Manchuria, sailing to-day, will carry E om EY », Ail, steamer lines for Europe are booked far in of the passengers are bent on business, but Yast majority are either tourists or former im- its retuming to their native lands with the of years of labor in America, ny case, these travellers are taking with siderable sums of money. Assuming so tive a figure as $1,000 each, the travellers (hese four boats alone will take to Europe the (6f $7,500,000. Actual totals would undoubl- yopun far higher. hdepnverted into depreciated francs, marks or lire, hese, American dollars would aggregate an impos- dngyfigure, Continued for a period, this tourist ng will have an appreciable effect on the ex- market. . \ pean shop-keepers will welcome the Ameri- with open arms, will invite Fepeated PERS vin gaa. flights. Europeans strongly ‘favor an American spending orgy—provided the spending is done in Europe, “PRESERVED NATIONALITY. HE President’s stalwart stand on the League of Nations issue in his interview with Louis Sei- bold in The World yesterday elicited the following from Senator Harding, the Republican Presidential candidate: ‘ “T am sure the Republican Party will gladly welcome a referendum on the question of the foreign relationship of this Republic, and the Republican attitude of preserved nationality will be overwhelmingly indorsed.” What is this “Republican attitude of preserved nationality”? ’ Is it the attitude of the Republican Senators John- son and Borah, who can hardly refer to the League of Nations without gnashing of teeth? Is it the attitude of the Republican ex-President, William H, Taft, who assured the Maryland branch of the English Speaking Union of America night before last that “we are going to join that League of Nations,” and that “after the next election, when we look at the subject calmly, we shall find our- selves indorsing the League”? Is it the attitude of the Republican Senator Lodge, whose paramount ‘satisfaction, voiced at the Chicago Convention, is that “we have stopped Mr. Wilson’s treafy"? | . Or is it the attitude of that eminent Republican Elihu Root, who is at this moment on foreign soil helping to establish a Permanent Court of Inter- national Justice under the very League of Nations covenant which has been the object of Republican scorn and abuse? The rank and file of the Republican Party must find it difficult to decide just what their “attitude of preserved nationality,” as the newly nominated Re- publican candidate calls it, is expected to be, The intelligence bf the average Republican voter prompts him to desire something more definite to say about the League of Nations than merely: “Wilson is wrong.” Yet the intelligence of the average Republican voler finds seant aid in this direction in the widely differing views and utterances of his party leaders. Mr. Taft says: “The war brought us new responsibilities, new. burdens, It is natural, therefore, that we should be slow in adjusting ourselves to these new conditions.” " This might pass as an apology for the Republican holdup of peace were it not for that portion of Republican leadership which expressly denies that, so far as foreign relations are concerned, there need be any new responsibilities, new burdens or ad- justment to new conditions, The attitude of these Republicans toward ‘pre served nationality” is that it should be of the pickled ‘and sealed variety. But not even the Republican Party, to say noth- ing of the Nation, will go into the jar, A HINT TO HUNGARIANS. UNGARY proposes to punish profiteering with the “‘bastinado,” which is understood to con- sist of laying the offender face down and paddling the soles of his bare feet. American policemen have heen known to drouse park bench sleepers something after this fashion, A second helping is rarely required, But if the Hungarians adopt the “‘bastinado” as a substitute for fines, it is to be hoped that the law will be so carefully drawn that the worst and most important offenders will be unable to escape it. American experience would indicate the néed? of clear, precise and simple definition such as would prechide the possibility of the manufacturer of tex- tiles from slipping through the net and escaping punishment on the ground that his product is not wearing apparel. , HAZING IS HAZING. 7 MINOR judicial official in New Jersey took cognizance that all the young men involved in a hazing escapade “come from good families.” He gave this*as one of the reasons for dismissing criminal charges against the hazers, As a reason for judicial leniency, family connec- tions should rank close ta zero, Hazing is hazing. That is the best and the worst that can be said for the practice. Only too often the so-called secret “initiation” consisting of horse- play or worse is no more ‘than the occasion for a disgusting exhibition of the worst side of the least desirable members of the group concerned, Only too often the “fun” is nothing but sheer brutality, When an “initiation” sinks to such a level that the victim is moved to invoke the law, it is fairly cer- tain that the bounds of decency expected in “good families” have been exceeded by a wide margin, Then the law should step in with a warning to other | TURDAY, JUNE HE ao. DEMOCRAT io COMVENT ION ane 1k © abe e bikin Cobb Learns Cussing--- An addition to the ranks of golfers is Irvin §. Cobb, who is entitely fas- cinated with the sport. In liis latest book, “From Place to Place” le says: \ “There is one guich on the course at Sleepy Hollow which they are be- ginning to call Haunted Hollow, be- cause it is filled with the ghosts of | uncounted, lost and damned golf batis of mine. First I lost them there and then I damned them, There are’ me- |morial divots of mine which look. like ploughed furrows in the green tunf. {There are splintered clubs in the |caddy house and there are tales that are told in the locker rooms of my |performances to incredulous audi- fences. But I shall keep on. I am Sil for golf. It has taugh me patience, |determination, the futility of human effort and several new but vained \cuss words.” j eee | Dolce far Niente - - - e Cruikshank and Bellwattle wee jstaid husband and wife to phe world, but at heart they were joyous chil- dren, exploring together a moat | strange and marvellous world of won- derful adventures. It was when thuy bought a run down farm in, England, |and went to live on their new estate, that the adventtres renily began. | There was the great adventure of | buying the cow, the adventure of weaning the calves, of the farmers’ ; meeting. It is good in these days of too stit- ‘ring adventures to find that some- where there ure still people who sens. the joy of living, who live life quietly. and in contentment. Although we cannot all atiain our Sabine fara, thes ure those who have tound theirs, and perhaps the next mos. pleasant thing to having our own te | to read their stories, Such a story {9 that of “Sheepettm and Grey Russet,” @ charming book ‘of essays on English country life by |H. Tempie Thurston, published by | Putnwn. Philosophy, quaint humor and kindness are blended in tte pages. It is a book that one can reread often, Putnam is the publisher. ° e688 |On Industrial Unrest--- | Ray Stannard Baker in “The New | Industrial Unrest" discusses the | labor problem as it now exists, par- | teularly developing the shop couneft | system of settling labor disputes. The book is a Doubleday, Page & Co. pub- | cation. | es The Russian Theatre--- “Of the lesser traits of Russian char- acter which emerge from observation of his plays, perhaps the most Inter= hat kind of letter do you find most readable? Jen't it the one | that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ig fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words. Take Agrees With Evening World. To the Kattor af The Drening World In answer to Henry B. Molonoy of Staten Island in reference to the Elgbteenth Amendment, I wish to} state that I agree with the statement | of The Evening World and say that it was the minority who put through the Dighteenth Amendment, in what I call a dirty, underhanded, un-Amer- ican way. Soldiers, sailors and marines, who were in the services of their country at that time, had nothing to say about it. Neither did any one else, except the clique who were working for it and saw their opportunity, They said we were pghting fot democracy and freedom, but*when we came home again, what did we find facing us? Prohibition that was put through by lot of men (if you want to call them such) in Congress who are put there to represent the people and stan@® for (heir rights, Did these men do that?” No! They did not, But I hope at the coming election the people of this great country will wake up to the fact that they have been fooled enough and will make each mark on the ballot count for the man they want, Irrespective of party. P, BRENNAN. 360 W. 25th Street, June 18, 192. A View From Inside. ‘Te the Kxtinor of The Droning World Permit me to inform G. W. Boho- perhauer that the best answer to his question is that all American insti- tutions teach the white collar man not only to claim but to convince that he has something in his head worth putting there, hence his abil- ity to work with his head rather than his hands, And as for growing hysterical at the thought of strikes, that is just another one of the catalogued argu ments put forth by every trade union, which does not deserve attention, But rightly an office man has good cause for durm--for what right hax the “shop” crowd in any industry to so tie up the industry that it will roree many of the white collar class out of their work? But the white collar man is too broadminded and inve- lixent to permit » little thing lke a strike to Worry him, But when the strike,does come, realizing the colos- gal injustice to himself and his as- sociates, as well as his employers, he takes his boss by the arm and mys “Together we'll fight them, ‘A house divided against itself cannot stand,” Now perhaps our horny-handed friend will ask why do we stand to- gether? Or rather, he will sneeringly say that we are so ufrald of our pobitions that we do such things. But he would need to spend only wbout one four tn a real office to realize how far off track he is, We, stand together for the reason that, being on the lusde, aad Veoled Wilk a Cue | compa: wus @inilar to but far less harrowing | time to be brief. tain amount of confidential informa: tion and responsibility, we are equtpped to readily decide whether our employers are in the right. Of course, it is only natural for shop- men when they see load after loaf of products leaving a plant, to tuink that the company is a regular gold mine, and immediately want more money, shorter hours, stock in the and have their “walking delegate” as President of the cou- pany. But the man on the inside, | who is in posttion to know, can most usually tell you that the treasurer of the company regularly draws notes at the bank to meet current expense while waiting for the funds to roll in from the gold mine. And that is why the office men don't organize and will not strike. They are pound together by a fraternity which Is more powerful and more influential than any Bolshevik trade union, ' AN INSIDER. New York. June 18, 1920. Not “White-Livered.” To the Kaitor of The Prening Work | ‘Where on earth does G. W. Schop- | erhauer get the nerve to razz the) “white collar’ men? How does he met, | that way? He probably was a white-cellar man once, and now, since he has become what he calls “a laboring man,” he all of a sudden gets high-falutin’ and puts on airs because he has his pet union in back of him. As for his criticlam of “Ex-Tex," think he's all wrong. I have read many things submitted by Ex-Tex and agree with him in most of the things he has written He's what I call the real thing. Sehoperhauer has no business eriti- cising the white-collar tribe like ‘no does. If it wasn't for the so-callei laboring classes’ exorbitant and in- tolerable demands, the country wouldn't be clamoring like they aré against labor in general. Of course the profiteers are at the bottom of it, but most people must admit that tne Inborers are not improving conditions any. I'd lke to know how G. W. 8. would hold down a job if the clerical forces were not there to back hts records and pay him off. It's my turn to ask, “How | come, Schoperhauer, how come?" i You're not all wrong, but believe me you have no business to th'nk that fue whitevollar boys are “white- liverel" as you say. It's a tough struggle, it's true, but where would you or T be if the clerks all turned to your work? Brooklyn, June 17. An Excarsto: To tt Exittor of The Brening ‘The experience Miss B.S. of Long Island City “enjoyed on the trip via 5. 8. Mandalay to Atlantic Highlands | than my experiance on the saine trip | about a year ago. I believed then! that {t was an unusual occurrence, | but evidently it Is a reeular practice of the Ua company to lowe bun- UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake - (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) HALF HOUR THAT GOES INTO THE U BASKET. Half an hour before quitting time the average employee cleans up his desk or puts away his tools and gets ready to go home. You don’t need to look at the clock to know what time it is in most offices. You can tell it by the rustle of prep- arations for departure. “Washing up on the boss’s time,” And it is a mighty bad one. Suppose you consume half an hour slacking up your pace and getting ready for the daily getaway. Half an hour a day is three hours a week, Three hours a week in a fifty-week year is a hundred and fifty hours, a little more than eighteen days. Now just think what you could do with those eighteen days! Yoh could be well on your way through one of those hurry-up courses in stenography. You could get so inter- ested in the study of another language that you would buckle down and learn it. : You could read at least nine very good books—books that you ought to read, and must read if you are to play the part of anything more than a clam in-a conversation among intelligent people. . True, you say, but it isn't you, but your employer that loses that daily half hour. e Never think it. When your mind isn’t active, you are going back, There is no job that you can't learn more about in eight hours than you can in seven and a half. And there is no job that doesn't pay better wages to the man who knows more about it. The deal you make with your boss calls for a certain amount of time. He makes a profit on it, of course. But so will you, if you put it all in, And don't think for a minute that he doesn’t keep watch of the people who do their manicuring and their hair brushing and their desk straightening on their own time And when promotions are going round, those are the people he will naturallly give them to. Just try conserving that last half hour for a while You'll find it will pay, even if you aren’t fair enough te render to your employer the time that your employer is paying for. THE WASTE is an American habit. ne droga of people on the pier at the | $4. Hi#hlands to wait until morning for! ali night through the Grand Republic after the 9.45| ¥ noe ia without tham. eight and nine, with me. We waited at the pier gates from 8 P. M. to about 9 P. M. and in the crush get- ting on the pier a silk sweater I carried on my arm was dragged off and lost under the feet of the crowd. After getting on the pier we waited until 10.80 only to see the Mandalay dock, discharge a few passengers, and sail off to New York without taking on any passengers. We then Freie Ysa A.M, for Abe Republic. Picture two. small child Maite Hanne up from 8 P, M. to 12.29) “B" contends tha A. M. after a whole day of romping |in this country he is and bathing. The physical weariness | fardiess of wheter his Was nothing to the mental eltizen or not We reuched Newark at 3.20 A.M.) Will you kindly cot jue as a heavy thunder storm broke tind to bive & taxi to get PM. scheduled trip. tor me. F. B, HINCHMAN, 460 21st Street, Irvington, 'N. J, “Mn” In Correct. To the Editor of The Brenlog World $ citizen, REDDRICK A. MEYER, Now York, June 16, 1920, My wife and mother hadn't slept ‘The boat company is lit! P, M. boat sails back to New York| criminal and the: Mopar’ eucheition should compel it to take the ero l had my two small daughters, aged | at the Highlands on a toet at Ad or stop advertising it as a Anyway, never again “A* claims that if the father has not been naturalized, the child or son who is born in this country cannot de he igend | automatically admitted to citigenship if‘ boy is born re- futher is a which ds wight? | 4nd ev esting are those which afford an in- sight into his simple, unspoiled pexs- ant nature,” says Oliver M. Sayler tn the June number of the Asia Maga- zine: “The Russian dearly loves to talk of life, the state, the universe, of life hereafter and everything big and vague. His curiosity knows no bounds. His plays are filled with this inquisitive searching, which leads him Into the most unexpected entangle- ments and out into the most un- dreamed prospects, “It is no wonder that Russian plays are dubiously accepted by western audiences. They embody the native 'fe so truthfully, and that life te In ao many respects so obscure and Inex- plicable to us that it would be miraéu- lous if their full import should be tm- mediatey available for us. What 1s simple to us in the material and me- chanical field is an eighth wonder to the Russian peasant, while many of the profound things of life which bnffie us are as clear to the Russian as the stars of midwinter on the steppes. Through their drama, however, wo may come to know some of the secrets of their character and to understand how to open our hearts to them,” oe Kindly Forward, Collect--- From the sheltering culture of Beacon Hill, even from the seat of learning, to wit, a Buston High School—and from a teacher, too— comes a letter addressed: | “Mr, Walt’ Whitman, in care" of Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, Long Island, N. Y. Please forward.” The publishers faced a problem; not caring to carry the letter to Whit- man at the moment, nor having the ouija board handy; so they opened It and found the letter to run as fo). lows: “Will you favor by sending your autograph? I wish my sons and pupils to be interested in men who do things and so have secured the signatures of many famous men and women—Pershing, Carnegie, Bell, Bernhardt, Balfour, Taft, &c., &c. “Thanking you in advance for the marked courtesy, I am very grate- fully.” It would seem rather obvious to refer the inquirer to the di rare books, haat « of For Summer Days--- ‘These are the days when wo're thinking of the mountains and beaghes and when reading turns te the works of the summer veranda rooking chair school, “Jane,” y Anz» Alice Chapin, will be a good book ta have in your week-end bag then, It is a whimsical story of a little Irish girl who ran away to go on the stage, and of all the adventures that she found there. “A Pawn in Pawn,” by Hilda M. Sharp, is the story of a girl writer and her winning success. Both are Putnam publications, te 6 8 “In Old Japan”... Do you remember the blue stream, The bridge of pale tumboo; he path that seemed a twisted dream Where everything came true; ‘The purple clterry trees, the houses With jutting eaves below the boughs; ‘The mandarins in blue, ' With Uny, topping, tilted toes, tous ¢ ‘ved mMustachios? Kroin "Phe Flower of japan,” | ‘Alived Noyes, Mea fica ty