The evening world. Newspaper, June 24, 1920, Page 30

ato naeeanall ‘Nation for the next eight years as ably as 2s for t the last eight, years they must rely on accomplishment and not on the rather futile motion of spreading a cloak to prevent the soiling of a lady's shoe. The Post’s suggestion is excellent. The reagons advanced are not so good, se Borin, PSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. -« [Puvnenea Dany Except Sunday by the Press Pu Company, Nos. , New Yor ‘reasurer, 3. Park i PULITZER. Sr Boo Secretary. 63 Park Row. IN COMMON HONESTY. BCALLING that a recent majority decision of the United States Supreme Court “fully ad- mitted the continuing’ power of Congress to define ‘intoxicating liquors,’” the esteemed Times points ott that “if the Democratic Convention decides to do something that will lobk a little ‘moist,’ it can do so wholly within the law”: “All that it would be necessary to urge 2 would be the clear and recognized power of Congress to enact, within certain limits, another definitiog of intoxicating liquors.” This cheerful acceptance of the obvious means of mitigating a great wrong comes with special significance from the Times. When the Eighteenth Amendment was forced into the Federal Constitution by the misrepresen- tative votes of lobby-driven legislators the Times declared it to have been done by “public opinion” ready to sacrifice old principles for new cnes “which the people are persuaded to regard as of higfler present service.” The Times’ subsequent redjustment of its views -| as to what “the people,” or a majority of them, really ,think about Nation-wide Prohibition and its T its recent Montreal meeting the A. F. of L. laid down a generally constructive pro- gramme. ‘The resolution indorsing Government ownership STeeiaissah conma es have tame 4 tp ts te wrong direction. It was taken over the vigorous protest of the veteran leader, Samuel Gompers. * But it is not revolutionary. It is not “Bolshe- vistic,” as certain gentlemen of the conservative _ Chibs insist. It is a mistake, such as any organiza- tion, party or individual is liable to make by failure | * to consider all the factors. In America the trade-union movement for the it most part has enjoyed the cordial sympathy of the i i epeneral public. The only active opposition to the WE) Spread of trade unionism has come from employers. Ryen this hostility has in large measure been over- . some by pressure of public opinion. m4 If the A. F. of L. should succeed in its campaign Government ownership the situation would ‘change immediately. In such an event a large and “Wmportant part of the people would have a direct ‘ pand immediate economic interest opposed to the sect interest. of the unionists in the employ of the . Every shipper and every consumer, slechding the trade unionists outside the railroad *Wrotherhoods, would have an interest in keeping ‘ : enforcement is one of the best evidences of the ex- fares, freights and WAGES low. The vot of the postal employees is a case In tent to which those who accepted. the Anti-Saloon / They have found it impossible to overcome | League's estimates of Prohibition sentishent have found themselves in error. But the Times states nothing which the ‘Anti- Saloon League itself has not been forced to admit. In March, more than two months before the Su- preme Court’s pronouncement on the Eighteenth Amendment and fhe Volstead act, the General Sec- retary of the Presbyterian Board of Temperance, who was one of the committee of nineteen that framed the Prohibition Amendment itself, publicly said: “By election of a baré majority of Congress the Volstead act can be so modified as to allow the legal sale of beer and wines containing whatever percentage of alcohol Congress may define as non-intoxicating.” Previous to that the Anti-Saloon League's. gen- eral counsel had been compelled, before a legisla- tive hearing in New Jersey, to admit,that beverages containing one-half of 1 pér cent. of coho! are not intoxica’ and that the definition of intoxicating liquors contained in the act of Congress is false. ' Nobody, therefore, need go further than common honesty to justify a demand that the Volstead act be repealed or amended. : Nor does any party convention, least of all a Democratic Convention, need stronger argument fora plain and positive declaration in favor of a more liberal interpretation of the Eighteenth Ameénd- ment than the American principle that the only laws which can tbe safely and successfully enforced are laws imposed with the consent of a t majority of the governed. _ the inertia of Congress and gain even a living wage. » “woGovernment ownership paves the way for general “3 sto the trade-union movement, It is the ' _ papening wedge for a split within the organization. “Begging the question of the desirability of Govern- Sthent ownership for the farmer, it seems clear that yit.is a dangerous policy for the trade unionists, a in the wrong GireAlon, a policy to be reconsid- ” and reversed. ha ge Brooklyn's Handicap at San Francisco next. » ‘week is Charles F. Murphy of 14th Street, 9} Manhattan, up on the old stake horse Unit Rule. - ..qHere is a handicap “as is” a handicap, Brook- lyn {s scheduled to be lat at the post run- ning @ poor last in competition with up-State @S--Demcerats, frie ISCUSSING some features of the Elwell case with newspaper men, ‘the attention of District -sAttoraey Swann was called to a discrepancy in the told by a man and a woman involved. ~ Mr. Swann replied that his “only course is to do ~ what they do in Kentucky under similar circum- Sstances. A Kentucky gentleman, you know, be- aves a lady in preference to his own eyes.” Doubtless the Prosecutor meant to be facetious. the anecdote seems to be a rather accurate re- of the mental angle from which the police the District Attorney’s office have worked. At least the results achieved have been about wfiat ht be expected from investigators following uch a “Kefttucky” theory, the case of the Elwell housekeeper, at* least, the District Attorney seems to have realized it her first story was not entirely accurate, He ed aut of the Kentucky atmosphere long ough to get a revised version. a doubtful whether a “Kentucky ‘gentl d aspire to the office of Prosecutor in Ne | York .City, where his chivalric impulses may run nter to his duty. , It is rather difficult to escape conviction that such sentiments, however much may be appreciated in the Blue Grass State, are of place in the New York District Attorney’s “All of the indications are that the San Fran- cisco Convention will be the worst bossed political body that ever assembled in this country.”—Senator Boles Penrose, Just what does the Senator mean by “worst dossed"? Has he in mind a comparison with fis own five-star, rival-proof super-ability tn the con- vention bossing line? Is‘he only pitying the San Francisco bosses ‘Decause he sees them trailing a thousand miles behind Penrose standards? THE BEST DEFENSE. EWS comes from Chicago that as a result of the recent “Abyssinian riot” the wiser lead- ers of the race are organizing to protect the less intelligent negroes from exploitation by designing whites. 1, W. W. and similar extremist propagandists have been working on the great mass of negroes whom war ‘labor conditions drew away from the Southern plantations. Racial antagonism plus in- dustrial antagonism makes a dangerous combina- tion in any city. When this is further intensified by revolutionary philosophy Yhe results are apt to be disastrous. The worst of it is that once the spark is applied the explosion does not stop with those immediately concerned but spreads to all the race. No work the intelligent negroes could do weuld deserve more sincere appreciation than vigorous opposition to the agitators who for their own ends prey on the ignorance of the unintelligent, Eastern negroes may well follow the same line of defense. , It is fortunate, indeed, that at the inception of such a movement the leaders thave been reinforced by the action of the Montreal convention of the A. F. of L., which admitted ‘negroes to full membership. —t____ Exchange “tried” Allan Ryan, the defendant being absent and newspapermen exchided, they proved the truth of several of the paragraphs $f im Mr. Ryan's recent advertisements, even ‘though nothing else may have been accom- "| ‘plished. ir. NAME HER. WOMAN for second place” is the inlerest- ing suggestion made to.the Democrats by Be sccton Post. Why “a” woman? ? on 2 ‘partisan point of view perhaps ‘a’ G @Woman, any woman, might strengthen the ticket. ““But Democrats have a national obligation which d be superior to party. The Post would be a adviser if it advanced the claims of some Nn wpose record of service indicates her quali- on. There may be a score or more amply d to fill the Vice Presidency and even to sut- the President if the need arises. e women are cligible as citizens rather: than Why not some specific | “But to ease my mind, I wish the one who did the deed [the Hlwehl murder] would write and tell me all about it! I would keep the secret even at the expense of losing a good story, But then I should know!”—Nellie Bly, in the Jourgal. And won't some one please write District Attorney, Swann, Then he'd know, too, ‘women. this Nation is to reap a benefit from Suffrage F must do so by considéring women as citizens her than as women, Post mentions that “the Democratic Party always ‘been chivalric.” ocrats are to succeed and serve the | A Possible Com ereaine Y varity. rid.) FROM EVENING WORLD READERS What kind of letter du you find must readable? In’ it the one that gives you the’ worth of a thousand words in a couple ®f hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfuction in trying to say much in a few words, Take The Larger Tangier. { To the Halter of The Drening World: (May I not throw in a mild objection in regard to your editorial “Still in a Backwater?” You seem to regard the people of ‘Tangier as very ancient beings, with strange and funny laws, But stop and think, and be just. Is not our United States an enlarged copy of Tangier Island? Why laugh at these old sea-weed humorists, when the whole world laughs at the rest of the country, When a small lot of juice loving and candy chewing American-Tanger. backed up by @ couple of mill ires said, “No more strong drinks,” what did we do? ‘When another domineering crowd wakes up and ordains, no more to- bacco, no more cards, no more of what you like that we do not like, what are we going to do? ‘Why should we talk so much about the Tangier Island people? Why should we give them an editorial? ‘Why throw stones when we ourselves live in a glass house? Some dey we may get a boulder in “er, iGO L To the pens of The Bening World Byyway of protest at ‘the invasion of personal rights by the autocratic remnant) of puritanical fanatics and the spineless | misrepresentatives now functioning In Washington, ‘D. C., the following parody 1s dedicated: : notion * Msn cout bout ae was once brave in commotion, can drink than But now all her lan Nothing stronger ig tea. While ‘the fich have thelr wine cellars growing, ‘The poor man the law's got him comii Fofuree cheers for the Teds Blue! New Rochelle, June ‘so, 1920. Uphol/. Our Ho To the Bait ¥ Tue Drening World: It is indeed with a heart filled with grief and sorrow that I realize that the League of Nations, the greatest document ever constructed, by man- kind, not the greatest because of the large amount of pages used in writing it, but the greatest because of the great ideals of justice and democracy that it sets forth, is still unratified in the Congress of the United States, The Evening World, an ardent ad- vooater of the League of Nations and iils beer cannot brew. and golng. White and stanch fight to preserve the honor nd ‘respect of the United States of America, Shall the shedding of blood and the! destmiction of property always be the| deciding factor in’ settling disputes? Can not, as the League provides, dis- time to be brief. boys who lie deac in Flanders over here in America to convince those petty politicians in Washington that those boys have not died in vain? Peace will reign supreme through- out the world only if all the nations of the world join hands in one combined effort to obtain it. For as long as Jealousies and ifishness exist among the nations of the world, so long will we have war. The United States, having fought side by side with her Allies in the horrors of war, is not going to stand aloof in the time of peace, where one final stroke on her part ‘will obtain for it more than any indemnity can, and that is-to own the honor and re- spect of the rest of the nations of the worl Let the United States own the name that is rightfully due her. Let the United States be known as ‘Leader in War and Leader in Peace.” JACOB FINK. 865 Madison St., June 20, 1920, Chante To the Editor of The Evening t On Sunday morning I saunter along Madison Ayenue. Chauffeurs gossip and jest on street corners while the owners of stately limousines imbibe the sonorous admonitions of the preacher. Such hypocritical sights are both shocking and resentful, es- pecially to one who is of the opinion that these well-groomed drivers of motor-cars are not free from iniquity nor secure from the Lethean terrors that await the transgressor, JACK MALTZ, New York, June 23. Red Herrings. To the Editor of The Evening World: At least three persons in the Police Department and District Attorney's office say they know who killed El- well, They deserve commendation for not telling. . Why drag into the vulgar gaze of the vulgar*people the names ‘of prominent people who are rich and influential? Will it do any good? Not at all! Even if known fhey can never be convicted. See the Thaw case. Vhy not drop this Elwell business and commend our officials for their decency and good judgment in cove ering up the crime=-aM4a the Nathan murder of long ago? Our newspapers shpuld in cases like this keep quiet fet our wise officials draw the red herring across the track. That is the way to protect ‘our influential fami- lies. A CERTAIN RICH MAN, ‘The Elwell Case, ‘Yo the Editor of The Prening World; Your paper and all'the rest of the papers of New York are full of the | Elwel murder. ‘There is so much| printed on the first and second pages | of each paper that it's getting to be| a bore. putes be settled by courty of arbitra- tionfl where there will be no destpyc- tion of property and no sacrificg/ of buman life Must we bring (he bodies our Because one gambler lost his lite |no better treatment in this world. I ® a= you or me or any other honest man to kill us in @ cowardly way. Every honest man can walk erect and with his head high and look aver Ybody square in the face, n like this gambler who thrive a make money as he did deserve > UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) t DOING ONE THING WELL. For doing one thing considerably better than anybody else can do it, Babe Ruth, the ball player, has made a na- tional reputation and is by way of making himself a fortune. Ruth was a good pitcher when he began to play base- ball. But there were plenty of pitchers just as good as he was. Hard as he worked at pitching, he was unable to pull himself very far above the, general level. So he turned to batting. And he found that here was the thing he could do. Concentrating on it, he soon became the best batter in America. And now there is not a school- boy in the country who would not save up his pennies to sce him if Ruth came to the small boy’s town. It is easy enough for. almost any intelligent man to do good average work—to do about as well as the men around him. Byt that is never enough. To succeed, a man must at- tract attention and he*ean only attract attention by doing some-one thing supremely well. The man who is known as the most skilful at his trade, however humble the trade may be, is almost an immediate success. ‘ One great firm of British soap manufacturers has been pre-eminent for many years because it made better soap than anybody else. Success usually means concentration on one object. The world is always looking, and hoping, for the un- usual, And it is always ready with a reward when it finds it. There are many things that most people cannot do at al. There is usually one thing that @® man can do well, Hard work, patience and perseverance will enable him to do it still better. And if he keeps at it till he outdistances all his fellows in this particular race, he can be assured that he will succeed, His success may not be great nor. bril- liant, but it will be success, and success is undoubtedly the thost valuable thing to be got out of life, f rene nnn nn AnnAAAAAAARARAAANAAAANAAANAN AANA AAR? stairs, turn to yer left, straight ahead till: yuh come to the gate, then right with the crowd to yer train, Ain't it clear? ‘You want I should take yul by the hand and LEAD YOU?" I turned and saw a pock-marked hooligan in the B. R. T. uniform ad- dressing a tired looki little old lady, Just then a eoy respectfully touched his cap to the bewildered little lady and led her away—and the querulou:, ranting voice was directed at some other unfortunate, Here is my only printable comment on the newly ‘installed “courtesy squad,” of which this Lord Chester- fleld was a member. I am not by na- ture or inclination bloodthirsty, but only @ healthy respect for the pulice force of our city prevented a highly interesting rumpus. When I become Mayor the first thing I'm going to do ig to declare an open season on tha class of “public solvants,” giving wny able-bodied man the privilege (kindly note that I call it & PRIVILEGE) of one, wouldn't regret to hear that all tl. gamblers of Greater New York were Aiaposed of the same way and the] gambling houses‘ burned to th ground, What use or what goof are such people in this world, anyway? or KREISLER. New York, Juni “Public Sotvants To the Editor of The Brening World As I was standing with the rest of the mob that crowds the downtown express platform of the B. R. T. ac Broadway and Canal Street, fester- day afternoon, waiting for my tfain, I heard @ nagging, student, penetrating voice soar @bi She confusion-—a Voice that with @little more determina- reasoning with the annoy the papers give such a big write-up, It's, only too bad he’s dead and the. others live, and live an evil life, gbody, would of wi tion behind !t could have shattered @ ‘window pane at a hundred feet. “Ain’ be a butoher’ 3's96 yub TWICE—yub gy up Brooklya, using any method of persuasion. short x. 's cleaver. EX-TE. Tune 19, 1920, 4 pee ea th The Love Storie! of Great Novels. :\ cams Yootiens Albert Payson Terhune a ie, Yok ag 3 Bay Rpbtiabing Ow No, 98-—THADDEUS OF WAR- SAW, By Jane Porter. Young Thaddeus, Count Soblesk!, was one of the bravest of Poland's defenders, during bis unl yy coun- try’s death struggle against the en- croaching Russian and Austrian armies, iate'in the 18th Century. His fame was blagonéd throughout Burope. Then; when Poland was at last overthrown, Thaddeus fled to Eng- land for refuge. He knew that his father was a titled Englishman who had deserted his wife soon after * their marriage, But he did not kpow this father’s name, ‘Arriving in London, almost pefni- less, Thaddeus wréte to a young Eng- lishman named Pembroke, Somerset, | whose life he had saved 'in Poland land who had vowed eternal friend- ship for him. ‘The letters were not answered be- cause they were not received. Pem- broke had been travelling in Poland against his father’s wishes and wit the connivance of his tutor, when he met Thaddeus. This tutor, fearing the father’s anger, intereepted ang destroyed both letters Thathdeus sent to his English friend. Unable to-wupport himself and an , aged Polish General who was ill ang. poor, Thaddeus sought work. He wap lucky enough to win the interest of | old Lady Tinemouth, who secured for him some pupils in French. Ll ‘Among these pupils were two wom- © en who promptly fell in love witb Thaddeus's handsome face and sadly dignified bearing, and for neither of whom he felt any affection, Then hé chanced to meet, at a pupil's hom a beautiful English girl, Mary Bea fort, a cousin to Pembroke Somerset. And Thaddeus and Mary were aty tracted to each other at first sight. ¢ But Thaddeus knew he had no honp of marrying this lovely heiress in“his : present position of povergy and af obscurity, And there were no prog pects that his fortunes would mend. To pay the funeral expenses of thip old general. whose support he had unt dertaken, he was obliged to run intb debt. And, as he wa¥ insolvent, a was thrown into the debtors’ prisofl. Mary Beaufort heard of his mid- fortune. Unknown to him she pi his debt and caused his release. Thik was the turning point In Thaddeus luck, | © For, soon afterward, by chance hp and Penibroke Somerset met face tp face. Pembroke was overjoyed to sep his old friend and preserver, The misundeystanding was cleared up. Pembroke took Thaddeus home an@ introduced him to his father, Sir Rott 4 ert Somerset. Then the truth came out. ‘ Sir Robert was the rich English? man who had married and deserte@ |haddeus's mother. He welcomed \his son with open arms, and settleg \a fortune upon him. Rich and ngs Jored, the Follsh hero was now tr vin Mary Beaufort, > to woo and Economies By Dania ‘Kysor. lvopsright. 1990, PrNaiTae New York Evening World.) by ‘The Press Publishing | Primer | This is the second article of a series which presents in a brief and simple way some of the elementary principles of economics that make clearer problems now upper- most in the gublic mind. Discussion of these problema is only profitable ‘where there 1s agreement as to the meaning of terms and phrases employed. 2. Money (Continued). The supply of money Is increased ¢ by: () an increased production of gold, and (2) a favorable balance of * trade with foreign countries which must eventually pay that balance in gold, The slowness or rapidity with which money ci@ulates has an im- portant effect on the supply of money available at any one time or place. ILLUSTRATION, Blow Circulation, City X, Coins * Coting In a city where business transac- tions occur in rapid succession, given supply of méney fills the need or demand for money In many trang actigns a day., Its power to accoms* plish results, that {s, to carry on busi- ness, is equal,to that of a much larger supply circulating Slowly, 4 | Potentially, then, the supply ef i money is increased ‘by rapid cireulé | tion, and decreased by slow cireul@ i tion, i SUMMARY, The supply of money is tncreas rae eed nereased | production ee , (2) receipts of gold from foreign it and (8) potentially, by an in- ; prease in rapidity of circulation, The supply of money is decreased ! (1) by exportation of gold, (2) po. * tentlally, by @ slower rate of cireul; tion, and (3) an increased use festa rr x aaeee