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ae ¥ Op 7, SCRA aad x ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZOR. [Pobtisned Datiy except Sunday by the Press Publi Company, Nos 53 to Park Row, jw York. RALPH FULIGeER, ‘J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 68 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER: Jr. Beoretary, 63 Park Row. | AA ee Pe ere PUT UP TO THE SCOUTS. d N a letter to The Evening World a citizen “won- ders at the lack of patriotic pride in the great City of New York.” | He is moved to this expression because he has ‘ Observed “the remnants of Old Glory strung across the streets at various points.” Mhe flags are “torn and weather-beaten until they fare hardly distinguishable.” His point is well taken. Both National Flags ‘and Gervice Flags have been permitted to hang without care or consideration until they have be- come a disgrace to the neighborhoods in which they were once displayed as evidence of patriotism. Our correspondent believes that if The Evening World will call the attention of Boy Scouts and ‘Girl Scouts to these conditions, “they will have them all down by July 4.” How about it, boyS-and girls? ‘Will you “do a good turn” to Old Glory by re ‘tiring it from service after it has become worn out ‘in doing its duty? * These who predicted that the President would be _ GM but forgotten at San Francisco were just about ‘€9 wise as a majority of their fellow countrymen took them to be the first twenty-five days of June, automobiles L killed seventy-two persons in the five boroughs of the city. This is a rate of almost three a day, and this figure does not include the hundreds of 4 : nonfatal injuries. Last year in. the same period the death record was slightly less than two a day. These figures should arouse both the police and the magistrates. Not all automobile accidents are preventable, (Not all deaths are the result of speeding. But speeding is a prime cause. The record as it stands is a nightmare. _ Speeding and reckless and inexperienced driving ‘are dangerous in the extreme, . > Isn't it time for the magistrates to renew a policy of strict construction of the laws and stern applica- 3 tion of the penalties for dangerous operation of au- tomobiles? isn’t it time for an announcement of workhouse “sentences without the alternative of fines for those who endanger the life and limbs of pedestrians and other automobile drivers? isn’t it about time the police made discriminating arrests of all those who hurtle through the streets "80 thoughtlessly? Seventy-two deaths in twénty-five days is a record that New York ought not to duplicate in the next twenty-five days. PEACE PATRIOTISM. HE Government is discharging a considerable number of naval clerks and workmen at the navy yards here and elsewhere. It is only human that those discharged should feel a certain degree of regret and resentment over the need for hunting new jobs. But this shoul’ not _. be the case. A large proportion of these workers’ went into naval work as a matter of patriotism. ‘This applies particularly to the popular yeoman- éttes. Now it is patriotism to get out for the same reason. ~ As the United States is now situated the prime need is to “get the country back on a peace basis,” “as Martin Green demonstrated at length in his series _ 0f articles written in Washington for The Evening Not even the discharges which have taken place ‘and are soon to take place will reduce the number ‘of employees to the pre-war basis, but every saving ~ on the payroll helps the overburdened taxpayer. _ Patriots of peace are the best patriots. Those _ who can give up good jobs with a smile because it is for the best interests of the country they have served in war deserve all commendation. ' More than this, they deserve special consideration from private employers. , A TWO-JUMP COUNTRY. aay Parson Maynard led the army aviators in the cross-country race of last year the : made long “junyps” and quick time between But nothing the army racers did com- ed with the feat of the new all-metal Larsen that jumped from Omaha to the Atlantic in the hours between sunrise and sunset. _ America becomes a two-jump country, Before © long it is entirely possible that an aviator will make _ & non-stop continental trip. This close coupling of | the whole country is a progressive matter, and the ‘THE EVENING W Surpasses the mosquito’s marvellous performance But if America is a two-jump country, consider the other important nations of the world. If Americans in American all-metal planes tour Europe they are apt to entirely miss many of the countries, just jump right over them in the course of a few hours’ spin. Seriously, however, the Larsen performance is a notable achievement in aviation. To a New Yorker, Omaha has always been a long way off. it is so to-day in miles—but not in hours, AN INSPIRING DEFENSE. 66 E trouble with the treaty of peace is that it was negotiated by a Democratic Presi- dent.” f€ the Temporary Chairman of the Democratic Convention tad devoted 10,000 words to this par- ticular point he could not have analyzed more ac- ourately and incisively the attitude of Republican leaders toward the great international instrument which they have desperately tried to belittle and distort into a campaign issue. The note of Chairman Cummings’s speech was what it was bound to be—one of valiant and reso- lute defense. : Republicans are the assailants, Republican partisanship has even gone to the ridiculous extreme of pretending that the Versailles Treaty is only a tentative proposal which the disap- proval of the United States can relegate to the rub- bish pile. Z So absurd have been Republican harpings on this view that Herbert Hoover recently tried to put a little sense into his chosen party by pointing out that “the treaty is now fn effect and cannot be scrapped, as so many have urged.” “Those American statesmen,” declared Mr. Hoover, “who conceive that Europe will meet our dissensions by abandoning the treaty and summon- ing a new world .peace conference are entirely ignorant of the European situation.” ‘When Mr. Cummings says that the Democratic Party will stand by the League of Nations as the carrying out of the purposes for which the war was fought, he lays stress on the fact that the Demo- cratic Party is supporting “the ONLY FEASIBLE plan for peace and justice.” It is the feasibleness, the availability, the actu- ality of this Covenant of the ‘League of Nations which twenty-eight nations have accepted, and under which they are now working, that still con- stiates the overwhelming argument against the cavillings of a Republican partisanship which has not one constructice substitute to offer for the existing thing it would destroy. é “We will not submit to the repudiation of the peace treaty or to any process by which it is whittled down to the vanisbing point.” Nor should the convention adopt a League plank one iota more lenient toward the whittling process than was the Convention's: Temporary Chairman, It is not often the keynote speech at a party con- vention contains an arraignment of the opposing party for gross lack of common decency in. its treatment of the Nation’s Chief Executive. Yet, when Mr. Cummings recalls the sneering and slander with which a Republican Congress attacked President Wilson when he lay ill, and points out that not once did these members of Congress “find time amid their bickerings to pass one resolution of generous import or extend Sone kindly inquiry as to the fate of the President of their own country,” the Temporary Chairman of the 1920 Democratic Convention says only what every impartial historian will say regarding one of the worst manifestations of party hatred and jeal- ousy that ever marred a great page of the Nation’s record. The Republican Platform, said Mr. Cummings, “is the very apotheosis of political expediency.” If the Democratic delegates to whom he said it interpret his keynote aright, they will insist upon a Democratic Platform that shall be a monument of political plain-speaking. THE ULTIMATE IN FOLLY. NGLISH officials who are having trouble in recruiting sokdiery for use in Ireland are re- ported to be considering the use of volunteers from Ulster. That such a policy should receive serious con- sideration is almost inconceivable. It would be the ultimate in folly. Of all means of meeling the situation in Ireland this undoubtedly would be the worst, and by a large margin. As the matter stands England can compose the difficulty, now by recognizing Irish independence and getting out. Wf Ulster volunteers were once used England would lose even this distasteful alternative. Once €ngland promoted civil war in Ireland it could never let go without leaving the Orange and the Green to bast Until one of the other were exterminated, * jai RLD, TUESDAY, JUNE 29, sone bene oest Pate OE Nt i lO etl etd A de ti Nd ‘1920, /— eating jeuiag World) __FROM EVENING WOKLD KEADEKS __ What kind of letter do you jind most readabler j&n't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of sucisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. to say much in a few words. The Asylum of Coameties. ‘To the Exiitor of The Breniog Worl Stupid people, like wond cease, never First they take away my glass of| wine. - Next they forbid my wife to fon a safe and sane swimming cos- tume at the beaches (oh, modesty, lif hi; e what crimes are com- A society is endeavoring to divorce me from my Lady Nicotine, Another society tries to forbid me the com- panionship of Messrs. Boccaccio, de la Fontaine, Masucclo, Rabelais and Gautier. And now, according to an item ina recent Evening World, tho ladies of the W, C. T. U. want to for- bid my “sisters” in Brooklyn from using cosmeti This is the last straw! Brooklyn has more than its share of fair wom~ but Mr. Editor, in justice, | must there are’ some extremely homely ones here; and to forbid these the asylum of cosmetics wamld only tend to drive us to homo brews. ‘And then, on the other hand, these fair women of Brooklyn were not born so long ago, and it is fashion- able to-day (and a very pretty fash- ion It Is) to rouge a little and powder a little. ° All women (who are young) like to be attractive and pretty, and If Mother Nature has cheated them a bit why should the others frown upon their powder puffing and chamotsing? Starr St., Brooklyn, June 26, 1% Brandeis For President, ‘To the Piitor of The Drening World T. M. & hits it right at last. Bran- dels for President. Could there be any simpler, saner and more practical solution of the question of nomipat- ing a candidate for President? Brandeis is the man for the com- mon people, who has always stood for what is right and just. His decisions on the Supreme Court bench have al- ways been wise. He is a man of the people and for the people. His lomk record of public service is untainted, uncorrupted aot eet clean, andeis for President. es A WORKER. New York, June 26, 1920. “AM Tewether.” ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: I cannot help but think that the only way in which the white collar man can help himself is to organize. IT am a white collar man employed in one of the large banks in this city. Although this institution pays better salaries» than any other insti- tution, even this is insufficient to live on However, I feel that we cannot blame our employer for this, as he must compete with the other institu. tions. But if we all organize and are all put on a minimum salary basis, our employers would not have to worry about their competitors on the salary question. Mr, Schopenhauer is right in regard to team work, We all know there is very team work among white collar who are alwa of tl working little nan b many’ instances, rather pull against him than with ‘him, | Our motto should be “All together | for our employers’ benefit and our own.”." WHITE SHIRT MAN. Brooklyn, June 26, 1920. | An Anti-League. | ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: | Your title “Gi It a Trial” which you | | gave to a letter recently published criti- | |cising Feldman’s letter. [I wish’ to stat» that the party who attaches his signa- ture “Constant Reader” to his letter jhas no real kiowledge of the League of Nations and is unaware of the fact that those nations which created that worthless document are spending billions of dollars to-day for ammunition, guns, warships, &c, This will again ‘create Jealousy among the leading nations Which Will end with an infinite fight for remacy on land and sea. By what ng will the League prevent or safe- guard any future wars? Can it be ex- plained? Furthermore, in his views of the coming of weaker ‘ations which wou seek our protection when they are su Jected to bullying by the powerful na- tions. I gannot understand why our affairs should be entangled with others and that document (Monroe Doctr the unwritten law in foree for the 4, which the European coun e rest of the world respected aud upheld as a document and not @ scrap of paper, should be abolished. We were at peace for a certury under the Monroe Doctri vhy not abide with it until the end? hange and take chances? AC . ‘The G ‘To the Editor of The Evening Wond. They talk about the low wages of the postal employees. Let these same em- ployees look up the wages of the gas company workmen and find out some- thing about low wages. For the gas company you have to work there ten years before you make a half deceat wage. mpany ex- to get a raise in gas rates let's see, fellow workers, & generous increase to t ployees and not a me cents a day | more than they now pa: | I heartily agree with “Branch Filtes’’ | that taking off overtime doesn't pay | ent as will the rest of the employees | if that means | of the gas companies, It's about time that the employees woke up and started somethi rg. CONSOLIDATED SLAVE. No Rule of Reason, To the Editor of The Evening World T notice that you state that a child born in this country of alien parents | is an American citizen, If this is the case, is it true that a child born to American parents, travelling abroad in Fragee, for instance~is a French- man? That would naturally apply if| your statement is true, and presum- ing it to be true, what sort of nat- uralization law is it that we have? | 1 was always under the impression that the citizenship of a child fol- lows that of the father, and if both parents are aliens, why should the jehild be an American, even if born here? ‘Another thing: Why does a woman |sake the nationality of the man she marries? In this country when an | American girl marries an alien the marriage causes her to lose her cit~ izenship. | ow mat | laws in terms of reason and common UNCOMMON SENSE ’ By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Biake.) CONSERVE YOUR ENERGY. What makes the world go rount? Energy—energy that was stored in it when, a cloud of gases, it was thrown whirling from the whirling sun. + What turns the wheels of the mills and drives ships and railroad trains across the continents and seas? Energy. What sends thoughts out from the human brain to make the world better and brighter? Energy. Energy is the driving force of the universe. Lach of us possesses it. Upon the quantity we possess, and our use of it, depends the plate we shall take among our fellow men, ' . In most of us there is enough, wisely expended, to do all the work we need to do, But it must be stored and conserved, as water is stored and conserved, to furnish power in the days when the rains no longer fill,and When the rivers are running lower and lower. Half the things we do waste energy. tivities are lost motion. If you are doing brain work, your brain needs your daily supply of energy. You must exercise just enough to keep your body in condition, and no more. You can’t play eighteen holes of golf or two sets of tennis, or walk twenty miles, and do any effective brain work the same day. You can’t work eight hours a day as a coal heaver and dq any work with yout brain that amounts to nuch for anbther eight hours. The tired man needs to rest. His mind must be rested or he cannot think straight or clearly, In youth, you can work hard, and nature will afford you energy for thought. But if you mean to do brain work, get a job where physical energy is not expected of you, If the current of energy flows into your muscles there will be a scant supply for your brain. Men who have risen from toilful occupations have done s6 because they were careful to save every scrap of energy. ‘Tf any is wasted, the double duty cannot be done, And when they leave the physical task once, they leave it for good. ‘ Work hard both with your hands and mind, but save all the energy you can for your thinking, You will need it. Half of our ac- on the reasons for such a situation, /ries old, namely, he resents the fact W. H. F. that he has to ‘support” the aaene ‘holders of his company, who con- tribute nothing but capital to the business. “Union Toolmaker’ should have lived during the time Shakes- heare writes ef in the “Merchant of Venice," when Shylock was econ- demned for charging interest on |money loaned, But economists of all ages and countries since that time have proved the fallacy of the “para- site” charges made against money- lenders, and “Union Toolmaker” is hopelessiy behind the times, In this issue also G. W. Schopen- hauer assails “White Collar Man,” claiming that a proposition to be sound must be equally true converse - ly, In other words, Mr. G. W. 8, we |can take the proposition that “all'fish swim,” which none will deny, and turning it about, the converse must be true, vis. “all that swim te fishes," which every one, especially ting, those that swim, will Brooklyn, June 26, 1920. (Editor's Note: The editor can not undertake to explain naturalization sense. Any child born in America {3 a citizen unless his parents alienate him by removing the child from the country. Even then he may reassume citizenship upon reaching his major- ity unless he abandons his citizenship by word or deed. A child of Aneri- can parents born abroad is a citizen unless the father renounces citizen- ship. American women marrying aliens Jose citizenship even though they continue to reside in the United States. It Is probable that this law will soon be changed by act of Con- gress.) To tho Tv ‘Platinum Rivals Precious Stones In World Market By Charles Henry Dorr. | OLD ts not the most precious @! treasure in the world, nor sil-. ver, Both gold and silver have been eclipsed by the metal platinum, and to-day the demand for this use- ful metal is greater by far than the supply, and at the present time pros- | pectors all over the world are seeking | this treasure, ‘The rise of the value of this much sought metal has been rapid and’ notably so since the war, for plati- num was used in the making of mu- mitions, and it is also introduced into the settings of precious stones iu times of peace, Several years ago platinum took rank with the most precious stones and jewelssin the world, and accord ing to an estimate given then by George Frederick Kunz, author of “The Book of Pearls,” and who is widely known as connoisseur of ‘e gems, the la platinum nug- in Niahni-Tagliale Mountains, Russia, and 9,622.88 grain, or about twenty-five pounds, and was valued at $33,672. Doubtless this nugget to-day + worth at least double if not far more than the figures quoted by Mr, Kunz Most authorities agree that the principal source of supply of plat!- num is Russia, but as the value of the metal has increased particularly since the war, the seareh Las enguged imany explorers and @ew fields are re- ported from various quarters of the globe, In the United States, the princt supply of platinum hag been yielded in California, and during the present year the production of th! luable metal is likely to exceed all records of previous achievements, far Its in- crease in value has placed it among the newer treasures of the land. It is recovered by dredging and se, aratea by gravity methods. ‘Ti principal source of the world's p num was, prior to the war, the placer deposits of the Ural Mountains im Russia. In addition to the Russian fornia deposits, smaller of platinum come from eposits in New South Wales. The platinum production of the United States in 1918 amounted to 59,753 troy ounces, valued at) 86,417,- 980. ;: I. is known that traces of plati- num have been located in Australia and South Africa, and nearer to the United States in Mextco. While Russia ts rich in platinum deposits in the Ural Mountains, pros- pectors who have invaded the wilds of Alaska and the Arctic regions are confident that great fields of this metal exist in the Far North and that quantities of the widely sought treasure will eventually be found. ‘On his last exp.dition to the Arctic regions Capt. Joseph E. Bernter, a prominent explorer, who has con- ducted numerous exploration parties to the Northland, stated to the writer that he had found rich deposits of minerals in the vicinity of Admiralty Ray, and. among his “finds” were specimens of sifver, copper. iron and coal and platinum. Nuggets of plati- num were picked up by members of Capt. Bernier’s expedition while pros- pecting in the Arctic. The leader of the expedition expressed the® belief that rich deposits of platinum existed in the Far North, and if this proves true the North American Continent may take its place with other coun- tries in the production of the metal, which now brings in the world mart a far greater price than its former rivals, gold and silver. Verhops North America will equal Rexsia in the future in the output of chis coveted treasure, and new de- posits of this precious metal will be found rivalling the golden days of 49 in California. ——_—_»—_—_ Understanding Americanism. N his valuable little book on “Amer- ] jcantzation” (St. Pa Keller Publishing Company, 1919; 48 p.) Dr. Carol Aronovici presents @ crite {cal analysis of the punposes and methods of the Americanization movement which will be read with interest by civic and social workers, says ‘Municipal Reference Library Notes.” The book is one of the first really serious studies of the problem whiob has been received by the library; it shows a familiarity with information sources unknown to the average en- thusiast and is replete with good rea- soning and well-balanced conclusions. We are pleased to chance upon such illuminating thoughts as the follow- ing: “That the center of gravity of national unity has been shifting from racial similarities to spiritual and in- tellectual sympathies hab at no time . +. been more conclusively dem- onstrated than by the present war The book discusses racial and na- tional assimilation, conservation of cultures, distribution of immigrante, citizenship, sie estar a Certainly He Could. E was a perfect wonder, was the parliamentary candidate for « certain agricultural district. and he was never shy of telling the voters bed they should return him as their P. “I am a practical farmer,” said he, boastfully,. at one meeting. “I can plough, reap, milk cows, work a chaff- cutter, shoe a horse—in fact,” he went on, proudly, should like you to tell me any one thing about a farm which I cannot do. ‘Then, in an impressive silence, a small voice asked from the back of the crowd: “Can you lay an egg?’—Unidenti- fed. And the P. C. should have angwerea promptly: “Certainly I can, and if you'll bring me one Jl lay it on the table right here at once.”"—Los An- geles Times. > Teacher Was Wrong. HE other evening while doing home work the small son of a minister was arguing and try- ing to convince himself that Moonee: gate” and “collect” meant the same thing, for that was what his teacher had told him, Into the argument ‘which the minister father could not help but overhear, the said father broke: cana what the teacher said.” “Quite wrong,” replied the gather. “You tell the teacher she is qui wrong. There is all the difference the world between a. & ‘colleation.’ ” ‘e-