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ohh eh carn, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. (Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Pabitehing Company. Nos. 58 to 68 Park Rew, New ¥. RALPH PUL jent, @3 Park Rew. J. ANGUS SHAW, he JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Beore 5 ied determined and apparently successful at- tempt to deal a death blow to che Unit Rule marks a notable advance in Democratic Convention P procedure, ae By making the change permanent the party would remove the last bit of basis for the Repub- lican charge of sectionalism. Stripped of the Unit Rule incubus the Demo- ‘cratic Party would stand as the only tvely national i party. The Democrats have no rudimentary or- | ganizations .such as bear the name Republican in — {the Southern States. Every State would become table ground, a place in which Democrats fhiight contend with hope of success. *. The churlish performance of Mr. Murphy and cohorts on Monday probably was the last straw which overturned a majority adherence to the fine old tradition of Unit Rule, which had become @bSolete through development of the primaries, |» lf so, democracy has something for which to {thank Mr, Murphy, in spite of his despicable inten- As usual his opposition proves to be a ~ By abolishing the Unit Rule the party would pro- an opening for a vigorous and independent I anny organization in New York. Any istrict in Which anti-Tammany Democrats are in Ay the majority could select delegates and be safe in 45. knowledge: that Mr. Murphy could not vote _ | them corttrary to their own opinions. It would no longer be necessary to defeat all the Tammany fenchmen to put New York democracy back on the map as a political force in national conventions, ew York Democrats need nothing so much as ‘the opportunity to fill their ranks with good men o cannot and will not stomach Mr. Murphy and ‘sort of politics for which he stands. U if this convention did no more than to put Mr. Murphy in. his place it would not be in vain, #... 4 TO DEFEND 80-CENT GAS. LTHOUGH Federal Judges have ruled that the Consolidated Gas Compahy and six of i subsidiaries may raise the price of gas in cer- sections of Greater New York to $1 per hot yet. “ge The companies raising rates must impound the difference between the 80-cent rate and the ad- United States Supreme Court brings in a final de- ee against the gas companies. eThe test to determine whether the 80-cent established in 1906 is now vonfiscatory will thorough. ~ The right of the people of this city to a full de- against attempts to set aside the 80-Cent Gas Law has been recognized by the highest court, the proved energy of Corporation Counsel P, O’Brien in this direction can be counted n to see that no argument in the interest of the ty and its gas consumers is overlooked, & - Appeals from the latest court orders will be taken . J éirect to the United States Supreme Court. 1 As Mr. O'Brien said yesterday: “The fight for the consumers has just begun.” TRUE TO FORM. ‘AMMANY ran true to form at San Francisco. When the other delegates expressed tumul- nthusiasm for President Wilson, the Tam- {1 many waves sulked and even went so far as to Struggle with Franklin Roosevelt and the Wilson ‘men of the delegation in an effort to prevent the New York standard from joining the procession. * It was a disgraceful performance, but entirely Seharicerist The episode helps to account for the influence which New York’s delegations DO NOT have in » National Conventions. _ Such evidence of general incompatibility with the etter opinions of the party helps to explain why the support of the New York delegation is a liability x than an asset to a candidate, it helps to show why the largest delegation, which shouts be the most influential, has less real and posi- t¢ influence in party affairs than the smaller Stateg the Union, Because of similar performances in the past, it as possible for Mr. Bryan to mourt the rostrum at timore in 1912 and express his candid and unex- fated opinion of Mr. Murphy with the almost Poke hike of the delegates, y is ‘put of step and contrives to keep out ‘ charges and return it to consumers if the’ | The only mystery fies in why Tammany, which is | not Democratic, sends delegates to a Democratic Convention. The only time when New York votes can aid a candidate for the nomination is on the final ballot, when the landslide has already taken place. The only way in which Mr. Murphy could make his unit effective would be by a successful semblance of opposition to a candidate he actually favors. In Democratic counsels the opposition of Mr. Murphy is worth something. Any aspirant who can insult Mr. Murphy suf- ficiently to cause Mr. Murphy to fight back can capitalize the Tammany opposition in other States, HOW MUCH BOGIE? ‘T will be a misfortune if the 1920 Democratic Convention fails to furnish a full test of the actual trouble-making power that still resides in William J. Bryan. What Mr. Bryan will permit and what Mr. Bryan will forbid have loomed large in pre-convention dis- cussion. Yet directly, the convention gets down to business we find Mr. Bryan excluded from the subcommit- tee to which the Resolutions Committee entrusts the drafting of the platform. If Mr. Bryan presents his planks on Prohibition and the League of Nations it will not be from the vantage ground of the subcommittee. Whatever influence Mr. Bryan exerts on the con- vention will be of that spectacular, knight-errant and, in short, Bryanesque character which has long been familiar to the country. For many years now Mr. Bryan has been a ram- pant and disruptive force in the Democratic Party. That party can almost summarize Mr. Bryan’s career in a series of its own perils and escapes. Five years ago this month Mr. Bryan’s hope that pacifism would prove the paramount principle for a majority of the American people prompted him to retire from President Wilson’s Cabinet at a moment when German ruthlessness was putting an increas- ing strain upon American patience. Mr. Bryan toured the country, denouncing the President's preparedness plans as “a reversal of our national policy, a menace to our peace and a chal- lenge to Christianity,” precisely as he has always peddied to the people anything that promised to put him forward, regardless of party, as the great dis- coverer of the issue of issues—precisely as he has ‘ gone to San Francisco to stage himself in the role of Valiant Prince and Defender of Prohibition. When it comes to an actual show-down of strength, what is Mr. Bryan’s real potency in the Democratic Party to-day? How much of it is power, how much tradition? How much of the Bryan of 1920 is bogie? A FADING JUNKET. RIENDS of economy and efficiency in govern- mental affairs should feel encouraged by the news that the indefensible Far Eastern junket has well-nigh been abandoned. Instead of the caravan which was in prospect, the junketeers will number only a fraction of those who planned to go before the news got out and the pub- lic disapproved. When the names are published it is highly prob- able that a considerable number of the junketeers will be revealed as Congressmen who have aban- doned all hope of re-election and plan to get what they can while they can. The list should be interesting to every voter. Members -of the junketing party will be desirable representatives to leave at home. Government joy-riders amusing themselves at the expense of taxpayers make anything but a popular spectacle. If the public can make its disapproval so manifest in this comparatively small and personal matter, there is hope that a few more income-tax payments will arouse the voters to the larger issues that centre around an executive budget. Once the taxpayers become sufficiently interested they wield a potent club. MUSIC NONE SHOULD MISS. USIC lovers of New York are enjoying a treat in the concerts given by the Na- tional Symphony Orchestra at the Lewisohn Stadium at Amsterdam Avenue and 137th Street. Not a seat should be vacant at any one of the series of seventy nightly concerts which opened last Saturday. The invsic is of the best. The surroundings are ideal. The moon nsing over the gathering on the comfortable and cool stadium provides a mental background on which music cannot fail to register its full appeal. A more nearly ideal manner in which to spend a summer evening would be difficult to imagine. In spite of wide publicity it is probable that many have failed to realize that they may enjoy musical Programmes on a par with any offerings of the winter and at a small fraction of the cost, The Music League of the People’s Institute di tributes free tickets for those who cannot afford even md mych as a quarter, ere EVENIN o WORLD. WEDNERDAY TOE TTA Following the Leader! prriahs, 1920, by The Brews Putiiety ™, (ibe New York Evening Word.) By J. ei. Cassel UNCOMMON SENSE as Oe eae What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental ewercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) to say much in a few words, Take i The “Unioaded” Gan. ° 1 World | ictim of the fool and the “unloaded” gun! ‘These people'who point “unloaded” pistols or rather firearms at another should be severely dealt with, ‘There \is no excuse for it. In some States there ts a law mak- ing it a misdemeanor to polnt a gun or pistol at another in fun or jn earn- est; go under this law one kililng an- other “in fun” is guilty of man- slaughter in the commission of an un- lawful act. There should be such a law everywhere. In the opinion of the writer, the man who kills another Intentionally deserves more consideration than the fool who does it through pranking or utter carelessness. ‘There is just one safe way to han- dle a gun: Treat it when you think lit unloaded as though you believed it to be loaded, and never point it at anyone unless you intend to use it. SAFETY FLRST. Vanderbilt Ave., June 2%, 1920. Childre Onr Seats. ‘To the Balitor of The Evening Workd I am writing in the hope that per- sons who feel guilty will heed the ad- vice and act. I do considerable travelling during the day and I have noticed that when trains are crowded with passengers the seats are occupied by small chil- dren to the éxclusion of paid pas- sengers, I am not considering my- self in this matter, but only recently {1 saw an old lady standing in front of |a woman who Was occuping a seat as / were also her two small children about the ages of three and five years. The mother was reatling a news- paper, One young ludy did offer her seat to the old lady, which was ac- cepted. At the next station a wounded soldier boarded the trafn and as it so happened he stood in front of the woman with the two children, She did not offer to take one of tho, children from the seat to allow. the wounded seldier to be yeated, but kept on reading until one of the passengers called th attention of the guard to the children, He very politely requested this woman to re- move one of the children, but she re- fused to do so until qa uniformed police officer made his appearance Is there possible that this h sit on my lap to I think people to sit, would do | old world would be bett GEORGE Brooklyn, June 37, The Hivening Wor ng in yest }24) World the letter \ Certain Rich Man,”.1 feel it my duty to tell this “Rich Man” a little of what I think, which is probably the ay's (Sune written by “A opinion of maay others who have Lee hie letter about bis idea of the ‘ ‘ i | —— time to be brief. . | Publicity in the Elwell case. It 1s «alling to think that any American, | if he is one, especially a rich one, should so misrepresent the word “justice” which is one of our ideals, |4nd it is sad enough that so many |¢f these “Rich Men" think that | money can buy everything. After all,| Money cannot buy your way into} heaven nor out of hell, where lots of | them will probably go. As far as Mr. “Rich Man's” state- ment to the effect that it is not right to bring the names of rich and so- cially prominent people who might be} responsible for Elwell's murder be- fore the “vulgar” eyes of “vulgar”| people because ipaemuah as they are! rich, they won't have to pay the pen-| alty, goes, I vigorously disagree with him. Why should they, because of thelr money, be spared their just dues? Probably it is so, they won't have to pay the penalty because of their ability to buy their way out. But they should not be spared the hu- miliation of having their names and faces flaunted before the public as those who, although money rich, have fallen to the depths of the very low- ost, like a snake, to strike when the victim's back ie turned. Mr. “Rich Man's" remark to the effect “vulgar eyes of vulgar people" misses one thing. He forgets that some of us who read the newspapers, or most of us, are not as vulgar, in faet are more refined, than such as he and “filthy ric A CERTAIN POOR GIRL. New York, June 26, 1 A Is Wrong; B, Right. ‘To the Exitor af The Drening World In the famous episode at Manila Bay A says that the German Admiral in- tervened in America’s behalf, B States that it was the English Ad- miral, A also says that a foreign born cit- igen can become President of th United States. B disagrees, WASHINGTON I, New York, June 27, 1920, Governm fs Compared, To the Baitor of The Brening Work. I read with great interest the letters published in some of the American newspapers, especially those that take great pleasure in “knocking” England and its subjects. If the writers of those letters would only study English history they would find out that never were the people of England subjected to such government as your own dear old United States, England showed the U. 8. whether tt would tolerate William H. Anderson and his Anti-Saloon League, If you don't believe me ask Pussyfoot John- son—he knows. And yet we boast with pride that this country is a govern- ment of the people, by the people and for the people, A. LIMEY, Jersey City, June 27, 1920, The Se bladies’ Exodas, To the RAltor of The Evening World I've spent my young and eventful life about fifty-fifty, ving in dry and wet States, and I thought that I'a heard every argument ever set forth te THE “My friend,” an » was dunk most of th s is a very common mistake of trying to be that | The youth who fancies —he discovers after trying liquor is carrying him, and swagger you. has been practising drinking spected by everybody whose In the colleges there is al of mockery for the boy who Average intelligence is who feels that college is a pl Unfortunately, many ‘lads right are led astray by the fe at them, and by trying to ay inferiors themselves. Worthlessness is much Leave the man among m has any admirable qualities, a don’t think that h gambles or practises immoral said a widely man among men is easily caught in the lure of th all his life. Men are not made by their vices. Few men who have them get along. The man who behaves himself may be laughed at by the crowd that frequent the bootle, eger's, but he will be re-: MAN AMONG MEN. known lawyer, “made the ian among men, which means e time.” mistake. It is the result of cheap vanity, of a vulgar desire to do things that others do in order to prove that you are used to the ways of the world. that it is a fine thing to be a gambler that his to “carry his liquor” hat the vices he thought were so manly are really disgusting and destructive. Nothing is gained in trying to be tough. No matter how you swagger, the lowest bar-room loafer can out- No matter how hard you try to drink without showing it, you will always be outstripped by the aleohol addict wha esteem is worth while, together too much of the spirit tries to do his work, always low, And the grind, ace in which to learn, is hated because he gets along better than the lazy and the shiftless. s who have the instincts to do ar that their fellows will laugh 9 their inferiors soon become easier to acquire than worth, If he But nen to his own devices, admire and imitate them, will get ahead because he drinks or ity—for he never will, by either side, but I confess I never would have suspected the general exodus of scrubwomen to Cuba had | not your contributor, “A Dally Reader,” called my attention to it, Personally, of course, it makes lit- tle difference to me; but it does seem that “Constant Reader” shows a most unchristianlike attitude in the mat- ter, Hard though it may be on the so-called land of the fi we owe It to our faithful scrubladies. If they can afford to go to Cuba, presuming that there are enough floors there to keep them out of mischief, we should never rant over the prosperity of an- other; we should bow our respective heads in noble resignation, dig out the old scrubbing brush, and be thankful that the laundrymen didn’t go too, H, B. He Missed the Point, ‘To the Patitor of The Erening World I see from an article in your edito- rial column that the wool growers aro trying to push through a scheme to get the Federal Reserve Board to make’ loans on woollen warehouses, How many actual wool growers do you imagine would benefit by this? Very few! The speculator ‘would buy the wool and borrow against the Warehouse receipt, just the same as the grower, and being more familiar with the ways of getting aroynd the bankers he would get the greatest part. The average citizen who consumes the wool and wears the suit, would be compelled to pay a higher price, Just to help these gentlemen out, who have mado millions during the last few years, What is the use of the public econ- omizing in buying clothing if the ernment is going to step in and help the wool and clothing men to up- hold prices? It is high time the Government con- sidered the average citizen. They have looked out for this interest, that in- terest and the other interest, but the average man gets nothing except ia- creased prices and tax bills, I hope you will use your influencé to oppose the eee L. SELDEN, New York, June Pr ‘1930. 4 Ibert Payson Terhune Copretent by The Pi York Ev No. 100-—HENRY ESMOND, by W. M. Thackeray. Harry Esmond, a neglected kins~ Man and hanger-on of the great Castlewood family, began his young manhood with the knowledge that he was rightful heir to the Castlewood estates, This knowledge he kept to him- self; lest he cause unhappiness to beautiful young Lady Castlewood and her still lovelier daughter, Bea- trix. So, after Lady Castlewood'e husband had been killed in a duels Harry left England and went to the wars in France, serving bravely um- der the Duke of Mariborough. Coming back to England, he fell in love with Lady Castlewood. But when his love was still unspoken hée chanced to meet her daughter, Bea- trix, now grown to exquisite young womanhood An instant infatuation swept him off his feet, He forgot the sweet mother of the girl in his mad adoras tion for the girl herself. Beatrix wae as fickle and heartless as her mother was unselfish was pleased by flirted Harry's we iH dd she outrageously with him. But she was far too coolheaded to throw herself away on a penniless and obscure no- body like Esmond. Yet Harry refused to claim the rank and title which were’ his by right and which would have served as a lure to make Beatrix marry him. He would not let Lady Castlewood and his sweetheart suffer los of for- tune through him. Beatrix became engaged to mighty Duke of Hamilton, The di died on the eve of the wedding. ANG onee more Harry hoped to win her. But a new rival came between them, Old Queen Anne was dying. The exiled Stuart family thought this a fitting time for Anne's younger brother James to come from Franee, be reconciled to Anne and to coax the old Queen into naming him as her successor. The plot might well have succeeded. But, almost as soon as he set foot in England, James fell crazily love with Beatrix. In order to pay a clandestine visit to her, he left London by stealth, at the very moment he should have been on hand to claim his rights, As a result, George, Elector of Hanover, was named as Anne's suc James fled back to F Beatrix went with him. F killed Harry's wild infatuation for her. His bruised heart turned for consolation to Lady Castlewood, who had loved him, secretly, throughout all_the long years of her widowhood. She and Harry were married. Quit- ting England, they emigrated to Vir- ginia, where they passed the rest of their lives together in a wilderness estate, In an afterglow of mutual happiness. The Old Frisco Is Gone Forever. | SAN FRANCISCO.—Visitors to the § | Democratic National Convention will but few reminders of the old, romantic days of San Francisco, when the red-shirted miners swept | down from the gold-streaked reaches of the Sierras and threw fistfuls o: “pay dirt’ in the bars or the store counters for whatever they wished to purchase, Gone is the roaring “Barbary Coast” and its less picturesque environs. “Bottle” Koenig and “Bottle” Mey- ers, who used to run noisy cock- | fighting establishments in what is now the shadow of the Hall of Jus- |tice, nave long since passed on, and |the Montana Dance Hall, most blar- |ing and blatant of all the coast re- sorts, 18 hardly a memory. Chinatown guides still point out the little restaurant hanging precarl- ously over old Dupont Street, where Frank Norris, the author, went oe- casionally to get a bit of local color. Directly ahead and facing the Hall of Justice 18 Portsmouth Square, a cove for the city’s human drift where the Vigilantes staged many a stirring scene and the “sand-lotters," under jthe leadership of flery Dennis Keag- ney, discussed the town's politica) issues, Most of the old cafes, where much of the city’s history was plotted, re- main in name only. Gone is Duncan Nichol’s, the “Bank Exchange” of for- mer days where the famous Pis¢o punch was served over a mahogany bar that was brought around the Horn. ‘The old Cliff House, where Presidents of the United States and other re- nowned itinerants used to enjoy the sea food breakfasts, was burned yeats ago. ‘On Waverly Place still may be seén the quarters of the old Siberta Club, stronghold of Yee Mee, “King of Chinatown." ‘Here, before the polige “axe parties” became a feature of Chinatown, the chance games of “coon-can,” “chuck-a-luck” and "“fan- tan” were played in the midst of a mazé of corridors, sliding panels worked by secret springs and exotte odors of.opium and Chinese dishes. ‘The black docks that Ii the “rront* from China Basin to the Pre- sidio are gone and stately berths for ocean liners have risen in their place. The dingy bars that stood back of them, where adventurers of all d@- grees were once dropped, drv stupefied, through trapdoors a into waiting beats below as part the great “shanghai” game, all hage been swept away. Tho “shanghai” was the system for recruiting the crews of the “limejuicers,” the great deep sea barks that plied principally between San Francisco and South American ports, ob Hill, once 1s elite, shows ed foundations, aut fire left it. ancient tenements have givén way to smart apartments, in thelr midst standing the slowly disinte- grating ruins of the “Mission of Bor- known in the Spanish as the ‘Mission Dolores,” built. in. 1776. ty in see the home a of the collection much of 32 the the Franciscans. It is the best memento of the romantic old Saw Francisco that endures. 4 ‘ “ “