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FAN World ‘PSTABLIGNED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing , Nos. 53 to G3 Park Row, New York. yout Axavs HAW. ‘Treasurer.’ 0 'TZER. Jr.. Secretary. , MeN OF THE ASSOCIATED PREAt. ‘et cthvte edned "the babe BRYAN’S DEFEAT. ESTERDAY’S session of the Democratic Con- in. vention showed William J. Bryan where he dogs NOT stand as a present power in the Demo- eratic Party. - ‘The Greatest Living Chautauquan went to San “Francisco with the avowed purpose of dominating the convention and forcing it to incorporate in the “platform the widely advertised Bryan planks. ‘The famous oratorical gift was at its hypnotic best. Tears flowed freely. But all the votes Mr. Bryan could draw for his (A pend were 1551-2 out of a possible 1,094, his League of Nations plank, his profiteering plank and his plank calling for an official Federal ee ficwopaper were shouted out of the convention with- v ‘Out even a roll call,, ‘if this be power, let Mr. Bryan make the most of it! ed The failure of the Democratic Convention to adopt ® plank calling for a liberal interpretation and en- “forcement of the Eighteenth Amendment and a re- om for State and individual rights was not due to Bryan. “a _ It was due to that cowartlice which, at San Pran- disto. as at Chicago, induced delegates to suppress their honest convictions on this point for the sake of ‘what they have been told to consider political ex- i fe, The convention dodged the Prohibition issue. But it refused point blank, by a six to one vote, to "adopt the Prohibition plank which Mr. Bryan boast- ed he would put into the platform. As a mischief-maker in the Democratic Party, Mr, Bryan survives, As an actual power he is only a tradition. % BY ELIMINATION? | ENATOR REED appears to share Senator John- es son's reluctance to accept Mr, Hearst’s frank _ invitation to become Mr. Hearst’s own personally 3 candidate for the Presidency. Senator Reed is cold to the suggestion that he is tthe logical leader of the Third Party which Mr. Hearst so glibly launches on his numerous printing So, too, was Senator Johnson. __, But while there is life there is hope. The Com- ae of Forty-eight and its affiliated organizations in Chicago soon, Perhaps the committee will some one whom Mr. Hearst can pick up— , mental ghange and enlargement. ment this year? But, faced with Democratic action that would entitle women to vote, the Old Guard is exerting all the pressure it might have exerted at any time and did not. Now the Old Guard hopes to get under the wire ahead and so present a specious claim to feminine favor. If Gov. Clement should call a session before Aug. 9, would any woman be so blind as to give him any credit for the action? THE LARGER MEANING. Ma years ago Richard Olney, eminent Democrat and Secretary of State in President Cleveland’s Cabinet, concluded an article in the At lantic Monthly dealing with the Growth of Our Foreign Policy as follows: “It ts not rash to affirm that a conse- quence of the new international position of the United States (following the war with Spain) must be to give to foreign affairs 4 measure of popular interest and importance far beyond what, they have hitherto enjoyed. Domestic affairs will cease to be regarded as alone deserving the serious attention of Americans generally who, in their charac- ters, interests and sympathies, cannot fail to respond to the momentous change which has come, to the Nation at large. “Such a change will import no decline of patriotiam, no lessening of the loyalty justly expected of every man to the country of his nativity or adoption. “put it will import, if not for ue, for com- ing generations, a larger knowledge of the earth and its diverse peoples; a familiarity with problems world-wide in their bearings; the abatement of racial prejudices; in short, such enlarged mental and moral vision as is ascribed to the Roman citizen in the memor- able saying that, being a man, nothing human was foreign to him.” A world war, in comparison with which our war with Spain was an afternoon’s skirmish, has brought Americans of this generation within the full scope of the above prediction, Willingly or unwillingly, the great majority of. the American people to-day find themselves forced ‘either to| adapt their minds to a larger view of the Nation’s foreign relations or to belie their own in- telligence. The political situation in the United States at the present moment is the best possible evidence of this inevitable and, in some cases, painful process of As, between the platforms put forth by. the Repub- lican and Democratic Parties, no difference is one- | ‘ THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 3,- ‘f | FKOM EVENING Daisy Ashford, through the Doran Company, has introduced @ new vol- ume, “Daisy Ashford, Her Book.” Miss Ashford has the cer- lars and attics, trunks and des drawers of her English home, and |collected many other youthful novels | which she now offers to a world that |delightedly welcomed “The Young Visitors,” her nine-year-old effort, Perhaps the most thrilling story cf this new book is “The Hangman's Daughter.” In it Lady Beaufort writes to Mr, Lincarrol, who has asked her the proper method of pro- wing to a young lady. “ar Mr. Lincarrol: H It is with great pleasure that I | comply with your wishes. It 1s not | the first time I have been appealed o under such circumstances. There 1s an art in proposing as well as in | everything. If you are liable to ner- vousness, do not propose indoors. Thero is a very nice little nook in the | back garden by the crocus bed, where my own romance took place. It is quite unfrequented from 11 to 1 and from 3 to 6. Be careful not to be too sudden or you will make the girl shy, but do it by degrees. Keep as close to her as you can after she has accepted (which if you manage it with tact she is sure to do), draw her to you and murmur soft words. If you wish for more details do not hesitate to write to me. Wishing you every success, I remain, CRISTINA BEAUFORT. cee The Good Old Days--- Among other events in an interest- ing career, Frederick O'Brien, author of “White ‘Shadows in the Southern Seas,” has the honor of being a Gen- eral, Lieutenant General perhaps, in rmy. His division broke through to Washington, riding com- mandeered freight trains, and got as far as the White House lawn before Yanquished by the Police Department, Robert Frost’s Work-s- For two years Robert Frost, who is more and more becoming recognized as one of the greatest poets in Amere ica, has been practically unheard from. The silence has now been broken with the publication of a group of four new poems, “Plac a Third,” “Fragmentaty Blue, rc Once, Then, Something,” and “Good~ by and Keep Cold,” in the July num- ber of Harper's Magazine. Unique in his position as a, poet, Robert Frost is quite as unique us a |personality. It is safe to say that he jis the only man in America who | would hold a piece v2 work tor two or three years before publishing it for jno other reason than to be sure that he was being too easy a,critic of uls own work. The only man who could be classed with him for strength of character in refusing to be influenced by demands of publishers or the pub- lic is A. E, Housman, the Englishman, Robert Frost has been a farmer. He has beena college professur. Ho has worked in a mill. But any one who looks for the point of view of a mill hand, professor or farmer in Mr, Frost's books (A Boy’s Will,” a> WOKLD KEADEKS _| What kind of letter do you find most readable? len't it the one | that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? | There t# fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying | to say much in a few words, Take time to be brief. | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1920, by John Blake.) Senator La Follette, for instance. Mr. Hearst seems tather to specialize in Senators. _ Failing this, there is always the possibility that ‘Mr, Brisbane will at least hit upon the one and only “Mountain Interval” and “North of Boston”), will have a long way to look. He will find just the expression of one personality, and that an un- usual one. Here is a typical Frost poem in the tenth part as pronounced as the difference between their respective -attitudes toward foreign policy and foreign peoples. - Yogical, available and amenable candidate to run on the Hearst ticket. Certainly. You guessed it the first time. CUT RATE FOREIGN TRAVEL. CERTAIN New Yorker has long cherished a ’ desire to see France before he dies. . Present conditions appear to have opened the way _ for the trip some time. He is buying the trip at cut fates and on the instalment plan. ~ His method is simple. He is now employed at good wages, some of which he saves. Whenever he has a small sum ahead he “buys francs” from a foreign exchange broker. Some time, he believes, francs will have normal igsing power in France. Some time wages In 3 \ will drop. Some time he will be unable Bo to buy, francs at something less than half their nor- ‘mal pre-war value. When that time comes he proposes to take a vaca- ‘tion and go to France to spend the francs he is ac- cumblating at cut rates, _ If anything prevents this vacation, he feels certain that the value of francs will be greater than now and that he will realize a handsome profit. Other investors might do worse than to follow this line of reasoning. This is the simplest method of financing foreign trade and providing a foreign market, an operation which the bankers agree is necessary if America is to continue prospering. A pas A SUDDEN RELENTING. ‘ ANDIDATE HARDING, who recently disa- vowed any intention of influencing executive action by State Governors in behalf of suffrage, has conferred with Gov, Clement of Vermont. - It is now predicted that Gov. Clement, who has _ éen adamant in opposition to the demands of the women, is reconsidering and may call a special ses- - sion of the Vermont Legislature. ‘One event casts considerable light on the change In hart manifested by Candidate Harding and the Democratic Gov. Roberts of Tennessee has an- winced a special session in his State to meet Aug. He acted upon the urgent recommendation of Wilson. Could any sequence of cause and effect be clearer? ‘This difference extends beyond disagreement as to the general duty of the United States toward the Peace Treaty and the League of Nations. The Democratic platform not only declares for “every possible and proper aid” this country can render the unfortunate people of Armenia, but also expresses frank and “active” sympathy with the people of China, Czecho-Slovakia, Finland, Poland, Persia and others “who are striving to develop the institutions of true democracy.” The Republican Platform, in order not to be in- consistent with the treaty-condemning, America-for- America-only attitude to which a partisan policy of denouncing whatever the President wants has com- mitted it, is able to profess only empty sympathy with Armenia and to make no more than vague and meaningless references to American duty toward “civilization and humanity” in general. For the sake of ‘its own future, how can the Re- publican Party stand this pitiful narrowing of its principles on so large an issue as twentieth century international relations, merely to fabricate some- thing it can use against a Democratic President in a Presidential campaign? Some of the best minds in the Republican Party manifest grave misgiving on this point. They have been doing their best to show their party a way back to a safer path, Democratic foreign policy, as straightforwandly presented in the Democratic Platform, has the over- whelming advantage of moving ‘naturally and will- ingly along that larger line of progress which nobody can now reject without setting his face against the trend of all human experience and turning his back on that which the better part of human endeavor has made its ideal and its goal. “Domestic affairs will cease to be regarded as alone deserving the serious attention of Americans generally who, in their characters, interests and sym- pathies, cannot fail to respond to the momentous change which has come to the Nation at large,” ‘That means, unless American character has wholly altered, a hundred times more to this generation ‘Ts it not evident that the Old Guard feared the femi- general enfranchise- than it meant twenty years ago. No politipal party can deny it and survive. iia ja creature as “Bergdoll" is running The Only Two-Cent Paper. | ‘To the EMitor of The Evening World I make a motion that The Evening World raise. its price to three gents | the same as all other evening papers. | ‘The Evening World is as good as the | best, if not a little better, and is en- titled to the same consideration from the standpoint of price, especially as it has not complained, dnd now stands alone as the only two-cest evening paper in Greater New York. Who will second the motion? ROBERT W. PRIBDST, ‘Times Building, Now York, July 1, 1920, A Hypocritical Advocate. To the Kaltor of The Evening World: In answer to a letter on Prohibition from one of your correspondents, kindly be advised that this person 1s @ personal acquaintance, “I am more than surprised to hear his version on Prohibition, as he has been out with me lately to several drug stores in Brooklyn where we each purcnased a halg pint of alcohol and he then showed me how to make a pint of whiskey out of the same. While we were at the drug store we had a conversation on Prohibition and the proprietor told us that he hoped the cause would last forever. 1 am inclined to believe that your correspondent: is being well paid by the druggists’ syndicate to advocate P. ‘ibition. GM. R. Brooklyn, July 1, 1920. t Capture Bersdoll, "To the Puitor of The Evening World: Why is it that the Government does not try to show the public that it is endeavoring to catch the “draft dodger” Bergdoll, Every boy who was in the army vither on this side of the pond or “over there” feels that it is a per- sonal insult to him to know that such arqund the country giving every one the laugh and “getting away with murder.” will come out of it will be that the two non-commissioned officers of the Regular Army who allowed Bergdoll to escape will lose their stripes and serve a short time In prison. T should think that one or all of the boys lying in war hospitals all over the country would feel mighty ashamed that they ever went over and did their bit, after reading in the papers how “Mr. Bergdoll” is getting away with it, Of course, it, only goes No doubt the only thing that ever}, Valuable medium of your columns, to defend these “white collar boys” who are being slundered by some of your correspondents for failing to “co- operate” with the other workers in their various offices, for “pulling | away” from the rest of the gang, as | one of them expresses it. I have yet to hear of the successful man who did NOT “pull away” from the rest of the gang, the majority of whom are nothing but clock watch- ers and loafers with no ambition to gct ahead. It is the fellow who will “pull away" from the crowd (in the right direction, of coursé) and not the one who meekly follows it that will succeed. If joining a white collar unian meant that I must “pull with” the crowd instead of forging ahead of It whenever the opportunity arose, then I prefer not to join such @ union. Too much praise cannot be given to the office worker, or any other worker for that matter, who has sense enough to “pull away” from the rest of the gang, provided that he does it in a sportsmanlike manner, for he is the fellow who will surely succeed. YOUNG WHITE COLLAR MAN. New York, June 30, 1920. In it Amer To the Bilitor of Nhe Evening A few days ago I read u letter in the People’s Column of your publica- tion from a gentleman who heard a speaker addressing a street meetiig for the National Security League. The writer it seemed was so enthused over what he had hear@ that he could not firtd adequate commendatory expres- ston for the Americanism which he claims tha speaker promulgated. Mr. Hditor, I also had the extrem. pleasure last Saturday night at 125th Street and Seventh Avenue to ll to an address on American’ promulgated under the auspices o the National Security League and here {s what I heard: (You'll pardon the language, it is the speaker's, not mine). Personal attacks on Socialist leaders and speakers such 98 Morzis Hiliquit, Scott Nearing, August Claesseno, 8. A. De Witt and othecs Also these jlluminating and higaly American, statements: ‘The Socia’- ists are Mkunks, The Socialists are dogs. The Socialists are -thieves,” &c, His whole speech, lasting over an hour, consisted of such and similar expressions, Now Mr. Editor, ts this preaching Americansm ‘over which our friend in his letter is so enthused? If this is Americanism I for one as a citizen of this country resent it with disgusc. And I am certain all true Americans who are of a different type than the one representing the N, 8. L. will re- to show what the power of money will do, c. C, MeD, New York, July 2, 1920, Pulling or Ahead, ‘To the Editor of The ‘World; The many letters published in your paper in reference to the “white col- lar’ class interest me greatly, as I |myself happen to ve a member of that class. | Ttake this opportunity, through the sent and reject it likewise. . SLAYTON. New York, June 80, 1920, Portia and Shylock. ‘To the Bditor of The Evening World Why should “Fordham,” in his re- ply to my letter, dwell on Shylock’s troubles, centuries ago? I am writing of things as they are. Right now we have many Shylocks in every form, profiteers all, demanding their Bs nd h, and in most cases it is not “GETTING BY.” “I may not be any wonder, but I always manage to get by,” said a young man’ whose ability ought to enable him to do far better than he is doing. Anybody with average intelligence can “get by.” Getting by means earning a fair living, doing just enough work to keep a job, never doing anything really worth while, It is the religion of many men of talent who were Lorn to be really useful in the world. Because it is easy to “get by,” they get nowhcre else. Make up your mind that if you can “get by” you can get on, If you can surmount the ordinary difficulties of life, you can surmount the greater difficulties that lie further on. Of course it will jbe hard work. Nobody with any sense expects to accomplish real results without hard work, No matter how great his ability may be, he must train his mind, and mental training is the hardest sort of labor, and for a long time the most uninteresting. If John Keats, who wrote some of the most beautiful poems in the English language, had been contented with “getting by,” he would have died an obscure versifier. But he was not contented with merely making a living out of his talent. He toiled unceasingly at his writing, tak- ing a notebook with him and writing an endless description in prose and verse of the things he saw. All of these were mere practice, but because of them he was able, in his youth, to write poems like “Thé Ode to the Nightingale” which contains some ef the most beautiful language ever penned, and which will live forever. Don't be satisfied with “getting by.” Very dull people can do that. ,Mere monetary success is common enough, The world is full of it. If you have talent employ it. It is a valuable heritage and you are an unworthy custodian of it if you do not make it useful to your fellowmen, . as a matetr of expression, but of deed. If Fordham and the white collars would devote their thoughts and fenius to problems of the present in- stead of ancient history, they would Also reap the benefits as has organ- labor. Bare’ not resentful of stockholders By Albert P. Southwick. prright, 1090, by ‘The (The New York Kvening World.) 8 nena pnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 1¢. Press Publishing Co\ t'T help support, Under the pres- that I tial conditions I don't blame them as long as they can get away with it. No doubt I would invest If T had the means, as it is the only means at present a working man has of insuring himself and family against that great fear they all have, “pov- erty.” It Is indeed a pity to see worm out and crippled examples of our social and industrial system ‘begging or selling shoestrings on the corners When there is absolutely no excwse (1776-1920), is 144 years old eee Torey ‘aay, we have inetitutiona) Cues, Turkey, Banung It Con- Alas! I fear they are on a par with Alea some of our uplift reformatories Whose appointed tyrants will not al- low the inmates to read a newspaper. If Shylock |s Fordham's martyr and hero, then I deduct we have the makings of another in our midst. At present Portia is mine. UNIQN tor, died this Gay, 1746, in Dubl! A Protestant, he never ceased claim equal rights for an opposit class of bellovers. To-morrow the United States The Dog-Days which were he- lieved to be controlled by Sirius, the Dog Star, began originally on Hg date, terminating on August The Battle of Adrianople was fought on July 8, 348, where Con- stantine, the first Christian Em- peror, took possession of Byzan- Henry Grattan, Parliament ora- | July Harper's, “Fragmentary Blue": Ewen ane @o much of fragmentary ue In here and there a bird or butter- fly, Or flower, or wearing-stone or opem eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?” . “6 A Book of Americanism--+ Here is a book tuat should be in every library, a book to be pondered, to be studied, to be read and reread again, Founded on simple basic principles, it treats both of idealism j and the highest art. Withal, the vol- ume is typically American, Let us introduce: “Mrs, Wilson's Cook Book; Numer- ous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions,” by Mrs, Mary -s: Wilson, Published by J. B, Lippin- cott Company, Philadelphia, Perhaps it 1s presumptuous for mere man to attempt such a review. It is true that at 17 many youths jare proficient in the making of choc- olate fudge. It is true that certain strange male creatures loudly pre- claim a flajr for the concoction of salad dressings, or claim that they poBsess the secret of T-bone steaks, lor stuffed peppers, or flapjacks as |the case may be. But we, the av- erage man, know nothing of this Though many of us have served an |apprenticeship in the dish wiper's leraft since the days of the $25 @ week “household assistant,” cooking {s still a sacred and mysterious fem- inine art. Yet a cook book may allure. Bless \the wise Lippincott editor who sent ‘us this one. For here on page 351 is the receipe for Boston Brown Bread, | Boston brown bread—shades of long forgotten Saturday nights in Dor- chester—it is time that we two, brown bread and 1, should meet again. Barbecue of Rock Fish, see page 482, There is the lighthouse of Seguin, off “r- |the coast of Maine—the long white ‘combers racing in from sea, the ‘beaches and rocky headlands of Par- ker’s Point to the iandward, and in the lee of @ boulder @ driftwood fire with an iron pot for the coming fish barbeoug. Deviled crabs hold forth on page 245, Did you ever stop at that little place on Penn Square in Philadelphia, the one with the long white counter and sanded floor— jwe've forgotten the name—and have deviled crabs and a pepper pot stew? If not, we recommend that you start \for Philadelphia at once, “Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book,” we sa- fute you. Within your pages a¥e pic- ‘ures of dinners that are past, Over your menus of broiled lobster and |planked steaks hover ghosts of de- | parted spirits, Bacardi and that other | Wilaon, Medoc and Moet et Chandon, Through your typed ines float the. picturgs of old banquets, of the tong \tables' at Browne's, and Keene's and | Farrishe’s, and like the echo of a far off. sea the roar of pounded ale mugs comes back to “Mrs, Wilson shall keep you cl when other publisher: ‘ized thrillers, their t and dukes and heiresses, we shall |turn again to you, finding in your common sense and honesty, new fat jams