The evening world. Newspaper, August 5, 1920, Page 22

THE ANTI-VOLSTEAD PLANK. “]]NCORPORATED in the Democratic platform & ] ‘adopted at Saratoga is the following plank: We favor a& amentiment to the so-called Volstead Act thet will make operative the aot Gov, Gmith, defining non-intoricating bever- ages and providing for the regulation of thelr sale. This plank Mayor Lumn of Schenectady opposed ‘and endeavored to have stricken from the platform. Only thirty-four votes indorsed Mayor Lunn’s Proposal. In opposing this’ plank, Mayor Lunn etarged that “it is in direct violation of the action taken by the National Democratic Convention.” - Again Mr. Lunn said: any action whatsoever regarding the liquor question. The State Legislature would have to fly In the face of the Constitution of the United States as well as the decisions of the United States Gupreme Court even in an at- tempt to act. In both theSe statements Mayor Limn was mis- taken. The New York platform does not conflict with the National platform. Since the National platform js silent on the question the State platform is merely vor does the platform fly in the face of the Con- stitution of the United States and the Supreme Court. It does pledge the Congressmen elected on the platform to an effort to modify the Volstead Act. It does serve notice that the Democrats of New York propose to use legal and — means to effect this change. The right of Congress to determine what vonstl- tutes an intoxicating liquor under the Eighteenth Amendment is not questioned. ‘New York Democrats propose to exert thelr Political power to effect.a change in definition, to enact a true, fair and honest definition. Working for modification of the Voistead Act is not “nullification.” The Democracy of New York propases to. oppose a falsehood written into law by ® Congress which subordinated itself to the Anti- Saloon League. ‘New York Democracy upholds constitutional law. It seeks change in statute law under the Con- . stitution, DOOMED AT THE START. IGHT to trial by a jury under civil law and the , prohibition of ex post facto legistation are two important traditions of the Anglo-Saxon her itage. Lloyd George's latest programme for dealing with Ireland—if it can be called a programme— flies full in the face of these traditions. Many who might even sympathize with the suspension of civil law will be unable to approve the ex post facto pro- visiorts of the dif. ‘ When England realizes the import of these fea- tures it is hardly conceivable that Parliament will approve so revolutionary a proposal even in dealing with so disturbing an element as Ireland. And assuming that Parliament may accept the Premier’s conclusions, it is a foregone conclusion that they will only serve to stiffen Irish resistance, as well they may. Even the moderate Irish, who dis- approve and deplore Sinn Fein and all its works, will restst such a measure of coercion. Whatever the remedy for Irish ills may be, this latest effort of Lloyd George certainly carries small promise of success. ° OBSTRUCTION WILL FAIL. EALTY interests are in large measure responsi- ble for the necessity of a special session of the Legislature next month. In the regular session all the influence of those most experienced in real estate matters was ex- erled in a purely negative manner. They were more interested in defeating the dills proposed than in advocating a progressive and constructive pro- gramme which would both meet the necessities of the rent crisis and stabilize and encourage the real estate business. ‘Then, when the tide of public opinion, driven by the “We-want-all-we-can-get” sentiment expressed at the Hotel Astor meeting, engulfed: them and over- whelmed their. opposition, they had no substitute plan. The result was a lopsided programme, half a Programme, a programme so imperfect as to need revision. Now the leading real estate interests will have an opportunity to redeem the mistake of last winter hy formulating a constructive half of a programme which will promise sufficient relief, so that the ten- ants, will not insist on merely “putting more teeth” in the present rent code. Yesterday the realty interests appearing before the : Elation Sub-Committee at Saratoga opposed the tate-wide housin isn eiealies by. Be Recon The only remedial 4 “TRE nvENiNe wort, THURSDAY, tion the real estate interests offered involved tax exemptions. Such a plan will not satisfy the demands of the tenants. Real estate interests may as well under- stand that now as later. Unless they are able to get together and then meet the tenants half way, they are scheduled for another application of the steam roller that flattened them out last winter. Associations of landlords and owners might far better make constructive plans than to content themselves with obstruction. Now is the time to do so, and then convince the tenants of the good faith and effectiveness of the programme. A BUNCO PROGRAMME. EPRESENTATIVE C. BASCOM SLEMP of Virginia, fresh from a conference with Sen- ator Harding, is authority for an interesting state- ment of Republican taxation and finance policy. © Senator Harding is pledged to call an extra ses- aa is elected. a This Congress, according to Mr. Rien vols Revise and possibly entirely repeal the ex- cess-profits tax, Immediately abolish the Government tax on freight and passenger traffic, Matertaliy modify the tnoome tax schedules and bring about @ very considerable reduo- tion in them. Fine! This is interesting news tndeed. Who is there who does not hate to pay taxes and deplore the necessity for them? But hold! Where will the money come from to tun the Government? Mr. Slemp has a suggestion for that too. Mr. Slemp prescribes a protective tariff. This is good old Republican doctrine, Did familiar. ‘The principal trouble with this dea is thet ft com- pletely disregards the cold, hard, matter-of-fact fig- ures of our national finance. Customs receipts for last year amounted to ap- proximately one-quarter of a billion of dollars, out of a total revenue of more than six billion, or less than 4 per cent. of the total. An 1910, the bai year for customs receipts, the United States collected one-third of a billion in tariff. “Last year New York State alone paid nearly one and one-half billions to the United States Col- lectors of Internal Revenue. i Mr. Slemp's will not sotve the prob- lem. Heiust get down to cases and tell us where the money fs coming from. bonds ‘back to par. Economy will help, but before afl bothersome the Republicans will predictions he is merely angling for votes, - air for bait. He ts as engaging as a bunco To keep the record straight it should be recalled that the present Administration has repeatedly rec- ommended the revision of the excess-profits tax, 2 recommendation which the Republican Congress has steadfastly ignored, preferring to promise dur- ing the campaign rather than to perform before the campaign. ALL THE MORE REASON. T° justify his opposition to Mayor Hytan’s veto ales keen os straight” salary grab for political appointets in municipal offices, Comptrol- ler Craig threw something of a bombshell yester- day by revealing a whole list of increased county salaries sneaked through in the closing hours of the last Legislature. The fact that these salary boosts were so care fully concealed from public notice for so long a time is perhaps as effective a commentary on their justification as anything that coukl be added. But this list does not seem to strengthen Comp- troller Craig’s position. Quite the reverse, it would seem. If the Legislature has saddled New York taxpay- ers with these ufavoidable salary payments, then all the more reason that the taxpayers should not be burdened with the obligation to pay other in- creases pn other political sinecures. UNFAIR COMPETITION. (From Coltier’s,) Our valued contributor, George H. Ruth, has been shooting at a record this year. The American peo- ple have been cheering him on. Measure their en- thusiasm against the “demonstrations” at Chicago and San Francisco, and you meesure the roar of Verdun aguinst your baby’s popgun. One day on Market Street, just as the swing to Cox began, we bought am evening paper. There was @ red streamer across the top-—"Babe Ruth Beaned.” Down below, tn modest black ink, wes the news of the convention. Buying that paper to read about Ruth reminded us of a remark made cight years ago at Armaged- don, The long three-cornered battle was drawing to @ finish, Col, Roosevelt thumbed over the evening papers, The Giants and the Red Gox were on every front page. “I wish this World Geries were over,” fhe said, “eo people would have @ chence to read wbout polttios.” os SAY FIRST LOAN, LOAN ME A NICKEL To PAY EXPENSE WHAT | OWE HIM Say THIRD LOAN, LOAN ME SEVEN CENTS TO PAY SECOND LOAN WHAT | OWE PIM WHERE A GOING TO Syn NINE CENTS To PAY ‘ME OD THANK YOu EXPENSE | Can You Beat It! aveu 1"LL LOAN You | ANICKEL IF YOu’ Lt PAY NE ) ONE CENT INTERES LITTLE INCOME | I'L LOAN You SEVEN CENTS IF You't PAY ME ONE CENT INTEREST te Ree Nes Say TO PAY FIRST LOAN To PAY THIRD LOAN WHAT | OWE HIM SAY SECOND LOAN, LOAN ME SIX CENTS WHAT | OWE HIN SAY EXPENSE, LOAN ME EIGHT CENTS 1M THROWGH BORROWING 1AM GOING INTO BANIKRUPTCY | I'LL LOAN YOu | SIX CENTS IF mv YOU'LL PAY NE > \ ONE CENT INTEREST! 14 ‘LU LOAN EIGHT CENTS IF YOU'LL PAY ME “ONE CENT INTEREST FROM EVENING WORLD READERS What kind of letter do you find most readable? Ien't it the one that-gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental egercise and a tot of satisfaction in trying to say much in a few words, Take time to be brief. | Will be Here alone, they (nainuate, human life te free, Yet America’s “pussytoot” Prohibi- thon leasens the power of physicians to relieve and cure their patients, I believe that if the pe | ry which ie in Entel would attention to the farmer and then millions of Roop le ed. PRUS! Cranbury, N. J, July 30, 1020. Teo Oream. ‘Te the Ritter of The Dvening Workt: On’ reading the letter published in your paper dated Friday July 30, 1920, under the heading of “Ice Cream,” I Rittcat party pay more at consumer, is | feel inclined to reprimand the author, How many kide have oe I have three chfkiren.” iM 1s the landlo in order to do justice to honest ice cream merchants, Instead of complaining about sour rd, |cream and discourteous service, why many!’ shri almost Lv Seiad his door in the face of the mol IR Brooklyn, Aug. 2, 1920. ‘The ¥. M. ©. A. ‘To the Diitor of The Evening World: I wonder if I could seoure from your readers the name of a swim- ming club in Manhattan which has @ pool for use In Winter. A club with moderate dues. CARROLL, New York, Aug. af 192 Does Brutality ourst To the Editor of The Drening World A “tip” for that “bird” that signed Limseif “Anti-Crook.” He said that prisons ought to be made “hell om Poor simp! Little he knows that “brutality” never did and never will stop orime, To make a long story short, 1 pulled a big “fve” in State privon, where it was really a on earth.” It didn't cure me I'm doing elghteen menths in another “one,” What next? a ¥. Tomato of ald well, N. J. July 26, One and all will agree that the farmer is most needed, for he sup- plies the world with produce by which @U can live,” He is the one who has doesn't your esteemed reader patron- 1z@ an up-to-date fountain where be will got full value for his money and enjoy the returns? There are a good many of these places in the city, and instead of saving steps it would pay him-etter to guard his stomach. The very appearance of a | usually suggests the craality of the stock served within. would advise the reader to Garriiina a better-class place and he will receive better qual- | ‘eat ity products aléng with courteous service, Does one shyster lawyer make the entire legal profession bad? The public are really the ones to blame, As long as they are foolish enough to continue patronizing these shysters who pose as ice cream ex- perts the honest merchants, as well as the public are going to suffer, Exterminate them by denying them our patronage. " baat) JOSEPH B, DOWNEY. 4227 Broadway, Y¥., Aug. 1. Th To the Biltor of Tow Evening Work! Will you kindly advise me as to the formation of a drop of rain, I have always been under the impression that im the centre of every raindrop there was @ rer of sand, but have eral times, wer’ or wrong bik: CONSTANT RBADDR. the riskiest investment, for if after plan: the seeds @ etorm should come then he loses atl, The speculator, when the farmer comes to pel tie crops, does not consider the poor farmer's side of the story, but own. Let us take, for example, rye and ‘the services of @ man Seat, “Taking in alt minor expenses costs more than $12 for a farme: in a ton of rye. Is this In the city, nevertheless, the bread is suill high. This g that the speculators and porgtions are reaping a@ large hur- ‘Who are the sufferers?) The farmer and the consumer, Pg that the farmer 4s comm jencing to dig bis potatoes the profits a all Cay of excuses and vations to Jud + 80 sa to make both must Ge done to atop this si aa wa Te , | not be final. would he relégating powers of divinity ; Court Brooklyn, N. ¥., Aug. 2 1920. ‘The Gupreme Court. ‘To the Estitor of The Evening World : As the Constitution of the United States ig the supreme law of Nivea land, for that very eu ie fy hold that Proirsh 74 interpretations 01 man defined by the Supreme Court should If such were the case it ae apse te the voloe of the ‘The people, not of the lawyers. Kt is within the province of the jurists to serve the people, not to a WILLIAM REID, Loring Place, July 27, 1920, A ‘Feretgner’s Dilemma. ‘To the Biitor of The Yvening Workl* An I hearing. wit PR mndaced fervor, for his Thturelisation pal hat is @ republic?” dron Whee pe ee h state than the whole crew of petty politicians who trample upon our define @ republic, “The applicant whose request was re- New York, A ‘pw the Bitter of The Kreniug Works Tt able hanake separations difficult und tegai- a. X, gi iieel troubled brow beter rows brow betrayet peotound|ot support i put won te man hougiht and conaternat something to eat?” Gusrnee | ‘the aulse after a alight suspense baffled and overwhelmed by @ ques- } tion that even the keen mind of Piato \eould not answer satisfactorily, shook his head in the affirmative. ‘The court roum resounded with up- roarious Jaughter, Speaker Sweet can sing Spangled Banner” backward, but this simple every-day toller, imbued with the true epirit of freedom and dem- UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 19%, by John Blaba) WHAT YOU WANT IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT YOU NEED. When you were a baby you probably wanted the moon, Superfluous wealth, social seem prizes while you toil for them. They turn outtvalue- ‘ less when you have got them, Plan your life with moderate ambitions to possess. HeaJth first, competence second, then enough of beauty and travel to make life enjoyable. Beyond these your needs will confine your wants to them, and not work with your eyes on worthless prizes, you are far more likely to live appily and die happily. “Is Our friend, “The Star- {a of greater value to the ored rights and who can quite easily fused stpuld be granted hia, papers mrenyack MALTZ. D wae ne way to prevent divorces is to alimony unprofitable, Somarite Ssistitn Jews Ta woman into ® © defuite ubiigation You learied later that you did not need it. Doubtless now you want a yacht and a million dollars to buy coal for it. To-morrow you will Jearn that you don’t need the yacht either and can dispense with the million dollars, Most of us go through life ‘wearing out our streagth and destroying our peace of mind in a quest for something that proves wholly useless when we get it-if indeed we ever do get it. The science of living is getting along without every-: thiag that is not necessary. We do not mean by that that men and women must dispense with luxuries, for luxuries are often needful. This would be a bleak world if we possessed only food and drink and shelter. Music, pictures, books, travel, all are good to have—all are needed to make existence complete. can obtain them ought to do so. But you will find, if you stop to think, that at least half of the things you fancy you want are not only unnecessary, but would prove really worthless if you got them. Take stock of the possessions of your well-to-do friends, and you will speedily discover that many of the things they worked hardest for do them no good whatever, And every one who position, excess of leisure, all are very small. And if you of support ts put upon the man,| t|whergas she is legal roe YY obligated to ‘The domestic relation laws should be amended along the following lines: 1. A definite obligation of service and good will shall bind her just as the definite obiigation of support is bindjng him. 2. Separation cases should he tried by a jury of men and women or by an arbitration board of both sexes, with power to investigate all charges prior to giving a decision, but not by a single judge, as now, % ‘There should be no such iaw as separating two people forever. 4. If @ separation is justified, uli mony shall be given rding to @ fixed table. 5, Tr whe is able to for her own support, cic receive any alimony 6. A wife wixill not receive dower rights tn her jusband's property. un lesa whe has a hand in helping create sume 1. If after three years livi they refuse to come togetho, miss Ta ptseeenn ans! hen ener we The Love Stories | of the Bible [By Rey, tite Ni ¥t T + »mas B, Gregory » 1 Prwe Cuhao Eroning World On No. 3- David and Michal, nel, one Of: tha nh every way tn histo: y, and Mi. type Michal was tho v modesty, sn Merab to David, vid and asainest an didn’t work, given to anouver, and the between Saul and hiv daughte to destroy David failed, In the mean time it developed that David sincerely loved Michal, and rd pressed by the Phil- % promised Michal to Duyid it 0 out aguinst the PHilis- tines and slay them.” David smote the Philistines hip and thigh, and as the reward of his valor received the woman he so dearly loved, Michal, There iy everything to show that basically David was one of the finest characters made known to us by hig-' tory. In simple-mindedness, simple confidence and rock-ribbed manliness Davidgwas in his earliest manhood a paragon. He loved Michal and Michal returned his love in full measure. Michal loved David as deeply as her father, Saul, hated him, and the very. fact that, In spite of her royal father's hatred of him, #he clung to her hua band shows the kind of stuff#he was made of * Saul was incorrigible in his hate for David, und the more his daughter loved him the more he resolved to - destroy him. His death was decreed, and the machinery for his destruc~ tion was set in motion, but Michal warned David and he was saved. What a beautiful touch of wifely fidelity is seen in the following: “She let him down thraugh a window, and he went and fled and escaped.” ‘Then, she laid an !mage in David's bed and put @ pillow of goat's hair for his bolster and covered it with a cloth: and when the morning came and Saul’s messengers demanded David, she told them he was sick, and they went away. Saul, upon discovering the situation, was furious and for six years (during which period she did not once see her husband) Michal’s existeace was a living hell. \ But there ts an end to ‘ell things, as Napoleon said when the Shatow of ot St. Helena loomed up before him, and in due tlme David came into his own, and the first thing he thought of was, “Where is Michal?" One of the big men in Israel at this time was Abner, Barnes thinks he Is a big man in New York, but Barnes te not helf as big in the Empire State as Abner was in Israel, and just as |eoon as David got into power he said to Abner, “Give me Michal. Find her and deliver her to me, and don'ts let the grass grow under your fest while you are about it, either.” She was found at once and returned to the new monarch, and any one with even half an imagination can under- stand the joy of David's heart at the reunion, And just-here in the «1 part of the stot Miohal was Seer by any sense a religious woman. Her |religion was to love David—and to [ay Crom She wae SEiearul 25 the last. Tt may be sald that Michal’s char- |acter ts not one to linger on with un- |diluted admiration, but she loved David, and it is fine to know that to the last David kept the cosiest and: most sacred corner !n his heart for |the memory of perhaps the only wo- mam be ever really and truly loved. pied cinesi ssn vebag | (Se “That’s aFact’ By Albert P. Southwick Copyrignt, 1920, by The Press ivublishing Ca, York Brening World.) Bowling Green, New York City, | was a veritable one, with an iron | railing around {t, still remaining, . with the exception of the top balls. These were broken off by the Americans and used during the Revolution. Permission had first , been granted, in 1783, to three families to use the green for bowl- | ing. At No. 1 Broadway, where there | !s now @ tall office building, was as th nedy House,” the home of many historic associations, . | On July 26, 46 B.C. Julius Caesar arrived at Rome from At tica, celebrating his — fourfold triumph of victories over the Guuis; over Ptolemy, in Dgypt over *hurnaces, in Pontius, and over Juba, in Africa, Games and | | feasts followed. | In 1659, this day, the Jaland of Montreal was invaded by 1,200 In- dians, who burned the plantations | and with every barbarity mas- eucred the men, women and chil- dren, Only July 26, 1775, the Maryland Convention met ut ‘Annapolis and resolved to support the measures of Congress, also ordering forty companies of “minute men,’ ‘The name Chelsea (strost and square), in New York City, waa bostowed by Col. Clarke, a ‘noted soldier, in honor of bis own home in England, The naine Greenwich, in the metropolis, had its rise in one of | the estates purchased Warren, K. B. and from ‘his earnings ried, about 17 De Lancey, an theives of Now York City, Of the three daughters of Vice- Admiral Warren, his only heirs, Ohanlotte the eldest, married Wil- loughby, Karl of Abingdon; Aon married Charles Fitrroy, afterward ‘Baron Southampton, ‘and Sus sunnah, the youngest, Col, Wil- liam Skinner.” ‘There ‘was, soon after, a Skinner Road, a Fitarey mid and a Southampton Road, in w York City but the only sure vival to-day in Abingdon Square, Tn 1699, Capt. William Kidd wha, xid of hunting pirates had ibe- ww one, stopped in Long Teta Sound at twoor Sires Py bg he buried treasure « oat sat te Enge xesien. wae wrenied, | id and hanged. a broad, spacious mansion known +