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to and tse the by ‘The Prods Publishing Park Row, New York RALPH PULITZER, President, 69 Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 63 Pork Row. PULITBER 3r., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCLATED PRESS, Ms Amceiated Prem ts WE all mews despatches credited to ft or not otherwise eredited Jocal news published herein. ‘THE PATHFINDER. SHERE is no mistaking the pride, satisfaction and = _ relief with which President-elect Harding pre- _ $ehis to the country the distinguished, able and highly Tespected member of his party who has consented to be his Secretary of State. It is not'only that Mr. Harding counts on Charles E, Hughes at the head of his Cabinet to draw critical eyes from a Mellon, a Daugherty or a Hert further down. Mr. Harding undoubtedly relies on Mr. Hughes for something equally important. The time draws near when the Harding foreign, " Policy (so called) must cease to be of fifty-seven varieties. Angling for votes with pro-League® bait in the morning and anti-League bait in the afternoon was all very well during the campaign. Between Nov. 2 and the present time it has been easy to stall off definitions of Republican foreign Policy on the plea that the proper moment has not arrived. ; But after March 4 somebody has got to formulate and be responsible for a concrete attitude of the Harding Administration toward current international dlaims and problems. Somebody has got to select a few of the Harding utterances regarding foreign relations and blend them . into something that looks like consistency. k That somebody, it seems certain, will be Charles €. Hughes. There was more than a thrust at the Wilson ‘Adtninistration in Mr. Harding’s remark last Saturday when he announced Mr. Hughes’s acceptance of the appointment : “One of the policies of the new Administra: ‘tion will be to let the Secretary of State talk _ for the State Department.” ma Thereby referring pro-League Republicans, bitter- and all the rest who supported Mr. Harding for what they hoped he might mean—to the eminent and highly competent Mr. Hughes. If Mr. Hugives’s attitude toward the League of Nations is to determine the attitude of the Harding Administration, it is worth recalling what Mr. Hughes has said about the League. Both, before and during the campaign Mr. Hughes ‘wa§ more guarded in his public utterances concerning the League than were other leaders of his party. As 4 result he did not have to tangle himself up in later contradictions, like Mr. Taft, He was more cautious | then, He is more likely to be consistent now On the 18th of last September, at the Republican State Convention at Trenton, N, J., Mr. Hughes made a speech in which he declared himself once and for ail against Article X. But he also said; “What are the proper objects of an associa * tion or league of independent nations estab- lished to promote peace? “There may be said to be three: First, Provision for the determination by a judicial “fribuna) of ali justiciuble questions which “arise between nations, and the exposition and evelopment of international law which makes »Passiblethe reizn of justice according to estab- Ushed principles of right. Then there should be the machinery of con eiliation to deal with questions which are the proper subject of consideration and are not justiciable; investigation and recommenda- stion, the securing of opportunity for ‘cooling off,’ and for the influence of friendly advice and sound reason. “Phe proposed covenant contains valuable provisions to this end. “Then there remains the field for interna- tional co-operation, as it may from {ime to time be found advisable, a fleld constantly widening with the demands of intimate inter. gourse and common interests, which may be fostered without imperilling any nation’s secu- » pity or independence.” “Phe italics are ours, In the course of the same speech Mr. Hughes predicted: “Under a Republican Administration we #hall be abdle to retain all that is good in the ‘proposed covenant, while we sball adequately protect ourselves from what js ill-advised and ~ dangerous, and in a sensible manner we shall + @o our full share in securing, so far as muy be _ Possibie, international justice and abiding _ stand by that prediction and make it come true, he ‘exclusively entitled to the wie fer repatitoation tm thls paper too muxh internationalism for the stomachs of bitter- enders who were not satisfied until Candidate Harding came out for flat rejection of the League, ® The Republican America-first-alone-and-all-by- itself contingent that put its hopes in Harding is by no means sure to relish hearing Mr. Hughes “talk for the State Department.” Mr. Harding no doubt congratulates himself on having secured an able pathfinder for the foreign policy that is to be one of the heaviest responsibilities of his Administration, But he has yet to see how many of his own party will dutifully tread the path. THE OLD TRICK? ITH a suspiciously sudden change in sentiment and by a virtually unanimous vote the Senate on Saturday adopted the Dillingham Immigration Bill with prohibitory amendments which in actual effect make it more drastic than the House bill which forbade all immigration with certain exceptions, The maximum of admission under the Dillingham bill would be less than the exceptions which the Johnson bill allowed. How did it happen that the Senators who-have always represented the great employers and ex- ploiters of immigrant labor madé such a sudden right about face? , Less than ten legislative days remain. It will be comparatively simple to arrange for disagreement in conference and for failure to enact either bill or a compromise between the two. This is an old reliable legislative trick. One hand washes the other, and neither is clean. If the immigrant exploiters are curbed by either ithe Johnson or the Dillingham bill, those who have favored rational restriction and_ regulation will have reason for surprise. POWER PLOUGHS MAKE GOOD. NE day’s trial on the present snowfall was enough to demonstrate the value of power- propelled snow ploughs in opening the city’s streets, The sturdy little “tanks” proved they could open a one-way path through heavy snow. On the broad main arteries the ploughs did effec- tive work in preparing the way for hand piling and loading. Much of the heaviest, hardest and most expensive work is done before the squads of men start work. c Unemployed labor, the holiday yesterday and another to-morrow favor the Street Cleaning De- partment. But the outstanding feature of the present snow fighting is the successful application of mechanjcal power to the problam of snow re- moval. This The Evening World advocated last year, and continues to advocate. Having succeeded with mechanical ploughs, let the engineers proceed to design mechanical loaders to take the place of the shovel squads in future years when the labor avail- able is not so plentiful. + Last year's disgraceful tie-up demonstrated the “enormous cost of a traffic block in the city. Me- chanical equipment held in reserve for snow fighting is expensive, but to keep the streets open for traffic is so essential that the money will be well spent. “IT'S ME” DOESN'T PASS “HE DON'T.” HICAGO is the literary capital of the United States, according to Mr. H. L. Mencken. If any one were so rash as to doubt Mr. Mencken's thesis, he would immediately be confounded by Edward J. Tobin, Superintendent of Schools of Cook County, By Mr. Tobin's ukase it becomes yood form and good grammar to use the expressions “It is me” and “He don’t” in the county schools, It may be admitted that “It is me’ has its merits, and by comimon usage is preferable to “It is 1,” which does seem both awkward and bumptious. If Mr. Tobin had stopped there he would have merited more consideration. But “He don’t” has no such support. Generations of American school children have learned to conju- gate the verb “do” as “I do, you do, he does.” Asa contraction “doesn't” is as well recognized as “don't.” Against “doesn’t Mr. Tobin can raise no such obiec- tions as against the egotistical and awkward “I” fol- lowing "is.’” “He doesn't” is neither awkward nor long and clumsy. If “he don’t” is permissible, it is hard to see why “I seen” and “he done” are not to pass his is the best we are to anticipate from Mr. Mencken's literary discovery, why not start a move- ment to move the literary capital to Goph frie Minn. ? TWICE OVERS “c HE largest expenditures to-day by the great nations are for war purposes—armics, navies, armaments, munitions, fortifications. In any case let us not spend our money for fireworks when it is 30 sorely needed for industrial and social development, | improvement and cheapening of transportation and communications, improved roads, schools, homes, health and agricultural, manufacturing and living and working conditions generally.” —Dr. A. F. Woods, President of the University of Maryland. * 8 + 667 T is not possible to make these (immigrant) men Americans by giving them the Constitution | feeommitted to a foreign policy ihat still contains tar to read,” —Samuel Gompers, > q 9 i fe) O 3. Cypyrisit, 1921, ty ‘ine Prine Publ ishling Co, 2h Waar ES, that gives you the worth of a thous te sey much in a few words. Take Helping Hylan ‘To the Eilitor of The Evening Worl As one of the common or garden variety of Tammany Hall Democrats responsible for the election of Mayor) Hylan by supporting the ticket on which he ran, and now desirous of his defeat in the interest of a repre- sentative Government worthy of the great Democratic City of New York, 1 wish to protest against the activi- ties of such sporadic, groundhog or- ganizations as that calling itself the Cleveland Democracy, which does not speak for nor represent 100 Demo- crats in the Greater City, The assurance with which this or- ganization predicts the election of Mayor Hylan on the 5-cent fare is- sue at this early date is seriously im- peding any legitimate or spontancous Democratic effort for ridding the city of the Hylan inoubus. This naturaliy suggests the in- quiry, Are not the real backers of the Cleveland Democracy the chief aids and abetters of the scheme for a con- tinuance of the Hylan dynasty? Or on the other band, may not this movement, which is strictly outside of apd remote from the regular Demdcratic organization, be consid- ered as & smoke screen as well as a backfire to aid Hylan in again impos- ~ himself on the city? Improvisations of the same kind have taken place before !n our muni- cipal politics, notably in the primary tight staged against Mayor Mitchel in his last campaign. As one of many, I would like to take part in what js really needed— an uprising of the rank and file of the Democratic Party, without which Mayor Hylan cannot be repudiated, Most assuredly neither will I nor those who are of my way of thinking ny part in such shifty carry- Jings on as those of the Cleveland Democracy, with its hidden and fur- tive sponsors and no real Democratic following. Nor will we have anything of those silk-stookinged Reform Democrats, who turn up their pious noses at us plain folk. JOHN P, DAVIN, M. D. New York, Feb. 17, | Not Seum othe tatitor of Tue Brening Wor On returning to the city from a six weeks’ tour I find that there haa come to my home letters and tele- phone messages from various people secking explanation of a letter printed over my name in The Evening World of Jan, $a letter of condemnation The letter was signed “Seumas Mc- Manus, New York University, Waverly Place,” and is full of British bias against Ireland in her struggic for freedom. have come from the pen of one who, From Evening World Readers! What kind of a letter do you find most readable? There ia fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Irish Americans working for Irelana. 32) why I demand same. Suoh sentimenta could not possibly When 1 gave her the 25 per cent, By John Cassel of The Ages By Svetozar Tonjorof. ovens, WEL HP Rata, Weak te IX—THE MAN WHO INVENTED IMPERIALISM. Nimrod was the pioneer in the great business of conquest. This gentleman, who antedated Moses, is estimated to have lived about 2,400 years before our era. In Scripture he | 1s described as “a mighty one of the earth,” as the founder of a “king- | gem,” and as “a mighty bunter be fore the Lord.” The record of history seoms to show that his success in hunting big and little game must havo ‘whetted his appetite for hunting men, And he hunted both to some purpose, 3 i] When this bunter appeared in 1) | Lower Mesopotamia, near the head of the Persian Gulf, probably arriv- ing there with a naval expedition, be caused a panic among the natives. Establishing himself on the right bank of the Euphrates, at the place designated in Scripture as “Ur of the Chaldees,” this chief of ‘the tribe of Cush set to work systematically extending the blessings of imperial+ ism to the surrounding péoples. Under him or ‘his immediate suc- ke the Phoenicians, who had es- tablished a flourishing civilization on the shores of the Persian Gulf, aban- doned their homes and fled to the land of Canaan, where they rebuilt their menaced institutions in Tyro | and Sinon. At the same time the Assyrians re- treated in the mass from Babylonia and migrated to the upper reaches of the Mesopotamian plain, and the family of Abraham trekked up the Euphrates as fast as they could go. Nimrod's empire in his own lifetime extended as far as Babylon, of which he is the reputed founder, By this time his successes in hunting both big game and men had so affected his character that he concelved the no. tion that his power was unlimited, The results of his puffed-up pride are related in the Scriptural account of the attempt to “reach unto heaven” by the construction of the Tower of Babel. This original revolt against the gods may or may not be history in the precise meaning of the word, but it serves as a revelation of the ambitious and ruthless persona!- ity of Nimrod. The failure of the empire-building enterprise involved In the building of the tower is typical of the futility of any dream of empire based upon the subjection of great masses of human- ity and the illusory character of any political structure cemented with the blood and tears of conquered peoples. Nimrod’s conception of society seems to have been quite simple. Like the Pharaohs, he regarded mankind as divided into a vast majority and an infinitesimal minority. The mi- nority wielded the whip, and the ma- Jority submitted to it. This conclu- sion ts plainly conveyed by the en- terprise of his auccessor, Urukh, who built enormous structures, including a considerable number of pyramid- like temples, to serve as visible signs of the glory and the permanence of the Chaldean Empire. Isn't it the one and words in a couple of hundred? time to be brief. MoManus at the New York Univers- ity. Moreover there is no other than Lin America bearing the name SEUMAS MACMANUS. New York, Feb. 17, 1921. The Amertcan Co-operative. To the Editor of The Brening World | If there was really bona fide} honest, whole hearted desire in this world to provide equal and equitable employment for every ablebodied person, then the methods of the American Co-operative Association would be inaugurated and given a fair trial, By these methods there would be provided ‘continuous em- ployment for everybody for not longer than thirty-five hours a/-week —five hours a day at seven days a week and $1.20 an hour. , By a five-hour day, running five hour shifts a day, each shift starts work one hour later each succeeding day, thereby compelling a fair divi- sion of the labor, This enables each person to enjoy day work as weil as might work and distributes fairly and evenly wovk done on all five shifts. Nature doesn't stop work on the seventh day. The planets never cease revolving, nor sun, Moon and stars to-perform their allotted work, Then jet man do the same on a co-opcra- tive basis, No person being, as now, permitted to “hog’ overtime, while ‘others are unable to get work. Laborites take la day off, but do their wives gct a holiday? | Rather labor thirty-five hours each weven-day week and take exch year one holiday of four weeks out of fifty-two weeks. That is the plan of the-founder (in 1881) of the AMERICAN CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION New York, Feb, 12, 1 ne Up. To the Waiitor of The Kvening World In regard to getting around the rent laws, I for one agree with Oliver Goodwin, 1 am a tenant and can come to no satisfactory agreement with my landlord. There is no but for me to wait until udy to take me to court and haye her attorney, whom she is. confident will win out for her, get just whaT she demands. On May 1, 1918, I rented a cold water flat at $20.00 a month; in 1919 1 was raised to $22.00 and March 1, 1920, | was raised to $25.00 a month, When the 2 per cent. question came. up in September, my landlord said all the others are getting it, that's No place to find all over Brooklyn, I had to pay the increase, which was then up to $27.50 a month, .;she promised not to raise rent for @ Committee with UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) WHAT IS YOUR PERCENTAGE? Are you a twenty per cent, man or an eighty per cent. mun? We are not referring to your patriotism but to the extent to which you utilize your power, Efficiency is a sadly overworked word, but apply it to yourself as it is applied to a steam engine or to the amount of power that can be ex- tracted from coal, and then, if you can, estimate your per- centage. If it is down to twenty you amount to very little. as high as eighty you are considerably above the Nobody rates at 100 per cent., not even geniuses. There are, of course, wide differences in men at their birth. No amount of practice at the piano could have made a Paderewski out of Lloyd George, And no amount of study of statecraft could have made a Lloyd George out of Pade- rewski, as the latter discovered when opportunities for a career of statesmanship offered themselves to him. But neither of these men, able and talented as they were born, could have achieved their present greatness if they had not attained by hard work a very high percentage of ef- ficiency. The one by long hours at the piano forced his fingers to learn how to express the music that was in his soul. The other, toiling day and night over the problems that came to him, thinking constantly of the future and al- ways being ready for promotion when it came, built a re- markable and rapidly working thinking machine inside his skull. veloped the energy that is in you. Many a slow thin’ had. along that they leave half their power idle. Increase your percentage regularly and don't worry about the future, for you are thereby making the sible provision for it, Your mental machine once developed ‘vill automatically make good use of ybur energy. have first got to make it an efficient machine, You may not have been born with genius, or even with a talent, But you were born with energy and with the power of thought. If you are a failure it fs because you haven't de- ig man has outstripped a more brilliant rival simply by using every pound of power that he Skilful teachers, of whom thene are altogether too few in this world, can inspire dull boys to great efforts and fit them for useful careers. Often they have more trouble with bright boys because the latter find it so easy to get her, had # hearing | ure willing to pay $43.00 for the flats One of thesa, the temple mound at Warku, is estimated to have had 4 cubie content of not less than three million feet and to have contained about thirty millions of sun-dried bricks, The records indicate that these vast structures were the work of forced labor, furnished by captives. It is safe to assume that nobody ex- cept the King who was building these temples had any interest in them and that they did not serve any purpose except to glorify the imperialist who had them built. And yet every brick was made, transported and laid by a man who was thus taken away from the pro- ductive labor of providing for himself and for his family. Nimrod's “kingdom” lasted only long enough to set the fashion of conquest which has been so industri- ously followed ever since. But no na- If itis | tion is celebrating Nimrod's birthday = as a great inspirational event, average: All of which goes to show the size of the stride which mankind took when a handful of American colonists on July 4, 1776, made the momentous declaration that all men are born free and equal, and the vast importance of maintaining the principles of that declaration inviolate. Are You Observant? WHAT PLACE IN NEW YORK CITY IS THIS? | Read the Answer in the Nest of the Series, The termini of the clevated ana surface cars have been left behind, From the subway the crowd has poured and joined the procession, while in the centre of the street with no crosstown traffic to handle the traffic policeman takes caro of the common people, stepping on one another's heels to get downtown to work, At the triangle the wind awirls and eddies, hats are blown oft and umbrellas turned inside out as the crowd pours Into the one street and overflows from the sidewalk, The horses attacked to the heavily laden trucks with their great rolls slide and slip on the down grade as their hoofs strike fire on the granite pav- ing blocks, Before the workers have reached this point they have had a Jook at the clock s& familiar to all Once past the triangle and the clock will be out of sight Answer to previous publication — Metropolitan LAfe Building, 23d and Lexington Avenue. —— Words From the Wise Manner is all in all, whate'er ts best pos- But vou like me, has been licly identifiedew: land's freeing. ret w LONE years pub- the work for Ire. notice that rent would be $30.00 90 Seumas mooth Jan. 1, 1921, year, but on Dec, 1, 1920, sent me Went to Mayor's ‘an additional increase was added foe taxes, &c., percentage being increased to the highest rates, and she was told they would be much lower than figured, but she stated that the first floor brings $30.00 and if I paid $80.00 she would be gatisfied, as the reason she asked for same was she could not raise store rent owing to a lease which has some time to run before it expires. I agreed to pay $30.00 and figured it proved that she was getting a fair percentage on her investment. Qn Feb, 1 she serves first and sec- ond floor tenants with a notice that beginning Apri! 1, 1921, rent for fate wil! be $85.00 a month. Pay up in- crease or vacate are her orders, as ahe has @ waiting list of tenants whe and do all repuiring. writ Is this Justice to the tenants that they must look for a roof over their heads? The landlords want the crease, but they don't care \ methods one hus to take to get money for them, Move is all they say, If you can’t pay what they ask, take the children away from echool—— put them in another. What if they are put back a term? What does the landlord care? In the most cases rent raising ig} OCCUPY the whole uncalled for and not only « menace| it: to the education of the chiidien, but| + to the struggling parents as weil, who are the breadwinners of thelr homes, Give the tenants fair justice and an even chance, that’ al) they ask from the courts. TENANT, tre The tend'rest ties Kavy is a friends have broken.—Anonymous, littleness of soul which cannot see beyond a cer- tain point, and if it does not space feels self excluded,—Hazlitt, is thus that on the choice of The substitute for genius, sense and wit.—Cowper. And idle jests, untimely spoken, often Our good or evil name depende, ~—Gay.