The evening world. Newspaper, March 14, 1921, Page 18

re i eFtiy vaLortD, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER Dauy Bxcept sui Cempany, Now, 52 to 6: ‘MEMWER OF ‘Asociaued Press ts MAKE A START. UBLICAN leaders in Washington are stil ‘ shall come first. Have they thought of consulting the country? esentafive Frank W. Mondell, He says: 'T want to say that the business of the coun- try ts as much dependent upon relief from the jens of war taxes as on a revision of the laws.” 8% \ Much more dependent, Mr. Mondell, + The tariff is going to be a long job. Only @ a3 Lo of the business of the country is inter- ‘in it Pax revision is comparatively straight sailing. : WL the business of the country is intensely inter- in getiing rid of war levies that put a check terprise. The Republican Platform pledged: ‘he early accomplishment of that real redue- tion of the tax burden which may be achieved substituting simple for complex tax laws F procedure; prompt and certain determina. t of the tax liability for delay and uncer- ty; tax laws which do not, for tax laws “which do, excessively mulct the consumer or jiessly repress enterprise and thrift. mers are waiting. Industry and business are SS Aan. obec nba Bn i “Why not make a prompt start on at least this “tem of the programme the country thought it was for last November ? The first week in May is to be observed as Boys’ Week.” A little early, maybe? Schoo! mn) ‘pt out tilt June, RE OS BATHTUBS. STON ‘now has ten times as many bathtubs in “sproportion to population as it had oe a would he comparatively easy to write a “bath- retation of history’ to rival the recent fad | historical studies. : ae and samitation have played no smal! human progress. It is by no mere accident most democratic nations are the cleanest. civilization developed in warm climates where could bathe in the natural bathlubs of the oivers and seas. bathtub is in a real sense a measure of civiliza- So it was to be expected that the Hub would ‘well With one tub for every 4.4 persons. ér, if must not be inferred that because had only one bathtub for every 40.5 persons 1880 the Hub was either uncivilized or dirty. plain fact is that Monday morning washtubs did Saturday nighis. y years ago the bathtub was a metal affair in wood. It had soldered joints tirat scratche,i It was usually hidden away in the dark. not a standing invitation to cleanliness. The al tub was not much of an improvement copper-hooped tub of oak staves. * Since then the Porcelain enamelled smooth white It is well made. It is Nt is equipped with modern plumbing hot and cold water supply. Modern batt- are white, light and airy. Cleanliness is easy and attractive, It isa pleasure as well eral distribution of bathtubs in Boston- ‘@o the excellence of workmanship and the business ~ of the American bathtub industry, These lacturers not only made cleanliness possibte they advertised the pleasuresand beauties of the ern bathroom. Turn io any magazine or news- , and the chances are you will discover pictures bathrooms that would have aroused the envy of man Emperors. All this is available to humble workers to-day.’ Who shall say that the inventor of the porcelain i batittub should not go down in lnstory with the Barons of Runnymede aad the of the Constitution.as a great leader of Progress? ‘Be This isthe time when New Yorkers know that Collestor Edwards is well nicknamed “Big Bin.” ett 3 tants to. AN EDUCATIVE TAX. O-MORROW is the last day for filing income Wail of the puzzled citizen is loud in the land ly an average American citizen. ‘entitled to the ase for republication eredited 10 lt or ‘B0t otherwiee credited ia this paper as to whether tax revision or the Majority in the House, seems to have had his ear Wid Zisewhere in America—is no mean testimonia’, | erday was “Income Tax Sunday” in the home It was for- indeed, that the weather was generaliy fair, the wife and children could take to the op: lly to wrestle with his | come Tax Law as administered. ‘It is denounced as a “Chinese puzzie”"—and worse. The alphabetical items to be added, subtracted, computed and aree| ranged are a regular nightmare. But in all the complaint against the income tax one striking fact may be noted: Practically all of the complaint is against the intricacy‘ of fhe tax, ant not against the tax ilself. This is highly significant and creditable fo the \ average taxpayer. For the income tax is the fairest and most honest tax we pay, It is an assessment that is approximately proportional to the ability to pay. The principle is right and just, and the Ameri- can people recognize this. There is no appreciable sentiment against the tax. Fault-finding is directed against the complexity of the tax schedules. Aside from its revenue-producing properties, the income tax is highly desirable as an incentive (o sétf- education in political affa Through it the citizen is brought face to face with his Government, He knows he personally is paying his shane of all the Government spends. He has a powerful incentive to make sure ‘the Government spends wiseiy and ecqnomically. This effect is already evident in Washington. Since the income tax has been levied the rivers and harbors “pork barrel’ has become practically a thing of the past. The agitation for a budget system has so increased that we are certain to have budget reform of a sort in the next Gengress. Peopie are awake to the economies of a partial disannamer t programme. There is insistent demand for reor- ganization of the executive department in ‘he in- terests of economy and efficiency. : All these are plainly collateral results of the Income Tax. IN GOOD FAITH. hs the Esch-Cummins bill was enacted the Interstate Commerce Commission played fair Increased freight and passenger rates were author- ized. With a normal volume of business these would have raised the revenue authorized by law. But business fell off. High rates were at least one important reason. The I C. C and the rait- roads encountered the well-known economic :aw of diminishing returhs. Only experiment can tell just where profits witli decrease as rates are increased. But the law of diminishing returns works both ways. If higher rales decreased’ the volume of traffic, it is probab‘e that lower rates would cause a revival of traffic and of earnings. Neither the, railroads nor the 1. C. C. can forecast the exact effect of lower rates until lower rates have been tried. The railroads no less than the I. C. C. ought to play fait under the Esch-Cummins law. So long as there is a possibility that lower rates would in- crease the volume of business and profit, the rail- soads are in honor bound to give it a trial. Surely, reckoning in net totals, the railroads had rather earn a smail rate of profit on a large volume of business than a large, rate of profit on a small * volume. Now the railroads are moving doward a réduction in wages and a decrease in working forces as a means of increasing net earnings. Ai the same time the railroads would be wise to move for a corrz- sponding reduction in rates as a means of stimu lating traffic. If the railroads did this voluntarily they would demonsirate good faith. They would earn public confidence. If lower rates proved less profitable, there would be no just or reasonable objection to a return to present rates. | The Tribune forecasts a concentration of naval force on the Pacific coast. This is to be done, it is explained, “not as a military gesture, but merely as a return sound naval strategy.” It is needless to explain the interpretation which Japanese jingos will put on such “strat egy,” but the country has the consolation that the Pacific is a large expanse of water, and even such a policy works at a disadvantage when it has to be stretched over 8,000 miles of ocean. to PUTTING SCIEN INTO THE TARIFF, (irom ‘The World.) ‘The appointment of Thomas 0. Marvin of Massa- chusetts to the Tariff Commission will be accepted everywhere as a unique pledge of President Hardiug's devotion to that reformatory work. The commission was created to lift the tariff out of the swill-trough of polities and privilege up into the broad realm of human knowledge and action ag a science. How eminently fit Mr. Marvin must be for the place is in- dicated by the fact that he has long been the Secre- tary and spokesman of that justly celebrated New England institution of learning, the Home-Market Club. This manifest purpose of President Harding to re construct the Tariff Commission in more perfect har- mony with the spirit of its creation evidently fore- shadows for the next vacancy the appointment of Prof, Wilbur F. Wakeman from the faculty of New York's equally celebrated Institute of Scientific Precision, more commonly known as the American Protective: Tariff League. To crown this most laudable work of reconstruction The World would suggest for the third vacancy in the commission the nomination of the learned Dr. William M. Wood of the Woollen Trust, whose passion for scien- tifte research is not better known, perhaps, than his One of the Greatest. ‘To the Faitor of The Bvening Work! Woodrow Wilson is a great man and will go down in history as one of the greatest men the United States has ever had, Through eight years af the most trying time in the world’s history, he has brought us out on top—better both financially and eco- nomically than any other country of | the world to-day. Yet, some are not satisfied, people are never satisfied. » Every President makes some mistakes, Some about ex-President Wilson Your paper is the best obtainable. | Your editorials are wonderful, your comic page marvellous, and the car- toons above my conception to ex- press, especially the cartoon “Insep- arable.” Woodrow Wilson broke down his health fighting for his ideals, What did he get for it? The snap of your nger! fnfere's one who will not forget so long as he lives the feats Woodrow Wilson has achieved. MATTHEW J SCHRETTER New York, Maroh 8, 1921 whe Iniqultous Law. To the Editor of ‘The Evening Workd More power to The fvening World for the courageous and uncompromis- ing attitude {t has maintained on the Prohibition question. Of all the influ- ential dvilies of New York it is the only paper which hqs-had the inde- pendence and the feariess courage of men their native sense of honor, the inherited respect for law and their traditional fealty to the Government, and have substituted therefor an att: tude redolent of deceit, intrigu h}pocrisy, defiance of @tatute and contempt for the law { number among my personal as- quaintances some ten cr fifteen young men who are representative of the best type of American citizenship. Prior to the passage of the Prohibi tion Law these young men were co! tent with an occasional glass of beer or an infrequent , cocktail none the worse for it. B these men now has a quantity of villainous whiskey at hame which is doing him infinitely more harm than {all the good beer he could ever con- sume; and, aside from the risk of physical injury involved is the even graver injury to their moral stan- dards, for moral fibre cannot help but deteriorate and be gradually under- From Evening World Readers Whet kind of @ letter do you find most readable? that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fme mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction im trying to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. It seems to me that the American | 9, the bilitor af The Mrening World day the people will learn the truth] against the general public \Secks such diversion as is its convictions, to wage a relentless campaign against this iniquitous “law” known as the Volstead act -Smay his name forever De au- athema in the mouth of every | American citizen worthy of that state, Witoin w_pation.of drinkers of good | (He Pisin tral beers and light wines has evolved a nation of rum and whiskey slaves The “reformers” have taken from | The. Acid: Test! by ‘The tr (Tie Rew York Wveaing World.) Ten’t it the one | peculiar or isolated or due to any| vicious tendencies, but is, 1 judge, | symptomatic of conditions throughout | the country. Human nature cannot | be legisiated. and watil this pernicious | law is removed from the statutes and relegated to the dark ages—which are ity natura) habitat—we shall con- tinue the development of the qualities of hypocrisy and deceit as the out- standing American characteristics. . HB. March 9, 1921. East Orange, ime Al t The Pi Have article just on Mr. leading crusade when it still left to it, and I can’t hold back the im- Pulse to jet you know how I appre- ciate your stand on this and similar questions, and to send my heartiest congratulations to a newspaper hav- ing the courage to stand by the common herd—the multitude—as does your paper. Public opinion (which term is not synonymous with rson opinion” nor with “the opinion of those of giant intellect") is “fed up" and kk unto death of being “formed,” oulded" and “elevated.” Be it known that the opinion of most of us (at least as far as personal havits g0) passed the moulding stage these many years, and is now quite “set.” Before handing us any thore vicious reforms, for God's sake let us swal- low what we have—or try 1°; read your ‘Pnright’s H aaron" 8, 19 Providence, R. fo the Kaitor of ‘The Hraing Work! 1 wish to add my approval to that of ‘T. C.'s in to-day’a issue, Your editorial, “The Ugly Truth,” and the cartoon aceampanying it, sad to re- late, a absolutely true. You should not deserve any credit for publishing h, but, taking into con- sideration’ the circumstances sur- rounding Prohibition, you do deserve It is surprising so many .of vur supposedly reliable publications jare to Insult ‘our intelligence by de- | berately twisting the truth in re- gard to this very serious subject Right is still might—notwithstanding sredit Prohibition, and the un-American manner in whioh it was brought ubout, Keep at it! 1 predict that the deluded and visionary people who believe in Prohibition will be brought to their senses, and join us. The Big Business Interests will see their mia. d also join us. When th Joon League ceases to ontributions, that will end th whole matter. I fail to see Now any thinking per- son, no matter how optimistic and visionary, could be deluded into even thinking that our present form of Prohibition could be anyihing . but the utter failure that it is. Prohibi- tion is “all wrong in principle, and vicious In practice.” L wonder why your correspondents, ined ag the result of constunt eva-| "A Diswopolnted Reador?? “Opti- solvate) tale fate. Cop ipeepn rete Maathied et sions at and defjunce of the laws “Khe mish,” and "A ale Citizen” Ht , ease of these yous tullows is not to your printing the truth, , x t ii a a ai al i taal le lt mt UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Biake)) BE SURE YOU CAN GET THERE START. Now that the Government of Afghanistan has given permission to approach Mount Everest through that country adventurous Englishmen are preparing to scale the highest peak in the world. This has long been their desire. Much can be learned of atmosphere conditions from instruments set firmly at an altitude of 29,000 feet that could not be learned from the same instruments carried on a rapidly moving airplane at the same height. But important a3 it was to scale Mount Everest, it was not sufficienUy important to make war upon and destroy a very savage people in order to do so. Ascent of the mountain by any other route sible. Now it can be done and will be done. There are a good many things that are worth doing that ought not to be done because of the difficulties that stand in the way. BEFORE YOU was impos- And it is always well before setting out on any journey to be sure first that you can get there. .For a man without musical talent to attempt to become a rival of Paderewski would argue more than for his common sense. For’a bey with a flat chest and a feeble constitution to iry to make a college football team would speak well for the boy's ambition but badly for his intelligence. There is something in the world, something useful and important, that you can do unless you are heavily handi capped by physical illness Find out what it is and go after it. But don’t waste your time trying to be an engineer if you have no head for mathe for his courage matiés; don't attempt to be an actor if you have a bad voice; don't try to be a doctor if you faint at the sight of illness. You are starting on a long and important journey which 3) will require a whole lifetime of effort and energy. Be. sure that the destination is obtainable, then bend every effort you possess to attaining it. | Maybe they are professional Probi bitionists. If #0, there is a r iy ee If not, 1 would suggest they make a “Th t a9) | study re, got forget atsafrac | ting that Natur vided us with alcohol in p: unat grows, and ch ful. It has alway {ath Amendment) By Albert ae Southwick Curis, 1821. oy the Preae Publish ie by " York etttirh Wor'd) ne oven oonsider erfectly all right—in fact benet Even A parasang (distancy --to drink jn moderation ) in Persia ts Bidle tells us this. 6,086 yards in Portugal a league is Aside from the many sound argu- | 6,760 yards; in a verat ‘is ments against Prohibition, 1,167 yards, and in Turkeyca berri is be ‘Yenied that it is impos sy beats legwiate a people into being wise or| V8 yards. | temperate, ‘Through education and] ,, ~ strict regulation are the only ways. Nhroughout the world, two person My wife and Mare members of the |! very second Association Against th ibition Sees ; Amendment — (Munsey Building,| Half the people born die before the ‘Washington, D.C.) As most of the of twenty-three members of Congress: were carefully ere selected by the Anti-Saloon League.| In 1716, floating docks wore we cannot expect any help from that source for the next two years un we band together and let our wis! be. known, Congress ls fed to over- flowing with Prohibition propaganda What excuse have we for not leiting ourselves be heard? By ail means doin the association at Washivgton «se waren lea RICHARDSON. ‘Boston, March duced, originated silk-thro Paul bad a carding patent land in 1718 n Kng- e first Cornish (Mngland) engine was bulit in 1812 Tha tablet on the island of Juan! ‘ f a |clang by on three | exander Selkirk, mariner of The Ages By xe yarn _Tonjoror "RIV-CAGLIOSTRO, When Joseph Balsamo was born of the traditional poor but honest parents of Palermo in 1743, Burope Was agape for manifestations of the psychic. As a boy of fifteen he stayed long enough in a mohastery to learn something about chemistry. That brief study opened up to him @ giittering vista of possibilities for furnishing Europe with the wonders that it so eagerly sought. Wxpelied from the monastery for conduct unbécoming an honest boy, Balsamo apprenticed himself to a famous alchemist, or sorcerer, named Althotas, who carried on his profit- able dabblings in the occult at Mes- sina But Althotas was doing business on too smail a scale to suit the mounting ambition of his pupil. Bal- samo induced his master to accom- Pany him to Malta, where he made So profound an impression upon the Grand Master of Mala that he ob- tained from him w letter bighly ree- ommending bim as‘ a scientist, phil- osopher and gentieman. To add to the illusion, Balsamo now took on the name, the style and the preten- sions of Comte Alessandro Caglivstro, After a visit to Dgypt and other parts of the Bast, where he acquired something of the atmosphere of mys- tery which he considered essential to his chosen task of swindling all Burope, he made his grand debut im Paris when he was forty-two. Paris at that time was between « debyuch and a revolution, Comte Ale$sandro Cagliostro burst upon it like an opulent sunrise of hope and relief from its boredom. Having swept through Germany, gorgeously dressed and seated in a carriage with four horses and manned by couriers and equerries in striking liveries, Cagliostro added (o his ostentation in the French capital The business end of hia enterprise bad enriched him in Germany, He offered the same stock in trade in Paris. And here are some of the things which he announced he could do He could transmute base metal | into gold, He could foresee any future event, as he had foreseen the crucifixion of Christ . He could restore health by his divinations, He could call back vanished youth, |not with the gland of a goat but | with an elixir of his own discovery. He could, by the same elixir, make health and youth perpetual. And, lust but by no means least, | ne could restore lost innocence from il# ruins and regenerate moral wrecks. All these are wonderfal things tor ony man to promise to perform, but the most wonderful thing about the get-rich-quick operations of Caglios- tro is that not only.Paris but the | goods as advertised. The rest of the world—with the jsole exception of the incredulous | English. In London the mastor al- chemist, sorcerer and morai uplitter was reduced at one stage in his ‘career to labor as a house painter. Fr this period of honesty proved brief. In the end he imposed even | upon the cold English temperament The little affair of the Queen's | necklace—which another story lianded the bold get-rich- -quicker in |the Bustile for a time. His meteoric | fife ended in prison im Rome after he had made several fortunes out of a credulous Europe. Which teaches us that the science ot humbugging for pay was not in- vented by the late P. T. Barnum, and that oocultism for profit is no new thing under the sun. apes (Are You Observant? WHAT PLACE IN NEW YORK CITY 18 THIS? Read the Answer in the Neat of the Series. i | i No. 12. As you follow the curve of Broad- way, if you have not gone that way for something more than a year, you notice that the battleship that fore merly anchored there is gone. The white ducks of the sailors no longer ewing in the wind, and no satiormen in uniform are sitting under the trees or standing about. ‘The trolley cars des in the space t has been the scene of hundreds of patriotic and political gatherings. The neighborhood has altered but not mproved a great deal, The theatre bn the south side has changed from what it was many years ago to a wau- deville house, but that would not’ be noticed by 4 young person. A couple of the old hotels are still there, but where there were residencs it is busi- ness, some hotises merely remodelled, others rebuilt Answer to” previous Broadway and 110th description— Street Fernander reads: “In memory of Al- a native of Largo, in the County of Fife, Scot- land, who lived on this island in com- plete solitude for four years and four months, He landed from the y ninety-six tons, D. 1704, and was taken off in the Duke privateer, 12th February, 1709. He died Ligutenant of H. M. 8. Weymouth, A. D.’ 1723, aged forty-seven, This tablet is erected near Selkirk’s lookout by Commodore Powell and the officers of H. M. & iz, A. D. 1868." Selkirk was the nson Crusoe of De Foe's fiction. was patented ctiemt in 1836 Sanimel is aE by A bank note issued in China, 200 B.C Iw mped upon it the in- junct‘on: “Hi much you pos- vess, strive to ti thrifty w One thousand cuble feet of 13-candle gas is equivalent to over 7 gallons sperm oil, 52.9 pounds of tallow candies and over 44 pounds of sperm candles. of Oe ear Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ones used the pen-name of “Joshua Coffin” or) news syndicate, and Blizabeth 3 Phelps that of "Truste”