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PASS THE COTILLO BILL. BILL which should have the support and vote of every member of the Legislature, and par- ticularly members from this city, is the Cotillo bill _ hich empowers the State to regulate and super- _ vise money agencies that take money from persons “@esirous of sending it to friends or relatives abroad. ‘The shocking abuses that have grown up un- ¢ the present system which permits self-styled 1 articles in The Evening Worid. . to put a stop to the shame- i of poor aliens and citizens of for- E birth who send sums of money out of this J ‘The bill puts no restraints upon legitimate bank~ * Tt only brings a class of swindiers within of the law and provides protection for per- A $ agencies. ; ‘The bill should be promptly passed by the Leg- ‘isiature, signed by the Govemor and become a law of the State. have caused many a driver to run whitened post or tree reflects the warns the driver. New Jersey plan proves effective, other States will follow, the example where it the only advantage be in night driving. “Whitewash has a psychological value. It suggests “cleanliness, neainess and order. If the fence-posis “along the road are whitewashed it will be a con- ‘Stant suggestion for farmers to keep the weeds cleared away and fence-corners tidy. If the State starts the job at danger spots, the ownefs are likely to finish it. It is not impossible that before long we may have many roads with a suggestion of that cleanly order associated with the New England village ‘where whitewash and white paint provide a pecul- far charm and beauty. _ WHAT THE JURY SWALLOWED. moet AL of Harry S. Black on the charge of having fifty-three cases of fine liquor aboard his private car in Florida is a merry yarn. > jury is reported to have swallowed some of ‘the evidence in the case, anti then to have swal- lowed Black's story that he had ordered his car 46 lay in some fancy grapefruit. The porter Supposed to have “misunderstood” his boss, this und nding accounting for the liquor found. , Whether Mr, Black is accustomed to allow his $8,000 for the purchase of a supply of fi appears not to have been established. ‘rial seems to have been a variation of a col- ts A is a highly significant example of the difficulty— the impossibility—of enforcing a law which is con- trary to public sentiment. It is no less a striking illustration of the inequity of a law which enables the man who can afford to spend $8,000 for | “grapefruit” to enjoy forbidden fruit which his less affluent neighbor is denied. i awe| + After the farce enacted in the Dade County Court, Prohibition enforcement ought to be a dead issue | in Miami. It would be an intolerable discrimina- tion for a jury to convict a poor bootlegger after it had condoned rich Harry Black's mistake, a) Heme, THE LIFTING FORCE. VEN before the publication of Mr. Lansing’s book “The Peace Negotiations,” the Lansing point of view was apparent in an article in the Sat- | unday Evening Post in which the former Secretary of State discussed Mr. Wilson as one of “The Big Four of the Peace Conference.” In that article Mr. Lansing was so maladroit as to upset his own argument and leave it sprawling. Mr. Lansing’s chief complaint against Mr. Wilson was that the latter did not “inflexibly demand fhat no terms should be written into the treaty which were not wholly just,” but instead wan support for the League of Nations covenant “by compro- mise with those who demanded the material re- wards of conquest.” oi Yet, after developing this thesis, what-does Mr. Lansing in the same article admit? That, aside from the League covenant: “As a definitive treaty of peace negotiated in the way and at the time it was, tt would have been difficult to have obtained @ better one, considering the numerous conflicting interests ‘and the intemperate.spintt of vengeance which ‘then prevailed." ‘ in other words, there had to be a treaty. No éreaty was possible without concession and compro- mise. Mr. Wilson did not do his best to make the Versailles Treaty impossible, Therefore, Mr. Wil- son ‘was ' Some day {tie whole worid will agree about what Mr. Wilson did to the Treaty of Versailles. He did not make ét perfect. Nobody could have done that. \ ‘What he did do was to bring to bear upon ft the ‘strongest morai lifting-power civilization was capa- tie, at that moment of great need, of exerting. The lifting-force was the lifting-force of what the enemies “of Mr. Wilson scornfully refer to as his ideats—ideals which were then the best and highest hope of war-ridden peoples. The lifting-force did not lift the Treaty of Ver- saifles to a plane of umselfishness. But it did fift and keep the treaty on a higher level than it would ever have reached if only selfishness, cynicism and revenge had compromised to place it. Some day History, measuring the motives and the vast interests involved, will say whether it thinks this a mean achievement for a man. POWER AND FRE!GHT. SERIOUS (proposal to deliver coal to New York City by a pipe-line was recently made. Coal would be carried by a rushing stream of water. When it reached the city the stream of coal-carrying water would pour over a screen, aflowing the water to escape, leaving the coal clean, eS a scheme may seem fantastic, but we of the present generation have learned to be cautious in deriding mechanical innovations. Our fathers “taughed at the mere suggested possibility of things we could not do without. ‘The plan is an indicationvof the thought directed toward the elimination of Yreight costs which now burden coal consumers. Here in New York the Interborough has explained that freight on coal is now 55 cents more a ton than the pre-war cost of coal laid-down in the city. The so-called “Super-Power Zone” plan seems a more promising method of eliminating freight on coal. The Government is investigating and an early report is expected. In this project all the great water power in the territory between Boston and Baltimore would be linked together through a high-voltage transmis- sion system. This would distribute electric current for industrial power, railroads and traction lines and lighting to all the congested industrial territory of the Eastern States. New water-powers would be developed, but all the water-power in the area would not supply the demand for power, The excess current woukd be generated in huge, modern and highly efficient power plants located convenient to the coal mines. Such plants would have the additional advantage of making efficient use of low-grade coal which now goes go waste because it is not worth the freight charge. This is truly a magnificent project. Coal would virtually cease to figure as freight except for heat- ing purposes. There is good reason to believe that high freights have made such -a development eco-. “nem ly practical, ak ored minstrel show, but it has its serious angle. It ~YouR. FEATHERS N OF YOu ca From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter de you find most readadlef Ian't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in o couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words, Take time to be brief.” | 100 Per Cent. Commissions. ‘To the Bitor af The Divening World : ome time ago one of your readers wrote saying how unfair it is for an employment agency to ask for and get 100 per cent. commission and, in wome cases, a registration fee of $2 extra. I heartily agree with him. reassure your city readers that tne! views expressed by Harold Coriell are not representative of tl of the majority of us farmers. Prob- ably. % per cent. or more of us feel! & sympathetic interest in the atti- tude #0 ably expreased in your edi- | torials, Ihave never been an habitual Why should a working person who |drinker, nor am I interested in the ia dependent on and needs every last cent he or she earns give an entire week's salary to an employment agency? ‘Why can't they be satisfied witn 15 per cent, or even 20 per cent. commis- sion? I know of no other broker—for an employment agency is a broker- age—who gets 100 per cent. commis gion, And the employer does not have to one red cent for ail the trouble and an employment agency saves him! lo, the poor working person does that. ‘Why can’t an employer be a little bit generous and thoughtful and put a Help Wanted advertisement in the paper or answer a Situation Wanted advertisement? Of course. it will be more trouble for him, but it certainly would be appreciated, I know. AR Brooklyn, March 24, 1921. Desecration of the Constitution. ‘To the Ihaitor of The Brening Work: Reading over the letters on your editorial page is a luxury I indulge in every evening, and usually I feel well repaid for the time spent. Once in a while I feel like yielding to an im- pulee to dash off a reply to some argu- ment advanced. 1 am particularly tm- patient with such helicat individuals as those who criticise your attitude on Prohibition. The one who got nasty recently has been well answered by other readers, and now I would like to take a crack at Harold Coriell of Franklin Furnace. By way of introduction, please let me say that I am @ countryman, have daily business relations with a great many people who are not Goth- amites or city people, and I under- stand their mental processes fairly well, it being essential to my business to be a govd judge of the secret prej- udices and opinions of the people I come into contact with, The only reason J am unatte to siga my name (which I assure you I would like to do) is because the bigotry and intol- erance of the minority who would see it would undoubtedly be hurtful to my business interests, I claim that the majority of the best element among the country peo- ple throughout ‘Northern New Jersey —the kind © men who have brains and use them—the kind of men who really do things worth while—the substantial men—admire the courage of the city people ‘who are dol enough to oppose Prohibition openly, and are in secret sympathy with such opposition. Many who would vote for Prohibition in their own localities be- cause of certain local conditions, are not in favor of national legislation Many of those, who, like the writer, used to think they favored national Prohibition on general principles, have changed their views and now believe it to be @ mistake and a det- riment. J hope these few lines will serve to a | being taken away and the miliions commercial traffic in liquor in any way whatever. Yet I despise the Anti- | Saloon League and all that it stands for. Love of my country is my obses- sion, and [ maintain that the Bight- | eenth Amendment is a desecration of our Constitution, and its enforcement | an insult.to the inherent rights of free born, patriofte citizens. For those whose opinions as to the morality of drinking differ from my own, I have profound respect, pro- vided only that they permit me to do my own thinking on the subject, When they say: “Thou shalt not, they exceed their privilege, and I re- fuse to adopt their code of ethics, and I will not be governed by any laws they pass to regulate my liberties. If this be anarchy—to paraphrase a famous epkgram—make the most of it and profit by the example of our forefathers who threw the tea into Boston Harbor. JERSEYMAN. Our Opportuntty. ‘To the Bititor of The Drening Wort); Friday, the fourth of March, Pres- ident Wilson vetoed the DH] restrict- ing tmmigration during the period from April 1, 1921, to July 1, 1922, to 3 per cent. of the Aliens here in 1910. We do not know President Wilson's reasons for vetoing this bill. war-torn Europe, and likelihood of dis- eases of various kinds being carried into this country, it would seem a safe and sane plan to bar all immigration for the next three or five years. But America, who could not escape its re- sponsibilities along with the nations of the earth in the great war, cannot now escape the equally great respon- sibilities resulting from the war. Through the years which have come and gone we have been singing “My Country ‘Tis of 'Thee,” and, though there are those who would have us keep on singing thus, we have learned that we are our prother’s keeper, America has many grave national questions to solve; a number of them the direct results the World War. But this great nation is well able to help itself and others too. Should America take its rightful place at the peace table and help in solving the problems of the world there would ‘be leas cause for immigration, with the heavy burdens of taxation less- ened through the need for armament of doMars which in former years has been used for the defense of the homelands turned into channels for the improvement and uplift of their countries. The citizens of foreign lands will feel a contentment and love of country hitherto unknown and the immigration problem wil solve itself. The opportunity to bring peace and happiness to a dis- tressed and troubled world is knock- ing at the door of America. By Maurice Ketten UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) NERVE. Nerve wins battles. They may be battles between na- tions or battles with poverty, or battles against bad habits, or battles against organized crookedness, Whatever sort they are it is nerve that wins them. It is the man who can stand defeat who is fitted to win victories. It is the man who can go untroubled through adversity and can weather adversity without an expanding head who will do big things when the time comes to do them. In almost every average life come periods of de- pression, when there seems to be nothing ahead but a long, dreary, treadmill grind, These times shake the nerve of the weak and they go under. The man with nerve grits his teeth and goes through them, remembering Shakespeare's, “Time and the hour run through the roughest day.” If you can go through a spell of hard luck without be- coming doleful or hopeless take it as a certain omen that better luck will come by and by. For it is nerve that is the master of luck, and the fact that you do not go to pieces in adversity is a certain indica- tion that you have it. Talent is an inheritance. Physical strength is partly an inheritance and partly the result of deliberate cultiva- tion. Nerve is all the result of deliberate cultivation. If you haven't it you can get it. And it is cheerful to think that one of the most important requisites of success is to be had by every one who makes up his mind to go after it. A hundred men who have fought their way to the top lose, through no fault of their own, all they, have gained. Ninety of them meet the catastrophe with cdmplaining and never again advance, Ten of them take their losses as cheerfully as did Robert Bruce’s spider and go calmly to work to rebuild out of the wreck. These are the men who have nerve. Nothing can shake them. As long as they keep their health they will continue on the road to success. You can be one of them if you try. It will need self- control and practice and an abiding cheerfulness under de- feat; but it can be done, and success that is gained after re- peated failure is better worth having than all the other success there is in the world, ” 1763, was first known as New Nether- lands and then as New Hampshire Grants. “That's a Fact’ a ee Edinburgh, Scotland, has several nicknames, Such as “Maiden Town,” By Albert P. Southwick “Northern Athens,” “Modern Athens,” “Athens of the North” and “Auld Omri Revs York Rreaing Word’ Reekie.” Mount Ararat, in Armenia, the rest- ES ing place of Noah's Ark, is 12,700 feet Pythagoras, who lived in the sixth in height, century B. C., was the first Greek philosopher. He established the basis of philosophy, number and harmony and first taught that the soul is dis- tinct from the body. oe : ‘The first iron smelting patent was issued in 1620, The next year Lord Dudley had an iron patent. Varig oe e Archimedes (287-212 B, C.) was the founder of physics, He was a great inventor, mathematician and en- sineer, In 1752 Bernoulli demonstrated the principle of the screw propeller. Schonbein first made gun cotton in 1845. ° ® 8 6 ‘The tune was discovered Vermont, after its settfement PAP agers athens t 4 aithemenhnhveihiliee <entislaiinn a niabek hotness iibithimnii dni il tata si eS antipathy of our First HE PAGES —sBY— ‘HEN among partners concord there is not, Buccessful issues scarce are got, And the result is loss, disaster and re- pining. A crayfish, swan and pike combining, Resolve to draw a cart and freight; In harness soon, their efforts ne'er abate. However much they work, the load to stir refuses— It seems to. be perverse, with selfs will vast endowed. The swan makes upward for a cloud, The crayfish falis behind, the pike the river uses. To judge of each one’s merit lies be- yond my will ; 1 know the cart remains there, still. A fable in verse, published (Dut- ton) in a fresh translation from the Russian of Ivan Andreevioh Krildft. Written a century or more ago, these lines apply only by accident of history to the tll-masched team that Dulls its different ways in Russia to- day, ’ see i! The Might of the Traffic “Cop”--- Marise, the heroine of Dorothy, Canfield’s new novel, “The Bringming Cup” (Harcourt, Brace & Co.), rhap- sodizes thus on the traffic “cop” of Manhattan: I could stand for hours on a street corner, admiring the completeness with which he is tranafigured out of the human limitations of his mere personality, how he feels, flaming through his every vein of artery, the invincible power of The Law, freely set over themselves by all those turbulent, unruly human be- ings, surging around him in their fiery speed-genii. Now that the priest before the altar no longer sways humanity as he did, is there anywhere else any other ‘such visible embodiment of might, majesty and power? ‘Where is the blue-coated guardian of our crossings who will not himself stop, look and listen to such tribute to his powers? eer 6 A Busy Woman in Verse--- Writes Dotty to Sylvia, according to a certain page of Helen S. Wood- ruff's “What David Did" (Boni & Liveright), thus: The publisher wants me to write “the Lite of a Busy Woman,” but I told him one verse would express my few minor activities: Order household groceries; pay some bills—and chat; Mend a suit for Sonny Boy; trim —or-—hunt a hat; Press a hand 80 gently—make i sign a check; Bee that Husband's on his job, but never fuss or peck; Write a book of verses, or @ story full of fun; Lunch if I have time, and then my work has just begun! The sceptic on domesticity wil re- flect that while woman’s work is never done—as here hinted in rhyme —the husband may be “done good.” Stil, it's signing the checks promptly that keeps the world of homes going round. The New Devil a Regular Fellow--+ In the introduction to “Devil Sto- ries” (Knopf), a new anthoiogy, Maxi- milian J. Rudwin writes: ‘The Spirit of Evil is better than he was because evil is no longer so bad as it was. Satan, even in the popular mind, is no longer ‘m-villain of the deepest e, At his, worst he js the gen- eral miséhlet’ maker Of the unt ¥erse, who loves to. atin -upthe earth wit! his. chfork. Tn, modern literature thé Devi'e chief function is that ofa satirist. This fine critic directs the shafts of his sarcasm against all the faults and foibles. of men. » He spares no human institution, — In religion, art, society, marriige— everywhere, his ¢ detect the weak spots The luck. of.,the managers who never can materialize His Satanic Brilliancy for the films! ing eye can . 8 The Way You Think It Out--- Says the Seraph to his friend in “The Sixth Sense’ (Doran), as writ- ten down by Stephen McKenna: Your eyes must be quick, Look here, you're walking along in eve- ning dress, and I throw a lump of mud on to your shirt front. In a fraction of ‘a second you hit me over the head with your cane, ‘That's all, isn’t it? But you know it isn’t all; there are a dozen mental processes be- tween the mud-throwing and the head-hitting. You're horror-stricken at the mess I've made of your shirt, you wonder if you'll have time to go back and change into a clean one and, if 80, how late you'll be. You're annoyed that any, one should throw mud at you, you're flabber- gasted that I should be the person, You're impotently angry. Gradually a desire ‘for revenge every other feeling; overcomes you're going to hurt me. A little thought springs up, and you wonder whether I shall summon you for assault; you decide to risk it, Another little thought—will, you hit me on the body or the head? You decide the head because it'll hurt more, Still another thought— how hard to hit? You don't want to kill me and you don't want to make me blind. You decide to be on the safe and hit rather gently. The: at last you're ready with thi It takes a nimble intellect, evi- dently, to commit assault and bat- tery. But anybody can vote, a 195.8 The Royal Blood of Washingtou--- Having delved deeply into a dis- tinguished genealogy for his book “The Geography of Genius” (yvell), Dr, James W, Lee writes: In| Washington'a veins flowed blood from the Kings of Denmark, from the Earis of Salivbury, from the Kings of Seotland, from can, who Killed Macbeth; Dun- from the m Al~ ars of rance, from the Kings of Austria, from the Emperors of Germany, from the Doges of Venice, from. the Counts of Anjot, from the Kings Norway, from the Kings of Hungary, from the Kings of Na- varre, from the Kings of Italy, fromthe Faris of Warwick and from the Kings of Wales. He was Constantine the Great, William) the Conqueror, Charles Martel and Frederick Banrbarosa, all-in one, The romance of Jerusalem, the chivalry of the Crusades, the enter- prise of France, Italy, Germany and England were all packed into the per- sonality of George Washington, Now we understand perfectly the President to entangling foreign allie ‘ Seer se