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. ESTABLISHED Ny JOSEP! Pudlimied Dally Bxecp: Sunday bv Company, Nos, 33 (0 02 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Prealdent, 63 Park J. ANGIE CHAW, Tronm 63 Park JOBEPH PULITSE: » Seorbtary, 62 T MPMIER OF TIE Assoctaren Phe The Ansoctatec Prose ls exety Mt oF not otherwise credit beretn And alto the local news “GOD'S GREAT INTENT.” §S THE present Administration at Washington prepares definitely to turn its back on the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations, setting the United States on a selfish and solitary course counter to the efforts of other nations in the direc- tion of enduring peace, the following may claim wtention: ‘ “One century of marvellous development has led us into another century of international sponsorship. This mighty people, idealizing popular government and committed to human progress, can no longer live within and for ourselves alone. Obliterated distance makes it impossible to stand aloof from mankind and escape widened responsibility. If we are to be- come the agency of a progressive civilization and God’s great intent—and to believe other- wise is to deny the proofs of American de- velopment—ve must assume the responsibili- ties of influence and example and accept the burdens of enlarged participation. “The cloistered life is not possible to the potential man or the potential nation.” Woodrow Wilson? No, nor any other “idealist” or “visionary.” The above words were uttered by Warren G. Harding of Ohio in his speech as Temporary Chair- man of the Sixteenth, Republican National Conven- tion at Chicago in June, 1916. They followed the speaker's indictment of the Democratic Party for the narrowness and sectionalism of its foreign Policy (!). “Its vision does not catch the splendor of Old Glory in the sunlight of the world.” } How “God's great intent” has changed since the | widening and deepening of international relationship | became the world-acclaimed purpose of a Demo- } cratic President! How differently might the designs of Providence have been revealed to Republican eyes could only a President Hughes after 1916 have led the Nation out of “the cloistered life” and persuaded it to Shoulder “the burdens of enlarged participation” in the great international responsibilities of peace! In that case the “splendor of Old Glory in the sunlight of the world” might not have dulled to sombre grayness under clouds of Senatorial jealousy and partisanship. The Warren G. Harding of 1921 might not have to gag over the words of the Warren G. Harding of 1916, who had not yet learned that “interna- tional sponsorship and participation” were Demo- cratic policies leading straight to national damnation ' instead of carrying out “God's great intent.” Hearst said Hylan will run again for Mayor, Now we have Murphy's word for it, too. In- stead of “will,” why not “shall"? i THE MINERS’ MISTAKE. Organized Labor OLITICALLY _ speaking, ; P seems to have a positive genius for “get- ting in bad.” A striking example is the brusque refusal of the British miners to permit pumping of the mines necessary to prevent flooding during a conference | with the employers. By iiis refusal of Lloyd George's advances the \ miners have put themselves in the wrong and Lloyd George, for the moment, in the right. Even if the miners could justify the gradual flooding and ruination of mines as a legitimate weapon in forcing concessions from employers, it . is doubtful whether actual use of the weapon would have a stronger coercive effect than the threat to | use it, + if the oyners had gone into conference with the ‘ assurance that flooding would begin the moment 1 they refused concession, then Labor would have } Aeld a strong hand. + As it is, flooding of mines will be denounced— | and with good reason—as only a short degree re- } moved from sabotage and wilful destruction, Writing of the present prohibitive period, some future historian will have a chapter on “America in the Meddle Ages.” IT MUST JUSTIFY ITSELF. (OOLING of grain as proposed in the Com- : mittee of Seventeen plan for co-operative | marketing by farmers may or may not run counter ? to the Sherman and Clayton Anti-Trust Acts. In + either case, to be on the safe side the farmers are } likely to ask for specific legislation exempting their ) organization from prosecution as a monopoly. | The consuming public has a deep and abiding { interest in any plan for more gconomical marketing Yudlishing Jy entitled to the use for republication din thie paper out the speculator and the middleman, the operation will evoke few tears in the eyes of urban consumers. But any possible combination of grain-growers will find one thing true, The life of the organiza- tion will depend on the record it makes. If the co-operating growers deal fairly with con- sumers, such a project may prosper. If they resort to the familiar devices of valorization and artificial price manipulation and show the organization to be contrary to public interest, it cannot last. Trusts, pools, corners, monopolies, have Prospered in other times. But monopoly, when it has been effective, has usually been secret and has been exercised by only a small circle of monopolists. In the very nature of the case, a monopoly organ- ization made up of thousands of grain-growers must function publicly and in plain view of all the people. Its policy, if it is to endure, must meet the approval of the public. If the public lacks confi- dence, laws will be enacted to penalize and dissolve the monopoly. This will happen in spite of political pressure by farmers. For the last census showed in unmistak- able terms that the balance of population and politi- cal power has already swung to the cities, MAKE IT NATIONAL. go nnhy, despatch to the Times yesterday an- nounced that Marshal Foch will be asked to attend the American Legion, convention in Kansas City next fall and that the Government will send a special ship to France to bring him to the United States. The announcement came through the Chairman of the Convention Committee of the American Legion. Such an honor is due Marshal Foch. His posi- tion is unique. He is entitled to even more popu- lar and spontaneous welcome than could be ac- corded to any representative of the civilian Gov- ernment of France, however exalted. For Marshal Foch was supreme commander of the A. E, F. as well as of the French Army. As a guest of the Nation, Marshal Foch would be received with open ans. His presence would bs the oceasion for a great demonstration at the Legion convention, Now the Nation will await an official announce- ment from Secretary Hughes, confirming this re- port and extending an invitation on behalf of all the people of the United States. If the Marshal acvepts, he will come as a guest of the Nation as well as of the Legion, Movie censorship might seem less objection- able if Senator Lusk had not identified himself with the movement. PRISON REFORM. To the Bdltor of The Evening World; I wish to submit to you the following views on sane Prison reform which will appeal to fair-minded per- sons, particularly as it {8 for the protection of the | general community, to which the prisoner must ulti mately return when he is discharged from prison. In my opinion we must get away from the old style of prison buildings and gradually replace them by a cottage system and large farming plant. The feeble- minded and those mentally backward should be either sent to a different institution or entirely separated from the others, and given that kind of work and treatment which is best suited to their condition. There ought to be a central bullding for industries for vocational training, and such industrial work as will be likely to baages the prisoners and teach them a trade, so that they will be able to help tlemselves and their families when they leave prison. A wage should be paid to the prisoner, It should be a fair wage and must be earned by the work done by the prisoner; and in order that prison labor should not interfere with outside labor, the product of prison labor should be used for the needs of the State, in its prisons and its other institutions, and if there is a surplus of prison-made goods in one State they can be used in other States where they are needed. ‘There should be the highest grade of prison’ wardens and prison guards, as they of necessity have consider- able authority, and ought to be able to use it prop- erly, Schools should be established to educate and train those officials, and only such prison officials accepted as can show that they are able properly to conduct the work, in the same manner as officials in hospitals are chosen because of the fact that they are able to do the work properly, and th individuals choose for their superint) ries and other industrial work such pers think have the knowledge, abilily and trustworthiness to carry out their duties adequately Prisoners should be examined when they enter prison as to their mentality and other condition, If possible, the cause which led the prisoner to commit the crime should be determined, He should be treated accordingly and placed at that kind of work which he is able to do, and the result of such examination should otherwise be made use of in the treatment of the prisoner. ° The parole eystem should be extended. A commis sion fully qualified for this kind of work should be carefully selected. It should consist of men of the highest standing, and appointment upon it should be regarded as a position of honor, comparable to the post: tions of the Judges of our courts. The aim of all this must be not to pamper the crim: inal or create the unhealthy atmosphere of making heroes of the prisoners, but to bring about natural conditions. Prisons should be conducted in such a way that it will make it likely that the prisoner when he is discharged will be able to take care of himself and his family, and in many cases be cured of his criminal tendencies; that his self-respect will not be destroyed; that a hopeless condition will not be ere ated, making the prisoner bitter against the world with the desire to revenge himself upon society. He should rather be made to see justice and fairness prae- Uced by the authorities, by those in charge of the prisons, and by the outside world, Thus the prisoner will not be likely to spread disease, mental or physical, when he comes out. ADOLPH LEWISOHN. New York, April 6, 1921. p same as private ndents in facto- ww AEE ONE Sg as arn ee NE I te THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1921. ot? ere | sseé pte, From Evening World Readers | What kind of a letter do you find most readable? that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There i# fine mental erercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. | © say much im a few words. Isn't it the one John nm and John Bull. To the Fai ving W Lord Birkenhead recently told Allied Brewery ‘Trades Association of Great Britain that ne did not share the apprehension that Great Britain |would follow America's example and nish a cohol as a beverage. It looks s if Great Britain were preparing to flow in our footste: not because of the dry campaigns and the local option fights, bi aune it has introduced into its public schools |A syllabus on the hygiene of food and drink which gives the seientific facts about alcohol the “Pussyfoot™ Jolson may help: the Jdry ny the British Isles, but in the ly: reforma- tion will be brought by men | and women who learned in’ their} school books the psychological and physiological effects of aleohol on the |human system. Lord Birkenhead Brewery Trades Assoc know that John Ba warrant was signe ago when the Department of Educa- tion adopted the temperance sylla- bus. Scientific education pout the effects of alcohol was one of the big | factors in bringing about Prohibition jin Amer the iation yeorn's death few months and Allied don’t DANIBL BARTLETT. {Ifnble Protest. ‘To the Falitor pf he Evening World m not a member of the “Knock Jers’ Club,” but here Is something I |had to complain about | ‘ Yesterday while walking under an “L" structure I was both disgusted ind humiliated when some passenger above me exp ated tobacco juice This looks like the Department is in operation people to haye Jobs. ‘They of a typhoid epidemic people go un- they are just as mankind as the MISS K, ©, on my new sult Health Just are Why punishe for fearful then, 2? Sur do thes ely e to To the Halitor of ‘Ph Prohibition Kramer {wants $7,500,000 yearly for tne con nforeement on rity of {the people a law they not want That is a lot of money for the people to pay for the pleasure of being spied upon, particularly as a good portion of that money will be destined for th pockets of a siderable number of ami \enforcoment agents, who are nothing bu / nviets and grafters. a news reports the fam- sh faith are entitled to consume ten gallons of wine each y ear, It might be well for the Christian ldrinkers if they would also become Hebrews, so that they could live within the law, and likewise stop this graft. "Gov state atory saloons, derson's | do. Miller has now signed the Prohibition Bill making it oblig for the city potice to close the which Superintendent An Anti-Saloon League could The result of thie bill will |mean nothing bus # lot more grat, | and things will, bad to worse. All the saloon: legging everyw Mr. Miller vants the Police Commissioner of every city and the people too to understand that this law is not a joke, and must be en- foreed, and the only way-to find out what kind of a law the people want is to enforce it, There is no chance to enforce that fool la Prohibitionists all say that every- thing Is going along nigely, but they of © . go from Uppose they do close Vhat then? Boot- don't know what they are talkin| about. Everybody has so far taken, Prohibition good naturedly b they can get all the drink th bur ju r froin buy- hovehy © some fun Reput lature in Al- which robbed the people of theis in the transit matter would like to appropriate $100,000 to investi- gate the City Adminis there will be a furt! made to Investigate Y appropriation Albany. | W.M. F, ement or i tor Of The Evening World | ti read an article in your}! paper about John D. Rockefeller jr. | donating $5,000 to enforce Prohibition, | I have also noticed in your paper the many appeals to help the soldiers | lors’ fund. why Mr. Rockefeller | should enforce Prohibition and donate $5,000 to that cause when he could try p the soldiers and sailors’ fund, ys who fought for democracy | and personal liberty on't think Prohibition will ever LB. F exist New York, April 6, 1921, Not According to Law, To the Falitor of The Bfening Workt 1 thoroughly agree with G. H. George in your issue of April 4 in favoring a referendum on the Prohi- bition question, same to be taken by Individual yote and not by States, as there are States that have the iniuia- tive and recall whose voters were deprived of the right to vote on the question, In Tho Morning World of same date ippeared an article stating that Jobn >. Rockefeller jr. conditionally sub- cribed $6,000 to enforce Prohibition in Westchester Gounty, and he states that “the question of the wisdom and propriety of National Probil/tion is no longer an issue, having been decided by the adoption of the Federal con- stitutional amendment and sustained by the United States Supreme Court is now the law of the land. ‘9 fail » observance and enforcement of law atrikes at the very founda- ions of orderly Government, and is in that way an attack upon civil lib- pty, for in a republic there can be referendum UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake Pa Get-Rich-Quicks of The Ages | By- Svetozar Tonjorof | Covmrieht. 1921. by ‘The Prom Tie New York Everine XXIL—JOHN LAW. John Law, a canny Scotsman who early developed proficiency at “{18- ures," may be said to be the man who invented the business of publish. ing mon In his spectacular career as offictal fin: icr of the French monarchy first half of the eighteenth century whenever the “Banque Royale” or the treasury ran short of cash or of values, his in- variable solution of the problem seems to have been comprised in the order |"Start the presses.” And the presses did the rest up te @ certain point, just as they have been doing it in’ various countries during and since the late war, The Scoteman who left his country because he had killed a boon com- panion was a born « values. He had so persuasive ence that he could hold up a sheet of blank paper before a gathering of states- |men and convince them that (t would pay the tional debt and leave enough over to muke every mother's son of them rich for Ife Law had a passion for gambling. After the fitful fever of his large scale adventures had run its course, he bet his last remaining thousand pounds to a shilling that he could throw double sixes six times in succession— and won. John Law's system of financing is too complicated to be set forth in a paragraph. But the basis of it was an“Unshakeable belief in the gulti- bility of human nature, Take, for in- stance, his “Mississipp! Bubble.” Law, who by 1720 was the Director al of the “Banque Royale,” Re- Taxes, general man. r general of lebt, conceived reneh nat | the aking !imself riche : poorer by the de- velopment of the Louisiana territory, Jat that time Including what sre now the St the Mis: Pro { Mi ssippl Compa seworthy and promising resolu. and Ohio, by | tion of it, But instead I ft to the develup- resources of this over- himself fhe ac- Company Law conten with paper exploitation tivities of tha M he added the énterpr pagnic d'Afrique and the des Indes Then he create the T Ppt sis: Compa started t presses to 10) franes out of an sted In the colossal limit and ach ‘ofits came pouring in reckoning was inevit- whon the Interlocking Interests Which Mr, Law had built up in the French treasury, the “Banque Royale,” the Mint and in the pre ate robbing er arrived John down the |people. John Law_ himself the chateaux in France wh had bought with his frenzied |How did the wily foreigner on ads of the power- (Copfright, 1021, by John Blake.) | Ay were the pee ns als only Lave THE MAN ON THE HILL. “Agures”” At one atage of ‘ . i odes pectacular game, Lord Stair, When Abraham Lincoln sat studying by the log fire in P haohananane fo iene, ocean the litle cabin where he spent his early boyhood he had no waded Cha Uh task of paying dream of being President of a great nation. ledonian from justice. He did have a dream of being a lawyer, and a successful Peter | roken. be- one. He bent all his young energies to attaining that end. Be ea Seice eae eae And he succeeded. Lincoln gained the summit of his first"hill when he was admitted to the bar, And from that summit he got a new ostlook on the world. He saw heights to be scaled whose very existence he never suspected as he worked his way through the old books he was able to beg or borrow. Even then he had no hope ‘save to be a greater lawyer than he thought he ever could be, And it was not until he had gone from sumimit to sum mit, till he was at the top of a very high hill indeed, that it occurred to him that he might in time climb the highest peak of all. A man’s vision expands with his progress. What seems impossible to the beginner becomes a distinct possibility to the man who has advanced, After you have gained the top of the first hill you ean see what is beyond and you are likely to discover some very desirable places you knew nothing at all about when you were still struggling up the slope. So the important thing is to climb that first bill. Lt will not be so easy, With the natural desire to follow the line of the least resistance it, will seem far pleasanter to con tinue along the valley, shut out from the rest of the world, and what it may hold for you. But once you stand on the hilltop and find out what is beyond you will begin to think about going there. After that every hill you climb will make the next one seem more worth climbing. And the power to climb will grow with every slope you conquer, ; No man knows how far he can go till he tries. And no man will be very likely to start till he gets far enough up in his world to see that going further is not only worth while, but quite possible, 47 voted ndment is no rec r was held a for the Is that two Constitution whichbership of 95; ines Highteenth An thit There and there themselve they adopted. 1 desire to John 2. iI to the attention of ckefeller jr, William : Fnesler and|tion on application of the Anderson, Wayne B, Wheeler and ali AMtor vcommercialized reformers! ue en twa-siledal OF 1 ne ‘at the C on was adopted vy | States and Congress, and to the that the Constitution w jof my knowledge, didmot provic » people and in its original form. the Pee people get the benefit of it as it Was written? Glance over the following and see if they do (Lam using The World Al- manac of 1921 a8 autnority): ‘Article V. of the Constitution reads: whenever two-thirds ratification by fourths of the ing a law “in by the people t stitution which t Ave adup Prohibition is an issu and will be Until it hag beon decided by the peo- N'deom it necessary, | Pie, themacives pot eee amendments to this Con:| The so-called Eighteenth sitution, or, on the application of the|ment has undermined “the Is that enact- manner preseribed aselves in th founda- Legislatures of two-thirds of the several| tions of orderly governme and ts LeKtes, shall call a convention for pro-| "an attack upon civil liberty posing amendments, which, in either) T do not envy any moneyed man ail be valld, to all intents and Lome f this Constitution, Logislaturoe ot ri States, or ¢ case, his wealth, but f do object the receipts of the aweat ¢ used to oppress me a my pleasures, be they what they may as long as they do not interfere with or harm my neighbors. Give me back the pre-war beer and keep the whis to have 10 freedom for the individual if thera no respect for and enforcement of laws which have heen enacted in u |the Wighteenth Amendment. manner prescribed by the people The House of Representatives has a membership of 436; 282 voted for key, but until | get the beer Ml! drink the poison that is sdid for whiskey JOHN J. CILLBS. New York, April 6, 1921. Je that two-thirds? The Senate has a ar. Amend-|} | All of which show \ot the power to con’ | WHERE DID YOU GET | THAT WORD? 9—BASHFUL. h There is now no such word as “bash.”’ But there must have been such a word centuries ago, and the word must have my t “shame” When the word entered into an ine | ion—a sort of verbal with “full” or “ful" it lay down quietly in some obscure nook the high value ce. and died as a separate entity. even in is But word ne 8 married § approachihg dis few persons of either § York—to name only one American community—-who are much xiven to going about ‘ “ “having the oye ving a downeast } sive modesty or con merit,” as the dictionary puts ft, Attempts have been made from time to time to eliminate the word “bashfulness” from the dictionary on yund that which {t d revi suc- y determined ope te action, By Albert P. Southwick | Copyright, 1921, by the Presi Publiahtng Co. Tike New Yau hrenng Workin | The body of George Washengton neasured aft uth in length 6 foot 3% inches, e: sross he shoul- ders, 1 foot 9 inche the elbows, 2 f ict, and across rt. The long-los f the Mayflow- er was returved “0 Massachusetts by the Consistory Court of the Diocese of London in April, 1897 Cabbage, like all vegetables that have been cultivated ‘rom remote times, is of Eastern origin » tallest chimney in she world, jert y, Is 460 feet . cost $80,000, and 1,500,000 bricks used in its construction, | bell in the € en, Vienna, westhing ounds, Is made from 180 p cannon taken from the Turks, thedral The of St. Charlomagne stened his charters and ordinances by “dipping the thumb of his dexter glove into a fluid re- sembling Day & Martin's Superior Blacking, and dabhing it boldly on the royal sheepskin.” The evident mimpare was to avold giving 2 Sager. print. ‘renchman ‘