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18 THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1921. Lo | A STRONG PRECEDENT. Che orld, ONVICTION of John S, Williams in the c * Georgia peonage murder case is one of the USTABLISHED BY JOSuPIT P zr. bi vi ro Fuviished Daily Kacept Sunday by The Prom Puriitring | 8 events of the year. Don't Dole I Tried kt sae Get-Rich-Quic “By John’ Cassel of The Ages - | By Svetozar Tonjorof , pompany. Now. 58 to 68 Park Row, New York. | It marks a milestone for both the white and the sa, To Prem Fate | 7. ANGEL GRAM Bromnter, 48 Park How. negro races. A white jury accepted the testimony of | RR BBB arn thse JOSEPH PULATSBER Sr.. Secretary, C8, Park Row: a negro witness and punished a white man on the al XXI11—MESMER. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCLAD PRESS, | strength of that evidence, } leric-Antoine Mesmer—to sive Che AnsocicieG Prem ty excturively cuted to (he use fer republication him his full Gallicized Swabian name —was the man who first exploited animal magnetism, ‘eve dampatehes credited to ft ot not otherwise credited in this paygz| ‘The white South approves, as is clearly shown | oeblped heerlen! beesena aston _____.| both by the calm during the trial and by the pre- vailing tone of editorial opinion. NO CAMPAIGN CONGRESS. But is the South willing to learn all the iesson mere detatl, The Swabian medical man whom \ HE Sixty-seventh Congress meets to-day in | which the Williams case teaches? | conopee Sariaveter ay il : ) Ap special séeston, Js the South willing to make peonage impossible | the ueaiee? niekee, oF eaesactenl i as 4 in the future by abolishing the severe jail punish- jthan his contemporary, Cagliostro, | | Some of the propositions advanced by /| him are now accepted features of t Y science of curative medicine. Field | Mesmer owes his indisputable title: \ |to membership in the Ancient and |Dishonorable Order of Get-Rich- Quicks ‘to the fact that he prostituted | his discoveries to the base purposes | of extorting treasure from the gullible | _ It meets at a time when the eel voll My ments for petty offenses which make the “buying meed of first aid from the executive and legislative | Gut process possible? | % ranches of its Government. And, finally, is the South going to vindicate law The honor of the United States, the position of | and justice by swift and sure punishment of lawless the United States, the prosperity of the United States | lynching which has blackened the record of the are vitally involved in questions stili unsettled, in | South? Eager on ie eel | Georgia justice has vindicated itself. The whites legislative tasks not yet performed. | of the South punished an offender against the un- The votes that elected a Republican Presid written law of noblesse oblige in the treatment of a Republican Congress last fail were not cast for | negroes. No Federal intervention was required. national dishonor or national stagnation. Will Georgia and the other Southern States take | Even those voiers who, in their desire for a | Similar action in the case of lynchings or will they | temporize until a Federal Anti-Lynch Law is change, let themselves be persuaded that Woodrow Praja | Wilson's policies were ruining the country are not Phe Williams trial and conviction is a good ] H reard to-day maintaining that the business and trade | dent for a new regime of law and right ia the rela- | of the United States can thrive on a mere negation | {ions between the whites and blacks. of Wilsonism. | The moment has come witen President Harding THE FORMER KAISERIN. aad his Republican Congress must begin to make ae world thinks of the invalid exile who died good. to-day in Holland rather as the wife of the Denunciation and destruction of the Wilson pro | pital German Emperor than as the former Ger- ‘ He man Empress, gramme may have seemed enough viele Me Neblea hips Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein was no was still President. But even perfervid Republicans | oman of imperial mind or dominating character, are not going to be so easily satisfied now when, no | On the contrary, she reatized almost perfectly the longer absorbed in gnashing their teeth at Mr. | German ideal of the wife as Hausfrau, who im- Wilson, they look about and ask what will happen | Plicitly trusts and obeys first her father and tater if Republican promises hang indefinitely in the air. her husband, who rears andewatches over t aes : y : dren she bears, orders ail within her home, is Congress is still a representative body, supposed E and charitable outside, following in all larger things to function primarily for the benefit of the country “her man.” rather than for the past, present or future of any Married to Prince William of Pru —whether rich or poor. Mesmer was a contemporary of our jown Benjamin Franklin, But while K f and ‘anklin carried on his experiments n electricity in a scientific spirit, Mesmer conducted his operations im animal magnetism, plus electricity, pius the influence of the stars, plus all manner of other rigmarole, in @ comme ‘ai spirit, For instance. In Paris, where ali vindlers were wont to gravitate in those days, the Swubish pseudo- scientist opened an elaborate estab- | lishment for the instantaneous ac- jquisition of perfect health by means ece- ain feature of this Was a “baquet mazique,” ov ¢ tub. Around this huge bath- b he arranged his patients in tiers, ch patient held a tube, attached the bathtub. ‘The end of this tube was applied to the body of the pa- tient as a transmitter of the “mage” fluid. Mesmer, clad in flowing garments / fund bearing a magic wand, himself | posed as the source of the magic poww '—or Mesmerism. After he ne through a few impressive n the patienis—or some of them— So powerfully affected that they nto conyulsions. These coms 8 Mesiner iabelled as a demon- | stration of his power and duly pro |nounced the affected subjects as | cured. Many of the patients actually be- | Neved him and insisted on regarding in the po- " ' Aly i | Shemselves as cured. Others, like a political party. litical interests of peace and closer alliance with 1g rl from Parla who went to him i ; Aaneealats blind and victim of conyuleions + The country at this moment is in sore need of | Schleswig-Holstein, Augusta Victoria faithfully kept declined to accept his verdict after two things: : ‘ before the German people an imperial example of |he had pronounced them cured. In i : F P what a good German wife and mother should be. (4) A foreign policy that will get it out of the The ambitions of her erratic husband and his imtolerably false position into which it was forced | conception of the destinies of Germany she ac- by the cantankerousness of a partisan Senate and the | cepted, outwardly at least, as part of the design of the case of th Mile. Paradis, it as duly demonstrated that she was still stone blind and still subject te convulsions after she had undergone lis treatment. This double proposi- tion she maintained despite all his | | positive assurances to the conti 5 ‘ és PBat Mesmer laid his Set On human ‘ ‘onisms of a Presidential campaign. Providence to further which she must do her part. jeredulity—and continued to win. His a Dorueie leeistation| toi neet pressing recon: The older type of Germanic wife had to have GENE eo a AL ti > the resort of the fashionable and the wealthy, Then a scientific commission, of |which Benjamin Franklin as the ont- something of a Spartan fibre, and the ex-Empress was too true to her traditions to blame her husband or her countfy for the misfortunes of her children. Sructive needs—beginning with revision of the Federal tax laws. From Evening World Readers UNCOMMON SENSE standing scientist of his time was a | F |member, pronounced animal magnet- F ‘ ONE Pty Pre i | Whet bind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one ; ake i ctice oreign relations y W " ve can- | onn AK Ee ism and its practice a figment of the j Responsibility in the matter san rs re the war w ae the Se St pecan that givee you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? By J Gay tet |tmagination vp i sident and his Sec- | not know now, perhaps may never know. ‘ t ton intro sdidiagndenden ne detect reales is, however, failed to wipe out / ie au ieee peters on Oe Fe AU isbeliatonte Tea aren eres ape eee rete ee eet THE WORLD DESPISES A WHINER. [the commercial value” of metmerisin. —— a i e iy A 7 P esmer invi ne French Govern- retary of State. ? Mibithl welt tor underatend. precieniy A certain rich man who is publishing his matrimonial $ ment’to give. him ‘a chateau, ‘an ea But the Senate is also involved. And while the | what those who are still harping upon the Debs and Daogherty. | published in a recent issue of your 3 troubles to all the world has acquired an Hapeuleey saath fata aaa absue LOO (G0) crasice iinlcea ecaicaie: Arras (aye " Mee ai i f been equalled in the country in which he }| inventions for the benefit of mankind. a y, iniquities of the Treaty of Versailles and to the EAlitor of The Brening World paper, perhaps never been equalled in t inventions for the benefit of man Senate may seek to save its dignity, it can obstruct } peas pala : | Mr. Harry Reeve states in The Eve-| Avy businesa brings ne dov hae ‘Marie Antoinette made him a com- ification of the Versailles Treaty now with no SOAS one ones “tetas: for the Germans uing World of Monday, April 4, that! ¢ ease f j ‘ Facctcahiohine romise offer of a pension of 20,000 ratification of 'y \ are working for, It is condonation for . bh Lacs * ted Lexington Avenue su It may be true that he has the grievances of which he $|P"lics and the Knighthood of ‘St. i i i Z Detie ‘shoula nat have) been perm HO) morningas early as 1 lains. But the world despises a man who whines, It 3/1 1 such support as it received from various quarters | the greatest erime ever commnitted by one to make the trip to Washington UNH \crcicey and vet at this hour it complains. nt the world) 4 ‘ Bes eo beer tera etdgaeeiqentined (ie petty gee when the covenant issue was looked upon as a lever | nation against others,”—The Tribune. eaneat both disturbing and disgusting to ob- ¢ Pelfeves that if a man goes into any contrac is eyes eenneh Cepuoea wig petty, Diocaey s | ‘ seusting ‘ A : ‘ sate Whatever “those who” are working for now, Personally, 1 do not agree with MT.! serve the “get up" of a great many open——including matrimony and becomes a loser it is more [zanised AoE OE | tees Se ~ with which to dislodge Mr. Wilson and his Adminis- the fact remains that six months ago they Dobs's radicalism. Neither docs MT. sins, most of them not over seventeen $ becoming to’ keep quiet about it. ir |sum Of 340,000 livres, or over $5,000,000 \ tration from power. | were all working for the election of Warren Daugherty. But I am sorry for ae or eighteen years old. Their m You are pretty largely responsible for your matrimonial 3 of present-day value, by subscriptions ; G. Harding as President, and the Republican ingividual with 8 single wreck meee kulsomined to the limit, ups 3 happiness or your business success. There is no compulsion $)and membership tees, | (fnetes aro. few: Americans of any. party. who, ate loaders were taking good care not to offend ro ANS TRIN EN a ye ie Tye Tok and their clothing leaves but 3 about selecting a wife. There is no compulsion about choos | people of England and of Germany— *, A : 5 4 own way is a powerful force. little to imagination. not now in their hearts impatient to see the foreign which ended in failure-Mesmer re- the willing workers. |tired to his birthplace in Swabia and \died there in the year in which Na- poleon was sent to Saint Helena, |All of which tends to show that tt policy of the United States in line with the building political suggestions and ideals which) i004) my seat to any of them! I'd ‘ up of its trade and—what its trade depends upon— BY INQUIRY AND PUBLICITY. have two effects, dependent upen the | cavise i Round: abanlna toretnem| ness ventures do. But that does not excuse the wail of political faith of the one affec' despair that goes up from far too many of the losers, \ {it’s girls of this sort that go wro! , ‘ € lis not every swindler that meets with the economic fabric of Europe. OV. MILLER is umalterably opposed to State | ‘To socialists he is a Ore sree FAM TH SAuHeMulaik Seune ned Ge The men who rebuild their fortes after failures are [his just deserta, Saving the faces of bitter-enders in the Senate is aid in financing a home-buikling programme. |°f SUH SECT EE SANiteer ita era enen equines uc tig ay wile Beaune ine ue ae Hoge ae nea WHERE DID YOU GET ri ferene yar | 3 ents of|of thege girls should look after them. 5 ey ; not at the present time of great concern to any con- This is the report on a conference with the Go altssnorition: 20: .te OmROnan HN Ot in “GRANDPOP.” | 3 swallow their disappointment and start all over again, THAT WORD? iderabl Ree ee tnerinan Vera emor which Nathan Hirsch and William Kehoe | socialism ne is a shining Rec ad ie There are thousands of men in every country who marsy $j f si Ss ; ; ~ i at not to be politic: and pei pk Alike. r ‘ ’ Cela ; iderable number i o _ | made to their associates of the Committee on |Whit not to, be, polibeally tu nite MUL Alaai tek AN 1} ion Hestily for their own good, But—and thls is to the ¢| 10—POIGNANT. The campaign and the election are five momhs | Housing. Jundestrable radical and a destructive from my house 1s a furnt-|$ credit of the human race—most of them keep their mouths }/ A joy or @ srief, when it ts intense back. | For all practical purposes Gov. Miller ts the Legis- | American, |ture shop. During a month at least/$ shut about it. | may Pe se meds ee bol i ’ ’ | But fundamentally and over and] tately @ picture labelled “Ruins of There is in life something that we call sportsmanship } | “Polnant’ #8 odan On the domestic side, there are few Americans | lature this year. New York need not look to Albany | ie eee H | emphatic degree may be said to be principles Debs is} felgium” remained unsold in the win- n, with the courage! dow, A lovely little village, with which prompts decent men to keep their own troubles to who would not insist upon the duty of Congress to for aid. a man among m Hisiiualteas “pungent.” The two words are fire’ sousins, Their original ancestor waa = te + ‘ aT 1 “ctions 2 ¢ es Of | Ghuroh and houses unrooted, present- P " cousins, Pecealeut coven to the practical tusiness of nadloral Self-help is the only altemative. The volunteer | of his convictions lind toe a wy ie pu aie ee pee If they lose, they lose. If they lose in what is the most $1! the Lain word "pungo” (1 prick}. bia sy ra Committee on Housing plans to create a mortgage |!adershit |ed a picture of desolation, Several 46-14 portant thing in any man’s life, his marriage, there is no {) Tile (Lalin” form appears ih the onomy ar ax revision. 1 . if z 7 ; % es |rench language as “poindre,” of and legal bureau to operate on the same general lines | ana in delineating between the} oox worse reason to publish their loss abroad and seek to blame the which the past participle is “poigm. A i Sia haps ; soi setweon the| eee the ; 2|$ woman in the case. ant.” ‘ ‘epublican leaders in Wasirington have been fly- | q 2 ‘0r’s fiteering, |bomb-thrower and Debs, between Gasiie the owner atettie Acor ont : : ny ; 7 ec te cee eal ; R i si I i y as the Mayor's Committee on Rent Profiteeri Bs criminal and the conscientious man,) gay, y asked him the price, Two and The world is sufficiently chivalrous to despise men who cits, like, & ost of oth perfectty ing the tariff flag at the masthead im the hope of | which paved the way for enactment of the Rent | ic, paugherty has emulated our own |, jaif dollars would make me the|} blame their wives for their troubles. | borrowed directly: from ine french pleasing interests to which the Republican Party has | Laws by showing the facts of the case. ‘Abraham Lincoln, who had faith in| oo. ahen 1 said: “I don't want Adam's excuse, “The woman tempted me,” has made his | peau, ‘te cousin, “pungent,” weng tas : ; men, whether they wore & uni-| it, No one here now cares about Bel- sndants ashamed of him since the beginning of record }| through the same process of borrows traditionally paid court. Samuel Untermyer is reported to have such a | mem woe whether they flattered descendants g g scheme in view as an informal aid to the Lockwood |nis vanity by agreeing with him or! sian rul Change the label to “Ruins . 5 rial ne ursued their own path by differing. | of Ireland” and ask $3. committee. By investigating extortion in the loan |” Smirable part of it oll 8 that| awe days thereafter the chromo waal COL H abs hv tified Daugherty'’s faith i i brome market such an agency could tum the light of pub- |P°Pt Dien we nave more Daugh-| cone, Grass wag never greener in the eres | ing, followed by legal adoption. ‘ listory. ; ; | "Devotees of the cult of Baccham, It will behoove a mn to be a little careful about going | now outlawed by Amendment XVEMT. into a partnership which is for life and which must assume palntaln Wee a goed Lean es the 4 ; stay Apr the responsibility for other lives. But if he has not been wrt This time, however, the Republican leaders are astray. What a majority of American business men want first and most is not tariff boosting, but tax hin Hy be [artys on the one side and more Debses| Emerald Isle than in that work of AMT ‘err pes yaieel [by thal, nclable pigos oc lexaa | licity on the loan sharks. The result would be Brive ¢ other, we will have a happier| art. Ruins of Ypres never looked careful, or even if his happiness is wrecked through no fault |p she 0 ad Af tle works rata reduction, Even from sections where protection either 4 voluntary reform of loan gouging, or efse Soce, founded upon that “stimulating | 2 than in. the 7 ap tur of his own, it will be wiser for him to keep still about it. For nessing of the “wet” regime with ‘ ha 5 a 7 Ke ty, faith, regardless of po-! the “Ruins of pbereurry or Thurles" d 4 : in i ti t” satist n. has been in high favor, The World's direct questions | an aroused public sentiment in favor of State aid iat ees: L JH. aid, for all ruins look like, and the|% no attempt to blame a woman in a divorce tangle has ever ‘poignant sfactio business men have elicited answers showing that | and regulation of building credit, Brooklyn, N. ¥.. April §,18#1, spirit of the invader in Ireland had/% gained a man any sympathy. rare: w SINeSS vi ving tha . the same result as in Belgium. i f ; r other Hotel Strike, ROBERT DP. GREEN, | 3, weber: oT Segaaatte: business puts the need of a downward revision of | EAther or both will help build homes. fm a aera Evening Work! New. York, April 7, 1921 iol “Tha t’s a Fact’ taxes first. Tread. your, ealtorial: on the! travel~ a vaulanianeieate: kicoun(d the etrikingg miners their getort when world-wide ery, J. ¥, PRICE, a ", TWICE OVERS. ing man’s hotel ative to | 1 Mie Palitor of The Evening Warld ue said, “Where will the miners ene mR ue f By Albert P. Southwick The Congress that meets to-day should be under I would ike to add my name to} ',rair test of Prohibition would |pritain becomes only a home for the | oe er 11) copmriget, 16a, bp the cs , fusion as to the nature of Its job. 66 TMMEDIATE revtsion of the present unscien- | the tet ot atrikers against the high| «4 winquential people” to dispose feultivators of the soil?” (aes (O00 | 7 nar eee Breas ETT l Ss a S . taura ” “4 op out a = of The Ei } Ray tifte and oppressioe tax spstem is imperative.” | Tate# the hotels and restaurants are oF theig “private stocks.” Since Gov. Urea a eon then will| I have been wondering what com- ang No Impending election or outgoing Administra- Soon rd charging. they have raised the|DMiller bas announced that be will en- hooome what it was before her in-|fort the liquor dealers will get tym Achter Cun :22 omarh Bar ww, ; : lor In my case they have raise aie amendments to the St. No were developed. Goldsm “ : : : J.) was called itch, meant tion obscures what the people of the Untted States tae ry wets of roc in the last two months, |Mareele Amendments e State |gustries were d the Palmer beer ruling. Keliable Prohibition Law, I therefore urge all |in his “Deserted Village” speaks of a} oo iistics snow that the medicai the “Back Bay.” The narrow body of HS pre England's griefs. began, [ihe ash Rane eas . people who want to bring this matter ime Etyy rod of ground main: |fession will refuse to become the dis-|*#ter known as Staten Island Sound, to a head to write to Gov, ier C ins (tax exemption) ordinance has | »te® Bel o. bee cating an amen an.” T soil is o wh e e Arthur Kill is al: Ss, the Coll te rice did not advance. ve b 5 i iling the soil {8|penging agent. Only 29 pe to which the nam: ye 1 Vv y vooating nendme nich # tained its man. the p ig F meron nab je Art problems that are the whole Nation's problems, | lins (' ) Prthe hotel five years, and it looks |Youting an am nam nt whl h sh ymething which every Man could dole. tion's physicians took o ‘ ned, Was possibly regarded ” {eI would be a dweller in hotels |make it a crime hel fates asure but with, p mits to preseribe whiskey as am Re ee Of tue eas BAY an If the Republican programme for the session that proved greater then the most oplimistic had hoped for. ee or ey lite sess, ob and after July 31, 1921, more Rie ection Knows med > a a y, slight. ask for in the way of straightforward dealing with | ¢¢Pp HE building spurt created by the passing of |¥et_auTing the war when men and women were very hard to get, the att normal wor i tye" , motte, {than a pint of alcohol lore orm™vho says that when he at-|cine, and even @ large proportion of |ly corrupted, was appropriated to the begins to-day is sometiting different, the Republican P. 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Ravello, | “tive and let live” ts BY Bt | medicinal purposes. rere to write in the morning if he thee AUB BRE APRIY 0 Ganewal Verslemaiter eras | | , i ® . : oy TAL ste. | b d wool-gathe " he i . i, ys Ay a Wor 1 ed ie remy, | — he result that medicine + by t 5 r these whe turned the country ever to it last | §€ HAD « pair ff tracer coer my bothing suit e@randpap” Objects, “Mack to the Land.” \ yearden, with tne ss hhis_ head |the demand to put beer on & medicine |quented by seals, to which the Di £ i f n't Verid; . i. + “5 a ' is dor not come trom e doctors but when J cams up to the top of the water this | 19 Me Balter of Te Brewing Wort 10 the Faditor of The Krentng Worl for business, Had earth | basis Nevember. i v had pbut from the brewers, 1 wah te heartily indorwe the sen- | one ore tuoughiful of your reads “siwnya been an oP ® 5 . sree - | ‘fhe more tuougitfui of your read- “aways ‘ ARTHUR DOUGLAS. . port cosiume was gore.'—Dan Casunv, the | iimenty cxpresscd by Mra, Mary! org may have noticed yesterday in the nover heard of a closed shopior a la { This is mo campaign Gongrese. f my | har ce | f ies Sea P vs Brows regarding incorrigible girls, as contest of Premier Lioyd George with bor union. Back to the laud ts @ New York, April 7, ee ‘ as ory tak ema! ———— ————————