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, Che Eve ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZ: Pudlimhed Daily Company. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row, J. ANOUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park ow MEMIFER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS, The Ansoctated Prev te exclusively ontitied to the ase for remubtics Of Al news despetehen credited to It or not otherwise credited tm thls ray Bhd also the jocal news published herein WALKING TRAFFIC-TOWERS. PBCIAL DEPUTY POLICE COMMISSIONER HARRISS may come in for some good-natured “sagging” in regard to the special lighting eftects he has ordered for the adornment of traffic police in outlying districts. The apparatus, it is announced, is to consist of harness to be worn by policemen, with push buttons in the belt to control the red, green and yellow lights which will be mounted on the policeman’s chest to make him a walking traffic-tower, Fifth Avenue style. The “wheeze” about policemen being “all lit up’” fs only too obvious. Commissioner Harriss’s traffic experiments, how- ever, no longer create merely amusement or oppo- sition, They arouse interest. On Fifth Avenue, Broadway, the bridges and in the one-way streets, the innovations made by Commissioner Harriss have proved their value. Those who have ridiculed or raged against the experiments have become con- verts, Commissioner Harriss has had several of the “last laughs” which are best. Nowadays every one wonders how New York ever did without Fifth Avenue traffic-towers, and why the Broadway theatrical tangle was ever al- lowed to continue so long when there was an easy way out. “[Huminated pofice” may not have all the advan- tages Commissioner Harriss hopes for. But the ex- periment is worth trying. New York ought to have a strong and sincere appreciation of. the service Dr. Harriss has rendered and the money he has spent out of his own pocket in furthering his experiments. His work has been one of the notably bright spots in the darkness of the Hylan Administration. Com- missioner Harriss has combined intelligence, inilia- tive and a commendable spirit of public service backed by expert observation. Perhaps it is not significant, but Col. George Harvey gets the ambassadorial appointment to the country having the best cable connections with the United States. : AS 100,000,000 SEE IT. UROPEAN and South American critics may be pardoned if they wax cynical over the Co- fombian treaty and sneer at a national morality with,an eye to oil wells. ‘We cannot speak for the motives of Senator Knox and Senator Lodge. nor of President Harding. There fs no defending the devious politics which delayed his act of justice for seventeen years. It may be that the controlling clique in the Senate, which finally made possible the passage of the treaty, interested primarily in oil and selfish aggrandize- ment. But in the country at targe the great majority of fhe population have no interest in the matter be- yond being honestly glad that the United States has confessed its error and is making reparation. The question of oil has nothing to do with the popular yerdict. The 100,000,000 are honest and sincere in support of the Colombian treaty as an expression of square dealing in international affairs. A JOINT AUDIT. NEW proposal for settlement of the British coal strike is advanced by the mine owners after consultation with the Government. Eight of the nine proposals seem to look toward the creation of something like the so-called “profits pool,” which has been one of the principal demands of the miners. The ninth point introduces a principle which The Evening World has suggested as a paciticatory aid in industrial disputes here, but which, so far as we are aware, has never been tried on a large scale in any American industry. This provides for a joint audit of the mine own- ers’ books by representatives of the mine owners and the miners, This proposal, it should be remembered, comes from the mine owners, not from the miners, The stiike of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers in this city is a specific example of a dispute in which such an audit might have prevented industrial warfare. . Leaders of the Amalgamated claimed the employ- ers had been profiteering and could afford to cut prices without cutting wages. They professed to be willing to adjust wages and working conditions if a joint audit of the books proved such an adjust- ment necessary for the good of the industry. The Amalgamated was unwilling to accept the unsup- ported word of the employers. The employers in turn refused to open their books for audit. What the extremist wing of the British miners mmy think of such a proposal remains to be seen, But here in America there are few labor organiza- tions which would not concede almost anything in return for such a privilege. 4. (Om the other hand, employers whose profit rec- | | THE EVE ords are not an index of profiteering have nothing to fear from such an audit. Nothing will so impress workers with the necessity of wage cuts as an actual demonstration that fie employer is not making money and that orders are falling off because prices are too high, THE NATURAL GERMAN VIEW. EWS that the German Government has sent a formal note to Washington on the reparation question is no surprise. nh has been perfectly evident that German psy- zy was only too ready to see in the anomalous position of the United States toward the Treaty of Versailles and the Allies a possible means of divid- ing the latter and easing down the pressure put upon Germany to compel payment. If “feelers” in this direction have developed into formal diplom: approach, it is only a further at- tempt to realize the hope raised in many quarters on both sides of the Atlantic by the election of Presi- dent Harding and the rejection of the Wilson policies. Two weeks or more ago, it is true, Secretary Hughes transmitted to the German Government through the American High Commissioner at Berlin a message which contained the following: “This Government stands with the Gov- ernments of the Ailies in holding Germany responsible for the war and therefore mor- ally bound to make reparation so far as may be possible.” The German mind, however, seizes upon the ab- sence of specific statement as to how far the Gov- ermnent of the United States sill stand with the Governments of the Allies in agreeing what repara- tion is possible for Germany. Moreover, the German mind makes the most of the fact that the United States has not ratified the Versailles Treaty, that the Harding Administration is ready to disrupt the treaty by demanding that the League of Nations covenant be ripped out, and that this Nation is already at odds with other Associated and Allied Powers over the matter of mandates, To the formal German petition the ate Depart- ment at Washington replies that this Government “could not agree to mediate the question of repara- tions with a view to acting as Ampire in its settle- ment,” but that, on the other hand, in the interest of an early and just solution, th is Government might be willing to act as intermediary in bringing to the attention of the Allied Governments such new reparation proposals as Germany may formulate. Whether this as to how much can be worked to German ad tage from the present anomalous position of answer will modify German views an- the United States among nations remains to be seen, The Harding-Hughes foreign policy is not yet clear of the muddle into which Senatorial spite and partisan ruthlessness dragged the country. It will be no easy job to convince Germany that a United States that glowers at peace from an iso- lated corner of doubt and distrust is not still a prom- ising factor in German calculations, Our amiable parent, The Morning World, wants to know what Secretary Weeks is going to do with two General Staffs, Perhaps he in- tends to have two wars. MONTCLAIR'S CAT DILEMMA. ONG years before there were Kings to look at —or Montclairites—the cat was a carnivorous animal, and lived on freshly killed me birds and field mice and rabbits and rats and the like. Mere humans have been civilized in a measure, but the cats continue in their old way. A robin or a wren is as tasty a morsel to a cat as it wa thousand thousand years ago. Cats are also the greatest enemies of the rat and mice families. And there you have the makings of the proxat and anti-cat contention in Montela The pro- the birds, The they hate the r rs hate the rats more than they love i-catters love the birds more than s and mice. Anti-catters threaten to trap the cats and save the birds. And if this happens, the pro-catters threaten to go to law about it and collect damages for the cats destroyed. What's to be dor “ee R, TWICE OVERS, HARVEY became Ambassador to Great Brilain without suggestion or application on his part.” Senator Lodge. . . 667 HAVE heard about laws with teeth in them, but this (State Prohibition) law has more than that Leach. oe istics.” it is a porcupine and no matler where you touch it you get stung.” Deputy Police Commissioner * * . was very interesting to draw Mr. Harding. He has a strong face with well defined character- Miss Neysa McMein. * * * 66 ANYBODY who never has worked in patched clothes will be surprised to learn how much work you can do when you don't here to worry about | soiling your best suit." —Senator Francis E, Warren. ‘ = aenat S _ Overloading! ) Feet ‘ aa cas Fete aN es ‘ a NING WORLD, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1921 Coprrigtt, 1921, by The ren Mitvliahing Co, (The New York Evening Worl.) By John Cassel ee eee ee From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't tt the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to aay much in a few words. Take time to be brief. A “Lawless Industry. Ty the Kaltor of ‘The Kvening World Your correspondent, A, C. Bate WV elor (Associate District Supgrinten- | hicssure dent of the Anti-Suloon League), who | trouble. firemen, and coal an assistant chief engineer ers, For the last ten been carrying a stean pounds to the square the be assifies brewers as “lawless,” does] our fi en have never been in good ot state t these same brewers | Condition nel *t #000000 te one year to the|, Last summer we ran the plant with Government, delivered thelr, product | fll pressure In the morning, but in }to householders for Jess than ‘ a bottle, paid $1 a barrel tax oveh the fifth Jars country, made less on invested capital than any other In | ¢ dustry It'is an easy the afternoon {t dropped twenty-five Our every cor- day pounds and did not rise, aration is losing y changing firemen every e these poor m where the tempe tween 100 and 125 dey heit, and the more thing for well-paid. water they drink professional accelerators of pubfe | \e'tens work they accom Lbes opinion to hide behind the church] {iyo that they have lost 25 per cent. and attack people engaged in one of | of Sir physical, pow the ve Industries) in! “How nice It is for all our misrepre- the FIED. SCUWARZ | sentatives In Washington to enjoy New York, April 19, 1921 psiggiap boys the electric fans when the tempera- ture does not reach 90 degrees Fahrenheit while the poor firemen down in the cellar absorb the heat of degrees Fahrenheit and still poke 8 to make It a comfortable life for (Congress) people who deprive £ beer (not whis- do them a world Wants GOOD Laws, ‘ty the Jalitor of he Brenig World I am one of the thousands of your readers who have never been moved to expose my opinion to your read igh your valuable paper, be- il seetied to me that every- thing was golng In falr way, Now everything bas changed. 1 read an of goo As I have Id before, Lam not a article to-day h quoted Magia-]union man because I do not have tc trate Joseph B, Co He said: | be one. L would shut down my plant could bein yaelf to be-]| to-morrow if all the rest of the engi- people would elect legis-| neers In the United Stites would de who would pass such {vo!]the same to show the Anti-Saloon our misrepresentativ on that it is the working League and in Washing: el, I see that tha people wanted change American, but J that our country is going backward Instead of for- Boys and Cops. werd, Yo the Faitor of The Evening World This Bighteenth Amendment in my] "1. pogard tu the person signing in opinion and experionee is ond of thy pee worst and most unspeakable jaws| behalf of youth, I sure do agree. 1 ever enacted by the United States | have often said, If the police would Congress. This law employment hun} poople, has put ou leave the poor schoolboys alone and \ to the loafers that dress und at th me time things would be better, AVENUE do not work, A too numerous te I am in the “ York a line, 1| “Make New World union man because 1 do | ™ the Bllter otave be Christ came that we might have By Albert P. Southwick : do) prederick Py Lattimer says, “Why » and have it more abundantly | Comvrintit. 1021, by the Pree Publishing Co to be ane, but t do be t make New York a city of homes?" | !ife and hi atl: ect of HH ie New York Evening b @ Federation of Labor 1]! Ay way Liat maak, dusttabies None acem that th oud =e 4 helleve in every ge aw, but bs ion can be accomplished | Coming had bee a in this so-called Bighteenth | Consummation can Pe advonplished | pefore in the history of th A woman 6 feet 2 inches in Amendment aby CUR LPRCOERAIIA and toc the strui for existence may properly weigh 113 pound: We have a law to protect peopte| Sher nore profitable to use land, ferce: Christ, was 4 inches, 119 pounds, and 5 fc from being mutilated by automo-|inan to hold it out of use, On ace Bane eet ae. Ea ot inches, 130 pounds, piles. ot and monopoly the great er ‘ "3 : ne i - perfect ingulation of every line of djustinent is a denial] Pena “and ever, when the Bible Ln) urLSeh OF ies NG th others suted from hish was born In a] #nd condemns eh : corey ard ae tension electric wires there Was no room| Land epeculation has been the! sicieq women tive two ye doesn't the Anti-Saloon| jn the inn. The land has not all been | curse of our so-called ely Vrs in a VV ionger than single ones, neh do something to prevent] used, but it has all beon seized, and made for us 1on ear b Nae OOTY ty dice in. ontanirtt, these daily murders? within the oity limits ae well wing. us t se age ve | mother dies first, the father survive. 1 would like to know which of| outlying suburbs is held at prices en- | have vainly praye¢ Tale eat eae ae these three industries is the greatest] tively out of reach of people of mod- | of AL et te {father dios first, the survival of th der antomobiler, liquo. or) cst means iD if io il Saha | eleven la a ears, 9 t aitomobiles. 4 first, electricity and di tent of every charactor and ei me to the ew com Senate ’ od, THEOPHRASTUS. sccond atid last the liquor kind. ‘The rich find it easy to buy mands of Gi i ae . | Ia my engine while the poor Inwood, 8.1, April1% By lifting in the hand, we can dis- room 1 have three Jqnd for speculation f ty of Homes.’ UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) INVESTIGATE YOURSELF NOW! You notice that most investigations arc made after the inischief has been done. An invegtigation of a railroad wreck discloses that some towerman or engineer, probably kept too long on the job, had gone to sleep and ignored signals. The investigation of a saan like Mr. Ponzi shows that the guardians of the law have not been watchful, and that a crook has again imposed upon the ignorant and eredulous. The investigation of a police scandal discovers that rascals have been left unwatched and taken up grafting as a profitable side line. And the wreck and the swindling and the graft have all happened before the investigation started. You are not personally responsible for the railroad wreck or for ‘the Ponzi crash or the police graft, But you are responsible for the workings of the very fellible and complicated human machine you eall “me.” When that machine functions wrong and trouble ensues cither to the machine itself or to the world at large, you can, of course, investigate and find out exactly what was wrong. But wouldn't it be a better plan to investigate now? The locomotive engineer, before he goes out on the road, looks over his engine as carefully as possible, to find out if it is all right. If it isn’t it goes into the shop and he gets another. Supposing you do that regularly with your own machine. ng right now? Test your fitness for the job you have undertaken, your qualifieations for the task before you. If they are not right make them right before you begi beg . sede mantel Nople and business men who suffer. ] iy, . mw do not vane to mecter ARE th Wer do not stand tor the Volstead Investigate your conscience, and see if it will act rican Kalser did in Albany in| Act. Repeal tt or aeriee sn promptly if temptation gets a little stronger than usual, eats pout it already, Tam an | Superintendent and Chief Engineer Investigate your willingness lo carry a job through to the eud before you begin it, If the investigation reports “O. K,.” go ahead. But if you find anything wrong make it right before you begin. Phat will save another investigation ‘later—an investigation which will not do any good at all, of The Ages By Svetozar Tonjoroff XXVIL—FREDERICK THE GREAT, The recent plebiscite in Silesta to determine the political destinies of Part of that country recalls an ear- lier plebiscite in the same region back in the middle of the eighteenth century. The contrast between the two plebiscites reveais a considerable improvement in the manner of hold- Ing plebiscites. The plebiscite of 1921 was carried out by means of the baltot, That of 1740-1763 was carried cut by the sword, wielded by King Frederick II. of Prussia, surnamed the "Great." Si- lesia was a political magnet in 1740 for the same reasons that make it @ | Political magnet in 1921, . Its coal, | iron, silver and lead deposits made it | a desirable tidbit for any royal palate, So in 1740, taking advantage of the | fact that a an sat on the Haps- burg throne, Frederick the “Great marched into Silesia and proclaimed its detachment from Austria and its annexation to Prussia, That act of self-determination by | the bayonet was destined to keep Burope embroiled in wars for a dozen years to come, | Maria ‘Theresa wanted Silesia back. | She was perfectly willing to have her | soldiers fight for it, But in 1742 she found it advisable to sign the Treaty of au, under which she ceded the g ter part of Silesia to her en- | terprising opponent, She renewed the struggie two years later, but in a new treaty she reaf- firmed the concession embodied in the Treaty of Breslau. | In 1756 this acti jhor w lost province, entered ance with France, d Sweden in an sia too hot for F 4 e Princess, keeping adily fixed on the 1 i! | Hob liern got th King of wor bis plebiselte by the bul- made a quick incursion into nd the Seven Ye War under full headway, should be pointed out, | that France hud Joriginal MH Hlesia. ‘he in pass- approved the ct that in the new align- ok the part of Maria inst. Frederick seemed t inducement to British statesmen to take the opposite side. When the war was over, th had sulfered n—but Fre his grip firmly established Silesia and had on acquired the surname of “Great,' Frederick's treatment of Silesia— to which, it must be admitted, Aus- tria’s claim was no better than his own— is paralleled by his adventure in Poland, with the difference that in Poland’ he adopted the principle of a division of the spoils, Frederick wanted Bast Prussia, but ‘he fact that it was Polish ter- ritory operated as an obstacle, he offered an inducement to his fel- Jow-sovercigns of, Russia and of Austria, That inducement was @ partition of Polish territory—the first of w series of three which eventu- ally wiped Poland off the map. Under this agreement for a dive |sion of the spoils, Frederick ob- tained East Prussia without Thora and Danzig, It remained for subse- quent negotiators to complete the “benevolent assimilation” of this do sirable area in the back yard of Eus rope. Now, East Prussia was mo mors Prussian than Silesia had been elther Prussian or Austrian—racially speaking. But Frederick needed them or purposes of political and finan- cial profit; 80 he went ahead and go* them—Iin the first place by hook, and in the second by crook, erick Imposed a head tax on Hoes- sian. mercenaries in transit through his territories to join the Britisn armies in the revolted colonies, Thess mercenaries he denounced as “cat tle, bought and sold.” But, then, be doubtless needed the money, WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 15. CHESTY. Language, like science, never stops growing. The only full-grown lan- guages are the dead languages, Hun- dreds of words are created annually by the necessities of developing art, industry, thought and wit. Most of these contributions fall to survive. Some of those that do survive have hard time getting into the dictio:.a: Among the verbal survivals that are still being frowned upon by the auto- crats of the dictionary is the word “enesty.” This word, of slang origin, is bound to win an undisputed place {in the language under the good old rule known as the “survival of the fittest.” The delay in its recognition is due entirely to the fact that the dictionary is always a lap or two be- hind the growth of the languago— especially the Engtish language os |spoken In America, There are three kinds of “chests”— chests that are made with carpenter's tools, chests that persons are born with, and chests they acquire through mental processes, a nation acquires an abnormal chest through mental proc t person or nation is called So long as this practice of elopment continues, the word sty” will remain in current, if not in good, usage—and that will be @ ood, long time. “That’s a Fact” are unable to secure enough with the high cost of building material to build homes, even thot each man was ible to do his own work in the cor.- struction of same. (ingulsh by the preasure and the mua. cular effort the difference between @ weight of nineteen and a half and one enty ounces, et | es 8 8 {| An octave in sound im produced by | nie the number of vibrations per nd of its fundamental, The car | has a range of about eleven octaves, t oe . The specific gravity of pure gold is 19.351; Uhat of silver js 10.474, Copperas or green vitriol is the com. mon name of sulphate of iron; oil of vitriol for sulphuric acid, and white vitriol for sulphate of zine, see Staten Island, New York Harbor, iv >| watered with an abundance of springs elof excellent quality, some of them, strangely enough, being fed by ve.as It should be pointed out that Fred. hemzoliern invasion of Si, | When @ person or, *licading all the way from the Catskill 9 (N.Y. and Orange CN, J.) Mountains. Springs break out near tidewater, in large numbers, at Mariners’