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ere Th f { the Federal Vocational Education Board, Presi- j Yeere ago. | Che EGey ator, WTAPLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. SSUMed Daily Except Sunday by The Prom Publishing Company. Nos, 58 to Park Row. New Tork. RALPH PULITZER, dent, €3 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW. Treasurer, 63 Park How. JOSEPH PULATZER Ir., Secretary, €3 Park Row. MEMPER OF THE ASSOCLATED PRESS, Bho Asrocteted Prem ls exctusively entitled to the use fer republication RD vews dewpatches credited to It or not otherwise credited im this paper (BRB iso the lore) news published herein. AGAINST THE TIDE. UNICIPAL COURT JUSTICE LEOPOLD PRINCE holds unconstitutional the part of the State Prohibition Enforcement Law that puts the burden of proof on the person arrested for pos- Sessing liquor. “A person entirely innocent of wrongdoing before the enactment of the new law,” Justice Prince points out, “becomes a criminal by reason of no act or in- tention to act and only by reason of the enactment of the law itself.” ‘ } “Crime cannot thus be made t rest upen | mere passivity, It ts not the apirit, of cur laws i and is contrary to the protection guarantesd by eur Constitution that citizens of our State shall be required to prove their innocence,” It will be interesting to see how the higher courts treat this view. ‘When Justice Prince speaks of “the spirit of our laws” he invokes something that has wholly changed its meaning. Neither Nation nor State regards constitutional guarantees as it regarded them before the Prohibi- tionists took over the country. The American citizen no longer talks of his rights. He is thankful for what he is learning to call his “permits.” OVERSTATING IT. ROF. BULLOCK of Harvard goes too far when he charges that the income tax is creating “a Nation of liars” in the United States. His proposition is seriously impeached by the very volume of complaint on which he bases his case. If income tax dodging and misrepresentation were $0 easy and so general as he assumes, there would be less demand for revision and simplification. Tt is true that most income tax payers claim all the exemptions to which they are entitled. Why Shouldn’t they? But conversation with many tax- Payers will reveal vastly more dissatisfaction with the administration of the tax than with the tax itself. ‘Most Americans realize that the income tax is the | fairest and most equitable way of raising revenue. This and a wholesome fear of detection keep them up to the mark in making out their reports. Once they have mastered the intricacies of the @@hedule, the taxpayers are comparatively cheerful ‘ever the actual payment of the tax. In tmpeaching the “loyalty to Americanism” of students sent to Valparaiso University by dent Hodgdon must shoulder the burden of proof. In most cuses the Federal Vocational gtadents are men who made personal and physi- eal sacrifice for what was “Americanism” three HARTFORD IN REVOLT. ARTFORD as a city is in revolt against Hart- ford as a State capital. The City Government defies the State Govern- tment to impose Standard Time on the city. The State Government threatens to retaliate by taking away the city’s charter. It is strange that such a threat should be made in Hartford, of all places. For Hartford cherishes the memory of another effort to take away a charter which failed when the document was hidden in Obarter Oak. Hartford has a long and rebellious history of which the Charter Oak incident is only an episode. lis early history centred on dissent from religious authority. The Hartford Convention in 1814 threat- ened the extreme measure of secession if the Union failed to protect New England. But since those days the Hartford strain of revo- futionary blood has been dihited with that of a great foreign-born population. Some may have supposed that the non-conforming spirit and its defiance of arbitrary rule were things of the past. This, it appears, is not the case. Hartford shows fight on the daylight-saving issue. The fight will bear watching. Will history repeat itself? Will Hartford have another Charter Oak in which the City Charter will be hidden from the autocratic State as the Colonial ‘Charter was hidden from the autocratic agent of the King? THE BOOTLEGGER'’S SHAKESPEARE, “Come on—you hear this fellow in the cel- lerage.” “I do remember an apothecary— And hereabouts he dwetis.” “Dost shou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?” “I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.” DO THE FACTS MATCH THE FIGURES? es FIGURES of our foreign-born popula- tion are of unusual interest this year because of the proposed 3 per cent. restriction of immigra- tion THE EVENING WORLD 29 | and Austrian-born persons in the United States are ! one of the significant developments of the decade, | American residents reporting themselves German- | born in 1920 number less than 1,700,000 as com- pared with more than 2,500,000 in 1910. The Austrian-born elemen! reporting numbered about | 575,000, or less than half as many as ten years ago. Irish-born, English-bom and Scandinavian-born, which, with the Germans and Austrians, comprised the bulk of the older immigration, declined in the count, but not in any such proportion as the Ger- mans and Austrians. It seems hardly probabie that the total of German and Austrian born has changed in fact as much as the figures would indicate, even when we consider that the early German immigrants have. reached an ! in a decade. Emigration of German and Austrian reservists in the war years was practically cut off by the Allied blockade. A possible explanation of such figures may be ‘found im the was. isn’t it quite possible that many Germans and Austrians who reported themselves foreign-bom in 1910 failed to answer the question truthfully in the recent census because of fear that such information might be used to their dis- advantage? THE OBSTACLE. ROM Berlin comes a report that the move to secure the mediation of the United States was suggested to the German Government by a small group of American business men whose commercial Projects are being held up by the delay in the repa- rations settlement. We do not know what trutth there is in the story. Nor, if it is true, do we know how these Americans put their suggestion to make it appeal to the Ger- man Government, nor what hopes the latter may have built on it. Neither can we say how such hopes might have been connected with recent German Propaganda to rouse sympathy in this country for Germany’s resistance to Allied pressure. But this we do know: American business in general, as nruch as any par- tioular part thereof, urgently needs a settlement of the reparations question. ; The demand of American business as a whole would certainly nol be for the United States to help play Germany’s ganve. But since this Nation cannot use is inftuence to hasten settlement from the position it should prop- erly find itself m—one of the Allied and Associated Nations acting in concert under the Treaty of Ver- sailles—the present Administration at Washington is under the heavier obligation to do whatever can be done to clear away an obstacle that is impeding the economic recovery of Burope and thereby hold- ing Lack American trade. The wonder is that the business interests of this country have not made greater efforts to inspire, not the German Government, but the Government of the United States with determination to find a way. Thanks to the false position into which partisan spite and ruthlessness forced this Nation, Secretary Hughes has the extra problem of how to keep the United States from being used by Germany in the omy role the United States can play. So far, Secretary Hughes has made a commend- ably firm stand against German attempts further to detach the United States from the Allies and manoeuvre it into becoming an out and out mediator. Now comes the task of treating a specific Ger- man proposal in a way to give Germany no fresh advantage and at the same time to bring about Prompt settlement, Here is where the Harding Administration owes it to the country to get the best and quickest results it can from its tortuous foreign policy. Republican statesmanship should not have to have many prods from business. The most amusing feature of the change in time {s that most of the members of the out- raged minority who refuse to set their watches forward will have to work the same as the day- Hght-saving majority. HATS IN ELEVATORS, (From the Ohio State Journas» Our inguiring reporter asked five men (he other day whether they thought a man should take off his hat when he is in an elevator in company with women, One of those interviewed took the rather curious position that the man should show this mark of courtesy if he knew the women, otherwise not, but the other four came out strongly for tne removal of the hat in the presence in the elevator of any woman. We are glad to find so close an ap- Proach to unanimity on the question. ‘When a man removes his hat in the presence of a woman it ts a mere outward and wholly conventional sign that he respects womanhood. But mere out- ward signs have their value; they help foster the sentiment they stand for. Respect for womanhood is at the bottom of morality and, tn fact, of civiliza- tion itseMf. Some women seem bent upon undermin- ing and destroying this respect for themselves and thetr sisters, but, after all, their number is small and inconsequential in comparison with those who de- sire and merit the reverence of men. To remove one’s hat in an elevator is a small way of showing one's reverence for the mothers of men, but it is worth while age when the death rate would make heavy inroads | The World Seems What bind of a letter do you find most readabic? lan't tt the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ie fine mental ewercise and a hot of satisfaction in trying to coy muck in 6 few words, Take time to be dricf. 1 Plnying tm the Park. To the Editor at The Bening World: Replying to B. D. on “Baseball Playing in the Parh I would say that B. D. evidently has never been in Central Park, played ball or in- dulged in any other athletic sport He is, in my opinion, a blue-law ad- vocate, a relic of the Puritan times. Does he know that in certain parts of Central Park the grass at this time of the year could stand a lawn mower? As to courtesy, I happened to be one of the so-called criminal offenders, guilty of the great crime of walking on the grass, After the de- tective had written ‘out all of the summonses the Lieutenant came up, and after explanations he remarked to the detective: “Why did you bother? Let them go.” The detec- tive answered: “It is too late; I have the tickets already made out.” Then Mr. Detective assured the bunch of us that he would fix it up for us, and not to worry, that we would probably get suspended sentences. May I quote the text of a letter written by Joseph P. O’Brien, Cor- poration Counsel, to J, P. Hennessy, Park Commissioner, on the subject of athletics in the public parks, as fol- lows: “Affairs would have been at a sad pass if our young athletes had been deprived of the privilege of using the public parks for blameless, praiseworthy purpose of indulging in athletic pastimes on Sundays, the only day of the week when ‘Tellef from the struggle for livelihood at- fords them opportunity for recrea- tion.” uM, New York, April 22, 1921. Brewers and the Law. "To the Bixor of The Evening Workd: In the letter from A. D, Bachelor in @ recent Issue of your paper, un- der the heading of “Brewers and Saloons,” it appears that the gentle- man belongs to the category of those who generally jump at conclusions, and undoubtedly does not write from actual experience. As a matter of fact, the brewers as a whole and principally the larger concerns, are not in favor of the Palmer ruling for medicinal beer, mainly because of the fact that un- der the law and the regulations which probably will be issued it will take the control of the medicinal beer out of the hands of the brewers, who are ready to do a legitimate business, and medicinal beer will be placed on the same level as medicinal whiskey is to-day. In other words, there will be any amount of bootlerging beer wold, with the natural result that A. D, Bachelor wild be ome of the frat to | | one | (Conclude that all the brewers are not | law-abiding. The word “ull” is placed in the sentence only for the reason that as @ class brewers are no different from those in any other line of business, or even church members. You will find black sheep in every flock. The re- turn of the brewery to do a legiti mate business will not mean the “perpetuation of lawlessness.” Had the Prohibitionists, instead of dis- turbing things the way they did, sought proper control of the brew- eriés and saloons and had such laws framed prescribing quality of the beer to be made, places where it is to be sold, and also those handling fined on violating, they would have done much better and done more toward eliminating lawlessness than they have done. ‘The saloon, naturally, has been credited with all crime, and right- fully 90 In many cases, on account of the character of those holding some of the saloons. The saloon is now practically passed, but if A. D. Bachelor will take the trouble of making an investigation he will find that other resorts have taken the place of the saloon and are doing just a@@ much harm as the saloon ever did excepting the fact that they do not display alcoholic drinks, As to the statement that out of forty breweries in Philadelphia mak- ing cereal beverages, one-fourth of them were closed by the Government for making beverages of more than one-half of 1 per cent., this is another statement which is in line with those made by Prohibitionists. They gen- eralize on everything and generally misstate facts. The writer believes that he is in a better position to know that as a matter of fact the Prohibition Enforcement Bureau has actually closed about eighteen brew- eries throughout the country and has evidence against a dozen more; also that some of the breweries that were closed have reopened after they have complied with all the rules and regu- lations Issued to fit thetr cases and by filing suitable bonds. Had this entire situation been handled in an entirely different way, beginning with not amending the Constitution the way it was done and by passing the Vol- stead act in a similar manner, but by g suitable laws as suggested we would not have the con- ditions which prevail throughout the country to-day. Prohibition will not prohibit and will also not stop the making of substitutes for the differ- ent articles sold in the saloon in each and every home. It will be much better to have alcoholic beverages made and sold under proper condi- tlone than to have them made and used by people who have not the least idea of what they are doing to their health. THMPHRANCE. New York, April 21, 1921, B is Right. ‘To the Bititor of The Brening World: A claims that ships flying the Eng- lish flag do not pay tolls to through the Panama Canal, they pay. KF (New York, April 22, 1921, b. a . Smaller Since March From Evening World Readers’ DAY, APRIL & i | | UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Coprrtaht, 1921, by John Minka) WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH IT? You want success, You want wealth. You want a big house and an automobile and plenty of theatre tickets and money to dine at expensive restaurants. In these respects you are not unusual. The desire for wealth is the energizing force of civilization, Shakespeare wrote his plays for money—and we rejoice that he made it with them Marconi did not invent the wireless merely for glory. He made the invention pay. The men who care not who gets the money just so they get the fame are so scarce that you probably have never met one of them. The yearning for wealth is not at all wrong. It is per- fectly natural. And it is so strong in almost every human being that they are likely to forget that wealth is not every- thing there is. Stop now and then, while you are making your plans to assemble that fortune, and ask yourself what you are go- ing to do with it when you get it. Do you mean to use it in hiring servants so that you will never need to do any work? Do you expect to invest a large part of it in rich and in- digestible meals that will ruin your health for life? Do you expect to inyest it in a style of living that will only serve to arouse the envy and hatred of others? Or do you think that, after you can get it, you can do something in the world with it that will help other people out of their troubles? A great many men have done that. Carnegie founded libraries and helped colleges. Rockefeller has done more in the way of assisting medical investigation than any other man, Many men with far less wealth have used it for the good of their fellow men. If you mean to do that go ahead and get as rich as you please. You will give most of it back again, But if you only want wealth to hoard it or to diaplay it or to indulge yourself, don’t trouble to get it. For it will not be of the least real use to you, and all the terrific labor you must spend in accumulating it will be wasted. Asa Gray wrote: “In ordinary cases, leguminous seeds have longest pre- served germinating power; in some very well authenticated caseq up io seventy Or perhaps 100 years, "Nearly uniform temperature, darkness and either dryness or burial beyond at- By Albert P. Southwick 1g, be Pubtiening Co, Corton Neve York voatne Wore) mosphertc Influence most favor the prolongution of vitality.” Among great armies of antiquity e 2 2 is that of Xerxes of Persia, invading} The longest known survival of any “That's a Fact’ Greece, 460 B, C, with an army of 5,283,220 men; Darius of Persia at the Battle of the Granicus, who had 600,000 men; the force of Croesus, who marched against Cyrus of Persia with an army of 420,000 and 60,000 horse, while Artaxerxes had 90,000 soldiers Ko | B claims at (he Battle of Cunaxa. 8 @ Selentific farmers will assure you that the seed of wheat loses its ilfe within, at most, ten years, but Dri Asia seed is that of a certain Egyptian lily. A dried seed pod kept in the South Kensing(on museum, England, contained seed which was tested and found to grow after a period of ninety-five years, oe e The lettuce appears to have been dorived from the endive, wich ts found wild in temperate and South. ern Hurope, in the Canaries, Algeria, Abyssinia ‘and temperate Western Women of The Bible, By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory Carrere, Neo’ tea traaiag Wella) No. Deborah the Great. We bave read much of “Cetherime the Great,” and the Hebrew woman just as clearly entitled to be called “Deborah the Great” ruled a mighty empire, while Debora) Barak, don't worry, I am going along with you,” she said to her cowardly | there is no doubt that it was brought | about largely by the wonderful genius of Deborah. of iron. Stern yet just, she won and retained the respect and confidence of her people. She made them understand that I{b erty did not mean license, and that ft was as necessary that they should their greed and spite, as tt was that they should overthrow the legions of Sisera. In fact, the more I think about De- borah the more wonderful she sseme to_me. When I pass to the “other site of Jordan” I am going to try at the earliest possible moment to get 4 glimpse of some of the great spirits who left the Imprint of their genius upon the pages of our earthly history I want to see Caesar and Napoleon Plato and Socrates, Phidias, whe built the Parthenon, and Old Di omenes, who told Alexander to get out of his sunshine. [ shaM look for a® and certain others, but I am ing to forget Deborah the No. 15—CORNELIUS VAN WYCK LAWRENCE. (1791 - 1861.) Cornefins Van Wyck Lawrence was the first man elected Mayor of New York. He took office in 1834. A! though for baif a century the coun- try had been independent of Great Britain, the city was etill a prinet paltty of the State. The Governor ap- pointed tte Mayor as he did in Co- lontal times. It took a hard fight and a constitutional amendment to permit the metropolis of the Western World to elect ite Chief Executive ‘The election of Lawrence convinced many that the old system of appointment by the Governor was the correct one after all, because of the riots that occurred. Thr. days were set aside for the election and they were three day of fighting, burning of ballot boxes, beating up of citizens, and were not over until the millitia had been called out. Lawrence, head of the Bank of the State of New York, was a Jackson Democrat. Jackson was not popular in the city, and Lawrence was forces to carry the onus of the Nationa, Administration. He wes a membe! of Congress at the time. He was in- dorsed by Tammany, and Gulian © Verplank was the independent cand}- date, supported by the Whigs. Lawrence was a member of (te Volunteer Fire Department and had the support of that potent element te the election. Both sides started rows on the slightest provocation. Law. rence, after three days, wes declared the winner end took his seat He was re-elected because he made goad ag Mayor, ‘New York had no water save that which was obtained wells and Collect Pomd through the wooden pipes of the old Burr Water Company. For years there had teem talk of obtaining a supply from the Croton River, and permission to ob} tain it had been granted, but nothing had been done. ‘There had been many epidemics tm» New York. Its population was mase than 200,000, and it really was am um healthy place in which to Hve, Ite water supply, however, was not um» der suspicion. A_ supply, boweves, wes ceivanieed thio life by ‘Magar was galvanix e Lawrence, So while engtneers and others figure in the history of the supply, it was the city’s first elected? Mayor who put it through, It was seven years before the water came into New York and celebration eclipsed the opening of the Erie Canal. It capped the first time there was an eup- ply of water fit to drink and also thas there was sufficient with which te fight the fires, Historians say that at the celebration no one drank any thing but water. It is hard to believe, but history 90 records tt, Mayor Lawrence also had hie tram sit problem to wrestle with, and the attempt then was to solve tt with buses, whioh had started running on Broadway. A street car line was butt from Prince to 14th Street, and wao the first of those ancient arks drawn by horses that served the city untip - were supplanted bx dliestricity.