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“. ~~ ee en Che Cucijry World, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pwitmed Daily Except @unday by The Prost Publishing Company. Nos, 53 to 63 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Prosident, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 8 Park Row. — MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. (The Asscotated Press ts exclusively entitled to the use for republication Wat news despatches credited to Ht or not otherwise credited in this paper Wad ale the local news published herein. A GOOD VETO. N DISAPPROVING the measure to create a per- manent division of detectives in the Police De- partment, Mayor Hylan is more to be congratulated on the fact of the veto than on the process of reason- ing by which he reached this decision, The Mayor regrets that he is “obliged to withhold my approval from a bill which has such merit,” but poor old Father Knickerbocker is impoverished and cannot stand the “several hundred thousand dollars” the bill would add to the budget. Even poverty has its compensations. It would be hard to conceive a calamity worse than “freezing fn” the Enright-picked detectives as permanent job- holders. It is true, as the Mayor says, that “some perma- fency of rank should be given to these men who have qualified themselves as detectives by long years ‘of experience,” but that permanency should depend On competitive performance. The Detective De- partment should never be clogged with a group of Superannuates, “frozen in” so as to bar the young and ambitious. The veto is a typical example of the mental Strabismus prevailing in City Hall. A STEP BACKWARD. N SIGNING the bill for the repeal of primaries and restoration of the convention system in State politics, Gov. Miller is only doing what he has proposed to do all along. New York voters have no fair reason for complaint, for it was a part of the Miller programme openly avowed before election. Nevertheless, it is a thoroughly reactionary bit of fegislation, for, of and by the politicians. It will take years to undo what Gov. Miller and a subservient | Legislature have done as the result of an election held in a moment of reaction. With all its imperfections, the Primary Election Law was an advance over the old method of nomi- mations. The remedy for the imperfections com- plained of was not repeal but revision and improve- ment. CLOSING THE GAP. ‘With @ week's record of building plans filed for 660 homes, it appears that New York is only now beginning to close the gap between the number of homes wanted and the number of homes available. ‘With a normal increase of about 100,000 in population each year, the city needs 20,000 mew homes each year, or about 400 per week. In a week when more than 400 homes are provided for, the surplus helps reduce the shortage. Commissioner Copeland estimated last winter that 100,000 families needed homes in the city. If we subtract 400 homes from 660 homes, we find a surplus last week of 260 homes to apply on this shortage of 100,000 homes. Not a very Dig mark, it is true, but far better than an increase. AN OLD AND SHABBY TRICK. RESIDENT HARDING puts his finger on a perennial political abuse in his letter to mem- bers of his Cabinet warning them to spend only the * money provided by Congress and not to depend on * “deficiency appropriations” to balance departmental accounts. The warning, however, is as applicable to Con- gress as to the department heads. “Deficiency” bills are an old, time-worn and shabby political dodge. They are the first resort of a Congress out to mak2 an “economy” record for campaign purposes. The usual political procedure is for department heads to ask more than they want. This is followed by Congress giving less than is essential to the ser- vice. Then Congressmen go home, pat themselves on the back and pose as friends of the taxpayers until after election. Meantime, legislative leaders have privately in- formed the department heads that it will be safe to spend more than the sum allowed. After election it is a simple matter to make good the departmental overdrafts. It will be recalled that the economy record of the last Congress figured in Republican campaign propa- ganda. Now President Harding reports $216,000,000 in deficiencies pending and estimated deficiencies “much beyond that sum.” Another name for this particular variety of gov- ernmentat “economy” is “political buncombe.” TAXES AND EXEMPTIONS. ‘Sehr of the important points made by Secretary Mellon in his letter to the Finance Committees of Congress dealt with the issuance of tax-exempt securities by national and State authority, Secretary Mellon believes that this procedure must be curbed. Otherwise we shall come to the point where large fortunes, managed by the shrewdest brains in the country, will be withdrawn from pro- THE EVENI fies bringing a moderate return but one free from taxation. Federal, State and municipal authorities have found tax exemption a convenient and effective means of borrowing money, Considered only for the moment, it was a measure of economy. Interest rates on such securities need not be so high as on taxable stocks and bonds. In the long run such economy is questionable. If large fortunes are persuaded into tax-exempt in- vestrhent they are no longer available for taxation. ‘The burdens which the citizens escape in immediate interest rates are probably balanced or overbalanced by the income tax rates which are inevitably made higher for all those of moderate means. In this connection New York City is leading the way with a more direct and immediate subvention to coax out the dollars of small investors. The tax exemption on new buildings is as much an induce- ment to investment as the tax exemption on mun ipal or State bonds. But when the Government collects income taxes it will collect on the very sums which the city remits in the course of the next ten years. Federal income-tax collections will be larger because local taxes are remitted. WHO DECIDES? Hew does the Harding Administration propose to meet a straight invitation from the Allied Governments to the Government of the United States to add American representatives to the Su- preme Council, the Reparations Commission and the Coun sil of Ambassadors? Secretary Hughes has told Germany that the United States will stand by the Allies and that the proper address to which to send an adequate repara- tions proposal is the Allied Governments, Who is going to dictate a section of Harding foreign policy dealing with an invitation to the United States to be represented in the Supreme Council and the Reparations Commission? Is it to be left to Senator Lodge or other irrecon- cilables to hold that the United States cannot act more closely with the Allies than it has hitherto done for fear of incurring responsibilities or obliga tions under a peace treaty from which it means to extract only what is to its advantage? Or will the Hughes policy of standing by the Allies -be permitted to progress logically to acting with the Allies? The United States has professed its earnest desire for a speedy settlement of the reparations question. Does that desire grow cold before any proposal for hastening the settlement that might tend to move the United States out of a position of complete and calculating selfishness? Who decides? A RACE THAT IS ONE. ABE (to mention only one of his affectionate nicknames) Ruth became a national hero lasi year on the strength of his home-run record. But particularly he was the darling of the New York fans, who openly conceded that the Babe was “in a class by himself” and wished some one could give him a run for the honors, Pre-season betting this year centred on whether the Babe would or would not surpass his last sea- son's record. Honestly, it was too much to hope that there would be real competition. Imagination could not soar to such dizzy heights as to conceive of a for- midable rival right here at home among the Giants. But as the season opens, home-run competition is a matter of fully as much interest as the actual standings of the teams. The Babe is satisfactorily ahead of his home-run schedule for last year, but Kelly is providing competition that keeps the fans on the anxious seat. Just now Kelly leads in the race. What will to-day or to-morrow bring? Let’s go! May the best man win! And_here’s hoping neither breaks a leg or an arm to spoil the race for home-run honors. TWICE OVERS. 667 THINK the United States is the greatest coun- try in the world." —Georges Baklanoff. * « oe Ss OME florists have boosted the price of carna- tions beyond all conception of their worth, and as a resull many residents of this city have declared * their intention of wearing dandelions instead of carna- tions next Sunday (Mothers' Day)"-—-The Rev. Mr. Bartholow of Mount V rnon. * * * 66 JF you had adequate ascertainment of prices and the attention of the public called to that, I believe that public sentiment would very largely control prices.” —Secretary Hoover. * LY i 667 AM unable to perceive why a citizen of the United States cannot successfully represent his coun- * * HE common enemy is Tammany.” —William M. Bennett. ‘ * + try abroad without being either a sycophant or a swash- @uctive industry and invested in tax-exempt securi- buckler."—Col. George Harocy. u NG WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1921. ~ “She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not.” ‘To the Falitor of The Ev What is the relativity of the office of the United Prohibition Enforce- ment Commission in the Federal building on West 27th Street to tl office of the Fede Distribatin Company in the same building? i PROFESSOR. | New York, April 30, 1921. Rents and Food. To the Editor of The Evening World Wages are being lowered all along the line, and will still go lower, With lower wages, how ean we pay the high rents we are compelled to pay? For Mats that used to rent i $18 and $20 landlords charging $40 and $50, some cases evén more. Land- lords are even now raising rents higher still, Isn't it about time that these landlords commenced to reduce rents? 1am told by real estate men that many | families are starving their stomachs | to pay these greedy landlords, W. A. MONTIGNANI. | New York, April 30, 1921, | are To the Editor Some of pictures shown at the “movies” should be sup- pressed. Those who approve of them must be people of questionable refine- ment, Pictures can be shown that are wholesome, uplifting, thrilling and attractive, So why display those that do harm » youth and are be- » ‘stain of utter de- avity WM. TOMPKINS. Jamaica, 4 1 What Good In the Constitution? be Balitr of Th Wor | If the can pass a law or an amendment and the United States Supreme Court uphold that law or tmendment not passed according o the “letter” of the Constitution, what good is the Constitution? It i not even as good as the ex-Kaiser's} scrap of paper | 1 sull maintain, in spite of the United States Supreme Court, the Congress, or other interpreters of the Const on, that when the Constitution was written and adopted | by the original Thirteen States it was] feant that the provisio y V be carr’ ; prevent ju he foisting lent upon the public against the will) nd consent of the people, in proof | which { refer them to the pre-| un and resolu preceding the| first ten amer Resolved, By | the Senate ¢ Lepresen tives of the Amer- ica, In Congre »-Uhirds f both Hov that the | following article d to th Legisiatures of the ates, a the ution of n ys “twoeth ef both | Houses concurring.” Now if anyone can show me where our “Constitu- From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that pives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ts fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction im trying to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. a , tional Interpreters" get the interpre- | New York has with a population of | taken a great deal of interest in go- tation of two-thirds of those present! of both Houses when the words ‘those ; present” do not appear in Article V! c the resolution preceding the first ten amendments, I am willing to admit that I cannot read, write, | think, eat, drink or sleep, in fact that IT am’ not even aliv When the Constitution was framed there were only Thirteen States (com- paratively evenly populated). Ti Senate was gomposed of twenty-six! members (thty were true Americans, | for they could not be bought nor| whipped into line by lobbies), to-day we have forty-eight States with a Senate of ninety-six members. Do the United States Supreme Court and | the Congress realize the unequal rep- resentation obtaining in our present nate? There are nineteen States ith less than 1,000,000 population ach and a total of 9,193,313, repre- sented by thirty-elght Senators, while the ten leading States have a popu- lation of 52,514,831, which is more than one-half of the population of the United States, represented by twenty Senators. Is’ that equal representa- 1? Nevada with a population of (07 has as much to say in passing v8 or amendments, good or bad, as 10,384,144. tion? What the country actually needs 1s a revised Conatjtution to be rati- fied by the people by individual vote, the majority to rule. ‘Incorporate in- to it States’ Rights, or in other words Local Option on all questions affect- Ing the individual, and asya preamble { would suggest John Stewart Mills's essay on Liberty, Also make the In- Is that equal representa- itlative, Referendum and Recall a National Law. I have used the 1914 and 1921 issues of The World's Almanac as authority to base my contentions o: JOHN J, CILLES, New York, May 2, 1921. Knitting Back to Normal, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World : On March 25 I wrote you a letter about knitting in this country since the war, I had just seen an editorial in the Philadelphia Public Ledger which had mede the unfounded statement that women were knitting no more, now that they did not have soldier boys to knit for, Since writing this letter I have ing further with my own personal investigations as a knitter and as a woman who likes to see women da beautiful handiwork, Right in the midst of it all I come upon the following item from the | Mhiladelphia Ledger in its issue of April 22. It seeths to bear out the tact that women are knitting more han ever, Certainly the amount of hand-knitting yarns gold in thi country should be a good baromete as to the amount of hand- tting 4/that is going on. The following is the item in the Philadelphia Ledger w direct’ contradiction of r editorial publishe © Wweuks i Business in Mand-knitting yarns By John Cassel Toieeathy. 121, ly The Drew Publishing Co, the Nav York Beening Wart | | | |seething mouth of a volcano. He cers Jin te; | servant of | the | The Pioneers ees? Progress By Svetozar Tonjorof (Copyright, 1921, by the Press Publishing Co, eke New York Bvening Work). |\—THE MAN WHO LIGHTED THE FIRST FIRE. ! ‘The fire-bringer is the first and the greatest of all pioneers on the path of progress. This man must have seem plenty of fires of one kind or another before he lighted one for himself and for posterity. He may have seen the tainly had seen, far up in the sky, the regularly recurring fire of the sun. But the fire that shot out of the earth was a peril from which he fled The fire from the sun cowl not be brought down to earth because the burning-glass had not been ine vented. . The was to “ror thing that n “tame” fire; man instead of his men- acing It was necessary to devise means of starting a fire. Betore this discovery was attained the caves in which men dwelt must have been dreary places. We can ifi- agine our original ancestors, before (he discovery of the art of making # shivering from the cold, groping way avout in the darkness? peering into the night to ward off prowling beasts. ‘This was in the ear chipped arrowheads, axeheads out of flint. that some original artificer in stone conceived the idea of utilizing the sparks that flew when he struck one flint against the other. It is possible also that he or some other primitive men—say, a Reindeer Man—noticed that the branches of master stoneage. Men spearheads and It is possible two dead trees, rubbing against each other as they were swayed by the wind, became heated. That phenom- enon may have sugested the possl- bility of rubbing them together more vigorously until the smoke began to issue from them, and after the smoke came the glow Let us imagine that epoch moment in the life of the The ferble fire 1s applied to dried leaves or moss or fibre. is a_breath~ making moment of The fire . A thin spiral of smoke y towanl the roof of the tongue of flame cracks les Mankind has crossed the first barriers. great thing is done That fire—the first controlled fire in the history of the human race— made a vast difference in the lives of our original ancestors. It enabled them to heat and light their caves, It gave them a protection against wild beasts; no four-footed marauder cared to venture into a cave guarded by a fire at its mouth. tventually this monumental dis- covery enabled man to emerge from the stone age by making it possible to melt copper. That uchievement, in Its turn, are living. tremendous UNCOMMON SENSE By Joh (Copyrtent, 1921, YOU’LL NEVER LEARN n Blake by John Blake.) UNTIL YOU LEARN TO LISTEN. Conversation is a fine art. erybody ought to cultivate it. Your only method of selling yourself to an employer is by talking to him convinein, that it is your work that coun After —for a few minutes. ts. But your brain is so constructed that it is impossible to talk and listen at the same ti . And inasmuch as all impres- sions must be received through the ears and eyes it is bette: to give them more work than y You will never learn till anybody can teach you something useful, if you will listen to him intelligently: Naturally ‘ou give to your tongue. you learn to listen. Almost you would learn a great deal $} more in listening to Madame Curie than you would to a cump cook. Yet the camp co: his own fashion, could doubtl worth knowing. Cult when they talk, You may feel ok, if you will let him talk in ess teach you something well ate the ablest people you can and listen to them that your views are important, but what is more important still, for you, is to listen to their views. Do your share of the tal tunity, but do it briefly. It don’t talk too much, king when there is an oppor- a fine thing to talk well, if you Many able men are great talkers, but they got the in- formation which makes them interesting talkers by doing a great deal of listening earlier in their lives, When you listen, listen with both your ears and with your mind intent on the messages that they conv Think about what you hear. If you get new to it. eas fol- low them up with reading and investigation. Don't take everything you hear for gospel, but if it sounds important investigate new ideas and exercise in constant exercise is ever in tine for production is at hand it. In that way you will get your mind, And only a mind that is condition to produce when the every human being, whether savage, !parbarous, semi-barbarous or civile z fire worshippers of fire— the fire tha es the doe importance o ment of the a who first built a 8 iefleeted in the universal race Tho h of Prometieus form or another, the com rty of all branches of the family |who have a recorded history ond a conscious psychology It is characteristic of all these lege ends that the fire-bringer is [sented as having the gods in his eff mankind the inestimable bless ng of fire, The tragic picture of Prometheus chained to rock in Mount Caus for his temerity, one of the most were tation of the high valuation remote forefathers placed ¢ quisition of the great servant a vis jof man | The surviving nt Pere sia and of India are not the only fire- worshippers of to-< In a far more reasonable and fleant sense, Zoroastrians ttractive Forgotten ‘‘Whys” ; | TOASTS. nd, lifting a glass of legitimate imate liquor, calls out: “The pm!" or, “Robert Brown, our honored guest!” or what ever else comes through his mind, he doesn’t realize that in thus proposing a toast he is only going through the relic of an ancient ceremony, Originally, when the ancient Greeks or Romans were at a feast, the cus tom was to bow before the statue of Bacchus, the god of wine, excl ing, “Be propitious, O Bacchus!" pouring a little wine on the ground, This was also done to other gods, Emperors being deified, this honor was paid them, Then wealthy people and beautiful women were thus toaste ed, and the habit of toasting was established, and later, showing sense, people decided to drink the liquid ime stead of wasting it in the retail stores is back to normal, according to 3. B. & B. W. F' Inc. the largest manufacturers hand-knitting yarns in the ‘The mill is running to capa reduced prices of the yarns are re- sponsible for the retail demand, which indicates a decided Increase in hand- knitting by women the country over. The mill's output is sold for Severai months ahead,” So you see from the above it is evident that women are knitting more these days, and I believe it is becausi they learned how to knit during the war and learned how many beautiful and useful articles they could make | for themselves they never had known about before. If there are any other women wha are enthusiastic knitters, such as U am, and who disagree with me on this, I should like to hear from them. Don't forget that knitting is one of the great thrift assets of a nation MRS. L. M. ADAM Hackensaol April 29, 192: He In. of ‘The Evi nin a man born t1 n parents an Staten Island, April 27, 1921, To th Wort Is al ait this country of American citizen? | That’s a Fact®’ | By Albert P. Southwick | | Coprriaht. 1221, by the Preat Publishing Co. | “(The New York Brening World), i} lee xe Paris li , 22,000 acres Tokio, Japan, 00 acres; na, 8,000 acres; 6,000 acres, Of the great parks of the world receive the orders a Mason must be a Master Mason and Royal Arch Mason in good standing a Aes The first lodge of Odd Fellows im the United States was established at Md. the Baltimore, | cording to | (Bngland) 1819, to work age Manchester Unity® From madder (growing in Hindus stan) we obtain the paint color ‘Tes key red. From the yellow sap of # | tree in Siam, caught by the natives |in cocoanut ‘shells, gamboge, Raw jsienna and raw umber from earths im Sienna and Umbria, Italy, . soe In the City of Montevideo, Uruguay, } South America, there are 5,500 private | automobiles, 1,580 taxis and 260 come mercial cars. | ae reer Fairmount, in Philadelph has 2.991 \4 ; the Prater, Vienna 500 res and the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 58 acres, oe The ildren’s Crusade" was in the year 1212, when 80,000 Freneh chil- dren under the boy Stephen, and | 20,000 Man boys and giris ‘under the peasant Jad Nicholas, made their disastrous march fa you k 1 the y ar degrees of Kia | ‘Temp the Red Cross, Knights (emplars and Knights of Malta, To Automobile Club of Philadele 3 twenty-one years old. reer The first electrocution in New Yorlg ate was in 139 Nee A The trst insur f e was in Lona {don in 1706; in Philadelphia, Pa, im