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ESTABLIEHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Pudlithed Daily Except Sunday by The Prom Publishing Company, Now. 68 to 63 Park Raw, New York RALPH PULITZER, President, 6% Park Row. TANGUS SHAW, Treamurer. 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr. Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. THE COLORADO FLOODS. 7HATEVER can be done will be done to help W the stricken flood victims in Colorado. Neighboring cities and States have the first chance to extend aid in any catastrophe. The circle of relief activity expands as the need for assistance becomes evident. The warm and sympathetic heart of America has never failed to respond to such a call. A cloudburst and the resulting death and destruc- tion is as nearly an “act of God” as can be conceived. But it has never been the American way to “see no belp for it now or next time.” Other American cities have experienced catastro- phes and from their trials have risen to new heights of endeavor and achievement. Their citizens have soon dispensed with outside aid. They have organ- ized themselves first for relief, then for prevention. Out of the Galveston horror rose a new and safer city. As a by-product we had the invention of the commission form of city government, one of the most interesting contributions to our political his- tory. As a result of the Dayton flood we had an epochal advance in scientific flood control applicable to condi- tions in the alluvial valleys of the Middle West Dayton said, “Never again.” The Nation will mourn with Pueblo. It will offer help to Pueblo in the hour of need. And it will wonder what new manifestation of American inde- pendence and initiative the city will show in insuring itself against any possible repetition of such a mis- chance. George Harvey has that much to be desired quality in political Ufe—a skin like a rhi- noceros—if he gets any pleasure in reading the pewspapers from Home, not-particularly-sweet Home. CONSERVATIVE RADICALISM. LIL. America is deeply indebted to the American A Engineering Council and its Committee on Elimination of Waste in Industry. The report, a summary of which was published Saturday, deserves careful study and consideration by every thinking man or woman. The subject it treats affects each of us individually and all of us collectively. We read the statement that: “Over 60 per cent. of the responsibility for these wastes can be placed at the door of management, and leas than 25 per cent. at the door of labor.” And again, of more local interest: “In the ready made elothing tndustry it should be relatively easy to save three-quarters of a million dollars a day—an increase of 40 per cent. in effectiveness.” These recafl statements made by coonomists em- ployed by unions and denounced as “radicalism.” Coming from a committee of eminent engineers, many of them employed by great corporations and others too advanced in their profession to work for any one concern, the case they mmake challenges attention. The truth is, this report is radicalism—in its real sense. It is conservatism too—in its real sense. These engineers—familiar with industry as no other “lass of men can be—have gone to the roots—the * real meaning of radical—in the effort to conserve. The report is too big and comprehensive for dis- cussion as a whole. It will need to be studied in detail. The findings will need to be applied to indi- vidual cases. But the engineers have made an effort that deserves full appreciation. It is to be hoped that it is only the opening gan of a campaign that will be carried on with great profit to the Nation and every one in the Nation. Greenwich Village reminds us of one of La Rochefoucauld's maxims which amounts in English to: Better have folks cuss us than forget us. THE “THREE PER CENT.” PLAN. ec HREE PER C! -? immigration, unaccom- panied by sensible selection of the limited number of immigrants admitted, promises to provide a somewhat ghastly farce. From the nations where immigration is popular the law provides that up to 20 per cent. of the year’s allowance may be admitted each month. So the probability is that Italy’s allowance, for example, will arrive in five months, to be followed by absolute prohibition for seven months. As*The World m@ted yesterday, the first effect in Naiy was to promote an agreement for the division of traffic among the steamer lines, Once such a traffic pool is formed, it would be possible for shipping men to charge exorbitant rates and and co have 2 wealth applicants. Such a pool opens the way to corrup tion of steamer officials by those anxious for the favor of early passage. But suppose the traffic pool breaks up. Then we might have the spectacle pf immigrant ships racing , 40 this harbor Min me gers on the boats first to arrive, with rejection of those who delayed. Such a situation would be only another fair sample of what may be expected to result from general legislation passed by a Congress which is not and can not be competent to pass on a subject which Puzzles even experts, Every succeeding fiasco of restrictive immigration legislation only proves that immigration should and must be placed in charge of a board of experts with broad powers to make rules and regulations to fit the changes in conditions which ocour almost from day to day. LET HIM DIE. Ps Neeieda of eminent New York physicians pro- test in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association against the provision of the Volstead act under which “a physician becomes a criminal by the mere fact of writing a prescription for more than a pint of whiskey for one patient within ten days, and, so far as the revocation of his Permit is concerned, is denied his constitutional right of trial by jury.” The protest defines the point at issue as “the right of the physician to select his remedies and to decide what doses of these remedies each patient requires” : “The Volstead act denies this right. While recognizing the medicinal value of alcohol, it says to the physician, “Thou shalt not give more than a pint of whiskey (or brandy) to any patient within ten days.’ Further than this, recent interviews given by persons in- terested in promoting similar legislation con- tain the threat to prohibit altogether the medicinal use of alcohol “While there {s difference of opinion among the physicians of the country with re- spect to the therapeutic value of alcohol, the number of those having faith in it is sitf ciently large to receive attention.” Why should they receive attention? Why should any scientific opinion carry weight save as it accords with the views of the Anti-Saloon League? The law says about alcohol and its uses what the Anti-Saloon League has made the law say Dootors like Charles A, Dana, Hermann M. Biggs, Walter B. James and others who signed the protest have nothing but exceptionally renowned skill in their profession and unrivalled experience in dealing with human disease and suffering to back their con- tentions as to the value of alcohol in treating patients. The Anti-Saloon League wants no facts that belie its theories, no science that weakens its power. Why should even the highest human skill and ex- perience have the right to try to save a man’s life where Prohibitionists have decided it is better for him to die than to have more than a pint of whiskey or brandy in ten days? “No woman in the world can beat Mrs, Mal- lory to-day,” Tilden insidiously whispered into Mile. Lenglen’s ear just before she took court,— Associated Press despatch. A champion like Tilden ought to be an au- thority on niceties of good sportsmanship. Such @ remark at such a time would, as the English Phrase goes, hardly be cricket. Was it tennis? THE WRONG JAPAN. T will disgust not a few Americans to learn that not even a “live wire” like Charles Edward Russell, The World's special correspondent in Japan, has been able to locate the terrible Japanese monster whose plans to devour the earth must keap the United States armed to the teeth. Mr. Russell’s report on present-day aims of Japan printed in The World yesterday was enough to drive the bogy-makers to drink (there is still some), A Japan whose chief need is not more land but more raw materials to help change it from an »ri- cultural to a manufacturing country; a Japan that, like other Countries, has its jingo and militarist fac- tions who get into power, make blunders and are suppressed by the larger sentiment of the nation; a Japan in which intelligent Japanese already admit the mistake of high-handed methods in Corea; a Japan that means to return Shantung to China; a Japan that has no dark designs on the Philippines! No, no. This is not the Japan that causes our flesh to creep, This is not the Japan that curdles our blood. Give us a Japan the thought of which will keep us awake and shivering in our beds and then make us get up and beg to be taxed a billion dollars more for battleships. TWICE OVERS, ‘e E have to-day in our national life and in our own National Government iwo factions at work, One is fairly pictured in Mr. Harvey, our Am- bassador—I will not call him our representative —at the Court of St. James's, with all his narrow nation- alism, his insistence that we fought this last war for sel- Jish purpose alone, and that, without ideal or sentiment, selfish motives alone shall continue to govern our na- tional policy. “On the other hand are men like Mr Hughes and Mr. Hoover, with broad international interests and a Which of these two factions shall come out on top depends upon the will of public opinion expressed in the next Sew weeks." —The Ree. Dr. Horry Emerson Fosdick to an applauding congregation at the First Presdyserian sincere desire for reduced armaments. -of admission of passea, | Chutttly THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1921. A Rose From Last Year'sGa Couvriati 18R, Tig eet From Evening World Readers | What hind of a letter do you find most readable? Ien't it the ene | that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There 1s fine mental exercise ond a lot of satisfaction in trying | to soy much in a few words, Take time to be brief. The Irish Dinner. i To the Etitor of The Evening World: On behalf of the American Com-} mittee for Relief In Ireland I should | like to thank you very sincerely for the splendid display given the Irish) Dinner in The Evening World of last Friday, We all enjoyed the story and | the pictures very much indeed, Mayor O'Neill of Dublin and Mr.) Anderson have gone home armed with five copies each of the edition as the best proof they could possibly give the people in Ireland of the in- terest which the American public has in our effort to extend a measure of relief to the |!) sands rendered des- titute by 1) chent situation. iC HARD CAMPBELL, Secretary American Committee for Relief in Ireland. New York, June 2, 1921. A Mad Merry-Go.Round. ‘To the Editor of The Brening World As P. T. Barnum said, there's one born every minute. So the supply will be lasting if you don't stop to think for yourself and say, “Am I getting a square deal?" The tools politicians and misin- formed are talking their heads off to “come down with the cost of labor and the cost of living will come down.” Now the cost of labor is coming down, but the rents are still going up, Gas is higher than ever, The poor trac- |tion companies will go to the Poor |House if they can’t raise fares, un- they can put a few people on the is of cary, because there js no |more room inside, Swindling by individuals ts crime, | they punish the culprit and condemn {the fault. But in a state there is no |such unanimity. Politicians say “pol- " Phen there is a battle between who call things by the right ney and those Who obstinately. give Hence all sorts ni them the wrong ones. of confusion. This confusion extends to the“laws made for indlvidual cases—though the » world agrees that private swind- iy private swindling, there is great difficulty, in punishing the swindling of the’public. A law some- limes is like a gun which, If it misses. 4 pigeon, always killa a cow—jt It does not strike the guilty it hits some one else, Prohibition, for ex- ample As ry crime creates a law, 80 turn e law creates # crime, and henee we go on multiplying sins and evils and fauite and blunders Uli so- clety becomes the organized disorder F An Appree! The Prening World Morning and Evening Worlds. Now I am inform d that I will get the News of the entire world by the press of the Manchester Guardian througe. | The New York World. I'll tel} the | world that The World are “somo” publication. B. P, New York, May 31, 1971 TAving by Amendment. | To the Editor of ‘The Brening World: Now that a law has been made for the good of our souls and our moral | uplift, &c, would it not be well to ask the same people, so successful in that, to put over one in favor of our badies? We all must have heat, light, food and clothing to live. We must live with or without a beverage, so the question {s of far more importance to welfare of mankind. Place these matters under amend- ment law so that the people can pe assured of living at lowest possible cost. If the high cost of simple living is not controlled by law, what good can there be in our moral lives being so controlled? bg Those that so easily put over the Dry Law certainly cannot refuse to take up a more important question Page Mr. Anderson. The public will pay him more than he is now re- ceiving. F, CONAK. The “Shot” That Helped, ‘To the BAitor of The Evening World I admired G, R's letter so muct that I would like to add a little on the matter of Prohibition. I have been in a business that has kept me out of doors for the past sev- enteen years, most of the time work ing around buildings and all Kinds of weather conditions, rain, sleet, snow, wind and cold, especially up among skyscrapers. It makes mi sick to think that a ihandful of so-called reformers should have a law passed that makes us fee? ag j we were a nation of uncontrollable drunkards just because a few were weak enough to succumb to the in fluence of liquor. facing Many a day years ago I got drenched to the skin in midwinter trying to fill in a day’s work, and | can honestly say that [ think 1 woul be in my grave to-day if it had n been for the fact that I could g. a “ghot” of good old Scotoh or brandy in me to brace me up. I'll bet there are hundreds of thousands of outdoor workers whe can bear me ont in my statements. CHAS. LA SPINA New York, May 28, 1931 a A Chaser of oh, ‘By the Baitor of The Brening World ying to your excitable cor- respondent, R. FD. admit that m | statements that [ consider the seote @ race of moderate dvinker and th “hayd-drinking ndanis nd Bag read all the news ja COAST Lo coast. eantp-nex-fax. Saufives" soem contradictory, but sie shoe at r 4 ‘trewater’ ‘The cost is'five assumed that in these Prohibitiog risk impairment of my mind by were bloodthirsty and UNCOMMON SENSE John Blake (Copyright, 1921, ty John Blake.) REAL COURAGE. 'o be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.”"—Robert Louis Stevenson. If you have read “Kidnapped” you remember the quo- tation. It was spoken by Alan Breck, after the boy David had stood for a minute terrified on the brink of a roaring torrent and then, still sick with the fear of it, leaped across. To Alan Breck the leap meant little. It required no conr- age for him to make it, for he knew very little of fear. But for the boy, who did the thing he feared as he feared death, it was a real act of heroism. The only real courage consists in doing the thing we are afraid to do. The hulking prize fighter of the John Sullivan type, who has as much imagination as a grizzly bear, is not brave. He is sure he is going to win. It takes no courage to go into a winning fight. The bully is never brave. In fact, he is always a coward. Feeling sure that his superior size will carry him through, he picks quarrels as a pleasant method of passing his time. Put this same bully into the ring with a large, hungry tiger, face him with a man who looks as if he enjoyed shooting bullies as much as the bully enjoys thrashing his ph al inferiors, and all the courage oozes out of the bully. You will never know whether you are brave or not till you find yourself in a position where you are afraid to do something that ought to be done. If you do it you have courage. If you shrink from it and quit you have not, Never mistake a physical willingness to take a chance, ig attempt some dangerous thing, for the kind of courage that counts. It is not a brave but a very foolish man who walks a tight rope over Niagara Falls. It is a brave man who, not wanting to die, and knowing that an operation may send him out of the world, cheerfully goes to the table to take the one chance that may mean his continued support of his wife or his dependents, Often the timid sqhoolboy, who fears to quarrel and tries his best to keep his peace with his fellows, gets the name of coward, But when this same boy has to fight for what he thinks is his honor, or to save a little boy from a bully, he becomes a very dangerous fighter. Real courage is not daunted by pain, The boy or thc man who fights when he is afraid to, stops being afraid of anything, pain or a black eye, or punishment. He fights be couse he has courage, and he usually wins There is more real courage in this world than you fancy, It is behind all great achievement, If you have it you are fortunate, But don’t be sure, either, that you have or that you haven’t it till you have done or refused to do somethin you were afraid to do m. mer r, that making | c $ that eiatement nor why f} Tal s the greatest “not | be suppe tory on fn rican saiivists sugg ine it knew sh rden By John Cassel | Fathers of Thought By Maubert St. Georges Copyetght, 1! ‘The Prom Publishing On the Now York Brenton Werk IV—PYTHAGORAG, The First Philosopher. Pythagoras was born at Samos Gm, the year 660 B. C+ His life is moat+ easily defined by the words of a friend of his, “Of all men he was tike,' most assiduous inquirer.” From his» earliest vouth he had an imsatiabler thirst for knowledge. He was they first to reject the name “Sophos,” wise man, and to claim that he was merely a philosopher, a jover of learning. At twenty-two, convinced that he had learned all the Samtan teachers ‘ could tell him, he beggéd from Amasis, Pharaoh of Egypt, who greatly loved the Greeks, permission . to study the secrets of the: priesthood of Egypt and be initiated into their mysteries, The priests, who loathed | barbarians, as they called roreignem, tried to discourage him by delays. Her was made continually to travel be- tween distant cities. Years were wasted in learning the different Pgyptian languages. Finally his con- stancy triumphed and they acknowl edged him one of their number, He remained twenty-two years im Egypt, and in 625 B, C, when the country was conquered by Cambysesy King of Persia, at his own requegpé he shared the fate of countless Egyptians and was transported to Babylon. He spent years there study=, ing the principles of Zoroaster, Chal’ dean astronomy and medicine. From there he visited the Islandw of the Aegean Sea, Sparta, Athens and Delphi. Deciding that Greece divided against itself was bound to fall sooner or later, he made up his mind that the Greek colonies in Italy held the future of the world and went to settle in Crotona, Here, word of his wonderful learn- ing having preceded him, he received | a royal welcome. Rapidly he gained an extraordinary influence over all who met him. By his manners, whieh. were copled, and which he himself had obtained from the Egyptian priests, he established a sort of aristocragy in the city. At that time the Democrats of Sy baris, Crotona’s neighbor and enemy, |brought about a revolution and mur \dered all the aristocrats in that city |In spite of their greatly superior |numbers, Pythagoras persuaded the |Crotonians to attack them. He led their expedition and was entirely successful. | In return the Crotonans built him | wonderful estate, in the gardens of |which he established his school, | which in many ways was as much re- ‘Itgious as philosophical. dle taught ‘the transmigration of souls, which he had learnt In Egypt, and even claimed: that he remembered some of his for~ mer incarnations. Many of the he taught (for instance that the sun is in the centre of our system) haw since been accepted. Strangely, however, his popularity waned and gradually he became hated, because of the aristocracy he had founded and because of the se crecy he maintained about his teach. ing. In 473 there was a riot in Cro tona, in which most of his puptis were murdered and he himself driven from the city. For some time he could find no asylum, but finally Matapen~ um received him. There he lingered for @ year or 60, and died finally im 470, @ helpless, forgotten old man, who had been perhaps the greatest of all Greek philosophers. WHERE DID YOU GET. THAT WORD? 33—PRECOCITY. We often hear tt said that a chité/ is “precocious.” Considered at tas source, the word carries an unpleas-} ant suggestion. It is derived from the Latin adjective “praecox,” whicki/ in its turn 4s formed from “prae,” be-\ fore, and “coquo,” to cook. It theres fore means, in its literal sense, “pre~ maturely ripening or ripe; ripe before its natural time.” ‘The application of the word to chil dren intellectually or mentally devel< oped before their time suggesta = fruit that is plucked before it is ripe, ‘Phere are plenty of instances of pré« cocious children who have proved only ordinary, or even backward. men and women. Experience has shown that, on the whole, precocity in @ child ts not the hopeful sign thas me parents take It to be. somon't try to make your ohild “pres cocious.” It may have reason in after life to regret the parental ambition that has made it mentally overdevel- oped in early youth. or ee 9 “That’s a Fact By Albert P. Southwick There ts an advertisement in & Philadelphia newspaper of less tham a century ago in which it Is stated that young men under twenty and girls under eighteen would not be admitted to the dances given every two weeks. | yg late as the Mexican War the ontnaty day laborer recelved only 2 shillings (80 cents) a day. Hither board or room (and on the farm both) was also provided him, : Bixet (1835-1875), one of the most popular of musical’ composers, wrote *Vaseo de Gama,” “Les Pecheurs de Perles,” “Jolie File de Perth” (the pretty girl of Perth), “Djamileh” and “Carmen.” oe tric telegraph was from to Drayton, England, in first in the United States, Wastington to Baltimore in once objected to crock- ause they dulled the The first 1835; | from | 1844 Housew! | . . i Augustin ral in the United Spaniards in n 1582, Roggeween, Dutch, ciroumnavigated the globe in 1721, as did Anson, Brit- in 1740, and two other English ag. vmen and Wal, ¥ y r La we