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WY Ziorld, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. {, Pudiihed Dally Except Sunday by The Pross Publishing | Company. Nos, 53 to 69 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. ‘ J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasuror. 63 Park Row. } JOBEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Pa-k Row. MEMIVER OF TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Prem 1 exclusively entitied to the use for repubiicatiot OF all news despatches credited to {t or not otherwise credited im thie papay ‘Bhd alo the local mews published herein READY TO BE SHOWN. COORDING to Washington reports, Attorney | General Daugherty has directed District At- torney Hayward to push proseoutions of illegal com- binations discovered by the Lockwood Committee. It is to be hoped that the report is true and means | something. But the public will be wary. It has been fooled only too often by promises of prosecu- tions which fizzled. Profiteers and business conspirators have gone their ways without molestation. The Federal au- thorities have not even so much as issued blunder- « ing “slacker lists” of offending firms. The Attorney General has been in office for fourteen weeks and little change has been noticed in the administration of the Department of Justice. If the policy of delay is to end now, well and « good. But the public must be pardoned if it adopts & “show-me” attitude. ‘ ha a After all, wouldn't the simplest solution of w > the one-piece bathing suit dilemma be to require © one-piece bathers to spend more time in the ~~ water? tr DEMONSTRATED INCOMPETENCE. LOOPHOLE has been found through which the Italian immigrants in excess of the nvax- jum June quota under the Dillingham bill may be admitted, By a special ruling the Department of Labor will admit those otherwise admissible and deduct the fumiber from the July quota. The presumption is that few, if any, new immi- grants from Italy will be allowed to land in July. This expedient is necessary under the circum- stances. But the circumstances should never have been allowed to develop. With a breathing space of six weeks, however, Congress will have time to pass more stop-gap legislation to prevent a recur- Tence. The incident is as clear a demonstration as could be desired of the absolute incompetence of Con- gress in matters so highly technical as immigration control. Under any system of numerical restriction it is essential that the United States have: First, a foreign information service to warn steamship companies and prospective immigrants against overrunning the quota. Second, an organization in Europe for selection “of the more desirable immigrants. These two functions are purely administrative. Congress cannot do the work. And if we have such an organization, will it not be wiser to give it further powers which may be exercised until Con- gress removes them? What is Rear Admiral Sims's zoological clas- uification of George Brinton McClellan Harvey? UNCLE SAM'S SHARE. TS of the amount of money the United States will collect from the Dempsey- ‘Carpentier bout seem to indicate that Uncle Sam is going to be the biggest winner, whatever the re- sult of the battle. Carpentier’s income tax plus Dempsey’s income tax plus Rickard’s income tax plus the 10 per cent. amusement tax is expected to amount to the greater part of half a million dollars. ; ‘Nor does this include the Government's 8 per cent. collection on railroad and Pullman tickets pur- chased by those drawn to the arena from a distance. Congress, money-mad as it is, will appreciate this fncome and probably be moved to spend it two or three times over, collecting the balance from tax- Payers. It ts too bad Congress cannot draw such “gates” for the fights in committee rooms and on the floors of the Senate and the House. If oratory and poli- tics were half so interesting as pugilism, Congress might even have its billion-dollar navy, Vaudeville, however, in recent years, has not drawn such patronage as prize-fighting, and for the most part Congress has not even provided head- finer vaudeville. Fight fans needn't worry as to whether Car- pentier's name should rhyme with “beer” oF with “hay.” Call him “Carp. THREE-QUARTER VERDICTS. UDGE JAMES A. ALLEN has made several almost revolutionary proposals for reform of judiciary and of judicial procedure in the State courts. Of these by far the most striking would allow wine of twelve jurors to render @ verdict in all civil and most Criminal cases. Before such 2 change can be made the public will fhave to be educated to understand what it means. Trial by “twelve good men and true” and the re- quirement of unanimity in the verdict is more than established law. It is a tradition. But the tradition has been weakened in some re- cmmmnneatensaabaass a Oe ee spects in recent years. Many commercial associa- tions have decided that arbitration is fairer and less expensive than judicial litigation. If such a change as Judge Allen advocates is to be made, it probably will come gradually—first by three-quarter verdicts in a limited field of civil law, then by extensions to all civil causes. If three-quarter verdicts result in as high a degree of justice in civil cases as does the present pro- cedure, perhaps we may in time become accustomed to the idea and extend it in the field of criminal law. MISSED FIRE. A’ OVERWHELMINGLY Republican Congress is giving scant proof of its ability to put through the programme of constructive legislation that was to be the country’s reward for that “man- date of last November.” Tariff revision and tax relief are receding further into a distant and dubious future. a puny showing beside appropriations. Economy makes Sense of responsibility there is none. Nobody emerges to take charge and turn the Re- publican majorities to consistent or useful account. Factions fight over a thousand conflicting projects. The mill is so choked with corn that it fails to grind. The country is beginning to find out what hap- pens when a fit of national nerves turns out one party and puts another in power. It is beginning to see how empty were pledges that had behind them neither party principles nor party unity. | Before the election the Republican camp was a divided camp, the various sections of which were hed together by a common yearning for party victory. Nowhere the division more pro- | nounced than on the issue which one section of the Republican Party contrived to shove into the fore- ground—the League of Nations. | Domestic reconstructive needs, including tax re- lief, economy, a national budget system, were all as strongly emphasized by one party as the other and in practically the same terms. The Republican Party had only one issue, “real or pretended, and on that its own leaders were at hope- less odds. It had no unity or coherence based on definite purposes and policies of its ‘own, either for- eign or domestic. It rode into power on general and even conflicting promises, because the country wanted a change and was in no mood to scrutinize over-closely the principles or the inner state of the party that could give it a change. To-day the Republican Party is no more agreed as to what it ought to do or how it ought to do it than it was befone last November. That is why we have an Administration without plan or power of leadership and a-*Congress whose huge Republican majorities are chiefly engaged in treading on one another's feet. So far, the mandate has missed fire. was Not every amiable brother in America could afford the “love and affection” which inspired John Newberry to go out and try to buy a Sen- atorship for $250,000. Nor would many be so modest and retiring as never to mention his kind deeds to the brother who benefited. TWICE OVERS. |M going on doing the same thing.” —Admiral Sims. ce 14 * * £6 MEMDENT HARDING has spoken of his ideal of an ‘America unafraid,’ but America with the biggest navy in the world is not an America unafraid. It seems to me to be an America very much afraid.” — Henry L. Stoddard. * “M* COHAN'S view is apparently bounded on the south by 42nd Street and 63rd Street on the north." —Frank Gilmore. . “ce E get along. It isn't easy but we do it. Mrs. Domenico Zacchea, mother of city's largest native born family. . sa gre pull the country out of the situation it faces to-day.” —Chicago railroad counsel to union leaders, oe ‘ce NE of the results of the war is the narrowing of the market for our surplus.” — Ex- Secretary of Agriculture Meredith. * 8 « 66 JT is well to remember that no majority is neces- sarily permanent and that certainty of continued success comes only with cerlainty of performance.” — Will Hays. * * 66],N the political phase, the American nole was objectionable, because it contained stipulations which were contradictory to the precepts of the Mexican Constitution, and which the President, who must, first , &f all, have regard for the Constitution, has no power to acegpt.”—Mexican Foreign Office statement. / were THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1921. it. 192, tt Re Son Ren ssel eae “Well, Here We Are Again” s 1S From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it 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 sey much in a few words. Take Political Straws. To the Ealitor of The Evening World Many thanks for your masterful editorial “$2,000,000,000 short,” in to- day's issue. I am one of the boobs who helped to swell the Republican landslide last November, thinking, like others, that the Republican politicians meant what they said about reducing the shameful waste of the taxpayers’ money. During the past month I have spoken to hundreds of my acquaint- ances on the subject. Every one of them feels exactly the same as I do— thoroughly disgusted with all politi- cians. This lot we now have in WasNington seems the worst ever. The United States has no more use for a big army and navy than a dog has for two tails. The people demand and must have Government economy, less taxes and lower cost of living. VICTIM. New York, June 8, 1921. Banners for the Parade. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: William H. Anderson, Superinten- dent of the Anti-Saloon League, has sent a letter to Frank C. Drake, orig- inator of the Fourth of July Anti- Dry Parade, offering $25 to pay for a banner bearing the following: “Our Bottle Cry—Appetite and Anarchy.’ Mr. Anderson would be much nearer the truth if he offered the following suggestions for banners: “The Prohibitionists may call us Anarchists, but what about the rich with their cellars full?” “Are we Anarchists simply because we had not the price to also stock up?” “Commissioner Kramer says he once got! sick drinking (Cincinnati brew. ‘We will too if we drink enough. But who wants to be a pig?” “Russia is ruled by a handful of men. So are we.” “The police are on the job closing up the saloons, he reformers are on the job too, collecting graft.” “We Won't need the saloon, We need only what the Statue of Liberty supposedly represents.” F. L. W. New Fork, June 9, 1921 For Pro! ‘To the Bititor of The Evening Wor Allow me to say @ few words about Prohibition, There is a lot said about time to be brief. {Think of the children who have to ;See their father in that condition in | which he swears and topples around ag though he were insane. Every real American should be for Prohibition and should co-operate with the Government to make it a success, Every man is convinced that ts a good law, but many will not admit the fact. | By the way, are you going to b& in that disgraceful ‘parade of. rum hounds on July 4? I, GOTITRIGHT. New York, June 8, 1921. ‘The Virtuous Village. ‘To the Baitor of The Evening World A frequent visitor to New York for the past fifteen years, 1 have spent many evenings in the various restau- rants ald dance places in the city. It is true that in the Village one sees a man with his arm around a girl's waist, but he sees the same thing any afternoon on top of a Fifth Avenue bus. TENNESSEE. New York, June 8. A Protest. To the Diitor of The Evening World I am a veteran of the A. E. F. and battled in France for democraey while @ bunch of lazy idiots were battling at home for bigotry and dry jaws. Next war we want the Prohibition- ists on the firing line. Publish this protest, B. CLARA. D. New York, June 8, 1921. ‘Rebela” and “Patrtote.” To the HAitor of The Hrening World: ‘Will you or some of your readers give us a brief and modern explana- tion or definition of the word “rebel?” Does the correct application of the term depend on the success or non- success of the revolution or rebellion in which the party engages? For in- stance, were the colonists who took part in the successful revolution of the thirteen colonies against the Goy- ernment of Great Britain in 1775 “rebels” or “patriots?” Note—Genuine information wanted; not sarcastic criticism. R. J. WADDELL. Brooklyn, June 7, 1921. Not With the Flag. ‘To the Palitor of The Kvening World A. E, Hanson, in his artiole Friday, asks that all opposed to our honor- able Dry law hang out a white flag on the day of the drakes and ducks’ parade July 4, and then very-ignor- antly asks true Americans to “let it hang sie by side with our national emblem,” Certainly, A. B, Hanson is a for- eigner, for'no American would dare insult our flag in that manner. Red is for the iblood they shed; White for purity, Blue for truth and honor, How can any broad-minded citizen suggest hanging a boozehound’s ban- ner side by side with a flag that stands for all our beautiful flag stands for? ILLIAN V, KAYB Bronx, June 5, 1921, the Government taking the liberty from the people. Aloohol 1s a drug, as is opium, or morphine, or cocaine. Many unfortunate peaple who have used these drugs were denied the privilege of using them by law. Why? Beoause these drugs were harmful to those who used them. You may say that alcohol Is not as harmful as these other drugs, but at any rate alooholic drinks are bad enough to be prohibited, Drunken- ness is an awful condition for a man to be in, and for the sake of the neighbors and relatives and for the whole community, Prohibition is the law that 1s needed, Many homes have been upset be- cause of the father being a drinker, ¢ iit on appa enema: ocamcmeaber steno Leserena qenee aus mmeneranantne UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Coprrtamt, 1921, by John Blake.) ONE JOB IS ENOUGH. A young reader has asked us if he can study law and the violin at the same time. He can. He also asks if he can be a great lawyer and a great violinist. He cannot. A man who wants to be a great lawyer is not going to lave time to master any musical instrument more com- plicated than the penny whistle. The law requires time and thought. The violin requires time and practice. Kubelik spent about eight hours a day with his fiddle. At the end of that eight hours his tired brain would refuse admission to a single page of Blackstone, even were his fingers not too weary to hold the book. No boy should study the violin with a view to making it a profession unless his talent is such that he never could be contented with anything else. Of all the instruments in the world it is the hardest to master, and none but geniuses ever can prosper as well by playing it as can any fairly successful lawyer by following his profession. A very great illustrator, known to the writer, discovered when he was twenty-one years old that he would have to stgp trying to be a concert singer. - He had a good voice and good musical ability. But he found that cultivating one or either of these would take the time he needed for the study of drawing. Because he quit the music he became rich and famous. Had he kept at it he might have become a choir singer, cr sung small parts in musical pieces. But he never would have got any further—a fact he found out before it was too late. Very few men can do any two things very well. Nobody -ver born can do two things supremely well. Music is a fine accomplishment and brings much pleasure to people in other lines of endeavor if they follow. it with moderation. But only musical geniuses should specialize in it. Our correspondent writes a clear, intelligent letter. He ought to make a good lawyer. But we suggest that he drop the violin and specialize on the harmonica or the phonograph, at least till he is well Gp RRR RPP AAPRDORPPD APD COPIL OLS, SRRPE OPP LAPPLL ALLA LOPLLAESLALLALAOOLA along in his study of the law. logne, Germany, te 515 feet above the floor and 525 feet above the street. ' 8 «6 ‘The artesian well at St. Louis, Mo., 2,199 feet deep, supplies every hour 4,500 gallons of mineral water. That at Grenelle, near Paris, 1,798 feet “That's a Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick omni Ronis Weert ‘The deepest lake in the world is Lake Baikal, in Siberia, its area of over 9,000 square miles being about equal to Lake Brie in superficial ex- tent; its enormous depth of berween 4,000 and 4,500 feet makes the volume of its waters almost equal to that of Lake Superior, and although its sur- face is 1,350 feet above the sea level, its bottom is nearly 3,000 feet be- low it, . 8 8 The Brooklyn Bridge towers (New York) are 287 feet in height, the spire of Trinity Church, Broadway, York City, three feet less, or 2: feet tall. ‘The height of the Cathedral at Co- deep, yields 31,000 gallons an hour, and the artesian well of Passy, 1,900 feet deep, affords 3,000,000 gullons a day. oe We are ‘hu because the cells and tissues all over the body are call- ing for nourishment, and their call is known as “hunger,” oe Breathing merely purifies the blood, exercise merely circulates it, but food is what really makes the blood. . 8 8 The Southerland Waterfall, in New Zealand, clears 1,905 feet in three leaps, and the Yosemite, in Califor- nia, 2,600 feet in three, the first of which is 1,600 feet. In the rainy sea- sop the three are united in one fall. TURNING THE PAGES —BY— €. ®. Osborn | | [rrr Ne Reliiveaing wonde e O* SIT on a white wood bor Smeared with the dlach name Of @ seller of white sugar The little brown table is so dirty That if 1 had food 1 do not think 1 could eat. How can I promise violets drunken in wine For your amusement, How can I powder vour blue cotty dress With splinters of emerald, How can I sing you songs of the am- ber pear, Or pour for the finger-tips of your white fingers Mingled scents in a rose agate bow! | If this fragment from the Chines means anything of account, it mus: mean that love has a hard time trying to thrive on slack housekeeping, | The verse is gathered from “Thy Garden of Bright Waters,” (Houg!: ton-Miffin) a book of 120 Asiai love poems translated by BE, Powys ‘Mathers. | . The Perfect Man of the House --- ‘There also are words on home mai agement, not without pertinence + the lines above, trangiated by Hardin ‘T, MoClelland from the Celestial wis dom of Chu Tzu and published on « page of the Open Magazine. This counsel is directed to him who wouid ‘be the Perfect Man of the House: Karly in the morning you must immediately arise from bed, wash, and clean up the bedroom’ unless you have urgent business which calls you outside, Arrange the furniture and tidy up the house; otherwise an Indolent and late-sieeping wife will require you to keep the doors locked. If you have relatives staying with you they can surely loo’ after some of the household duties, unde: standing that the same rule applies to all who therein take shelter. It is certainly necessary to be frugal and saving, although occa sional hospitality to strangers or visitors {s also a duty of import ance, especially when it is done without gossip, unrestraint, or fol lowing with the eyes the victuals a» they pass back and forth. After completing your home (i. e after taking a Wife), manage your domestic affairs without a too eager pursuit of pleasure and feasting Constant and habitual disobedienc: in the home, you will please ob- serye, requires to be sternly elimi nated. Soleninly listen to your wife's ac cusations against your blood rela tions, and consider to yourself why she so lets loose her torgue. A capable husbana who is worthy of his position as Head of the family will be serious about real estate and the legitimate uses of property. Under the teachings of Chu Tzu the capable husband must find it oft: a long while to the end of a pertev! Gay . ° . His Indian Maiden --- An Indian love song out of ¢ Southwest rendered into English i Mary Austin for Harper's Magazin: When first I saw my maiden, When first my eyes beheld her, All amid the corn Blue butterflies were dancing. Like butterflies about my heart Her looks came glancing, Like butterflies amid the corn My heart was dancing When first I saw my maiden, When first my eyes beheld her All amid the corn Blue butterflies were dancing. eee The Drum and the Dream of War - - - Anatole France describes in “Littic Pierre” (John Lane), the dream of a small hero with his firs drum: py and proud, the drum at my side, the drumstfcks in my hands, I darted forth and marched in front of Melanie, beating my drum with a gallant flourish, I had a sort of feeling, though } did not avow it even to myself. that my drum was not very son- orous and was not to be heard three miles away. But enthusiasm makes up for every defect. The tumult of my heart filled my ears with the sound of glory. I seemed to hear a cadence that made ten thousand men march on- ward keeping step as one; I seemed to hear the rolling sounds that fi! men’s hearts with heroism and awe. I seemed to behold, in the flower- ing gardens of the Luxemboury columns advancing as far as the evé could see across illimitable plains T conjured um the vision of horses cannons, gun carriages making deep ruts in the roads, gleaming helmet with sable streamers, fur cap. algrettes, plumes, lances and ‘bayonets. I saw, T felt, T created it all, and. in the world of my imagination, | myself was all, the men, the horses, the guns, the ler magazines. the fiery heavens and the blood- stained earth. Is It suggested that before thy world can go on up to a genera! peace, the drum and its martial ro! must go? eee Art and Greater America---~- A fine frenzy on Ameri achievement, borrowed from “Beauty (Harpers), the new Rupert Hughe: novel. x And so we find the Indian savage and his celebrants; the cowboy and his retainers: the little lazy Poe the professorial Emerson who ate pie for breakfast: the shy, little old maid, Emily Dickinson, who serib- bled ‘in secret better ‘poetry than Sappho; the parson's timid wife who wrote a novel about slaves and brought on an enormous war, i gave the railsplitting Lincoln chance to be mankind's sublimest figure; the world's joke, Susan B. Anthony, who said that the wives and mothers of men deserved the suffrage as well as the suffering: the wallowing Walt Whitman; the derided builders of the skyscraping frei his office steeples: the diabolic Edison, who dared attempt to fasten sound and motion to permanent rec- ords; a Whistler dawdling from West Point to the conquest of sal- ons; an uncouth Innes dipping his brush in Yankee fire and light; the soulptor, Borglum, from Idaho, who, MWke his’ ancestral’ Thor, must’ ham- mer a mountain into a monument— these and many another turned the laughter of the suddenly back Into his throat, They have accepted and defied the mockery of their own neighbors and have Won through to immortal glory. A story of main endeavor as it is fe be distinguished from that of Main trect , sorte | Pt |