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———— She Cseiivg Wierd, ESTABLIEHED RY JOSEPIT PULITZEN, t Sunday by Tho Proas Publishing 3 to 63 Park Row, New York RALPH PULITZER, Prealdent, 69 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Purk Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row MEMPFER OF THE ASSOCLAPHED PRESS. The Amoctated Prem ts exctutivety entitied to the une for republication ll news Gespatches credited to it or not otherwise credited tm tle paper Ql also the local news published herein . HOMEWARD BOUND. BAR ADMIRAL SIMS is on the high seas on his way back to America. Before he sailed he told the reporters he “had mothing to retract.” We like that better than his cable to Secretary Denby claiming that reports of the trouble-making gpecch had been “garbled.” The versions of the speech in the London news- trave been shown to differ in no essential rom the versions printed here. What Rear Admiral Sims'ls reported to have said in England is sub- stantially what Rear Admiral Sims is on record as having already said and written in America. ‘We hope the sea voyage will rest and refresh him and bring him home ready to stand pat. We hope be will comply with the order of Secretary Denby’s peremptory cable in exactly the punctilious and un- bending spirit that cable deserves. If he is reprimanded the character of that repri- ‘mand will be something the Administration must amswer for in the light of what it has failed to do to Ambassador George Harvey. The Rear Admiral’s countrymen will take care ‘of the rest. ‘To-day it’s the Internal Revenue Collector's turn to worry. THE LAST STAGE. AJOR HAYNES, newly appointed Federal Pro- M hibition Commissioner, makes an eloquent appeal for strict upholding of the statutes: | “1 wish that we might have in America a re- vival of regard for the sanctity and majesty of the law. I wish that it might be pyeached by the parents in the home as well as by the teacher in the school, by tae preacher in tho pulpit, the writer and cartoonist through the press, the actor on thd stage, by every good | Citizen and agency.” ‘What can all these agencies accomplish towafd gach a revival in the face of laws that insult liberty and outrage reason in the judgment of many of the best, most highly educated and most respected of ‘Americans? re ‘The principle of obedience to law is unassailable. But when Americans reach a state where they feel they must not even SAY anything against any law frat organized effort has succeeded in putting on fhe statute books, this Republic might as wel! tat @own the sign and go out of business. ~ American Labor Leader Unable to Enter Russia—Headline. | \ Only capitalists wanted now? FIRST HOBO OF THE AIR. 66 ‘OBO AVIATOR” is the latest. Amazing is the story of the Montana Congressman’s son who has been “tramping” it Mhrough the air from Texas to Chicago in an “old bus” of an airplane, loitering here and there en route to earn a bit by taking up passengers, and ‘finally flopping happily from Chicago to Washing- ton, where the condition of his machine caused the hair of the army aviation expert§ to rise on their heads. And on the last hop he took up his mother with him! The country will smile at this young “hobo of the air,” even while it makes plain that such reck- fessness cannot be permitted to endanger people’s lives. The Washington authorities were reported yes- terday. to be in a quandary whether to arrest hifh for attempted suicide or for “aerial vagrancy.” Better not arrest him at all, but put his daring and energy to work somewhere under the eye of prudence. ‘That comet was the best press agent Venus ever had. y BONUS ECONOMICS. ETERANS of the war can undoubtedly have about what they demand in the way of a bonus or “adjusted compensation,” as they prefer to phrase it. That the former soldiers are entitled to adjusted compensation if they want i and if any way can be devised of collecting it—few will question. That any proposals—even those sponsored by the American Legion—will result in any substantial or comparative benefit is open to grave doubt. Business in America is in the doldrums of defla tion and overtaxation. Deflation follows inflation And unless soldiers or legislators can invent some method of paying the bonus without renewed infla- tion we will have to face new and prolonged busi Mess depression as the result of taxation for the Sonus payments or a bomd issue for the purpose, No proposal yet advance’ has provided for any- Thing other than renewed inflation which will check the deflation now under way. | ur experience with inflation has been a period 4 same of rising prices followed by a period of unemploy- ment. What may the bonus receivers expect? They will get a modest sum of money, but the new taxes to raise the money are likely to discourage business and hurt the employment situation. This will affect every one in the United States, the bonus receivers included. It will not take long to spend the bonus. If many of the bonus receivers are kept out of jobs as the result of unemployment the group may lose nearly if not quite as nvuch in wages as the group gains in cash from the Federal Treasury. This seems to be the economics of the situation. It is a probkam every veteran should earnestly strive to understand. Is a bonus going to “adjust” com- pensation or will it only further disturb earning power? If there is any other way than a bond issue or ‘burdensome taxes on business to meet the expense of a bonus some one should suggest it. “UNDER THE EXISTING TREATY.” apts (UONDON TIMBS has been told by its Washington correspondent that the United States is likely to ratify the Treaty of Versailles “at no distant date.” The Times correspondent no doubt bases his pre- diction on the inevitable logic of the situation and the fact that President Harding recognized that logic when he advised Congress in his first message: “It would be idle to declare for separate treaties of peace with the Central Powers on tae assumption that these alone would be adequate.” * © © “The wiser course would seem tobe * * © to engage under the existing treaty.” We believe these words of the President should be kept before the country in order that he may be encouraged by public opinion to stand by them. Directly the declaratory resolution of peace is out of the way, the bitter-enders will begin seeing the old bogies of “entangling alliance” and try to frighten him. Granted there can be no ratification without reser- vations. Nevertheless, the President should be made to feel that an overwhelming majority of Americans are behind him in demanding that the United States shall not commit the immeasurable folly of refusing to engage under the existing treaty. Here, at least, the Administration's attitude has not been hopelessly muddled by too much talk. Even when Chief Spokesman George Harvey insulted the American people and admtinistered a final kick to the League of Nations he left the rest of the Versailles Treaty uncursed. ANOTHER ONE FOR HARVEY. “Our men did not go forth to fight for this Na- tion as one of imperialistic designs and cunning purpose, or to protect a land where avarice might find its surest reward. They offered their lives, and all the energies of the country were harnessed in the suprome effort because we loved the insti- tutions of liberty and intended to maintain them; because we hated tyranny and the brutality and ruthlessness which found expression in the wor- ship of force, and because we found our fate linked with that of the free peoplis who were struggling for the preservation of t) essentials of freedom. With them we made cuninon cause, and, as from one end of the country to the other rang appeals in the name of civilization itself, the whole Na- tion responded."—-CHARLES B. HUGHES, Sccre- tary of State, to his fellow alumni'of Brown Unt- versity. PHILOSOPHY FROM OKLAHOMA. F (From the Ohio State Journal.) Washington bad expected Alice Robertson, the lone Congresswoman from Oklahoma, to arrive there as an advocate of sentimental laws, possibly the author of some freakish legislation. But Washington has been given a surprise party by the lady from Okla- homa. She is a.tending to busines in a quiet and orderly manner, and is talking good sense so regularly the veterans are more than glad to bid her welcome. She has pronounced views on religion, morals and temperance, but is not an extremist and has shown no disposition to force her views on others whether they care for them or not. Recently she was talking on the subject of human development and was quick to say she had no confidence in the plan for elevating humanity to a higher plane by' means of legislation. She would be glad to have humanity elevated, she thinks it ought to be, but she thinks humanity will reach the higher plane more quickly by means of education and religious training than by ill-eonsid- ' ered legislation. She has been quick to criticise ex- tremists for advocating plans for statutory reforma- tion of humanity and thinks all such plans must fail. Her thought is to have a little less of entangling legislation for the individual and to redouble the work of education. To her way of thinking, the training in the home, the school and the church received by the child will do far more to develop good citizenship than many new laws, many freakish statutes, many long speeches in Congress, Overmuch legislation for the compulsory development and elevation of the in- dividual is not going to make over the citizenship of the country in a few weeks, That is the conclusion of the lady from Oklahoma. That is the philosophy from Oklahoma thal she has taken to Washington, that she {is preaching there occasionally, that she is preaching to mectings she attends about the country, the philosophy on which her Congressional activity 1s based | would they? A Bird of Peace There ts fine mental exercise te say much in a few words. Take ‘The Sims Cane. To the Editor of The Broning Workl How good it seems to read a fair comment. Your leading editorial |June 13, “The Wrong Address," con- trasting Admira] Sims's and Ambas- sudor Harvey's cases is certainly “well put.” ‘Dhe Sims case puts me in mind of a law case where defendant was charged with calling the vlainuff a lar and was ordered to apologize. The defendant asked the court if he could be punished,for thinking. No! he was told: calling plaintiff, but still “think.” The trouble with Admiral Sims is he tells the truth and the dog that's nit by the stone—howls. Is it any worse for a German to |scheme to help his renounced coun- try to the detriment his adopted country Irelander, who professes to be through with Ireland, to be still am Irishman of this, land be always stirring up trouble and causing bloodshed in Ireland? If there ever came a war between | this country and Ireland would these nounced” ones fight for U. S A, H. J. WALTERS. June 14, New York City. To the (afitor of The Evening World: This man Sime should be ordered home ag once, court martialed and the U. &. Naval insignia shorn from his uniform. Then hand him a dis- honorable discharge and a passport to England, with the reminder that you can not whistle and eat meal at ihe same time. Evening World reader whose motto and not England, ei Sims would hi a be H WILLIAM H. WEBB. June 14, 1921, “where Are We Att ‘To the itor of The Evening Work The Salvation Army is collecting funds in Public Sclmols to-day. The Drys are collecting funds by house to house canvass and stating that due to wry Lay the Army can not find work to do, ldown-and-outs, J. empty. Hos- ase, ete tals only partly Pw ‘ Where are Where are we heading? |we at? Are all fakin. FRANCIS June 14, 1921, COOMBS. In Reply to a Poet. ‘To the Paitor of ‘The Brening Work: ) Mr. A. Moore, whose touching outburst of song entitled “The World Is Going Dry,” appeared in your tssue of June 13th, is evidently a poetical man and we would like to hear him recite this affecting ditty in person, with appropriate gestures, Ht would move us—away. You will note that the bard has little concern with the truth, but we sup- pose he !8 merely taking poetic license, in common with Shakespeare, Homer and Milton. For our part, If ive ould write such inspiring eonnele as this we should forswea> “Then I apologize for | than for a Scuth | From Evening World Readers { What kind of a ictter do you find most readable? that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? Tan’t {t the one and a lot of satisfaction in trying time to be brief. the truth altogether, as a matter of pri ciple. I have seen quite a bit of this country \during the past few months, and it pains me grievously to think that I have missed all of these uplifting pageants composed of the “children singing, with banners lifted high,” to Say nothing of the lamentable loss oc- casioned by not hearing their voices” and seeing their all of which, says, is directly attributable to the beneficent effects of Prohibition. Com: now, Mr, Moore, you are hiding some- thing from us. Where are these pre- cocious children? Or, sir, have you been spoofiig us? And don't rry about the “rally of ‘the faithful,” Mr. Moore. We'll rally on July 4th, 200,000 strong, and we'll keep right at it until our collective de- mand for the return of personal lib- erty is so insistent that the legislators will have to 1 sten. JAMES H. BOUGHTON, East Orange, N. J., June 13, 1921, Rebela and Patriots. ‘To the Pilitor of The Evening World: As to the question of R. J. Wad- dell In The Evening World regard- jing “rebels” and “patriots”: It ds all in the point of view Iw tt not? To our eyes—to the eyes of Americans, that ‘s—George Washing- ton was a “patriot; THE patriot,” whereas to the Br.tish ho was a “rebel.” Being an American, therefore, 1 would say that the Colonists wer one and all, patriots, for, forsout they left England to seek freedom, and, Waving found it upon thse shores, fought to maintain it. Be- ewuse they fought for the righ would they be branded as “rebels Perish the thought! Has “R. J. W.'\ Ireland tn mind? Or, mayhap, our own Civil War? His question can be answered when the gueston Which ts right and which iy wrong is answered. . W. R. New York City, June 11, 1921. A Suagesttion. | To the Editor of The Exening World 1 have read the editorial on the pro- posed Citizens’ Protective Housing League, and respectfully suggest that no tenant who Is holding land out of use for profit be permitted to join said league. Speculating in land means high rents, unemployment and non-produc- tion of the necessaries of life, and that should bar any tenant from member- ship in the, proposed league. CAUSE AND EFFRHCT. | York, June 13, 1921, Ne’ ‘Water 5 Cents = Glass. ‘T the Editor of ‘The Bvaning Work!: I read your paper every evening | with much pleasure and I don’t’ be- | lieve there is anything I skip. 1 have noticed that in the letters from the people there are many complaints of different kinds of things like small profiteers, | dt one of the beaches tast Sunday UNCOMMON SENSE | | By John Blake . | 1 ® (Copyright, 1921, br John Blake) NOTIN’ = WORT!” DOING IS EASY. It is easy to sit and ........ others work. But we know of no employer who will pay you wages for doing it, unless you know how to do the work your: >If and are working hard at the job of supervising it. It is easy to travel about the world.on steamships and parlor cars, very pleasant and profitable to the man with an inquiring mind. But that is a vacation occ: ation, aud unless you have earned the money to do it by d work you will get little out of it. It is easiest of all to feel sorry for yourself and to think that you haven’t had a fair chance in life, and that you would have been a big success if you hadn't met with so much in- justice and bad treatment. : Pe But that will get you only unhappiness, which ‘ least desirable thing in all the -orld. There are many things in life that ar- well worth do# ing, none of them are easy. . ' 78 Fie first class fiction Stee takes delight in his job, but he also works at it harder than any man who is not a first class fiction writer ever dreams of doing. Pes The great tenor, like Caruso, finds pleasure in his job and incidentally in the money he gets from it. But he works about six or seven hours a day at it now, and in earlier life he worked tenor twelve hours, receiving far less pay for exactly as good music. d If good jobs were to be had by little effort practically everybody would have « good job. The reason that they are so few and that so many of those few are not filled is that all of them demand the hardest kind of hard work, not only to get but to keep them. “ Genius, which is said to know how to do things before it is born, has to work just as hard as mediocrity to gain and keep success. Nothing you can think of that brings real rewards can be accomplished without more work that most of us can con- template without getting tired at the mere thought of it. Yet people are doing it right along and you seldom hear of any of them killing themselves in the effort. If you have made up your mind to do something un- usual or to be somebody of importance, learn how to work twice as hard as you ever did before. That is only a first |} step. The second is to think hard. If you can do both and |} cep them up long enough you may land, but remember, i} you will have a lot of competition. Even hard work finds | plenty of men to believe in and practice it. And most of them | get what they are after. the A AAAAAAAR ARRAS a friend and I went into a shore din- ner place on the end of one of the piers to have a bite and a cup of ten. | sive him the satisfaction of “buying” It betng a warm day, we felt thirsty {the water, and left with the remark and he (my friend) asked the waitar! that we would have him reported, But | told, “What about the ice I use?” | tor water ‘6 was infonmed that the, the question {s, to whom can we re-| lonly water they had was on the bh. port him? 1 would appreciate it very Jat the other end. My friend, think-| much if you would let us know, Be- ling this was the truth, went over and | fore we left L heard the water run- bought a pack of cigarettes and asked | ning behind the counter In the sink | for two glasses of water. He was in-|near where we sat formed that the water was 6 cents a MARION F. ILHON'E, glass. My friend remonstrated with \the man for changing for water aba | June 14 | was free everywhere, and he was You can imagine my friend didn’t/ | Stories Totd by | The Great Teacher By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory . The Pree ing Oo. Coveted Ser York Wvomune Wor. 1—THE GOOD SAMARITAN. | For the glorious story of the Good Samaritan” seo Luke x, 30-37. ‘The name of the man ‘mmortalized by the Great Teacher is unknown te us. He belongs to the innumerable company of nameless benefactors whoso silent and unostentatious good~ ness has from the oldest time beem the crowning beauty of the world. ‘The Good Samaritan is a practical illustration of the command of Jesus, “Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.” Do what good you can, and don't go to the trouble of “blowing a trumpet” over tt The good man does good because he can not help it, and not because he wants the world to know about dt and praise him for it. The man who doe’ good simply that his’ goodness may be talked about isn’t good, To endow a philanthropie institution upon the proviso that i be forevér called after your name te vanity rather than philanthropy. ‘We further learn from this story that the goodness of its hero was not confined to his own family, or kindred, or race, but was as wide as humanity, His neighbor was “the suffering maa thougo at the furthest pole.” In his philanthropy there was nothing pa- rechial, It reached out to the most distant calls upon his compassion, re- gardless of the nationality, or creed or tradition of those from whom the cells came. It was enough for him to know fat somebody, anybody, was in distr +a, end immediately he began doing wuat | be could to relieve the distress. His esprit de corps being deter rainous with the human family, the necessities of every one appealed to his sympathy. Like the Roman poet who said, “I am a man, and no other man shall be an alien to me,” the Good Samaritan felt a brotherly in- terest in every human being whose |path hey happened to cross. This story has a lesson for | which, 1 am mightily afraid, }missed by most of those who it. w is read Jesus was telling the story to His own people, the Jews, and if there wes any class of people on earth that the Jews heartily and unre- servedly despised and hated it was the Samaritans, In the opinion of the Jew, the Samaritan was the low. jest, megnest and most degraded of human beings, @nd it was a part of his duty to’ God and his fellow religionista to ve no dealings® with the despicelble tribe. And yet—and ‘yet—in picking out the hero of the story, upon whom he was about to confer a fadeless tm- mortality, Jesu, selected a Samar tan. Did he do it purposely? Possibly— just to show the multitude the fact that in rea] goodness there is no sex, or race, or religion, or politics; that goodness, no matter where found, is Phonead orthodox, and acceptavle to WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 37—SPEECH. Did you ever stop to think of the origin of the word “speech”—the fac- ulty of expression that has done eo much good and 80 much harm tn the world? The word “douma,” applied to the late Ruasian Parliament, means thought, an idea, a counct The same word in other Slavic languages means a “word"—presumably on the supposition that @ word is the ex- pression of a thought. “Speech,” in its original and pre eu meaning, is the power of utter expression of thought. It is related to the German word “aprache” and the Dutch “spraak,” of the same meaning. All these words imply thinking before giving expression @ the thought. But it too frequently happens that this connection between thinking and speaking, whether in private or in public, ts lost sight of a proper ap? preciation of this connection wouké contribute greatly to soundness of speech by emphasizing the process that precedes it—the process of think~ ing defore epeaki: ——— Forgotten ‘‘Whys”” SPILLING SALT, If whfle at the table you ere so unfortunate as to spill the aalt it is considered an unlucky omen, though why nobody can say with a good show of reasoning. Many, people believe that da Vinci’s Picture of “Ihe Last Supper,” where Judas is overturning the salt, is the origin of the superstition, But it te of earlier origin. From time im- memorial galt has been used in relig- ious ceremonies as an offering to the gods, Among the Hgyptians it was considered incorruptible and the emblem of friendship. From there ib is but one step to the belief that the overturning of salt betokened jIl-huck, in the breaking of a friendship, eel By Albert P. Southwick | Comyriaht. 1921, by the Prem Pub ening Worlds (Tiie New Yor! In measles the patient is infections three days before the eruption ap pears, oe Sentinel Fall, in the direct fall, though of small volume, and only for a short period in the year, of 8,270 feet . | | A rival of Niagara was discovered in the Falls of the Grand River, Lab- rador, in 1891. ‘ar The Navajo Indians, in New Mew ‘co and Arizona, are the only pastorad tribe owning large flocks of sheep No, 180 Bast 15th Btreet, New York,| They do not receive any assistames =, from the Goverment, ; late sounds, presumably the~* . Yosemite, ts a”