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Biorld, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Dally Except Sunday by The Prem Publishing Company. Now. 52 to 63 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Provident, 63 Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. | JOSEPH PUIATAER Jr., Secretary, 63 Patk Row ITS GOT TO BE DONE. HE New Jersey Division of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment plans a direct move for a repeal of the New Jersey State Prohibition Enforcement Act by putting forward and supporting anti-Prohibition candidates for the Legislature. “If fanatics can organize to strangle liberty,” de- ¢lares William L. Fish, Secretary of the division, “surely freemen can organize to defend it.” “Heretofore the Anti-Saloon League, although backed by a pitifully small minority of the voters, has been able to impress candidates for the Legislature not by its numbers but by the claim that ft held the balance of power. “From now on our association is going to impress candidates that it holds the balance of THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1921, fashioned spanking at home may speed the course of regeneration, And the same for the rest of the bold, bad gang. WOULD HUGHES AND HOOVER RESIGN? TT" prediction of the London Times's Wash- ington correspondent that the United States is likely to ratify the Treaty of Versailles “at no distant date” gets a shower of cold water from the Washington Bureau of the New York Tribune, In a despatch from the latter printed yesterday we read; The belief among the best-informed Senators is that the Versailles Treaty will not be sent back to the Senate. Gossip has been current that the State De- partment has been preparing to send it back to the Senate with reservations. Such gossip has aroused alarm among some of the Senate Re- publican leaders who are convinced that if the Versailles Treaty is sent back it will meet in- tense opposition, provoke a bitter fight and per- haps fail of confirmation. Such a development, it is pointed out, Would be intensely embar Power and that a great majority of the thought- fal and liberty loving men and women of New Jersey are in complete accord with its ideals and purposes.” The Anti-Saloon League will cry out that this & attacking the sanctity of established law, going against the declared will of the people, &c., &c. Ws late in the day to begin to try to find out ‘what the real will of the American people is regard- ing Nation-wide Prohibition. But it’s got to be done, unless the most amazing that ever undermined American liberty and devitalized American ideals is to remain un- challenged—inviting worse to come. i Postally speaking, declares Postmaster Gen- eral Will Hays, “New York City is the neck of the bottle of the Nation.” At last that neck is promised some of the relief and enlargement It has needed these twenty years. HIZZONER’S HAPPIEST. 1 geet is something just and inspiring in the spectacle of Mayor Hylan, Comptroller Craig and the Board of Education at loggerheads over the site for a schoolhouse. Schoolhouses were to be the paramount achieve- ment of the Hylan Administration. Budgets might el beyond all bearing, the tax rate might soar, the machinery of city government might creak to a standstill, but schoothouses were to sprout forth in ‘abundance and become fair fruits to which the Hylan regime could point with pride. It may or may not be true that to obtain a Coney Island school site the city was to pay $2,000 apiece for lots it had just sold for $200 each. In these days of profiteering nothing astonishes us. We are not sufficiently in possession of the facts in this Particular case to pass judgment. But when Hizzoner is assailed by unkind men, this we know: “Never will his confidence be more heroic, never will his eye flash prouder fire, than when he is defending a schoolhouse, present or to be. Former Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo @ald this week in an address at Wellesley, Mass.: “What we should do at once is to enter into the League of Nations and throw the weight of our moral and political influence to compose conditions in Europe and re. store economic prosperity there, then en- courage every effort to reduce war expendi- tures. “Then we should adopt every possible means that will facilitate and not restrict our foreign trade. | “The world is confronted with the alter- Bative of ‘disarmament or bust.’” Present Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is pretty closely in accord on the “disarmament or bust” proposition. Where’s better expert, inside, opinion? experienced A RUTHLESS ROBBER AT SEVEN. © THIS boy there happens the ambition to run away to sea. To that one comes the notion of a lifetime of glory with the circus. A third urchin pictures himself as the very pattern of a model modern burg-u-lar, And as a rule, such aspirations fade with quickly fading years. "In the news of the day there figures Joseph Agassano, alias “The Little Wop,” under arrest with his gang of ruthless robbers. At age seven, Joseph has revealed an expertness ai opening safes by ear which has earned him a secondary nickname from “Alias Jimmy Valentine.” At the moment he is a swagger crook. Yet we entertain a reason- able doubt as to his permanent pursuil of the cracksman’s perilous path. To make the finished and persistent rogue, some- thing is required more desperate than the flash of a small boy’s wrong idea. We do not find that some- } rassing for a number of Senators who seek re- election next year. What about the embarrassment for at least two distinguished members of President Harding’s Cabi- net if the Versailles Treaty were NOT sent back to the Senate? What about the embarrassment for Charles E. Hughes, Secretary of State, who has never been for rejecting the treaty and—what is more—was one of the thirty-one eminent Republicans who signed last fall an appeal asking for votes for Harding as votes for the League of Nations? What about the embarrassment for Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, who was also one of the Thirty-One, and who on the very eve of the election last November issued this solemn warning: “To reopen the Treaty of Versailles for re negotiation would bring complete chaos to Europe and calamity upon us from it. “The stability of the whole of Europe hangs upon the maintenance of the treaty, and the economic situation in the United States depends upon maintaining the stability and gradual re- cuperation of Europe's buying Dower. “Therefore, the logic of the situation drives this constructive programme to the necessary modification of the present covenant and ulti- mate ratification of the treaty with modifica- tion or amendments.” Suppose President Harding were now to “tum his back” on his own advice to Congress in his first message—that “the wiser course would seam to be to engage under the existing treaty”; Suppose the President were to refuse to send the Treaty of Versailles—with or without reservations —to the Senate; Would Secretary Hughes and Secretary Hoover meekly turn their backs with him? Would Mr. Hughes thus reverse himself? Would Mr. Hoover eat his own words? Or, under such embarrassment, would self-re- spect compel both Secretary Hughes and Secretary Hoover to resign? What ails Mexican “Pete”? Wall Street doesn’t take much stock in comets, but the tail of one is still with us, GETTING RID OF TRASH. (From the Providence Journal.) “I think every family should move every few years,” says a Kansas philosopher, “to get rid of the natural accumulation of junk.” Good! But what is gging to become of the accumula- tion? Is the family expected to leave it behind— slough it off as a snake sloughs off its skin? That wouldn't be fair to the family that moves in. Nobody likes to rent a house and find it half full of trash—all sorts of outworn stuff in the closets and cupboards, piles of refuse on the floors, abandoned furniture in the attic and barrels of shoes and empty bottles in the cellar. Nevertheless, the Kansas man is on the right track. There is too much effort made to save valueless articles. ‘The idea of the savers is that these things will come in handy some day, but in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred that day never arrives. Let any reader of these lines ask himself whether, within his own domain, there is not a mass—or mess— of stuff that he would be better off without. It might be of some use to somebody, but it never will be to him. It will simply serve to clutter up the house and to occupy space that might better be devoted to something else or to nothing at all. The saving habit is all right up to a certain point, but it can be carried too far Some persons save bits of string, trifles of paper, stubs of lead pencils, old magazines and even old newspapers until it becomes an obsession with them, They cannot bear to throw anything away, They are naturally thrifty, but they should moderate thelr thriftiness, If there were any money for them in t) thing indizated in the story of the young Agassano. Joseph's motive in robbery, as we gather it, was to get easy money for lollipops. His taste in sweets quite certainty will change as he grows older. Frankly, we expeot his appetite for burglary to perish as surely and at least as early as his desire for lollipops. ae it! es oe saving of all these things, or a profit of any sort, material, mental or moral, it would be different, but there isn't. Now what is true of the desirability of house- cleaning in a physical sente is also true of in- tellectual house-cleanings, That most of us are in mental ruts is beyond question. Let us overhaul our accumulations of theories, prejudices and “convic- | sions” occasionally and discard what is not worth » While, It will do us good. Crossing It Out Copyrietst, 1921, Tin Tron Wiulieitng Co. 19 New York Brening Word) The Pioneers of Progress By Svetozar eA atl Done right, by The Preae ite Non Poin Brenton World XVI—THE MAN WHO FIRST WROTE HISTORY. ‘When you read your newspaper, re- member that it took at least 6,000 years to put into workable and ac- cessible form the record of the life of the world over which you run your eyes as a matter of course. The pioneer in the work of record- ing the life of the world is Sargon surnamed the First. Sargon the | Semite lived more than 3,000 years before the birth of Christ. The archaeologists of the Untveratty of Pennsylvania performed a valuable | service to history when they deck |phered the cuneiform (or wedge , |shaped) inscriptions left by the first jof law-givers, Hammurabi. | But Sargon L lived fully a thousam® | |years before Hammrurabl Here is em | entry in the “Who's Who" ef the world which he left for posterity: “Sargon, the powerful King, i. “My mother, who was poor, secretip gave birth to me. She placed me im | a basket of reeds; ehe shut up the mouth of it with bitumen. She abam | doned me to the river, which did neb | overwhelm me. “The river bore me brought me to Akkl, the Tri te fa Akki, the irrigutor, me in the goodness of his heart. Aki, the int- gator, reared me to boyhood. Aktd, the irrigator, made me a gardener. “My service as a gardener was pleas | ing unto Istar (or Astaroth) and I be came King.” We are accustomed to speak of Chinese civilization as hoary with age; of Egyptian civilization as flourishing and running to seed in the remote re- cesses of time; of the story of Abra- ham as dating back to the morning ef | the human race. Sargon wrote that chronicle about a thousand years before Chinese histo- rians left any record of China; about seven centuries before the shepherd | Kings of Egypt; about 2,000 years be~ fore Abraham, And yet his writing reads tke thumb-nail autobiography of yester- day. It is a record of an individual human life—the earliest record of an individual human life that we know hing about—that is perfectly in- le to the man or the woman of It contains ita story of grinding pov= erty; of individual misfortune; of mas culine perfidy; of despairing’ mother- love; cf hard labor to live down a heavy handicap. And at last, the Admiral Sime'n Speech, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Admiral Sims may seem entirely too plain in his speech on the Sinn Fein Irish in America, but he was in a position to know more about them than most of us. He knows what they did to our sailors in Cork. They were out to see Germany win Take them in America: they have no more respect for the Stars and Stripes than for the Union Juck. [t's only to save their necks they carry our flag with the tri-color of their supposed republic. I have had a good knowledge of them, living among them most of m life. I will say they are the only nationality that begrudge one an- other the right to live, and if given their freedom would kil one another, MARY MURPHY, Kingsbridge, N. Y ‘To the Editar af The Erening World: ‘As a constant reader of your col-| umn, I n with indignation Ad- miral Sims's latest attempt to libel the United States and its millions cf eftizens of Irish ancestry When he says the Irish were pro-German, &c., during the past war, this much is clear, that he is either ignorant or that he is trying to curry favor with Lioyd George & Co., because thou- sands of Irishmen, both in the United States and Ireland, voluntarily en- listed and gave up their lives when England's back was up against the wall. Admiral Sims in trying to 4 a race that has given of preserve the liberty of thi tion since 1776, hi and the country he should be recalled at onc out of the American CHARI 1517 Dean Street, Brooklyn The Anawer to Soc’ To the Editor of The Evening World I was very much surprised to read that you—heretofore a liveral minded man—should agree with the writer of the invitations to the exercises at the placing of the Liberty Pole in City Hall Park. Said invitations w headed: “It's the answer of loyal America to Socialism’s sedition and treason.” After saying that you wp prove of that sentiment you go on to criticize the actions of the Anvbas- sador at London, our President's pol- iey, the United States Senate, &c So you think Sociwists are not a art of loyal Ameriow If you mean loyal to the 100 per centers, loyal to the handful of men who practically own and control the destinies of the United States, loyai to the boot-lick- ing legislators, loyal to a corrupt press, loyal to the almighty dollar, | @ree with you, But you can not say the Socialists as a party are disloyal to the workers of the country or its Government. ‘As to the things you criticize, is It not true that the c the only ones fighting just the things you mention? Were not conditions the same under a Democratic Adminis tration? The answer to Socialism should not be in the form of a flagpole. 1 sug- From Evening World Readers |; What kind of a letter do you sind most readable? Isn't it the one | that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? | There 4a fine mental exercise and a lot of s«lisfaction in tiyiag fo say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. jhours at a time and sometimes days e|the United States Government and is a true interpretation of the Declara- tion of Independence, proper housing system, no child labor, no wars, am- nesty for political prisoners, and a more even distribution of the wealth | of the country. LEWIS W. BLACKMORE. etre West 43d Street, June 15, Inconsistent Law. To the Maltor of The Brening World: Was ever such inconsistency shown as in the case of flood-stricken Pueblo | and the Eighteenth Amendment? Let | Pueblo obtain all the whiskey It can get for its flood sufferers, they neea it, and I and no one else should be- grudge it tothem. But what about the balance of the country? Aregit there workingmen in many industries whu are exposed to the elements, after be- ing drenched by rain or snow for at a time, who can not obtain even a' drink of whiskey or brandy without | the expense of a doctor’s prescrip- | tion and the price of a pint from a druggist, who are as much in need and just as much or more entitled to | alcoholic stimulants as the flood suf- | ferers of Colorado? { In @ news item tM The Evening World of June 8 I read, “Announce- ment was made by the Federal Pro- hibition Director for Colorado that | all restrictions had been lifted for | thirty days at Pueblo as an emer- gency measure in combating the possible spread of disease in the flood | area, The order was issued follow- ing instruction from the Federal Pro- hibition Commissioner's office in) Washington, Fifty gallons of whis- | key are to be sent into Pueblo to- | day and additional ehipments as | needed.” The Prohibitionists clatm that af. | cohol has no medicinal value and wish to abolish its manufacture and use in every shape and form, and| yet the Federal Prohibition office or- | ders whiskey to be sent and used to | prevent the spread of disease in the flood area of Colorado. Where, oh, where, is the consistency of the Pro- | hibition Amendment, when whiskey is sent into actual “dry” LAA AAPA AAL AAPL PPP PLP, territory by n denied to other sections of the coun- th try whose inhabitants need it under certain conditions avd during inciem- ni weather just as much as the food sufferers of Colorado? JOHN J. CTLURS, New York, June 9, 1921. Queries and Answers, To the Falitor of ‘The Prening Workd: Allow me to say a few words in answer to “Got It Right's” letter on Prohibition, He claims alcohol ts @ drug, a8 are opium, morphine and co- caine, Perhaps it is, but without it we could not advance in science or the fine arts. Should we stop ad- yaneing by not making it? Is alcohol harmful if taken in quantities? Yes, 2 y other Hquia Whom does Prohibition benefit Governmen| The taxpayer Whom then? ‘The bootlegger and former. How does it benefit them? One by a fat salary and the other by exorbitant prices for his liquor. Does fc m The No. gest the answer be decent living con- ithoma, tree press, free assemblage, the country at large derive any ben- efit? No, It hamosused more drunken ail over Uhe country with ingredients women and children staggering from its effects: homes being upset becwuse the father was a drinker, the family are. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John it!ake) THE COVER SELLS THE MAGAZINE, Why do magazine editors devote a large share of the: attention to the cover of each issue? Of course you know the answer, The average man buys a magazine, at least the first time, because he is attracted by the cover. After that he may buy it for what is inside it. But unless the cover attracted him he would probably never learn any- thing about the contents. It may occur to you that in this respect you are con- siderably like a magazine. You sell on your cover. After you are bought, or en- gaged—if you think “bought” is an offensive term—you can show the stuff you have got in you. But you have got to make the first sale of yourself if you are hunting a job. If you are a salesman or any sort of a business man you have got to make rr rnivd sales, All business and most of life is selling. And every time the cover counts. By cover we do not mean merely clothes, although clothes are of very material help. We mean your manner, your adaptability, your person- ality—all that you have that appeals to people and gives them faith in you. If you shuffle into a man’s office, refuse to look him in the eye and state your proposition in an uninterested fashion, you have a poor cover and won't sell. If you look well-dressed. clean shaven and can put up a straight, convincing talk, you have every chance of selling. That first sale is important, Some men sell by accident and afterward prove that they have within them the equivalent of good illustrations, interesting special articles and fascinating serials. Some of such men get reputations on which they sell afterward. But these cases are few. Russell Sage had a bad cover, but sold in spite of it. He is about the only example we can think of at this moment, and he sold about fifty years ago. Devote your attention to your cover. Make it interesting and attractive and a large part of your selling campaign will be accomplished. ess for the past eighteen months not by pald proj ndists ‘ho han ever before. You can find stores i propaga who a teathering thelr nest at the expen: of the public “Got It Right" got tt wrong. HD, GIBBONS or home brew in the windows. ‘Does home brew affect them in any manner? Yes. I have seen mon, June 14, 1921. The Price of Militarism, ‘To the Taitor of The Kvening World To-day I saw a mother kneeling “GotiIt Right” talks about With home brew all No. 139 First Place, Brooklyn, N.Y. Did he ever stop to think about the thousands who are thrown out of work on account of Prohibition; of men who worked and saved and drank in moderation, that they and their families are facing starvation at pres- ent through no fault of their own, Just to benefit a few? Will the parade on July 4, 1921, be composed of rum- hounds? No. It will be composed of reputable taxps and real Amer- icans who do not believe in being de- prived of their birthright Will the corner saloon go? Yes. ‘The Government will make a law ben- eficial to all, not toa few, When wil! this come to pass? Just as soon as our Congressmen and Senators find out they are elected by the people and the grave of her fallen soldier boy. Alongside her two little boys (evi- dently her sons) were playing wit?: toy soldiers and I said to myself “Four yictims,” America, land of my adoption, wake up, or you will pay Germany's price for militarism! We are prepuring for \peaca we are told—but te they all b fi Who are we going to fight now? |Surely not any of the twenty-seven Jallled or associated nations who all |fought for “democracy and elviliza- service as a gardener was Pleasing te @ | Istar, and I became King." perialist.” He founded one of the old- ples to which he belonged; and we that time made of bronze and not of iron, By the same method he sub- | dued the Sumerians and extended hia frontiers from the Perman Gulf to the of that earliest in cuneiform the most important and interesting works of progress. He drew a pic< THAT ‘WORD? 88—GORGEOUS, . music. deserfbed es “gorgeous” by: persons who mean it. dramatic climax of the story: “My Despite his humble origin Sargon L proved an ardent and successful im= est known empires—the Accadian- Sumerian. fe united the Semitic peo- may be sure that he did it’ with the power of the sword and the sp.ar, at Medierranean. jut the most remarkable thing that He thus became a pioneer in one of ture of individual life out of which it is possible to reconstruct a good deal! of the life of his day, just as scientists to-day can and do reconstruct the en tire skeleton of a prehistoric animal from a single knuckle-bone found im the earth. WHERE DID YOU GET ‘The word “gorgeous” is one af thé! most abused in the language. It tw not unusual to hear a piece of pie, or a dress, or @ painting, or a piece off And yet the word has travefted far’ from tts original meaning. Its root iw cane AnARAARRD BARRIO ARDEpOITRREoapRonoR onan the French werd “gorge,” throat. From this noun were derived the ald French words “gorgias” and “gor-. giais.”| And from this source the| English language, with its faculty for borrowing words wherever it could them, got the adjecti geous.” In its modern meaning “gorgeous™ means “splendid, magnificent, showy, glittering with splendid colors"—like: 4 sunset, for instance. If you choose to compare a piece of pie with a sunset you have a right to do it; for this is @ free country, ae has been frequently pointed out.” But do have some respect for a word thate has had more than its share of dis- tortion, From the Wise Old age seizes upon an ilLspent youth like fire upon a rotten house.—South. Tr se When a thief has no opportunity for stealing, he considers himself an honest man.—-Talmud, He is @ hero, who conquers hie own passions and is master over at| himself—Louis M, Notkin, Knowledge and timber should nop be much used until they are sem soned.—O. W. Holmes, Friendship ta the scarlet thread lef down from the windows of heavem to bind human hearts together-—« Anonymons, Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frosem by advereitn, a4 the water that flowe from geal \tion.” Who then? A, NIELSEN, Ex U. 8S. Marines, Now York, June 14, 2931 ae a ORE: ‘pring cannot congeal to winten—« | 23. Coapen, 4 aaa