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"valuable. SS ¢ CPEMIY World, ESTADLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pwlimed Dally Except Gunday by The Prom Publishing Company. Nos. 53 Park Row, New York. RALFH PULITZER, President. 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasursr. 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. | MEMGFER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Gee Associated Press te exclusively entitied to the nse for repubticntion BF aD news despaches credited to It or not otherwise credited tm this papgy Bad also ths loce] news herein. ONLY TAGGING ALONG! OLLOWING through on the Republican policy of procrastination, and pandering to a false party harmony where there is no harmony, Presi- dent Harding has definitely missed the greatest op- portunity that is likely to come his way while he is in office. . If the President had shown more backbone and more real appreciation of the problem, he could have grasped the honor for himself and for Amer- fea of being first in an international move for limi- tation of armaments. ‘The United States would have been credited with having started the movement. It would have regis- tered its good will. Now it is too late, The Imperial Conference of British and Colonial Statesmen have grasped the leadership. President Harding’s opposition to the Borah resolution is weakening. Once the British proposal is received, public opinion will force Con- gress and the President to accept the invitation to consider partial disarmament. The Administration is being pushed and pulled toward the right path. It is not leading. Eventually the result may be almost the same, but Mr. Harding as an individual and the United States as a Nation have lost the great opportunity for moral leadership. / The British get it and the United States is de- prived of it because politicians in Washington care more for party harmony than for world harmony. A DYNAMIC DIRECTOR. RRIVING at Washington to. take up his new duties as Director of the Budget, Charles G. Dawes immediately began talking with the pictur- esque vigor that endeared him to the Nation when he was on the Congressional investigation grill, In six months Mr. Dawes proposes to have things ail put to rigitts so that he cah turn the job over to another and get back to his own business. It is to be hoped that Mr. Dawes is correct in estimating his powers and resources. © Picturesque language is not going to make a workable and efficient budget system, but perhaps ‘Mr, Dawes's breezy vocabulary has #s place in the job, The fact is, Mr. Dawes correctly describes the present budget machinery as “pitiful.” He is in something the position of an efficiency engineer working for an industrial corporation in which most of the directors are incompetent and opposed to efficiency. Mr. Dawes will soon find that his powers are tn- adequate. His hundred “conscript” business men will find their efforts blocked by the checks which ‘Oongress intentionally teft. To get the budget going Mr. Dawes will need more authority. ‘Here, then, the Dawes personality may prove Perhaps his magnetism and dynamic energy will inspire the voters to set a fire under the atky Congressional horse and so get the supple- mentary legislation needed to make possible a workable budget system. COUNTERFEIT FIGHT-TICKETS. ISCOVERY of extensve fight-ticket counter- feiting was almost to have been expected in the last ten days before the big championship match. Tickets sell for large prices. The demand for seats is widespread. Many who want to see the fight are of the credulous class. Rich pickings were a tremendous incentive to crime. It is fortunate the forgeries were spotted now rather than at the gate. Eleventh-hour discovery would certainly have cocasioned trouble, Even as it is, many holders of counterfeit tickets are likely to seek admission. Unless adequate police prepara- tions are made, trouble is sure to develop. Meantime, every fight fan who has the least doubt as to the quality of his ticket will be wise to find out whether he has been swindled. WORSE THAN SCHEDULE K. TARIFF on lumber would be the supreme absurdity of “Protection,” G. O. P. style. What is the lumber situation? The American “fumberjack needs protection, but not against foreign competition. He needs protection from himself. Wader present conditions he is working himself out of a job. We are cutting our forests several times faster than they grow, and unless a programme of conservation and reforestation is adopted, this country will presently find itself without any forests “4p which lumberjacks may work. j ‘We are using the principal of our forest wealth, \ where we should be using no more than the interest. | Im such a situation the G O. @. tariff-tinkers propose a tariff on lumber. They would bar out ‘ even the inconsiderable importations and force ex- ' duusive use of American timber, which our forests ‘cannot supply without depletion. Could anything he more absurd than appropriations for forestry is restricted, housing is difficult and rents are high. And Congress wants to keep lumber oul! Of course a tariff on lunyber would be a favor to a handful of greedy lumber barons with eyes fixed on immediate profits and no care for the tim- ber supply of the future. But by what right*or reason does Congress consider the lumber baron first and the timber supply and the cost to con- sumers not at all? It is encouraging to note rising opposition to this proposal, even in orthodox protectionist circles. No party can afford such a blunder, A lumber tariff would soon become even more blatantly notorious than Schedule K. WILL DOCTORS SUBMIT? S THE next aim of the Anti-Saloon League to control medical science and practice in the United States? , Are doctors who believe in (he medicinal value of alcohol to be hampered and harassed by restrictions in the expectation that they will either give up the profession or let the Anti-Saloon League reform their minds and revise their practice? Proposals to regulate alcohol to a point that would mean starving arts and industries split the Prohibi- tionists themselves. * But the medical profession stands equally in need of being defended from tyranny, insult and serious interference with its functions. The Campbell-Willis Anti-Beer Bill, which the House Judiciary Committee yesterday reported fa- vorably as a substitute for the Volstead supple- THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1921. SICK Room mental bill, eases up, it is true,;on industrial users of alcohol, But the Campbell-Willis bill adopts from the Vol- stead bill the provisions which do not permit a doctor to prescribe real beer and which limit the prescription of any alcoholic liquor for a patient to one-half pint in ten days. : From any sane view this is, of course, prepos- terous. To deny each and every doctor in the United States the right to select his remedies and decide what doses of such remedies a patient requires is to declare American physicians as a class unfit to pur- sue their calling with any degree of independence. And who is to impose the restraint? Scientists of standing and repute? A court con- sisting of the highest combined authority in the medical profession? . Far from it. Doctors are to take their orders from men who have no medical knowledge or experience whatever and whose readiness to abolish alcohol 25 a medi- cine proceeds solely from intemrevate desire to strengthen the tyranny by which they suppress the personal’ liberties of others. Breadth does not figure in the mental dimensions of these zealots. Narrowness of view is the first essential of their zeal. Most of them would be perfectly willing to make the use of alcohol in industry a crime if they could thereby become certain that their fellow beings were the more completely deprived of it. Industry, however, spoke out in terms~ that frightened some of them. : Will the medical profession also find its voice? NO CHANCE TO START. I" any part of the country needs a lesson in effi- cient police work, it can get it from the way New York handled the landing of Admiral Sims. The flying visit of the navy man in this city con- tained elements of serious trouble, If the pro-Sims and anti-Sims factions had mixed, a riot would have been almost inevitable. New York foresaw the danger. The police were out in force and the fight which might have grown into a riot did not have a chance to start. The South with its negro question and other localities where labor troubles occur should learn from New York’s example that the best time to stop a fight is before it begins. A NATION OF HOME-OWNERS, (Prom the Marion (O.) Star.) Preliminary census returns show that 6,000,000 American families own their homes. There are more bome-owners in the United States than in any other country. Here we find the reason for the inability of Bol- shevik agitators to make any headway in this country and for the general detestation in which Communist doctrines are held. The man who owns his home, or hopes or expects to own one, does not take kindly to dangerous experiments in government and economics, He is not willing to take the risk of losing his prop- erty. The owning of homes makes for good citizenship. He who holds title to the property on which he re- sides takes more interest in the betterment of the community than the one who lives in a rented dwell- ing. The former is anchored, while the tenant is periodically confronted with the possibility of having to move. In every way possible encouragement should be given those who suffer from the housing shortage to build their own homes, It would be a happy stato of affairs if the great majority of the new houses should be erected by persons who proposed to live in them rather than by those who intended to offer them d SNR nee meen ng = to say much in a few words. Take School Examinations. To the Editor of The Evening Work! | Several child suicides fige occasion | for speaking of the final examinations, especially those of the high schools, These examinations are actually terrifying to the student. From the Yery beginning of the term his thoughts are ever reverting to them. All day he works in the classroom; at night he tottures his brain working out problems. This that he may pass the examinations. He buys an outline of the work required by the regents, and a collection of past regents’ ex- aminations. He must pass those re- .. The tegcher heightens his fear, tering the room he says briskly: “All right, boys, we must cover a lot of work to-day if we @r3 to be ready for the regents.” ‘Then he says: “Dass the regents and I'll pass you," The teachers themselves are ob- sessed of the regents. They skip light- ly through an amazing amount of work “'so as to be ready for the re- gents.” A student desiring to ask a question is told: the regents.” ‘The result 1s a superfi- cial knowledge. ‘The teachers the day before the ex- aminations advise the students as to how to take the examinations, They tell them to be calm and collected, to choose the easiest questions, to pro- portion their time. But such advice cannot displace a fear that has been growing for an entire term, Is it strange then that when these students take the examinations they are in a nervous state, doubting their ability to pass the terrible regents? Of course many capable of doing the work fail and, unable to bear !t, take their lives, They are called weak and foolish. Of course such an act is weak and foolish, but the cause of the act, ix not that also weak and foolish? Mothers and fathers would benefit their children greatly if they would do all in thelr power to make an end of these examinations. A STUDENT, Liberty and Anarchy, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: In answer to “A Law-Abiding American,” in your issue of June 18, I would like to give him a definition of liberty. Liberty is the right of the indi- vidual and of individuals collectively, known as society, to live and conduct his or their lives according to his or the|r own standards of health, morals and religion. As an example, I base my religious and moral standards on the Golden Rule and live up to tt as near as 1 possibly } anpther individual bases his religious ahd moral stan- dards on one of the several Christian religions and he lives up to it as near 8 he possibly him’ s tending a theatre, ba playing of cards or a innocent and his religious tenets ball gan y of thi harmless © many diversions, The Golden Rule does not deny me any of these pleasures and I partici pate in them. liberty. ‘When the other individual attempts He does not. That is (which ‘society, as distinguished from “We haven't time for | discussion now, we must get ready for | From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Ien’t it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ia fine mental erercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying time to be brief. standarda upon me and succeeds in doing so by legislative action with- out my consent that is not liberty. The same principle holds good as to heulth standards, If I find the use of | coffee detrimental to my health ts) that any reason why I should take steps to prevent any other individual from using it? No! For when I do that liberty ceases and I become a tyrant. If I drink alcoholic beverages and find pleasure in it (which I do) and another individual drinks to ex- cess and injures himself thereby, be- cause he has not the will power or the decency to stop when he has should ‘be deprived of my pleasure? When such a thing occurs liberty ceases, for the individual no longer lives according to his own standard, which is liberty, but is governed by the standard imposed upon him against his will and consent of an- other who was not man enough to control his own actions and dgsires. This ia not liberty, but tyranny in its most powerful form. There is a sphere of action in the individual, has, if any, only an jndirect interest; comprehending alt that portion of a person's life and conduct which affects only himself, or, if it also affects others, only with their free, voluntary and undeceived consent and participation. When I say only himself I mean directly and in the first instance, for what- ever affects himecif may affect others through himself, This, then, is the appropriate region of human liberty. It comprises, first, the inward domain ot consciousness, demanding liberty of conscience in the most comprehen- sive sense; liberty of thought and feeling, absolute freedom of opinion and sentiment on all subjects, prac- tical or speculative, scientific, moral, or theological. In regard to calling the Anti-Proh!- bition Parade anarchy, where does he get his definition of the word? Is it anarchy for people peaceably to as- semble and parade as a protest against a law that was fo! upon them without their consent? The Constitution gives the people “the right peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Where does he get the right or the authority to call the parade anarchy? JOHN J, CILLES. New York, June 21, 1921, Prisone: the Parade. To the Editor of The Brening Workt; In a recent issue of your valuable paper appeared a letter from one Oliver Ferris, of Pawling, N. Y., which I consider about the most ridiculous and bigoted thing I have ever read. What a perfectly nonsenstca) sugges- tion to have the Inmates of prisons parade in that sane and Ifberty-loving celebration on July 4! According to Mr. Ferris, tt appears that the only criminals to-day are those belonging to the drinking ele- ment, and about the only inmates of prisons, He contradicts his dry “UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) THERE ARE NO DEGREES IN HONESTY. A ten-dollar bill is either honest or dishonest. good or bad. A man is either If he is honest he will not cheat or steal or take undue advantage of another man STANCES. "UNDER ANY CIRCUM- If he is dishonest his cheating and stealing will be limited only by his opportunity or his timidity. The difference between big thieves and little crooks is sometimes a difference of opportunity—more often a dif- ference of courage. The little thief doesn’t steal continually, because he is afraid to. The big thief has less timidity—or less imagina- tion—and steals whenever he has a chance. But one is just as dishonest as the other. And often the little fellow is the worse, for he adds cowardice to his crook- edness. A full grown man or woman, trained in life, who does a dishonest action will do another under the same circum- stances, A boy or girl lacking this training will sometimes be- come straight with the growth of intelligence. For the ancient adage about honesty being the best pol- icy is so apparent to common sense that even people who are mentally crooked often turn honest and remain honest mere- ly because more profit can be had in that manner of life. It is well to apply the honesty test to yourself and change your method if you find that under certain circum- stances you would take advantage of a fellow creature— legally or illegally. It is well to drop friends that you catch cheating at cards or at golf or in business. despicable form of crook and For the cheat is a particularly deserves no friends whatever. Never think that a man or a woman is a little dishonest, or dishonest about some things and honest about others. They are 100 per cent. honest or not honest at all. They are honest in everything or honest in nothing. If they are honest, as we believe most people are, they are worthy to be trusted. If they are dishonest, knowing what dishonesty means, the wider berth you give them the better it will be for you. nnn boarders,” Strange—we have had pro- hibition for two years, and the longest sentences imposed are from thirty to sixty days for drunkenness, and yet we have enough prisoners to swell a parade! How come, Mr. Ferris? While I am no authority on prisons, 1 do know that the Atlanta Federal Prison has no time for triflers; they have to handle ® more dangerous ele- namely—ba eves, forgers, mont relters, &e. Fine lot to set at large, but I suppose ft is all right so long as it 1s not the man who enjoys the “cup that cheers,” for he is the criminal in the eyes of the Highteenth ent worshippers. Amendment WArWOMAN READER. New York, June 20, 1921, Paper June 20, in connection with the conduct of the New York Stock Ex- change and, while I do not gamble or speculate in stocks, yet 1 am one of the millions who invest surplus money in so-called “staple stocks and bonds” as represented by our standard rajl- raads and other industries. I am sure that an expression from the general public would show that your article has met with general ap- proval, and I trust you will continue thig campaign go as to force some in- vestigation into such legalized law- less conduct on the part of any man or body of men. The business condi- tions to-day at best are not any too good, and anything that tends to help further disorganize through conniy- ue's statistics, for they claim there to impose bis moral and religious “Legalized Lawlensne: fo the Editor of ‘The Brening World: I want to congratulate you on tl; | ance, certainly should receive the at- tention of the Goverma.ent and some- body be severely punished. 299 Broadway, June 21. The Pioneers of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroff bad, Ly bey The Prone Publisting On, ‘York Evening World). 4X—THE MAN WHO CREATED A RELIGION. The Moslem call to prayer is to be beard from the Island of Sum through the Malay Peninsula, China, India, Southeastern Europe and through the length of Africa to the Cape of Good Hope. That call to prayer'is always tho same: “Allah is the one God!" The emphasis placed upon this be- ef by Mohammed, as the author of the religion evolved by him, points cue most conspicuous element of riority over the many ons which it displaced in all ust eens like Jeatine @°Arc tn the Forest ‘Aro in the of Domremy in a later period, it is re- Jated that the man of the tribe of Koretsh, in the Arabian town of Mec- heard voices, “ane voices, as goes, fled from Mecca to Yathrib, which was renamed ‘‘Madinat en Nebi," or Medina—“the city of the prophet.” On his return from Medina he found his fellow clansmen ready to negotiate with him. In ten years the entire Arab world of Asia had submitted to his teachings, This rapid agandiam was the result partly of the simplicity of the teachings themselves and partly of the physical weapon which he forged for the propagation of his spiritual ideas. That weapon was the “jihad,” or holy war. The duty of rallying to the ery of “jihad” was imposed by Mo- hammed upon all believers. Disobe- dience to the cry of “jihad” would de- prive the believer of the simple and concrete joys of Paradise; it would condemn him to the outer darkness of &@ long probation. Mohammed is entitled to considera- tion as @ pioneer of progress, not be- cause he invented the “jihad,” not be- cause his followers overran China, India, Malaysia and a part of Bu- rope, but because of two other achievements of Mohammedan peo- ples or principles. These achievements are: The flourishing civilization which the Moslem Saracens, or Moors, es- tablished in Spain, with its Arab sci- entists, philosophers and builders. The superior religion — made up partly of Christian and partly of Jow- ish teachings—which It gave to many millions of people from Meson to the heart of Africa. Wh: {lization Africa pos: 1 he European found it was a Mohamme- dan Arab civilization. And with all its shortcomings— and they are grave and many—the Mohammedan Arab clvilization was, and still !s, vastly superior to: the heathenism of the African tribes as well as to the original i Civil zation of the Arahs themselves. There are now about 200,000,000 Mo- hammedans in the world. No Mo- hammedan state has ever reached the height that was attained by Moorish Spain. Turkey, the longest lasting Mohammedan empire, {s now fight- ing for the remnant of its existence. But, as religion, the system taught by Mohammed of Mecca ts neither moribund nor even on the defensive. Tt is still a powerful and growing fac- tor in the spiritual life of the world This too in spite of the verdict of “unfit” rendered against the Osmanii Turks and in spite of the failure of the Moslem world to respond to the cry of “jihad” in the late war. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? | 41—HUBBUB, The word “hubbub” was formed on the principle of the imitation of sound. It is probably a corruption “whoop whoop” “hoop hoop"-— words which convey the impression of noisy disorder. It bears no re- lation to “hubby,” the slang abbre- viation of “husband.” “Hubbub” is a good illustration of the processes of building up language of coining words in imitation of the or sounds it is sought to designate, The Russian word for “hubbub,” for in- stance, is “sham” or “gyalt." Boti: words convey by their sound the im- pression of unintelligible noise. “Hubbub"—or the state of society which it suggests—is one of the most prevalent terms in the bright lexicon of New York and every other large community in America, The forma tion of a Universal Society for the Prevention of Hubbub would be a mighty good idea—if it did not add to the universal hubbub. “That's a Fact” By Albert P. Southwick — mre MBL Pa, Ets Ba © | Alhazen, an Arabian, about 1000 A. D., first taught the present theory of visian and explained why we see but one picture of an object with two eyes. He also discovered the refrac- tion of ght and explained the mag nifying effect of convex lenses. ee Jaoub Perkins (1766-1849) was the first to demonstrate that water is slightly compressible, and he was also the first to liquefy atmospheric air, about 1822 By a pressure of 1,200 atmospheres he reduced alr to the state of Hmpla Hqwia, ‘There are two similar lessads, onc tmmortalized by Tennyson, of Godiva, wife of the Lord of Coventry, who rode naked through the town to save her people from starvation, and the drama of Maeterlinck, which tells how Monna Vanna, virtuous wife of Guido, went clad only in a cloak to Prinzivalle's tent to ransom her be sieged city of Pisa ee 6 Forsyth receive’ . patent for fire- arms 11 1807 rhe Great [ell at Cologne Cathedra presented by the German Emperor in 1876, weighs 60,480 pounds, the clappor alone with a weight of 1,200, 1 made of cannon captured jerman War of 1876 twa. in the