The evening world. Newspaper, June 29, 1921, Page 22

a _. |enue concern. || Read emma ree She orld, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER Pwiiehed Dally Except sunday by The Prose Publishing Company. Nos. 53 to 63 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President. 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer. 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. fae“. _tatndt +) MEMBER OF THE ASSOCLATED PRESS. Amoctated Prem s exclusively entitled to the use for republication GR all news Gonpatchen credited to th oF not otherwise credited im thie papey = bad also the local mews published herein FOR A GLORIOUS FOURTH. HE declaratory peace resolution, on which the House and Senate to an j agreement yesterday, is to be sped through both | Houses of Congress so that it can figure in the country’s Fourth of July celebration. ‘Fourth of July orators may make the most of ‘the proud fact that two years after other nations that fought in the great war signed the Treaty of || Versailles the United States of America declares if Yself at peace and claims advantages under treaties || thas not ratified. )\ After Fourth of July cannon have boomed in |) feonor of this national achievement, perhaps the | ‘Administration which now controls the Nation’s 3 foreign policy will show what it means to do about ‘ctual treaty negotiations without which the peace resolution is, so far as foreign relations are oon- ‘cemed, an empty flourish. conferees came Does the Prudential Insurance Company con- sider {ts defiant attitude toward the Lockwood committee a crowning proof of Gibraltarishness? b ; COME DOWN THE LINE. { NITED STATES ATTORNEY HAYWARD announces a campaign against evaders of {the luxury and other special taxes. , Such action has already been delayed too long. ‘|’ Rightly or wrongly, many persons believe that many merchants—particularly druggists, soft drink , Gispensers and movie houses—are not paying to ‘the Government all the tax they collect from the {,public. The Evening World has received many let- ‘ters voicing this complaint. rh opinion, whether justified or not, provokes is dangerous feeling of resentment. If the Govern- jment prosecutes vigorously and promptly, tax col- merchants. will be chary of taking chances ‘on a “hold out” and the public will be correspond- ‘ingly confident. W€ the Government can prove its case against j Martin & Martin, Inc., indicted yesterday, the pun- | lishment should be both prompt and severe. But | the campaign should not stop with a big Fifth Av- H It should be extended to the small | J moving picture houses and the soda fountains pat- { ronized by people of moderate means. It is the suspicion of tax evasion in those places fhat breeds most discontent and resentment. ‘The Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton says he is going to the Dempsey-Carpentier fight “just to «see the thing.” What's anybody else going for? i a te ta is tise FAITH IN THE DOLLAR. 'N a recent contract for a privilege, the City of . __Berlin etipulated that it should have the option , Of calling for payment in German marks or in U. S. A. dollars. Few recent news items have been more significant ‘ anil interesting. i! In small countries it has been the custom to quote prices in both the local currency and pounds ster- _ ling, though usually at a “pegged” rate of exchange, | the payer exercising the option as to which medium he prefers. \ This incident from Berlin indicates how far the “mighty Germans have fallen, when even a German ¢ity is loth to speculate on the future’ value of Ger- q@an money. Even more significant, it shows the new place of \ the American currency, not so much as a medium of international exchange, perhaps, but certainly as ‘ the best standard of value now circulating in a 4 faden world. i. ! Lady Randolph Churchill was one of the sur- vivors of that rich, late Victorian social-political stratum in which Mrs. Humphry Ward, the novelist, found her most congenial material ag { THE RHINOCEROS TRAINER. UDGET-MAKER DAWES is right in calling a general meeting of all official administrative + Spenders in Washington. Even the spenders de- Serve some warning of what Mr. Dawes would like , to.do to them. i] “M Dawes could cuss that aggregation into a state { of conscientious thrift, his time and vocabulary |. would be well spent. | But it is hard to teach old dogs new tricks. Some “| of the spenders have been on the job for years. They are completely accustomed to spending a 's income in six or nine months, depending on @ deficiency appropriation to cover the rest of the je The spenders, as Mr. Dawes will soon find, re- * quire more than conversation for their conversion. _ For disciplinary powers Mr. Dawes will be forced to to get a “pitiable”’ budget measure passed, how long will it take to secure a budget machine with teeth to chew up budget breakers? President Harding is also reported to hold the view that appropriations are maximums and not minimums and that spenders who return a balance to the Treasury will be regarded with favor. Here again persuasion and commendation are not enough. If we are to have an efficient and economical budget system it must include two things: First: Congress should adopt a rule that no de- ficiency appropriations will be considered except in an emergency certified to by the Director of the Budget. It should be a penal offense for the spend- ers to run ahead of appropriations. Second: The Budget officer should have power to rescind parts of appropriations if in his judgment they are not being spent in an economical manner, or if changed conditions warrant a reduction in the work of the bureau. Reading the riot act to the spenders isn't going to save much money. Spenders have thick skins. Economy depends on Congress. TO NEW LIFE. A greater even than the power of Pro- hibition has compelled the Mayor of New York to call a halt on the shocking invasion of private rights resulting from pressure put upon the police to enforce the Prohibition laws. Mayor Hylan yesterday formally notified Police Commissioner Enright that police engaged in en- forcing the Muilan-Gage law must not “search premises or persons or their bags or effects or au- tomobiles without a search warrant.” Judges have repeatedly warned police officers that they were going dangerously far in their high- handed methods of search and seizure. As The Evening World pointed out when these methods first became manifest, the Bill of Rights of the Federal Constitution specially affirmed “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures” and declared that “this right shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirma- tion, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” This part of the Bill of Rights has been incor- porated in the Constitutions or made a fundamental principle of the civil and criminal codes of most of the States. Corporation Counsel O’Brien ad- vises the Mayor that this right of the people still obtains in the State of New York and that the Mullan-Gage law in no wise annuls it. The increasing frequency with which the courts have had to score the police for treating the Mullan- Gage law as if it superseded all Constitutions and staiutes has become a serious matter. The Mayor could not ignore it. We hope the forces whose pressure is mainly re- sponsible for goading the police on to these extremes wili not be allowed to ignore it either. The insolence with which the Prohibition move: ment attempts to shoulder aside rights, laws, con- stitutional guarantees—anything, however deeply rooted or respected, that stands in its way—is one of the most astounding developments that has ever un- settled American confidence and menaced American ideals. But principles the average American has hardly been conscious of—so deeply and safely imbedded have they seemed to him in the national life—are not dead yet. By trying to kill them, Prohibition will rouse them to new life. A traveller returning from the South reports that his trunks were rifled going and coming and his liquid baggage removed. This traveller has firm faith that baggage smashers not only can but do use the stetho- scope to discover spirituous murmurs in locked baggage, secure in the knowledge that the victim cannot complain or report his loss. If Enright'’s merry men are forbidden to stop, open and search suitcases and other packages wouldn't it be a good idea to equip each patrol- man with a stethoscope so that he can detect the presence of Nquor without opening the package? Or does the Mayor's latest “enforcement” or- der forbid even curiosity as to the contents of parcels and bags? TWICE OVERS. “ce HILE New Englanders come to New York, New Yorkers are going to New England. But there is a good reason. You people like our resorts, and we surely like your city.” —Addison L. Winship. . 8 6 “ee HE Anti-Saloon League accomplished its purpose by organization and the use of We plant fight them with their own weap- ons.4—Stefano Miele. * 8 @ i HERE is no essential difference between the American louse and the European louse.” — Surgeon General Cumming. money. A Shock. To the Bititor of The Drening World News Item—"“Americans win polo trophy.” What a shock this must Bronx, June 25, “Get Your Man.” To the Editor of The Evening World: One would think from the parade of the Street Cleaning Department re- cently that New York is or should be the cleanest city in the world. Per- haps it is on the west side or in some sections, but I took a walk through the east side below 14th Street and found that in some places they had seenia cart of any kind for two Perhaps the street cleaners were getting ready for the parade or getting over it 1 am an old Royal Northwestero Mounted Policeman and have been 1a New York for some time. As I have had nothing to do I have looked into the workings of this big city. It would be a good thing if the police would adopt our old motto, "Get your man,” but they rarely do in impor- tant cases. cox. Late of the R. N. W. M. P. New York, June 26, 1921, es ing World Will Doctors Submit?" rtoon, “Interfering with which accompanied it, en- ening World to the grati- f the great body of the medical profession of this country If the doctors submit to an assump- tion by Congress of the right to dic- n and what amount of net cohol they shall prescribe it will be lure of the Americ: to use of the f. ration n protect the itions of the ot ufo, at the suggestion U,, the House of Dele- hol either a isease. This was not done in a scientific section of s body but in a section controlled cians and all that 1s purely political in character as the eculive Committee of ‘Tammany Hall ‘Although this year, at Boston, the ALM. A. refused to reaffirm this de cis On a point of or Nt to preseribe pleohol in 4 symposium on the “Ther apy of Drugs” in the section on phar- macology and therapeutics, where this subject belongs and where it will he settled, if ever, in a scientific manner. On the other hand ,the newly in- stalled President of ‘the American Medical Association in his inaugural address took the position that restrie- tions on doctors in prescribing aleoho! were advisable under the law, other- wise a largo number of them might be con “educated criminals and 8 rn "to the commu- nity. How much this attitude was jue to the Prohibition principles of the new President or to the fact of his recent appointment to the office of First Assistant Postmaster Gen- eral must be left to conjecture, Under any circumstances it was His Hand By John Cassel From Evening World Readers | What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Ian't tt the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ia fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying te soy much in a few words. Take time to be brief. American Medical Association in speaking of the 85,000 physicians comprising the membership of this ¥. This is not the first time that the so-called leaders of the medical pro- fession have misrepresented the spirit of their brethren as a whole. At the outbreak of the war one of them declared that unless the doc- tors responded more quickly they would be digging trenches as com- mon soldiers, For this he was promptly called to account by an eminent journalist, who declared that the medical profession had never failed to respond in war or in pesil- lence to the call of duty, nor would they fail to do so in this instance. JOHN P, DAVIN, M.D. | “The Saloon.” To the Bitor of The Prening World I was wondering if “A. who takes credit for the article, “The Sa- loon,” appearing in issue of June 25, 1921, represents the Rey, William A. Sunday, the author of this composi- | tion, | If not, does “A, S." think we have | 80 soon forgotten? . B. A. Mount Vernon, N. ¥., June 26, 1921, Early Irish Immigration. ‘To the Buitor of The Bvening World Iam a dally reader of The Evening World and have read your publica- tions of the Sims affair with Interest I was very glad to note that you are more broad-minded on ta‘s Irish question than your neighbor Hearst's rish” New York American, &c. In reply to John T, McCaffery’s letter, ‘The Irish in the Revclution,” I assume that he means the Sinn Fein type. There were plenty of Irishmen at the signing of the Decla- rotion of Independence, but they ame from the North of Ireland. Gen, John Sullivan was not an Irishman; he was born in New Hampshire. The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick was a Colonia} society and non-sectarian. And rring to the speech of George ashington Parke Curtis, same wis delivered to the non-sectarian Irish in 182 a 1826, ‘There were dozens of Irishmen, and good ones too, during the Revolution- ary War period, but the most of them came from the North of Ire- land. The Sinn Feiners only started to ‘ome here between 1847 and 1849, dur- ing the potato famine. The Irish immigration was almost entirely from Ulster, until about 1540. ‘And Ulster, while paying 75 per cent, of the taxes of Ireland, has tess than one-third of the votes. ‘The same Ulster province furnished 38 per cent. of the soldiers of Wash- ngton’s army. ‘These last few statements do not refer to John T.'s letter, but at the same time he no doubt may be pieased to know these facts. T also take this opportunity to con- gratulate you on the stand you take on this Sims affair, You, just like the American Admiral, are one of the few who have the courage to male the statement that you did. H. STUMPF. New York, June 1921. Only One Note. To the Falitor of The Byening World As one who always reads your unworthy of the President of the UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake.) ACCURACY FIRST. Fifty years ago a mathematical marvel mystified audi- ences in small towns in the United States. He would walk up to « blackboard and ask people in the house to give him two long numbers. Given such numbers as 8,796,402,897 and 72,875,295,- §39, he would place one below the other, announce that he would multiply them and write beneath them the answer. No one understood how he could do it. The people who beheld him gasped in amazement at his powers. And he went from town to town for several weeks, exciting wonder and admiration, till some sceptic in the audience took the trouble to write down the numbers and multiply them him- self. Then it was discovered that the lightning calculator never made a multiplication at all but merely wrote an an- swer in the proper number of units, which, of course, was in- variably wrong. A telegram to the next town and prompt action by the local authorities put an end to the calculator’s career. It is easy to work rapidly if you do not work accurately, but it is of little more use than were the labors of the faker in the story. curacy first. they can with care. cultivate speed. © In this world of progress men must work both accu- rately and rapidly to get ahead, but they must cultivate ac- Millions are lost in industry every year through mis- takes and carelessness of people who try to work faster than In every business accuracy is the first consideration. When, either in figuring or in writing, or in any line of en- deavor, you are sure that you can be accurate it is safe to But never work so fast that you are not sure you are put- ting down the right answers to your problem. Better creep for a while than fall every time you attempt to run. Facility will come with practice, but facility is worse than useless if it means blundering. The quick men are valuable, of course, but they are never judged for their speed alone. If their work doesn’t check up they hold their positions but a little while. your many correspondents, am sur- prised at the stand taken by the drys on the coming wet parade. They are all written in one vein, as if such a thing was unlawful. But before they put it over on us, and when the laws allowed liquor, beer and wine to be sold, they took measures to change the law and nobody thought to question their right to such a stand, But now they will not concede the same right to others. ONE WHO IS NOT SATISFIED, Paterson, N. J, June 26, 1921. He Must jaturalised, To the Batttor of The Wrening World Is a person who is born of foreign parents but comes to this country at the age of six months, and has lived here since and is now twenty-two years of age. an American citizen? Or must he take out his citizenship papers? His parents are not citizens of the United States, pene and, of course, the letters Som} CONSTANT READER. From the Wise There's a divine spark even ina harlot, although she sells her body and soul for a lump of gold.—Louis M. Notkin. Sympathy is the safeguard of the human soul against selfishness,— Carlyle, He that is brought up a slave will be a tyrant when he has the power.—F. Marryatt. We can tive without a brother but not without a friend.—Anony- mous. He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; | Stories Told by | The Great Teache By Rev. Thomas B, Gregory [orice yg, fac tiie © IV-—THE MERCILESS SERVANT, ‘The story of the “Merciless Servant” J—Matt, xviii, 38-35—applies with more or less force and directness to every one of us, It goes right down to the roots of one of the commonest and, at the same time. vilest sins that humanity is subject to. The abuse of power, the enwifiing- ness to show to others the mescy and all-round kind and just treatment that we ask for ourselves, is as old es human soclety—and it may be said te addition that hideousness of the sin te to no extent diminished by its antie juity. It was ugly and infamous to be- gin with, and ugly and infamous # wil remain to the end. ‘Some of you who have not read the story of the “Merciless Servant” ere familiar with Shakespeare's mighty drama, “Measure for Measure"—one of the most powerful sermons ever preached against the sin in question, and in the opinion of many the great. est of all the Shakespearian produc. tions. The villain of the play is none othar than the “Merciless Servant” of Bible times, who in his pride of might uses his authority and power to inflict upon those under him the very wrongs and crueHties that he begged to be deliv- ered from at the hands of those above him. But the people who are guilty of this most despicable sin are not con fined to the dramatis personae of the Bible and Shakespeare—they are right about us, thick as daisies in the sum- mer meadows. We find them in the army and navy, in the courts, in the stores, mills and factories, in the homes and schools and colleges; everywhere, in fact, where human beings congregate, Everywhere “man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority,” often uses his power to abuse and iIl- | treat those under him, forgetting that in past times he had begged on his knees, maybe, to be spured the very same ill-treatment from his then su- periors. If there {s any species of human ae- lion that is MBANDR than this, will some one be kind enough to tell us where to look for it? The petty “boss” of to-day, but yes- terday an underling, whining over what he considered insolent, criet and unjust treatment from his master, for- getting all about the Golden Rule, is doing the very things which yesterday seemed so wrong to him! Speaking of the Golden Rule, it only remains to say that it comes pretty near being the “whole thing” in re- ligion and morality. The man who thoroughly and sin- cerely believes in the Golden Rule never hag his head turned by being elevated to authority, He never abuses his power, He never struts around like a would-be demigod, in- sulting people, abusing people, and making himself cordially hated. He always remembers that justice and kindness apply to all men alike, and that authority and power cannot ex- empt their possessor from the duty of doing unto others as he would have them do unto him. Super-Business Women By Helen Page [omg ie omer, am | MISS ELLEN B. LEWIS. Chief International Trade Department, Guaranty Trust Company. Scores of visitors seeking informa- tion on international trade conditions and minor points of interest involved in this big subject frequently express surprise in finding at the head of the international trade department of the Guaranty Trust Company & young woman in the person of Miss Ellen B. Lewis. Quiet in speech and manner, and affecting none of the airs that many in highly placed positions assume to impress their office subordinates and prospective business clients, Miss Lewis hardty looks the part ehe fills —that of human encyclopaedia. But after a few minutes’ conversa- tion with her one realizes that Miss Lewis is just what bas been claimed for her—a human encyclopaedia. For the human element enters decidedly into this fascinating work of keeping abreast of the movements of the great human family in the four com ners of the globe. With @ dig corps of men and wom. en investigators, clerks and stenog- raphers working with her, Miss Lewis can tell alm notice the prevailing price af Rooky Mountain goats, if American automo~ biles have been marketed in African territory and up-to-the-minute ine formation on foreign exchange, &a Miss Lewis's predecessor was @ man, but since coming into this position she has made an ever increasing suc- cess of the work, for she came to this department with a broad knowledge of the bank's business. For @ time she vas connected with the bond de- partment. Daily inquiries from visl- tors, inquiries by mail, telephone and telegraph that come to Miss Lewis's attention, cover a Wide range of sub- jects and have a bearing on nearly every phase of human existence in almost every country of the world. It has always been said that women were given to asking questions Well, here's one who ean answer them, a but he that loses his courage loses all.—Cervantes, Genius ts but a mind of large gen- eral powers accidentally determined én a peculiar direction—Dr, John son. We spend our years with sighing; life is a valley of teara; but death de the funeral of al our sorrow— R, Watson,