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oa t f of development. | Che Coen ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER Published Dally Except Sunday by The Proas Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to 63 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, Preaident. 63 Park Row . Treasurer. 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row — —— MEMIFER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Par Associated Press te exclusively entitied to the ase for republication @ BM news despatches credited to it or not otherwise credited im this paper fod ales ths los! news published beret | FORWARD. N°, cavilling at “extras” President Harding puts | into his proposed international discussion of disarmament should lessen the enthusiasm with which the American people back the plan. The cordial attitude toward the invitation already manifest in Great Britain, Japan and France should find only united approval and eagerness for action fn the United States. This is the most promising moment the world has seen since the war. New hope of peace in Ireland would be enough to bring cheer to civilization. But now comes also a great initiatory step toward teheving overtaxed peoples of the most intolerable of their burdens. It is the President of the United States who, in response to overwhelming popular demand, has taken that step, and he should have the Solidly behind him in furthering its main purpose. It could hardly escape notice that the President's ; Plan will put the United States into close conference with the chief Allied Powers on questions intimately felated to aims and functions of the League of : Nations. Nation Nor will it be forgotten that an important article of the Covenant of the League of Nations (Article VIII.) contains the following: The Members of the League recognize that the maintenance of peace requires the reduc- _ tion of national armaments to the lowest point consistent with national safety and the en- forcement by common action of international obligations, taking account of the geographical situation and circumstances of each State, shall formulate plans for such Teduction for the consideration and action of . the several Governments, Such plans shall “be subject to reconsideration and revision at least every ten years. After these plans shall have been adopted by the several Govern- ments, the limits of armament therein fixed shall not be excceded without the concurrence of the Council. Even the most inveterate League-haters—Senator Borah himself is one—have not let themselves go so far as to hate disarmament because the ab- horred Cavenant so specifically provides for it. What is going to happen when the United States of America, the Britis) Bmpire, France, Italy and Japan—described in the Versailles Treaty as the Principal Allied and Associated Powers—meet” to- gether to discuss not only disarmament but also, by. President Harding's suggestion, Pacific and Far Eastern problems in which disarmament and the maintenance of peace are closely involved? If agreements result from such a conference, ean they avoid taking the shape of pledges ex- changed between members of an association whose | purposes coincide with purposes of the League of Nations? Can such pledges even avoid paraphrasing visions of the existing Covenant? President Handing’s proposed conference of the “Big Five” on disarmament is rich in possibilities The Council, pro- “it might easily become the nucleus of a revised and renamed League. Its first and immediate purpose, however, must be disarmament. In that aim it will be entitled to ardent, united Support, irrespective of parties or factions within parties, Yo that aim it should consistently and camestly devote itselt. | Mayor Hylan has dragged the Gary gramme back and forth across the sc! much too often for his own good. scent left in that herring. FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT. JsNaba ie from New England the other day told of a venture by a group of Worcester (Mass.) business men who are developing a cherry farm, * ‘These men recall the time when the cherry season meant something in Yankeeland—cherry-picking, cherry pies and “canning In recent years they have observed the markets filled with fruit from California, There is no good reason why New England should not grow its own cherries and benefit by the Savings in freight, refrigeration cost and hauling charges. The Worcester men are developing an orchard, planting a thousand trees a year, giving it personal supervision as a recreation—and they ex- pect to reap profits in the long run, although the pro ool trail There's no THE EVEWiNG WORLD, TUZSDAY, JULY orchard will not begin to make a return for five | sears. Replacing cherry trees of other years suggests an equ pleasurable and profitable opportunity for other groups of business men. Why not reforesta- tion of tracts of cut-over forest land in New York and New England? Cut-over land can be bought for a song. If a small company of men would buy a tract and em- ploy a competent forester to get things started, thev could enjoy camping, hunting and fishing privileges in vacation time. Expenses would be in the nature of investment in endowment insurance, with a rea- sonably certain return in the long run. In their lifetime they would have no bother over market- ing, but to their heirs they would be leaving a prop- erty growing more valuable each year through the naiural growth of the timber and because of the rapid depletion of the timber reserves of the Nation. Sooner or later the time will come when scientific forestry will begin to pay big dividends. Tnose who start tirst will reap .the largest profits. And in the mean time the owners of such a project could be enjoying vacation joys and watching the gradual development of the property. COME DOWN TO DATE. PATE SENATOR SCHUYLBR MEYER is a merry wag with his comment on the preroga- tives of the Mayor under the Dongan Charter of 1686. “The royalties of fishing, fowling, hunting, hawk- ing” mighi have made interesting reading last week when the weather was hotter, or last month when citizens had more confidence in the Meyer com- mittee. By now, however, it may be well to inquire whether this is all taxpayers are to expect from a committee paid for with public money. There is no blinking the tact that it is high time Senator Meyer and his colleagues got down to busi- ness, right down to brass tacks, with open sessions and concise, direct testimony in regard to affairs in their authority. Antiquarian research isn’t helping either to get the basic facts for an appraisal of the Hylan Admin- istration or to develop constructive suggestions for charter re Nn. Come down to date. Senator Edge of New Jersey told the Senate yesterday that Congress should either act at once to reduce taxation or else take a recess to relieve business and industry of apprehen- sion. Those are the country’s sentiments and no amount of toying with .ne tariff is going to change tein, [CSOCENTRICITY. N ANALYZING the Dempsey-Carpentier fight for his congregation, the Rev. Dr. John Roach Stratun revealed, though he did not mention, the actual reason he attended the contest: “If | had any desire to witness such a spec- tacle I could easily have gone sub rosa. No, I did not go to see the fight. The very thought of it was revolting to me from every standpoint, What I went to see, in order that I might rebuke it, was a mob of 90,000 betting, sweating, scrambling, swearing, sereeching human bein Five repetitions of “1,” and a “me” for good measure siiow the real reason for the exploit ang the resulting sensation-mongering from the pulpit. Yo an egocentric sensationalist, the world and all lis affairs és seen only in relation to the individual. Public events are viewed as a means of personal exploitation. All things are subordinate to the one. Fortunately, the world is better balanced. It does not readily move off-centre to a new orbit with the egoist as the new centre of revolution. A few of the “mob of 90,000" will read the tirade with mild amusement, The biggest part of the fight crowd will go its way serenely unconscious that it has been “rebuked.” HOW MANY HEARTS? Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, speaking in Paris, bids France “trust the heart of America,” and declares that “the moral and material re- sources of America are behind the France we love." Yet it was Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler who only the other day O. K.'d the Harvey state ment that we sent our young soldiers across the Atlantic fo save the United States of America, and most reluctantly and laggardly at that." How many “solely hearts has America? "TWICE OVERS. 66] SHOULD be more than disappointed if Con- gress decided to levy a tariff on import oil.’ President Harding to Chairman Mondell. Faia Sauer eNO naval officer under the rank of Commander can afford to get married, anyway.” —Mrs. Alexander J. Flowerton. . eer sf HE real capitalists are the people, lending billions as they do every year to Governments, cities, public utilities, railroads and industries.” —~ Nctional City Bank, * * * “a HE chaos is complete.” of the Shipping Board, Chairman Lasker “ce HE moment public interest dies down the cause of disarmament will die.” - Senator Borah, The First Step! Copyright by The Hrcot Lith (The New York Fre By John Cassel to eay much in a few words. Take time to be brief. Duty on Lemons. To the Editor of The Brening World The reason advanced by your cor- respondent “W. O'Y." in last night's issue fs typical of the ignorance of} the layman as to the reason for fluc- | citizens |the world at large ertising columns tity, the 1920, to June 1, this year, we received To the Editor of The Evening World 1 answer the letter yesterday's ssuc, hesfed “Sporting Blood.” I quote the following from that letter, “L certainly admire the spoitsinansnip of some Americans, they 1 mind mk fo much of the English sportsmen ise they are so different the biggest try has produced But, Abraham Lincoln! have become that ;cust before so man! long felt want in the way of an alco- | «nd secure it New York each other and ‘by ecveral of tue ‘beat balurday elerteal, lay of the news All this is changed now of remedies of patent constituents of Sterling, send him to Washington to solute destruction of puny a eryone knows what a rousing weleome the worthy Carpenticr re-| birthright of glorious ceived at the arena, where only the] teal sportsmen of America attended. | the nd when we compare tins weicu ne | reget uly § wad wheve me and political, through tn and inste medicine, t alcohol ina freedom! liberties, — whc STEED. 1921 Two Great Sights, i Worl ena pers the From Evening World Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ia Ane mental erercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to ad BAO nO nh COGe) BElGes, sg [Hictate to the physicians of the United Statistics compiled b# the New| states how they shall, and how thes York Fruit Exchange show that ship-|shall not, preceribe hieohol ta the ments of Cailfornia lemons east for|treatment of discase, under all and ‘are. as agi 348 car e SAME |'In the exigencies of their professional week in 1 om June 1 to June |tapor JOHN P. DAVIN, M.D. 20, Now. York got 30 boxes from | Executive Secretary of the sa California, against 17,750 for the same | \ ork Medical Assmctation week last year, ¥ ork a Here isthe rub. New York gets | ; normally a heavy volume of lemons | 7 we wane Eee ou Lee! from sicily. Krom Nov. 1, 1919, to] T+ Mallia The rem thie ail Nov. 1, 1920, we received from this| The ultimate pu of the 4 source 864,000 boxes. From Nov. 1,/ Saloon League, of course, is the ab only age aged the much-abused]!0"M that has not been rendered uestion, is it. thi abused and msthical. speculators, or the| deadly poison before it leaves the tariff? distillery. They have publicly pro- Incidently, for the information of} cjaimed this. Whether they deal a PET OLY UNS AUTOR SAIGh spoiliné | mortal blow at American industry Temons Ie to Tut temerved” white vt Bol 1s a matter of supreme indit- ees Na ference to the fanatics, being shipped here by cold-air ven- [THe Cnate of the United State filation oo the most august parliamentary body Brooklyn, July 7, 1921 ol the world, sits up and begs when Dr, Wayne Wheeler snaps the whip. My hat is off to Wheeler! He is slative bully the coun- shades of Andrew Jackson and What pigmies we we grovel in th figure of a What a filthy mess of porridge has Wheeler handed us in payment of our And hardly a red-blooded American te to stand on his feet vith the manner in which the !ng-| striped and starry standard, drenched lish “sportsmen” literally threw the | with the blood ie TORAtAE HAGE championship cup at the American! yours and mine-—last Monday a mil golfer, Jock Hutchisun, calling for] jon homes displayed in silent protest three cheers for their defeated S-lagainst the slaughter of our trec lish player and none for the rye champion, we are inclined to regard] and not a Greeley to es the statement quoted above as aD 2 DOWN THAT FLAL NG deal compliment, nic AN AMBRICAN SP 4 n it be possible that we shall fly New York, July 6, 1921. [the banner of Wheeler and his crew vee and permit the Stars and Stripes to Patent Medicine Booze, be dragged in the dust—disgraced, Ww the Maitor of The Brening World dishonored and debauched by a lot ling of South Dakota,| uf bigots? ~ADOLPH EDWARDS. che distin ned political authority New York, July 7, 192 on the medicinal use of alcohol, says — that no limit was put on the amount “A Fare) of beer a physician could prescribe | Te the Editor of The Hrening World under the ruling of former Attorney} If we Americans had some mort General Palmer. For this reason the | people of B. M. R.'s ype Cette aly Senator is rushing a bill through the) 4) we would soon rid ourselves « Senate preventing physicians from | tnese notoriety seekers, reformers and prescribing any beer at all | fanatics, who are a disgrace to our No limit is set, however, in this bill} intry to the amount of alcoholic patent| The writer is not a drinking man medicine the Senator's constituents | but does believe in beer, whiskey, may prescribe for themselves, Among | &c., in moderation ardent Prohibitionists this has long} Prohibition is a farce, and always been a favorite method of solving a| will be and the sooner we wake up s repeal, then tall liberty DI whea wy UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (oprn abt BALANCE, 1921, by John Blake.) Every man is a compound of ambition, indolence, thrift, lessness, sentiment, callousness and h are not necessary to discuss here. inated by one or the other of these son that most people are average ed by any one of the better quali becomes interesting and eccentric, osful. If he is dominated by one of the bad qualities he either becomes a ne’er-do-well o al other It against iy the nee of the aste ‘ven good qualities till none dy, productive and prosperous carcer. r worse—perhaps a criminal. these qualities, the playing of one has the mastery, that makes for can become harmful if they bulk loo big in any single human being. Ambition, for example, is laudable and useful, yet it often destroys those who rank it Loo high in their systems of self-government. extravagance, energy, list many other qualities whie Most people are dom forces, Which is the rea citizens, If a man is dominat fies we have named he but not necessarily succe Thrift, useful and necessary to success as it » can be overworked to such an extent that its possessor becomes a ieere penny-pinching miser, a worrier himself and a nuisance else quality, but it becomes mawkish- feet of sickly popular songs on some audiences, or if you read the love letters that otherwise sensible people sometimes not expecting them One would not imag vet it often acts as a chee write n to take a lit often m energetic 1 to gance which really 4 powerful medicine. It he as an antidote to miserlin extry result in happine 1 to be printed. ine that indolence was of any use; k on ambition and forces an overly tle badly needed rest. The tendency oves people to make expenditures Yet extravagance is like as to be used in very small quantities ess or it will prove deadly. You will learn by studying clever and prosperous ren and women centvic, and generally in y forces; able to make eacl No genius is require: Use your brains and deve that they \y you are singularly badly you ought to have a prett ing and doing a little anybody ought to want to sense of proportion, 4 to everybody else. Sentiment is a noble ity ib hecenes ts ness very easily, as you will discover if you observe the ef- are always well balanced, seldom ec rretty full command of their natural 1 play the part it should play. d to exert such a healthy control, lop a sense of humor, which is real nd the thing is done. Then, unless equipped in the matter of brains, y fair chance of making a good liv something for others, which is all do in this world, babe grows up and says: “Pop . did you do in the war and what v rom the ise the greatest sight you ever sa , Vell, Vil polish up the Victory Medal| We cannot tear out a single paye and tell how 1, with two or three to, Bane y inillion. other beer-drinking fellows,| °/ Our life, bué we can throw the nelped lick the Germans and the| whole book upon the jire. other answer will be the Dempsey- : . bout —George Sand. to me that a good way reformers, who want to We make large promises to avoid (ake the joy out of life, would be not| making small presents ive them any space in the papers, hs Jand before lor would be tired Vauvenargues, Oe te tesae petere’e patient nae | Afar will detest you if you spend tion rebels. | all love on yourself, \ OMAN WHO LIKES BEDR." 1 —From the Latin. New ork, July 7, deeds , + The People’s Bookshelves How! New York's Great Public Library Serves All Who Seek to: Learn > An amusing variety of questions are asked day by day in the room for reserved books at the New York Pub- lic Library. In this room are kept the especially rare and valuable beeks of the library, and to consult them students come from all parts of the country, In the past few months men and women have gone to this room to study the early Portuguese voyages to America; the place of French lit- erature in early American life; the lives of Charles Brockden Brown and Kdgar Allan Poe; fishes in carly Ite erature; dramatic advertisements in early American newspapers; horse breeding and horse racing in the United States in early days. A long line of applicants came to see the “Science and Health.” es ee Current files in the newspaper room at the New York Public Library now include 337 American and 112 foreign newspapers. Every State in the Union, except four, is represented and there are papers from thirty different foreign countries. Ten of the for- eign newspapers come from India Seven of these have been contributed during the past year by the India Information Bureau of New York City. Readers come to the news- paper room to the number of about 1,300 every day. In addition to thelr use of newspapers on the racks they consulted last year 170,902 volumes of bound newspapers. There has been an increase of 10.8 per cent. in the number of readers and 8.7 per cent. in the number of bound newspapers which they consult. see On the third floor of the New York Public Library at 42d Street is a small room devoted to maps and atlases. It is one of the smallest rooms in the building but by no means the least useful. Readers come to it for his- | torical information and up to date facts, Not long ago a man came there to locate the spot where he was wrecked while sailing about a year |before. Another inquirer wished to [learn the itude and longitude of Watertown, S. D., in order properly to place a sun dial. The parents of Jan American soldier buried in France came to find the location of the town of Jaulny inthe Depattment of Muerthe and Moselle. A man who was writing a story in a boy's maga- zine Wishes to prove that a fire engine in Chicago at the time of the great fire could go in a straight line from Lomax Place to Cushman Place, and overhauled old maps of Chicago for this purpose. A Chicago firm wished to ship a cargo of goods to Hongay in French Indo-China, and verified the existence and location of the place. A manufacturer of corsets had received an order from a place called Marakal on the Southwest coast of India, He came to the map division of the Pub- lie Library in order to find out that there realiy was such a place. yar ieee) On an average, 346 readers rezister | their names every day in the Division | of Science and Technology of the New York Public Library Here are some of the things they come to learn: The relative efficiencies of oi! and coal as fuel for a ship; the latest sys- ing machinery for ; how modern roads are being built in Egypt and India; what use may be made of peanut and cocoanut shells; the newest met Is of float ing sunken ships; the shape of the universe and the best opimon regare ng the shrinkage of the earth whether human thoughts can be registered by electricity; the gauge and rail weight of the Bagdad ratle way; the rainfall in Santo Domingos the location of quicksands in New York City and the details of the freezing method for handling thei the manufacture of bath salts; best method of the the address of a Belgian firm selling lithophone; the appearance of ancient Grecian tents for a producer of plays, 2 18 The collection of pictures lent to readers in the Circulation Department, of the Public Library has so grown 1n size and popularity that more pictures are sometimes lent now in a single day than in a month when the cole lection was started. The pictures are used by business men, teachers, actors, and theatre managers. A sculpture studio has used the collec tion in connection with its work on the sculpture in the new chapel now bes ing built at Northwestern University, More than one artist has abandoned his own collection of clippings after he found the library keeping a larger and better collection, ‘There isa large use of the pictures for American mong foreign born ¢ eadquarters of the col in Room 100 of the Central at Fifth Avenue and 424 Building Street A ey WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? ° 49—VIRILE, Vir’ is yae Latin word for man distinct from woman, That word not appear to resemble closely 3reck word “heros” or hero, But, in fact, the root "vir" is of # common origin with the root “her.” When the Romans wished to ems Phasize the masculine character of a man, as opposed to any fcininine or eff seribed manly. Hence the French characterist as being minat. him they virilis,"” de- or irile," “vir our own.* word by way of * which the “tight and which became incor- in the spoken language by aid of those Latinized Germans, rmans. women are 5 of ene Romans took with them to the little isle,” porated the developing the . physical prowess bodily endurance commonly bee longing to the ‘‘vir’ or man, We have receded so far from the origins of words that it is not uncommon to hear of an athletic woman described ile.” Such a use of the word * iMogteal, to say the least, > first and third editions of Mrs. Eddy’s , to see charts of Hudson Bay in order