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; {! 3 ‘ + of competitive armament. The Hy orld, ' | | | ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. | Pudlithed Daily Rxcopt Sun@ay by The Prem Publishing Company, Nos, 52 to 63 Park Raw. New York | | | RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treamurer, 6% Park Row 43 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary MEAUFER OF TIT ASSOCIATED PRESS Mie Aseociates Prem in exchisively entitled to the use fer republicattad | Of All news despatches credited to {t oF not otherwise credited in thiy papgr | Abd also tbe local news published herein. IN ONE WEEK. O-DAY two men sit down together in London for a conference that may lead to a new eran era of peace and understanding—in the re- lations between Great Britain and Ireland. To-day the tax-burdened peopies of five great Nations are rejoicing at what seems the certain pros- pect of an international move to cut the huge costs It is more than two years since the Versailles Treaty was signed. It is two years and eight months Sincé,.ihe Armistice. Up to now the larger and better human impulses that were to follow the war, the movements toward carrying out some of the professed purposes with which it was fought, have seemed slow in starting. Achievement of those aims may still be more re- mote'than the world hoped two years ago. Nevertheless, something can be set down on the side of progress in a week which sees England and Iretarrd secking peacefully to compromise their dif- ferences and five great powers preparing to take the first step toward abandoning the costly habit that ‘has overloaded peoples and impelled Govern- menis.to war. The hopes of exalted moments during and just after the great conflict may not have been realized. But some advance can be scored. The World hears the Government United States has lost Treaty of Versailles. - Well, the Nation lately lost sight of its own Constitution long enough for the latter to suffer incalculable damage. of the its official copy of the $30,000-A-YEAR MEN. HAIRMAN LASKER of the Shipping Board has --announced the appointment of three Vice Presidents of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, which is to be revived. A striking feature is that the three men are to be id salaries totalling about $95,000. Compared with the salaries of Congressmen, Senators, Cabi- net members and diplomatists, these bulk large. But even so, the three men drafted by Mr. Lasker will Make material sacrifices 10 undertake the work. They are experienced operators capable of earning far more in private business. tis a pity the Government does not have mre" of such talent in Federal service. Under a business administration of the coumtry’s affairs we wotit! have more substantial salaries and fewer salades to pay. But in order to get efficiency and economy in departmental administration, the high-salary men should not be chosen exclusively from outside the ciyil service. Good salaries should be attainable by" ambitious and efficient employees of the Gov- ernment. These should be the reward of ability in the “administration of less important duties. “Yi shocked many to learn that the “Town “THall” was to be used for the exploitation of the ea@nu-British propaganda film, “The Spirit of 76," which occasioned the arrest and imprison- ment of the producer when he tried to exhibit “itduring wartime. jewspaper criticism and public opinion must -ba. depended on to take care of the propaganda. But to the unthinking the mere name of the “Town Hall” would lend to the exhibition a “platting it does not deserve. dt-would seem that executives of the League for Political Education might use more dis- erimination in renting the “Town Hall” audi- torium so long as it retains that name. STREET SHOWER BATHS. IRE CHIEF KENLON’S street shower baths F “for hot weather use are to be installed this week. Fifty pairs of showers will provide fifty oases in the heat for crowded children of the congested dis- trigts. Operated in the vicinity of firehouses, the Showers will cost the city nothing except for origi- nal investment and the water used. If all city money € spent as wisely and economically, the tax rate would be lower. evs in. the case of the snow removal machinery last"winter, the equipment was not ready when the season opened. But even that can be forgotien if firemen will make good use of the street baths for the hot days to come. AGhildren of the city can never know the delights of the old swimming hole in the bend of the creek, but street showers in operation three hours a day will:prove a welcome substitute. Doubtless many a country boy will envy his city cousins who have showers in clean, cool water. -FIRST-CABIN “IMMIGRANTS.” #: Congress had deliberately set about making itself ridiculous it could not have scored a more complete success than the ill-considered 3 Per Cent, Immigration Law. Detention of first-cabin passengers on 1a Savoie ,and the Mauretania because certain immigration SATEEN SY quotas for the month are filled would be funny if it were not immediately serious. Business and professional: visitors, long-time resi- dents in the United States, American women who have married foreigners am some who are caught in the net of red tape and denied entrance until offi- cials at Washington override the law and make special provision for admission of these “immi- grants.” It is true we should not fhave one law for the tich and another for the poor.. It is true the steam- ship companies are at fault inanot informing them- selves and passengers in regard to the complica- tions of the Dillingham bill. But when all is said and done the fact remains that the Dillingham bill is by Yong odds the most oppressive, absurd and illogical immigration act in a long series of oppressive, absurd and illogica! measures. It is the duty of Congress tovseither untangle the law and make it workable, or: repeal it without delay. BEYOND ALL LIMITS. HERE is still some sense left in the United States Senate when it comes to the question whether the Anti-Saloon League shall be allowed to revise medical practice in the United States. In the course of debate on the supplementary Prohibition Enforcement Bill, provisions which limit the character and quality of alcoholic stimulant a doctor may prescribe for a patient were denounced by Senators Lodge, Knox and others as an outrage against the medical profession and as beyond the constitutional meaning and: application of the Eighteenth Amendment itself. Said Senator Knox: “It is not my purpose by my vote to put an insult upon that great and noble profession to which we all must turn at many times in our lives for the protection of our ltves. Neither do I intend by my vote to put an insult upon my own intelligence by conceding that a constitu- tfonal amendment limited to the restriction of the use of alcohol for beverage purposes can be stretched in such a way as to place any restric- tion upon it for any other purposes.” Medical science still has rights. Moreover, despite the obvious contrary impres- sion af the Prohibition forces, the Eighteenth Amendment has not swallowed the rest of the Fed- eral Constitution. The Senate and, if need be, the Supreme Court of the Uniled States should make clear the latter point. Ambassador Harvey is reported to have shocked the British by playing golf in his shirt- sleeves. To his own countrymen he has proved much more shocking in his full dinner togs. “THOSE WE MUST NOT FAIL.” N his bonus message to the Senate President Harding shot one ray of sunshine through the gloom. As a result of vocational training: “Four thousand disabled men have been re- turned to gainful employment. These earned an average of $1,051 per year before entering the army and are earning to-day, in spite of their war disability and in spite of diminished wage or salary levels, an average of $1,550 per annum.” Nothing further is needed to indicate the desira- bility of greatly improved facilities for vocational education. The figures speak for themselves, Many veterans have lacked faith in what the Government is doing. These figures should inspire them to en- ro!l for vocational training. The Government should and must be prepared to meet them half way and do on a large scale and efficiently the same sort of work that has gone on in halting, hit-or-miss fashion. The Evening World's Kiddie Klub outing at Starlight Park in the Bronx yesterday gave 20,000 children of this big, hot city a happy day. The Evening World believes the children of New York are the city’s best asset. It believes that to add to their health and happiness is one of the greatest public services that any ai thority, individual or organization can perform. Hence The Evening World Kiddie Klub. TWICE OVERS. 67 AM sure the atmosphere for peace both in Ire. land and Great Britain is extremely favorable.” —Eamon De Valera. * 66 TT is not for the President of the United States to come in here and debate. That is what the President did yesterday." Senator Watson. * * €€}'D like to know how she (Mrs. Marabella) had that good Lime on $10 in New York.” Recorder Adolph of Hoboken. mon oA CCTJAZITHIN twenty-five years our Nation will be a mass of anarchy and ruin if we don't stop the destruction of the Sabbath." —Petition by the Southern Methodist Conference. riage ce OST women want to be good. Women are Jar more moral and finer in every sense than men.” --Mrs. Mary C. Moore, Philadelphia Police Matron, + 6 8 66] BELIEVE the good will engendered by the mutual truce will lead to a just and permanent peace between England and Ireland." Bishop Fogarty of Killaloe, a ey The Path to the Home. ‘To the Hitor of The Brening World Anent ycur editorial “The Home- Building Boom,” there are many per- sons in this country—men and women, who have been urging home owning and ‘hrift through co-operative sav- ings (building) and loan associations for a Ufetiie. They are students of this subject and have investigated every scheme brought up from time to time, with the result that they are still imbued with the faith that in these organizations lies the solu tion of home owning for persons of modera‘e means "The fact that these institutions are co-operative and conducted at minimum of expense (less than 1 per cent. in this State, although the law gives them the privilege of spending 21-2 per cent, in any one year, based on accumulated capital), haps drawn their attention to. she man on the street. But this false economy is gradually disappearing, | When a man like Herbert Hoover) r ns to join 8 for itself, r. ARCHIBALD W, McEWAN York, June 12. New Swhnming in the Park. To the Bhtor af The Prening World For the benefit of suffering human- ity 1 would suggest that one of ihe Jlekes in Central Park be converted into a free swimming pool. t feel well assured that the charm ind besaty of the park will not be aff least. WILLIAM New York, July 12, i92 Where They € To the Biter of The B A number of letters with reference to the birthplace and origin of Irish- men who took part in the Revolu- tionary War have app ely in your I paper unde ening World Re 8 from A few of them inform us that the majority of Trisha who partici- pated came from the north, giving names, dates and counties in some |instances. How i Mo O'Brien, the histc tells us tt he has abundant evidence, gache | trom all sources, to prove that they | mostly originated in the south and west of Ireland JAMES J, MeCOY Richmond Hill, July 12, 1921. ohibition a Farce, To the kailor of The brening World Two years ago I heard three busi- 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 is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying | to say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. ness men chatting on the subject of Prohibition. One declared it would be a revolu- tionary gift to the people. Comment- individual case on his own mhilosophically stated that at any? at TA. | Ihio, i ne cost him on an avera New York. July 11, 1921 no day; with Prohibition he c ; \ihis and convert it to bett | orn, and iddition he named three companions na Wor of his who were troubled with the tells us ina let \ spend 3 ng) RR the Devlaration | iin earer t but [of ¢ nin Ire |t pees is ‘neglected His habits are che oitics in ireland io which taay! b Coprriayt. 1921 tos pve Ferme Banni thee NewYork Brent The Pioneers of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroff 1021, by The Prone Peibiishi (Tae New York Eveaing World! | XXVI—TME MAN WHO CREATED THE ‘MOTHER OF PARLIAMENTS’ To the British Parliament, repre- fenting all the people in a house of two chambers, is applied the proud title, the “mother of parliaments.” | But this Parliament, substantially a* jit now exists, was created, not by an Englishman but by a man of French origin. This Frenchman's name was Simon de Montfort. He was brother-in-law | of King Henry IIL, and had been cre- ated Barl of Leicester. Simon de Montfort, in rebellion @gainet the King, defeated his royal jrelative in the Battle of Lewes in 1264, captured him and began to ia- |eue royal writs in his name. By one | of these writs Simon de Montfort on | the following year summoned a Par- | hament which differed in an essential jrespect from any Parliament sum- moned by royal writ before. The difference lay in the fact that not only the Barons but also the rep- resentatives of the cities and the ‘doroughs were summoned to meet for purposes of legislation. ‘The first Parliament in which the people had a direct yoice marked a notable step toward nopular govern- ment. It was elected on the basis of universal manhood suffrage, and no property qualification was imposed on its membership. | England would have spared itself | so00d deal of trouble through the in- | tervening centuries down to the Hlec- | toral Reform Act after the end of the | World War, if it had permitted the innovation introduced by the French Kar! of Leicester to stand. De Montfort was killed in battle in the autumn of the year in which he had summoned this first real and complete Parliament, and his Parits- ment died with him as King Henry IIf, regained his authority. However, this standard which emblage set the ¢ English people have tried ever since to re-establish- a Parliament elected by the people by direct and-equal vote, on the basis of universal suffrage for both men and women and without property qualifi- cations for the vote. By various legislative acts the lim- itations on the franchise and on clig bility have been modified. One of these modifications is the elimination of the “rotten borough"—the system. that. gave representation to an old- existing community that had gone to seed in point of population and pro- ductiveness, but withheld it from rim ing burghs and sections of counties Another reform is the requirement of a long period of continuous resi- dence that practically disfranchised that part of the working population .| that moves from place to place in the inexorable pursuit of the job, Still another reforni—and a reform of revolutionary charaoter—ts the conferring of the baliot upon qualified women. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake. by John Blake) that only a few | WHY THE PYRAMIDS STILL ARE THERE. Liege angina arivag ted Of the splendid structures of stone and brick have got him. housed the Roman civilization there remain macarcity, publicity and | seclusion’ § crumbling walls and straggling ranks of columns. the upstairs clubroom or the cellar Little is left in Greeee to reeall its ancient splendor. “speak - His garage has the remnant of an entire barrel, and all that is worrying him now is to know where he can conveniently get some Yet the The jungle has hidden the masonry piled up thousands of sears ago by the Aztecs in Mexico, thousands of pyramids of Egypt. built ny thing to replenish the empty b } ul This mani ease is the same as % Years ago, still retain their ancient form and solidity, and eversbody’ else's, “His may be more 3 still could well serve the purpose for which they were con- elaborate on account of his means, ) ie workingman who wants liquor, % Structed—that of tombs for the mummies of the emperors. can get it, such as it is. Saloons are wide open and will be open, Fifth Avenue cellars are load- ed down with Barleycorn, ‘The ten- cement houses are open distilleries and breweries. Drunkenness is as open and as popular as it was ten years} ago. Tunacy is not on the. decline. | ‘The home brew is causing more cases | of kidney trouble and complic diseases than medical science ed | ever dreamed of. ‘This unconstitutional | and imperial law, passed and put in force by Kaiser Anderson, is brewing | stronger e-halt of | longer. Anderson, rekefeller and | the snonsors of Prohibition will find | out to their sorrow t made by the people, fc and not by would-be reformers who | can preach more mischief in one hour than all the Anarchists, Rolsheviks ind so-called Reds could in ten y Prohibition is a farce. Repeal ake the country what it was | of law. destined tyranny New York, July for—one li + Rot | TRUTH. | 21 , 19 | The val Ray. » Hivtor of The Proming World I read with keen interest your ar- | t nout the discovery of a motive | ray emanating from the human eyes, | and it s ns to me that it coine Ides} with a peculiar phenomenon f ob-| served for the first time about 1918, | | i] | | Opt To while looking into a mirror, It was rather dusty and the dust specks as- sumed a radial fo the centr a covering the en- being the pupil | eye being more} an the other in this re-| uild be compared to the ac- filings under the influence | tire mirror, eye, one this was vgnet. 1 thought o have | an illusion, but it seems g to the new ( y anyone ean try this for himself, and, once notice will be found that ft occu eyes happen to gaz nd even when too fa f it to see the eye ler if this would he time th Ip the b D. ¢ actly how they were reared, or what engit was possessed by struction, Principles in creating a bridge or a ¢ he secured by foundation will endure. mone eve Mr The pyramids were built to endure. It is cer one there is a that powerful om, the other that the centre of gravity >of any structure. No one knows ex ring knowledge the man who superintended their con- ain, however, that those old builders be- gan with a thorough understanding of two now well known attraction called s within On these principles the pyramids were built. The heaviest stones were put down first on the widest area. Solidity was the one cardinal principle of construction, The job was be- gun right and it promises to endure as long as the mountains, There is an important lesson in the pyramids—the lesson of Poundation. Whether in building a house or an edu psolute cer! Many men have achieved temporary success, | filled high positions, and then sudden! way. ion, whether cter, permanence can only nty in the beginning that the made toppled to ’ Every one of them had failed in the beginning, but the failure was not apparent till the poorly planned founda- “tion gave Get an education if you can, Get it if possible from a college where the importance of a foundation is understood, Bat while you are getting it remember that there are certain mental elements of foundation that must be there, or any structure you erect later on is never sure to endure, Cultivate will power, memory, judgment, the ability to With these, together with character as a base, cye Out of Lueck. What has be 1 POR TPR New York, July 13, 1 tam in Philus has made m muis- ee Evening Wor get along with the world as you find it, and enough familias ity with books to teach you where to get information when you need it your building should rise steadily and surely, and endure as long as life, which is as long as you will need it in this world. ns | extremely am rey ain er nrotemmnewnm nein mye Simon De Montfort was accused by some of his enemies, including King enry IIL, of being an adventurer. But his great adventure will live as long as the memory of man exists. For he became the father of the “Mother of Parla . 4 WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 51—HUSSY. Did It ever occur to you that there is no reproach necessarily implied in the use of the word “hussy’? Well, there isn’t, on the authority of the dictionary. “Hussy” is a corruption of “he wife,” an abbreviation corresponding to the word “hubby” for husband. Huswife, in its turn, is another form of housewife. Of course, the corruption or albre- viation of “housewife” originally car- My the meaning of endearment or familiar appellation. But the word has traveNed a long way—and it has travelled downward— in the course of the centuries. So in its modern meaning, actual or implied, the word “hussy" is not recommended for use, even under provocation. For “hussy" as now used means “a pert, forward girli a jade; a jilt” So there you are. “That’s a Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick ‘ovrright. 1991, a Mot, Yat, am Figine On April 5, 1768, when the Queen's Head Tavern (later Fraunces's) was kept by Bolton and Sigel, the Cham. ber of Commerce of the State of New York was founded in the “Long Room," consisting of twenty mem- bers, with John Cruger as President, who were doubtless inspired with the idea of a commercial union for the protection and promotion of their business interests, ‘The organization continued to meet there until it se- cured a personal room in February, 76 the Royal Exchange, Broad Street, New York City, The ducking-stool, stocks, bilboes, whipping-posts and gallows faced wrong-oers throughout New Eng- land's Colonial history. — Scolding |wives and quarrelsome wives and ds were the most frequent oc- ts of the ducking-stool, A few ldips in cold water were regarded as efficacious in remedying conjugal infelicity take (or otherwise). Taking every-| The legend of St. Swithin’s Day is Lincoln's “Lives of the} thing into consider 1 believe Mr, | that the saint, who died in S68, de- ward Hutledge’s b Phillus had better confine himself sited to be buried in the open church- 18 South Carolina, ictlon, as he does not and not in the chapel of the aryland fed with a knack for as was usual with bishops. Americ ire was fulfilled, but on bis ht have, SIONAL READER. |Peing canonized, the monks, think- mention » of Rutledg Drovkly ¥ 10, 3 ing it discreditable for the saint to an born in) be in the open cemetery, attempted to with but it days that the design was abandoved, ce 8 remove his body into the choir solemn procession on July 15, rained so violently for forty The two-cent stamps of the Hnd- son-Fulton Celebration do not possess any especial premium value, This answer A. . L. of 267 Darbey Street, Brooklyn, N.