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samen | ESTABLIERED NY JOSEPH PULITZER Puvlighed Daily Except Sunday by The Press Publishing Company, Nos, 53 to 68 Park Rov, New York RALPH PULITZON. Preeidont, 63 Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PUTATZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row MEMPER OF THE A (Mae Amociated Prem te ercdusively 1 sa@ alse the local news published herein LIGHT BEER’S LIGHTER PROSPECT. ROSPECTS brighten for the early brewing of that medicinal beer to which we are entitled under a literal and unstrained interpretation ot the Eighteenth Amendment. Despite the efforts and orders of the Anti-Saloon League, the bill supplementary to the Volstead act Ingers among the side-tracks in the Senate at Washt- ington, and at almost any hour Commissioner Blair of the Internal Revenue Bureau may issue rules tor the making of beer to be sold under doctors’ pre- scriptions, Undoubtedly the Senate has seen a great light on this subject. And presumably the illumination has its source in the sudden demand of Middle Wes: farmers for the legitimatizing of 2.75 beer. What the Upper House has really needed, how- ever, is not more light but the courage of its intel- ligence and of its individual oaths of office. No- body knows better than any man fit to wear the toga the difference between selling beer as a bever- age—the only act prohibited by the amendment— and prescribing beer as medicine, the thing sought to be prevented by Volstead misconstruction. A. S. L. Counsel Wheeler froths as the supple- mentary bill falters. Meanwhile, the barley growers in revolt in Minnesota and neighboring States are missing, possibly, a chance to strengthen their broader campaign. The grain farmers do not suffer alone in the failure of the crop demands of the old days of brewing. Light beer in the making left as a b: product the mash which served cheaply and well for stock feed. Is there no instinct of thrift at which to direct an appeal for the joining of the dairy farmers with the barley growers in the crusade for the 2.75 brew? Historically the Meyer committee has ranged from the Dongan Charter of 1686 to the Lusk engraved silver set of 1921, but as yet it has not touched on the important years of 1918, 1919 and 1920 where the legitimate scope of its ac- tivities lies. THE SKILL IN POKER. JURY of twelve good men and true having decided in London that poker is a game of skill, the deeds are justified, after a half century, of Gen. “Bob” Schenck, one time American Minister to the Court of St. James's. Gen, Schenck, a brigadier of volunteers in our War of the States, was the missionary of poker to England. It is not of record that he played the game on the Mississippi. Still, he was born in Ohio, where many things are possible besides run- ning for the Presidency. The General did not aim for the White House, but he played a good game of bluff. A fact to which it happened, in the course of time, that many dis- appointed Britons could testify. It is given to few juries to satisfy everybody. There is likely to be dissent from the poker verdict in London. A man’s opinion in such a matter is apt to be affected by the way his cards run. “Is it true,” counsel asked in the London case, “that if the player hesitates or lets his eyelids trem- ble it may be material?” The answer was in the affirmative. Yet how are we to be sure that the trembling of an eyelid at a psychological moment is not a mark of skill? Bret Harte knew of the heathen Chinee that for ways that were dark and for tricks that were vain he was peculiar, And that Chinee played a clever game of poker! DILAPIDATED, After weeks of wrangling aud voting the Tariff Bill emerges from the House wearing the marks of conflict. Actually it is little nearer final passage now than when it was introduced. The House “initiates” revenue legislation, but the Senate writes it. The only effect of discussion in the House has been to evoke a storm of protest that shows there is no such overwhelming demand for any Tarif Bill as Chairman Fordney imagined six weeks ago. As for the Fordney bill, it is far more dilapidated now than was the Payne-Al- drich bill when it reached the same stage of en- actment THE GAMBLERS. FRIEND tok the story of a farmer whioh ap- peared in the Times yesterday. One para- graph was: “Alvin has worked day and night as a farmer, He has put in and tended his crops and worked enough to kill a dozen ordinary men, but the season has been against him. His hay was Practically burned up, and other crops failed, and Alvin was left.in a hole,” The farmer in question was Alvin York, credited with being the greatest hero of the A. E. F. He the use fer republicatios | OF All news deopatches credited to Mt of not othermise credited i this papae! captured 128 Germans single-handed. this his ill-fortune is news. But the same words might be written regarding many another farmer who has planted and worked and has watched an unfavorable season take crops and labor and leave no return. York's farm is described as “rich” and the “most beautiful” in that section of Tennessee. «When Sergt. York acquired the property nearly half of it was a gift from the Rotary Club of Nashville. The remainder of the purchase price was covered by a mortgage. It is the mortgage that is troub- ling Farmer York. Again his plight is typical. With a favorable season and hard work York would have profited. A bad season and low prices have caused his difficulties, If there is any lesson for city dwellers in the mis- fortune of one who deserved better, it must be found in the realization that farming is the greatest gambk, and all farmers are the greatest gamblers. If this fact is fully understood, there will be less resentment against the gains of fortunate farmers in good years. IF THEY MEAN BUSINESS, HEN it elected a Chairman of the Appropria- tions Committee to succeed James W. Good, resigned, the House abandoned the seniority rule and chose Martin B. Madden. shairman Madden justifies the dhoic. by intro. ducing an amendment to the Constitution empow- ering the President to veto single items in appro- priation bi This is eminently sensible. A workable and ef- fective budget system requires such power. For years students of government have recommended such action. But Congress has balked. With a wise and con- scientious Executive this amendment would mean the end of the “pork barrel.” Consequently it is safe to predict that Mr. Madden's proposal will en- counter stout opposition, Partisansiip has no place in action on this amend- nent. The vote will divide Congress into two non- partisan groups. In one will be the patronage brok- ers, the pork-barrel patriots and the peanut politi- cians. In the other will be the friends of good gov- ermment and the real pspresentatives, for there can be no question that informed pubtic opinion will indorse the proposed amendment. The bene- fils are® obvious. At the best, amending the Constitution takes time. What of the next few years when econonty is so essential? If Mr. Madden, President Harding and Mr. Dawes mean business, the practical benefits of the amend- ment may become effective immediately—if Con- gress will permit. What is required is action on appropriation bills early in the session, and a “gentlemen's agreement” that when bills are passed the President shall feel free to veto them, accompanying his vetoes with memorandums specifying the items he would de- lete if he had the power. If appropriation bills were passed early in the session, Congress would have time to repass the bills, omitting the items objectionable to the Presi- dent. This is a practical way of obeying the letter of the Constitution while enjoying the benetits of the reform Mr. Madden proposes. If there is sufficient honesty and good intention in Congress, such a programme is simple and feasi- ble. The new Director of the Budget is in position to advise the President regarding the vetoes, and from what Mr. Dawes has said, he would be only too glad to do so. Congress has the say. If the present wasteful system continues, Congress will be to blame. Last-minute passage of appropriation bills loaded with pork-barrel riders has been the regular pro- cedure for circumventing vetoes of indefensible ap- propriations, It is against this practice that the Madden amendment is primarily directed. If Mr. Madden, President Harding and Director Dawes mean business, let them advocate such an innovation, The Nation would support them. Ob- structing Congressinen would hear from home 2 THE LIFE OF A NURSE, (From the Ohio State Journal.) It has been supposed that the hurse was a super human being. She could do without sleep, work twenty-four hours a day, eat at irregular intervals whatever an excited household could furnish, some- times do the cooking herself, and maintain the morale of patient and relatiy Wortunately for the survival of the ivibe of nurses the development of trained nursing as a professior has led to the adoption of definite limitations of the demands that can be made on a nurse's time. Twelvs hours at @ stretch is all that can be expected now of a nurse. A twelve-bour day seems pretty long as compared with the eight-hour day of other workers and particularly when you consider that it is spent ata sick bed. Nevertheless, we read just the other day a bighly indignant newspaper jetter blaming the modern nurse as a protiteer, because she would desert her patient for twelve hours out of the twenty- four. So it would seem that the old idea of the nurse as the superhuman and semi-holy individual who can stand anything, and is expected to, still survives Employers, who probably couldn't endure even a twelve-hour stretch, also forget that the sickness which in their home seems like a terrific crisis, for which all things should and must be disarranged, is in the life of the nurse one of a succession of inci- dents or cases, When she has, finished working for one, she must go to another, If she is to wear her self out on one, she will have no vitality left for the next. Because of a THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, CONTRaVE ast — NSIC 41 | in the history | in an inlet off the island of the Ba From Evening Wor!d Readers What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousind words im a couple of hundred? There is fne mental erercise und a lot of satisfaction in trying te eay much in a few words. Take time to be brief. Tax Revision and Economy. Vo the Inkior of The Breuing World: assumed by some of the inte: dvocating the adoption of tt as a method of raising 1 venues that “tax revision’ “tax reduction,” and it is Noah H, Cooper nuisance and coop \h in a hot apartment, with no k, no ice cream, no elec- © fan, and let him sizzle there for twenty-four hours. He should have no water, because waterworks run- ning Sundays require paid labor to kéep them ‘running, He should be provided with a Bible. public expenditures. This is anerror.| IT guess twenty-four hours in a hot The present surtax on incomes and|New York apartment would find the the excess profits tax bring home tojambitious Noah HH. using the leaves a very small percentage of the people | of his Bible for a fan and using lan- a realization of the heavy burdens|guage which he would never admit. imposed upon them by the war, This| | Save us from nuisances like Noah minority is vigorously . H. Cooper, Wilbur Crafts and Wili- against those taxes, but so fa jam H. Anderson. jhave seen in the publicity sent out by the v. means claimed that the effect of a direct tax on consumption would be to reduce S.P.R, DER. | New York, July 16, 1921. | i matter pus “tax revision” organizations they are not try:ng io | reduce our enormous tax burdens but linerely to escape sole of the taxes ‘that they are now paying. If it is true that the sales tax, as Anaatle the Chamber of Commerce, | To the Exlitor of The Evening Worl 1 Now that the Bonus Bill has been | shelved, thanks to the influence o1 powerful financial groups and two-| tuced politicians, who have till yes- claimed by its advocates, would be so shifted that it would not be felt by the consumer, there would not be the check on Congress that is NOW terday succeeded in blinding tie exerted by the small but influential! vision og the ex-soldiers—the vision of | class of men and big corpora- confidence and trust in the fairness tions that know bow to bring influ- of q great people; now, that the hy- ener to hear on their Senators and pocrisy—and a shameful one—of ou: Representatives, The consumers Hatt politicians has come to) the surfaci nobody to speak for tat ia i behooves euch and every 4 tax system that would net sho ce man to begin to dig how the tax and profits on the * shameful affoir staged were udded to the price of ail cor “friends” of the exewervice men, ao modities Congress would zo On PIN’ sive the lie and the deception to tik up appropriations without fear Of “gentlemen” at our political wheel, io ng called to account a Spa who were loudest is better than a pro © of the “heroes” and de- and that ts about all renders of the Republic aid in tts favor. When 7 shall not attempt to go back to claim that its adoption tne promises made to the soldic: will lead to national economy they [Pon ?ther leaving for the battlefield are making assertions for which they ju y must refresh the memory of have furnished no proofs our “stayset-horie" riots abou" WHIDT Gl their yelling and shouting of “justicr ex-soldlers to t upon their retur: “Wherel from abroad. It has been conceded Vo the Dlitor by those “patriots” that “somethine “Not a cin to-day’s Eve: must be done” for the ex-s« ning World does not deny the mirecl who have suffered considerably & at Cana in Galilee, where, as Dryve!’ cause of thelr readiness to ds “the conscious wa in the (heir country; sufferings that involves! f its Maker blushed,” but + it was a different kind ning thereby that St wa for many of them the loss of the: business and the very means of livelihood. ‘That “justice'\ was to \unfermented—plain grape juice, in have been done in the form Of assis’ other words ance to those in need of it, and It is I¢ grape juice 't was, could not the an undisputed tact that most of the host have commanded hls -ervants to ex-soldiers are more than in need »f pluck and ernsi the necessary grapes. relie! strain the resultant liquid and ha Now, when some concrete form of seyyed it without further ado? {n adjusted compensation has been other words, wherein was the miracle? worked out and about to be put into “Not should drop his effect there suddeniy appears the a Fanatic" B.A. MOFPRTT. g President Street, Brooklyn, July 18, 1921, Chamber of Commerce of the United States with the cry that the pro- posed legislation would endanger the financial condition of the country and imperil the attempts at the restora- tion of “normatey”; that it (the act) | would hamper their efforts to do away with the excess-profit law and) 24 Hoare Would Be Pleaty, ‘To the Bi.ter of Pao Brening Wor! At first we had a crime wave, then came the heat wave and now comes Noah H, Cooper. reduce taxation. | This fanatic hill-billy from ‘Ten. Now, who are these gentiemen ot | nessee apparently had not much suc- the Chamber of Commerce but the very | individuals who during the war! ransacked the Treasury of the United | cess in his law ex to Ne etlee and so he ork and tries to tell city. folk hould not States, who enriched themselves at | He knows pays well, the expense of the men who were ai | Inter alta he proposes legislation that time defending thelr country to which would confine us to our apart. ments on hot summer Sundays: 1 wish somebody would grab 4) enable these gentlemen to niake enormous profits’ ‘They are the vers sume gentlemen who will be (he aot | | i * 6 UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921. by John Blake.) MR. TAFT’S AMBITION. From the day he left law school it was the ambition of William H, Taft to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Through the years Mr. ‘Taft bent his energies to the achievement of that ambition. He became a judge early in life and made a good record. He left the bench for service under President Roosevelt, believing that through work for the Nation he would be letter able to reach his gonl When he was offered the post of Secretary of War, Mr. ‘Taft made it known to Mr. Roosevelt that he would prefer 2 place on the Supreme bench. No place was open at that time, and he accepted: the Secretaryship with the understanding that his ambition might be gratified later. Then the exigencies of politics made him a candidate for the Presidency, an honor no American of ability is likely to refuse, Mr. Taft became President, yet his real ambition had not been achieved, Now he has been given the post he so long wanted, and will most people believe, fill it with great credit, OF course few men can single out a particular high post ay the object of a lite ambition with any hope of attaining it. Yet it was because Mr, Tatt wanted to be Chief Justice that he developed the ability that made him first Governor of the Philippines, then sort of rov ing commissioner for Mr, Roosevelt, and later Seere tary of War, If he had not wanted with all his heart to be Chief Justice he would never have been President, Contentment with a Federal judgeship would have kept him always in Ohio, The golfer who plays a strong, steady game sometimes achieves the well nigh impossible and makes a hole in one. The careless, half interested golfer never does, Honest ambition may not get a man what he wants, but ii is sure to make him abler and better qualified for high position and bring him some important reward, Mr. Taft's case-is unusual, for he achieved both his ambition to be Chief Justice and the Presidency. But he has proved that if a man aims high he will hit an important target, even though it may not be the one at which he at first aimed. —_—_————e—e————eeee—e—eeeeeeeeeer to propose that the Government cease handing out hundreds of millions of dollars to the railroads; they are th very patriots who had demanded that soldiers are sorely io be pnt rs back on their feet. It ay margin of profit on their contracts for |lering “Catch a thicf!" ammunition; they are the very same “flag waves” whose hearts were clogged, whose ears are deaf and whose eyes are blind to the fact that the ex- soldiers ave just as entitied to lef’ _ from the Government when conditions | the demand it. \4 While the gentlemen of the Cham ber of Commerce had been pocketing the wealth of the country during thy operation of “making the world sa‘ for democracy,” the makers of tha safety had given up everything they ssessed and loved, and it {9 n¢ secret that many and most of the ex World War: Stay-at-home, for the same cause, see: Who Is running is the beggar Fix-service men, tions and remember them. HARRY RABINOWITZ, Now Yorks July 16, 1921. 4 ' of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroff . 1081, by The Pree Pwblishing Co. | a an Part Earner aot XXIX—THE MAN WHO DISCOV- ERED AMERICA. Qur primitive ancestor, the way- farer who first ventured over a nar- Tow drm of the sea in a burned-out stump of a tree to shorten his roud, made Christopher Columbus pussibiy ‘It was this same desire to shorien the road—a purpose as old and ine domitable as the human race—tlat started the enterprising Genoese vu his voyage. These voyages resulted in the discovery, not of an island, nut even of @ continent, but of a hernis- phere, His voyages resulted in far mors than that. They opened a new pige of the human races ‘They ushered in a new era of achieve~ | ment and opportunity—material, moral and political. it would not be too much to say that Columbus's act of casting anc ma group which he christen Salvador on that memorable r morning of October, 1492, shift workl’s centre of political and ma vial gravity @ good 3,000 miles to the west. Yet, to the day of his death in pov- erty and humiliation, Columbus know not what his brain and the steel of his soul had wrought, He thought he had discovered the southwest passage to the Orient; ¢ lands glittering with gems and g ing with gold; the lands bedecked with shining pagodas and teeming with riches, of which Marco Polo had told. This fact blunts the point of the tamous story of the explorer and his egg. His answer to his detractors was that an egg can easily be made | to stand on its end by breaking the end, To their gibe thas this was eas), he retorted that finding the southwest | passage was easy—to a man who had seized the rignt idea. But the fact was that he had n discovered the southwest p. It remained for still another na’ several years later, to discover Cape of Good Hope, and for still another to demonstrate the utility of that achievement by sailing to India along «he southernmost point of the African continent. But Columbus and his 300-ton cockleshells, manned by 120 nersons all told, had done far more than his retort to his detractors implied. He had gambled with fortune and | faced unknown perils in the hope of opening the way to house of the east. What he actually did was to open the doors of the treasure house of the west—a treasure house of vastly | greater riches vastly greater possibilities. A few years after the tragic death of Columbus the ships of Spain were |crowding to this treasure house, and were scudding home under full sail ‘with’ the riches of El Dorado. But it remained for another ship, bearing men with other ideals, to make possible the full realization of his great discovery. Only under the inspiration of this other race, with its differing ideals. was America destined to attain its maxtmum stature as the asylum of the oppressed and the hope of the aspiring fn all lands. Se ‘Where New Yorkers Tread. the treasure and in need of rei ul inst this act of justice that the Chamber of Commerce is erying out the'Gbvernment guarantee them a fair| with the face of a ruuning thier het, Compare these two factors in the flag waving ‘'patriots,” exacting enormous profits from the production of sup- plies for the war for democracy, and real patriots giving their lives, the The former or the latter? id who is the chooser? Whose voice is belng heard? digest these ques- Ex-Sergeant M. D,, $84 Engineers, MAIDEN LANE, AIDEN LANE, the home of tie jewelry and diamond business in New York and known ov \the world for that fact, received its name before it was a sirect. It tools it from a very pretty little s | that ran across that part of the It was the custom in that day, be! (the time of wringers and wash machines, for the young women to do | the family washing. | The clothes were carried here und the day spent in cleansing them in jwhat is described as rippling lprook. Some of the men who have ldug into New York's early histor) | profess to have discovered that it was jalso a place where the young men o/ jthe time repaired, being pretty cer - \tain of getting a chance to talk with ‘the girls. / . | The stream was outside the city as lit existed at that time, most of it | being behind the big wooden wail t} | Peter Stuyvesant had built, so th in order to get to Maiden Lane it was | neces: ‘y to go out through the gute with the family wast here is nothing to show that Monday was then the popular washday with faini- lies, a8 it is now and was later. 1 t is likely the Dutch began to set vbings to rights carly in the week and it probably was Monday that saw (he greatest gatnering p! maii- ens along the little stream, washing ind rinsing clothes eos — “6 a That’s a Fact” By Albert P. Southwick the Prewe Publi « Pek REM Rublishing Co When William of Orange, with ini wife Mary, ascended the throne of England in 1689, there began wh s known as the Anglo-Dutch period. Marquetry workers were brought from Holland and introduced the se- vere Dutch type of “inlay” into Eng- lish furniture design. Among the d signers who had followed King Wil- iam were a number of Huguene refugees, who impressed ccttatu French tendencies upon the furniture design of that day ‘The Bnglishman, Thomas Sherstor (1751-1806), was probably the ines artistic of all the Georgian desig’ 1 of furniture, He loved straigit J. ucs jand rectangular treatments and was a master in the use of inlay, cer) | On Jan, 6, 1849, George a jnative of Germany, the last survivor of Gen. Wolfe's army in the capture of Quebec in 1759, died at Brighton, Nova Scotia, aged 120 years, . 8 The Chartist Assemblage, organized ‘by Thomas Cooper, the Chartist, was ‘op April 10, 1848, rary Inglish Louls Napoleon, by a coup d'etat made himself Emperor of th. i mage 3 e French 8 8 Quarantine was first locat, Governor's Island from 1194 to ton