The evening world. Newspaper, July 25, 1921, Page 16

_ aR ESR ee ETT (THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 326, Boris, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Puviished Daily Except Sunday by The Proas Publishing Company. Nos, 52 to 68 Park Raw. New York RALPH PULITZER, President, 65 Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Arsociated Press ts exctustvely entitled to the use fer republication | Of all news despatches credited to It or not otherwits credited Im thie papat vnd also the local mews published herein STOP THESE SPEEDERS! T was fortunate indeed that no one was killed in the accident on Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, last night in which one of the big sightseeing cars, homeward-bound from Coney Island, swerved to avoid a collision and sidewiped a wire fence, in- juring five passengers. This good fortune should point a warning, The wild, devil-may-care driving, skilful though it be, of these speeding sightseeing cars is a constant menace to pedestrians along the main routes to Coney Island. It is also a source of: anxiety to passengers who sit and picture such accidents as ust night’s—or worse. New York tias speeding ordinances. Why do the traffic poiice fail to enforce them against these dangerously driven Juggernauts carrying fifty people into danger on every trip? It is true the sightseeing companies want to make fast time because it means more irips and more profit. But if they are allowed to speed, a serious accident with heavy loss of life is inevitable. Then— too late—the speeding will be barred. The damage will be done. The detective who thought the Lusk silver service had only a $60 valuation may have con- fused the articles with the watch charms which sidewalk artisans hammer out of half dollars and quarters, But he was mistaken. CIRCUS FREIGHT RATES. EVERAL theatrical managers in New York have closed productions requiring a large cast at the conclusion of the New York run. In other years | these would have been profitable ventures on the road. With present railroad rates profitable tours seemed impossible. Now the circus managers are making a similar complaint against railroad rates, which have more than doubled and in some cases almost tripled. “Circuses and camival companies,” they say, “can- not afford a continuation of the present rates.” There is no indication, however, that rates will be reduced. What will the circus do? , Will it cease to be a part of our national life? ‘Will it change its form and lighten its load to fit the freight charges? Will it tum back toward the old ¢aravan days and furnish its own transportation, travelling on motor trucks instead of by horse-drawn ‘wagons as it did forty years ago? Or will the circus become an urban attraction, quitting the road and seeking permanent quarters in a large city where patronage will be constant through- @ut the circus season? Agy ararked change in “The Greatest Show on arth” would be a national loss. The city can pro- vide a substitute, even though it would not be “just a8 good.” But in the towns and villages there is no sport to compare with the fun of “seeing the circus unload,” watching the parade, and then witnessing the “stupendous spectacle,” &c., as best described by fhe superlatives of the press agent. ‘And if present rates will drive the circus from the rails, where will be the gain to the railroads? Total seceipts will decline and the overhead will continue. If the circuses cannot pay the freight, is it anything ‘tut another demonstration that rates have passed the point of maximum earnings and must come down before the railroads can hope to earn profits? A CHALLENGE. AST week forty-nine Texas legislators petitioned the Governor to call a special session of the Legislature to consider an “anti-Ku Klux" law to curb the activilies of the “Klan.” The petition was inspired by a long series of lawless outrages against blacks and whites who failed to accept the Ku Klux interpretation of social relationship. The Beaumont local of the organization has replied in a long statement accepting responsibility for two recent “tar parties.” This is a challenge Texas cannot afford to disre- gard. So long as the “Klan” worked in secret the inaction of the State Government was reprehensible but comprehensible. If Texas fails now to take energetic steps to protect citizens from the “justice” of the “Klan,” it will fail to maintain the republican form of government which the Constitution guaran- tees, and the Federal Government would have good reason for intervening. There's something in a name after all, ‘The American sloop Bootlegger won the opening race for the Royal St, Lawrence Cup. “NOT WHAT THEY USED TO BE.” F Mrs. Lucy Ostrom of Monticello Village ever has a son, she proposes to “raise him in the city, where it costs $100 for the same wickedness you can get in a small town for a gallon of gasoline.” Mrs. Ostrom is the mother-in-law of Earl Van Nooy, who ¢loped with Mrs. Clark Durea, wife of a Holiness preacher. This observation by Mrs. Ostram may come as 3 surprise to those who have accepted without question the orthodox opinion that cities are the silken-webbed fiv-traps of the satanic spider. There is an element of truth in what Mrs. Ostrom says. Cities do provide amusement of one kind and another which the villages lack. And by no means all this amusement is the sort of “wickedness” whici: Mrs. Ostrom finds in the villages. But another bit of comment from this disillusioned critic of the small town may well cause us to pause before we of {he metropolis accept the palm of virtue she offers. “The villages are not what they used to be in my day,” says Mrs. Ostrom, No—and probably they never were. “What they used lo be’ is one of the trickiest and least reliable standards of comparison in common It is one of the many variations of the human tendency to find greener pastures on the other side of the fence, ‘The bad features of “in my day” are forgotten. The good live in a rosy haze of memory. The villages aren’t what they used to be. Neither is New York. Probably the balance of good and bad in the world, or in any particular locality, stands fairly even in any one lifetime. Strong characters will remain strong wherever they happen to be, and the Earl Van Nooys will run off with other men’s wives whether they happen to five in Monticello or in New York, TEMPERANCE VERSUS PROHIBITION. jp the New York Times yesterday George F. Parker, President of the 1776 Society, predicted the repeal of the Mullan-Gage law in this State within twe years. “The repeal of the Volstead law will follow,” said he, “and then a new amendment will be framed.” A sanguine prophecy, of which fulfilment should exceed the stated speed limit so far as the Enforce- ment Acts are concerned, with their oppressive and indefensible overreaching of powers conferred by Amendment 18. Also presented yesterday, in the editorial section of The World, was an elaborate and well-considered denunciation by James Barnes of Prohibition as it stands in the United States to-day. A calm survey of Nation-wide conditions reveals the dry laws conglomerate, Mr. Barnes finds, as 2 promoter of disccatent, disorderliness, disrespect for law, irremediable grafting and death by “hooch” Poison. Instead of reducing drunkenness, the law has in- creased it, while raising the price of the drink. The only thing cut down is the quality of the liquor sold—and that only for the man who cannot afford to pay for the real article. Mr. Bames’s discoveries and conclusions were by- products of an extensive lecture tour covering several college commencement periods. His standing is that of an able edilor, historian and war correspondent, and he is a firm believer in actual temperance. To make the law practicable for temperance, Mr. Barnes suggests: “Cut out the foolish and unworkable parts of its application, make the citixen a helpmate and a partner in the law's fulfilment. jake it no ‘crime’ to drink light wines and good beer in public places. “Make it no ‘crime’ to dispense it, to make it. “Stop many of the murderous concoctions of chemicals and acids sold under the name of ‘narmiess’ or ‘soft’ drinks. “Stop the dreadful mixture of ethyl alcohol, «ther and prune juice called ‘whiskey’ and often bought as such through the connivance of or by the aid of grafting public servants. “If treated sensibly, the public will help hunt them down and root out the evil.” In brief, in the treatment of the problem of na- use. methods of reason and of reasoned control above those of a fanatic, narrow-sighted dictatorship. As a basic study in the substitution of Temperance for Prohibition, The Evening World recommends again that Quebec statute the effective workings of which it described in its issue of June 11 last. The Steuben School at River Edge Manor | | | tional sobriety and respect for law, let us prefer the was officially christened over the protest of ome of the “100 per cent. American” object- ors. The children who will study American history in the school will find that Baron von Steuben served well in the war against the German King who then occupied the British throne, It is to be hoped they will also learn to think logically and independently and govern themselves by reason and not by prejudice, | TWICE OVERS. “cs L® us go to Washington with clean hands; let us get out of Siberia as soon as possible.” ~-Count Tsunetda Kato, Former Japanese High Com- missioner in Siberia, e 8 6 66] FOUND nothing in the way of the drama abroad that can touch New York and its pro- ducers.” —Morris Gest. * * * 66] AM in favor of it (disarmament), and so is every sane person I have met.'—Lord North- | cliffe . . . “ E UROPE has turned the corner and is faced foward better times." —George E. Resets, President of National Cay Bank. : | Vice 1921.7 THE MAN CAN'T JCOME TO Mow THE GRASS PA There is fne mental exercise te cay much in a few words. ‘Tax Natural Resources. To the Eiittor of The Evening World. If Judge Gary, in his commence- ment address at Syracuse University, on the 13th of June last, used the term capital in the sense of wealth | (labor products necessarv in the pro- duction of more wealth, or in giving service), then all his assertions of facts and theories are based on wrong premises. child of labor) is necessary in the intensive production of the necessities and luxuries of civilization, sources it will slowly produce enough for immediate consumption and a surplus to be used for further produc- tion (capital). Mr. Gary, as President of the Board of Directors of the U. S. Steel Cor- poration, ought to know that neither capital nor labor has an open door to natural opportunities. steel without paying tribute to Mr Gary's corporation, which owns almost all the land containing coke. without which no stee! can be pro- duced. Not only is it true in the case of coke, but when and wherever labor jand capital wish to produce wealth |the lion's share of the intended |products is extorted (as rent, roy- jalty or purchasing price) per cent. of the population who own 45 per cent. of the natural resources © country. Natural resources were made by no man, Any man or body of men wh« |wish to have exciusive possession of a particular resource ought by right to compensate all the people who are excluded, provided this part of naturc has a marketable, rentable value. is almost’ always created by the ag- | gregation of civilized population and the necessitated public service, there- to be expended on the necessary gov- rvice, for the be: f who are exclude ectively create the valu of this particular resource, When the Government ceases itself piracy through a tariff and rob- bery through other confiscatory taxa- tion and abolishes the mother monop- oly of land she will not have meddle in private affairs to protect either labor or its partner, from encroaching on paya.its annual rentable value he will Jand and let labor and Government. When capital und its producer, MRIONN | To begin with, while capital (the, labor has frec access to nature's re- | No one, for instance, can produce { by the 3 | Further, since ‘this rentable value fore this rentable value ought to be collected into the public exchequer, to give a bad example in legalizing to to capital, each other's nmehts, Such are beliefs unquestionably beld |, When no one shal be able to hold| by the great majority in the nations land (natural resources) unless he| which dominate the world. In orJer be compelled to either use it inten- ‘sively, thus employing labor and capi- ytal, or he will let go of this valuable capital ‘use it free of any charge, since the price of land depends on Its rentable value and this will be taken by the labor, ere aiwaye remuneratively em- ot Ree ing, By Maurice Ketten Ue YOu _ OUGHT NO To BE SITING | ON THE PoRcH! | AN GOING To To PERSUADE BILL To LET YOu USE HIS LAWN From Evening World Readers Wheat kind of « letter do you find most readable? Ien't it the one thet gives you the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? and a lot of satisfaction im trying Take time to be brief. ployed, there will be enough and more than enough wealth, M. W. NORWALK. Coney Island, July 20, 1921. i Another Picture, ‘To the Editor of The Hrening World | The inclosed was suggested by Mr. | Gustave Brock's offer to paint a pic- (ture of brave Jack Munson for the | Hall of Fame: | You will paint Jack Munson’s pic- ture, | Portray all that's brave and bold | In the face of our dead hero, ‘Neath a wrea‘h of purest gold. | yet it/You will show him medals wearing, ‘As he was when overseas, Through the German trenches tearing | With our flag flung to the breeze. To inspire all creation In a splendid golden frame It will take its honored station In the Nation's Hall of Fame; \ It will tell the world the story } That we merit work well done, And our heroes crown with glory Even though they're dead and gone. | | But what of our heroes living, Fighting still a battle grim? What is our gr country giving To make Jife worth while for them? Crippled soldiers, maimed and bat- tered: Men who fought onr homes to save; Sick, neglected, ideals shattered, Seek a refuge in the grave. Typify our crippled men. Shattered both in mind and body From the war returned, and then Our Government may grasp its mean- ing And do something ere too late To save those heroes now careening ‘Weakly toward a pauper’s fate! WILLIAM A, KELLY. New York, July 20, 1921, Unty To the Bitor of The Evening World ; A subject which ranks among the foremost of the prosent-day problems {s “universal military training.” Milt- tary training is the fnost deciding fa>- tor in a war, To discredit it it must be proved that war is the vilest and most destroying element in human nature, leaving suffering, ‘hate and fear in its wake. “Men have always fought, they a!- ways will fight. You cannot change human nature.” “War is not the worst thing in the world, A righteous war is rather to ve chosen than an ignoblespeace. There are values more precious in life.” to abolish war these beliefs must be discredited. They are false, but be- ing firmly held they contro! conduct, with resulting Injury and lows, They inhibi: the faith that is necessary to that noble experiment in universa) | brotherhood the inauguration of a Oh, that you could make this picture | § league of peace, In faet, hur | wide of peace. nature ts on the nA when ongaine ip eollegive homicide do what ls = ’ 7 . UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1921, by John Blake) RUB OFF THE RUST. Rust costs farmers more than blighters, droughts or rats. . It costs ship owners more than storms or seamen’s strikes. It costs railroads more than washouts and landslides, And it is always preventable. If you have ever left a bright new razor blade on a windowsill overnight you have lost the services of that par- ticular razor blade. If you have ever driven past a badly managed farm you have seeen hundreds of dollars’ worth of machinery gone to ruin because its owner was too idolent to fight rust. _ Iron left alone soon becomes worthless. The greatest iron or steel bridge in the world would be worthless in a very few years if it were not coated with red lead at regular in- tervals. Every user of machinery must combat rust or go into bankruptcy. And, by the same token, so must every owner ofa brain. For rust will invade the machine with which you think as rapidly as it will render useless an automobile or a lawn mower. 5 ° Constant use and constant care will keep machinery in order. Constant use and constant care will keep your mental and physical machinery in order. Stow away all sorts of useful information in your mind, and if you allow that part of your mind to rust the informa- tion will rust along with it—rust and become useless, No mind can keep in condition without constant use. To keep it at its best you must not only think, yourself, but match wits with other thinking men. Argue with them, disagree with them, debate with them. You may not convince them and they may not convince you, but the good-humored battle of brains will rub the rust off your mind as the turning wheel rubs the rust off the axle. Let your mind fall into disuse by thinking only thought. that others have thought, by taking for granted everything you see or hear, and it will soon be unusable. ‘ The men who “go back” are not men who are worked out but men who are rusted out. The men who are not as good as they used to be are not victims of overwork but of rust. f Keep your mind exercised and it will develop as will a constantly exercised body. Let it rust from inaction and it will gradually become clogged and worthless. . Rust is expensive always. It is especially expensive in a human being. If it has begun to clog your development rub it off. Dee! | | |monly designated in high-priced res- \taurants as “fiet of sole.” There is |the broad portion of an anchor, the part that does the business of digging into the mud and holding the boat The Pioneers of Progress By Svetozar Tonjoroff XXX—THE MAN WHO UNLOCKED THE, DOOR TO ASIA. In the time of Christophe Colum- , bus the search for a direct sea route to India was the dream of navigators and of sovereigns, When Columbus first set eyes on the New World he thought he had made the great discovery for which Captains Adventurous had been grop= ing about since Marco Polo, at the beginning of the fourteenth century, had globe-trotted througn the Far Kast and had told of its wonders, Five years before Columbus set sail on his eventful voyage from Palos, a Portuguese navigator, Bar- tolomeu Dias, had discovered the sig- nificant fact that it was possible to sail around the southern end of the African continent. Dias poked his nose around the corner of the sea road to India, Like Moses at a much earlier period, how- ever, he was not destined to set foot in the promised land. | That honor destiny had reserved |for a@ more fortunate countryman of ‘nis, Vasco da Gama. King Manoel of Portugal was the monarch who found the time and the | money to capitalize Bartolomeu Dias's discovery. Manoel appears to have been in the ‘habit of taking chances. He took @ |chance on da Gama, orgunized and \equipped a flotilla of small ships jwith lavish generosity, and put Vasco ‘da Gama in command of it in 149%. | Something of the spirit in which da Gaina started on his adventure Is shown by the fact that one of the in- cidental purposes of his voyage was & jsearch for Prester John. |" Of course, he did not find Prester ‘John, although he heard many glow- ing accounts of the fabulous wealth ‘and power of this mythical character. He did, however, uchieve the solid jfeat of sailing around the Cape of | Good Hope, working up the east coast Jor Africa agd casting anchor in the Bay of Calicut or Calcutta, | ‘The date on which this event came jto p May 20, 1498, is one of the [on nding dates in the history of the world. Up to that time India and the lorient in general had been a legend jto the European mind. Even Polo's | Circumstantial narrative had been ived with significant tappings on e forehead. | Vasca da Gama transformed the legend into a fact. By turning the \key in the door of Asia he made his !country an empire. Under the impulse of his discovery, | portugal reached out for distant pos- \sessions, strengthened or established | string of colonies along the African |coast as way stations to the desired terminus—the treasure house of India, The empire crumbled of its own weight and under the pressure of rival empires. | “The finger of Vasco da Gama also | pointed out the course of the teeming ‘commerce that now sweeps back and |torth between Europe and Asia—and | i he especially between Great Britain and India—through the Suez Canal, The Suez Canal only an im~ provement on da Gama‘s achieve- ment. It is still a more direct pas- sage to India When da Gama landed at Calcutta, he found the Mohammedan Arabs there as mer- wrested a increnched The Portuguese the treasure of India bs. | strongly | chants, | food share from the 4 Spain, lands and France gied either with | themselves for supremacy in the Far Rast ‘And he would be a rash prophet who would predict that there will be no new conflicts over the empire which da Gama opened +o the world. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 55—FLUKE. “fluke” traces its direct try to the Anglo-Saxon word “floc,” which is first cousin to the Icelandic “floki.” There are several kinds of flukes. There is the fish com- Britain, the Nether- have since strug- Portugal or among The word And there is the happy chance by which a player wins a game. strong a_ resemblance jin shape between the business end bf an anchor and the fish called a | luke that the application of the word \to the anchor is perfectly logical. There is also so strong a resem blance between the awkwardness of the fish called a fluke and the awk- | wardness of a player who makes a | billiard shot by a ja shot can qhite a | scribed as a “fuk "There is accident, that such propriately be de~ 1921, by the Ph Prom Tie New Yors bvening ‘The first English war with Ching was in Iss’, And the same year saw the beginning of the Afghan War, eo 8 8 Queen Victoria was mgrried in 1840, She was a widow twenty-one years later, eee The penny (2-cent) postage of Enge land commenced on Jan, 10, 1840, oe 8 A noted character twenty-five years ago was Francis Schlatter, the self= named "Divine Healer.” On June 6, 1897, the following item was received from Bl Tex.: “A week ago a class of profiteers that has evident! escaped your notice. I have reference jto the barbers. They trary to their natures. By nature men are ipelined to serve and co-operate | with their fellow men, not suspect, hate, fear and kill them. To end war there is no need to | nature--an impossibility. There is/reductions made in other lines, I no need of what is called spiritual | addirion one is supposed, or I shoul regeneration. There is need of en-|have said obliged, to tip the barbe lightenment, of clear thinkin, of) Your paper has the common sense. VERDUN, | tor @ New York, July 21, 1921. \bring these professional tonsoria(ist |to their senses. Lat them know ha power to agitat To Ve Ke Your paper should focus its e op such outrageously their services, high MG Steadfastly remake | maintain their war prices in spite of hua, Mexico, rv. by espying & have yourself movement, to through which the river runs, Schlat- the day ts past when they can charge tc the tree. prices for white and alongside were a copper last Friday, two American mine pros- y pectors found in the foothills of the “ Sierra Madre on the Puentas Verdas Kiver, thirty-five miles southwest of Casa Grande in the State of Chihua- all that remained of n Francis Schlatter.” The prospectors dd attention was attracted to his “camp” addle astride a mb in high up in a gorge a dead tree, s ters sk ( atretche eton was found lying out_on a blanket close up His bones were bleached vod and a miniature basdball bat,