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a Roate cases ESTABLISHED NY JOSEPH PULITZER, Datiy Except Sunday by The Preas Publiching pany. Nes, 59 to 62 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 65 Park Row. | ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Perk Row. PULITZT , Secretary, 65 Park Row Ss. WAM OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Toe avsotiniew Doese ty exctuslvely entitled to the ase fer repubiierttst fall mews despatches Ci4atied io it or not otherwise credited tm thip paper cmd also the local mews publeded herein STOP-WATCH EXCLUSION. HAT The Evening World suggested as a i possible result of the 3 Per Cent. !mmi graion Law has happened. It came sooner than was anticipated. When siidnight ushered in August two trans- atlantic steamers started a race from the Ambrose Lightship :o Quarantine. One arrived at 1.05 A. M., the other two min- utes later. As a result a half hundred immigrants must be turred back and excluded for no sin except failure to engage passage on a faster ship. The first ship in filled the quotas. We have Had some foolish experiments in immi- gration control, but none to compare with this. What worder if European countries retaliate with laws restricting the travel of Americans? If the United States is to ration inymigration— and there is something to be said for the geveral principle of the Dillingham bill—it is evident that tadical improvements must be made. to count the quotas is in countries of origin, not at Eitis Island after the immigrant has made all the sacrifices which immigrants do. Kt is not right, it is not decent for the United States to treat immigrants in such a fashion, If Congress intends to ration immigration by quota, ft must make provision for selection abroad not by stop-waich competition in the Lower Bay. Senator Lusk does not seem to agree with the Swiss proverb: ‘peech is silvern, silence is golden.” THE MISSING NOTE. O E note is lacking in the chorus of the candy profiteers attacking Miller Brothers. Retail merchants are loud in their denunciations, put they furnish no cost or selling price figures. Manufacturing confectioners who sell their own out- put deny exorbitant profits and unfair prices. But macufacturers who sell to the trade are not joining in the anvil chorus. What the wholesalers think of candy prices was indicated the other day when the spokesmen for the travelling salesmen handling confectionery made @ public attack on profiteering candy merchants. " The salesmen know what candy costs and what it sells for. They are in intimate touch with both ends of the business. They have a selfish interest in telling the truth. The profits of the salesmen come from the bulk of sales. When prices are so high that the public “strikes,” the volume of sales fats off. The salesmen lose commissions. This is the situation. Net profits to candy re- tailers may not be excessive, because they are mak- ing few sales. With fair prices and fair profits bus- fness would pick up. Mary sales at small profits produce a fair and sure net profit to the retailer. The missing note convicls the candy profiteers. It backs up the statement of the Miller Brothers. The margin of profit in candy is too big. Uniil 1! fs reduced the public may well boycott the profiteers. The Tribune thinks that the Russian famine “proceeds, as far as any famine is due to a single influence, from the application of Bolshevist ” prineiples.” It is this school of thought that attributes good crops in the United States to Republican rule, past, present or to come, and ascribes crop fail- ures to the machinations of Democratic Admin istrations. By the way, was the recent heat wave a sample of “normalcy” or was it a bit of warning against the “super-state” and the “loss of tionality”? na THE SPIRIT OF THE DANCE. ITH the thirty-eighth annual convention epen- | ing in New York of the dancing masters of the Nation, a veteran is found to read signs ot the rerum of the old dances. “Why,” says he, “this morning they were dancing the schottische twat 1 taught forty years ago.” This is interesting, but we fear the signs wil! fai! after an unusual summer. More important than the return of the old forms, in any event, would be a general revival of the old | Spirit of the dance. We should like to have some- oody promise us thai, with an assurance of fulfil- | ment. There have, of course, been in every age crities of new dances. Our great-grandmothers hear’ de- nunciations of the modest polka and the whirling but innocuous waltz. !* has remained for our own period to produce the jazz, the teidle and a lot of unlisted contortion dances which are convertible easily into things of wnspeakable import, and to which only exceptional skill can impart the poetry of motion. Much has been written and spoken of dancing as fan exercise in re-creation, as a means of preserving — : \ suppleness in the body and that the mind. ‘To justify the claims S$ advance dancing must produce exhilaration. Too often on our up to-date floors it has led to painfully evident state youthful feeling in re dance of other days, now to fz en- joyed, as a rule, only in obscure social centres of the land, was a romping sport wherever agile and congenial participanis carried it through. One can- noi doubt that good health was allied with good fun in ihe double-shuffles, faney steps and capers with which it was adorned, Those old rollicking dancers thought of their teet. In disheartening, ugly contr: the partners are legion to-day who wriggle freakishly through sum- ber after number, conscious apparently only of the closeness cf their embrace. The assembled dancing masters now in New York are full of the zeal and undoubtedly concernes for the weal of their profession. None is better guali- fied than they to appreciate the dangers which de- generacy of the dancing art can bring to the dancing floor. Retter than by the invention of new steps, or the revival of old ones, they can serve their generation, with its thousands of real lovers of the dance, by working wholeheartedly for the restoration of grace and purity to lerpsichorean practice at large. CURRAN FOR MAYOR. USION did the H. Sfter est possible in selecting Henry Curran as candidate for Mayor. political jealousies had exhausted them. selves in fruitless wrangling, the Coalition Com- m ¢ did precisely what it should have done first. he result Ss almost tou good to be true. By experience, by alti! recor Curran is the one man best qualified to oppose Hylan and Hylanism. Mr. Curran is a Republican, but with independ- ence which moved him to oppose Albany domina- tion in traction affairs. At the Town Hall meet- ing of protest last February Mr. Curran delivered the principal attack on the Governor's proposed invasion. It was a reasoned and forceful attack It bore resulls in an early “elabora- tion” of the Governor's plan which removed some of the worst features of the original bill, Hylan- esaue opposition of negation would have. accom- plished nothing. and analy This sort of thing is typical of Mr. Curran’s ten-year record as a public servant. To his tasks he has brought intelligence and a habit of careful and considered thought. he is not satisfied with denunciation, for a constructive remedy. This was the case in his courageous and per- sistent fight for the passage of the Tax Exemption Ordinance. In the face of general apathy and obstinate opposition he kept the issue before the public and before the Aldermen and the Board of Estimate. Results As an Alderman, Mr. Curran served with suel distinction that he When things go wronz He searche ye vindicated his wisdom, was marked for promotion After the promotion caine he resigned the aflairs of the city {o older men and went to help in the more pressing affairs of the Nation, where his merits recognized. He served through the war as a Major of the 77th Division. In his two years of service as Borough Presi- dent he ina: acquitted himself most creditably in a difficult position, Surrounded by a Hylan, a Craig and a La Guardia, Mr. Curran has gone steadily atead, agreeing with and voting with any one of the three who | , ppened to be right at the moment, or opposing all three when they were wrong, Mr. Curran In the pri- maries he should have the support of independeni Demoerats and independent Republicans 4s well as the organization of which he is a tolerably reg lar membe deserves promotion. Compared with the Tammany other aspirants for the anti- Mr. Curran stands ovt in He is a first choi nominatic n, clear relief. No one of the other avowed candidates deserves ev thought. a pissing There is no place for the dems the meddler or the perennial The issue is Hylanisin. gegue, ran stands for Hylanism seizure of the hooch-running ship Marshall off Atlantie City will pro ably bring up some in teresting questions of maritime law. Reports of the seizure indicated the ship was captured about four miles from shore, but “tech nically within the three-mile limit,” Will the Eighteenth Aw dment demoustrate the need of a line of floating buoys three-mile limit? Without such a pre caution the United States is likely to become involved in multifarious versies. at the “teeh: nical” international contro. ‘THE EVENING WORLD, WEDN ESDAY, AUGUST 3, Tey Se ee (1921.1 1921, h ening W Rovers reirney —_ What kind of a letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives you the worth of a thousand words im a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of catisfaction in trying te say much in a few words. Take time to be brief. | From a Marine Engineer. here. He replied that he understood To the Kalitor of ening World jthere was nothing of the kind going A short while ago, owing to the) on and that the account of his fel- | stupendous folly and criminal short-|iow passengers gave him no feeling sightedness of its leaders and mal-|or alarm, I am thinking, sir, that contents, the Marine Ben~) arter Lord Northeliffe has lived in hard and long to attain the top runs nf their pro on, and who one and and of ships in active operation, as | made Mey America | “something” | “nothin from | thin Wea Sood men are | will have at [pounding the pavement, unable #9) 1s Droken, and frequently broken, We | procure even a position much Lower | ee eee ee ee eee nat, pws and | than what they ar Hand have| What are the evils wrouwscht by the Jbeen accustomed to. | vio of the Volstead act com- | The strikers cer got what! pared with the evils wrought by \they deserved for coming out at this! 300,000 open saloons that once ex depressing period; th sted under license? — Infinitesimal! than nothing for their s|Yes, air, when Lord Northolitfe has | deprivat of the benefits o ars | seen New York and compares it with lof accumulated toil and standing | London, I'm convinced he wil ize jwith thetr var cerns, t Prohibition is something real in | So hoping for a boom in the ship ork and the U. 3. | ping industry of ‘America, meaning GIFFORD GORDON, |the opening up of employment for| New York, July 30. liots of sadder yet wiser men, the| writer not proudly but just truth. | fully signs himselt | -Po the Piitor of Me Pre | AMBRICAN MARINE PNGINBER It will be of value to alt of us if| | New York, July 28, 1921 |we can get a clea zation of | | Another Observer, the fundguental: prin of Are 10 | vo the bntitor af The Erening Wor |surance as a result Morton’ | In the July 25 issue of many New | discus f Lehi ty York papers I notice recorded an ine pears i ' inns teresting interview with I North. of ‘The t ng World. In a baste | cliffe of Great Britain. Among many sense, even the “privately, owned? other things he was asked how he stock fire insiua mmpar ave received the prospects of Probibijion actually mutual lt is drue ¢ From Evening World Readers / | America. | nave lived in this great city just | | two weeks and I have yet to find one| the face of terrific psolutely peor neliave deat aie tole | ignoring the fact of al wage Barer ecenete MTEC reduction and worly business | weea" on the subject. depression, The resutt was that old] “7 aigo am a Britisher, 1 hail from and’ ted nts of various SMIP-} Australia, and am touring ping companies, who had worked | me person the worse for drink or smell | jail Dosacused that sacrificial prin: even one alcoholic breath. I huve| ciple of the old x hool, did not neglect |. vonedsevery day on your wonder- | the call and obligation te th union | ful subway railways, your elevated which they had sworn ta BtAAG. DY va hws sur motor buses and your | in times of w Pa aan surfa I have mingled with | We are all fa Ba with ms ae multitudes in your city at mid-| ppesitively, ipevibe a ene eet {day, and try as L might I haven't | called ate e—one oO a Laie Stl once heard the question discussed, 1 | faces thay ever: a ar 2 meee a have searched and searched New | ica, It died ‘- share aay id ~~ ork and have not found one soli- | faded away Ii eee mee oF i. Ml tary trace of liquor, When Lord} ACER: a eee athe ulaees | Nertheliffe has driven the tull length | its grave Mae pipes hice of the beautiful Fifth Avenue, and |, Where iv shes {uote vig 4 also the full length of historic Broad. 5 ese © ye | ply that these erring we ‘I way, without seeing one solitary ing men, Who never knew a moment's HO UNUZE ABER AIG Baal idleness, are forced to walk the] eS Peet VaR A | PUTRI Ce PRE Eat Jheartrending sights which always atresia: indefinitely. walle thelr "Worl roliow in che wake of legalised thy brothers”—-save the mark!—who : | y liquor, and then Gompares such an never had a job and who were too ble of netting one im {extraordinary state of things with and incapable of getting one lasy and, oADah!e 9 ‘}the great capital of his own country normal times, jumped into the breach i 1 am positively certain he will be and now occupy to considerable ex- | i convinced that his fellow-passengers Jtent the former po sof the piti- Jwere exce y wide of the mark |{ul yet honorable dupes. In times | an Jlike these, it as it there werc , With every brewery | Jten times more men than the number | | | | UNCOMMON StNSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1981, by John Blake.) ENTHUSIASM IS NOT EXCITEMENT. The head of a big business used to preach to his help that excitement was necessary to achievement. Nobody ever does anything important unless he gets excited about it,” he said. “When I come into the office and find everybody excited I feel that we are going to get some- where. But he never did get anywhere. Neither did the men who worked for him. They got wrought up to high pitches of excitement with the result that they ran around in blind circles when they ought to have moved in straight lines. He has now passed out as an employer, and the men who worked for him, unless they cured themselves of the excite- ment habit, are not doing very well. ‘nthusiasm is a necessary force in life. It is the belief that a man holds that what he is doing is important, and his determination to prove it by doing it well. ‘ But enthusiasm can find a place in a clear brain and get behind intelligent and energetic effort. itement brings about bewilderment and confusion, Rage is excitement, and never did an angry man win a battle over an opponent anything like his equal. Fright is another form of excitement. The rabbit, fasci- nated by the hypnotic swaying of the rattlesnake, palpitates with excitement but it never saves him from becoming the rattlesnake’s dinner. The excited man‘never has hold of himself. He never has but a small percentage of his faculties about him. Sea captains have got excited in storms and have lost their vessels. Generals have become excited in the face of the enemy and have lost battles. Men have become excited in business panics and lost millions of dollars for themselves and for other people. Do not think because you see a man charging to and fro in a lather of excitement that he is doing anything. He isn't. He ought to be enthusiastic. It was truthfully said Jong ago that nothing great was ever accomplished withou! ev thusiasm, But nothing great was ever accomplished by excite- ment and nothing great ever will be. these who invest in them and conduet them carry on their business vith the intention of making profit rom their investments, But this profit can be assured only by intelli- sent, onservative, constructive poli- cies consistently maintained. Even these companies are mutuai in the sense that they assemble from every direction premiums paid by the From the Wise A man tho docs me a wrong i jures himself; what then, shall 1 do myself a further wrong by in- juring him?—Epictetus. Retirement is the penitence and punishment of the foot, the pura- nsured, creating a reservoir of re-| dise of the wise and good. sourees from which indemnification ee Tacs: s paid when losses occur, so that tually it ls a process of loss-dis The Wife of a miser is a play of ibution, which we applaud only the closivg le margin \ef profit contained | scene.—S. Dubay, \ithin the rates is the reasonable Three sp tre—pride, envy an carn fo thoas pualitiea Ge acmine | corte pat » tee, wey and at and the tainty of pay-| “eurice—are those thut have been nt which enable the insured to| kindled in all hearts,—Dante, vke all | vend upon them, WALNWRIGHT EVANS, of bis calculations and de" ghe whu loves an ugly man thinks him Aondeome.—Rucellai thers of Thought By Maubert St. Georges + reght, 1021, by The Prem Publishing Co (The New York Evening World). CONFUCIUS. The ace. Confucius, as we call Kung Fu Tay means Kung, the philosopher, and the man's life certainly bore out his name. He was born 651 b. in the Province of Lu, modern Shantung. He was the son of a soldier of good fam- ily but extreme poverty. Indeed, he used to account for his wide kno edge by saying that he had been forced to do everything to keep alive. Neverthel at the early age of nine+ teen he married and later had a son and two daughters, He obtained the position of Keeper of Stores and was Promoted to Superintendent of Parks and Herds, and in spite of his poverty discharged his duties efficiently and without graft, a wonderful thing in China, At twenty-two, however, his ideas on life had begun to germinate and he took up his labors as a teacher. At thirty his convictions were formed and at thirty-five his pupils num- bered thousands, ‘The affairs of Lu were in a turmoil, but he kept aloof from politics for a long time. Finally he accepted the position of Minister of Crime. From that day crime ceased, and the pro- vince became a model. Upon this the other Ministers schemed to get rid of him. This they did by presenting the jovernor of the state with beautiful je slaves, who soon absorbed his attention so that he retired from af- fairs, leaving his Ministers to govern 4s they pleased, Even the enemies of Confucius might not have conquered him, but he resigned in disgust from the rvice of so unworthy a master, With three thousand h left the province and trav China. Vor thirteen ye over the whole kingdom, unknowingly laying the foundation of the Chine religion. He taught ethics, politic religion, demanded obedience of chil- dten to parents, and veneration to an- cestors. He w: the first to orna- ment tombs, thus beginning ances- tor worship. His doctrine was that the kingdom is one huge family which would act entirely as would their models, the King and his Min- isters. Two of his most famous say- ings were: “T am maker.” “What you do not want done to your- selt, do not to others." And when uestioned on the theory of return- ing good for evil he answered: “What then would you return for good? Return justice for injury, and recompense good with good.” In 483 he returned to Lu. Positions were offered him, but he refused. His life had been a bitter disappomntment His wife, his children, his best and most beloved pupils had died. His teachings had seemingly made no impression. “or five years he lin- | gered, passing the time with his two musie and ancient history, fully in 478 B.C. As is often the case, death did all that life had failed to achieve. Con fucianism became popular with dig- nitaries and Emperors. ‘Temples w raised to him, and his influence ev to-day is the most impressive with the Chinese, and his teachings are better known than any ather man’s. There are in China to-day 40,000 or 50,000 men and women claiming direct descent from Coénfucius. To one is Biven the title: “Duke, by appointment and heredi- tary right, continuator of the sage.” i the transmitter, not the \Colleges and Universities Of New Yor. By Appleton Street. overih!, 1821, by ‘The Pree Publishing Co, eerie, New Yor Erecing Wor) MANHATTAN COLLEGE. 17. NO. It will not be long, at the present rate of transition, before the Bronx will have the academic shades and college greens of New York “ity. A few years ago New York University acquired a broad stretch of campus up there and moved from its old quar- ters in \Washington Square. Later the City College found it necessary to move from 23d Street, and while it did not cross over into the Bronx, it found its new campus just this side of the Harlem River. As the borough has ex- panded northward it has taken in Fordham and the famous Jesuit uni- versity situated th ‘The latest educational move into the Bronx was the purchase of a thirteen-acre tract in the Riverdale section by Manhattan College, on which greund was broken last spring for a notable group of buildings) When the buildings are ready for use Manhattan College will leave Manhattan to its skyscrapers and move into the more commodious Bronx, nhattan College is a Catholic col- lege, conducted by the Brothers of the Christian Schools, Like many other i adem) estab! 1849 in 33 it moved to its ent site at roadway and hs , where it was known as ny of the Holy Infancy. 1) 1863 it was tneor- d as Manhattan College and nt degrees, ‘phe. bol comprises two depart- ments, the department of arts leading helor © d the d ing leading 8 of bachelor of scienc of civil engines ge engineering and civil en addition the ronnec college a hig shoo! which includes both academic and commervial cour The alumni of Manhattan Coll undertook last year a campaign for funds which succecded in raising more than $1,000,000 for the purposes of the stitution, These will provide re- for the transfer of the college old site and for the erection of new buildings. The institution has long been hampered by the crowded condition of its old quarters, ‘The new site, which fronts on Spuyten Duyvil Parkway and overlooks Van [Cortlandt Park, provides amp for expansic Plans have y seen drawn for an extensive Inyout of buildings, including recitation halls dormitories, chapel, laboratories, sym- nasium and library. It 1s planned to push the financial campaign until « full $2,000,000 hae been rejsed, a