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Pie A me ee ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pudlished Dally Except Sunday by ‘Tho Pros Publishing Company. Nos. 53 to 63 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press lx exclusively encitiea to the use for repubiteation f all news despatches credited to ft oF noc otnerwise creuitea in tis payer aad also the local news publishea berein, A STUMBLING START. HE tax revision bill passed by the House Sat- urday speaks eloquently of the halting, hit-or- miss way in which a Republican Administration and an overwhelmingly Republican Congress have pro- ceeded with the programme that was to rescue and restore the country. The truth of the matter is, the Harding Adminis- tration has had no consistent, considered plan of tax revision to urge. President Harding has waited to see what kind of revenue measure the present fac- tion-torn Congress would evolve. His purpose has been not to lead but to placate. The result to date is a patchwork revenue bill which the House has half-heartedly knocked to- gether to please rich and poor. The former can applaud the proposed repeal of the income surtax rates. The latter may rejoice over a prospect of = soda water flowing untaxed from the fountain. : The House bill as finally passed provides no relief from excess profits taxes or surtaxes for earnings and incomes of the present year. The $818,000,000 tax cut claimed for the bill would materialize only in the * rosy distance of 1923. \ The House is, of course, perfectly aware that its tax-revising efforis are but tentative. In the words of Representative Garner of Texas: “Why should we worry? The bill is merely an enactment clause to be perfected by the Senate.” There is still rough going ahead of tax revision. How coukd it be otherwise when the party in power lacks leadership that can give concrete form or force to the pledges on which it triumphed? Whatever we may think of his motives at the time, there is at least the virtue of frankness in 4 Mr. Fordney’s confession that he voted for the bill empowering President Wilson to take over the railroads in order “to put the President in a hole.” But it is a confession that comes too late. Perhaps in another three or four years the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee will tell what caused him to introduce the sn Emergency ‘fariff Bill he sponsored. ws Was it, perhaps, to put the farmers “in a hole”? Tt did. OMINOUS. £ can imagine the surprise and anger in high Anti-Saloon League circles over the con- . «tinued obstinacy and insubordination of certain - United States Senators. That the Anti-Beer Bill should be held up because members of the Upper House of Congress are un- willing to attmit that the Eighteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution supersedes and annuls all other provisions of that instrument is indeed ex- asperating. ‘Here are Senators Lodge, Brandegee, Reed, ‘Ashurst, Broussard and others still stoutly insisting that, Prohibition enforcement or no Prohibition en- forcement, the Fourth Amendment to the Constitu- tion shall continue to mean all it says and that the Senate amendment to the Anti-Beer Bill shall not be » ‘whittled down so as to secure the citizen against ; search and seizure without due warrant only when he is in his own dwelling. Senator Stanley, author of the Senate amend- ment, declares that the Senate “will stand like a tock” for it, and adds: “Senators tell me that men of influence and standing in their respective communities in- form them that the people generally are sick and tired of having their homes entered with- out authority of law, their automobiles and ; baggage ransacked and other unwarranted in- terferences with their rights under the Con- stitution.” ‘Who dares to speak for “the people generally” without the sanction of the Anti-Saloon League? Is it possible that legislators are beginning to hear messages that haven’t passed first through the Pro- hibition lobby? HUNGER'S SCIENCE. ; y Bar Soviet wireless reports that scientists in Hl Samara University have discovered that cer- ; tain roots abundant in Russian swamps may be used i for food. It may be that the process is new and that the 4. discovery will actually add to the food supply of the world, but, considering the famine-stricken condition of Russia, it seems more probable that the discovery §& only the common experience of mankind every- where when it touches on starvation. If a man is driven hard enough he is forced to follow the example of swine and wild animals. He + goes to the trees and eats bark and burrows for soots. When reduced to such a diet the many starve, but the few contrive to keep life in their bodies. he Indians of Nori America have their legends | THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, of famine relieved in this way. But the roots and bark were not regarded as “food.” They were only something to preserve life. The “science” which discovered them was the driving force of hunger. Of course there is a difference in the comparative value of different roots. Perhaps the Russian “awsan” will, as predicted, prove a real boon to Russia. Let us hope so. SOLVE IT WITH JOBS. EARLY 6,000,000 persons are now unemployed in the United States. New York City has more than a normal share because it is a great port and the slump in shipping has added thousands to the unemployed who regu- larly reside in the city. Commissioner Coler is right in reminding the } Mayor that it is time to make plans for municipal relief work which is sure to be necessary. The Board of Estimate will have to do something. But at best it can only alleviate the worst suffering after it occurs. Business men can—if they will—prevent the suffering. The need for relief is the result of unemployment. Provide jobs for the unemployed and the need for relief vanishes. Leave the unemployed idle, cold and hungry, and the city will witness a “crime wave” such as never before. If suffering becomes acute it may prove far more dangerous than the prosperous “radicalism” which caused so much fear recently. The business community has power to end the unemployment, to stimulate business, io restore prosperity, But it will take straight thinking, vigor- ous action, and—most important of all—confidence and faith. If every employer could be induced to increase his present working force by a certain percentage, the problem would be solved. There would be jobs for every one. It could be done. But it would require powerful organization, as powerful as in the Liberty Loan campaigns. But it could be done, The Ohambers of Com- merce, the Merchants’ Association, the commercial organizations would have to get together, forget jealousies, work out a programme and force it thraugh with the driving power of public opinion and of commercial pressure. Employers should be listed according to numbers of employees. The central employment organiza- tion could then issue quotas of increase for the dif- ferent working forces. The small storekeepers and manufacturers would be asked to add one employee to the payroll. Big employers would be asked to add proportionately. Then these demands would have to be enforced in something the same way the Liberty Loan quotas were enforced. Put the idle to work. Have them producing—at a profit if possible, with small losses if necessary. If New York put through such a programme it would prove a business tonic for the city, for the Nation, for the world. Increased buying that would result from the re- newed earnings of those now unemployed would stimulate demand until an increased product would be absorbed. This is a radical programwme, radical in the real sense of the word. It goes to the roots of the present hard times. It would dig out unemploy- ment and destroy it. ‘New York City is big enough and important enough in the commercial life of the Nation to inau- gurate such a movement. If it succeeded in New York the example would be followed in other cities. Confidence and leadership are all it needs. caai sietememei a eraaaeel INDEPENDENCE FOR THE BOY, (From the Ohio State Journal.) We read the other day of a wise mother who made use of her little sons’ love of camping to teach them some useful lessons without their even suspecting that they were undergoing training, A little tent was set up for them in the yard and furnished with cots and a table. Of course, they wanted to sleep in it right away, and permission was granted on condition that they care for that tent themselves, make their own beds, keep everything neat and trim and even care for the grounds around the tent. Almost any boy would swallow that pill without knowing it was medicine for the sake of the sugar coating of outdoor life, And why shouldn't a boy learn to take care of his own roort, in a tent or in a house? Such training will be of the greatest value to him all his life, as well as to his wife, if he ever has one, Boys are too frequently brought up to be dependent upon some woman for the ordinary comforts of life. There is no reason why they shouldn't know how to keep their rooms neat, look after their own clothes and even cook themselves a meal; and the Boy Scout movement seems to be en- couraging just that sort of healthy independence. Just as the modern girl is preparing herself to be indepen- dent, even to the extent of earning her own living, so modern boys should be brought up to depend on them- selves, Work is no longer sexualized; and possibly this | new order will result in fewer marriages of conveni- ence ang more of love, Lina aia masini SANT By John Cassel From Evening to eay much in a few words. Beating the Barber. | To the Editor of The Evening World: It sure did me good to read that} letter from B, J. ©. lambasting the Pirate barbers. I also can say that I have not been in a barber shop for over three years. 1 am Just old-fashioned enough to use the old style razor and “we” get along very nicely. As for hair-cut- ting, I can hardly wait for it to grow in otder to have the pleasure of cut- ting it, and I don't use a clipper at that, just an ordinary pair of eight- inch shears in good condition, and I am ready to “cheat the poor barber” again. wR L. New York, Aug. 17, Competition in Ufe. To the Haitor of The Brening World : I am a devoted reader of John Blake's inspiring articles under “Un- common Sense,” but am compelled to disagree with the substance of his ar- ticle of Aug. 15, “Competition Whets Ability.” He writes: “Ail life is competition. Cavemen competed with each other for small game” * * * Man has, supposedly, reached .a ‘higher plane of life—a superior stage ot development. Because the savage competed with his fellows and fought for existence is no reason why civil- ized man should continue to do so, We do not follow the savage in his other habits of lite, why then do it in this respect? Do we practise can- nibalism? Do we live in caves? Do we go to sleep at sundown? ‘To point to the savage as an example for mod- ern man is a distortion of reasoning. Competition for life's necessities nurses the lowest instincts in man to the complete exclusion of the higher motives, His whole life is thus made a struggle, competitive, if you please, for the procuring of his mere animai wants, the better and more noble as- pirations being submerged in the struggle. Is this life? “All life 4s competition,” Bike writes, So it is, as the most un- Philosophio of us can see and feel, but must it be so, and should it be #0? Does it, as he im- plies, whet “ability?” Why should men grapple with each other for life's necessities when they have reached a point in indus- trial and scientific development which makes it possible to wrest from nature, with such little human effort, the products for man's con- sumption and enjoyment? It is the statement that “compe- tition in arms resulted in the ma- chines which may some day make war too terrible to engage in” that unbalances his entire structure of arguments and makes it fall with a i crash, The last war proved the fallacy of this assumption. Why suppose that “some day" this will happen? In the mean time what is the cost in life of such competition in arms? Is it not Just as probable that sei- What kind of a letter do you find most readable? that gives you the worth of a thousand words ina couple of hundred P There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. World Readers Isn't it the one will wipe out the entire human race? The result of competition among individuals may put me “above” the other, but it engenders malice. In the case of competition among nations it spells suicide, sooner or later. John Blake says: “To-day nations tompete for the world’s trade, as they lately competed for victory in arms.” Is it not this competition for trade which forced the nations to compete in arms till finally the test of strength ‘was inevitable? Admitted, that competition 1s good for progress, but it must be compe- tition for highest achievement for the human family, not for the procuring of the means of life itself. LOUIS CHASAN, No, 915 Elsmere Place, Aug. 15, Joint Savings Accounts, ~— ‘UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake i (Copsri HE DEFECTIVE MACHINE THAT BREAKS a i DOWN. 2921, by John Blake.) Keep your motor car in repair and it is not likely to break ‘down. Thereby ‘you will be saved time and money. Keep your, body in repair and it will serv you. need it most. Incidentally it wéll enable your mind to servé you-in great emergencies, which is still more im- portant. E That will’ save you time and money compared to which the-loss'you.suffer from the failure of a defective motor car is insignificant. The ‘keeping in repair of a motor car is something you can do yourself with a little expenditure of energy or intelli- gence; or, if you like, leave to a garage man, provided you can afford.a trustworthy one. you when ‘To the LXtitor of The Brening World: In these.times of unsettled condi- tions the cry of our financial leaders has been “Save!” The writer, who is something of a traveller, has always tried to adhere to this policy even while away from New York City, Several times 1 have opened a joint account with my wife in various savings institutions throughout the Hast and Central West. A short time ago, securing a posi- tion in Brooklyn after four months’ enforced idleness and wishing to pro- vide for a rainy day, I went to they nearest ‘ings bank, which has signs with letters at least six inches high, s told after being taken into the President's office that $100 was re- quired as a deposit for a joint account, Please, kind sir, can you tell me where a man is to get the hundred? If he leaves it home ihe is liable to get back to his room and find it miss- ing, If he carries it and by any chance {is compelled to break a bill of large denomination and the hundred is seen, he is found in the street with a cracked skull from a blackjack. Tf he puts it in the bank In his own name and is taken sick, dies, or meets with an accident, friend wifey has to wait until he is better or the Probate Judge gives consent before she can collect what is hers) The same ap- plles if the money ic in her name— friend hubby, waits, As the joint account is just a matter of writing two names with the word (or) between, why do banks require so large a deposit? The Cleveland Trust Company of Cleveland, O., one of the largest banks in the city, with thirty branches ‘Trust Company of New Jersey, Jersey City, No J. with three branches; the Vourth National Bank of Waterbury, Conn,, and yario' others too pumer- ous to mention, all do this us a favor to patrons. No large deposit is re- quired. Why c: do the sam Brooklyn, ence in alliance with the destructive forces will develop armaments to a int where conflicts will result which Possibly He Violated Trafic Kale | To the Elitor of The Evening World: lffo-day at the corner of -Vescy, The keeping.of your body in repair is your job. A doctor. can tell. you how to do it. He can fix it when it is you‘must‘do yourself. The first thing to do is to learn something about it, That does not mean the studying of medicine or sitting up nights to.master anatomy. You wilf have no time for your daily occupation if you do either of those things. It means only acquiring a general understanding of how you are built and of how much of a load your bodily machinery can carry. The stomach is your weak point, as it is that of every man, Overload that, abuse it by indulging a taste for xch food,.and breakdowns will begin to be regular occurrence: as soon as you pass forty years old. Find out what you can digest easily and eat that alone, Never eat too‘much. If you feel stuffy after meals it is a danger sign. Go to your doctor, tell him what you cat and let him examine you and tell the future. Then you. can regulate your load to your stomach’s carrying powers and prevent most of the breakdowns from which you are’ likely to suffer. After forty look out for your heart. exercise. Cut out boxing and tennis. take mild home exercises. your heart’ will misbehave. Keep repairs down as much as possible by keeping the machinery. inorder, You'll live longer and be happier while you are living if-you doy you what you ought to eat in Beware of violent Walk or play golf or If you don’t use your muscles Street and Broadway a man was sell- | ing plunis off a wagon. Just as I was | passing a policeman carefully watked | up behind,the peddler so as not to be seen and ‘asked to sce his leense, which the man produ T happened to notice ‘it was a license granted to lex-service men to peddle in New York | City. However, in spite of this M- cense, the policeman gave the “crim- inal" ‘peddler a “ticket.” I would like to know what good a license is if a man cannot sell his wares unmolested. “What chance has n ex-service man? In my opinion, it} 8 just such things that make men wrong.” ry ’ “iy: EX+SOLDIER ‘WITH A: JOB, From the Wise A miser is the most indigent of all men; he feasts on gold and starves in the midst of plenty, —J. Bartlett. We are always looking into the future, we see only the past. —Mme. Swetchine, Fortune may find a pot, but your own industry must make it boil, Anonymous, lfit of the out of order—if you go to him in time—but most of the work \Colleges and Universities Ot New York By App eton Street. ~ copyright, 1021, by The Press Publishing Cal ore New York Evebing World.) No, 21. COOPER UNION. ‘There is no more useful educationar Institution in the world than Cooper Union, In the more than seventy years that it has been operating, thousands of men and women have found there their opportunity for a useful education, With courses “in art, science, technology, public speais- ing and commercial branches, its museum for the arts of decoration, its library and reading room ang its public lecture courses, it has earned right to be called the people's unive! The seal of Cooper Union says that Jit was “founded in by Peter | Cooper, a mechanic of New York.” ‘The founder was in fact a great deal more tc, He was an inventor, a merchant, a manufac- turer, a member of the New York City ‘Council, a philanthropist. He built locomotives and made glue. He sold grocerie: ol fay a cable ing a good part of his long life [ninety-two years Peter Cooper w | recognized as the first citizen of York, How he came to found Cooper Union is told by Mr. Cooper himself in the following story: “At that time I became acquainted wit gentleman who had lately retur Tha gentleman while he in was in Pus led the free polytec great advan’ the consumn Jers and ¢ for illustra most deeply was the fact thal | dreds of young men were the all parts of France, living on crust of b u day to get the ures, as I always have, my ¢ education, and more’ ost want of scientific knowledy plicable the va used rested me perfect Wh hen, to which I had been eng want of my keenly for th: own, led me whom convenience t it was this f | provide an instity of instruction would be oF | to all who fe ' knowledge as j useful purpe | started in life with an honest purpo 1 \ through long years of trial and e to obtain ti 3 to erect building, which is now entirely voted with all its rents and rev fof every name and nature to t vancement of scien it appropriated a the education o | Young women of \appropriated to ‘There must be no fe wishes the L attached t I did not wa y ached to t Union to be a union of well- disposed people in New York who a willing to contribute to © out the work of a tree education, © of Coope name to he 1 wanted | Th are both J courses in Cooper Union, and 0} Jobtain instruction in aline |practical branch of stu i truction is free. Residence in New }York City is not condi- tion for admission, and in fact stu- |dents come from’ various part jNew Jersey, Westehesier and Long Island, as well as from the city itself, | WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 66—MOGUL. The word “mogul” a@ corrupuon of Mongol or Mongolian. It was ap- Plied with the prefix “great” to the sovereigns of the Mongol (Persian- Moghol) dynasty, who with the sole exception of Akbar, opp ssed, mis- governed and exploited Hindustan from 1525 to 1806. ‘The designation “great mogul” is sometimes applied to a pompous, self-important and nofsily, sclf-as- sertive individual, who ms {> imaging that the world is his oyster, to be served on the h; shell to him by the rest of its inh: tants, Originally and primarily, however, the word is used to gnate thy Moguls or Mongols, who are a singularly passiv contained peop! lent and seit- | By Albert P. Southwick | | Covyriat:. 1931, by the Press en On Aug. head of the 24, 410, Alaric, at oths, entered ‘Rome midnight allowing’ pillaging for sx days, but giving orders to his soldier to be sparing of bloodshed, respect the honor of women and not to burn the buildings dedicated to religion A. part of the city was destroyed with many ancient, works of art, peer) the Boston possesses the largest az;- dock in the world with a length at bottom of 1,170 feet and a with o! 115 feet. The National Government intends to make it the nucleus of the greatest ship repair plant on the At- lantic. eo 28 e Tho union of Norway and Sweden was on Oct. 18, 1814, and lasted about @ century when Norway seceded, Amarin fi ree cornerstone of New York ‘niversity, New York City, was lai on July 16, 1383. Le : ve A conspiracy of 900 negro murder tein ing , in the of Jamaica, on Feb. 2. 1745, was cloved by a negre qn to her mistress, because ‘the plotters would not prome ise to save @ child she had murmed,