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| | | it | Sp \ rn geal Seren ee a, Pudlishel Datly Except sunday by 7 ESTABLISHED BY JOSHPH PU Company. Nos, 5% to 6% Park Raw, New York, RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITBER Jr, Secretary, 63 Publishing Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED Pri ‘Tee Associated Press ls exclusively etitied to the use for republication fall news deepatehes credited to It or not otherwise credited tm this paper nd also the local news published herein. THE VOICE OF REASON. HE American Federation of Labor, through its ues a formal declaration urging modification of the Volstead act to legalize “Tight wines and beer. Executive Counc The expression of Labor on this issue is temperate Sand sound: “We seek no violation of the It wasn’t exactly friendly for the gangmen and thugs to stage so many killings, robberies, hold-ups and burglaries in the week-end of the Mayor's return. They should have allowed him time to get acclimated after the compa: tive peacefulness of Palm Beach. IT APPLIES ALSO TO FREIGHT RATES. OME of the railroads are beginning to announce reductions in rates for summer tourists. A little competition in this field will force other roads into line. Perhaps the railroads have learned their lesson. Let us hope so. Railroad passenger business depends on the rates. The summer business must be attracted. be driven, Rates are the principal question. They have been too high. Vacationists have stayed at home or taken short trips instead of the long ones they would prefer. Railroads get no income from vacationists who do not patronize their lines. If the passenger departments are learning the lesson, perhaps they will instruct the freight depart- ments. Rates so high as to discourage traffic are not profit builders for the railroads. ‘The railroads are in the same boat as the retailers. The only way is to cut rates, accept losses and go ahead on a oasis of increased business at lower prices. SUBWAY CROWDING IN NON-RUSH HOURS. 'HE move for “staggered hours” in business to relieve crowding in the subway is well under way. The Transit Commission is co-operating with Commissioner Copeland. This is proper for it is a question both of health and of transportation. But the Transit Commission ought to do more. If New York must put up with the inconvenience of the staggered hours, it has a fair right to demand adequate service in non-rush hours. omies in the mid-moming and periods have resulted in every hour being a rush hour as far as passengers are concerned, The Transit Commission has the power to order adequate service in the subway. that power. Women shoppers and matinee attendants are If they went home earlier, it is said, the crowd would not blamed for some of the subway jam. be quite so dense. Then why not offer them comfortable trains at the earlier hours? As it is, the late shopper is not much worse off at six than at four, for the simple reason that the cars are jammed even at four. IN MISSOURI. Te regardless of party. Breckinridge Long, Assistant Secretary of State in the Wilson Cabinet and a “Wilson man” is out to beat Senator Reed, who is easily identified. There is only one Jim Reed. Reed has a strong personal machine, overcome. Breckinridge Long has a good record Reed. Reed has been about everything that a Senator _ Ought mot to be. His war record was bad and Highteenth Amendment, but on the contrary we declare for a reasonable interpretation of the amendment in order that the law may be enforceable and enforced, and in order that the people of our country may not suffer from an unjust and fanatical interpretation of the Constitution.” In pronouncing present Prohibition law “a dan- gerous breeder of discontent and of contempt for all law,” the American Federation of Labor goes no further than does a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States who recently referred in a public address to the “unprecedented and demoraliz- ing strain” which the Eighteenth Amendment itself has put upon “respect not only for that law but for all law.” ‘When reason cannot accept a law, the fault is not with reason. ‘When reason bows to unreasonable law, free- dom’s last hope is gone. The voice of Labor in this case is the voice of reason, To ignore the! voice of reason is to invite disaster. It cannot Hedley econ- mid-afternoon Let it exercise Senatorial contest in the Democratic pri- maries in Missouri should interest every one, Long ran ahead of his ticket two years ago when he opposed Senator Spencer, but the landslide was too great to But any kind of a record ought to be able to beat Senator his peace record is no better, Heis a confirmed demagogue. The Missouri Democrats ought to prefer Long, but if Reed’s machine carries him through the pri- mary, the better element of the party should make sure of his defeat in November. SENATORIAL RED INK. HE Brandegee modified reservation which the Fo.eign Relations Committee has voted, 10 to 3, to attach to the Four-Power Pacific Treaty, reads as follows: The United States understands that under the statement in the preamble or under the terms of this treaty there is no commitment to armed force, no alliance, no obligation to Join in any defense. If this proposed reservation, repudiating even “alliances,” actually represented the spirit in which a major part of the American people would have the Nation become a party to the Four-Power Treaty, if it really meant that a majority ot Americans would sign an agreement to promote peace only with their fingers crossed, it would be a national shame and a serious obstacle in the way of any treaty at all. Fortunately, it represents nothing of the sort. Such a reservation stands for no more than the means by which a few cantankerous, narrow- minded, trouble-conjuring members of the United States Senate are to be coaxed into line to make ratification certain. It might perfectly weil be labelled: Price of- fered to overcome Senatorial pig-headedness. To be interpreted in future as such. , For that is how it will be interpreted if it stands as the reservation with which the United States Senate ratifies the treaty. ; If the United States becomes a party to the Four-Power Treaty and a future situation develops threatening peace in the Pacific, the moral reactions of the American people are not going to be deter- mined or restricted by any pusillanimous reserva- tion regarding “alliance” and “obligation” tacked on to the treaty by a handful of jealous, pint- measure American Senators in the year 1922. Nor, if such a situation arises and the United States finds itself in consultation with the other three parties to the treaty as to what is to be done, will the constitutional action of Congress be con- ditioned by what Senator Hiram Johnson thougtt when he was trying to turn the Nation into a con- firmed spoiler of treaties and shirker of obligations. These are the comforting truths to be considered along with Senatorial reservations which would be worse than silly if it were not that they cannot prevert Americans and their Government from judging right and wrong in the future as they have judged them in the past and from acting accordingly. Let the Senate ratify the Four-Power Pacific Treaty. If the Brandegee reservation is attached the larger “understanding” will still be this: The ratification is national and real. stand. The reservation is mere Senatorial red ink. It will fade. , It will A Spanish forger has been sentenced to a total of 192 years’ imprisonment, Landru got off comparatively easy in merely losing his head. . ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz, Ambassador Harvey enjoys the distinction of hay- ing been double-el-deed by four colleges, besides being Liberally Damned elsewhere. * When things get dull we are usually favored with a wordfest between the Pulpit and the Stage, which leads us to remark en passant that not all the good people are in the Pulpit or all the bad ones on the Stage. Both are well scattered. Perhaps Mr. Balfour was wise in declining a duke- dom for his service at Washington. Until the Sen- ate gets through he will not know that he performed any. . Most of the ladies swindled by Lindsay are reported to be sod or grass widows, Is there no merit in ex- perience? . The Building Trades have surrendered to Uncle Sam, Will Walking Delegates now become Willing Workers? MIKE MILTON, THE MESSENGER, A Tale of Wall Street and Its Wealth. CHAPTER I. Mike Milton was only a messenger boy employed’ by the great Wall Street house of K. Embonpoint Hogan & Co. Though young his eye teeth had been cut early and he could chew comfortably on the molars of wis- dom. He knew the ins-and-outs of Wall Strvet—espectaily the down-and-outs who thumped the tape each day in | the dumb persistency of hope. __ (To Be Continued.) ——- ; (The New ._ Copyrinht, 1922, ew . By Press ork Evening World) Publishing Co, By John Cassel From-Evening World Readers | What kind of letter doyou find most readable? Isn't it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? | There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. The Volstead Monarchy. To the Editor of The Evening World: This is my maiden attempt at voic- ing my disgust and contempt for the Volstead act and all the hypocrites and fanatics who are waxing fat through it. John Cassels clever cartoon, ‘‘Hear- ing From the Veterans’ lies before me, But instead of giving one hope for better things in this reform-rid- den land of “the free” (?) a feeling of impotence still clings. What could be expected from any plea that I or any other subject of King Volstead might make to our Congressman when wage question acute. i If the miners could be guarantecd | steady employment they could afford to work for smallee wages.” | In all the public discussion of the housing problem in our own city 1 have never heard any one apply this Idea to the condition of the employees of the building trades and yet it is the fundamental r wage. When our pay, high as it is spread out over frequent periods of unemployment we find ourselves | no better off than other workers i: un office or factory at a much smaller | more son for the high all those erstwhile servants of the ‘ily rate. people are now muzzled or bought by| Modern construction cells for sper, | the King of Oppression? skill and economy. Mechanics are red one day and il off the in- | stant the pressing nevossity for thor living. I pay an income tax. But, 80! ceases to exi: rent collector. help me, in this land of the free, the coal deal rocer cannot they say I am represented (as to my | be laid off and if throuzh sickness cr | I am a woman. I earn my own opinion), but the day has never) an exceptionully lonz cpforced vaca- | dawned when I was asked, pro or)tion the little bank roll becomes| con, about Prohibition, dispersed no fatherly cld contracto When I was a girl at school my r comes to our aid as might hay | heart thrilled and all my youthful} teen the case in the days of a jess | loyalty to my native land was called to the fore at the mention of the United States. But God knows there is little respect or reverence left there now for a body of men whose lives make it impossible for them to guard the rights of the people they repre- Lighly developed state o1 civilize Our wages may seem high T admir, | but few of us, no matser how hard ¥ strive, are able to vecumulate much of a bank account, ‘ihe percentage | of mechanics owning their own homes is not very high, but those who want E ant fora wu. families have to live on cut rations Whiskey was never meant fora hu-| SAM ai ui, many. more. than man being’s drink, It hus its uses— the same as drugs are used in medi- cines every day in the year, But the general public ever suspects. Ant the reason is not so often improvi- | where is the earthly m in a glass | dence lov tiomp ens,’ DUE the au. | of beer or wine? Instead of the|yOU have Btuted, tr iP _employ= | Wholesome latter this poor Volstead {ment Tes : ae aN | Monarchy of America is drenched in New Bristiton, 6. I); Webs St a flood of deathgtealing hooch, and | still Congress Wonders (?) how to raise money for u bonus. Ye gods! Ro A NEIGHBOR, | To the - I read with Who Controls the Government? : tas Goal : -s To the Editor of The Evening World: |letters from the people every night, ses me about some e Let us hear more from the “Work- | and !t amuses m bs Rot a Oh 1 ing Clasa"* and leas from the million-|fetters on Prohibition. What I wish | aire, “Ex-Soldier’s Wife" wants to|to state is frankly this: Iam a trav- | . —in fact, hav knew who controls the Government. mania tach) have V'll tell you who—the man with the millions, If you don’t believe It, see how many times the law is passed in favor of the working class and how many times it is passed in favor of the millionaire—that will tell you who controls the Government. If it wasn't cn account of him Congress would have passed the law for the soldiers’ bonus long ago BROOKLYN mn the Border, ing World: terest your column of eling been for twenty years, and to me this Volstead act is a Joke. I want it understood that I do not drink anything stronger than coffee—in fact, I have not done so in over twelve years, but the rea- sop I am writing you is this: On my| lait trip I took in Detroit, where you can get anything you want, where people living in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, just across the river from Detroit, bring all the booze Irregular Employment, drink ab no faney prices such To the Kulitor of The Bvening Wo suckers of New York pay, They y At lust you have ex «vital | mY Dotrole, Vuk live te Canada, . inake more Woney smuggling tn booze CRM HAL MME MS uh h "Tthan they de working at am honcst editorial on coal miners Bee you] trade or calling y way ‘irregular employmen\ ma | A ~ a tus The, agai 1 went te Vermont, vp UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake lcht, 1922, by John Blake.) MEASURES OF THE MIND. ‘The wiser a man grows the less likely is he to be con- temptuous of other men. Contempt is a mind measure. The more of it you find in a mind the narrower is the mind. (Cop What is called provincialism in residents of small towns though it is just as common among residents of great cities —1s contempt for unfamiliar ways and usage: The writer knows of an otherwise able Westerner who thinks that a man who puts on evening dress after dinner must be little better than half-witted. Equally otherwise able city men of our acquaintance would look with horror upon this man if they saw him dining after 6 o'clock in a sack suit. Even though we may have told it before, this story, il- lustrative of human contempt, is worth repeating. \ stranger in Kansas City, temporarily lost, stopped a boy of five and asked him to tell him where the railroad station was located, "The boy looked at him for a minute, first with ineredul- ity then with derision, and cried : “Huh! A great, big fellow like you and you don’t know where the station is!” ‘That sort of contempt is not confined to children, al- though it is common with all of them. ‘The learned scholar’s favorite joke is about a man who mnispronounces a classic name, calling Socrates “Sokrats,” for he scholar’s chauffeur is just as contemptuous of ample. eo refers to the differential as that learned gentleman when he the transmission, We learn after a while, if we are observing, that there is something admirable in most people, and little in any of save raseality or vice, that is worthy of contempt. c re how much these qualities are them, And we never ean be quite su the fault of the owner. te very sparing of your contempt and you will better win the faith and confidence of others, Upon your ability to win their faith and confidence depends entirely the place you avill oceupy in life. : annals) viding I have the price, but I can- not get one decent glass of beer or and near the border line ot the State: inada, and some of your so-called | 0 hicks" are making a barrel of money | !sht wine. tting the ‘red-ey over the line.| Keep up your good work for light ict imagine paying 90 cents to $1/Wines and beer and you will prove a 7 it blessing to a fot of men who never Der quit Canada and taking it nee Per aM in rand the suckers over|kNew the taste of whiskey until Mr. | Alepno, how baie ga es cl ‘oi RYSRINY vou $10 to $12 for it,| Volstead came along. oe EO DOR ee here handing you © $12 ite MHLAREES W. CARR, [the capital of Salah-ed-din (the “Sala- It sure is to laugh! | In Buffalo one takes a trolley to} Niagars Is, crosses the Inter tional Bridge and you can get all you}, New York City, Feb. 21, 1922 Aller Waashin, the want at pre-war prices, And the joke : of it ail is that the foot here pays| ! etice quite @ lot of peoplo had 60 cents up for a drink Gwvith|the flag of the U. 8. A. flying yester ince of getting poisoned), when |day. 1 for have decided not to fly few dollars he can take @ train | nine until the United States takes its | to Canada if he wants to get dUuNk | piaes among the nations ax a. fren gp Eh A e time see the country) country, 1 for one don't consider my and kn he is not un soned. leclf free when « handful of hypocrites yw " a should drink. Wiis tat 1 esr in amy jnet tel om hat 4 uid eat, suloon in New York City at-any time, | wear, &¢.? JG, Sundsy, week day, day ox wight, pion’ Brooklyu, eh. 2d, 102: , | keeper closer than fifty or sixty miles. Persecution By Dr. S. E. St. Amant. core Ses a ae THE CASE OF M. M. JACKSON. | I reproduce a lettsr written by, one {of our country’s blue law victims, Mr. M. M, Jackson of Brighton, Ark.: “This morning I and my son, & boy, ten years old, went to pick peas. We wero back in @ corafleld, at least fourth of a mile from the road, pitk- ing peas, and not saying a word toany, Jone. The constable hunted us up and arrested me, and took me tothe J of the Peace. They gave me a [tecture and then turned me free, as the law of this State gives me the jright to work on Sunday; but the | constable told me that if he ever saw | me at work on Sunday again, a8 soon as he saw moe it would disturb him, and he would arrest me. So you | plainly see the spirit actuating him. ‘There are two stores here that | keep open almost every Sunday and | Sell anything they keep tn stock, yet | disturb no one; but lo and behold, | soon as a Sabbath keeper picks a few peas, even away from the road and jout of sight of the general public, the | constable is so disturbed that he hunts him up and arrests him, t | “The Justice of the Peace sald, ‘If |a man actudlly religiously observes | another day than Sunday as the Sapb- bath, the law gives him the right to work on Sunday.’ ) “But how can he tell whether a (man ‘religiously’ observes @ day) or ‘not? ‘This will call. into existence that | famous institution of the Middle Ages, (the Inquisition, with ail that it means. | “The Justice seemed to doubt my | candor in ming to keep the Sab- bath, as there is no other Sabbath- I began to sec myself marched off to azination; but he ve me a lecture, telling, me ad example I was setting be- fove the rising generation and that 1 | would better not work on Sunday ary more. I told him, as one of. old, Whether it be right in tho/sight of God to harken unto you mere than unto God, Judge ye.” 2033 of Mansfield’s Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas provides } that: | No person who from religious | bellefs keeps any other day than | the first day of the week ay the | Sabbath shall be required to ob- | serve the first day of che week, | usually called the CTiriatian gab- bath, and shall not be liable to the penalties enacted nst Sabbath breaking: Provided, no store or saloon be kept open or business carried on there on the Christian Sabb any other day yeligious congrecation avocations or employments. We see pl ainly here that the intent s to secure the religions preferably the |nrst day; but if not that, then the seventh day; must be observed “from religious bel The so fraud. It than a religious institution enforced by civil statute, The Fourth of | Decoration Day, tutions not o1 authorized by but be- » they have reference to civil Thanksgiving and Chrh ns | may also be inel among our ¢tvil while these days less religious in origin the State makes no » them on anybod: hut simply makes them holidays, leay- ing every one free to observe them {f July, Labor Day, © civil insti they are a rely recognize the{ fact that a large number of people desire to be free on these days from the ordinary demands of business. therefore they are merely made dies non, or days upon which public busi- nnot be legally transacted. Nobody in private business js re- quired to observe a civil holiday. The law only seeks to protect and gratit the people, not to safeguard and honor a day, nor to require that homage be paid to the Divine Being. But the motive underlying all Sun day legislation is religious, not civil. Primarily it is the day that is to be honored, and not the ple to be pro- tccted, ‘This is shown by the whole history of Sunday legislation and is borne out by the very language of such statutes themselves, as well as by scores of court decisions. It is only by a legal fiction that Sunday is said to be a civil institution, and it is by this same legul fiction that liberty, is being subverted in our land. pee eae “That’s a Fact’ By Albert P. Southwick Copyright, 1922, ¢' “Second Rome" was the name given to Aquiljar, a town of Austria which in the time of the Romans was the commercial centre of Northern and Western Europe and often the resi- dence of the kimperor Augustus. It was captured and burned by Attila | when the population was estimated to be 100,000. din of Crusader history), whose mighty fortress stands to this day. Krom this point the Saracen monarch directed his conquests of Northern Syria and marched southward to do battle with Richard Coeur de Lion in | 1189-1192 “Pickel-THerringe” is a popular name Dutch for a buffoon. t resembles in character the among th hou, English herring,” it is really 1 corruption “pickled harin” (a wiry sprite)? answering, in -yerbal mblance, to Ben Jonson’ \ as n'a “Puss, 7"