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ee ESTOS NR TORRE Son ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Pvdiahed Dally Except Sunday by The Press Publishing Company, Now, 53 to 63 Park Raw, New York. RALPH PULITZPR, Preeident. 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZER Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. \ —_— i MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press ts exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news despatches oredited to It of not otherwise credited im this paper anG also the local mews published herein. DIVIDED PROTECTION. a 66K EW YORK,” Commissioner Enright told the Wholesale Grocers, “is protected by God ‘Almighty and the police.” This theory of a division of duties is at least con- venient for a Police Commissioner. Whenever the police fail to prevent a hold-up or capture the thugs it becomes evident to the Commissioner that what may seem to be a crime was committed jn the part of the city protected’ by God Almighty; so, of course, it must be atcording to the DfVine plan‘and all for the best, Then when individual policemen do brilliant police work, such as that by Patrolmen Carey and Winterhalter last night in capturing thugs, citizens can see the protection offered by the police, a part of the credit for which naturally goes to the Disorders in the Union of South Africa have already reached the scale of a rebellion. They are rapidly assuming the proportions of a revolution. ‘With striking mine workers, Nationalists, an irreconcilable Boer element and an excited population of blacks—each contributing its par- ticular kind of discontent to the general cou- fusion, Premier Jan Smuts has a task to try even his genius for averting civil disruption. THE RUSH TO BUILD: ‘OR several weeks the real estate sections of the Sunday papers have borne a message of woe— to profiteering landlords. Tenants have read them with joy. For the last two weeks the Building Departments in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens have been jammed with home builders and speculators intent on filing plans and getting construction started before April 1, when the present tax exemption , expires. Tenants and builders expect a renewal of the tax-exemption privilege, bu, they are taking no chances. They are rushing to get under the line in case the Legislature d:faults. Until exemption {s definitely extended the rush will continue, From time to tire the rent profiteering interests have denied that exemption stimulated building. The busy month of March at the Building De- partments shows that the wish was father to these clumsy claims of the “leaster” school of economics. Senator Gibbs is grieved because, he says, Senator Lockwood “took ® poll of my com- Taittee over my head.” The voters of New York will do more than that. They will watch the vote. They are de- termined to know where every man stands on the Lockwood programme. A CAMPAIGN PERQUISITE. HE old free-seed graft has been inserted in the ‘Agricultural Appropriation Bill. The committee dropped it, but the boys who ~ hope to pull through in the elections next fall put It back. Eventually the bill will go to the President, who claims for his Administration the credit of having instituted a budget system in national finance. What will President Harding do to the free-seed appropriation? We wish he would tum Budget Director Dawes loose on the subject. Hades and Maria! How the dream of free seeds would be shattered! If President Harding permits the free-seed item to go through, his talk of economy and a budget system becomes a joke. It is not an enormous item as appropriations go, a mere $360,000, but it has no place at all in an economically administered budget. It cannot be defended on any ground ex- cept as a campaign perquisite, averaging about $700 a member, to be devoted to campaign purposes. If the Agricultural Appropriation Bill comes through with a free-seed allowance, it deserves a veto. Send it back for correction. The bigger the celebration of St. Patrick's Day this year the more need for moderation unity and good will in Ireland, so that March 17, 1923, will not suffer by contrast. NO MONEY FOR HELIUM! MERICA’S helium plant, the only one of ils kind in the world, is shut down for jack of an appropriation to keep it working. Idle, it is costing American taxpayers more than $300,000 a year interest on investment. That waste is not so serious as the waste gas, the only safe gas for airships. As far as we now know, the helium supply limited. The practical present number of natural gas wells separated before the is available for use in aviation and » as long as is desirable. | If the gas escapes or is used withous extracting in helium gas wise 4 for y be store i spl PPlY the helium the availabl. of the latter is de- creased and the loss ble unless science covers new ways of producing it. if the Roma bad been filled with helium it might still have been wrecked. it would not have burned. The loss of life would have bean comparatively small. In these carly years of experiment helium gas is doubly necessary. After the airship has been perfected, perhaps other gases may be used. Congress ought to provide for the extraction of the helium now, it is available. To delay means to lose a precious resource. 1 is irre} e “CERTAIN FACTIONS.” RMED with the letter in which Secretary Hughes declares in plain words that “the negotiations relating to the Four-Power Treaty were conducted within limitations defined by the Ameri- can Government,” Senator Underwood defended the treaty last Saturday in the Senate. To one of the questions put by Senator Robinson, Senator Wnderwood replied: “JT will say to the Senator that outside of certain factions in this country the American people approve this treaty because it means peace, “I will go further and say that if they had known during the negotiation of this treaty that we were going to get rid of a menace in the Pacific in the form of the Anglo-Japanese pact, I believe our people would have approved it then just as I am convinced ted approve it now.” If Senator Underwood is wrong in his faith, the United States Senate may as well at once proclaim to the world that the United States fs a Natiort with which treaty-making is impossible, If Senator Underwood is right, the Senate must either ratify the Four-Power Treaty or reveal itself as an insufferable perverter of popular will. The factions of which Senator Underwood speaks are nevertheless real. Their spokesmen in the Sen- ate are real. The point of view of a large element in this factionalism is also real—shamelessly so. For this element, any treaty into which it is pro- posed the United States shall enter is good only so far as it is conspicuously disadvantageous to other nations involved—and in particular to Great Britain. Many of this class of treaty fighters do not even take the trouble to conceal the spite and prejudice that underlie their so-called reasoning. Judged by their own words, they would laud the Four-Power Treaty to the skies if it brought gloom and ‘humiliation to Great Britain. Becduse, on the contrary, Great Britain is cheerfully for it, they find it odious. This is not the spirit in which we believe most Americans approach or appraise agreements. It is not the habit of the American business man in his private affairs to refuse every co-operative proposal unless he is convinced his partners therein are denied profit. Neither does his mind work that way when he sizes up international treaties. Where it crops out in the Senate, this form of hostility to the Four-Power Treaty is an insult to American standards of fairness. Where it appears in the country, in speech or print, it should be promptly kicked back into the narrow limits of ‘the prejudice and factionalism on which it feeds. To permit it to defeat the present treaties would be national disgrace. ACHES AND PAINS A Disjointed Column by John Keetz. Investigation reveals that Ambassador Harvey is a foursome Colonel, twice by South Carolina commission and twice by strokes of Jersey politica! lightning. . The crisis in India recalls that choice lyric of two decades ago: The poor benighted Hindoo, He does the best he kin do; From fist to last he sticks to his custe And for clothing he makes his skin dot . No doubt President Harding finds it more com: fortable to paddle around the shallow waters vf Florida in Ed McLean's yacht than to navigate the deep pools of politics in Washington, Ed employs a pilot. Besides, Mr. Secretary Hughes's foreign policy is clear, We will not co-operate with Europe to adjust its troubles, but will interfere when we feel like it, how quite IN THE PU A Tale of the Tube an Chapter I. Percy Pinfeather was what is cal) his linen wen SH. Its Terrors, ‘ white-collar Marly to the prevision man. That is to say, and came back with ion he was re laundry For town accu employed Down Vinaneial Institution, where pected to keep morally and physica per di Sometin money ol » nights he stayed late un locate an elusive balance ’ (To Be Continued.) reece tetera From Evening Losing Weight _ THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, REESE 13, 192 Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening World) Teepepnesshss oy. twa! és a ng a World Readers What kind of letter do you 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 te eay much in few word: Take time to be brief. What Does Davey Look Like. To the Editor of The Evening World: The World has given us an excel- lent string of Volstead pictures, also one or two of Anderson, now why not let us see what “Let ‘em di Davey looks ke? Lots of people wish to keep these birds in memory. The pictures named are excellent types, and I for one thank you very fuch. Apropos of the famous speech, why do the W. C. T. U. keep the word “Christian” in their trade mark? Christ never talked like Davey and I can't see why they permit their spokesman to desecrate the _ holy order, A. D'ARCY, Author of ‘The Face Upon the Floor.’ New York, March 7, “Fair Play to the Public.” ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: I have been intending to answer ur editorial of March 2, entitled “Fair Play to the Public." As in my previous letter, I wish to commend your stand for “fair play to the public.’ The interests of the chi- ropractors or the medical men as such should have no interest for you and if the newspapers will take an honest-to-goodness stand for fair play to the public, that is all the right-minded chiropractors will ask. I believe, however, that you would not have written that editorial quite as you did if you had been fully in- formed, I am quite well aware that in our present situation, without legal regulation, there are certain chiro- practors practising who have, no moral right to do so in fairness to the public, but your mention of 90 per cent. is far too high. In fact, in view of the lack of any means to enforce regulation within our own ranks, it is remarkable that there are so few dis- reputable chiropractors as there are. One thing more, chiropractic is not medicine, and chiropractors should not he required to pass a regular medical course, and then post-gradu- ate in chiropractic as a specialty, any n than dentists, who do actually use both drugs and surgery, should have such a requirement, If chiro- practors should be obliged to study chemistry, surgery, obstetrics, and materia medica, which they do not use at all, before being permitted to practise, then by the same standard of fairness, medical men should be required to make a thorough study of spinal analysis, spinograpby, spinal palpation, and the theory and prac- tise of chiropractic, which they do not use at all, before being permitted to practis medicine 1922, Again let me repeat, chiropractors only ask for fair play to the public, nd both your recent editorials on the ubject have shovn a marked tend eney in that dive ads ua per J. LAY NNER, D. 6 SWihy Shoot We sumer It woul! blessing if 1he SVolat Woula change. over night. Whiskey and beer are no more harmful that eating potatoes, except to the 2 per cent. of the people who have abused them. Whiskey is necessi stimulant, which — is quired everywhere. Why should we require’ a doctor's prescription, which costs $2, for whiskey und that one should pay to the dru $3.50 for a pint of bad whiske Such a pint of whiskey costs $5 and {s only worth 85 cents. What kind of a law is this? a Was this law only made to fool the poor man out of his money? the profit? I have done business in New York City for fifty yeark, I am seventy- two years old and require a stimulant of whiskey once or twice a day. 1 also need a bottle of Dublin stout on retiring. Who gets all Our, doctors know that everyone uses whiskey for colds and pneu- monia, Why should we suffer like this? W.H.H Brooklyn, March 7, 1 Approves Prohibition, ‘Ta the Editor of ‘The Evening World People who are under the im- pression that Prohibition is not help- ing the poor families would do well to get data from t throughout the count To-day small banks can be in almost every small town. vere is a lot of propaganda in of light wines and beer to pay sidier bonus a soldier re many who need the t Tiki cine thanetiabut ic) Gone has not enough ingenuity to find ways" and means to finance it, T and many thousands of other ex-service men “will be only too willing to do without it. If the bonus was passed it would take at least two years for us to re- alize the benefits. I, too, was a drinking man and had nothing to say in electing the men that amended our Constitution, being in uniform at the tin RF. » savings banks found and I don't think us, SHANNON ‘Treat Us Kindly, To the Editor of The Evening World In answer to the letter signed “R S._T."" I would like you to print my rept: I doubt in the first place if American born, If sz, he grace to Americ If we were to accept his theory no soldier would be entitled to consider- ation, Hé tries to cover up by sayin that the wounded man should posi lively get attention from the Govern he is is a dis- ment, but he forgets that this w , war Where if a man wa sole} vais mi fortuna 1 withe ' \ 1 . © boys that ieft America to stor rmans from coming over here rm &> ee By John Cassel UNCOMMON SENSE y John Blake (Copyright, 1922, THE TIME THIEF. Procrastination is not the only thief difficult to get rid of them. They Th by John Blake.) of time. feel offended if you tell them you are revuse to admit them to your presence cannot understand why any man One of the worst of these pilferers is the man who intrudes upon others in their working hours. would not These people are well meaning, which makes it mor busy, or be willing to give them a few minutes of conversation in the middle of the working day. When they do get in they sta is of value to you or even to th talking about nothing that It is because of the vast numbers of time thieves in the world that busy men telephone girls in out Unless they can have privacy for their work their work doea nob met (done, All work worth doing is better done when a man is uninterrupted. To get the mind back on the job after it has been taken from it is an unnecessa ry waste of energy of a stalled freight train. Many men whose business requires close concentration sometimes leave their cffic s and hid or country houses in order to get things accomplished. You do not like he come on Be It may make you a few enemies and good ones. few frie business. re driven to posting office boys or ide rooms. ~like the starting ay in hotel rooms to offend your friends, but if your friends have no better judgment than to drop in to chat ding working hours they ought to be offended. Make if clear to every one you know that you are not to sseen by Outsiders while you are at the office unless they as exclusive in business hours as is the doctor or the lawyer or the banker, nds, For there are It may even lose otherwise you a intel ligent and pleasant people whose feelings are hurt if they are told that an acquaint: ice will not see them, But yqu must do this if you want your work to count. You have no right, if you are an employ e, to permit your friends to waste time that has been bought and paid for by somebddy else. You have no right if you are an employer to bestow upon idlers time that belongs to your busir vestment means much to e Keep the time thieves out. tre as dangerous as any other kind of robbers. ess and whose wise in- y one working for you. They mean weil but they and taking the milk bottles off the doorsteps do deserve a little more con sic and thi jerath writers" than they have been getting “pro-German to you should at least know that these as well ay decent Ww wor ame soldie true a for kindly New York, s helped th Americans to make Mareh 7, a X-SOLDIER 1922, As the Saying Is “BLACK MONDAY.” The name given to a memoraise haster Monday im tle year which was very dark and w reat deal of fe and nl » have beer ' meog ward cay t eoap the Monday after Ba vw wn I) ts also a schoolbo: or the Monday on which school pens after vacation. N Romances of Industry By Winthrop Biddle. Congriant, 1008, (New Fork m World) by Press Publishing Co, V.—"WILD” BEEF INDUSTRY HISPANIOLA. The original packers of the Ne World were the natives of the Islan of Hispaniola—which a Senate conj mittee recently visited in an effort get to the bottom of the Hay di nd the Spanis tler Soon after Christopher Colu had planted the Spanish flag at the place where th ity of Santo Do mingo now the _ pionee: brought with them the hardy cattle of which descendants are sti to be seen in the bullrings of Madrid In the course of their many vici: tudes, the Spaniards turned somi the cattle loose on the well-w island and abandoned them. progeny of these strayed cattle sod stocked the woods of Hispaniola andi furnished the raw material for a, flourishing industry. It was from the Spaniards and the art of erving cattle, run wild, by ives that thd neh Tearned thq the meat of th smoking it. Thi smoked meat—like smoked tish—thi native Caribbeans called ‘bucan,"| ‘The smoked meat was exported to thy mainland, and some of it went as fa as the markets of Spain. The chief demand for the characte istic product of Hispaniola, howeve me from the corsairs who roved t h Main in tl xteenth and seventeenth centuries. From the littl Island of Tortuga, off the north coas' yti, where the Spanish buees ‘s long made their headquarters, peditions frequently sail paniola for supplies of It was from this artic! the basis of the provisioning of ply ships in general--that the also obtained their desi In some instances the for their staple food in go t realm, the romantic “pieces of eight.” For the most part, however, the pirates took all they we foree—when they were able the necessary amount of force, The notorious Henry whose chief exploit was the s and burning of Panama, was ally liberal in his yy beef-hunters of Hispanio! mands on the iskinders nigh insatiable. He paid goods by permitting ithe hunters live instead of killing offhand us he could capture. many of them The pleturesque Hsquemeling—t buceaneer who turned litera mi and wrote a fascinating story piracy as had seen it and ta part in it—gives some interesting tails of th ld” beef industry Hispaniola, To him we indebted for information that the bucaniers (hu ers) brought down their bovine g with muskets four and a half f long. He ad “When the bucaniers (French) into the woods to hunt for wild bul or cows they commonly a twelvemonth « returning hom over, and. the commonly sail to themselves with guns, nd other neces $ pdition; the rest t ally they selves to all manner of vic spend_prodisé to mostly wil as liberal bauchery, particularly ness, which they p brandy This they d as the Spaniards do ¥ raha ART MASTERPIECES IN AMERICA By Maubert St. Georges. “PORTRAIT OF A MAN’'—FRA HALS. and perhaps the fin painting by Frans Hj been purchased recently has brought to this country by John Cormack. This painting was one) tion formerly in the ‘Blue Palace" Warsaw. McCormack purehd ortralt, entitled " from Count Zamoyski, whq Polish Ambassador to Franc $150,000. The painting represents an eld man is still hful in sp There nothin about man except his his re wer A dressed in black and wears a bl hat. The sombreness of his drq adds to the charm of his twink eyes and animated face No doubt the greatest power H. possessed was his ability to set do on canyas the momentary changes the human face rhid portr period of Hals practically abandoned the use tive color and adopted a system Macks and whites and flesh col which in no way hindered the rap ity, brillianey and spontaneity, of work, belongs to the lat art. The artist hj aero From the Wise Idicness is the stupidity of t body, stupidity is the dd ness of the mind,—Seume. and Care but rather co rosive for things that are not to Shakespeare. is no cure, remedied Intimacy reveals infirmities; ti hoe best knows if the stock ” folly for men to negtd thei awn fields aud go to ta the fields af others.—Menctus, To destroy the ideas of im tality of the soul is to add Ua to death.—Mme, de Souza, ( ona