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orld, ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZ hed Dally Excopt Sunday by The Pres Publishing “Company. Nos. 58 to 63 Park Row, New York o¢ RALPH PULITZER, President, 68 Park Row. 4 J, ANGUS BHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Now. & PULITZER, Secretary, 68 Park Rew. —— —— MEMMER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Arsootated Prem tx exclusively entitled to the use for republication ll news despatches credited to It or not otherwise credited tn this pager salto the local news published herein, A FACING REALITIES. | JOHN DONLIN, President of the Building | Trades Department of the American ledera- tion of Labor, sounded an encouraging keynote | at the cinnati convention of his organization, He frankly conceded that the building trades unions must “clean house.” The “irresponsible” and the “demagogue” are to blame for unneces- sary strife. He warned of the loss of public confidence: “Injustice, imposed upon us, should be dealt with. Mistakes, omissions and injustices of our movement should be considered and remedied, If we are unable to remedy them, we must ad- mit the industrial court is necessary.” This is in striking contrast to the die-hard stand Samuel Gompers has expounded in most of his recent public statements. Mr. Gompers has assumed that labor is always right and that even if wrong, it is better to let labor be wrong than to interfere. In effect, Mr. Donlin seems to be proposing for workers the same sort of organization em- ployers have undertaken under the guidance of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Then he proposes a na- tional conference of all engaged in the building business, with Federal supervision of the con- poner “The building industry as a whole must be organized voluntarily or subjected to laws des- tined to protect component parts thefeoft from injury by unscrupulous, unwise or other harm- ful acts within or without the industry.” Voluntary control is best—but there is an alternative. Mr. Donlin seems to have learned the lesson the Lockwood investigation has taught. He is facing realities, while Samuel Gompers evades m. ' Did Princeton make President Harding a Doc- | OF tor of Laws because he prescribed the ship sub- sidy? 4 “FARTHEST UP.” HILE New York sweltered in heat and humidity yesterday it read of the suc- cessful achievement of a scout party preparing for the ascent of Mount Everest. The contrast couldn't be much wider. The three men who made the climb battled with ever- lasting snow, cold winds, rarefied atmosphere and other perils of the always wintry peaks, New Yorkers sweltered in the subways. In this preliminary climb three men went higher than any man ever went on earth. They clambered up to an altitude of 26,800 feet, nearly half a mile farther up than men have gone be- fore. The leaders of the climbing party say that it now “seems well within the bounds of hope, given absence of violent winds and blizzards, that the . final object will be reached.” As a sporting proposition, the Mount Everest climb has superseded the search for the poles. Daring adventurers are trying for the “farthest up" record instead of for the “farthest North” or “farthest South.” ~ A dozen times Arctic and Antarctic explorers might have reported successful prospects “given absence of violent winds and blizzards.” Party after party found the weather against them and were forced to give up with the goal almost in «wight. Perhaps the British climbers on the peak of the world will win this time. Perhaps the weather will triumph and the “farthest up” rec- ord go to a successor ., Then what “farthest” will the world have to offer the adventurous sportsman? TWO VIEWS OF MAN'S PROGRESS. N THE introduction to his recent volume, “The New World,” Isaiah Bowman says: “Man's mental qualities and reactions change but little; they repeat certain effects from age to age. Almost every event of our time has its counterpart in history. The officials of the Roman Empire faced problems strikingly like our own, * * * Each age has its grand © catastrophe, its great wa: in contrast to this static view of man's mental evelopment is the dynamic view presented in nother recent bodk, “Mind in the Making,” by “James Harvey Robinson. The author seeks to convey “a vivid notion of human achievement in its proper historical perspective.” He says: . “In order to do this let us imagine the whole gradual and laborious attainments of mankind eompressed into the compass of a single life time, Let us assume that a single generation of men have in fifty years managed to accumu- late all that now passes for otvilization, They would have to start, as all individuals do, abso- futely uncivilized and their task would be to Peoapitulate what has ocoupied the race for, let Ge guess, at least 500,000 years, Hach year in the life of a generation would correspond to 10,000 years in the progress of the race.” On this grand scale the author shows that the invention of writing and the possibility of written history fall in the last six months of the fiftieth year. Greek civilization flourished three months ago. The Roman “age” to which Dr. Bowman refers was two months ago, and Christianity has had only that short trial. Printing is an achievement of last week, and the steam-engine was invented last Monday. Ships and trains are things of the day before yes- terday. Yesterday electricity was put to work. Aviagion, radio and a host of other material ad- vances are measured by the most recent ticks of the watch The two views contrast, but they have common elements. Bowman does not deny all change. Robinson merely emphasizes the progressive rate of changes. The world isn’t advancing as rapidly as it might, but it is speeding up. BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE. AYOR HYLAN said a loud “No” and then breathed a gentle “Yes’ yesterday when the Board of Estimate took up the question of appropriating $1,500,000 for the T ransit Com- mission. The Mayor changed his vote, he explained, first, because he didn’t like to hold out against the unanimity of the board and, second, because he preferred spending the summer taking care of his little grandson to spending it in jail. The real reason why the Mayor and his Board of Estimate gave the Transit Commission what it asked yesterday is, of course, the obvious fact that they could do themselves no earthly good by anything so foolish as downright refusal. The Mayor can strike attitudes and splutter. He can console himself with visions of the Tran- sit Commission dissolving into thin air “after next January.” But he knows that, as matters now stand, the Transit Commission is possessed of authority against which he beats and rages in vain. He can make the welkin ring with his defiance. But when it comes to the point, he must yield. There is a policy as old as mankind that has helped many a better public official than Mayor Hylan to get out of a false position with grace and even glory. . It is called: Making virtue of necessity. Why Mayor Hylan hasn’t pondered this old proverb to his profit in his present mix-up with the Transit Commission is difficult to under- stand. His silly show of obstinacy gets him nowhere. His big talk about what he won't do—followed by his doing it—only makes him ridiculous. If he doesn’t look out, transit reorganization will go on without his having figured in it, from first to last, as anything but a nuisance Instead of clinging like a drag to the wheel, why doesn’t he climb to the driver's seat and get some credit? Adam and Eve had an adyantage over the seekers after the simple life now sojourning in the Maine woods. Adam made his own game laws and the game wardens were all in the family. New Jersey residents have been seeing dis- tant coast towns in a mirage produced by fog. And we surmise the fog has helped residents of the coast towns to see some of the stuff that is supposed to remain beyond the threemile limit. ACHES AND PAINS The “rare” June days seem to usa trifle overdone. We join other nations in limiting China's revenue raising by tariff to & per cent. When Fordney et al get busy shutting out foreign trade “revenue raising” becomes a matter of no concern but our own, The reat of the world must look easy to the Washington statesmen, . Prof. Dunn's life of the late Donald Grant Mitchell, “Ik Marvel,” reveals the fact that after writing the “Reveries of a Bachelor” he proposed by mail. Looks like a safe method if you mean it. News from the Himalayas indicates that the British climbers have only 2,200 feet more to go to stand on the top of the world’s biggest bump. Not much of a walk veiwed from sea level, but the thinness of the air makes exertion almost impossible when you begin to climb from a 26,800-feet altitude. . Twenty American ladies were presented to Queen Mary the other day. She does not scem to have kept any of them . The English India office formally denies the charge that leader Ghandi, now in prison, t# deprived of ratsina, He haa all he wanta, it declares. Bo his home brew te safe! ° According to Dr, W. T. Hornaday, the Southern gopher anake ts the best rat catcher we possess in our broad fond, JOHN KENTZ, ; SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1928. Copyright, 1 ! 1 sew York Besaine Wort Tw Brees Pun Go CONFERENCE OF NEw Yor s< STarc RS “By John Cassel From Evening 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 to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. The Ward Case. To the Editov of The ing World: One Walter S. Ward, son and em- ployee of George S. Ward, a substan- tlal bread manufacturer, filed with the Coroner at White Plains, Westchester County, May 22, a formal sworn statement prepared by his attorneys. In that document, supplemented by letters and copies of telegraph and radio messages, he gave to the Cor- oner and District Attorney informa- tion that the crime of extortion had been committed upon him to the ex- tent of $30,000 and the crime of ex- torting $75,000 more had been at- tempted. The men he charged with the crimes enumerated were one “Pete,"’ later ascertained to be Clarence Peters, a former sailor with a disreputable rec- ord, and Charlie Ross (who may be known as John Doe) and ‘Jack’ (who may be known as Richard Roe). Inci- dentally, in resisting the attempted extortion and an attempt to resent his failure to comply with the blackmail- ers’ demands, the deponent Ward said he Killed one Peters and attempted to shoot Ross and ‘‘Jack.’’ Has the District Attorney of West- chester County not the right to holda John Doe inquiry to look into the sworn charge of @ responsible citizen that blackmail has been worked upon him dnd attempted at his home and on the public roads? On such prima facie evidence is not the District At- torney entitled to call Walter Ward and his friends and the members of his household as witnesses, inclucing his father, whose radio mesvage ad- vising resistance to the blackmailers was exhibited to the District At- torney? If {t then appears that the state- ments made tn what lawyers call the “sel ving declaration” as to the death of the unfortunate Peters are untrue and the crime of blackmatl Was not committed or attempted, the next step of the District Attorney is obvious, Nor is it necessary in exposing the crime of blackmail or the punish- ment of Its perpetrators that the sub- stance of the story used as a black- mail weapon become public. In a number of cases blackmailers have been sent to prison for a term of years and without exposing to the public the nature of the blackmail plot or even the name of the person blackmailed, The courts, by arrange- ment with the editors of responsible newspapers, have arranged such a satisfactory result. 1 cite the case of. William C. Woodward (Big Bill Hawley), sentenced to prison for five years by the late Justice Fursman for blackmailing @ client of Col. Frank- lin Bartlet ‘These are the questions of « lay- man who doesn't believe it is good government to conduct an'inquiry in-| to the killing of a human being on{ the theory that the worst crime of the late Peters was in getting himself killed in a way to interfere with the ordinary social and business pursuits of the Ward family. D. The Automobile'’s Wheels. To the Editor of The Evening World: Will here try to answer C. E. Yeandle's questions regarding an au- tomobile and its wheels, When an au- tomobile is travelling at a high rate of speed around a curve the two wheels on the inside of the curve tend to, and in some cases do, leave the ground. From one of Newton's laws of mo- tion we learn that “a body at rest remains at rest, and a body in motion remains in motion at a uniform ve- locity in the same straight line unless acted upon by some exterior force.” Now the body in motion in this case is an automobile. It tends to remain in motion in a straight line, but the driver applies the ‘‘exterior force" by steering the front wheels in a new direction. The momentum of the ma- chine in the old direction and the frio- tional resistance of the wheels against the ground to motion Jn the old direc- tion, come into conflict. If the mo- entum is strong enough, or in other words if the 4 ie high enough, the centre of gravity of the machine is raised, having the line between the contact points of the two outside wheels as its centre of rotation. And then, of necessity, the inner pair of wheels must rise. Automobile tracks are banked in or- der to ra the two outside wheels of a machine above the centre of gravity so as to render it impossible for it to turn over on rounding a curve. For, to turn over, the centre of gravity of the machine must be outside !ts base of support, the base of support being the wheels. BELA FRANK BORSODY. New York, June 7, 1922. Umbrellas for TraMo Cops. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World An old reader of The Evening World would like to know why so many traffic policemen outside New York City can use large umbrellas while they are on traffic post while New York policemen cannot. Umbrellas are in use on many New Jersey posts, on the Merrick Road, the Boston Post Road and elsewhere, I-should think it would be @ good thing and a kindly consideration to permit the local police this small measure of comfort. Commissioner Enright didn't need to go as far as Europe to pick up some new ideas. New York, June & 193%, UNCOMMON SENSt By John Blake (Ooprright THE SECOND MILE, 192%, by John Blake) This subject was supplied us by a reader. We may not draw from his text the lesson that he desires us to draw, but we shall make our own interpretation of it and trust that he will be satisfied and that it may be of some use to him and to the many other readers who write us letters about themselves and their problems. Trainers of race horses describe some of their charges “quarter horses,” meaning animals who step out at 4 lively clip for the first quarter of a mile, passing all the others in the race, and then drop behind. The race we have to run is not a mile race or a two- mile race, but we may measure it by miles for convenience. Few of us who are worth anything at all need any urg- ing for the first mile. We do that at our best pace because we do not feel the fatigue. After that it becomes a little tiresome and we slacken our pace, That is the critical time, for it is then that our com- petitors who have been trying to keep pace with us notice that our spirits are flagging and begin to take heart. If we can keep going bravely through that second mile we will get our second wind at the end of it and our place for life, or at least till old age, will be set. If we flag at the first fatigue, settling back into an easier gait because the first one is painful, we soon see others passus. When that happens right along we lose confidence in our ability, and eventually in ourselves. After that we are not of much use Speed and endurance are necessary to the winning of all important races, and life is the most important race we know anything about. That second mile is the critical time. Ty is then we learn whether we have the stamina to keep on’ going—and the courage to stand up under the punishment of tired mus- cles and frayed nerves. Tt is then that many fail who could, if they would set their teeth, keep on travelling to success. - The man who keeps the pace in the second mile may pant and get “cricks” in his side, but his lungs will soon ex- pand and supply him the necessary breath, and the con- tinued pace will shake out the “erick.” If he doesn’t keep going then, it is all over; for let him walk but a quarter of a mile or so to rest and he will be so far outdistanced that he will never be able to catch up. WHOSE BIRTHDAY! word from the Herald “to go and find JUNB 10— HENRY MORTON] Livingstone.” Stanley started over- STANLEY was born in Denbigh, jt from the Crimes to Bombay, vis- eporting differ Wales, on June 10, 1841, and died| palestine, Persian Burren’ Fertil May 9, 1004. He worked his way as|opening of the Suez Canal, and in a cabin boy to New Orleans, where| January, 1871, reached Zanzibar. He immediately started upon his famous expedition and in November, 1871, found Livingstone at Ujiji on Lake Tanganytka. After making several expeditions in Africa, Stanley re- turned to England. In 1895 he was elected to Parliament, His writings include “In Darkest Africa," “Through the Dark Continent’ and “My Dark Companions and = Thetr Stores."’ he was adopted by a merchant whose name he took. When the Civil War broke out he entered the Confederate Army and served in several engage- ments, After the war he was en- gaged as correspondent of the New York Herald. In 1868, while he was in Spain reporting on the revolution against Queen Isabella, he received Strange | rooms and e kitchenette, + The warm spot by the storm fire, The fleating sweet fat fromthe cook:- ing kettles, The first crusty brown cake Irom the amoking re@ baking stones, The clear flowing gold sweet From the tall nests of the wood bees; From the soft sun colored robe of down fine doeskin Embroidered with broad bands o/ white beads, Luring beads of green, and blue, and yellow, The red stained singing quille of the porcupine, And downy snow white feathers From the breast of the white ewan So it is with Yidda, the ch favorite ughter, according to “The Fire Bird” (Doubleday-Page), a tony poem by Gene Stratton-Porter. It seems to be a properly comfor! able thing to be the tribal princess flapper. qe” The for me, the one daughter, under Alison Is So Loved by Harold - - - The month being June, there « current interest in ways of telling love, In John Hastings Turner's “Where Your Treasure Is" (Scrib- wer), the telling goes like this: “Allson,”” he said, “I want to kiss you."” ‘I want you to kiss mp, dear,’ she answered, and stood up before him. He seized her hands and pulled her toward him roughly, but he saw that she was smiling to him. “Oh, my God!" he cried; ‘and we have got to go back and live in houses!"* She laughed and pushed back his head, running her fingers through his hair. “Dear Harold! she said, ‘So modern we are, and a wood and a moon bring us to thi “I must have loved you for he sald foolishly, ‘‘and never kn: ati" “I knew it, Harold,” she whis- pered; “I've been glad for ever so long!" Another of the endless variations of an endless story. In which the git! always knows. * 8 6 The Wicked, Laughing Ilanuns - - - Writing “Among Primitive Peoples in Borneo," Ivor H. N. Evans gives us this: ‘The best that can be said of the Ilanuns 1s that, though their deeds are evil, they are gentlemanly ras- cals. Their worst actions are often partly redeemed by some humorous touch or plausible excuse, which makes one want to laugh &ven when extremely angry. Goodness! Aren't they just like the boys that run the primaries iu the doubtful wards? ee June and Her Roses - - - A timely stanza brought back from “Songs in the Common Chord’* (Appletons) by the late Amelia }. Barr: May brought golden sunshine, May drought siiver rains, Buttercups and daisies In the woods and lanes; Lily bella and lilacs, Apple blooms like snotes, Pinks and purple pansies— But June brought the Rose! 7 8 The Lady Who Broke the Bank - - - Everybody remembers the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo, ani! how he walked along the Bois de Bow logne with an independent air. We read in Norman Dave “Guiney Girl’ (Doran) of the lady who had accomplished a like breakage, thus She looked more than ordinarily beautiful that night as she walker through the long hall and in at the doors opening to the gaming rooms She wore @ sheath-like dress 0 black taffeta, cut low in the bach and held over her shoulders witi two threads of black silk, so frail as to seem hardly able to bear even that light weight. A narrow black ribbon was boun: low upon the forehead, carrying 17 its centre an emerald, as large u a thrush’s egg and as pure a grec} as the water under the shadows of the rocks of the Ile de I'Escope. She held in her hand a bag, mad of black silk and broldered in sil ver, which was slung between tw large rings of Chinese jade. She walked through the room to the doors leading into the Salle: Privees without looking to her right hand or to her left; without noticing at all those there who knew her without seeing the delighted look of the croupler at the far table to whom she had thrown a thousand francs but little over a month ago. That's it. They come back, Aud always the croupler has that “de lighted look," though usually ie keeps it to himeeif. eee The Coffee of a Tramping Poet From Stephen Graham's “Tram; ing With a Poet in the Rockies” (Ap pletons) this rectpe for the mornin, coffee: ‘The first point is that you take = stone which has never seen eith sunset or sunrise, @ stone lying » the feet of trees not less then 1) feet high. It must have tein there not less than 4,000 years and listened to the muate of a waterf You then cut white mosquito net #1 the coffee and the stone, Tie up like a plum pudding, but leave seven or eight inches of string attached to it so that you can pull the coffee sack up and down in the pot at will. It { prepared, moreover, in silence and without fear of fiame and smoke, The pot stands on a funera! pyre, and iy allowed to lift {ts la several times before a hand swathed up ip a towel darts In to rescue tt ‘We pour it out into our tin cups. It ts black, tt {8 good, tt has a kt ‘ike a mule; It searches the vital: snd chases out the damps; it com forts the spine and gives tone to ti heart, ‘Try it some morning in your three We urge you, Constagt Readert |