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# Le PSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pedliened Datly Except Bu by The Press Publishing Company. Nos. 58 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPA PULITZER, Prosident, 68 Park Row. 3. ANGUS SHAW. Treasurer, 68 Park Row. , EPH PULITZER, Becretary, 63 Park Row. ¢ MEMBER OF THE sv6OCLATED PRESS. ‘The Amoctated Prem is exctusire’y entitled to the use for republicehon f @ all new, despatches credited to It or not otherwise credited im this paper 884 also the local news pubilahed herein, o DID HARVEY CHEER? i XPLAINING to a British audience the nature and functions of the American Senate and i the effect thereof upon American post-war foreign } policy, Chief Justice William Howard Taft said yesterday: “But we are making progress, we are ac- quiring consciousness of our partnership with the nations of the world and our share in the responsibility for what the world does. The war and its lessons have not been lost on us, but the conditions prevailing with us are such that our progress must be slower than some among us would wish.” Slower, indeed. It was Mr. Taft who in 1919, urging the immediate entrance of the United States into the League of Nations, declared the League to be an issue “as fundamental as the / Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States or the issues of the Civil War.” As Chief Justice of the United States, Mr. Taft is sufficiently removed from partisan politics to be able to go abroad and apologize for the foreign policy of a Republican Administration which has failed to do what he predicted it would do. i Did Ambassador Harvey applaud? Long sighs of Republican relief! least, is still Maine! Maine, at THE BEST SAFEGUARD. EVERAL brokerage concerns announce a’ plan to beat the robbers wo prey on messengers H carrying securities. Messengers are to be made as conspicuous as posstble. They are to be dressed in bright red uniforms and a safe is to be locked ' and chained to them. ‘ The idea is to keep messengers in the public eye, i If a highwayman tries a‘robbery, every one in j the neighborhood will know what is happening, This seems to be a helpful expedient, but it begs the real problem in preventing security losses. Dishonest messengers have been responsible for the most serious losses. Red coats and safes will not make messengers honest. Time after time a } messenger has decamped with a large sum and the employer has known little or nothing concerning his character and habits. The best safeguard is a rational employment H policy that will attract honest messengers and by fair treatment keep them honest. 1+ Ten-cent golf balls will take another big kink out of what is left of the game's “exclusiveness.” “BUT THIS IS CONEY ISLAND:” AGISTRATE REYNOLDS in Coney Island Police Court needn’t have gone further in rebuking the police who arrested barkers and - ballyhoo men who had advised the passing crowds to “gather around” and see the wonders in store. The crowds gathered, the police arrested the barkers and Magistrate Reynolds interposed the truly judicial if extra-legal objection: “But this is Coney Island.” “That's what Coney Island is here for—to cause crowds to gather. People come down here for air and recreation and amusement, They are regulated enough during the week.” Of course, there are limits. Police have to di- rect traffic and avoid too much congestion. But imagine a Coney Island without the ballyhoos i and barkers. It might be a popular bathing i beach, but it certainly wouldn't be Coney Island. | And when the change is to be made—if ever— | b { ————— ‘ ss denipsteetnisihibictaaniilabaiciaaceaitteanina mit! ihe = 5s SE Ace é i when Coney is muffled, it ought to be on au- thority broader than that of a Police Inspector bs enforcing ordinances necessary in other parts of the city but never intended for Coney Island. Mount Everest tries a last “freeze-out.” SENATOR M'CUMBER’S OWN “IF,” HEN Senator McCumber reported the Tariff Bill to the Senate he outlined the policies business should adopt to make the tariff work. He inferred that unless business followed } his advice not even high protection could make | everything lovely, } Here is Senator McCumber’s outline of what | ought to follow the enactment of a Tariff Bill: i “Cex the manufacturer be satisfied with a Most meagre return upon his investment for a } while; then let the employees increase their i efficiency to the highest possible degree. i Then {f the retailer will just follow the manu- } facturer, the great American public, now hungry j for more and better things, will give employ- j ment to all to supply its demands, and old-time prosperity will again reign throughout the Laer j The italics are ours.. “Then if” is a formidable t qualifier particularly in the light of fgrther in- I formation Senator McCumber has seen fit 5 pass along to the American public. ti ‘The manufacturer mustn't profiteer, The work- to ‘kinds, regardless of what it does to character or THE EVENING WO LD, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1922, man must be efficient. Then if the retailer will refrain from profiteering, “prosperity will reign.” s right, 1022 But if not, what happens? Cop: A (New York Evening World) By rub. Co. What sort of person is this retailer, according to the McCumber view? Well, he is the sort of man that will ask $22 for a 94-cent made-in-Germany cuckoo clock, as Senator McCumber showed when he ballyhooed for the tariff show last week. The retailer sometimes asks $150 for a $12.35 made-in-Paris necklace of “pearls.” Senator McCumber gave a number of other examples of profiteering by retailers, and every one was an impeachment of his earlier “then if.” Before the country has a higher tariff, it ought to know the “if not” of the proposition. Suppose manufacturers, wholesalers, workmen and retail- ers do not content themselves with “meagre re- turns,” what then? If some retailers are so wicked as to exact 2,000 per cent. profit, as Senator McCumber himself says they do, perhaps the country needs camp-meeting revival meetings for the reform of profiteers before it needs a tariff devised to pre- vent competition by foreign-made goods. “REMOVING TEMPTATION'"(!) OW uplifting, how soul-satisfying is the moral code of Prohibition enforcement! Two men go into a drug store with a bona fide prescription for which they get a pint of whis- key. In pleasant talk with the druggist they tell him they are in the theatrical business, ask him if he wouldn't like free tickets for some show and get him to choose one. They go away and return with the tickets, for which they receive his cordial thanks. A day or two later they go back to the same druggist, without prescriptions, and ask him to sell them two pints of whiskey. The grateful druggist does so, whereupon the two men reveal themselves as Prohibition agents and Serve a summons on him. This is no imaginary tale, It happened right here in New York. It is a fair sample of the provocative tactics now employed by Prohibition agents in what is called “enforcing” present Pro- hibition law. There is hardly an evening when citizens of eminence and unimpeachable standing, legisla- tors and Judges included, do not sit at some ban- quet where wines and liquors are freely served and where Prohibition is treated as a joke. But a humble druggist must be inveigled into selling a pint of whiskey as a friendly act in order to furnish a victim and example under a mighty law that must not be broken! Are such methods of Prohibition enforcement supposed to increase public respect for Prohibi- tion law? Are they calculated to intensify respect for law in general, to deepen popular trust in the reason and justice of legislation and the manner in which its regulative provisions are carried oui? The Prohibitionist tells us he is determined to remove a certain kind of temptation. To achieve that end he is apparently willing to use any amount of temptation and bedevilment of other From EveningWorld 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 bo brief. Prison Reform, To the Editor of The Evening World: I hope that it will be generally un- derstood that we who are trying to help improve the proper treatment of prisons and prisoners in the !interest of the community are not in favor of coddling the prisoners nor of mak- Ing heroes out of them. The imprisonment of criminals in accordance with existing law can be carried out with the view of serving the public by the treatment of prison- ers in such a way that they are likely to be able to take care of themselves and their families after their dis- charge and are not likely to spread disease, either mental or physical. The object is to accomplish two purposes—to reform the prisoner and to act as a deterrent against commit- ment of crime. To terrorize the criminal by torture or other repres- sive methods is futile, as has been proved by the experience of many centuries. Have the right kind of wardens and keepers, put the prison- er to work, keep him employed dur- ing reasonable hours upon work that he can use to earn @ living when he leaves prison, and good re- sults can be expected. ADOLPH LEWISOHN. No, 61 Broadway, June 13, 1923. winian theory, which is Darwin's own way of explaining evolution. Mr. Bryan's utterances may be welcomed in places where the Pro- hibition idea originated, but they are out of place in an enlightened «nd Progressive community. . Respect for truth and things as they are, and not as we would like them to be, is of paramount impor- tance if genuine progress is to be achieved, NICOLAS K. NICOLAIDIS, New York, June 15, 1922. Independence, one of the cheap at the price. wars of independence. ! the faith of human beings in one another and in the institutions that have heretofore had their support. The end justifies the means. Such means, however, are producing effects of their own.~ Thank God, American notions of what is fair and reasonable are not ALL in Prohibition strait-jackets. Friedel's Error. To the Editor of The Evening World: I read the letter of Julius Friedel. He is of the people because he voices exactly the conclusion of the peopie. The psychology of the people 1s this: The average person {s peaceable, consequently @he people as a whole are peaceable, Now, then, when Pro- hibition was put over on the people they visualized to themselves the probable bloodshed that would re- sult from a war started solely to abolish Prohibition and they procras- tinated. In the mean time the propa- ganda of the Prohibition Party was insidiously working, and as a result some convinced th elves that it was @ good thing since the medica} profession indorsed it—the medical profession, the biggest farce in ex- iatence to-day, Further, Friedel sald the people are too stupid to know what is good for them. He is right; the people are stupid, but not in that respect; they know what is good for them and they know what they want, but they are too stupid to stick up for it. They should have fought and fought until the Prohibition Party was smashed. War—a war for that rea- son—would have been more legiti- mate than the late war, because Prohibition is as big a menace to society as Germany ever was. M. M. MACK, pendence. greatest blessings. supportable. pay the price. lt is not a low price. would call even reasonable, ‘The coal strike hit the subway and elevated last evening and hit them hard. It picked the worst possible hour for home-going daylight- savers. ACHES AND PAINS. Some excetlent Brooklyn ladies complain that the steps on the B. R. T. open cars are too high to be boarded without indelicacy. They can hardly be up to date. While we have never plumbed the problem. a cursory view gives the impression that the steps are seldom higher than the skirta, ° Poetizing in the Yale Review, EB. Clement Jones rhymes of “The Suave Bummer Eve” as “drugged with its own rich-vailed restraints." We do not get his dope! Dime Nove) Movies, To the Editor of The Evening World: When I was a emall boy I enjoyed reading the so-called dime novels with their trashy, impossfble plots. Yet I wasn't tod young to realize that I was merely wasting time, and 1 tried to avold having my elders find me reading such trash. Nowadays | see staid business men, self-respecting mothers and the young girl with her fiance at- tending the movies at least once & week where the average photoplay shown on the screen ts more vulgur and sensationa) than a composite edition of “Deadwood Dick,” “Nick Carter” and “Buffalo Bill.” 53. BL of the future, and not of the till paid for. out of it. The Tariff Bill pushers in Congress accuse the newspapers of being afraid of big advertisers, They are not half as scared as Congress is of the Antt Saloon League, the Ku Ktuz Klan and the A, F, of L, to say nothing of minor organizations, . They keep a searchlight playing on the Lincoln Memorial at Washington, The lamps might be profitably turned on some other examples of archt- tecture at the capital, The Volunteers, To the Editor of The Evening World: In reference to account of Sun- day’s storm I have failed to note any credit“being given to the Vol- unteer Life Saving Corps, City of New York, Many members have worked tirelessly for the welfare of the thousands of visitors to the waters of City Island, not only in this emergency but in all others in former years, There are seven stations compared to one station of the United States Volunteer Life Saving Corps, to whom all credit was given, Your attention to the distinction in the future will, I am sure, in it- self show gratitude to the boys that deserve it. WILLIAM SINGLE, New York, June, 18, 1922. a “That’s a Fact” By Albert P. Southwick a ight, 1922 (The New York Evening coR arid by Press Publishing Co. Bryae ai Evolution. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: With all due respect to William J. Bryan, the orator from Nebraska, [ am at a loss to understand Bryan @s an anti-evolutionist, It seems to me the eminent Ne- braskan has given very little atten- tion to the subject, hence his con- tusion between evolution and Dar- winism, While no sane person doubts the established and undeniable fact of evolution, of which the embryo In « mother's womb and man are the most concrete examples, scientists disagree as to the truth of the Dar- “Fighting Chasseurs'’ was the name given to the 65th New York Regi- ment in the Civil War, ee Normalcy continues to arrive, Port Jervis has had acloudburst, It used to be a flood centre, “before the Prof. Joshua Barnes of the Univer- war.” sity of Cambridge, England, in the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714), edited Homer, Anacreon and Euripides, and wrote a book to prove that Solomon was the author of the Iliad, His ob- fect was to raise @ sufficient amount . As near as we can find out, most people are in favor of Prohibition’ and against its enforcement, JOHN KEETZ. Yet after fifty it is worth all it costs and more. means not only leisure to enjoy things that have been for- bidden in the past, but a clean conscience and the satisfac- tion of having got out of life what one is entitled to get UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Coprright, 1923, by John Blaba) THE PRICE OF INDEPENDENCE. most desirable things in exist- ence, has alweys been expensive. Our forefathers paid for it with their blood and held it Most of the wars that have blasted the world have beea Gradually, designing men have acquired power and employed it for their own advantage. Steadily, the men whose independence was being taken away from them opposed the tyranny, till finally swords or guns or poison gas or flying machines decided the issue. In almost every case the victory has been a victory for inde To the toiler, whether he is a laborer or a worker with his brain, independence is looked forward to as one of life’s The thought of it gives him energy and patience to du what he has to do; the hope of it makes monotonous work It is true that few obtain any full measure of indepen- dence, yet it is almost always within reach of those who will It is not a price which most men Yet it is a price that, bar bad luck or ill health, most men and women can pay, and which many of them do pay. But they pay with their time and with the sacrifice of pleasures, and with many battles over their stubborn wills. They pay by eliminating from their lives many things that are pleasant; by bearing in mind that independence is present, and that it must be purchased always on the instalment plan, not to be delivered Tt What cost thousands of people their happiness and their lives costs the modern man and woman only toil and sacrifice. And surely it is a rare bargain at that price. of money to allow him to publish his Homer. This eminent scholar died in extreme poverty. ee “Poet of Low Hampton" was a name given to William Miller (1782- 1849), founder of the sect of Advent- ists or ‘Millerites."’ A resident of Low Hampton, N, ¥., he was known, in the language of an admiring towns- man, as ‘a quick and early versiticr."" . @ ® Apples were first cultivated in America in 1629, having been im- ported from England by the Governor of Massachusetts. Governor's Island in Boston Harbor was given to Gov. Winthrop in 1632 on condition that he should plant an orchard upon it. | however, was all the time in dire MUSICAL CLASSICS How and Why . They Were Written By AUGUSTUS PERRY Copyrii 1922, Evening World) by Prose Pu oo “HOME, SWEET HOME; Dear to the hearts of people all over the world is the beautiful song “Home, Sweet Home.” The universal) appeal of the words has much to do with the popularity of this ballad. John Howard Payne, who wrote the lyrics, was born in New York City in 1792. A wanderer over the face of the earth, he knew what it wag to have a home. He was a reel character. The history of his lite is quite pathetic. Twice he was ap- pointed United States Consul to Tunis. He died there in 4862. While he was in London, Payne was occupied ‘n translating dramas from the French, In 1828 Charles Kem- ble of the Covent Garden Opera House bought a collection of these, ada; tions for £230. One of these “Clerl, or the Maid of Milan,” was the basis of an opera by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, the musical director at Covent Garden. There was one song in this opera that struck a re- sponsive chord in every heart: That song was “Home, Sweet, Home.” A controversy over the authorship of the melody raged for a long time. It is now generally conceded that Bishop was the composer. In his youth Bishop was engaged by Messrs. Goulding & Co. to edit a col- lection of national melodies of all countries. Failing to find a represen- tative Sicilian melody, he decided to invent ‘ong. He composed an alr to the verses of Payne. When the book was published this song became so popular that ‘it took the town by storm.” It was reissued by many music publishers who believed {t to be of Sicilian origin and non-copyright- ed. Then when he wrote the for ‘‘Clari,"” he used this song. ballad is introduced at the climax of the drama, when the heroine, for- saken and betrayed, returns to her home. Miss M. Tree, who first sang the song, won a husband and a home through it. So successful was the ballad that 100,000 copies were sold in a single year. The original publishers realized a net profit of $10,000 within two years of its publication. The publishers did not even trouble themselves to present him with a copy of his own song. At Jenny Lind’s last recital in this country a thrilling incident occurred. ‘The recital was given in Washington and many notables attended It. Sing- ing her favorite selections, the “Swedish Nightingale” entranced the huge audience. Then, suddenly turn- ing her face toward the part of the auditorium where Payne was sitting, she sang “Home, Sweet Home” with such pathos and expression that every one was profoundly moved. Of course, the poet must have been made very happy by this touching homage of a great artist. Henry Rowley Bishop was born in London on Nov. 18, 1786. In recog- nition of his great musical ability and) his important services to English music, Bishop was katghted. He composed many operas and cantatgy One of the traditions of the theatre is that when Bishop was re- hearsing “Clari, or the Maid of! Milan,” he was In doubt as to the} success of the ‘‘Home, Sweet Home’ melody. Happening to hear the men) in the flies whistling and singing the air, he concluded that it would be all} right. It was. Payne's “restlessness did not’ end with his life." No longer do his re-| mains lie in faraway Tunis. Throy the efforts of William W. Corcorai, the philanthropist of Washington, Payne's ashes were brought back to this country. The Interment tool place in Oak Hill Cemetery in Wash. ington. As a final tribute, the fm mortal melody of ‘‘Home, Sweet Home” was sung by a thousand voices and instruments. WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 179.—SERPENT, ‘The literal translation of the wo Serpent ts “the creeper." For serpent unlike {ts equivalent, snake, {s direct Latin derivation; in fact, it borrowed from the Latin. The Latin word Is directly d p from “‘serpens," the present particip’ of “serpo,”” to creep. Of this wordy’ the older Greek form, with p the same meaning, ts herpo.”* ‘This unanimity of designation of serpent as a thing that creeps app more or less complete in most lan, guages. It also recalls that p 4 from Genesis, explaining the snake’ method of locomotion: “Upon thy belly shalt thou go, dust shalt thou eat all the days of life."* But there ts no scientific evidence t show that the most depraved serp feeds on dust at any time tp Its life." ———>. WHOSE BIRTHDAY! JUNE 20.—H®ELEN GOULD was born tn New York Cti on June 20, 1868. Her father Jay Gould, left her a vast ¢é which she decided to devote to At the beginning of States Government $100,000 and 4 nated $50,000 to provide for supp! and relief for soldiers in hospitals. 8 presented New York University $250,000 with which to build a libi and $100,000 for the Hall of Fam She equipped the Sailors’ Yout Men's Christian Assocation Butldin in New York City and made se’ liberal gifts to Rutgers College, aided many other institutions by pey sonal efforts, She also gave $250,04 for the erection of the Hat Y. C. A. building in St. Louis. She n ried Finley J. Shepard in 1918,