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There can be only one view as to the duty of the State ** of Illinois to prevent murder and massacre within its borders. This country has its labor troubles and prob- lems. Bu@it contains as yet no Commonwealth where strikes are to be settled by wholesale © @ bloodshed. this paper, and ¢ One United States Senator on the floor of the Senate calls another United States Senator a liar and then withdraws the term, admitting that “this is not the place for language of that sort.” Delicately implying that there are plenty of other places. “MILLIONAIRE” NEEDS A NEW » MEANING. UBLICATION of income tax collection fig- ures is causing a change in American views of large fortunes. To-day it takes an income of a million dollars to give a rich man the same measure of distinc- tion that the term “millionaire” used to convey. In older countries wealth and inheritances are commonly measured by the income per year. ‘The income-tax reports are setting up the same standards here. Here we rather glory in the possession of huge fortunes—even by the other fellow. We are proud of men of wealth even when we abuse w8 them and criticise their methods. And we need _a free and easy way to identify them. “* What is a “millionaire?” A generation ago the answer would have been certain and prompt. ‘To-day the average citizen might have to stop and think before defining the word. ‘ He would wonder if he ought to reserve it for those who have million-dollar incomes. In another twenty years the change in the defi- nition may have become common usage. Or per- haps we shall have coined a new term, letting “millionaire” slid® into the discard, \ Ten thousand dollars’ worth of liquor was $ ; Poured into the gutter yesterday to provide future historians with another footnote on the curious moral fads of the present age. A LESSON. HE convention of the United Confederate Veterans has recommended for school usey in the South a pamphlet which affirms 1 “The war between the States was deliber- i ately and personally concelved and its inau- ; guration made by Abraham Lincoln, and he } was personally responsible for forcing the war upon the South.” The convention finds reason for congratulation in the prospect that “The young children of the South will now taught that the South was right, eter- : nally and everlastingly right, in fighting for principles upon which our glorious country was founded.” be Compare this with a sentence from the find- ings of the twenty-one school teachers and prin- cipals of New York City whose report to the vy Board of Education was made public last Mon- day: “Pupils should not be taught the personal ; weaknesses of our national leaders.” The whole spirit of the censorship of the his- tories was of similar tenor The Confederate veterans are wrong. The South was not right, even though there were ele- ments of rightness in the Southern cause. Abra- »ham Lincoln isn’t what these “unreconstructed” veterans would like to believe. Impartial his- WASHINGTON, “Wyatt Bldg., stands high in the world’s list of fame. These Confederate wicked because they want to see him so. dictum is a matter of wish, not of fact. every opponent a devil. WHAT'S THE MAYOR'S GAME? a) ried from any part of this great city to any other part, all for a single fare.” This is what Gov. Miller thinks should be New York’s transit aim. It is what the Transit Com- mission is working toward. Will Mayor Hylan deny it is what he also professes to want? Gov. Miller points out that the city must be the owner, because “under such a system the fat must carry the lean:” “Some lines will not pay, certainly during the upbuilding process. The lines that are the most profitable and have the greatest amount of syort-haul traffic will have to carry the other lines.” * Would Mayor Hylan pretend the 5,750,000 people of Greater New York can be supplied with a maximum of transit service on any general principle less sound? If the Mayor agrees with the Governor and the Transit Commission on what the people of New York need and on the basic principle by which it must be obtained, how does the Mayor serve the people of New York by refusing to work with the Transit Commission on the specific means of procedure? What good does the Mayor do anybody by planting himself in the path and maintaining that no transit solution would be better than one in which the Transit Commission had a hand? So far, that has been Mayor Hylan’s attitude. He is still promising a plan of his own. For him the one essential of that plan—if it is ever forth- coming—is that it shall knock the Transit Com- mission into a cocked hat. ~ It ought, however, to be plain to everybody by this time that knocking the Transit Commission into a cocked hat,would be anything but a service to the public, even if the Mayor could do the knocking—which he can’t do and which he knows he can’t do. The whole question, then, comes down to this: What is the Mayor after, anyway? Does he really want an improved, city-wide, single-fare transit system for the people of New York? Or doesn’t he care how they ride or what they pay, so long as he can make political capital out of fooling a certain number of them? What is his game? Hearst Candidacy Given Fresh Jolt by Women Voters.—Headline. Time for a new interview with Mr. Hearst on Woman as a Force in Civic Uplift. A BARE HOPE. HE assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry T Wilson may or may not have been part of a larger conspiracy. In any case it has aroused bitter feelings that bode no good for troubled Ireland. ‘ It is probably too much to hope that De Valera will be impressed and sobered by this latest proof of how fanaticism like his affects lawless Irishmen looking for the flimsiest sanctions to cover mur- derous acts. But better elements among the Irish people may take the assassination of Field Marshal Wilson as a warning of the direction in which De Valera tactics lead. The murder of a great British soldier comes as a tragic and deplorable happening. But there is the bare hope that it may put a little sense and steadiness into Irish minds instead of jarring them further out of balance. ACHES AND PAINS We should think Babe Ruth would find a tittle paregoric cheaper than the doses of discipline that are being handed out to him from time to time, . There continues to be “something the matter with Kansas.” Here is Senator Capper, from that wind- swept zone, demanding the resignation of Secretary Weeks for the awful offense of talking sense, . This is what happens in our “free” country, we get “organization,” then “regulation.” regulators become rulers. where and hides. First Next the Then “liberty” goes some- The esteemed Herald says that if we all can't veat the Bonus Bill in Congress we can deat the Congress that jams it through, Sure! Anybody can tock the stable door after the horse is stolen, . The chair that Roosevelt once sat in hes been de- stroyed by a fire at “little Hungary.” And what has become of the vanished hand of the man who once grasped the paw of the mighty Johf L. Sutivane . The Chinks do things neatly. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, hav- ing been taken prisoner in his losing fight, is to be borne to Peking to help “unify” the country. Better than the Occidental way of shooting opposition leaders, JOHN KEETZ. torians from other lands have assessed the rights and wrongs, the blame and credit, and Lincoln veterans see Lincoln as Their It is easy to see how desire has led them into error. It should prove a valuable lesson to those who would believe every national leader an angel and NE system which will be municipally owned, under which people can be car- By John Cassel Copyright, 1929, (New York Evening World) By Press Pub. Co. By Thomas Brang Copyright, 1922 (The New York Evening World), by Press Publishing Co. UTOPIA. Henry VIII. and Sir Thomas More! The Brute and the Gentleman! One of the worst and one of the best of the men of their day! While the story of these two mer is remembered it will be easy to understand how it is that we are sometimes sceptical of the Divine justice. ‘To see a man like Henry chopping off the head of a man like Monge well calculated to make us -bell that ''God moves tn a mysterious way, His wonders to perform.” Sir Thomas More was one of the greatest dreamers that the race has produced, and from the mad world in which his lot was cast, with its bru« tality and bestiality, its tyranny and oppression, its splendid luxury on one hand and its squalor and mise™, on the other, he turned his eyes toward the ideal, and the result was the famous book ‘Utopia, a work which has for almost four centuries held its place among the world’s classics, More has been called the “first So- clalist;" at any rate he was far ahead of his time in social and economie thinking, and it has been the work of the best and the wisest men of the last two or three hundred years to do what they could to make his dreams a reality among men. In Utopia there were but few law= yers and but few laws, Every mam had a piece of land of his own and @ trade, There were no taverns. Do- mestic life was universal. War was unknown. The rule was six hours for work, eight for sleep, and the rest for recreation and self-improvement, There was no nobility in Utopia, and no aristocracy. None were ri and none were poor, Wisdom preferred before wealth and the sim- ple life before stall-fed opulence. The fashions were unknown; there were no ranks or castes; education was universal, and all men were brothers and equals. The religion of the Utopians was a very simple affair, consisting of personal integrity, good works and kindly spirit. Its centre was not the church but in the home. ligious intolerance or persecution wi unknown, It was lawful for every one to have the faith he wanted, or if he so desired to train with no faith whatever, Speech was absolutely free, every one being allowed, without disturbance, to propagate his religion by quiet argument, Nowhere in Utopia was there an idler. Every one worked, The prod- uce of the soil was taken to the mar- ket places, and each family received what it needed. There was no sale or barter. Money was unknown. Such the dream of Sir Thomas More, and More's dream set others to dreaming, and in one way and an- other the vision broadened, leading minds here and there were inspired to plan and work for the establish- ment of a fairer and happier human society. When You Go to the f Museum. NEW STONE AGE STAG-HUNTERS | Another notable picture reproducing the life of prehistoric man to be seen in the American Museum of Natural History, from the master brush of arles R. Knight, is “The Neolithic tag-Hunters."” In this is depicted an cvery-4@ scene in the lives of our Europea ancestors, huge-framed, fair-haired men who had already emerged from the old stone age, the period when the rudest sort of stone implements were used, and had entered into the phase where such stone implements were improved by working at them. Here we see a huge stag just brought in by the hunters, armed with stone hatchets and spears, The earli+ est friend of man—the dog—is in evi-~ dence, probably a wolf only a few generations domesticated, and tugging at the leash held by the fair-haired son of the chief. q Rough men these, dressed in bears skins, but showing the beginnings of, an ordered state of society in the per~ son of the bearded chief who is in specting the “bag.” “That’s a Fact” By Albert P. Southwick Copyright. 1922 (The New York Evening World Press Publishing C From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn’t it the one that ives 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. UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 19% by John Blake.) YOU CAN’T RUSH SUCCESS OFF ITS FEET. For Adequate Water Supply. To the Editor of The Evening World: Community Councils of the City of New York, in expressing their appreciation of the excellent remarks contained in The Evening World's editorial of June 17 entitled ‘Another Warning,” also desire to inform The Evening World that ove of the main reasons why Community Councils insisted upon the City of New York acquiring the property of the Citi- zens’ Water Supply Company by con- demnation proceedings was on ac- count of the inadequate water supply by that company to its consumers. It was unmistakably demonstrated in our campaign that tn the crowded sections of Ridgewood the Citizens’ Water Supply Company had three and four inch mains attached to fire hydrants when the law actually re- quired they should be six inches. Moreover, it was also demonstrated that the people living on the second floors of apartments could not obtain water during the time that the people on the first floors were using it. Community Councils therefore now advocate that The Evening World will carefully watch the condemna- tion proceedings and expose any at tempt on the part of the Citizen Water Supply Company to obtain an extortionate price for the acquisition of their antiquated and inadequate water supply company by the City of New York. JABEZ FE. DUNNINGHAM, Exeeutive Secretary. in having to pass their few remain- ing years in strange, new surround- ings. Their physical wants are smull, but mental peace looms large to them. Surely those who help them tain it will be rewardéd by the blessings which only the aged—those who have lived and value life in retrospect— know how to bestow. The daily needs of these teachers, artists and writers of days long past. are being met. The immediate need is a new building. The present one, considered adequate nearly a quarter of a century ago, cannot meet the requirements and the standards nec- essary to-day. Its fire hazard is too great and unsanitary conditions are insurmountable. A new building can- not be financed out of the slim fund which provides for current running expenses. In circumstances such as these I feel fully justified in appealing to the generosity of the public, and I feel sure that you will aid me in calling to public notice this worthy cause. Any one who wishes to visit the home will be made welcome by Mrs. Mar- vell, the superintendent, or Miss Belle Durkee, resident secretary. Contri- butions may be sent direct to the Mary Fisher Home, Tenafly, New Jersey, or to Miss Caroline L. Cauter of Tenafly, treasurer, who will be glad to give further particulars, E. B. VERMILYE, President Mary Fisher Home. A successful theatrical manager pointed to a pile of plays on a table in his office. “Somebody will have to read all of them,” he said wearily, “I won't be the man. If I read a quarter of the plays that come in, I should never have time to produce a single play, to say nothing of keeping those I have on hand moving from one town to another, “They will all be read—at least, for the first act. The reader will be able to tell when he gets that far if he ought to go on. ~ “He will not go on with many of them, for there are a world of people who think they can write plays without learning to write English, and that can’t be done. “Other aspiring playwrights think that plays can be written as books or stories are written, without any knowl- edge of stagecraft or of the nécessity of making a character tell ont of his own mouth what kind of person ie “Hundreds of plays by really good writers come in here every year, They are more interesting than the plays by people who cannot write at all, but they are just as hopeless for theatrical purposes. “Because there is a great deal of money in successful plays, every one with the ability to write tries to write them. Those who take the trouble to learn the stage sometimes succeed. o one else does, not even the geniuses.” What is true of playwriting is true of all success. To do anything well requires special study in the construction of that particular thing. . It means long hours of work at details which often seem dull and uninteresting. i It means willingness to wait till technique has been mastered before beginning the thing that is to be accom- “Probably a Slip of the Pen.” To tho Editor of ‘The Evening World Might I ask H. F. Chamberlain the number of degrees that it has been his fortune to attain?’His crficism of what in all probability was a slip of plished. the pen by Martin Meyer, Ph. D., i iffi h ise f ; nauinciaditon tials Kala nea eeacae't It is all difficult and discouraging, and that is the cry tobe reeanded Aes I reason why so very few people attain success. should be willing to wager that our Most of us try to rush it off its feet—to cut across lots, aaleccontrod at Waa fnived_ to to Rreamne brilliant and famous at the start. commenting upon its use by Dr. at is the explanation of many failures, and of much Meyer. discontent and disappointment, and the bitterness that the unsuccessful have against the successful. It might also do him good to look up the phrase ‘‘constructive criticlam’ Transmute that bitterness into effort, and there would be fewer blighted lives. as different from “destructive criti- cism." But, as Pope saya, ‘* "Tis best some- times your benser to Testea he ees | 8 annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn charitably let the dull be vain." E TT ore New York city June 10, 9h WHOSE BIRTHDAY! JUNE 23—-MARIE ROSE JOSE- PHINE, PMPRBSS OF FRANCE, was born on the Isle of Martinique on the 28a of June, 1763, and died in Mal- maison, France, May 29, 1814, She received an ordinary education, but she won universal admiration and re- rd for her excellent intellectual qualities, beauty of character and beauty of form. and feature. In her sixteenth year she married Viscount The Mary Fisher Hom To the Editor of The Evening World: In behalf of the twenty aged men and women guests of the Mary Fisher Home here in ‘Tenafly, who now face eviction and the severing of what they consider their last friendships, may I ask you to publish this letter? I am sure that among your readers there are many who will be glad to lend @ helping hand, and I know that any contributor will be well rephid py the good-luck wishes which these old people send to interested friends Twenty-three years ago Miss Mary Fisher established the home as a refuge for professional folk. She gave her all, but the home was never en- dowed. Five hundred workers at va. rious times have been cared for, and there are now twenty guests, The buildings have become inadequate for continued occupancy, Unless we can raise the“Mmoney for a new building these life guests, who had expected to live out their lives in the bonds of these last friendships, must be sepa- rated and transferred to individual homes. Physically they will be cared for adequately und properly. But this ‘, means little to them in comparison DEMOCRAT, |Beauharnais, who was executed dur- to the mental tragedy they apprehend| New York, June 22, 1922, ing the French Reyolution. Two years “e ms “Little Venice’ is a name some times given to Arendal, Norway, on account of its situation. tom: “Wolfland’’ was a name occasion. ally given to Ireland, in the time [King William Il. (1694-1702), owiff to a belief, then prevalent, that wolves abounded there. © * Grain, as a coloring matter, is the’ dye from the coccus or kermes insect, and “‘ingrain” is an abbreviation of! the phrase, “dyed in grain." Shake=jf speare uses the phrase in “The Come edy of Errors,’ act IIL, se. 2, where, in a reply to an observation of ‘An tipholus, ‘That's a fault that wat will mend," Dromio replied, *N. ‘tis in grain; Noah's flood would not do it.” later, in 1796, she married Napoleon Bonaparte, and for fifteen years she saw him rise in power. She accom- panied him on his campaigns and ad- vised him frequently in matters of diplomacy. Josephine had no chil- dren by Napoleon, and as there was no lineal heir to the throne, Na- poleon diy..ced her. She immec' sly retired from public life, but retained her title of Empress. She sympa- thized with Napoleon in his defeat and would have joined him in his exile at Saint Helena had she been per- mitted to do so, A Place for Al Smith, To the Editor of The Evening World: If Murphy continues to flirt with Hearst as a Gubernatorial candidate it is evidence that Murphy is not a fit leader for Tammany. Why doesn’t Al Smith move Mur- phy out of his seat and take the reine himself? Jimmy Hines showed ‘Tammany how weak the present leadership | I had rather see Al Smith leader o: ‘Tammany than Governor cr Senator ae 6 The name calomel, which “beautiful black,"” was given to the Ethiops mineral or black sulphuret of mercury, It was after- ward applied, in jest, by Sir Thomas} Mayerne, to the chloride of mercury, in honor of a favorite Negro servant} whom he employed to prepare it. At calomel is a . “ite powder, the nam ia merely a jocular misnomer, F ”