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They are the result of days and weeks of fer- mentation. Had the officers and board mem- t bers of the Illinois district been in proper touch ; with their men throughout the district they could have prevented this, The blame will rest largely upon the officials and board members d of the Illinois miners.” ' Union labor has been in doubt as to how it ; ought to take the Coronado decision in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that labor organizations can be held responsible for acts re- sulting from their definite orders. But union labor in the United States can be in no doubt as to its duty to repudiate a brutal and murderous outrage like that perpetrated by union miners at Herrin, III. Organized labor in this country is strong for a fair and lawful fight. It cannot stand for union- t ism that boasts of bloodshed. Senator Hitchcock says a tariff that will cause | more of the trade restriction from which the 7 country has been suffering “is nothing less than stupidity.” But stupidity, applied in spots, will look like golden wisdom to many a profiteer. We can’t all be wise or happy. HENRY-ON-THE-SPOT. ENRY DRUCKMAN, letter carrier for UncleSam, is a local hero by grace of his own quick wit and quicker action. And two-year-old Harry Levy is alive and well to-day because Henry Druckman caught him in the open carrier’s satchel when the adventurous youngster climbed and fell out of the window a story above the sidewalk. A Many a well-meaning person would have been IOLENCE ruled the week; violence mixed with an unseasonable strain of dog-day madness. In Illinois men went mad and ran amuck, killing with a brutal blood lust. The conflict of industrial interests does not explain the HERRIN MASSACRE. ;, Gane men, sober men, do not shoot surrendered cap- tives in the back, no matter what their offense. To hate we must add hysteria—and hooch—to account for the awful deed. . } Hate, and hysteria too, help to explain the CHI- } NESE DISORDERS. At this distance the causes are t obscure. Perhaps it is a revival of the Boxer mad- ; ness that cost China dear a generation ago. t Tae fever of IRISH VIOLENCE may have reached ® erisis in the continued outrages in Ireland and in the assassination of Field Marshal Wilson in London. GBurely the slayers were mad to think that such a | crime could help the Irisa cause, even if they had reason to hate Sir Henry Wilson. As IRISH ELECTION RESULTS were tabulated the victory of the treaty supporters grew. Reaction from the Wilson killing should incline other Irish- | men to moderation, ; Democrats of Minnesota nominated Anna Dickie } Olesen to oppose Senator Kellogg in November. She ; is the FIRST WOMAN CANDIDATE FOR SENATO- RIAL HONORS nominated by a major party. } REPUBLICAN SENATORS Hale and Kellogg, friends of the President, won RENOMINATION with- out serious opposition. President Harding marched up SHIP SBUSIDY hill , and then marched half way down again. Instead of na pei acca lncinintinensssnestinamnet, teams ! Judging by recent events civilization is not even skin deep. Indeed, it would puzzle a micrometer to ‘|, locate its exact depth! 6 . I Pipes for “ladies” 1s the latest fad reported from \; London restaurants. There are parts of our own happy land where grandmother still smokes a corn 20d in the chimney corner. . i Jn clew of the heartfelt admiration expressed for hig virtues by Mr. Conners, we hope Mr. Hearst will not start one of his vagrom Sunday sheets in Buffalo, , where Mr. 0. adds journalism to his long-shore and (tee ert : icra . “ THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1922. paralyzed with fright by little Harry's perilous position. Henry Druckman was moved to action, and he moved just fast enough to be on the spot when needed. Hats off to Henry Druckman. If there is any moral to this tale, it is perhaps the warning to other parents to make their win- dows safe. Substantial baby-proof screens and guards should be installed in the windows of every home where an irresponsible infant may climb into danger. There is no assurance that a Henry Druckman will be on hand in every such accident. 4 CAN HE CHANGE? AYOR HYLAN “dreamed” the other day of an electrical transmission line to connect this city with hydro-electric developments along the St. Lawrence River The Mayor thought so highly of his “dream” that he is starting an investigation as to its feasi- bility. To carry out such a scheme, however, the Mayor would have to free himself from several of his pet aversions. ‘ The city couldn’t make such a development en- tirely on its own authority. The State would have to authorize the power line—a limit on home rule. Again, such a development would ‘certainly in- volve an agreement generally similar to the Port Authority treaty and with the same objections from the Hylan point of view. That agreement would be even more involved than the New Jer- sey treaty, because it would cross the national boundary as well. The Federal Government would have a voice. Finally, it would involve more dickering with the “interests” already controlling electric fran- chises in New York. There would be another chance for the Public Service Commission to “job” the citizens. But it is to be hoped that these obstacles will not frighten the Mayor. He has seen a fine vision, has dreamed a fine dream. Here's hop- ing he will soon apply the same processes to Transit and Port problems and see a_ unified transit system and a Greater Port of Greater New York. THE AMERICAN GOLF VICTORY. ESTERDAY was a cruel day for the follow- ers of the ancient and honorable game of golf in the British Isles. Not only did Walter Hagen win the open title, but Jim Barnes divided second honors with the British George Duncan, and our adopted Jock Hutchison finished fourth. Three out.of the first four places is conclusive evidence that the American representation was not of the one-man-marvel brand. The victory wasn't a fluke. Last year Jock Hutchison won, but the Brit- ishers had the slight consolation that the Ameri- can winner was British-born. This year there is no such consolation, for the victor at Sandwich is a strictly American product. American golfers have good reason for feeling chesty and indulging in several rousing cheers for their representatives on the links. It was a glorious—and decisive—victory. THE WEEK. passing his measure, he will be appeased if Congress- men will only talk about it, in Washington and on the stump. The celebrated CUCKOO CLOCK was revealed as a symbolic headliner in last week's vaudeville tariff show. The cuckoo fouls its nest. So, too, did Sena- tor McCumber. The World revealed the fraud prac- tised by the sponsor of the tariff bill in juggling for-_ eign exchange quotations to bolster a bad cause. SIGNOR MARCONI learns and teaches on his American visit. He announces a new triumph in di- Tecting radio waves by reflection. He finds that America leads the world in practical use of radio. PARACHUTES saved the lives of passengers in an aeroplane wrocked 3,000 feet above the earth. John D. Rockefeller and George F. Baker made GENEROUS GIFTS to the American Museum of Nat- ural History. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST proved the SIN- CERITY of his support of the merchant marine by engaging his third consecutive ocean passage on a British-owned ship. Wall Street SECURITY MESSENGERS blossomed out in bright red musical-comedy CHORUS UNI- FORMS trimmed with a portable safe, MEXICAN PETE was the TERROR of the market, ‘The Giants continue to sit steady at the top of the league. The Yanks tobogganed into second place, ‘The feature of the week was the VIOLENCE of BABE RUTH. A three-day suspension did not pacity him, 80 two days more were added. He now yows “Never again” in the matter of umpire baiting, ACHES AND PAINS. If the wise guys at Washington were to turn their tariff’ dill from “protection” to reducing the huge profits of the importers something kind might be said about them, but the “theory” would pass into the ewigkeit, . According to Dr. W. T. Hornaday, a chimpanzee ig @ safe pet until it 1s seven years old. After that it gets the big head, scuttles its accomplishments and re- verts to nature, . The esteemed Times invites Senator Jim Watson to come out on the sidewalk and say it like a man. We can see him doing it. JOHN KEETZ, one Revere By John Cassel | | By Press Pub. pracyuvRER man 2 een wy IMPORTER ~ ence 6 ae er anh rowinte en ee Pine At aN NE ale AON NON om eal Men, marae teet ene = t setae to say much in few words. Take High Cost of Travel. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: To-day I went to the Custom House to apply for a passport to visit a sick mother in Europe, thinking as I sup- posed as an American citizen I would not have the least trouble and very little expense. I had papers to prove that I was a citizen; I had to have somebody with me to swear to that. Also $10 to the American Consul and the same amount to the British, just for the passport. And the fares on steamships! 1 did not get the passport nor the ticket, as I decided it would benefit the folks at home more to send them that money, although I would like to see my mother. I think it’s an outrage. CITIZEN. New York, June 22, 1922, Objects to “Spangled.” To the Editor of The Evening World: “The Star Spangled Banner'’ without exception the most undigni- fied epithet ever used to designate a national ensign of any known nation. But when such a title is affixed to the STARS AND STRIPES, our Nation's emblem, {t is simply preposterous. To term good *‘Old Glory” a ‘‘span- gled banner is a misnomer, The American flag is one of the oldest flags known. To designate the celes- is nothing short of sacrilege. ‘The stars in our flag represent the different States. Which of the States would like to be designated as a ‘bit of tinsel?"’ Spangles are mere particles of glit- tering metal of practically no in- trinsic value, placed on toggery to make it seem to be what It is not. The stars are eternal and the stripes in the United States flag are rays of light to enlighten the uni- verse, All the world to-day is looking toward the United States for that very enlightenment. Francis Scott Key may have thought he was writing about a “bandanna handkerchief" instead of a National Emblem, and when he wrote his words of hatred about the Flag of the United States and set them to the unsingable notes of an English bacchanalian barroom air, “The Star Spangled Banner’ never became our National Anthem and never could be sung as such from the heart of any real AMERICAN, AN AMERICAN ‘The Wet Merchant Marine. To the Editor of The Evening World: Of all the hypocrisy, I think thc United States Government takes the blue ribbon, Since I attended school many years From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't it the one that dives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying tial stars as paltry bits of tinsel is]: ago I have always thought and have’ time to be brief. been informed that any place under the American flag was United States territory and subject to the laws of the United States. Now comes Chairman Lasker saying he cannot compete with foreign vessels if he cannot serve liquors, Was there ever a greater farce in the history of man- kind? The people of the United States are being taxed for the enforcement of the dry law and at the same time the Government 1s spending the peo- ple's money loading ships with li- quors in foreign ports to sell to Americans, When, oh, when, will citizens of this country wake up and put an end to this farce? Chairman Lasker admit: that f United States vessels were dry no Americans would book passage on them, Well, then, does that look as though the American public was in favor of Prohibition? Of the thou- sands travelling on vessels, there are none who wish to travel_under a dry flag. Where is this overwhelming majority the drys claim? I should think all the: drys would be booking passage on United States vessels, But there do not seem to be any drys when it comes to crossing the ocean. As an ex-service man who fought from start to finish,in a combat divi- sion and was wounded, { sometimes wonder what I fought for. ROBERT EDWARDS. Brooklyn, June 22, 1922. Vacation Matinees, To the Editor of The Evening World; ‘Will you permit a stranger within your gates to give a few suggestions about your New York theatre sys- tem? My own home is at Madison, Wis where we have a number of theatres that confront in the summer the same conditions that New York the- atres confront: that is, they find that people are not very anxious to in- dulge in Indoor amusements when the lake and outside sports are so acces- sible. The theatre owners combat thie lack of interest in the theatre by giv- ng popular and special matinees at reduced prices. They advertise ex- tensively and as a result they boost heir own business and give the pub- lic the chance to see their attractions at lower rates Why don't some of the New York theatres do this? Why don't the managers give spe- cial matinecs at reduced prices? That would give the vacationer a chance to see plays that he could otherwise not afford to see, I belleve that such 1 plan would be very successful financially, BETTY BRUCE, New York, June 22, 1922, FS ee eS A SE ee ee eee UNCOMMON SENSt By John Blake (Coprright, 1 AS TO WASTED EFFORT. “Say not,” wrote the poet Clough, “the struggle naught availeth, the labor and the wounds are vain.” Most of humanity needs this advice. which may found in nature as well as in the worlds of poets. In my back yard a cherry tree is busy this June after- noon with a crop of cherries, its purpose being to raise more cherry trees by ripening the fruit and dropping the seeds on the fertile soil about it. Were this purpose to be carried out without interfer- ence by me and the small boy members of my family and a swarm of blackbirds and robins that are even now inspecting its branches and a host of small insects that are at work on the fruit, some five thousand young cherry trees would sprout beside the mother tree in the spring. But the cherry tree proposes and other created things dispose. Just at present some sort of an insect which works at night is busy with the young fruit, and every morning I find a heap of little green cherries about the size of peas on the ground underneath the branches. The seeds in these little things will never bring forth new trees. Neither will the seeds that the birds carry away or that the small boys deposit on the pavement on their way to school. Perhaps 85 per cent. of the cherry's struggle naught availeth, but it will keep/up its work just the same, and perhaps I may get one or two seedings in the spring, not to mention a number of pies and some sugar and acid and other nourishment for the members of my family. a. Nature works on the theory that a great deal of the struggle naught availeth, but it never for one second gives up the struggle, for all that. It continues to produce and to seek to recreate its kind, and it will be generally admitted that it is uniformly suc- cessful, despite a great deal of wasted effort. Effort does not all count. Most of it is dissipated in what we call waste, but it all counts as practice, if for nothing else. Men are a part of nature, and as a part of nature must continue to struggle even though some of the struggles are not fruitful. By keeping it up something will be done in the way of geting ahead, and in a world with 1,500,000,000 human ‘beings in it a very little accomplishment is a pretty fair average for one man or woman, even if much effort be wasted to produce it. by John Blake) be nnn: ~—eeeeeeeeeee ————— BIRTHDAY? people of England who had formed a WHOSE WARD| Wrong impression of the Civil War tn JUNE 24.—-HENRY America, and for his service in. In- BEECHER was born at Litchfeld,| quencing public opinion in that coun- Conn., on the 24th of Jun: 1818, and|try he was invited to deliver an ora- died in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 8,{tlon on the anniversary of the sur- render of Fort Sumter in 1865. 1887, He was educated at the Boston Latin School, Amherst College, and| Beecher was in great demand as a Lane Seminary at Cincinnati. In 1837] lecturer and gave lecture eourses at he began his pastorate at Lawrence-| Yale and several other institutions. burg, Ind., and two years later was}He was popular because of his un. called to Indianapolis as pastor of alequaled boldness, genial humor, Presbyterian church. In 1847 he en-| power to illustrate, sonorous voice, tered upon his famous career injand skill in undertaking the expost- Brooklyn, In 1863 he lectured to the tion of social and political evils. he TURNING THE PAGES —By— €. @. Osborn 1922 (New York Byening oorgronia HE moss on your apple trees Wil kill the struggling fruit, Writes my friend; and sends ‘me a scaling knife. ‘ But I think that when I am a spirit, Who has forgotten how to eat, And come back to my trees, The struggling green moss Will be lovelier than the fruit; And I lay the knife away, Safely, where it will never hack and wound The creeping feet of Beauty. A thought by Olive Tilford Dargan, whose latest book of verse, “Lute and Furrow’’ (Seribners), confirms her in high place among American poets. + ee The Vacation-in the Mind - - - Writing of the scientific proposst that we take our vacations in minds, Tom Masson says in the Ri Book Magazine: In order to grasp the true import of this great {dea it 1s necessa to be quite humble and receptive, to remember above all that the won- ders of sctence are eVer present. Then, when understood, it becomes quite simple. Everything that happens to us, declare the psychologists. ts only a succession of mental sensations, just a fussing-up of the nerve centres, This being so, we need only se- cure the right combination for, say, a Newport, a Bar Harbor, a Yo- semite Valley or a Grand Canon to experience the vitallzing senaa- tion of each one of these resorts without expense. Possibly a portable instrument will be devised to obviate any process of self-control on our part gh solthat by merely sitting in an easy -~¥ chair on a hot day and turning on a switch we may expertence th: sensation and secure the benefit of surf bathing or of mountain-lak« diving. The psychologic vacation ought t+ get its best chance, we should say, iv case the, threatened railway aa 3) really happens in July. eres A Warning to Close Our Gates - - « We turn in the Yale Review fer July a page that reads, in part, this way: ‘The book of race migrations must be closed forever. It is for an in- formed and sensible public opinion to put a stop to permitted invasions. The peace of the world cannot be assured until some effective check is placed upon wars for land of thes? products of land; the prosperity of the world cannot be assured until! there is a general denial of the right of any nation with an excessive in- crease of population to seek relief by sending its surplus tionals abroad. We have lately heard a good deal about the right of self-determination of peoples. It is time*to assert the du of self-determination. Each nation must be compelled to work out its own population prot lems without threatening the well being of other nations that are mory intelligent or more self-controlled. ‘To advocates of unrestricted imm! gration and to the steamship con panies, Henry Pratt Fairehild, writ ing thus, will appear as a bad boy throwing stones at the meiting-pot. . As to Prohibition in England - - - In his book “‘My Discovery of Ens; land"’ (Dodd-Mead), Stephen Leac: writes: “é Any Prohibitionist will tell you that the coming of Prohibition t England is as certain as the coming eclipse of the sun. But this is always so. It {# in human nature that people are im- pressed by the cause they work in. IT once knew a minister of the Scotch Church who took a voyage round the world. ‘He sald that the thing that impressed him most was the growth of Presbyterfanism in Japan. No doubt it did. When the Orillia lacrosse team took their trip to Australla they said on thelr return that lacrosse was spreading all over the world. In the same way there {s said to be a spread all over the world of Christian Sclence, proportioned rep- resentation, peace sentiment, bar- barism, altruism, psychoanalysis and death from wood alcohol. They are what are called worl! movements, Making out that a man’s wish, fan- atic or otherwise, is father to his} faith, . . The Boy and the Singer - - - When the Golden Singer rejects the Boy she has played with in “Boy's Love” in the latest book (Dodd-Mead) of Lucus Malet’s short stories: “Why is it impossible? I'd wor- ship you, wait on you hand and ftoot—mould my tastes, my thoughts, all I am, all I could make myself, to the shape you desired.” “And so stultify yourself and kil desire in me—bore me. Yes, would, you would. It's in the na- ture and constitution of things— not to be avoided. I should grow tired of your Jevotion—tired of your mind, your habits, tired even of your body. It’s no use, my dear, no use. Better break you a lit now than break you to pleoes later. My voice stands between us, takes me away from you. [I love it better than I have ever loved or ever shall love any man. In a life such as mine men come and men go. You came, Rupert Secker, and now the hour has struck and you must go. Don't cry for the moon, dear child. It's a cold, barren planet, its light only borrowed—so those wise in science say. Better believe them"— She swept across, put her hand on his shoulder, drew his hand round her waist, stepped down from hearth onto the flagged floor, gently fore- ing him onward. A tragedy? Nonsense! Boy Rupert are not like that. The young Secke merely returned to thoughts of Ro mond,