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Bide ROOKLYN, 202 Washington 8t,| PARIS, 47 Avenue de VOpers. 6nd 317 Fulton 8t LONDON, 20 Cockspur Bt, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. . Associated Preas is exclusively entitied to the use Yor repn bit. cation af nil newy rieepatehes credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein A HASTY DECREE. FIED by the Shopmen’s Union, the Railroad Labor Board has outlawed the strikers and advises the formation of new unions by new employees and those who stayed on the job. In theory the outlaw decree is good. But rail- roads cannot run on theory. Men, skilled and experienced, are needed. When this strike is settled it will be by men sitting around a table and agreeing. Under just what name the representatives of the employees may negotiate is relatively unimportant. The important thing is that they must represent in the main the same men who have been working in the shops, the strikers. It is not practical to make general replacements. It may be possible to recruit new employees and then discover that repair would be unsatisfactory and expensive, that the old men are needed. The railroads cannot now afford excess overhead for inefficient shop work. If the old men are called back, whether as members of the old or of a new union, their first demands will be for the seniority and privileges taken away by the outlaw decree. When that time comes, the Labor Board may find it neces- sary to retreat from the present stand, The board, as an arm of the Government, may find it more difficult to back up than does the average employer who makes similar threats. For this reason the board might have been wiser to be less precipitate in issuing so sweeping an order. The first need of the railroads and of the public is to get the experienced workers back on the job. Nevertheless) akhough the board may have been somewhat overhasty, there is nothing in fhe order to in any way justify the attack Samuel Gompers made. One would suppose that Mr. Gompers had been the recipient of enough hard names so that he would know how little they mean. But about the best Mr. Gompers can do is to call the action of the board “utterly Bolshevist’” Mr. Gompers has been described in similar terms. He has survived. will the Labor Board. !t is the best hope the public has. EF Sg So The “Safe and Sane Fourth” idea has pro- gressed until the automobile is more deadly than the firecracker. FELONIOUS ASSAULT. ISTRICT ATTORNEY RUSTON of Brook- lyn is absolutely right in his comment on the pop-bottle throwing at Ebbets Field Sunday, “It is unfortunate that some of those who threw the bottles were not caught and put under arrest. They could have been held and indicted on charges of felonious assault.” That is exactly what it is—felonious assault. The special officers at whom the bottles were thrown Sunday were entirely within their rights The rowdy element of bottle throwers were wrong. Mr. Ruston exonerates the management of the park from responsibility for the near-riot Sunday, but if there are other similar incidents the man- agement will have to make itself responsible and ask the police for plainclothes men to make arrests. Better yet would be a manifestation of sports- manship by the bleacherites. The orderly element ought to be numerous enough to hold the rowdies in check and disarm the bottle tossers. THE PRINCIPAL HEIR. N an estimate of $200,000,000 as the estate O of the late William Rockefeller, a tax ex- spert has calculated that the Federal Government will receive $49,000,000 and the State $6,000,000 to $8,000,000 as inheritance ta) The estate, after the taxes are paid, is to be divided into four approximately equal trust funds for the benefit of Mr. Rocketeller’s children and their children According to this estimate, Government will collect $55,000,000 oremore, and each child about $36,000,000. Government takes the larger share when there are three or more heirs to a colossal fortune “But even so it cannot be contended that the from es inheritance tax works a material hardship on the heirs. When fortunes are so large as to be af- THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1922. fected by the higher rates of inheritance’ taxes, the remainders are always larger than the beneficiaries can spend for comfort or even for luxury, The tax fortunes which otherwise might grow to dangerous proportions by natural accretion in conservative trust fund only serves as a curb on investment NOT A SIMPLE THING. RESIDENT HARDING'S intimate talk to his home-town friends is a speech of dis- As a human affair the Presidency Harding had dreamed P illusionment isn't all that Warren G that it would be. Yesterday's talk included an element of pathos, coming as it did from a man who only two years ago told those same neighbors that Government is a “simple thing.” There is no reason to think that Mr. Harding was even slightly insincere when he made the earlier statement, but he was seriously mistaken then Mr. Taft could have told him of the complexi- ties of the office. « Mr. Wilson was even then 4 broken man ftom the trials of a killing job Mr. Harding hadn't measured his job when he was so confident that he could measure up to its demands. “It is pretty hard to be President and be perfectly natural and normal,” says President Harding, who, above everything, would like to be natural and normal. It is more than “pretty hard.” It is impossible The United States has saddled a killing job on its Chief Executive. It grows progressively from one Administration to the next. An American President needs to face the task in a spirit of martyrdom and without illusion. Then if he is able enough, wise enough, competent enough, he may by rigorous discipline train for his work as the athlete trains for a contest of strength and skill To save himself for necessary work the Presi- dent must anticipate and head off added difficul- He must grow with the job and prevent a piling up of unfinished business. In a word he has to be a director and leader of his party and his country. The President cannot be “natural and normal.” He must be a driver. President Harding wasn't in his first year. He went in with the illusion that Government is a simple thing. If he is get- ting the measure of his job, so much is gained— better late than never. If now he proves able to measure up to the job the credit will be all the greater. But he cannot do this by being “natural and normal.” The President has shown some evidence of in- creasing firmness of late. He needs a lot more to make good in the hardest job in the world ties. The usual Fifth of July crop of sunburn is conspicuous by its absence. It is almost safe to slap a home-coming week-ender on the back this rainy season. FOOLISH MONARCHISTS. OLLOWING the assassination of Walter F Rathenau, German militarists are reported to have made a vicious attack on the b editor and politi of Berlin. Harden, like Rathenau, is distinguished as an independent and fearless thinker, a constructive force in German affairs. Precisely what the German militarists hope to gain by such a campaign of violence is not clear. Germany needs such intelligences as those of Harden and Rathenau. They would be needed as much in a monarchy or in a soviet as in a repub- lican state. The monarchists are making a determined ef- fort to create an imperial movement. But the result of such attacks as these promises to justify cruel repression of monarchists if the anti-mon- archists are able to stem the tide. jant 1 writer, Maximilian Harden ACHES AND PAINS Viola White in the Atlantic seeks “the coverts of the human mind beyond its false and simple mas- querade.” What's the use? . Please note that District Attorney Banton's first name is Joab, The patient one was called Job. ° Russian rubles cost so much*more than they are worth that we should think the Bolskys would quit printing them ° How sweet of the ratlroaders to strike on the edge of a holiday. Such a tactful way of sopping up sym- pathy, . The prevailing dampness has played hob with the golfers. Would it not be a nice idea to hook the holes up with sewer connections? . Leonora Speyer speaks in the Century of “Sum mers iast pennies sung aside” by a “jingle of b the dawn.” Jingling the coppers we presume ° Privately we think Joseph Pennell can express more dissatisfaction in less space than any one we know of, In his latest scold he speaks of John Van Dyke as “a delightful person” and then parentheticates: “7 should not care to have anything to do with the other one.” Dear, dear, who can he mean? Surely not the author of “The Other Wise Man." Yet Joseph catis himself the “most inoffensive person in the world JOHN KERTZ ~~ On the Way Down! Copyrfgnt, 1922, (New York Evening World) By Press Pub. Co. ry _— From EveningWorld Readers What kind of letter du 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 tryind to say much in few words. Take The Expensive Farce. To the Editor of The Evening World In a recent letter from one Julius he states that the Prohibi- tlon question could not be taken care Friedel, of by the peor That means that a question which clearly an fair of the millions of clear minded, clean thinking people, can only be satisfactorily by a minority of nar- row, selfish, bigoted and arrogant creatures who are well paid for their supposed aud mythical abstinence, as well as for thelr impudent and in- sulting tirades against a decent Ame! jean public, Why was the ment Jammed It would handled ighteenth Amend- Into the Constitution? almost seem that it was for the riffraff and political parasites who, in days gone by, had to count their pennies to make them reach in order to escape from an honest di 8 work, but who now tour the country in thelr seven-passenger $, plus chauffeurs, When the bootlegger and the rest of the low tribe thrive and the decent man is deprived of his lawful right to drink whatever suits him best it is time to call a halt, so I ask, “When ‘s this contemptible law going to end?" The whole thing is nothing but a good-for-nothing and expensive farce, and farce it {s, for even the loudest shouters and the dryest of the dry take their trips abroad on English ships. Forgotten is the much ¢ ploited American merchant marine, with no champagne or cocktalls on board, but much water, These Pro- hibitionists can prescribe, but how they hate to take their own medicine! A WOMAN New York, June 192: To the Editor of The Rv In reply to Mr. 14 smoking drivers would say has a poor argument. The mands a driver to give pr with hand or whip when cor vin's criticism of that he stop or turning a corner, 1 that a driver or chauffeur must do most of his drivin with one hand Let the man who is smoking get caught in a traffic jam and see how quickly he throws that weed away Any one who can’t drive as well with one hand as with two should not have and this a te should be given at time of applic Bronx, June 1922, HOG that ton A Ne Anthem. To the Editor of The Evening W Having seen a good dea scus- sion in the newspapers recently about the national anthem, I st ke to express my As of W {national anthem should and s It she t be episod “The st angled Banne ald ft ag does that anthem, atred of another nation time to be brief. It should Dixie. It should not be ica ts to lead the lishing world peace It should express abstract qualities, such as freedom, justice, puirivtiom in the highest sense, love of the flag, the brothe 1 of man. . It should stress spiritual and should mention the name of God The poem should be written and music composed by American The mus' suld be dignified, rich and singable. A nat properly not be sectional, like militaristic. Amer- nations in estab- onal rep. anthem that would sent America to- would be written for the generations to whose standards should be higher than those of present time DUNNE. 8. Cc New York, June 29, 1922 acking.” To the Editor of The Evening World Judging by the W. H. Anderson letter published in The Evening World of Tuesday, June 27, In refer- ence to Prohibition, it seems to show almost conclusively that a certain element forced Prohibition upon the Nation very much against the will of the people When the Ant!-Saloon League sees fit to issue a letter of such kind, with the practical acknowledgment that a lot of its donors see fit not to con- tribute any further, {t rather shows that the Prohibition Party will soon make application for membership in the Down and Out Club HARRY E. Brooklyn, June 29, 1922. KING Mr. Ansorge on the Joh, To the Hdltor of The Evening World In reference to the charges pub- that rying shed In your paper on Juné Congressmen several ca deadhends on the Government payroll I personally know the chal@e Congre tin C. gainst sman } Ansorge to be absolutely groundless casion to make I have had oc- veral trips to Wash ington recently on matters regarding disabled veterans and on four ditfer ent times visited Mr. Anso office, toom 170, Congressional Office Build ing, with Mr. J. EB. Pelkey of New York and Mr. F. L. Baer of Wash ington, and always found a woman clerk busily engaged, besides Mr Hahn, his secreta Mr. Ansorge represents the largest Congressional District in the States and es several handre pieces of mail each day bestd quests to adjust matters with every Government department, any person in his rict who had occasion to communicate knows from the prompt h case that it would be | for one person to business of his office. hat off to him United rec and has wit action pos handle hina in € si any the I take my for being UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) THE BEST TIME TO BEGIN, We know of an author of only mediocre ability who will not begin to write until he has, first, insured absolute quiet in his house; second, lain for half or three-quarters of an hour on a couch to rest his mind, and, third, arranged his writing materials and reference books so that he will have no difficulty in the mechanicai part of il He gets very little done, i not done very well. Another author of our acquaintance will begin to write whenever he finds a chance, whether it is at home or on & railroad train or in a hotel. A pad and pencil are all the writing materials he needs. When he wants reference books, he goes to the library for them. If he can’t find them, he returns to some other part of his job that can ‘be done without them, postponing the needed references till there is a chance to get at them. This man gets a great deal done, and it is usually done very well. He has no more talent than the other, but he has more industry. Also he has less faith in inspiration, and more in the necessity of getting things started. You would not expect much of a carpenter who would not begin a job unless he was secure from interruptions and knew that all the materials he might use in a week were on the spot at the moment of starting. Writing may require a higher form of mental effort than carpentry, but they both are jobs that must be begun in order to be finished, and the sooner each is begun the sooner it will be ended, There is a great deal of nonsense in the idea that some particularly propitious moment must be found in order to begin any sort of work. A beginning place can be found for any job at any time. If one part of the work must be postponed, another is ready to start on, So-called drudgery, which attends all effort, can be done at any time. The good carpenter who hasn’t any foundation timbers to lay for a house can busy himself with needful work on other lumber so that it will be ready when he wants it. Any work can be started now if the man who has it t> do is really interested in getting it over. Perhaps solitude and freedom from interruption are necessary to the highest mental labor, but there is plenty of mental labor that can be done wherever the worker may happen to be. job. id what he does get done is . man who really represents his dis-) mouth, N. H., Aug. 14, 1870. He en- trict as a whole for ap 8004] tered the navy as a midshipman at 3 st te an—when the record ” a Argh ier man "it [the age of nine. Two years later he slogan for a e' he the past was: he should be seen and|@% Promoted to a Lieutenancy, and net heard in 1851 secuyed an appointment as ROGER L. SULLIVAN, | Assistant sae te of Ordnance, At easurer and Service Officer Wash-|the outbreak of the Civil. War he was ington Height Post 171, American assigned to accompany an expedition Legion. 5 New York, June 28, 1922 against New Orleans, After shelling — the city without effect for a week, he WHOSE BIRTHDAY ? succeeded in forcing a passage of the *~ , river In the dark, which caused it to JULY 5—DAVID GOW FAR- fall into the hands of the Federals. RAGUT was born near Knoxville. [Later he took po jon of Baton Tenn., July 5, 1801, and died in Ports-! Rouge and Natchez, ran the batteries | Romances | Industry | By Winthrop Biddle. Copyright, 1022, (New York Evening World) ‘by Press Publishing Co, XXX, — THE ASPHALT LAKE OF TRINIDAD, It was Walter Raleigh — subse- quently dubbed a knight by Queen Sizabeth, his silent partner in the piratical business—who discovered the source of one of the romances of nodern industry. That source is tne vottomless asphalt lake of Trinidad. Efforts to plumb this tract of 160 ieres have not succeeded yet™ The “rench took a hand at exploiting it, ind failed, Then the British took it up, and now an American company is exploiting it with success. . ‘This company in a seven-year period took 2,200,000 tons of asphalt a product allied with petroleam— yut of the lake. And still it shows 10 trace of having been worked, 80 ar as the visible supply of asphalt 8 concerned, The lake—Pitch Lake, 1s Sir Walter christened it—is ap- parently inexhaustible. >: Though soft, the bitumen will fur- nish ready footing for the person of average weight. Early in the morn- ng, before the heat of the day has set_in, @ horse and cart can cross the deposit of bitumen without much danger. A thick layer of palm branches furnishes a roadbed for the ht tramway that has been laid over wonder of nature. Its most wonderful feature ip its Inexhaustibility. The lake is evidently ‘onnected with the thain Source of the world's supply of pitch. Take out as many tons of bitumen as you can in the course of a day's work, and the supply is fully replenished from in- visible but apparently eternal sources. When you are cooling off on a motor spin on, say, the Merrick Road, partly paved with asphalt, take additional pleasure from the reflection that the paving probably has come from the “hottest place on earth,” as it is locally called. It is so hot in the neighborhood of the Lake of Trini- jad that work can be carried on only n the early morning and in the late afternoon, There are other sources of asphalt Texas, Utah, Venezuela, Persia and Mesopotasiia, But the wonder of them all is the bottomless Lake of Trinidad. It is safe to say that, un less Nature plays unforeseen trick, Pitch Lake will be just as pro- ductive a thousand years from now as it Is to- In some places the asphalt is so ick and dry that it has to be mined e stone or surface © At Trinidad, in addition to bein: nexhaustible, the bitumen is of th best possible consistency for working neither too hard nor too soft. Sir Walter Raleigh made a great strike when he vered this lake. But he ‘ailed to profit from It, for !t took the world a long time to find out that the “pitch” was good for any- thing. an | Famous — | Philosophies By LOUIS M. NOTKIN Copyright, 1 sew ¥ World) ‘by tng. VI. —VOLTAIRE— HATRED OF INTOLERANCE—THE IMPOR. TANCE OF HAVING A GOD. Voltaire opposed the ‘innate ideas." If that doctrine of doctrine be true, the “mind has to be sent to school to learn what it already know Not ideas but reason is in nate: “God gave all men the same reason, and by this, when it d men pe the same ne principle. Metaph elye sics (In any real sense) he repudiates as idle curiosity, ruinous to common sense and morality, Voltaire ntends, however, for the belief in God, freedom and immortality. Tho denier of God is, he says, refuted with the single phrase, ‘You exist, there- fore there is a God.” According to Voltaire, the supposi- tion of a God is ‘so necesdary, so convenient, indeed (the idea of jus- tice and the manifestation of design in the world require it), that man would have to invent a God if He did not exist."’ We are necessarily and forever ig norant of God's nature; one must be God to know God. We must, as no sv- ciety can exist without justice, sup- pose Him to be just. Itis,of course, irrational to ‘‘believe in a God who promenades in a garden, talks, be- comes man and dies on a cross." Voltaire espouses natural religion, but rejects revealed religion. He re- fers everything which transcends natural religion to stupidity and de- ception. Stupidity gives rise to the {dea of the supernatural and decelv- ers afterward take advantage of this stupidity in order to gain control over men by means of their superstition. The best religion is the one that con- tains a large measure of ethical cut- ture, but few dogmas, Voltaire recognized the limitation of our ability to penetrate into the unknown things, According to his views, all ideas proceed from, matter. What is matter? We do not know— we are quite as ignorant on this point as on the question concerning the nature of the soul. The Creator en- dowed us with understanding to ‘he end that we might thereby govern our actions, not for the purpose of pene- trating Into the nature of things. The eternity of matter represents the limit of our knowledge, and this rests upon the universally accepted prin. ciple that nothing can proceed from nothing. the Union at Vicksburg and fleet above. miral on account of his success ut New Orleans. In 1966 Congress created Joined He was made Rear Ad- him a Vice Admiral, and two years later raised him to the rank of Ad- miral, a rank that had not existed in the United States Navy prior to that time,