The evening world. Newspaper, July 13, 1922, Page 26

Paths Png Ctorld, | ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Sunday. by, The Press, Publishing Company, Biko 03 Pack Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULIT! Secretary, 6% Park Row. tionstoTHE EVENING WORLD, k Row, New York (ity. Remit by Post Office Order or Registered Letter. Rooks Open to Al Draft, Cireatation SDAY, JULY 18, 1922. TION RATES. nl ‘gt the Post Office at New York as Second Ch thew, Rae ins ite ee eed nee ee. One Year Six Pinasue: ey Month $1000 85 12.00 6.00 1.00 F World 03 N00 238 23 jude; Tneice-A-Week World 1.00 “i World Almanac for 1922, 35 cents: by mail 50 cents, BRANCH OFFICES, WN, 1393 B'way, cor. 38th. | WASHINGTON, Wyatt Bldg; ARLEM, 2002 7th Ave. pear] 14th and F ste, BRONX, dio £. 14m Bt, near] Oe KcG! soo Mamet x CHICAGO, 1603 Mallers Bldg. B YN, 202 Washington St.] PARIS, 47 Avenue de Oper. food 817 Fukion sme" S| LONDON, 20 Cockepur Bt. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, sents ‘Press Jusively entitled to the use for mit Apress, Grom, fenesctitrels Sa ipor oe cuarwise ecediced this paper. and also th we publlated herein THE RAILROADS ARE WRONG, HE railroad officials turn down the proposal for a conference with representatives of the striking shopmen, even though the proposal was conveyed to them by the Chairman of the Rail- road Labor Board. The railroad officials say that fo treat with the shopmen before they go back to work would con- Stitute “apparent co-operation with those on strike in seeking to find means to subvert the decision of the Labor Board.” This might be a fine and virtuous stand if the failroads were in a position to take it. But they are not. They have themselves been subverting sion of the Labor Board. President Harding's proclamation of last Tuesday pointed in the plainest terms to the fact that certain rail- toad operators “have ignored the decision (of the Railroad Labor Board) ordering the abandon- ment of the contract shop practice.” What the railroads are asking is a return to a “status quo” in which they were defying the Railroad Labor Board while the men were sub- mitting to its decisions. That is not fair and the public will not recog- nize it as fair. The railroads are wrong in refusing a parley on th ground that they must stand by the Labor Board. If they had stood by the Labor Board when the Labor Board went against them, there might have been no strike. Tenderloin steaks retall for 7 cents a pound in Argentina—News Item. Come back to that thought when it’s cooler. Lettuce-and-watermelon is ours. . By Eras 5 Went 4nd Sundi f aily World Only... A BETTER WAY. ENATOR EDGE'S criticism of the tariff does not put him in the ranks of the revolters. He is more regular than the regulars. The principal burden of Senator Edge’s plea is for flexibility. And flexibility is what the Administration asks, Flexibility is needed, but the particular kind of flexibility the New Jersey Senator recom- mends is dangerous. Senator Edge would make the President re- sponsible for flexibility. The Tariff Commis- sion might advise, but the Executive would make the changes. This involves a confusion of executive and leg- islative function. It adds to the load of an over- loaded Executive and is as bad in theory as it’ might prove in practice. Such a power would be a godsend to the “get- the-money” boys, providing they had an acqui- escent President. The danger of disgraceful plundering is obvious. Assuming that President Harding would not abuse the power and would not permit subordinates to impose on him, the fact remains that we cannot be sure what another Administration might do. A better way exists. The tariff may be made flexible without incurring these dangers We have a Tariff Commission. Strengthen it Make it powerful as an expert agent of Con- gress. Make it as free of political control as the Federal Reserve Board or the Supreme Court. Then Congress could determine and define gen- eral principles for levying tariffs—for protection or for revenue, or a combination of the two—by great general classes of commodities Congress should transfer its powers over spe- cific schedules to the Tariff Commission and let them be determined scientifically instead of by log-rolling. This sort of flexibility would be desirable— and safe. A protective tariff so determined might at least protect without plundering. A tariff for revenue would collect a maximum re- turn with a minimum of hardship. But this is not the kind of flexible tariff Senator Edge recommends. ELKS’ FIELDS, S AN organization of widespread member- ship, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks has lent its strength to many worthy movements for civic betterments. Never has it launched a more constructive scheme than the proposal that individual lodges should» purchase, equip and maintain athletic grounds in cities, not so much for the benefit of ar, See the Elks themselves as for the boys and young men of the cities and towns. It is an example other social and athletic or- ganizations might well follow, particularly those ‘clubs owning athletic fields which are not in use for many hours each day. Vailure to provide park and playground space for children is one of the most serious defects in American city development. There can never be enough. Baseball, handball, tennis and even golf courses ought to be made available for the youngsters when the oldsters who pay for them are not playing Then if the Elks and the other clubs would use unremitting vigilance in support of munici- pal programmes for parks and playgrounds, the lot of city reared youth would improve WHAT FRANCE IS LEARNING. HEN the Leygues Ministry fell in France in January, 1921, The World said: “The explosion came when M, Leygues’s ap- peal for more time (for Germany) met with an unfriendly response in quarters where he had received consistent support.” The Briand Ministry went into office and a year later the same words would ‘have been ap- plicable to its overthrow. Six months later the picture is the same. The determined Poincare of January has encountered the situation as it exists and his fervor is waning He has now reached about the same position finally occupied by Leygues and Briand, Each was conquered by the inevitable, Fiery determination loses its fever when con- tinually confronted by cold fact. France may have to change Premiers once, twice, thrice more before it finally discovers that all possible roads lead to moderation. Comptroller Craig delighted the Mayor yester- day by bringing before the Board of Estimate Committee of the Whole a report that the Inter- borough is evading the Transit Commission’s orders by taking off more trains than it put on. For this juicy morsel Comptroller Craig got a nice pat on the head from the Mayor, who can straightway start another investigation to try to discredit the Transit Commission, If you want to make up to Mayor Hylan this summer don't do it with cigars, fruit or flowers. Say it with something on Mr. McAneny. EXACTLY THAT. AMUEL GOMPERS, criticising President Harding’s strike proclamation, says: “It is an effort to sanctify and crown with power the Railroad Labor Board.” For once at least Mr. Gompers is right. The President's proclamation was exactly that—an effort to strengthen the Labor Board. Time may show that this policy of regulation “overlooks fundamentals,” as Mr. Gompers states, “is a denial of democratic methods” and “an effort to perpetuate the impossible.” But the United States is not ready to accept this on Mr. Gompers’s say-so and without a fair trial. Until the Labor Board has had a fair test and has failed, the public is for it, with it and behind it. The public wants to see the Labor Board strengthened by Executive support and by Con- gressional support. FROM A GREAT AND TIMELY SPEECH, “In times of adversity, in a severe economic crisis, a people, like individuals, must recur to first principles, return to the simple, homely virtues, the only secure basis for either indi- vidual prestige or national power. Two roads were open to us and to all the world at the close of the Great War—that of waste, extrava- Bance, taxes and debts or that of economy, fru- gality, work and self-denial, ‘The former leads inevitably to increased worry, greater misery and ultimate ruin; the latter to contentment, prosperity and strength. So far we have chosen the former course, When we have heard of unrest or political discontent, we have readily and generously tendered an ap- propriation. When the taxpayer has protested too earnestly, we have bravely put the burden upon posterity. Like economic cannibals, we are preying upon one another, and, going the cannibal one better, we are now preying upon our children and our children’s children, Pros- perity we assume fs to come, not through indi- vidual sacrifice and individual effort, through self-exertion and personal initiative, but through the open door of the Public Treasury."—Senator William B. Borah to the United States Senate. ACHES AND PAINS Some day soon the U. 8. A. will have to establish a League of Nations within itself to accommodate the 57 varieties of international organizations which have set themselves up and apart from the rest of us, . Advices from Japan show that the cost of produc- tion has risen so that it 48 cutting off export trade, ‘There are bootstrappers outside of the United States Senate. . Edward Ray warns golfers against toting too many clubs, It appears the practice leads to indecision. Now that sassy French girl classes Molla Mallory as Why did we step in and save France? only fifth rate. . What seems to be needed most in golf circles is a boomerang ball—one that will return automatically when it strays outside the limits, . ’ Mr, McAneny wants Hizzoner to stop making faces at the subway on the ground that he scares the pas- We beg he will alter his expression to a sengers. emila, JOHN KEETZ, DORIA TE are Setithasinideee ieee. cokes WE'LL EXPECT You AT SEVEN DON'T FORGET Ay ) Fh - VAM GOING (To DRESS ( THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1922, MURRY UP / WE AAAVEN'T LOOKING FOR THE SHIRT / JUST Toor FF ——— WE ARE (NV/TE THE LAUND 'S HERE a IT HAS TUST GONE 7 THE LAUNDRY, D FOR. DINNE, BY NY OLD FRIEKO Dick S 4 JUST NET HIN IN THE RYAN ) SOILED PICK UP ALL THE (@ Romances of . Industry By Winthrop Biddle. Copyright, 1922, (New York Evening World) "by Press Publishing Go. « XXXIL—MINING FOR WATER, Except for a comparatively narro’ fringe around the const, Australia 19 an arid country, Some of the arld sections, however, are admirabl: adapted to tho raising of sheep— millions of them—if a more abungang and more certain water supply could be found than the familiar “water holes,” at which sheep were Kill the thousands in the mad rush to slak their thirst in times of extrem drought. Statistics show that as far back 4 1691 the sheep population of that an tipodean Commonwealth was repre sented by the astounding figure 106, 000,000. In 1885 there was a drough of unprecedented severity in Asem —a dry spell that impoverished n sheep raisers almost overnight, To deal with the situation the fiv States of the Commonwealth sent ou under official and private auspleedl many picturesque prospectors—me: equipped like the prospectors for gold copper and other minerals, but. pros pecting for water. The result of this prospecting wa) the tapping of the underground water in thousands of places. Assurances success in this prospecting for wal were furnished in Kallare, Ne South Wales, in 1879, when an sian well driven 140 feet was warded by an extraordinary phenome non — the spouting of a huge geyse of cold, clear and refreshing wate twenty-six feet into the air, Scientific investigation + had gil down the postulate that there’ under the surface of Australia—ari Australla—a region of more than 600, 000 miles interiorly irrigated by sul terranean streams of water of con siderable energy. The miners for correctness of this scientific theory finding water in many hundreds q places, Some of this water was brace! ish and could not be used by qdgh men or animals. Some of it £ impregnated with sulphurated nitrd gen that it smelled like eggs lor rotten, Some of it could not be usd even for irrigation purposes, owing its chemical properties. But plenty of water was found thi was good for every purpose—a pumping was dispensed with by t hidden forces of nature, which se} the sparkling liquid spouting sixty fe] into the air at the rate of millions gallons a day. These prospectors for water did great thing for Australia. And prospecting {is still going on. Mir by water proved th 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 fino mental exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying \ to say much in few words. Take time to be brief. Nepotinm, To the Editor of The Evening World: A copy of your papey under date of June 27, in which you truthfully and so fearlessly express the shameful ap- propriation of clerks’ salaries py mem- bers of Congress, has found its way to the hands of a ‘Dixie’ woman who has been, and is, in position to write a pretty accurate story herself, giving first hand information for the great American public concerning the graft and hypocrisies of those con- sclenceless members of the Senate and House of Representatives whose wives, daughters and sons luxuriate on funds from the United States Gov- ernment payroll. Do we want men of this greedy, grafty calibre to represent our great country at the national capital? How Is it possible that they can perceive right and justice in their politics while filching the poor clerks’ salaries and placing on his or her shoulders the hekvy burden of work which should be accomplished by the full clerical force allowed by the Government? It is simply atrocious, and would perhaps astonish the constituents of some of these Jekylls and Hydes who have flattered tremselyes that they have kept their manipulation of pay- roll funds under cover, somo straightforward Why, because it could never pass with #0 large a percentage of Con- gress involved, But let it be used against them in future elections un- til “off with the old and on with the new" will remove this stigma from American. Matesmanship (2). The member trom New York who placed his wife's maiden name on the payroll, was ‘‘kidded,"’ so I was told, by some of his colleagues after the article appeared in The New York Evening World. He grew very wrathy, so it was said, and his sig- that he had wife than—some nificant defense was “rather it was a@ other—as in some instances. The member from Georgia who placed his wie's name on the payroll immediately after their marriage doubtless did intend it as ‘a wedding present."” True, there are Senators, and, if we specialize, a few members of ‘Con- gress who would scorn to graft from for the Gove these waxe-earners. Never The New York Hyening World done anything more commend- able than when it exposed this stu- pendous filching of silaries. It was just like ‘flinging the gaunt- boldly ament’s appropriation d beautifully into the have hit so it must Manifestations of Opinion To the Editor of The Evening Wor'd Just a few lines to thank you for my, personal comfort and for the Why cannot[™agazine Margot Asquith member of] ‘What I Think of American Men,'* Congress introduce a biil yoting down| which, apparently, is not much. Our these disgraceful conditions? fmqny au iiinks ase aruda tac “¢ Oaks" that built the Constitu- tion of America. Your editorial of to-day’s Evening World in reference to the President's Speech at Marion, Ohio, July 4, re- garding Prohibition is so plain that few will not understand it. With all your previous editorials on the “Elgh- teenth Oppression,” this creates a de~ pression in the soul of a man, to feel that the men of to-day are only sprigs of the great trees that built the foun- dation of our country, and all that favor Prohibition are far inferior to the illiterate of foreign countries, for they, in their ignorance, never op- pose nature! The will of America is manifested only at the polls! ‘The public opinion of America was never manifested through religious bigotry, and fanaticism of same, as plainly stated by an Anderson! Roosevelt's death was a casus belli to “put it over,’” but our foun- dations are resting, {t seems, on bombs, with fuses sputtering, ANTHONY ORECKINTO. Brooklyn, July 8, 1922, Men With Missions, To the Editor of The Evening World In the current issue of a popular tells us ture, imagination and, in fact, every- thing except the money making in- stinct. While it may be true that sone American business men do imagine Dante to be a third baseman and Velasquez a South American revolutionist, still the same thing has been said before by other kindly Brit- ish commentators, and so I was neither greatly interested nor per- turbed by that portion of the article. But Margot, to use a quaint idiom of the day, did “say a mouthful’? when with deadly accuracy she launched this shot: ‘America is more violent than free and takes constant interference with cowlike obedience, cee Details of private life are regulated by the state or by some society that claims—and ts tacitly ac- corded—pollee powers, If you do any~ thing that you appear to enjoy, you may be quite sure some one will form a society to prevent you from on with it.’’ Ba aGInS Who can deny the truth of Mrs, Asquith's arraignment? Is there in the whole world another country with 80 many busybodies, so many cranks with “missions,” and every one of them making it pay? A tolerant God—and T say {t tn all reverence—must sit on high and smile at Bipot ied of these “reformers** in a land wh the only really ha und contented people are the Pure’ foot Johnsons, the Bill Andersons and the Izzy Einsteins. HLF Brooklyn, July 10, ‘ islands in the South Seas. scapes and people. to be found in t one else in the world, they had been paying. paying a grent deal for it. to hand. for his success. GOLD HUNTERS. Within the last two or thre gold hunters have’ set out from New York. One was bent on finding a chest of gold supposed to have been lost by a party of early explorers Two others, with maps and charts sailed away for UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) years three It is quite possible that in the hardship and hard work of these expeditions the argonauts will improve their health, and they surely will see far countries and interesting land- If they really are seeking gold, however, there is more ir immediate neighborhoods, and there is much more certainty of securing it. John D. Rockefeller was as desirous of a fortune as any boy who was ever born into the world, but it never occurred to him that he could find one without work. To take the million-to-one chance of finding gold that some one, else had stolen and buried never occurred to the man who is now credited with having more wealth than any He saw that there was gold all about him and that people would gladly give it to him for something they }]*"! wanted, if he could supply it to them at a lower price than He learned that they wanted oil and that they were So he gave them better oil at a cheaper price, and though he built up a monopoly, the monopoly, through or- ganization, really reduced the price of oil, Very few men stumble into fortunes. them make fortunes, as did Rockefeller, by finding ways and means to give something of value for the gold read It is a safer and more profitable game, and incidentally it contributes to the real wealth of the world, creating some- thing of value. The gold hunter merely finds gold that is already in existence; he does not build up an industry, and even if he is successful, the rest of the world is no better for water ure slowly but surely tending the area of cultivation their indefatigable search. a Famous_ Philosophies®|, By LOUIS M. NOTKIN (Ney York Evening ess Publishing Co Copyright, 1 expeditions of TEN IX.—JOHN LOCKE—EXPERIENG THE ORIGIN OF ALL KNOWL- EDGE. John Locke songlt to compri% Canada. the nature and the limits of our Wy derstanding, He had decided that nate ideas cannot do anything knowledge. According to Locke, 1 uine as the basis of d unything occult, m: useless to a human reason terious, opaque, hidden away in recesses ef the mind, The real ca of Locke's hatred of innate idead his horror of anything mystical. thought ig not to be clear, what s| be clear? Lovke describes the origin of knd edge in the following way: “Let us then suppe the min be, us we say, W aper, void characters, without any id how comes it to be furnished? Wh: comes it hy that vast store which busy and boundless faney of man ainted on it with an almost end| jety? Whence has it all the my rials of reason and knowledge? “To this T answer, in one From Experience; in that all knowledge is founded, and from it ultimately derives itself, Our servation, employed eith ternal sensible object ly internal operations of 01 : d and reflected on by ours: ut which supplies our underst with all the materials of t two are the te Thousands of we have or can naturally ha spring. “The first fountain of knowl 1 Ser the other T eat tion. » two, T say, ne xternal material things, as th jects of sensation, and the oper Ci From the Wise Men are like flies—for men are in sects too. Little in mand, howe'er our bodies runt We're all in sects; in sects that hate each other, And deem it love of God to hate one’s brother. —Edward Irwin, The true university of these days is a collection of good books. — Carlyle. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion, Lowell, WHERE DID YOU GET THAT 187. The words do not seem to be yet they are probably brother: dictionary writers have made up their »inds about the origin of the word seems plain enough. descended from the Latin word * us," the par- an 9 7 a = ticiple of “vineo,"' to conay Ac-|a1 ealy “probable,” is the fac! cordingly, ‘victim’ is the untithe .#y ure victims of their own ca of “victor.” Tt means, in faet, iat Is to say, they have been conquered,” in its origins? sexe, uered" by their own gare to The reason why dictionary writers |piifulls of language, of which, consider this derivation of the wordlare many, tuke thelr beginning Because innnate ideas, the —VICTIM. truths of Descartes, were myst victim’ und “victor! | Locke hus Uinewn them over Experience it is that writes Locke proves the existence not quite|by appealing to the principle of ality: world must have a victim.” And yet it/@nd_ since matter cannot pq spirit, the cause of the u of our own minds within, as th jects of reflection, are to me th originals from whence all our WORD? clasaly related, thing on the blank: tablet of the must be a spiritual being: Milter masasks essen ni...