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e ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZE!: Pabttened The Press Puntisning Company. ‘Beto er kak Row Now Work RALPH PULITZER Premdent. 6% Park Row J. ANGUS SHAW. Treasurer 68 Park fow JOSEPH PULITZER. Secretary 63 Park Row. NING WORLD . Remit by & SUBSCRIPTION RATES a sini Pastis festa tne Vnived salen, orieide Crater New Nek BRANCH OFFICFS . WN, 1808 Biway, cor sath.) WASHINGTON. Wyatt Bide. Vath and F Ste NFTR NT, 521 Ford Bide » BOOT! CHICAGO, 1603 Melters Bide. PARIS, 47 Avenue de [Opere. LONDON, 20 Cockepur #% MEMBER OF THE ASBOCIATED PRESS. | | Ss Pe Breas te exclusively, ‘ert ter for | | 7th Ave, nenr news despatches and also the local new: A FURTHER TARIFF EXHIBIT. F Senator McCumber cares to stage another tariff show of horrible examples, we will tor- ward an exhibit and pay postage. A Park Row vendor was hawking his wares Saturday noon. His specialty was a handy pocket tool set. We doubt that he was making 2,340 per cent. profit, but his goods were imported. They were stamped with the “Germany” mark. The price was a thin dime for a metal pocket tool case and holder, including an awl, a screwdriver, 2 gimlet, a pair of tweezers and—with apologies to 4 Volstead—a corkscrew. Or maybe it was another i gimlet. ; The tools didn’t fit the handle properly. And when fitted they didn’t work well The gimlet didn’t bore, the awl bent and tne cast-iron screw- iy driver twisted itself instead of the screw. And that is a concrete demonstration of a good i deal of German “dumping.” Many of the com- modities dumped are cheap, cheaper in quality than in price. Perhaps the buyers need “protection.” But a high tariff doesn’t prevent a sucker from being a sucker. Experience may. Meanwhile we are holding « badly demoralized 10-cent tool set subject to the order of Senator McCumber. VIVE LA POLITBSSE' Said Alphonse Hylan to Gaston Hearst: j “You are ce Big One. Allez first!” Said Gaston Hearst: “Mais non, Mon Cher, { You do ee travel, 1 pay ze fare.” — ANOTHER HOPE DAWNS. HORTAGE of skilled laundry workers leads the Laundry Board of Trade of Greater New York to urge the establishment ot a laundry trade school as part of the high school vocational course. After studying the laundry industry hereabout, the Trade Board reports: “Those who desire to follow the laundry trades and occupations are lamentably lacking in respect to standards of workmanship and business ethics. The interests of the trade as a whole often suffer greatly because of the lack of knowledge on the part of certain laundry owners of even the most elementary principles of management and of decent service to patrons. “The plants are suffering many losses due to lack of proper mechanical and special scientific knowledge on the part of the employees.” This will cause a long-suffering public to prick up its ears with interest. Ruinous laundering of clothes at ruinous prices has long been a standing worry to numberless fami- lies who are not lucky enough to be able to have all the weekly washing done at home. / To these unfortunates the possibility that laun- dering standards may some day be brought up to a level where a shirt comes home whole and wear- able even unto the fifth and sixth return from the laundry—and with a bill that does not lift the hair—will shine forth as a bright star of hope. Blessed be science and vocational training if they can work this miracle! { | ! What a moment for the discovery of a perfect all-round substitute for coal! BORN IN TROUBLOUS TIMES. ‘®* NADA'S proposal for 2 modernization of the Rush-Bagot treaty of 181/ restricting naval strength on the Great Lakes lends interest to the conditions prevailing when tnat treaty was drawn The negotiations followed the War of 1812. Canadians and Americans were by no means friendly. The Thirteen Colomies had resented Canadian reluctance to join in the War of Inde- pencence. But a generation had passed since then. The immediate animosities of 1817 had their roots in the fur trade The Hudson Bay Company was contending for the rich prizes of the newly opened Western country. Opposed to the Hudson Bay traders and to efch other were John Jacob Astor's forces and a rival organiza- tion operating out of St. Louis. Detroit had been headquarters of the “hair- buyer,” Gen. Hamilton, who had instigated count- : less Indian raids on the territory north of the Ohio. Hamilton had been captured and, nomi- nally, the United States took title to Detroit in 1783. Actually, the British and French held con- trol until 1796. In the War of 1812 Hull had surrendered Detroit, and the Western settlers sut- ‘ By Ae ee fered new Indian outrages instigated in Canada. British and French Canadian traders matched trading posts and forts with he Americans all the long distance from the lakes to the Pacific. Rivals, Americans as well as Canachans. did not scruple to plot against their adversaries and to send In- dians to raid opponents. It was in such an atmosphere of jealousy, com- mercial rivalry, lingering animosities caused by ‘hair-buying,” and territoria, disputes that the armament limitation treaty of 1817 was written The result is history. As she trading forts de- caved, the nations did not build new ones By mutual consent, limitation of armament extended from coast to coast. . This policy has withstood a score of strains But perhaps the most significant was its power to stand the strain of being created in such troubious times. If Rush and Bagot had waited until Canada and the United States had nc social or economic differences the border would have bristled with forts and navies, and every misunderstanding might have exposed the two countries to the dan- ger of war. ONLY BY A STRIKE? a the President and the legislative rep- resentative of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees and Railway Shop Laborers had spent two hours last Satur- day in conference with President Harding on the railroad strike situation, the White House gave out a Statement which contained the following: “They brought to the President the frst personal and official protest that the railway managers were ignoring the decisions of the Railroad Labor Board.” This seems rather disingenuous. In his own proclamation issued three days before, President Harding distinctly declared: “Certain operators have ignored the decision (of the Railroad Labor Board) ordering the abandonment of the contract shop practice.” More than two weeks earlier, when the shop- men’s strike was imminent, Chairman Hooper of the Railroad Labor Board issued a statement in which he said: “The employees do have one substantial grievance against certain of the carriers, and that ts the contracting of railway employment to so-called independent contractors. This is not simply a labor grievance; it is a public grievance. The policy carried to its logical end destroys the labor article of the Transportation Act, treats the United States Congress with contempt, deprives the public of lawful protec- tion from labor troubles and grievously imposes upon the employees.” If before there was any railroad strike at all, the Railroad Labor Board knew and publicly Stated that certain railroads were “destroying the labor article of the Transportation Act and treat- ing Congress with contempt” it seems as if the President of the United States might have known it. It seems as if even Congress might have been informed of it. c President Harding now says that any inade- quacy in the law must be corrected by Congress to the end that all decisions of the Railroad Labor Board shall be “accepted by employers and employees alike.” Does it, then, take a strike to call adequate attention to the fact that certain railroad em- Ployers are deliberately violating the Labor Board’s decisions? ‘ If so, Labor Board or no Labor Board, protec- tion for the public against railroad strikes is still a long way off. FROM A GREAT AND TIMELY SPEECH. “I do not believe that the burdens already Placed upon the people are so disturbing, so fruitful of dissatisfaction and discontent, as those burdens which present policies indicate are yet to come. “The present demands are sufficient to take the people's earnings, but the proposed poll- cles take away their hope for better days,"— Senator William E. Borah to the United States Senate. Home-bound trains wait at The Hague. Yet hope hangs on. ACHES AND PAINS “Life” is ccusing to print jokes and ts becoming one instead. This is a poor substitute, . The railway unions ought to know from experience that « cow seldom stops a cow catcher! . The cynical Frenchmunw who sald that marriage was the best cure for love did not mean it kindly. Love is a savage affatr, it binds and crushes. How much bet ter 4s friendliness, affinity and companionship: 11 is a hard fate that compels men and women to lose thew senses in orde: to perpetuate the ruce, ° According to Wittiam Dudley Foulkes, President Roosevelt used to call Wilheim's Ambussador, apeck Sternberg. “Bpecky.” Yet we escaped war with Ger. many for the moment, We have succeeded in “regulating” everything but the weather, It ts still a democratic institution, . Can it be true, as reported, that we have but 25, 000 soldiers as against 72.000 “detailed” men in our reduced armyf Seema a little out of proportion. JOHN KEETz, 2 | SUNOS 6 Re a An RET THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY Can You Beat It! DID YOU PACK MY FANCY VEST © From Evening World Readers, What kind of letter dv you find most readable? Ien’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There is fine mental exercise and & lot of satisfaction in trying @0 eay much in tew words. Take time to be brief. “A Christian Country.” ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: John Webb jr. wrote in The Eve- Bing World of the L0th, under thc heading of “The National Anthein.' Part of his letter states: “I presume Mr. Dunne means the Christian God. If s0, he evidently doesn’t know that the United States, in principie, is no more Christian thar Buddhist or Confucionist. In the words of George Washington, this country is ‘in no sense founded upo ‘the Christian religion.’ George Washington was not the law of the country. John Webb jr. evi dently is unaware that the Supreme Court of the United States rendered a decision some twenty odd years pgo that the United States was a Chris- Uan country. Their decision is on record and, being the highest court ip ‘the land, ts firal T. CLAY. New York, July 12, 1922. a family to support, and who honora- bly accords his secretary the full sal- ary, to live next to the political door of some Congressman, rich, and yet who unscrupulously grafts salary by inches, furlong: until barely enough is secretary upon which to live. 1 have in mind a man who pays @ widow $150—one of the finest secre- taries in Congress—and who retains the rest to dress his wife. Although I have as little hope of impressing such a man as pin pricks the hide of a rhinoceros, yet there is one thing that will affect him—the fear of defeat through an opponent who will swear to the people of his district to pay hts secretary all that is allotted by the Government, and that not a cent will 50 to his family. We secretaries know who these men are—we have them all ucketed, and we know in a good many cases that work has to be done on the side, in such offices, to make ends meet, when {t should be a square. (air play, under the old Biblical Scrip tures that a “laborer is worthy of bis hire."* ‘These are unusual offices. ‘They re- quire faithfulness, intelligence ana tact and we are going to look upon Che Evening World, in the future, to the statement of a death by an aut | .eep up the good work, so that not a mobile 18 accompanied by the re- Cengressman so indicted can have mark that the chaufteur was held on jthe nerve to stand before his constitu. a technical charge of homicide. ents and ask for re-election under the From my own very close observa-|circumstances (all of which tm po tion | beheve sincerely that many {SPlendkdly true) as detailed tm your of there chauffeurs are responsible for {@Micle on this subject. There is no fatal accidents Of course. there are PAL ssa neat Libveranpctabo'g fdilacl eee eee ore barly (ty [less to say that your future articles on this subject will be eagerly bought up what happens to chauffeurs who are the moment your paper reaches the Proved guilty of nexligence. Union Station. HALF-LOAF, To my mind, pubiicity should |” "Washington, July 18. given to cases which result in verdicts against such chauffeurs—or perhaps chauffeurs never come to trial, feel certain that if a chauffeur were to be punished severely tor his reck- lessness and suitable publicity given that this would help considerably in reducing accidents in New York cannot recall a single instance of see ing in any newspaper the result of 4 trial for homicide WILLIAM WALSH. He Homicide. To the Editor @ Evening World: Bach day we read of a number o deaths and accidents by automo biles in New York City, and usual: Freedom, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: I agree with Mr, Angelo Camaratti, Why try to free this country from sre Pronibition Law? The American Na- tion is a Nation of villagers, as a weil known english writer justly said. To those who do not understand vhat is meant by villagere 1 point to tne New York, July 12, 1922, word “Rube,” which means the same. , The American thinks, of course, he An Appreciation, is the salt of the earth, when ne 5 ‘To the Editor of The Evening Wor On behalf of a great many loaf’’ secretaries in Congress this le! ter is written to express our heartfelt thanks for the fine and courageous manner in which you handled the matter of graft in salaries by the Con- gressmen, which recently appeared in your paper, You will appreciate, no doubt that when approached by reporters who were sent to cover the aforesaid artl- in reality only a slave of his own ig- norance, narrow-mindednesa, and the biggest bigot in the world, Why, the American does not know what the word freedom means. Therefore why do ou waste #0 m: space in your paper trying to lighten those who cannot be enlight- ened? It {s all nonsense, because the weakness of the dwel of this seit. styled land of the brave and the to.ne of the free will In the near future bring forth a condition whereby che cle our lips necessarily had to be mute, | “free citizen” will be put under lock We would suggest that you make|and key between working hours these articles more frequent, It ia | alongside of the tools he ts us! patently unjust to the poor Congress. M. B. CHRISTLANSEN. man who lives on his salary and hae! Mew York, July ao 1'D LIKE TO HAVE IT THE BeMERO fo) CKRETS ARE UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) NERVES. The man who has really anything the matter with his nerves had better consult a doctor. You cannot operate your body without its telegraphic system any more than a railroad can be operated w.thout a signal system. * Get the wires crossed and there is immediate trouble, sometimes disaster. But it is probably not exaggerating to say that nine- tenths of the people who think they are suffering from dis ordered nerves are suffering either . First—Fron. bad temper. Second—lIndigestion. Third—Bad habits. The man who flies into a tantrum every time somebody drops a book on the floor may be the victim of a bad nervous system, but it is more likely that he has never learned to con trol his temper, and that circumstances have enabled him tu be fussy without getting thrashed. The man who thinks that conditions must be absolutely perfect before he can do any work is probably troubled so much by an abused and angry stomach that he cannot get his mind on his work The man who wakes up shaky and finds it difficult tu concentrate his attention is likely to be a man who drinks too much, or smokes too much, or who spends the time he ought to spend in sleep doing things vastly less useful. Nervous people are irritable and hard to get along with They are usually extremely selfish and inconsiderate of others. am They make l:fe considerably of a burden to themselves and a great deal of a burden to the people who have to live with them. i Almost invariably the parents of a spoiled child put its ill behavior down to nerves. : As a matter of fact they have taught the child by in dulgence to want to have its own way all the time, and its natural impulse is to kick and bite and scream when it can’t t it. és Comparatively few children who are otherwise healthy have nerve trouble. If your nerves seem out of order try to control them first, then get rid of your indigestion by sensible eating and cut out your bad habits. If they still keep you awake nights and distracted day- times see a doctor. But the chances are ten to one that you won't need to see him. pone AAPA RPP APPRPP LAPD AAARAA SC WHOSE BIRTHDAY? JULY 11—JOHN JACOB ASTOR tor made many investments in real estate in New York City and erected many buildings here, including the was born at the village Hi Walldorf, | Astor Hotel. After his death it was Germany, on July 17, 1763, and died|found that he had made various in New York City March 29, 1848.|charitable bequests, among them he was sixteen years old he in bie home and joined a brother in England, but after staying there a short time emigrated to America, He then entered into the business of fur trading, and through his energy and sound judgment he gradually en- larged his operations and amassed an enormous fortune, the largest up to that sme mads by an American, As- being a gift of $50,000 to found an Institution In his native village for the education of poor children and for the relief of the aged and destitute His chief gift, however, was $400,000 for the foundation and endowment of a public library in New York City, which was known as the Astor Library until 1895, when it became a part of the New York Public Library, Industry ty Winthrop Bidd i CRE by Beebe Bon itd XXX1—PUMPING SULPHUR, Louigna is the home of the sul~ Bhur itustry in the United States— un indjtry averaging about 260,000 tons « par, The establishment of this industry<which proved extremely Valuabléto us and our allies during the warsis a fascinating detail of the levelopnent of American resourons, Up tatue diseovery of suipnur im ‘ouisiam at theend of the nineteenth tury, Sicily produced the bulk of th\ word's sulghuy by methods ony @ Iitth panoved ‘rom the antique. Ingniiing oi wells in the coastal platey ‘ot Lousiana, the engineers encounyret a great alluvial deposit of sulPur, estimated by an Italian engineer. s@t out from Rome, to amount to 40)0,000 tons of sulphur of the highsgrade. « Then camtDr. Herman Fras¢h, who had attted a reputation as an - authority on ¢ After examining the newly discovey deposits, Dr. Frasch announced: “te shall pump thie sulphur." The who heard him gasped and ste of them tapped their heads sigtcantly, Dr Frasch beeeded to put his plans for pumpg sulphur—a hard, brittle substances most people are aware—into execton, This mining eNjeer had taken into account the facthat sulphur will melt at a temperare of 115 degreed Centrigrade—or ob fifteen degrees higher than the pc at which water boils. So, sinking a shi of a thousand cet, he squirted subheated water— up to 350 degrees tahrenheit—into the shaft. Then, \th the proper machinery, he Progded to make ood his word about‘pumping sul- phur.” The molten sulphurwas run into « wooden box and aliwed there to sool When ithad soliified the box vas taken apat, and here stood a olld block of ulphur pout 99 per ent. pure, becuse in te process of cing melted ithad lost most of its mpurities ablished OF this bais, the ime ‘ustry was brerht up co the top. notch of moderny by tie fact that ‘i trom a neart gushe was used to heat the waternstead a coal. Under the schne finally worked vat the molten suur is pamped into ‘normous vats Oring at the rate of about 500 cuble vet per day. It solidifies Into hu&onoliths of glis- tening, yellow ming, These monolithsre shattered by explosives, and the-oken sulphur is transported to tideter fifty miles away and distributethroughout the world’s markets, incling the Ameri+ can market. Famos Philosopies By LOUIS M. N(KIN Copyright, 1922, (New Yo gvent World) by Presa Publimg Go X.—LEIBNITZ (1646-716-RATION- ALISTIC IDEALIM, According to Leibnit, ides may or may not be such as fly reresent to us an object; if they do, they are clear, if not, obscure An idea is intuitive if it immediaty preents all elements of the concefon of its obs ject; It is merely synolic when it does not do so. Leibnitz further sted that as reason is not merely dividual but also universal, happits includes, besides self-satisfaction satisfacti in the joy or perfectioiof another, and {s therefore love. A\ the end of human action—whether ¢ the indi- vidual or of the race—i§uman per- fection and happiness thigh reason, or love—philanthropy. iis is the highest good. From jilanthropy flows natural right. The rationalistic tdealia of Lethe nitz could be best understa from his conception of God. He sa in part: “As the Individual (hum soul is indestructible and maintati a sepa- rate existence after deaththere is possible no universal, allbsorbing being. God is a separate jlividual, a distinct monad or entity. tince H is the ‘place’ of eternal Uths, he must be conceived as possetng wis- dom; since He is the sourcand %nd of all acts aiming at the bter life, ot perfection, He possesses fodnesys since perfection includes sasfaction in the welfare or happiness ¢ others, He Is love. Since He {s the ufficient season of the existence of al things, He is power. ‘God is the author o evila® well as of the good becaus Hy is the author of that which is by its very nature. finite, imperfect. Tlere can, in other words, be onlyone perfeat yr infinite being. SinceSot ix per- fect, the world must Bb imperfect, and whatever is imperfecmust con- tain both good and evil. Phings are good ot evil, not in therelves, but in their relation to the \neral na- ture and end of existence.From th: point of y, the worl of An things or beings must be emed the best possible world of fim things, rhe evil in the world har negative rather than positive existpe, God does not will it; He merely tffers it, God's choice of the prese world was governed by moral necyjty,** From the Wis It is not the skilful suron'e part to sing charms over a \und that needs the knife.—Sophow, A man in love {8 like a@ spoow caught with bird-lime; the moire strives the more he ts entanay, From the Frenei a