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Ve, PHY Biorld. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH fg Sonal daily except The | Press. ishing , BS Be a how: New York. RALPH PULITZER. President, 63 Park Row J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPHA POLIT2) Secretary. 63 Park Row. | nications tor Hf EVENING WORLD Pulitser Butlding. Park Row. New York City. Remit by Expres the less said the better so with the average ch iness morality, “pep the like. Money Order, Draft, Post Office Order Registered Letter ‘“Cireuiation Books Open to Ail.” WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1922. SUBSORIPTION RATES. re Entered gt the Post Office at New York as Second Class Matter, Ouage Wes in’ the V'ulted Statte, outalde Greater New York. One Your Bix Months One Month feshington 8, | PARIS, ion oe S| TONDON, 90 Cockspur St spare Fe AT Tare saat | ca 8 y | Rio Sena j ONE OF THE MEANEST. | MONG all the mean and contemptible tariff lobbyists exposed by The World's tariff | investigator, former Congressman Littauer ranks 7 100 | 509 3 only kind words but kind thoughts for Los An- | Sona lor 108, 68 canta by itt 00 cones geles. The psychological treaty of peace is pre- } ee BRANCH OFFICES ; sented for ratification—without reservations. | BRT ES eRe ace, atin | WASHINGTON, Wet Bide») Here in New York we occasionally cast an | fron Vic Bvdoe Be, nest Sosa, why Salles Bide. aspersion or two in the direction of Boston, Phil- { $ AT Avenue de Opera. B17 are taking it so seriously. W high operators to reopen their mines and asks | Pleading for protection of American glove | the Governors of coal-producing States to second | makers, Mr. Littauer’s glove concern has been | the invitation with protective guarantees, we take importing a quantity of cotton gloves made by | jt he invokes an ultimate econumic principle that | the “pauper labor” of Germany. It is not that } he is anxious to sell now, but he wants to get the eek . ' gloves through in time to take advantage of the wee ee high tariff he advocates and then compete with } | American labor. the President says: Incidentally, of course, the high protection ad- vocates will seize on every large importation in anticipation of the tariff as another argument fa- voring the tariff. They will interpret this prepa- ration for profiteering as an omen of the flood | | to come, but which, as a matter of fact, would ' not have come in a flood but for the expected | increase in the tariff. In the face of such double-dealing, the proper | reply for Congress to make would be to deprive the lobbyists of the unfair protection they ask. Littauer ought not to be allowed to get away with the profits of duplicity. the exercise of these rights. * industry. NEED FOR AN AERIAL CODE. ROM the mellifluously christened town of Punxsutawney, Pa., comes the report that | a local Justice of the Peace has decided that an employers. aeroplane flying over a field committed trespass, even though it did not land. In accordance with this view, the Justice fined two aviators, who propose to appeal the decision. If the decision stands, any property owner may have a chesty feeling over the sudden expansion of his property. Instead of owning a conical . wedge of earth from the ground surface to the centre of the planet, the property wedge is indefi- nitely large, extending off into space for an un- » limited distance. ‘This matter of aerial trespass needs definition. ‘ Low-flying planes, scaring cattle and creating a public nuisance, need to be curbed, if not by trespass law, then by some other enactment. As a practical matter, it is necessary to define both the rights of flyers and of property owners. The need for an aerial code has been proved > in so many cases that Congress might better at- ‘tend to this matter than to waste time—and _ worse than waste it—on the tariff, the bonus and | the subsidy. over night. conditions. law. CHARLES RANSOM MILLER. NOTHER fine influence in American jour- nalism is completed, but neither iost nor ended, in the death of Charles Ransom Miller, editor-in-chief of the New York Times. In his seventy-three years Mr. Miller gradu- ated from Dartmouth College, graduated from the Springfield Republican, graduated from the great university of world progress unfolded in the events of the last half century. To the in- terpretation of these events he brought scholar- ‘ship, judgment, an instinct for political mean- “4ngs and an unfailing devotion to the larger ; pational purposes that outlive politics +. For nearly forty years director of the Times editorial page, Mr. Miller was a conspicuous fac- * for in the notable growth and expansion of that “ mewspaper. He became an editorial writer of ‘ widely recognized influence and distinction, In ‘his later years that influence was none the less sfor being exerted with fewer public contacts. Many who never saw Mr. Miller and who knew _ little of him personally were in close and admir- ing touch with his mind and ideals. In the help he gave toward maintaining stand- ards of scholarship, truth and dignity in edi- torial writing, his contribution to American news- paper-making will not be forgotten. States Senate. at seeing him. . wrong. quantity flow was never greater. . investment issue. Thought corks Help, William H. Anderson, help! . ANOTHER PACIFIC PACT. yy amusing development of recent months / has been the serious effort looking toward peace among the cities of the Pacific Coast In years gone by the natives of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Tacoma and Seattle ; have been proud of their cities and have boasted. But ask a resident of one to comment on the harms of another and it was soon evident that from a Federal store. of delicacy. . his attention, But that is a thing of the past. Clubs, Chambers of Commerce, newspapers, trav- elling salesmen, vaudeville jokers and others have been propagandized to overcome this jealousy. All the Pacific Coast is to be ideal, Tacoma is to boost Seattle and San Francisco is to have not adelphia, Yonkers or Flatbush. really mean them. The funny part of the Pacific treaty of vocal disarmament is that the natives THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1929." there were numerous imperfections in each. The climate of one city was pertect, of the other four But confidentially— and not wishing to “knock”—-the climate of any one of the other four was perfectly awful! But we don't THE WISER PRESSURE. HEN President Harding invites the coal may be expected to exert its pressure on the In his telegram to the twenty-eight Governors “Thus far there has been no challenge of the right of workers to decline employment, or the right of employers to hire as they elect. “Our present duty is to guarantee security in Theoretically, this should put before the striking miners the possibility that their places may pres- ently be filled with new workers and that the production of coal will go forward regardless of those who have “declined employment” in the Theoretically, this should be the potential eco- nomic check on strikes, just. as strikes are a potential check on the ruthlessness and greed of Practically, however, the coal industry is a poor field in which to invoke this kind of pressure for immediate effect. A considerable part of the labor of coal mining requires skill and experience. Coal miners cannot be made by scores of thousands Coal operators are not anxious to throw open their mines to a horde of unskilled workers, even if the workers could be found. President Harding declares “we must have ample coal to maintain industrial activity; we must have the coal necessary to the health, se- curity and activity of all the people.” The way to get the coal is not to cripple the industry by subjecting it to a long process of economic disruption and replacement. The way to get coal is to persuade the hundreds of thousands now engaged (but for the strike) in the industry that the Government is ready and able to move toward a reorganization that will mean a fair year’s pay under fair working The pressure of that persuasion will cost the country less than the pressure of cold economic FROM A GREAT AND TIMELY SPEECH. “Even in this comparatively new land of ours we have reached already the era of embargoes, subsidies, gratuities, bonuses and finally that sinister invention of American politics—50-50 between the States and the Government—that is, the States will exploit the taxpayer for 50 per cent. and the Government for the other 50 per cent., thus dividing responsibility and aug- menting extravagance, unmindful, apparently, that while the taxing powers are two, the tax- Payer in both instances {s one and the same. The great task of legislation to-day is to ascer- tain how one class can benefit at the expense of another class—the taxpayer always the vie- tim.”—Senator William E. Borah to the United ACHES AND PAINS Several times a week a middle aged visitor calls at the lion house in the Brongw Zoological Park and pets Helen, the lioness, who shows flirtatious delight Wonder if his name is Paris? E. W. Howe says poetry is on the decline because prose is 80 much more satisfying. crusty old codger the hole in a doughnut that he is Good poetry may be on the blink but the We will bet the A cork manufacturing company advertises a new had It is certainly rude of bootleggers to steal supplies Such marauders lack all sense Hamilton Holt has herded Secretary Hughes into a corner on the League of Nations, even though Mr. H. says he “answered” all letters as soon as they came to Wonder how long it takes a note signed by the rest of the world to pass his whiskers? JOHN KEETZ. And acter of the citizens, bus- hotel service, culture and The Rotary become obavicie, AN UNSINKABLE to say much in a few words. Elma for the Mall, To the Editor of ‘The Evening World: I think by a few words of explana- tlon I can make It clear why the use of large eims on the Mall in Central Park should be advocated. It goes without saying that any one would prefer to see an elm tree appear in full maturity and beauty after three years rather than wait thirty years to obtain a like result. There are two causes that chiefly make some people hesitate to plant large trees. I mean trees twelve .0 eighteen inches in diameter of stem one foot from the ground and forty to sixty foot high. The first is economy. Large trees cost comparatively large sums of money to transplant, but all expense {s comparative according to the de- sire to obtain certain results, and surely the Central Park elms on the Mall, have great value for the child or old person who craves the shade. Why deprive them of this inestim able shade for long years if a little extra expenditure will give it to them in a short time? Truly, what do such expenditures amount to when we con sider the vast sums used on our auto mobile roads and office buildings for city employees. The second cause, made by some, as an objection to moving large trees is the actual difficulty of transplant- ing. Given equal conditions of at- mosphere, soil, &c., you can move & large elm just as easily as a small one, if you know your business, are proficient in the art of tree moving, large and small trees, Suppose, even, the risk is slightly more, and it need not be more than that taken in transplanting the small trees. The finest estates all over have been taking the risk for many years. Why should so many parks be lag- ging behind in this respect? I know’ of a fine estate on Long Island widely celebrated for the beauty of its trees and no more than 15 per cent. of them came from nur- series, and this applies to other es- tates in the same region Let us see the Central Park Mall clothed and in its right mind before ve risen or set. TREE-LOVER. 5 ‘To the Editor of The Evening World It is with much dubiousness as to the intent of its author that one com- pletes reading Mr, E. T. Hitchinson's opus, in which he advances a ridicu- lous {dea about the sale of liquor on Shipping Board vessels outside of the three-mile limit, Can It be that he ny, 7 about the responsibilities, Cee ernment? His plan which would, If placed in oporation, legalize bootleg- ging on the high seas Can You Beat It! aa ree eee omit BY I BOUGHT MYSELF From Evening World Readers What kind of letter do you find most readable? Isn't tt the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ts fine metal exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. it was without the territorial, and hence legal, limits of this country makes one fear for the safety of the other laws of the land. For five years, a half century ago, the North and the South fought on the vital problem of human slavery, and when that struggle came to a close we found the issue of abolition squarely faced and obeyed. Yet what was there to prevent the existence of that very bondage, which had en- gaged the Nation in a titanic strug- gle, once an outgoing vessel had passed the three-mile limit? If it were only a question of legality, perhaps there might be some excuse, but the moral side of the issue must not be neglected. What sort of a Government can we have; how can our Government fairly en- force or dare ask any recognition of the right to enforce any law, when it shamelessly violates another be- cause ‘Necessity knows no law?" And what opinion are we of neces sity forced to form of the Govern- ment which prosecutes to the utmost a law on land, yet which aids as much as it may the violation of that law on sea. If the Eighteenth Amendment is intolerable; if the Volstead law Is unworkable; if these acts are not the results of popular will, let us at least take the right path and strive for their repeal, to save that Constitution which we recognize as the framework of government and an_ inviolable charter of fundamental rights. MILTON B, SEASONWEIN. New York, July 12, 1922. Well, What In It? To the Editor of the Evening World: Germany is seeking a moratorium. The French franc has fallén in pur- chasing value. Russia is endeavoring to get a foreign loan, Prices in eight- een cities in the United States tn- creased three per cent. from May 15, 1922, to June 15, 1922. According to financiers, the United States must step in and help Europe out of its troubles. Why is Germany anxious for a mor- atorium? Why is the franc falling in value? Why does Russia desire a foreign loan? Why have prices risen in the United States three per cent. in a month? You can answer all these questions with the same un. swer. What is it? Why don't you put some economist on the job and tell your readers what the cause of the trouble in all these countries is? ‘What is the use of printing news about railroad and coal strikes, with- out telling your readers the causes and the remedy? What is the use of letting President Harding settle these matters with the Army, when your paper can Suggest a proper and prompt remedy? DENIS O'SULLIVAN Bronx, July 13, 1922, A FELLOW WHO 'T SWIM GET HE ONE ICAN'T Maurice Ketten O, BE ASPorRT/ TAKE ACHANCE . UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, , by John Blake.) PITY IGNORANT OLD AGE, To the young ignorance is merely uncomfortable and embarrassing. ‘Yo the old it is a tragedy. The man or woman under forty can live without books and without reflection and time. have a reasonably enjoyable Prosperity as a rule is out of the question, for the world is more and more demanding trained minds and re- fusing to pay good wages to untrained ones. But with youth and health there are ways to pass the time that make life olerable. In any amusement park the ignorant as well as the educated will be found on Sundays and holidays, and getting about an equal amount of fun out of the devices provided for their entertainment. The joy of love-making, of eating, of fishing and go- ing to ball games and wandering through summer woods and bathing in the lakes or the ocean is a joy that does not re- quire deep thought. That is a wise provision of providence, for if all the world were steeped in continual gloom civilization would make no progress at all. But youth does not last forever, which is a difficult thing for youth to ynderstand, And in the evening of life, when the ordinary pleas- ures have lost their savor, there are long and sombre and monotonous days for man or woman who has nothing to think of; no understanding of books and no appreciation of art or the fine things of life. F This writer knows a man of past eighty, unable to Geos Hit aude bacauseiot il-bealthiiwhomets/ more’ real pleasure out of his books and his contemplation of the world than the quarter of a million people who go to Coney Island of a Sunday get out of all the pleasure machinery in that famous resort. Life for him is a continual happiness, because he is an educated man. But to the ignorant old, more hours of dull monotony till death comes as a release. tragic as monotony. The youth who refuses education may not miss it as much in his lusty years as his elders predict, but he will be sentencing himself to a very dull prison from fifty on to the end of his years. every day is sixteen or twenty , to be lived through somehow And there is nothing so As the Saying Is “COON.” Coon, a common abbreviation for raccoon, is also @ slang term for a Negro, owing, perhaps, to his fondness for the animal. In American politics, coon was a nickname, for a Whig, first applied during the Presidential campaign of 1836. Martin Ven Buren had been styled an old fox by the Whigs. The Democrats retaliated by calling Henry Clay “that same old coon,"’ and facetiously insinuated that \ he had been treed by the old fox. ‘The Whigs caught up the epithet and adopted the raccoon as their emblem, painting its picture on their banners and carrying live specimens in their processions. “FORGET AND PORGIVE."’ A proverb which is quoted Shakespeare in “King Lear,’ which sums up one of the and most diffcult lessons of Christian ity. As W. E. Norris very clover- ly says: “We may forgive and wi may forget, but we can never forget that we have forgiven,’’ by and Epoch-Making BOOKS By Thomas Bragg Copyright, 1022 (New York Evening World),’by Press Publishing Co. NIEBUHR’S “ROMAN HISTORY.” Niebuhr, the ever-illustrous author of the epoch-making work, “Roman History,” published in 1811, was born in Copenhagen, Aug. 27, 1776, not quite two months after the old Liberty Bell had rung out to the “world and the inhabitants thereof,” our im- mortal Declaration of Independence, Niebuhr was a dozen big men all in one. His attainments embraced range that was almost beyond the conception of ordinary minds, The master of twenty or more languages, he was distinguished alike as a busi- ness man, diplomatist, scholar, and man of original gentus, It was as the Revolutionizer of His. tory that Niebuhr did his greates work and achieved his proudest fame, Before his day history was more histrionic than historical, abounding in literary haberdashery and rhetori- cal red fire, It was full of splendid pageantry, fine legend, and charming myth, the historian being not s0 much concerned with the truth ag with the fine effect that his writing might have upon the reader, All this was changed by the pub lication of Niebuhr's history, He may be said to be the father of the modern method of historical criticism. In his history of Rome he showed the way by which it was possible to arrive at the truth about the ancient times that had so long lain in the shadow of myth and legend. With the change of a word or two we may apply to the Great Pathfinder the lines spoken by Pope about Newton: “History and history's facts lay hid In night; “God said, ‘Let Niebuhr be,’ and all : ioe After Niebuhr there were to be no more books written after the style of the once famous “Rollin’s History,” which many of us read with such de< light when we wete youngsters, a work that was about as badly off in, its historicity the “Arabian Nights” or the “Travels of Munc- hausen. Niebuhr’s work was to be of wider Influence than he himself imagined. Like Newton, Niebuhr was a devout evangelical Christian, and yet it was the method used him in writing secular history that was destined to be used a little later on by the critics of ecclesiastical history, including the Bible. Without realizing it, Niebuhr was paving the way to that most troublesome thing, “Bible criticiem,” which, however, troubles only those who are foolish enough to believe that truth cannot stand the light. The truth about history, and the truth about the Bible. we have there- fore to thank Niebuhr for to the extent that we have to thank no other man or combination of men. A Litany. (From the Nation.) BY OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD. I Believe in the American Merchant Ma- rine for No Small, Narrow, Selfish, tional Purpose. Free the oceans, free the waves men of all climes the ocean’ ome t Let th barks speed over the waters wherever they list, whatever the color of their sails, whatever the babel of tongues within their holds, upon thelr spume-washed dec No partisan rivalry test of wits; the fidelity of engine the dexterity of super-cargo, the luck of wind and tide and of the sea rising by night, falling y da. speate hot to me of ships that sail but to take bread from the mouths of those who fly, at peak another flag, for out of such comes no profit to him who sells nor him who buys. Speak not to me of war and preparae tions for war as a reason for ships that ply to trade and trade to ply, for of this 1 shall know naught. It is enough that men shall fight for their lives against waters and winds rest and never cease to ay, to trick, to take by, winds that know no pity, to all wel+ ere, but the con« ‘iner, the pl surprise waves that heed no prayers. Every ship that bears guns to Kill fs an offense to Jehovah; speak, Lord, that man shall sin no more and shall bat« tle but against envious gales and evil seas! But every ship that goes forth to trad@ shall be a harbinger of peace, bearet of good words, doer of good deeds. For shall it not bring succor to the starving of Caspla, the dying of Mur« mansk; and shall {t not halt on ite way to rescue from small boats those whom fate has cast Into the sea? Shall not those that guide it return ta their own, saying: “Brethren, we have seen of our own eyes; It is not as was said; those are good men and good women among whom we have dwelt, even Hike unto ourselves” sing of ships that carry stars and stripes of good-will; onto which shalt climb sons of a great race no longer free to roam on prairies and across hills; spirits of adventure seeking to explore, sending ahead and behind wireless words of fair play and true faith. ‘Taking advantage of none; creating new marts of trade and reinforcing the olds so that more and still more shall have » and hold and upon their old age shall fall rays of comfort and hopeful Building anew and taking the buoyang ‘spirit of a nation in its prime and making room at home for others wha desire not to fare out upon waters that rage and smile at will. Speed the new ships bearing new ase pirations, new yet old; revival of old ambitions once gloriously attained by ships from Salem and schooners of Maine. ‘ Speed the hulls built not of oak but of ; built in dire haste not always ut meant to bear cargoes to all climes; give them of thine own; coms mend thy sons to their masters; give prayers that they shall be mess sengers of the right and servants of the stars, For to them shall come words acrosg the sea, words ste knowing neither ming , the is through ether, night nor day, skime surface of the oceans, soaring to the planets and saying: Blessed be they that serve and risk allg blessed be the peacemakers that go down to the sea in ships, and blessed they that knit ties that bind the very ends of the earth ond the islands of coral and of stone; for aueh are of the Brotherhood of Man, “y @