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LONDON, 20 Cockspur 9% MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ie exclusively entitled to the use nas i'news despatches credived 10 {tor not otherw \0) Daper, and also the local news published herein. Wyatt Bide. for repbtl. ise. credited DISTRICT ATTORNEY BANTON FOR ENFORCEMENT. : OLLOWING The Evening World's question ‘as to his attitude toward the new Taxi- Bonding Law, District Attorney Banton has made it clear that he means to enforce the law against all taxicab owneys, notwithstanding the test case which he himself helped to start toward the higher courts. . In this test case the law received further judicial support yesterday—this time in the Court of Special Sessions, where Justices Freschi, Kernochan and Edwards agreed with the earlier decisions of Supreme Court Justice Finch and* three Judges of a Federal Statutory Court in upholding it. . In calling attention to his co-operation with the taxicab owners in arranging the test case The Evening World had no wish to be unjust to District Attorney Banton It gladly accepts his assurance that he believes in the constitutionality of the law and that he will seek the arrest of all those who violate it while it is on its way to the supreme judicial test. So far the law has been sustained in every court that has considered it. To-day is the first anniversary of the pas- ‘ sage of the Tariff Bill in the House. { In the Senate, tarifically speaking, it is still Thursday, April 20, 1922, the Senate having | spent 2,208 hours in tariff discussion—the longest, least profitable legislative day on record, “WHO REMEMBERS?” ATTHEW WOLL, Vice President of the American Federation of Labor, asked him- self several questions yesterday and then sup- ied one answer for all. | The questions were: “Who remembers when the Government em- Hloyed troops— “To compel the coal operators to meet with their employees as provided under their Goy- ernment supervised contract to negotiate a new wage agreement? “To compel the railroad executives to observe the Labor Board ruling prohibiting the farm- ing out of shop work to outsiders, thus throw- ing their own men out of employment? “To prevent railroads, mine owners, public service corporations or, indeed, any employers from importing incompetents and employing them at double wages in their efforts to force down the pay of their regular employees?” Mr. Woll himself answered his questions with ene word: “Nobody.” The questions are not entirely fair, but they contain a considerable measure of truth. How would President Harding answer them? How came Mayor Hylan to get himself in bad with the railroad strikers by refusing to receive their committe: Can even the people's best friend be caught napping? “VICTOR AND HENRY AND ME.” IMES change and men charge with them. Not so many years ago William Allen White of Emporia, Kan., attended a_ political dinner and recited a little verse of his own com- position dealing with that triumvirate of mili- tant Kansas Progressives, “Victor and Henry and Me.” Victor Murdock was the first to go. He got teligion and became a Wilson Democrat. But “Henry and Me” continued as a duet instead of 4 as a trio. Now the duet is silenced, temporarily if not permanently, Discord is the result of the Kan- sas Industrial Court scheme of Henry J. Allen. The court says that sympathy with the striking shopmen is an indication of anarchy, Bolshe- vism, syndicalism and disregard for the dignity of the Court. The “Me” of the jingle, William Allen White has come to the parting of the ways. He sym- pathizes with the shopmen in his paper and by means of a placard in his window, and he dares Henry J. Allen, the Court, the Kansas militia, Justices of the Peace and all and sundry to pre- vent his so sympathizing. The Kansas Industrial Court is taking an ae awful chance in trying to muzzle Editor White of Empory First thing the Court knows some one is likely "What's the to write an article Henry's Court’ —with no question mark quired THE DUE TIME IS NOW. reply to a telegram from Gov Matter With. | Te= Sproul of b | | Pennsylvania expressing the hope that a com- mission is to be appointed to bring justice into the coal situation, President Harding says “It has seemed to me the situation, the unquestioned fairness of the proposal that time to appraise opportunity to measure the and sense the obligations involved, and a pertod in which to resume production, would elther avoid drastic steps on the one hand or clearly justify them on the other, The commission Will come in due time Why not now There has been a long enough appraisal of conditions to bring the President to the drastic step of proclaiming that United States troops will be used to protect mine operators in the pro- duction of coal This is a step that should be accompanied, rather than followed, by the surance of im- mediate, impartial investigation in the interest of fairness for both sides If it is time for an Executive exercise of force, it is also time for an Executive exercise of reason and adjustment The due time for a coal commission is now Even Senator Lodge, from the old Protection- bound Bay te, joined in rebuking the Sen- ate Finance Committe for its scandalous pro- posed duties on cotton gloves Instead of being amazed at their own mod- eration, high-tari’ nators are seared at their excesses CURTAIN? becoming HE State of New York is in a parlous plight. There are two men—they almost admit it —either one of whom could stand by and save the people of this Commonwealth by consenting to be voted for for Governor. They won't do it. One is nomination-shy. can’t afford it The other says he The political history of the Empire State holds nothing more tragic than this long colloquy be- tween William Randolph Hearst and Mayor John FB. Hylan over the question which of them should forget all else and serve the people by starting for Albany. It looked like the last act yesterday when the two met in the City Hall. Following the conference, the Mayor sorrow- fully announced that, as he {jgured it, he couldn't conduct the affairs of the State honestly and have money enough to live in the Executive Mansion, so he must say No and make it final. Asked if Mr. Hearst—who could probably get both ends to meet even in the Executive Man- sion—showed any sign of relenting, the Mayor could only reply gloomily: “No, he didn’t.” Is there any way out—any hope of a Sixth Act or a brighter ending? Or must the curtain come down? Digging up 2,000-year-old reek statues on Sam Untermyer’s place in Yonkers is enough to make any archaeologist diz “personally conducted’ trip around the world. Pri right merrily. FROM A GREAT AND TIMELY SPEECH, “Business men are borrowing money to pay their taxes. I have examined the lists in ten of the gréat agricultural States of the Union and thousands of farms are for sale for taxes. While this condition confronts us, and while labor is dissatisfied and the farmer is dis- contented and business is discouraged, we pro- pose without hesitation, it seems, to lay upon’ the American people an additional burden of from $4,000,000,000 to $6,000,000,000 “The Republican Party is now in power. Others may vote with the party to lay on these increased taxes and burdens, but the respon- sibility is fixed and inescapable; it is with the party to whom has been intrusted the reins of authorit) —Senator William E. Borah to the United States Senate, ACHES AND PAINS Somehow Hamlet's advice to his mother, “Assume Cook & Son announ Why not “de looks"? . The maried state ig too often one of endurance Ambassador George Harvey is reported to The wise ones figure out that Gov. Milley ideng in 1924. The automovile death score continues to pile up The curious thing about it is that death by motor sceme to cause no shock or to rouse any sense of caution. To hold a steering wheel seems to breed a form of insensatoness. a virtue if you have it not,” echoes in Mayor Hylan’ request to Mr. Hearst to “assumc" the “morat leader- ship.” ea fiftieth anniversary in a with a sight-seeing de luce have rented a shooting bor in the Scottish Hightunds for the season, He always did aim high. . is to be “presented” as New York's Republicun candidate for Before betting remember that he has to run the gantlet once more this fall. JOHN KEETZ. THE EVENING WORLD, JOHN HAVE S4u ANY THING ELSE TO PUT IN THE LAST CALL ) VM GOING % LOCK THE ie TRUNWS D hs —— ee Y a FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1922. Cen Porky Go ( AHEAD By Wrenn ives tes IS HERE SR THE Ss oe ARE YOu Su YOU FORGOT id NOTHING \ \ FORGOT THESE SHOES ANDCIGARS PUT EM IN YouR From Evening World Readers What kind of letter dv you find most readable? {an’t it the one that gives the worth of a thousand words in a couple of hundred? There ia fine mental e @o eay much in few words. rcise and a lot of satisfaction in trying Take time to be brief. The Plasterer'n Jo! To the Raltor of The Evening World: The report in your issue of the 14th Inst., referring to the indictment of the President and officers of the Plasterers’ Local No. 60, will again cause a great misunderstanding of the facts by the general public. To the outsider this report and others brought out during the Lock- wood investigations must imply that, the plaste is a highwayman, but let me give you some real, honest facts concerning the III feeling be- tween the bose and his men, For years, plastering had been the slave trade of all buildihg lines. To stop work for a few minutes, to get a drink of water or a breath of alr, would be sufficient to bring forth the vilest epithets from the foreman or his Simon Legree” boss. They were never satisfied until the last atom of stréngth had been used for their benefit. Does it not seem strange to you that we hear no more of that trust culled the Building Trade Employers’ Association and one of its branches, the Employing Plasterers’ Associa- tion? Conspiracy has been proved against them. Why are not the laws brought to bear upon them as well as on the trade unions? A boss plas- terer told me a short time ago that he would have to join the Employers’ Association because he could not get a contract from a builder if he was not a member of that association. That sounds very much like conspir- acy to me. Since’ the bullding boom has been in effect, conditions have Improved slightly, but God help the plasterer when the boom dies down. We-can now take Ume to light our pipe with- out getting fired: That js, as long as we'keep on working with one hand and light the pipe with the other. The often exaggerated wages said to be puid to plasterers, such as $14 to$i8aday.areamyth, Increases in wages have been offered by employ- ers of their own tree will, I have known one boss going to another job to offer the men $1 a day re to work for him. But that didn't come out of his pocket. It came from the bullder und indirectly trom the owner and then lastly trom the tenant. If you would like to know what Is mak- ing building so expensive, find out why jobs are held up for material for u few days when there is any amount in and around the eit This is not written by an old timer or a rum hound, but by one of the younger generation, who doesn't In- tend to waste a life at a thankless Job but ts Just waiting for the oppor- tune time to quit the business, ONE OF LOCAL NO, 60. . Bathing tn Central Park, To the Baltor of The Kvening World: You lately published two letters comparing what the “Peepul" can do in Hyde Park, London, as compared with Central Park. One correspondent even said that men and boys bathed in the Serpen- tine, in Hyde Park, as ‘September Morns."* (He meant dogs, but men and boys sounds better.) There's suggestion for the Mayor's Commit- tee. Why not? Central Park belongs to the “PeepM''—let the ‘Peepul’ use it as they desire. STEWART BROWNP. New York, July 1922. “We Are Temperat ‘To the Editor of The Evening World The general tone of the letter writ- ten by Public Service to The Evening World, July 8 1922, suggests that he possesses all the essentlals necessary to qualify for the position he would like to place us in. Of course, we do not expect any one guilty of writ- ing such silly stuff to be a gentle- man—that would be expecting too much. But one! cannot, help feeling that Public Service ought to have at least the common civilities of life at his dispo: The caption in quotations, “We ,Are ‘Temperate,"’ expresses more in three words than the noisy thunderstorm of Public Service. Moreover, he Any one knows that we who have a little liquor in the c use it only for medicinal purposes, which is allowed by law." ‘The mere fact thatathe law allows these privileged persons, about whom he speaks, to keep a little liquor in their cellars with the expectation of getting il] at some future time is in- deed interesting. According to it the same right must be extended to every body, but only those who have enough money to buy a little liquor, with the emphasis on “little,"* may avail themselves of the privilege, whether they intend to use it at once or at any other time during their lives If this does not show class legisla tion in the operation of the law, then my contention ts wrong, and through this loophole the spirit of Prohibition walks away from {ts delirious ad- vocates, However, Public Service, outside of very rare cases you cannot expect any one to believe that liquor is kept in the cellar only for medi poses. For convenience any- body can get an imaginary ailment for the pleasure of obtaining a real drink What about replenishing the tiguid stock when it becomes exhuurted? Let us hope that these things will show him where his argument com in. Furthermore, some of us aj good enough Americans not to keep Nouor in our cellars even for the flimsy excuse of medicinal purposes, JOHN LYNCH, Bivvsiyn, N, X., July 18, 1999, / UNCOMMON SENSE By John Blake (Copyright, 1922, by John Blake.) MENTAL VAGRANTS. We take the heading of this article from an extremely able speech by Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State. It was used in an address to college graduates who, like everybody else, need advice, even if, like everybody else, they refuse to take it. There is a little everybody, When there is too much of it, it is fatal to any progress. The student who sits through a college lecture too lazy to listen to every word and get the most out of every sen- of the mental vagrant in almost tence is a mental vagrant. = So is the man or woman who reads a book and makes the discovery now and then that, while the words have been followed one by one, the sense has, been lost altogether as the mind wandered away into some useless dream. So is the man who half does his job, without trying to put the very best that is in his mind into it. Mr. Hughes has never been a mental vagrant, There is probably as little of that quality in him as there is in any n in the world, All his life he has been a tremendously hard worker, putting his whole mind on whatever task was before him, The result in his case of this mental industry is very apparent, He was given the task of investigating the gas industry in New York City beeause he was known to be a painstaking and hard-working lawyer. He did the work so well that he was given charge of the insurance investigation which followed it. The success he attained in that, due largely to his tre- mendous application, brought him to the public notice and he was made Governor of New York. Since then he has been on the United States Supreme bench and been a candidate for President. To-day he is Secretary of State. No influence, no political pull, ever got Mr, Hughes anything. . * "He rose because he was emphatically not a mental vagrant, because he was always willing to concentrate all his energies on what he had to do, His presence before the class he addressed ought to have convinced every member that hard work will win and that mental vagrancy is the worst possible enemy a man can harbor in his mind. SS TS in an appointment as gecretary to the embassy at The Hague. His ability 48 4 diplomat was unequalled at that t.me and he quickly gave so many proofs of his skill that he became one of the most important figures in pub- lic affairse Upon the death of Queen Mary he was Imprisoned by his po- litical adversaries, and though freed after two years, he died as the re- sult of this tncarceration. Besides his offictal labors he also pursued his literary work, being a poet of great iierit, and so popular did he become that the jealousy of Pope and Swift was aroused at the large following he obtained, WHOSE BIRTHDAY? JULY 21ST—MATTHEW PRIOR gas born at Wimborne-Minster, Eng- and, on July 21, 1664, and dled at Wimpole, Sept. 18, 1721. At We iinster School he became a close ifviend of Charles Montagu, after@ards sari of Halifax. In 1687, in col~ abori‘en with Montagu, he wrote City Alouse and Country Mouse," in ridicule of Dryden's famous "Hind and Panther.” It was an age when satirists vere in demand, and the |x production made the fortune of froth the uuthora, His success resulted Unwieldy China By Maubert St. Georges Copyright, 1922 (New Yeem @vening World), by Press Publishing Oo. EDUCATION, China has undoubtedly the largest. percentage of illiteracy of any coun- try in the world, and that In spite of the result of fifteen years of strenu- ous educational reforms. The two main reasons for this are the formid~ able difficulties of the written lan- guage and the barriers caused by the huge size and population of the country, barriers further increased by the differences of the spoken dialects Yet China has always been pro- verbially known for the respect in which she held learning, the scholar or “literatus” being the topmost rank in the social scale. The trouble was, however, that the purpose of educa- tion tn China was not education, but: simply the preparing of men for Gov- ernment positions and the keeping up of the reverence in which classical Uterature was held. Tho result of this was, as it has been expressed, to “manufacture mental typewriters that merely reproduced the stereo- typed forms of antiquity.” By thls system a boy started his education at home and later went to a private school maintained by the clan or guild, for there were no pub= le schools, and studied until it ap- peared that he remembered enough to attempt to pass the first public examination. These examinations were lield every three years. The candidate had to go to one of the cities where the examinations were given and enter the Examination Hall, which consisted of several square miles of little square huts, in one of which he was Imprisoned until he had completed his three essays, a task that usually required from six to nine days. If he was one of the successful 2 per cent. who by bribery, fraud or sometimes by scholarly attainments pass@d the examination, he then had , more to pass until he finally appeared before the Emperor, recognized as the greatest scholar in the kingdom, put @ in reality probably one of the most useless of men. It was only after the severe pun- ishment of the Boxer outbreak had aroused popular sentiment throughout the country that the Manchus decided to surrender to the demands for bet- ter education in order to silence those who asked for the abolishment of the monarchy. In 1905 the old system of examination was disestablished and a liberal system of modern education Inaugurated, When the dimensions of the coun- try, the opposttion of the jealous ‘it~ erati, the conservatism of the people and the lack of funds necessary to carry out such an immense task are all considered, the result achieved will be found to be truly remarkable, Starting with nothing In 1906 there have come into existence about 140,- 000 schools with an enrollment of 5,090,000 puptis, Considering the 400,- 000,000 Inhabitants, this may seem almost Insignificant, yet it 1s perhaps the greatest step that China has made toward emancipation. Of late the greatest obstacle In the path of education has been the mili- tary expenditures. For example, in 1920 the appropriation for military purposes was $200,000,000, while edu- cation was allowed only $6,500,000. However, sooner or later the mili- tarists will have to make way for a real democratic government, and then perhaps education in China will come into its own. When You Go Museum A HORSE NO BIGGER THAN A CAT. to the The horse—or properly speaking tho ancestor of the horse—ranged the earth many thousands of years ve- fore man made his appearance. But that ancestor of the present wonders of the turf was no larger than a good sized cat. ‘The reconstructed skeleton of that original horse, if placed beside the akeleton of the race horse presented to the Museum of Natural History by the late W. C, Whitney, would gs, present hardly any resemblance, ¢ either in size or in structure, to the animal whose functions have been so largely taken over by the automobile. To begin with, that forefather of old Dobbin had four complete and well defined toes instead of a single hoot; and his teeth were entirely dif- ferent from those of our four-footed friend. It was evolution, operating through millions of years, that adapted him finally to the life which {* his descendants are now living, WHERE DID YOU GET THAT WORD? 191.—SCEPTRE. “Sceptre” is an excellent example of the word of humbie origin that at- tains to a high social position, In the original classio Greek, “seeptre” meant simply a stick to leary upom such as any peasant might pick up or cut from @ tree on his way to town, The emergence of the sceptre from its obscurity and its elevation as an emblem of leadership developed sids by side with the Krowth and expan- sion of royalty, until what had once been a mere “stick to lean” upon be- came the outward expression of power, We find a phase of this develop- . J ment in the Old Testament, where wel read of Moses evoking water from the rock for the children of Israel by, smiting it with his stadt,